Return of the Last Jedi Dragon

Alright, can't seem to sleep so it's blog time... well, damn, son, reading through twitter got me addicted to that crap, it's hard to disassociate yourself from any kind of social platform and I should know.... I kid you not, my time online has been BAD beyond reason through my childhood. I didn't survive it through strength or any fantasy stuff like that. By God or whatever I'm still here still doing things... that's all.

I give much of my inner strength to my deeply rooted religious inclinations. I still now pray that things go well at work, and I didn't screw up on the job recently. I prayed for that cuz it's just one of those things, why me... so I turned to God on that front... I'll have to go back and deal with my awkward mistake I made and see if everything didn't turn out for the worst. But yeah, I will press on even if it did... I don't have that pessimistic cynism built into me like everyone does nowadays. I do think you can tough out hard shit and move on...

Or maybe I just know logically there's like gorgeous girls all over the place and one of these days I'll have my head buried in titties and not give a damn about my emo problems. I don't honestly know the answer to that...

I'm not going to discuss the current "thing that will finally topple the bafoon" that's currently going on. What's this like the 50th one... will this finally do it? Did any of the others. If history is any indication, probably not. But I do believe it'll leave a dent. He'll keep doing stupid stuff though. It's in his nature... it's in all our natures. We are always going to struggle with our desire to do evil. Always...

Lot to discuss. I've been having desires to blog shit I've been thinking about but then I said Naw, not worth it, but the pot hath boiled over. I've learned that this urban action fest is actually going to be friggin amazing. The Last Dragon is getting a fan made sequel cartoon and they're going to premiere it.

Very f'n goddamn cool, that's catching me right there. This is going to be a big reunion thing for the movie this year as well as an anniversary for Black Dynamite so Jai's going to show up for like 5 minutes sign some stuff then leave again cuz he's a millionare and got better shit to do, what do I know. I've talked to people who hung with him at the fest before and they do say he's cool but cold when he wants to be. And yeah I have no doubt of that. Got LUCKY I was even there to get his autograph, I actually was planning to just like I don't even remember it but I was lucky. I was just walking around after watching a movie and saw him by chance. I had known he was supposed to be there but he wasn't for hours all day so I didn't have a clue when he'd come, and if I decided to go spend a few hours in a movie instead of go walk around the floor aimlessly, I'd have never caught him, he literally was in and out didn't stay long, he's a freakin millionare, he's got shit to do.

Warriors anniversary screening. Most likely the cast member will be there too. Might be others, this year is serious business and they're not fucking around, bringing Jai, Taimak, Warriors, Star wars, this might be serious shit. Real top celebs coming and if I'm smart I'll go and be there... just dumb not to.

So I've decided to go... I mean damn. I won't bother Jai though. I just want to be there, support The Last Dragon, probably one of the cornerstones of my whole film influences in life. I hope Ernie shows up. You know what, that sob probably will. God in heaven, I'd die if I ever met Ernie Reyes Jr. I'd literally fucking die.

Yeah man love the Urban Action Festival, it's one of the few things I've discovered that I truly think is like up my alley. Wish I met the dude from Mortal Kombat at the last one. I don't know where he was that time but he wasn't in his booth so I missed him. Probably got nice stories about the production.

Speaking of which Next year might be the anniversary event for MK, hmmm wouldn't mind celebrating that. That movie too defined me as a person in a lot of ways. Best memory ever discovering that movie at my friend's house on holy VHS tape. Then wow yay my dad takes me to the movies to see the sequel. OHHHH fuck what happened!

But I'd never trade that stuff, the ride was great... ya know there's a joy inherent to bad films, just no pressure to be great, just a pure honest joy...

Now I've already seen the Last Dragon. Taimak's already seen the last dragon. All of us anyone who's attended these fests have seen it. There's no real incentive to watch it again for me. It's great fun for a person who's just discovering it, but once you've seen it, it's more of a struggle getting through its weaker parts to the great shit. It's just so f'n 80s. Like it's more 80s than the actual 80s. My bitches I'm not lying. The Last Dragon makes the 80s look like Today. Black Karate Kid is all I'm saying, and it doesn't apologize for it, but Taimak is why it works... Julius as well but those characters are like timeless classic shit then the rest of the movie is just 80s craziness, so it's like that, you feelin me?

So to my point, why go see the movie again if I think I've seen it enough? I do want to see where the cartoon will be going, that's true.

Taimak is involved... dude's movie called Master, looked interesting but I guess it never got going. Last i heard the crowd funding wasn't there. So I was just browsing twitter and since I'm following the Urban action stuff account they posted last dragon fan art. Here's the funny part. I'm a fartist, don't call myself artist, sounds too silly and unfitting, but yeah I draw and shit, so I looked up the artists who did the drawings for last dragon to kinda take a closer look at their work. Turns out they're legit working on a quality last dragon cartoon and have been doing voice auditions.

WTFFFFFF. For the fans by the fans, so me ridiculous last dragon fanboy somehow was missing the boat here and yeah I'm a decent voice performer always have been and I'm somehow missing out on contributing. Oh my GOD.

I'll try to get a part in it. That's the rub, got to get it done soon since yeah the premiere is coming down the pipe and don't get your voice in, no dice...

It is what it is... I grew up discovering the movie one fateful day, grew the balls to go meet taimak after failing to meet him at a casino, stalked the motha fatha all the way to the place he'd probably be for a few years it seems so my first attempt and failure was no big deal that i thought it was, I'd have ample time to catch him. In fact, yeah I've met him twice. Really sweet natured individual. He's cool as pie and probably should have blown up after TLD, weird what happened. Happy he's getting back into the role he was born to play... that's great.

Will I watch Black Dynamite for like the thousandth time? Ya Know... I hope Jai brings like a special only at the fest footage of the prequel Outlaw johnny black. Then I'd be all over it, otherwise, I'll see the ending fight and not much else. I seriously don't want to watch that dick scene, my dude. Don't need that in my life.

What else was I going to say. That's the problem I have, I have so many things on my mind, that I forget them when I try to do these blog posts... uh...

I'll have to think it over and remember, but that's the general main stuff I wanted to say.

Other than that, yeah will be fixing my lightsaber to get it ready for the Fest. Figure I'll dress up this time a little bit. I've had no real motivation to mod the saber until now, now it makes some sense to do it... I bought a very expensive conversion kit to turn it into a removable blade saber so I'll have to spend a few days working on that getting it to run.

They caught my ass with this one... I should have known Taimak was planning this. When I was trying to ask him questions about the production of TLD he brushed me off. He knew this was going to happen and he'd be doing a more elaborate q and A for the anniversary. Ah, I understand now. No biggie, just yeah, this is a good thing. It's long overdue too, TLD was more than some toss away film much more. much much more... it's like black role model for me and other blacks in the world really. That's a big deal.

When you as a black kid think that could be me making a badass kung fu movie, it's a big deal...