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...

New star wars Hoopla

Gonna say some stuff on it, where I'm at on the franchise as it exists now, yanno...

First though, I don't think they'll ever read this but whatever, if you have a son named Zander born in 24/07 in Victoria, Australia I am in posession of his 2ds XL. Apparently it was lost or stolen and the police here in the USA got it and have sold it on auction. I have looked into the system and found videos and pics etc of your family. I too have lost things as a kid and know the pain it can cause emotionally. So get in contact and I'll help return it... But I'm well aware it's near impossible especially with them being way over in australia, crickey...

Yeah man, that horrible truth when you realize you left your thing on the train or whatever, and you will never get it back. Oh man, how I've been there too many times. Shocked to discover this is actually a common occurence. Most likely left it at a TSA checkpoint on a visit to California to see family... yeah, either that or it was stolen, who knows... but I've seen people leave laptops at train stations my dudes. It's like, wow, you dun did it... Out of all the new stuff we have going on tech wise, anti-theft and anti-lost stuff NEEDS to be included in them to hopefully make it possible to get this stuff back...

Sooooo new star wars cash grab on the horizon. Ooooh harsh words, how dare I say that. well it's kinda what they're doing to my movies isn't it?

Am I still bitter over the lando thing? Ya think?

I don't honestly care and this one looks worse than the force awakens to be frank. It's like I kinda have no hope left and yeah I'll finish what I began but this is a failure and has culminated as such, nothing but a very interesting failure to frankenstein together a new star wars trilogy some how without Lucas' solid if misguided visions to draw upon.

Oh hell yes I could have made better stuff out of what they ultimately decided to do. I don't give a shit about whining crying emo Kylo ren. Don't care about Finn or Rey. They bombed at creating characters we would find captivating, it's just a slow slog until we finally end this non-story that's taking place. Like wow there was no story in TLJ. It's just well, kylo kills pseudo emperor palps, but he's still evil cuz he's just still a big whiny bitch. F's sake. I mean I enjoy the film but it's sadly being held back by the terrible characters JJ created... the piss poor decisions disney's been making with star wars...

I'm much more looking forward to and truly have a blast watching Guardians than star wars movies and that's absolutely insane... but I watch the teaser and I know.. I just know it's going to be JJ's typical Mcdonalds fast food mindless big dumb star wars movie nothing... He sucks... I've never been truly blown away by his films and I don't think he can do that, he's just not much more than your solid workman director, get it done, go home. He's not going to give us greatness...

I'd have it be like a goddamn I'd have muppets everywhere, old 70s fx, real other worldy looking stuff just to cap off and pay respect to star wars as we knew it... not this meh big cgi circus pirates cararibean fight in the ocean bull crap... good lord now that I think of it pirates trilogy is way more star wars than actual star wars, what are you doing disney?

As for Mandalorian, again, who the hell is this guy? I just don't care right now. Is that frozen Han solo? What are they trying to do, is it going to be about something that matters or is it another useless cash grab they've proven to be about?

Obiwan show. A prequel show that we know the ending to... gonna be rough to make sense of... I don't know, if I had to do it, I'd make a show you could watch instead of being forced to endure the prequels as they exist, I don't know. Will be interesting to see Ewan again and all that... yeah, but what's it going to be about? We know he won't die, just gonna be another prequel like solo I guess that has no stakes. And on that point apparently it'll take place during that time period so they might have Alden and Donald show up... eh, I'm hanging out Disney, I still look ok. if you want a guy for Lando I'm around, but nah, not gonna hope for much and I know Donald will not turn down a tasty check if offered to play him... so maybe I best give up that dream for good.

What would have been better to do? Yeah, I mean it's tough to say. Star wars is intimidating to people working on it I'm sure... you want to make it great, but greatness is tough to achieve... I personally can't understand why Gendy Tartakovsky who worked on star wars while Lucas signed off on everything wasn't given a massive call to come in and produce stuff.... he's the one person you can trust above all others to do it right and he worked with Lucas before he even finished the PT, so there's a solid actual connection to the God himself... Having some nobody film maker artists taking the reigns of Frapping star wars is dangerous territory... I like and respect JJ's fandom of star wars but he's just missing the target and not using the force... what's wrong with you man? Rian Johnson, again, skilled filmmaker but does he know he's dealing with star wars and not stinking Oceans 11 with all his casino love he's got? What are you people doing?

