| NO MICHAEL BAY, NO!! |
[Apr. 3rd, 2012|02:25 pm] |
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As some of you know, Michael Bay has signed on board to produce the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, and he has made some radical changes to the film which TMNT fans all over the world have expressed their disapproval of. Michael Bay has radically changed the origins of the Turtles, and they are no longer mutants but representatives of an alien race from a distant planet. But this goes against the established origins of TMNT, as they are mutated by-products of a radioactive mutagen, thereby making them mutated turtles.
However, Michael Bay has decided for whatever reason that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles should be aliens in the Turtles reboot. This is something that I am not supporting of, and I have expressed my thoughts on this on Burn Hollywood Burn Radio.
I am caller number four, Rakai'Thwei.
What is even surprising is that Michael Bay has some strong supporters for his creative changes in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot. And these people have acted in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Bay's supporters so happen to be Brian Tochi (voice of Leonardo) and Judith Hoag (April O'Neil), and quite possibly Corey Feldman (voice of Donatello). However, Bay does have one well known VA who is against his idea, and that would be Robbie Rist (voice of Michelangelo).
According to Robbie Rist, who posted a letter to Bay:
"You probably don't know me but I did some voice work on the first set of movies that you are starting to talk about sodomizing."
Rist later then added, "I know believing in mutated talking turtles is kinda silly to begin with but am I supposed to be led to believe there are ninjas from another planet? The rape of our childhood memories continues ... "
Source:
http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/20/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-michael-bay-michaelangelo-sodomizing/#.T3s9a9miZqF
Michael Bay has once again raped another iconic franchise as well as it's characters as well. And what's even more worrisome is that Kevin Eastman, one of the original co-creators of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and co-founder of Mirage Studios has also been busy with the reboot as well, working with the writers. I can only hope that Kevin Eastman has learned his mistakes from working with Saban during their Next Mutation run, and will not let Michael Bay proceed on with these dramatic changes with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Unfortunately, neither Kevin Eastman nor Peter Laird own the intellectual rights to the Turtles anymore, and Mirage studios has become defunct after Laird sold the rights to Nickelodeon (Bad, bad move, Pete). So they may no longer have a say to how their creations should be handled anymore... and that is very worrisome.
Michael Bay is not the man who should be handling the Turtles reboot. Hollywood itself has become nothing more than a fucking cesspool of reboots and sequels.
If there are any Turtle fans out there, please, make your voice heard. Boycott the film if you have to, and ensure that Bay does not win to get his way.
Give the Turtles franchise to someone who is hungry. Give the Turtles franchise to someone who is respectively a fan. Give the Turtles reboot to Richard Krause. He has proven that he can do a Turtles film with his viral, sensational short, Fight the Foot. At least we will know the film would be in good hands, and not Michael Bay's.
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| Something to Post... |
[Nov. 3rd, 2011|07:01 pm] |
It's been something of a long time since I actually posted anything on this journal. Well truth of the matter is because I really do not have anything worth of posting aside from what has been happening in real life. I've been living in an apartment for a few months now after my mother and I had been forced to move out of the house, but we are comfortable however in a year we will be having to move once more and it's so far it's looking like we might be going back to Philadelphia. We've overstayed our welcome here in Jersey and it will eventually come full circle. In a way, I look forward to it.
So it seems that I've got a few new readers checking my blog out. Why, I don't know but it doesn't seem to bother me too much none anyway. Never the less, I wanted to talk about something which has been on my mind for a few days, hours really because I got wind of something which was being talked about but I have no involvement in it what so ever. But that is something which I choose not to talk about because as I mentioned before, I am not involved.
( Roleplaying! Ooooooooooh! ) |
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| Going Back Home... |
[Jun. 10th, 2011|03:35 am] |
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It's been over a year since the last journal entry, but that was regarding something of a review. Here, this is something actually worth putting down because it's perhaps the start of a new beginning, or better yet to be precise-- finally coming full circle. It has been twenty years since I have lived in New Jersey. Twenty years since I was three years old, leaving Northern Liberties in Philadelphia and having spent a bulk of my life in New Jersey. I've spent seven years of my life in Pennsauken, and then I have spent another thirteen years in Cherry Hill. It's funny how time flies so fast and changes right before your very eyes. I have to say that I have lived a very good life here in New Jersey, and it's been very comfortable for me but now... twenty years later, I have over-stayed my welcome here. I have so many memories in the places I have lived, both good and bad memories-- many friends who have come and gone, and remained in my life still here. But because of the economic recession and how hard it is to find a job, for both myself and my family.. excluding my adoptive father.. our welcome here in Jersey has been over-stayed.
