Rave: Ninja Assassin

In the biggest no-brainer of all time, this rave will be about Ninja Assassin.

Regular readers of my blog know I have been following Ninja Assassin since the movie was first announced. Me and my lovely wife have been following the movie's progress very avidly and could not wait to see the trailer.

Then the trailer was released and it looked like all our dreams had come true. Our boy, Rain was coming to America in a fantastic way. As firm supporters of Rain, his music, his shows, we were ready for it.

We kept ourselves pump on the way to the show (ironically the place is called 'Rave') by listening to our specially made Rain cd. We sat down with our confectionaries and then the show began.

The film blew away all my expectations and delivered hands down one of my most bloodiest, violent movies I have ever watched. The blood spurted, sprayed and flew, the plot was easy to follow, the characters had motivation and were believable. In the end, me and my wife were extremely satisifed.

Rain got his acting on, his English was surprisingly fluent and he brought the fury in the action scenes. Boy had some serious moves and he rocked our world.

On top of Rain, Sho Kosugi the father of all Ninja movies also delivered a virturoso come-back performance and it really pleased me that the directors/producers/writers gave him such a good showing. It was the equilvent of what Tarintino did for David Carridine in Kill Bill. A true movie legend was shown the respect he deserved in a genre he helped popularized. Naomi Harris also played a perfect foil for Rain, there exchanges were filled with humor, respect and some affection.

Props must also be given to the director/ cinematographer, the movie had many iconic moments that will stick with you after the credits rolled.

All in all, Transformers: Revenge of Fallen must move aside as my favorite movie of this year. This Year belongs to the Ninja.

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Sweet SINdel

I always had a thing for Sindel from Mortal Kombat. Dating all the way back to Mortal Kombat 3 when she was first introduced, I thought she had a mysterious, dangerous yet sexy appeal to her. Her outfit showed just enough and I kinda like the white hair with a black streak.

It was later on I realized she had awesome combos and I could win with her as well so that was pretty sweet too.

So when I was told that Sindel was casted in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation movie (and this was after the first MK movie which is and still is, a pretty good flick) I was looking forward to seeing who they casted.

The end result was Musetta Vander. She was a relative unknown when the flick came out and she, too me, made a horrendous movie slightly bearable. She was hot, she was crazy, she was Sindel to a tee.

The movie put Musetta on the map but not in a great way. Thankfully she later on followed it up with a good guest spot in Stargate: SGI (where she was Teal's long lost love) and Star Trek: Voyager (where she played Harry Kim's love interest). The casting directors like giving her roles where she was an inter-racial relationship and that appealed to me as well.

She just worked on a film called 'Transylmania' (which is where the above image is from)
where she plays a not so nice mistress of the dark. Yep, I like this ladies body of work, literally.

I was always a fan of Sindel and I will admit I definitely a fan of Musetta Vander too.

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Expectations is a Bish

LOL so I have this thing I need to tell you, my audience about. First off, it is kinda funny, I feel like I have a crowd and my blog is being read by someone other then me or my friends. I know this ain't the case but I still feel like I need to write like it is being read by multiple people.

Anyway onwards. Everyday I go to my blog, just for the Heck of it. I, sometimes tho feel the expectation to write something. Like I look at the date of my last blog entry and I say to myself 'Damn Phil, you've been quiet lately'. However most of the times I really can't come up with something I really REALLY want to write about. Sure I update my 'Rants' and 'Raves' on the side bar (almost religiously now) but other then that I really don't feel like typing a full on blog.

That is why expectations is a bish. I feel like I should write something, anything. I do know tho that it's not like keeping this blog updated would make me any money through (I wish) or there is a crowd of people following my every word but still. I feel the need to write something.

Hence this entry.

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P.S. Yes this is a very ironic blog entry.

November has Come or I don't want to get sued.

So it is a new month so that of course means new music.

In this case, it actually is new music. I rarely go with the norm and always try to go outside of the box when it comes to music players but this month I am actually feeling some commercial 'popular' songs.

First off the bat is 'Forever'. Now I am going to go on the record, I do not get this whole 'Drake is the leader of the new school rap movement'. I think dude is aight but he hasn't blown my mind like say Lupe Fiasco. I can not hate on this song through. Drake delivers a good verse, Kanye is solid and has tons of quotables (despite what the haters say) and Wanye's verse is meh to me but that's probably because I am so sick and tired of him overstaturating the market. However the clear winner of this battle royale is Em. Em comes in and kills it, resurects it and kills it all over again. Yeah his verse was that sick. Just listen to it.

2nd is 'Doesn't Mean Anything' by Alicia Keys. To my surprise I have never featured Alicia in my music players even through she has consistantly been one of my favorite artists. This song is her latest and after a couple listens I really dig it. In a funny 'everything is connected' moment, the video for this song (specifically the last couple minutes) really doesn't do much for the song which of course is strange because I mentioned in previous blogs how much videos help me enjoy a song (Forever being a recent example, I really didn't sit up and notice the song till the video, nice work Hype Williams).

However I can't go all new skool so I had to put in one of my favorite songs of all time. 'Fastlove' by George Michael. I grew to love George due to my older brothers. Not a Christmas goes by without my oldest brother Rob playing 'Last Christmas' and my other brother Michael swears by 'Father Figure' and 'Jesus to a Child' as the best songs of all time. For me, Fastlove has always been one of my favorite songs and one of the reasons why I love it is because of the multi-chorus at the end.
Now funny enough, only recently I realized the bit I love with the female chorus is actually a sample of a song called 'Forget Me Nots' by Patrice Rushen. It is the same song Will Smith sampled to make 'Men in Black'. I didn't realize this however till I came to the States and heard 'Forget Me Nots' on my local r'n'b station Mojo and then heard 'Fastlove' again after so long.

So that's my choice for this month. I actually wanted to celebrate Rain's impending US takeover (Ninja Assassin, Thanksgiving!!) with a Rain song but I have used so many Rain songs so I decided to give it a slight break.

Oh and the title, hah. The first part of the title is inspired by Gorillaz's song of the same name. The other part of not being sued is actually a reference to me wanting to use a Prince song (probably 'When Doves Cry') but then I realized Prince is EXTRA sensitive about his music online so lol better safe then sorry. I will give him his props tho. Prince... 'When Doves Cry' is the Shit man! Go on with your crazy self.

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