Matrix 4.0

Well this is some good news... I can't resist posting about this though I feel who cares what I think. 

Well it's interesting lots of kids were not alive when I randomly movie hopped in 1999 to some weird flick called the matrix. I was just trying to pass the time before going home that day, don't remember what movie I was there for whether it was star wars or something else, long time ago 20 years, I was 13 years old and hanging out at New Roc doing my thang... 

Let me just say that day was glorious... 

Couldn't be happier they're going to finally give us Matrix 4 and not bullshit around with whether to do it or not do it... 

Matrix revolutionized cinema... what it did, how it re-charged the film going experience is still to this day completely undervalued... Movies were never EVER the same again after the Matrix came out. It wrecked people's minds and visually pushed films to a new level. 

Still enjoy just the feel and flow of the first film and the wacky ridiculousness of the sequels. 

Are there better films about similar subject matter that I've seen since the last matrix movie came out waaaay the hell back? Yeah, I mean I've been watching quite a bit of sci-fi that's about rogue AI like 2001 and 2010 and the Alien series now is apparently about that subject if you want to look at recent films... We do indeed have a new terminator movie too which was essentially the father of the matrix movies, so yeah it's interesting what's going on seeing the sci-fi worlds kinda existing side by side now adays... I forgot to mention blade runner 2049, great little exploration of similar matrix concepts.

I think I know what's going to happen in the new movie, so if you don't want spoilers, bounce.

Neo and Trinity are pure digital beings now... It's the only thing that makes sense at all... Some how Trinity and Neo's peronalities are still inside the matrix even though their physical real world bodies are no more... Only way this can work at all...

I guess it's going ot be about them dealing with new threats to the peaceful co-existence between man and machines, or even a new One.... lots of possibilities. 

What I want for f's sake is there to finally be a more matrix stuff... tv show, cartoon, games... It's been probably the most over-looked gold mine in the history of popcorn cinema. I know I know, the matrix did get games, but to not do another better MMO for the matrix which is literally about humans living in a digital world, wtf. Seriously every matrix game is ps2 leWvel graphics nonsense... how does that happen to one of the most revolutionary franchises of cinema history? Explain that... should have gotten a matrix game to just give us something to chew on a decade ago to celebrate the 10th anniversy, we got a fart. 

Well I'm kinda pinching myself about this. I've wanted it for so long, I don't think this moment is real. We've gotten so many matrix clones and wannabes for so long. I've become used to going and seeing yet more matrix-lite, not really used to feeling like oh wow new matrix movie coming... wow, to get back into that state of mind, it's wild stuff...

politics

The art of deception.

Been to my own begrudgment too obsessed with the elementary school playground antics of twitter.

I come from the dial up internet, for starters. There was no twitter, no youtube, you dealt with it. Whatever political grappling was going on was not easy as hell to vomit out onto millions of people's computers... It's fascinating to some extent to end up 33 years old and be kinda looking back on a generation that knows nothing of the slower more tougher internet era. The hyper sensitive, superficial over happy youtuber gen crap going on now is quite sickening to me someone who grew up generally accepting slow boring internet existence and limited interaction with the billions of people on it...

Only thing I like is it's a lot easier to get dat porn, and potentially get some booty, but that's a slippery concept at this point though seems to have worked out for someone in my family...

Kinda my point of posting... seems to me, I mean, I used the internet to talk star wars all day first and occasionally get some sweet pornos, but the way some numb nuts have decided to swing things is make it seem like 24/7 you have to be some kinda politically minded internet badass with his views on things, and it has escalated to levels of violence and I mean isn't it what it is now, killers go on sprees because they have an audience who will watch and listen to them. Couldn't hope to do that in the 56k world I grew up in...

So some kkk people made a blog and posted they hate niggers night and day. It was small, outlier little thing no one cared... today? Big ass in your face KKK guy's on youtube blatantly making vids all day, it's like wow, didn't hope to see that become a thing...

I mean it's kinda a computer virus that keeps spreading... every site every comment section simply transforms into a political catfight between two keyboard prophets to their causes, it's like they're deciding anything at all... like anyone's going to give a shit, and from a comment section they're going to change the world. It's amazing the delusions people seem to have now that they have the ability to produce content that may be seen by the masses. It only makes me want that innocent era of just being a f'n 14 year old saying something stupid online vs the jackass trying to play political expert all day cuz he thinks he's important. No you're not. You will be forgotten and have meant nothing.... In fact because there's so many people making dumb pointless videos, they're all becoming less powerful and simply routine and ordinary.

And no one cares what you did today, honestly I'm that tired of it. There's no need to give a damn about what you did today. you're boring... I don't care about your political views. No one does... how the hell do these people have nothing else but to make videos about their views for years? Get a life, it's short, not gonna have time for much if you spend it online so damn much am I right?

Well People die all the time so get over it you babies - Neil Degrass Tyson

No.

I've thought deeply enough on this fumble by this point. And the saddest thing is that I've been binge watching tons of his videos for days and days and enjoying his humor and intellect and all that shit. Then he puts his ass in his mouth like a damn amature just learning what you say has power sometimes... You'd think by now he'd be a little more careful with his actions after having women take aim at him, but wow, blatantly exploiting deaths of innocent people for a laugh. That's outrageous.

I'm personally disgusted by him. I don't want to watch his stuff anymore after realizing maybe I was into the wrong dude all along... maybe... I've read his apology thing, and no, not strong enough. You crossed the line you DON'T cross. Just as you'd be offended if someone accused you of sexually assaulting them, Yeah, kinda crossed a lot of people's lines with your bullshit... I'm not a parent, but I have been in a position of caring for kids and, yeah the thought crosses, some shit you don't say to kids and he has kids in his audience, dude didn't think about that... head firmly in ass...

I don't know, bro, this stuff is getting way too common place... shootings... It didn't have to be this shooting you commented on, maybe a lesser one down the road, say oh if these shootings bother you, this should bother you more, I mean any way you slice it, it was a fucktard thing to put out and tweet.

So sick of twitter but I did indeed decide to check it out to kinda get a feel for the current atmosphere... of course people are picking sides and pointing fingers as usual.

What do I think?

Yeah, it's the most obvious issue America's facing more than other nations, some crazy asshole with easy access to guns... And I do agree with the argument that it's hypocritical that we're more concerned with being over run by immigrants and stuff and are willing to spend gazillions to stop that, but fiddle our thumbs and whistle about the trend of sick assholes who want to massacre people.

No, don't be shamed into shutting up. It's got to change. Something has to be done... Forget party affiliation, that's a smoke screen. What can we do to help keep these jerks from getting a gun that powerful easily. Make it tougher, shit. That's basically what people are wanting, prob is, the people in power are resisting it and may very well continue to, cuz life is cheap, right... as neil so eloquently put it... fucking douche bag.

dun with the render

It's ok... give a peak if ya wanna..

Ruff cut dun

Forced myself to concentrate on nothing else but editing this thing...

It's gonna be some funky kinda wonky thing, clocks in too damn long... at least an hour. Need to do some serious cutting to create a diet version...

If anyone's wondering why the delay, well, the render of the titles was a bit of a fumble on my part. I simply forgot how to animate in 3d in after effects. And it led to having to re learn it. Strange to have gotten so badass at the program then lose the skills you learned... I mean whatever I thought I knew was simply wrong and I had to do that and figure out how to do the star wars title crawl which is actually somewhat complicated to pull off properly and demands multiple layers, angles, masks, and accurate timing or you can't even read the text scroll...

So I mean I was there, but yeah you do gain a different kind of view of the ceremony from the caught footage, stuff I didn't witness but my camera did... it's interesting... I didn't know I focused so much on people I didn't know, but I'm glad I did, it's not just about my family... I am interested in who the Browne family is, so I'm glad I caught lots of stuff with them...

Overall it's a positive uplifting event caught on camera by me and I wish as is stated in the video people did this more. We simply don't. We don't have that sense of God and love and generosity permeating through our basic psyche as much as we should...

It's kinda depressing stuff... Well as a reminder of such potential my video will bring that kinda alien concept of spirituality back. As is quite clear though I'm kinda exausted from working on it. it's tougher than I thought since there's stuff you want to keep, but you can't, gotta keep it moving, don't know how to end it since I didn't really like have a way to end it other than showing us all arguing over who goes home with who in what car... most fascinating and I think the ending I have in mind might work.... gonna break and get back to it...