Simply put.. It's time to go home.
That's right. I'm going back to Philadelphia with my family... And where the rest of the family is anyway. It's where our roots have been, and perhaps always will be. And after twenty years of being away, I actually look forward to going back to the city of brotherly love. When I was younger, I actually didn't like going to Philadelphia because twenty years ago, it wasn't as nice as it is now. The streets were meaner, rougher, dirtier and now looking at how it is now, they seemed to have cleaned up quite a bit. Still, it's going to be very weird in actually being where I had left. I won't be going to Northern Liberties, because living there will simply be too much to cost. Not to mention the place has changed very dramatically now that the Piazza is there and there is more development going on over there for younger tenants and the cost because of these developments is too high.
So my family, excluding my father have been spending time in actually looking at different places to where we will be spending time until we get back on our feet. One thing is certain, going back to Philadelphia is an inevitability. I don't have a problem with it. As a matter of fact, I am coping quite well with the fact that I am moving. I kind of look forward to it. Living in the neighborhood now has been very hectic in terms of paying the taxes and the mortgages. It's been difficult for my Mother, it has been difficult for me, and it has been difficult for my father. We can't keep up with the payments, the utilities, and finding employment is just downright almost next to impossible. It doesn't help that Express had put me on Seasonal work, without telling me mind you when I had filed for full time work, and for all I know... I've probably been let go without having been told.
But you know what? We're survivors. We're going to get through this.
So I've been helping my Mom in looking for places where it's cheap to live, and affordable. We've been looking at apartment developments and town houses. Of course, we'll be avoiding section eight housing and apartments since we want to be comfortable. I mean there are standards which we have, but we're also doing our research on these particular developments and all. So it's going to be a change for us.
We'd like to stay in Jersey for as long as we can, but the truth of the matter is it has gotten too expensive to just live here. If you want to own a house, you have to have a job and getting a job, a well paying one is very hard as it is to do in Jersey. I've been looking for retail jobs, since I have experiences in those fields. Mom has been looking very hard too, but is coming up with nothing... My father, is the only one working, but he hasn't lived with my family for ten years after the affair he had behind my Mother's back. Retrospectively thinking, had my father been a good husband to my mother, and not did what he did, we wouldn't be in the situation we are now. But it happened, but we got through it. We're going to get through this.
Case in short-- we're looking for a place to stay until we get settled... And then we're finally going back home.
Philadelphia, I'm coming home... |
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| Finally Employed! |
[Oct. 16th, 2010|08:20 pm] |
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Well it's been a while since I have actually posted something worth-noted and I think that this is something of a break through after an entire year of having some off-time from my last job which was a rather unpleasant experience to go about, and I think that this is something worth documenting down in my journal, or blog-- whatever the fuck you want to call this nowadays. Case in put, I am employed again and I look forward to making money and finally being able to get what I want and when I want it but... it's at the least expected place where I thought this was going to be for employment.
I will be working at Express, you know the clothing store which you see in the mall or outlet stores? Yeah, I will be working at a place where it's all trendy fashions and clothes and to be rather quite honest, I am not so sure how to feel about that. I mean it's not so much as the job I don't mind it's the clothes I have to wear for that job-- I have to wear clothes which are in the hundred dollar range where as I am perfectly fine in stuff which I get a K-Mart or Walmart. I have always been particular about the kind of clothes I wear, I am not the kind of guy who wears fancy stuff or designer labels, I've always been the plain kind of guy and that's what I like...
With wearing clothes from Express, I can't help but feel... fake. Like being something I'm not. I mean it's fine if people want to wear Express clothing but for me, I've... not really appreciated designer clothing. I mean if you ask me, the whole fashion scene where clothes like Express, Tommy Hilfiger, Polo and Old Navy were for like rich preppy white kids or the popular cliques in high school...
....Hah! Here I am, 22 years old and still with that personal mentality toward such people and their apparel. Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Guess some people never change, and I guess I am one of those people, you know?
But yeah, I really am glad that I now have the job but the question is am I going to be happy with it? Probably content, yeah no problem there but with the clothes I am required to wear such as Express brand jeans and graphic shirts, I don't want to forget my personality and who I am with a sudden change in things. I suppose that's my biggest fear.
I officially start my shift on Monday and I will be working from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM and I definitely need the money... So... I hope I can last this job longer than the other ones.
Nan'de Than Guan... God... I haven't said that in YEARS. |
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| PREDATORS- My Review! |
[Jul. 9th, 2010|03:21 am] |
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In 1994, Robert Rodriguez was hired to write a script for a sequel to the 1987 classic, Predator. Sometime fifteen years later, Rodriguez's writing draft was found none other than by Fox Executive producer, Alex Young to reboot the franchise. And so we are presented with PREDATORS directed by Nimrod Antal, and containing an all star cast consisting of Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Danny Trejo, Topher Grace, Oleg Tarkatov, and Louis Changchien Ozawa and Mal..Mal... the guy who plays Mombasa. The film is a direct sequel to the 1987 classic, Predator but ignores Predator 2, Alien vs Predator and Alien vs Predator Requiem. For more than a year, fans have anticipated this movie, impatiently awaiting the day when the movie would arrive.
There are only three words which I can perfectly describe this movie.
( Spoilers! You've been Warned ) |
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| Nothing like a Firecracker on the Fourth of July! |
[Jul. 4th, 2010|08:16 pm] |
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I know I haven't been updating much, but it's because there really hasn't been anything worth noting here on my journal since most days are pretty monotonous anyway. But this one turned out to be quite interesting and special, because I met someone who I was not expecting to meet, and I didn't even think that I might have a chance. Anyway it all started out pretty normal, with me waking up somewhere in the middle of the day and I'm just playing my PlayStation to pass the time and my Mom tells me we might be going out to eat at Mikado. So I had my heart set on it but there is always a catch when it comes to holidays, especially national and historic ones such as this one, the fourth of July. So it turns out my Mom wanted to include Grandma into the whole day and I was hoping that it was just going to be me and Mom but... can't have everything now can you?
So we pick up Grandma and try and kill sometime to take her all the way from Philly, to Jersey again and usually the ride takes about twenty to thirty minutes tops. So when we get to Jersey, we head over to Mikado and noticed that the restaurant doesn't open until four PM. Mom didn't want to wait the hour and she didn't want to go home and started looking around for other places to eat but I definitely had my heart set on the Japanese lunch. We drive around for a half hour and everyone is starving, arguments are ensuing and everyone is miserable, so we decide to head back home and wait the hour out, which we did of course.
So we head over to the Mikado, and here is where things get interesting... Really, really interesting. Our table was being served by this pretty, cute, Chinese waitress, and upon seeing her I just brighten up with smiles, but I try and hide it but still the smiles came out. So I wonder what the girl's name was and I look at her named tag and it reads, Su Lin.
My Mom and I talk about what I should do and how I can talk to this girl. Now keep in mind, I have very, very, very little experience when it comes to talking to women and I am going to be real, I don't think I am good at it. But I try.
First thing I do is compliment how she looks. Her reaction was a noticeable blush with a smile. That's a good thing, right?
So I let time pass on by, so we eat out meal and every time she comes on over, I smile to her and she smiles back.
At the end of the dinner, I ask if she has a boyfriend and she tells me that she doesn't. I tell her that I think she is very pretty and we just share smiles and everything. Now here is where things really go from good to great...
I ask for her number, she gives it to me.
Wow... I didn't think I would get that far in actually succeeding in getting a girl's phone number. And I am very interested in where this is going to go, but I know I need to take things slowly, and carefully. Maybe I'll wait a day or two...
Now I need to get a car and job... Those are going to be hard.
Wish me luck! |
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| A Day Worth Documenting |
[Apr. 2nd, 2010|06:28 pm] |
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A day worth documenting would definately have to be yesterday, April 1st 2010-- otherwise known as April Fool's Day, though this particular April Fool's day would have nothing to be worth foolish or funny about. It was more like a moment of social awareness and a differing political stance on things, and this is coming from a person who isn't very socially aware or into politics very much for that matter. This was something of a time where life imitated art, as I found so many parallels to this and Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, a film where it showed tensions within the Brooklyn community on the hottest day of the year. However, what I am commenting has nothing to do with Brooklyn, New York or it being the hottest day of the year, but it has something to do with tensions in community.
In Philadelphia, specifically South Philly to be precise, there is a famous landmark called Geno's Steaks. It's a tourist attraction which also serves some really good Philly Cheesesteaks and other sandwhiches as well, also catering french fries and other foods as well. If you want a cheesesteak, then Geno's Steaks is a good place to get one among other places. But this entry is not really about getting Cheesesteaks, but it does comment on Geno's Steaks... and the tension the owner has caused. Sometime ago, Geno's Steaks owner, Joey Vento placed a policy outside the vendor which quotes: "This Is AMERICA: WHEN ORDERING Please 'SPEAK ENGLISH'". This has caused tension within the Philadelphia community as Philadelphia has a mixture of ethnic cultures from African Americans, Hispanics, Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian, Irish, Germans, etc.. This sign has generated so much controversy that The Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations filed a discrimination complaint, arguing that Geno's violated the city's Fair Practices Ordinance, which prohibits discrimination in public accommodation, by "denying service to someone because of his or her national origin, and having printed material making certain groups of people feel their patronage is unwelcome".
This was featured on the local news as well.
Vento's Response?
Vento had previously said the signs are directed at the Mexican immigrants in the surrounding neighborhood. Vento says no one has been refused service for not speaking English, but said, "If I can't understand you, you might not get the sandwich you thought you ordered."
Responding in an interview with Fox News analyst Neil Cavuto, Vento stated that he does not turn away any customer, and therefore does not discriminate. He also vowed to keep his sign displayed no matter how much pressure he receives. He explained to Cavuto that his parents had to learn English when they came to the U.S. He said that if his customers order in any other language, he'll give them Cheez Whiz on bread. Vento posed some rhetorical questions: "If one goes into a Puerto Rican neighborhood, how many signs would be seen in English?," and "When one is on the telephone, it may say press 1 for English, press 2 for Spanish; but where is the number for, say, Italian or Korean?"
Hmm... If you ask me, that sends mixed signals to me. Sure, some could interpret this as a man trying to cover his rear with BS, but to me, a quote from a past incident leaves me nuetral to decide really whats racist and whats not.. But yesterday, I found another sign which definately sent me some hostile feelings.
The sign read: "This is America. IT'S TIME TO TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY!"
....I'm sorry what? First off, this was never OUR country to begin with. The country belonged to the Native Americans, who Europeon settlers stole from and decieved. I love America, I am a proud American, but I'm not going to pretend that this country was founded on false pretenses when I damn well know alot of innocent people were lied to, manipulated, decieved and killed in the formation of this country. So anyone pulling the "You don't like America, get the fuck out" card, shut the hell up before you make an ass of yourselves.
Second, whats to take back? America is the melting pot, it's where people come to get an opportunity where they had none. This is a place where people can come in and start a better lives for themselves. America's success cultural diversity is because of immigrants and cultural unity. So, I ask, what's to take America back from, hmm?
After Jim Crow, after the revolution which people like Dr. King, Malcom X, and other political leaders who fought for a better, culturally united America-- I had thought we had gotten past tensions between people. Weren't we supposed to get past that?
Seeing that sign outside the vendor really rang a few bells, and definately made me raise an eyebrow. It also reminded me of the scene in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing where Danny Aiello's character, Sal, was arguing with Buggin' Out, played by Giancarlo Esposito, for denying notable African Americans on Sal's Wall of Fame, which only featured Italian-American's. While it's not the same thing exactly, there are parallels and it most certainly draws community tension.
....I thought Americans got past this...
Hmm.. |
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| Delusions: The beliefs of a pathological liar. |
[Feb. 10th, 2010|05:52 am] |
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I normally don't waste my time in posting livejournal entries over such trivial things but it seems that to some people, I am considered the devil and they see themselves as the messiah of God. Case in point, if you don't know who I happen to be talking about, I happen to be talking about Joseph Cain. Weither or not he knows the existance of my livejournal, is something yet to be seen but hey, I don't care at this point. You see, Joseph Cain is a BOY (considering his childish behaviour, he doesn't deserve to be called a man) somewhere in his mid to late twenties who takes online roleplaying very, very, very, very seriously. As a matter of fact, he center his entire life around it and is presently still living with his mother who just doesn't like him at all, very much might I add and refuses to seek employment, even if it's simple jobs like bagging groceries. And not alot of people like him. But thats not what this is about. This is about my story. My experience.
It's time to stop listening to the lies, and bring out the truth.
( This is my story. My experience. The Truth. ) |
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| Slice of Life.. |
[Nov. 23rd, 2009|08:18 pm] |
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Sorry for the lack of updates, but thats because alot has happened and to be rather quite honest, I have no idea where to really begin. I suppose I can start with my father and how I have been spending my time with him. I've had another rite of passage, and that passage would be me having my first beer. I've already had three alcoholic beverages, such as warm Sake on my twenty first birthday, a Kaluhua Mudslide some three months ago, and just recently I have had my first beer with my father. What brand? Japanese Import-- Sapporo. I can officially say that beer is the worst tasting beverage in the world. I know it's an acquired taste, but after having my first glass, I decided never to have another beer again unless I have a son and whenever he turns twenty one. I strongly believe that every man and his father should at least at one point in their lives share a beer together and reminisce about every moment of their lives which were spent. I've had my beer, now all thats left is to get a car and a woman, and a steady source of income. I can't help but look back now at all of the memories of my childhood and realize that I had it good.
Another side to my father is that not too long ago, my Mom managed to find the woman whom he has been having an affair with for almost twenty eight years. Granted, my father has been out of my life for seven years and going on, and he has caused some hurt for me and my Mom but he's perhaps the only father I have ever had. My Mom found my Dad's misress on Facebook, and he was even in a few photos with her. When my Mom and I saw the mistress, we couldn't believe that he left a loving family for a fucking ugly and old troll. And whats surprising enough is that he has had children with this woman who are probably older than me, and the resemblence between his sons and him is just downright uncanny. It's there in the eyes, the nose, the face entirely. I cannot help but feel a sense of resentment towards him and regret sharing that beer with him... I realize that if I had come from him... he'd be a part of myself.
...And I thank God that I am not a part of him at all.
On a somewhat much lighter, but something of a down note-- it's official, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has come to an end after a twenty five year run during their debute in Mirage Comics back in 1984. To celebrate this stepping stone anniversary, a movie called Turtles Forever has been released on TV on the CW4Kids which unites the 1987 Cartoon Ninja Turtles, the 2003 Ninja Turtles, and the Mirage Comics Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It was something which all generations of TMNT fans could enjoy and I reminisced about how big a part of my life the TMNT are. So I have been on something of a Turtles kick and I even went out of my way to buy season 8 of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Turtles Forever was definately a tribute and a treat for the fans to enjoy, and it was definately a good way to end the franchise after a twenty five year run.
So why do I say the franchise has come to an end? Well, with Kevin Eastman no longer having any affiliations with Mirage Comics or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and since Peter Laird, co-creator of the TMNT had sold the intellectual rights to none other than Viacom subsidery company, Nickelodeon. Personally, I'm not exactly too thrilled with how Nickelodeon has been doing their cartoons, as they are not as good as they used to be back in the 90s and the new cartoons these days are just absoloute trite.
But... all good things must come to an end, and I feel like I'm saying goodbye to all twelve different Turtles whom belong to their three respective incarnations. Goodbye Turtles, I will always remember and love you for the fond memories I have.
Pretty soon, I might as well be saying a farewell to the Predator franchise since Rodriguez has officially fucked up the franchise now. |
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