My wife is drawing again

My wife use to work with a video game company drawing characters for video games. Over time she has been doing a few drawings on paper for me and the boys because we did not have the expensive software and drawing equipment she was use to using. But with a nice tax return we bought a simple Wacom tablet. After a while of getting use to drawing again she has finally finished one of her pictures.
Enjoy.

Dragonball Evolution becomes an eunuch

Click on the image below to see this weeks movie ranking in Japan.
















One person sent me an email to my old blog site stating that my opinion of the Dragonball Evolution movie was not accurate. http://melmika.sampa.com/melmika-s-site/trivia-thoughts/anti-dragonball.htm

My comment was: "The more I read about it, see the movie trailers and comments from just about everyone like me who grew up watching Dragonball Z/GT, I can honestly say that this will be the worst movie Hollywood has ever made."

This person clearly was upset:
Email: homer4858@gmail.com
"Ur and idiot, its not based of the Z series or GT, it based the king picollo saga=dragonball. watch the movie b4 you make entire pages of incorrect information"

In Japan, the Movie Studio did not show Dragonball Evolution to movie critics so many people did not fully know what the movie was about. So opening week it was the #3 movie in Japan. Next week it was #8; followed a week later at #11. Now you couldn't find its ranking in Japan because the listings only goes as so far.
日本では、映画配給社側は公開前の映画評論家による映画の評価、総評を発表せず、どのような内容か多くの人達には充分に知らされたいなかった(ように思う)。公開一週目は３位にランキング。二週目は８位、次の週では１１位。今では見当たらないしとうに下位に落ち込んでいる。

A few friends emailed me stating that it feels almost like an illusion. Heavy advertising for many weeks and now they can't find any information anywhere about the movie. Except for a Play Station movie version game no one wants to buy. One friend said the movie is more enjoyable IF you look at it as a parody. Many theaters have already stop showing Dragonball Evolution due to poor ticket sales.
何人かの友人がくれたメールでは、なんだか内容はほとんど勘違いな有様だったようだ。大量の広告を展開した割には、今では映画についてのインフォはどこにも見かけることがない、誰も欲しがらないんじゃないかなと思われるプレイステーションのゲームの宣伝以外は。友人の一人は『もし見るのなら、アレは原作パロなんだと考えた方が楽しめるんじゃないかな。』多くの劇場は早々に取りやめ残ったのは販売されるはずの哀れなチケットだけだ。

As to the person who emailed me about how I was giving incorrect information I hope you can for give me. And I am sorry. The next time Hollywood makes an American version of a Japanese anime and/or manga I will promise to get all my facts straight before stating (not describing the movie as you, homer4858@gmail.com stated) that it will be the worst movie Hollywood has ever made. Plus I will remember to put a comma between the word Dragonball and the letter Z as I forgot to do in my old blog site.
僕にメールをくれたまったく知らない君へ。間違った情報を書いてしまい誤解させてしまった。悪かった、どうか赦してほしい。次のジャパニメーションや日本漫画のアメリカ版ハリウッド映画は、史上最低最悪の(君<4858@gmail.com>のように記述を湾曲して曲解する)映画になるであろう『ＤＢＥ』よりずっと信用できることだろう。思い出したよ、僕の旧ブログで『Dragonball』と『Z』の間にコンマを入れ忘れてた。

Priceless Moments

Toys for the boys $50
A new push lawn mower $200
Spending the entire day playing with only the box
PRICELESS













For Christmas I plan to do all the shopping at Lowes Hardware Store.

Chinese car crash test

My wife watched a news report on Yahoo news about the car industry in China. That led to a You Tube search below.

Sentai Parody 戦隊パロディ。

My two boys love watching Japanese Super Sentai Series (Power Rangers) shows. They have many of these shows since Mahou Sentai Magiranger series. And I have to say that I like watching them as well.
僕の二人の息子たちは日本のスーパー戦隊シリーズを見るのが大好き。遡って昔の『魔法戦隊マジレンジャー』から。僕もよく見るくらい気に入ってる。

The American version has the look and feel similar to the Hollywood movie version of Dragonball. Case in point. The Jyuken Sentai Gekiranger series revolved around a martial arts theme. The American version, Power Rangers Jungle Fury, was set in a pizza parlor. Engine Sentai Go-Onger had a racing theme to were as Power Rangers RPM, has a Terminator theme.
米版の戦隊モノは何ていうか、ハリウッド版のドラゴンボールみたいな感じ。例えば、『獣拳戦隊ゲキレンジャー』シリーズはマーシャルアーツスクールを舞台にした内容だったが、米版『パワーレンジャー・ジャングルフューリー』はピザ屋だった。『エンジン戦隊ゴーオンジャー』はレーシングチームだったのが『パワーレンジャーRPM』は『ターミネイター』のようだ。

A new cartoon show on Cartoon Network called League of Super Evil did a parody of the Japanese Power Rangers. The episode is called "Slam Dunked" Enjoy it until You Tube takes it off there web site.
カートゥーンネットワークで放送されてる最近の新しいアニメ『League of Super Evil』は日本の戦隊モノのパロディをやってた。タイトル『Slam Dunked』の回は『You Tube』で楽しめますよ(削除される前に)。

The video is from the last 6 minutes of the show.
ビデオは終盤6分間のものです。

Finding Lost Stuff

My mother passed away last month and so I went to look around the house I grew up in and check out my old room. I still had posters of women in tiny bikini's like Samantha Fox's fishnet swimsuit hanging on the wall, old toys, cassettes of 70's and 80's music. As well as a few (dozen) magazines hidden under the mattress. Very good days indeed.
僕の母が先月亡くなり、僕は自分が育った家を見てまわり自分の部屋だった場所へ行ってみた。
きわどいビキニの女の子、フィッシュネット(網)水着を身に着けたサマンサ・フォックスのポスターが壁にそのままで、古い玩具、70年代80年代のミュージックテープ、上手い具合にマットレスの下に隠してそのままになった数冊(あるいは12～3冊)の雑誌。いい思い出だ。

One of those music cassettes was from a group called 'Queensryche'. I remember watching MTV one morning while getting ready for work. The video was 'Jet City Woman' from their album 'Empire'. and by that evening I had gone out and bought the cassette. Pretty good music to listen to when you are doing some reading in bed.
見つけたいくつかのミュージックテープのうちの一つが『Queensryche』と呼ばれるグループのだった。ある朝、仕事に行く身支度の間にMTVで見ていたのをよく覚えてる。ビデオは彼らのアルバム『Empire』の中の『Jet City Woman』。その日の夕刻にミュージックテープを買いに行った。ベッドで読み物をしながら聴くにはなかなかイイ音楽だ。

Queensrÿche : Jet City Women
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Comedy to heal the Soul

Still getting use to many changes that had happened last month. The best way I got over it was by watching lots of comedy TV shows and movies.
先月突然の出来事で、いろいろと変わってしまった事に慣れようとしている最中です。塞ぎこんだ気持ちを慰める一番良い方法はたくさんのコメディショーや映画を見ることです。

Soon I will be taking my family to a little get-away and reality will go on. After all; Star Trek, Transformers 2 and GI Joe will coming to a movie theater later on the year.
近々家族をつれてちょっとした小旅行(おでかけ)にでも行こうかな。『スタートレック』『トランスフォーマーズ２』『GＩジョー』が今年映画公開されるし。

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