Perpetual Rants

Friday, April 17, 2009

Ever heard of Yu-Gi-Oh!?

I think I've mentioned a few times that I was catching up on the animé last year, plus some occasional throw-ins that I'm a huge fan of the Abridged series.

Yu-Gi-Oh! is a bit like Pokémon. Just replace the little cute pocket monsters with little cute monster summoning cards, and you have yourself a show where teenagers (plus adults) play a children's card game to solve major crises (like saving the world, f'rinstance. Or battling supernatural elements).

YGO! Abridged was pretty much the first to gain an ass-ton of fans, and the series, I feel, is unparalleled (except for Avatar and Yu Yu Hakusho. I've tried, I still don't like Naruto). Its creator, Little Kuriboh, just made this song parody of Eminem's Without Me.

All the names in the first part of the third verse are Animé Abridged creators. Lanipator (from earlier) does YYH Abridged.

[Yay, he didn't mention Gan Xingba :D]

I'm not a fan of rap, but this song is currently stuck in my head. And I'm loving it.

EDIT: I believe this clip would explain the end of the video above ^^

I love reruns.

Without them, I wouldn't have caught this Jimmy Kimmel gem of a repeat.

Close to ending his interview with Calista Flockhart, where either Jimmy or the guest would introduce a short related clip, Jimmy said, "Do you want to set the clit up– clip up?"

RO-Fucking-L!

[Luckily my mom wasn't in the room at the time. AWK-WAARD...]

Fellow dirty-minders, check out the video below to see him slip up. Those with pure thoughts untainted, clickie over here to find out what "clit" means, then watch the video below.

[Yay, YouTube!]

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

On the radio today...

...Jensen Ackles' was mentioned.

The girl was telling her co-host (who doesn't know about him, by the way) how hot he was ('chyeah, duh!), and how she had to Google the guy up, and goes on to say that he was on Days of our Lives as Eric Something.

Really... Days of our Lives? We don't even GET that here.

I think if she said straight out that Jensen was on Supernatural, her co-host would have a pretty good idea who that was, since he is a guy, and Supernatural has monsters and the occasional hot demon chick in it.

Seriously, just because they're both radio people doesn't mean they don't have time for pop culture. I mean, who hasn't heard of Supernatural??

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Dexter = <3

So I'm currently hooked onto Dexter, which is about a serial killer who has a day job in the Miami PD as a forensic blood spatter tech. He's emotionless, and he only kills bad guys who got away.

It's quite fun, really.

The show is currently in its third season over in the States, but knowing how S-L-O-W local TV is, we're just beginning Season 2.

Just to recap, Season 1 revolved around the Ice Truck Killer, who leaves chopped-up, bloodless (literally!), dead hookers for the PD to solve. Dexter gets in on it because the Ice Truck dude basically challenged the guy (as in Dex) when he left him a naked Barbie doll (with thin red ribbons to signify blood/cut marks) in Dex's fridge.

[Plus, I find Christian Camargo kinda cute. It's a bit weird.]

I don't want to spoil TOO much, but the excrement really strikes the propeller in the season finalé. That's how good I think the first season was.

I'm currently getting into the second season, where they're investigating Dexter (even though they don't know it yet), when people find the ass-ton of bad guys that Dex had dumped into the ocean.

So far, it's been interesting, but not as intriguing and gripping as the first season. I was hoping for another killer of Mr Ice Truck's calibre (or better) to go around whacking people in Miami. That would've been cool.

A bit tired, but cool.

Online vids, here I come.

Friday, March 27, 2009

How hard is it to find Asian actors in Hollywood?

There was a TV spot on Dragonball: Evolution last night, where there were snippets from interviews with the actors and the directors.

[For some reason, James Marsters with dark hair and an American accent still caught me off-guard. Watdaeff.]

I'll have to admit that the movie scenes looked cool, provided you didn't know what the original looked like.

There was this bit when the director was talking about how they were following the anime and stuff. I told my mom the fans were up in arms because Goku was played by a white guy, in an obviously Japanese/Asian environment, and my mom was like, "Then why is the director saying that he stuck to the source material?"

Bingo.

I don't follow Dragonball, but even I knew that the whole movie was wrong. The first trailer gave the impression that Piccolo wasn't green, and someone had even commented that the movie was actually Bulletproof Monk 2.

[Gave me the lulz anyway, partly 'cuzza Chow Yuen Fat's Hawaiian shirt. Also, I found out that Master Roshi is bald in the anime.]

If they could find Asian actors (that speak good English, by the way) to play Yam Cha and Chi Chi, why couldn't they have gotten an Asian actor to play Goku? I don't think a white actor would look any less ridiculous in Goku's famous orange-and-blue outfit than an Asian actor.

Which brings me back to the topic at hand, and to Avatar. Earlier on, the cartoon creators were talking about how M Night Shyamalan was excited and will be respecting the source material

[Now we know that the word 'respecting' is to be referred to in inverted commas.]

As I've mentioned before, I don't follow DB, so I can't nitpick as I do on Avatar, but on surface value (indeed!), it looks like the Avatar movie will be disrespecting the source material even more than DB did, with the producers making radical alterations in the glaring of all aspects: appearance and race.

If DB:E could find a bunch of Asian actors (to be background fodder, but to act in the movie, no less), why couldn't the people behind the Avatar movie do the same? Oh wait, they already have. Looks like there's a trend here, folks.

It's going to be an epic failure on Paramount's part to make Avatar "the next Harry Potter" since all else points to the fact that Avatar is going to be the next DB:E, except with elements of nature.

[Cross-posted]

Sunday, March 22, 2009

The trials of having a small TV.

My mom was channel-surfing earlier, and yelled (I was in the room), "Orgy ha mi hee lai??"

[Literally translates into, "Orgy is what movie??" Ya know, like what's it about and stuff.]

So I yell back, "How the hell am I supposed to know??"

[I really don't, by the way.]

A few minutes later, I go out to the living room, and do a bit of channel-surfing myself, since my mom has it on the Chinese ones, and I don't really dig those. So I check out the movie channels.

The movie she mentioned was on Cinemax.

And the name of the movie was Ogre.

NOT Orgy.

Tiny TV has tiny print, so my mom misread it.

[This gave her another opportunity to ~~nag~~talk to me about taking care of my eyesight.]

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Chow Chow~!

While driving around a bunch of years ago, we spotted this guy and his dog, his dog being the most adorable large-ass thing in the world. Since I didn't have a picture of said dog, (and I don't think you can just Google the picture and derive a name for it), I never really knew what breed the dog was, even though I tend to see his kind every other year or so.
A few days ago, in my perpetual boredomness, I realised that I could Wiki Martha Stewart up, and see the breed-names of her dogs! (I'd seen Martha Stewart with that kind of dog on a TV advert before, but it didn't really sink in till recently).

Turns out, the dog was called a Chow Chow! :D

Pics lifted from Google Images based on eternal cuteness: