Friday, May 27, 2005

pissing into the wind...


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Trying to get anything from StartLogic has become a catch 22. I want a backup of the animehell.org website. The account has been suspended and will not be reinstated per the StartLogic Abuse Department. I email StartLogic Abuse for a backup of website. Abuse does not respond. I call support for backup of website. Support sez they can't do anything please contact Abuse. I ask support to transfer my call to Abuse. Support sez I can not talk to Abuse on phone. I ask why. Support sez for documentation purposes. I lose my cool. I ask support for supervisor. Support sez he's the senior support analyst. I ask for the president of company. Support tells me this is not possible. I hang up phone and send 3 more emails to abuse.

I now have big stress headache and no backup of website.

New webhost doesn't seem to like blogger code, running animehell on blogspot while redirecting animehell.org traffic from new webhost. It's all spit and bandaids right now, I wish I knew how to run a server box outta my garage.

Hey, have a nice Memorial Day weekend!

Thursday, May 26, 2005

File sharing is bad

I'd like to apologise to everyone who came looking for Kamen Rider Hibiki video clips. AnimeHELL.org has been shut down by StartLogic for running a Bittorrent Tracker, specificly Downhill Battle's Blog Torrent. I'm in the process of setting up AnimeHELL.org on a new webhost, and until the day I can run a server on my own without any interference from a webhost it looks like I won't be useing Blog Torrent or Broadcast Machine or any sort of file sharing for fear of losing my site, again.

And the ironic part is that I signed up cheapdisposable.com on StartLogic, too. But who knows, they may find something illeagal on CheapDisposable and shut that down, too. So maybe I'll be here tomorrow, and maybe I'll be somewhere else, because that's the way the crap rolls around here...

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Another boot to the head

In another set back in a series of set backs it seems that my webhost, StartLogic, has determined animehell.org is offensive and they suspended the account. Not a word from StartLogic as to what or why or who, and no chance to correct or remove the "offensive material." Nope, they just shut it off.

What a wonderful service.

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

HELL Shock


I wanted to talk about SOMETHING WEIRD VIDEO's SHELL SHOCK/BATTLE OF BLOOD ISLAND but Amazon doesn't have the cover scan. I recommend it primarily for the inclusion of the Army training films INFORMATION PLEASE and YOUR JOB IN JAPAN. While INFORMATION PLEASE is about Nazi interrogation YOUR JOB IN JAPAN focuses on "The Japanese Brain." I don't know much about YOUR JOB but I've heard it was produced by the Capra unit but was never officially released to the troops. Still I've shown bits of it at OtakuHELL on VHS, THE SWV version has better sound so I'm thinking of showing an excerpt at AKon16.

BLOOD SUCKERS/BLOOD THIRST is one of the DRIVE IN DOUBLE FEATURES series of SWV DVDs where one selection will play an entire 3 and a half hours of Drive-in style viewing. Starting with intermission countdowns to the show followed by some trailers and short subjects and then on to the main feature. I really wish SWV would do more of these, but they've started cranking out the softcore pictures and triple bills and don't seem to be looking back. I'm still kinda sore about SWV pulling the K.Gordon Murray series from production, I wonder who showed up with the copyrights?

Do yourself a favor and watch Howard Hawks' RIO BRAVO!

Saturday, May 21, 2005

Fun with Satan


One of the great things about SOMETHING WIERD DVD's is they don't skimp on the extras. They'll pack 2 movies on a DVD and throw in a dozen old movie trailers, a couple of shorts and maybe even a slide show of old movie posters and flyers. Super retro-cool! The other day I dropped ASYLUM OF SATAN into the DVD player and was clicking around the extras and found a funky little short: Satan offers a woman "fun, excitement, love, romance, and success in business" if she promises to wear a pair of Satanic Shoes in the marvelously tacky 30-minute Featurette, "The Soul Snatcher" I'm gonna edit out a section of this for OtakuHELL...

Friday, May 20, 2005

Cargo Cult


I like animation. Cartoons are my crack. So, the question is does CLUTCH CARGO qualify as animation? "Syncro-Vox" has to be the bottom end of limited animation. Any more limited and you'd be using cardboard cut outs on sticks. Despite the creepy fleshy RED lips imposed on static illustrations CLUTCH and his pals are entertaining. Of course cartoons this old have some politically correct issues, but if you can get past that you could show these to your kids. And of course these are perfect for running in the background of your next party. Now if they'll only release SPACE ANGEL on DVD...

Thursday, May 19, 2005

Sleazy enough for you?


Mundee asks me about a Swedish movie that inspired KILL BILL called THRILLER. I mentioned that there are alot of Girl Empowerment/Rape Revenge movies out there, enough to be it's own genre. The one that comes to mind first is I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE aka DAY OF THE WOMAN.

GRAVE is a hard film to watch. It's one of those movies that makes me very uncomfortable, and despite that I'd have to say it's very well done. But I wouldn't take a date to see it...

THRILLER - EN GRYM FILM
aka THEY CALL HER ONE EYE is A CRUEL FILM. But it has less of a visceral punch then GRAVE. Mostly because it focuses more on it's sex then it's violence. It's plot seems to have been lifted from a Shaw Brother's movie, but filtered through some 70's sleaze when Swedish meant sex and stewardesses. I won't take a date to see this movie, either...

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Ultraman Tiga on Region One


I finally got the final volume of ULTRAMAN TIGA and I've gotta say I'm impressed. 4KIDS did a great job packaging this series. I know I've said this before, but at 13 episodes over two disks per volume you really get your money's worth. On the downside, it's in the original Japanese with subtitles. Don't get me wrong, the translations are very good and the subs are quite readable, but this is a kid's show. And you'd probablly get more kids to watch it in the english dubbed broadcast form.

Of course, KIKAIDA is being broadcast in Hawaii and California in it's original Japanese with English subs and it's doing quite well.

In comparison with the KIKAIDA DVDs the ULRAMAN TIGA extras are disappointing. They aren't as interesting or fun or well, worthwhile. And then there are all the promos for The FOX BOX and all the 4KIDS shows which really don't have anything in common with ULTRAMAN TIGA except by virtue of being licensed by 4KIDS. Seriously, I'm not interested in buying a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles DVD, thanks.

With any luck ULTRAMAN TIGA will find an audience. And it deserves an audience who'll discover it in the bargain bin and be charmed by it's monsters and strange alien hero. And spend the summer nights running through the yard pretending to be members of G.U.T.S. protecting the Earth.

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

TIMEQUAKE!!!


I watched MILLENNIUM over at Josh and Michael's place and I gotta say, this is a bad movie. Lucky for us it's so bad it's good. The perfect fodder for making fun of with a room full of friends. In some future post I'll go into details of this wonderfully horrible movie, but for now I'll just say rent it and watch it and whenever there's a "Timequake" finish your drink...

Monday, May 16, 2005

Do it with Triplets


This is an amazing film. It's fun, it's stylish, it's unique. You'll probably never see this on Cartoon Network, but it's something that any animation lover should see. Highly recommended!

Sunday, May 15, 2005

After School TV


Now if only somebody would release all those Made For TV Movies on DVD in collector sets...

Saturday, May 14, 2005

Robert E. Howard's other barbarian


Caught KULL on the skiffy channel. Found it to be rather boring. I wonder who decided that every action piece needed screaming metal guitars. It comes off as a low rent version of Universal's syndicated HERCULES show. Only recommended if you don't really care about what you're watching. Heck, I'd strongly suggest reading the Robert E. Howard source material before watching this movie...

Friday, May 13, 2005

mmeiser blog: Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown - a peanuts gang remix

mmeiser blog: Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown - a peanuts gang remix

Found this Blogpost while checking the traffic logs. Funny how a Calarts student film is a "remix" but maybe they're using a different definition of the word then I am...

Thursday, May 12, 2005

Dancestuff


It's been a few days since I did a DVD review, so lemme recommend SHALL WE DANCE. No Richard Gere. No Jennifer Lopez. No Susan Sarandon. Nope, this is the original version, the one directed by Masayuki Suo. In the Original Japanese.

This is a damn good movie. I first saw it back when I lived in Mipple City, rented from the Hipster Video Store down the block. When I came to Texas I found out that Bruce had a copy and would show it to anybody and everybody.

Why bother watching the American remake in this age where you can easily get ahold of the original. On the down side, they put a making-of-the-american-version hype clip in the extras, like we really give a flying f*ck about that...

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

The strongest monstrous beast in history!


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The enormous picture was found with the net.
It is the strongest monstrous beast in history!
Don't you think? it is the impact which exceeds the union monstrous beast tyrant who appears in the ultra man tallow -!

The fact that it has the neck of 3 large monstrous beasts of Godzilla, the キングギドラ and the キングコング is is to call, but don't you think? the fact that the Cub To of large demon God is covered on the head of the king コ ン グ compulsorily is.
Something it is visible in the large demon God which the tremendous stupid face is done, with special care force is ruinous.

The Godzilla one eye with the ultra man, still from the hand of the scissors of the val tongue star person and the arm of the lead king has put out to the スペシウム light ray.
As for the ultra man there is no monstrous beast it is!
The monstrous beast and the ultra man it is this strongest monstrous beast of mixing, certainly as for this however it is strong, with just the monstrous beast not to total not coordinate ち ゃ useless it is!
Something, it becomes the kind of feeling where the looks of the clothes looks at the る person by mistake.

Hundred eye ghost gamma which don't you think? the tail of the ゴモラ you attach and how in appears " demon " - the eye!
As for here and others side you can appraise probably will be as the オシャレ which is not the り げ (laughing)

The wing of the radon and the foot of the ガメラ, the scale of the ガッパ, the dorsal fin of the Mullah (the shell) it is good very, don't you think? is.
As for this you think it is very good choice.

Letter of the picture collapsing, being not to be able to read, it does, but it seems that the fin of some monstrous beast is attached in the neck.
" The fin of 00 ゴン " it seems that is written, but it probably is the fin of some monstrous beast?

But presence word わ this force of ぬ!
We liked completely, but everyone how probably will be?
This much large monstrous beast uniting, certainly it can win no one, don't you think?, just it is the strongest monstrous beast in history.

Drawing the picture of the monstrous beast as for the proud person, exceeds the strongest monstrous beast in this history, trying drawing the original union monstrous beast, how, probably will be?
So, as for the union monstrous beast which exceeds this monstrous beast very it is not, probably will be * & & *.
It is tasty, taking the cousin entirely, it increases because well.

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Louie Chin's Onamaska


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Louie Chin is a damn good artist, colorist and cartoonist. Not too mention that his website is very well designed. Now he's got a new site that's more blog then gallery, and it's still showcasing his good stuff. I owe him a fistful of zines for letting me use some of his Oekaki doodles in last year's ACen issue of PGZine. I'll get 'em to you Louie, just you wait!

Monday, May 09, 2005

PGZine at ACen 2005!

Putting together the Psychommu Gaijin zine for this weekend's con in Chicago. Looks like it's gonna be pretty nice, maybe on the slim side, but pretty good on the whole. I'll try to post a PDF of the zine online when It's done...
bandtone
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Friday, May 06, 2005

PostPet and now this:


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IT LIVES ON YOUR BLOG!!!

What's a KVCD?


KVCD.Net Posted by Hello
This looks interesting. Especially if you really do get MPEG2 level quality on a VCD. Not that MPEG2 is all that great, it has it's problems. You can see compression errors on poorly authored DVDs, a real problem with MPEG2. Of course MPEG2 is a step up from VCD quality MPEG1...

Thursday, May 05, 2005

Women in Spacesuits in TV and Film


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Wednesday, May 04, 2005

I think the wallpaper is moving....


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Magiranger EP01 Ending


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Tuesday, May 03, 2005

General*Shadow

General * shadow

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The Part 4 which goes back and forth to the hospital * doctor Kate appearance!

Staff of badness appears in the mask rider series.
It is staff of belonging directly of the large leader of organization of badness, it is the existence which directs in the mysterious people.
Staff did not exist immediately after the starting " the mask rider " broadcast, relationship of the top and bottom, leader - the mysterious person - the combatant had been formed, but the sol colonel who is halfway rider series first staff appears.
It became the existence which goes between the leader and the mysterious person.
Natural shape of the sol colonel the mysterious human wolf man, was the sol colonel who takes the direction of the mysterious people for a while, but it is not possible to defeat the mask rider, the self changes to the mysterious person more and more and confronts with the rider but it is defeated.
As a successor of the sol colonel dead God doctor it is caused as new staff of the shocker, but although he cannot defeat the rider, the after all the self becomes mysterious human squid devil and challenges to the rider it tears.
The successor of dead God doctor the hell ambassador, directs the mysterious person for a while, but it cannot defeat the rider, becomes the self mysterious human ガラガランダ and challenges to the rider but * & & & & *
In other words the pattern that while alternating in the middle of the series, you insert the staff of the rider and substitute, had been formed.
It is the powerful opponent the mysterious person where staff changes in comparison with the beam general mysterious person quickly.
The corps of the strongest badness which is organized with just such a powerful opponent staff mysterious person the mask rider stolon moth - are the デルザー corps which appear.
The stolon moth -, the organizational black Satan of badness the stolon moth - falling down no body thing mysterious person, sent the " odd っ device person " to the medium board, but all stolon moths - it is defeated, it is destroyed the Satan insect and the black Satan large leader who become enormous the stolon moth - by being pushed down.
Survived, as for the general * shadow which is employing staff of the black Satan.
This general * shadow, every staff which appears so far in the rider series compared to it did, being high, it is the tune person.
After black Satan destruction summoning the staff of organization of the badness which disperses in the world, it was to form the organizational デルザー corps of the strongest badness which at one time is not.

This is the デルザー corps! Posted by Hello
This is the デルザー corps!
From the left
Stones and rocks baron
Kate doctor
It is rough ワシ army division leader
General * shadow
Steel iron staff
ドクロ major
Wolf director
Captain blank
With it is every one which is said.
This picture with the glass or the ドクロ which are the デルザー corps formation souvenir picture has toasted with everyone.
There was a relationship of the top and bottom, mysterious person under staff at the time of organizing the former badness, but as for the デルザー corps it meaning that everyone is staff there is no relationship of the top and bottom such as that.
When it is lacking in the change everyone cooperativeness, by his is strongest, by his can defeat the rider, you have blindly believed.
It was the powerful opponent in the extent which and the staff mysterious person of fact and the デルザー compares mysterious person to with that and does not become the thing, with the stolon moth - 1 person it was the extent where the tooth does not stand.
Kate 1 person and doctor of staff the stolon moth - the partner, became radio wave human tackle, and hitting each other at the same time tackle died and thrust.
The stolon moth which fights - the successive riders who in order to help have dispersed in the many places of the world gather in Japan.
Hiding, the stolon moth - and it can unfold the heroical fight the successive mask riders and with the デルザー corps staff mysterious person, but even the entire collection compilation of the primary mask rider series it should call, this デルザー compilation became the prominent episode which shows the highest rising even in the rider series.
Every one デルザー staff mysterious person who stops still with the personality where each one is prominent, is strong also in the く is charm, but the general * shadow which after all even among them is the central person with the taking leader of the デルザー corps was the existence which is prominent.
Being coldhearted, the general * shadow which still excels in intellectual abbreviation, with one pedigree tries will be the staff of the デルザー which does not go plausibly and will be able to wrap, probably to move as desired.
It is the staff mysterious person who has the brain which most is superior even in successive staff of the rider series.
When it is the mastermind who works the デルザー staff mysterious person with the shadow simultaneously, also the capability デ Lu the - in the mysterious person is highest.
It is the master of the fencing and also, the To rickey which used homicide tramp the numbers of skill.
The stolon moth - with it opposes often, but you do not show everything of capability and everything among the hands always, always bringing to draw the stolon moth - without by your being hurt instead of not sticking leaving, you do not enter into fight deeply.
It is the very shrewd staff mysterious person.
In addition, the weird appearance being contrarily very gentleman, the dandy the owner of manner.
The voice which Shibata 秀 victory of the dubbing artist plays is groovy truly astringently.
The shadow the stolon moth which is full in charm of badness - the rival, just is the rival.

Looking at the shadow, what you remember is rival " crystal boy " of badness of the protagonist cobra which of Terazawa Buichi " cobra " appears SF space opera comically.
The entire body being crystal, it was possible, it is the powerful opponent where (the クレア of the glass of Milky Way railroad 999 would like to see) with the weird man, coldheartedness and intelligence were high, the cobra dropped many degrees into predicament and inserted.
The appearance, the dandy you can discover the common point, considerably with general * shadow such as atmosphere, and to animation the voice where the dubbing artist Kobayashi Kiyoshi will which plays voice the occasion where it is converted is astringent.
Before writing this article, that voice of the shadow and the crystal boy is played, it thought whether it is not the same dubbing artist, but when you tried inspecting, it was another person.
The veteran who handles the part where the Shibata 秀 victory which plays the voice of the shadow other than the shadow and plays the voice of the mysterious person in the mask rider series, with animation is.
Shibata and the representative work of Kobayashi Kiyoshi will of the crystal boy where very voice quality has been similar after all probably is dimensional large mediating/helping of Lu pan 3 world.

The general * shadow, the crystal boy, and the rival of the キカイダー, as for the ハカイダー you think special 撮 and it is the hero of the highest badness even in the animation boundary.
After all because there is a charm in the rival of the hero who is the enemy, is badness very, also the hero shines and.
In such sense highest, general * shadow the charm villain, the mask rider stolon moth which can obtain the rival - it is happy, it is distant another.

Simply it is the fact that it is regrettable the stolon moth - the shadow not to be in nearly the last time the stolon moth - as a last enemy, to be taken the part in the new staff machine large marshal and to scattered.
The intention which uplift program by the fact that it appears the strongest staff which is stronger than the shadow probably has in the program staff.
But, you think the general * shadow the stolon moth - with confronts was suitable existence lastly above the machine large marshal.
With the program last time, finally the stolon moth - with we wanted the general * shadow acquiring the conclusion of connection.

The mask rider series, and staff of the badness which appears in the other Toei Co., Ltd. transformation hero, very the general * shadow was the highest badness in the rival of the hero and was the powerful opponent, and was charm we thinks.
Being strong after all, being cool, by the fact that the hero of groovy badness appears, hero program is something which rises.

Monstrous beast Bu log


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Magiranger EP01 Magi-red


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Monday, May 02, 2005

Minky Momo

Enjoy some Minky Momo!
Minky Momo
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Magiranger EP01 Fight!


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Sunday, May 01, 2005

Magiranger EP01 Mahou Henshin!


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