It’s the first Saturday of the month, which means that I will be moderately rocking the terrace at Club Xing in Osaka!
I’ll be playing from 2:00 – 3:30 this time, with the 12:30 to 2:00 slot being picked up by my good friend and co-worker DJ E-Bow!
The image that any stupid whiny Mclaren driver should have nightmares about. Kimi didn’t win it, so it wasn’t a perfect day, but I’ll take today’s results any day! Congrats to Massa for passing Kimi in the points. Now if they can get down to knocking out Hamilton.
FINAL POSITIONS
1 Massa (Ferrari)
2 Raikkonen (Ferrari)
3 Alonso (McLaren)
4 Heidfeld (BMW)
5 Hamilton (McLaren)
6 Kovalainen (Renault)
7 Rosberg (Williams)
8 Kubica (BMW)
Also, it seems people are digging this little gem. I’m glad.
P.S. – Bioshock is spectacular.
Last night I was having dinner with Mikami-san and he mentioned he had watched a horror movie before meeting up with me. I replied that I was going to see a horror movie the next day. When he asked me which one, I said Rush Hour 3.
It has been a long time since I was watching a movie and literally felt the brain cells dying. The dialogue and situations in Rush Hour 3 were so absolutely horrific, I felt ashamed of myself for laughing at the jokes.
Offenses in Rush Hour 3.
1) Roman Polanski makes a sodomy joke.
2) Brett Ratner somehow made Zhang Jingchu appear ugly.
3) The entire thing was forced plot line after forced plot line, with forced dialogue pushing it all forward.
4) Jackie Chan makes porn references, and in the credits, it is discovered that Brett Ratner is feeding him lines. Why am I not surprised?
5) Jackie Chan was forced to take a picture with Paris Hilton at the premiere. He seems displeased.
6) It made me ashamed to say I was amused by the first two Rush Hour movies.
Hopefully Death Proof next weekend will wash the bad taste out of my mouth!
In other news – BIOSHOCK! TOMORROW (I HOPE!)
I love the Wings of Honneamise. An early work of anime studio Gainax, it is one of the few anime films that transcends its medium and stands as a film in its own right. In this fact, it holds up to Akira and Ghost in the Shell as the only anime films that have operated on that level for me.
With such effusive praise, you can figure I was elated when Wings was announced for blu-ray release in Japan.
But it comes packed with a DVD. For 10,200 yen. Even with a discount, it will take 8000 plus yen (a little less than $70) to get in your pocket. So I figure, hold out for the US release, they couldn’t be nearly stupid enough to pack in a DVD with a blu-ray in the US.
Boy was I wrong.
With a list price of $79.99, the US release of Wings of Honneamise is nearly as expensive as its Japanese cousin, and that is only with Amazon’s 30% pre-order discount.
Shame on Geneon and Pioneer for taking the piss out of their audience and basically extorting them into paying full price for a DVD and full price for a Blu-ray in one set.
UPDATE: Ferricide points out in my livejournal comments for this post that this may well be the evil doing of Bandai Visual and that Geneon/Pioneer are hapless pawns in a game to extort money from the masses.
It seems that Colors Weekender has turned into a monthly residency, so you can expect to see me every 1st Saturday at Zing in Osaka.
What does this mean to you? It means show up on 10/1 for some electro-house loving.
Today, I headed to Den Den to trade in some Asian/US 360 games with my buddy Max. Afterwards, I headed back to his place and played some StarStrike HD (Super Star Dust HD) on his new R-series Aquos.
I set the high score on his account, which funny enough was 1000 or so points below the high score on my account. So now we are right next to each other on the global rankings.
Afterwards, we broke out the most awesome USB peripheral of all time.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the humping dog.
I saw this on GAF and loved it.
I also took a Caturday test thanks to Chornovore.
Your Score: Sad Cookie Cat
60% Affectionate, 33% Excitable, 55% Hungry
You are the classic Shakespearian tragedy of the lolcat universe. The sad story of a baking a cookie, succumbing to gluttony, and in turn consuming the very cookie that was to be offered. Bad grammar ensues.
To see all possible results, checka dis.
The Which Lolcat Are You? Test written by GumOtaku on OkCupid.
It seems like Monster Hunter Freedom 2’s translation is getting some early recognition.
On 1up Yours, Mark MacDonald was kind enough to mention that he thought the translation was good, specifically mentioning the work I had done on the Felynes within the new village of Pokke.
IGN also mentioned the translation in their piece on MHF2 at E3:
“Capcom has Freedom 2 on display at their E3 booth and the game looks almost complete — the translation was good and connectivity was completely functional.”
This is the longest and most trying project I’ve worked on, so the early mentions of the translation, albeit humble, are encouraging.
Please feed my unborn children by pre-ordering the game.
You can also pick up a plush Piggie toy by pre-ordering from Gamestop/EBGames.
So I had another interesting weekend.
It started off with a little drunken debauchery for a co-workers welcome back to drinking party. He was hospitalized with illness for a few weeks, but has since recovered, so we gave him a warm and drunken welcome. This included Ben screaming “WAKAMEZAKE!” quite loudly in the restaurant, to the horror of the surrounding Japanese.
It was funny, because this week, I actually had 3 nomikais. On Monday, I had some food with some ex-coworkers, then Wednesday I got some grub with the localization team to welcome a new member and say goodbye to Eric, then Friday’s fun. I’m kinda nomikai’d out for a while.
How would you like to be that poor girl on Monday?
Too much Yakiniku this week!
On Saturday, I headed to Namba. First, Mai and I picked up 3 Transformers tickets. Then we went to Shisen Ramen, which is a chain of upscale ramen joints, and had some lunch. After that, we walked around Namba for a bit, and then met up with Mikami-san. I took him over to a n import dvd shop, because I wanted to buy the blu-ray version of 300, and he was impressed less with the content than the design sense of American dvd covers. It was interesting how he described things, and I think I learned something. Afterwards, we chatted about the future over coffee and then went to go see Transformers. I cannot recommend Namba Marui Toho Cinema’s screen 2 enough. They have an LED projection system AROUND the theater, which they can project images onto the walls for some of the in-theater commercials. It is an amazing effect. They also use bone crunchingly loud DTS sound, which was incredible, the screen is gigantic for Japanese theaters, and the ambient lighting is actually LED stars embedded into the walls. It was almost something out of a theme park.
Transformers was all sorts of awesome, and we all digged it, especially me because I was able to recognize all the homage to the 80s show. I just wish there was more Prime and Starscream, but they both had really cool scenes nonetheless.
I took this picture for Andrew.
Today, I went out with Brin, Noriko, and her boyfriend to motorcycle shops. Brin, in his silliness, is purchasing an import, full power 2007 Honda CBR600, so we went to find a jacket for when he wont be wearing his full leather racing suit. He settled on the Alpinestars SMX Air Flo jacket, but they didn’t have his size. I’m a big fan of motorcycle clothing (I have an Alpinestars mesh jacket even though I don’t ride) so it was fun to go around with Nori and Brin and see all the bike stuff. I was searching for Brin’s jacket on the net, and I found one I really like as well.
Obviously I’m after the white and red version. 2006 model, so it might sell out before I get the chance to buy it.
This is a sweet jacket too.
In gaming news, I just broke 7 million in Stardust HD, and I’m staying on the ball with Everybody’s Golf 5 (Hot Shots Golf). I find myself playing more games lately, and thinking about more game ideas lately, than I have in months. I think my passion for gaming is slowly being reinvigorated, and it is a wonderful feeling.
I leave you all with this ode to Japanese television:
