Not Quite A Ninja

As you may have read my wife and I are going to dress as Ninja's for the Yosakoi Festival in August in Japan, after recieving the costumes it quickly became apparent that wearing the full suit would prove to be extremely HOT, so we had to come up with solutions to the problems, which are numerous,
1 the actual costumes are quite thick = we can't do much about this
2 my costume is black which is the worst colour to wear in the sun= cant do anything about this
3 the tight fitting elasticated inner hood/face mask is extremely hot = I can do something about this

Here are my solutions:
1 Modify my costume so that the arms are shorter and I won't wear the gauntlets/hand covers.
2 Nothing
3 Wear a cycling air filter mask with either the outer ninja hood or a fishermans straw hat or alternately wear a black veil

the problem with these solutions is they don't look quite authentic on the Ninja front. So is it a case of boil to death or be a sudo-ninja, well I believe that the answer lies in the fact that Ninja's would probably wear what was necessary to do the job, so uniforms would not be so strict, hence forth I will be a cyber Ninja and damn tradition hahaha.

Sad News

Today I heard some news that made me feel a little empty, my favourite author of all time died last Friday(28th July). His name was David Gemmell and he wrote fantasy novels. In my opinion his work was better(for me) than Tolkien's work, in fact for me he was the best Author I had ever read. I would like to send my condolence's to his family. There is a beautiful comments page about him on the BBC website, some of the comments are very moving and it is fitting that such a wonderful man has a fitting tribute. I once had the pleasure of meeting David and I still treasure the book he signed for me. I always looked forward to the release of his next book and now sadly the expectation has been taken away. Rest in the Hall of Heroes David, you will be greatly missed. If anyone reads this go and get yourself a copy of Legend and witness for yourself how good a writer David was. Quite emotional at the moment, it really feels like I have lost a friend, and I am sure many of his fans feel the same. LOVE HONOUR PEACE AND PRIDE.

Yosakoi Dancing

Well I am off to Japan in 2 weeks time, and it is my favourite time of the year to go to Kochi City in Japan as they hold a dance festival called Yosakoi which is a beautiful thing to watch. It is made up of various teams wearing marvelous costumes and generally thrilling all the spectators for 3 days during August(10th,11th,12th) most of the dance troupes practice for months and some of the dances are very very intricate, last year I took part in the festival in a dance troupe made up completely of tourists(mainly Japanese) and learnt the dance we had to do in about 1 hour (it was a very simple dance that I still managed to get wrong on several occasions) anyway this year my wife entered us into the festival with a dance troupe one of her blog friends told her about, basically we had to register online and then watch the dance on the website and try and learn it that way, to any Japanese viewers of my blog you would probably recognise the dance as a traditional one but to me it is completely alien... HELP... No matter how hard I try I cannot make my moves look less feminine I look like a really CAMP fat old man, I am starting to panic, my wife may of come to the rescue because she noticed on the site that there were no dress restrictions:P so she said we could dress as NINJA'S and hide our faces I think this is an utterly brilliant suggestion and it could be the answer to hiding my shame. I really want to get the dance right, the reason is this, when the dancers dance down the streets, judges walk with them watching for people who they are impressed with and award them with a medal, I WANT TO GET ONE, this is my dream, but with my luck I will end up forgetting the dance completely and just look like a demented drunken Ninja, oh God nightmares are made of this........So if anyone reading this happens to be in Kochi for Yosakoi and they see a round wobbly ninja causing havoc in a dance troupe ITS NOT ME ITS SOMEONE DISGUISED AS ME:)....
P.S. Obachan I have your tea:)

Sleepy

Yawn.... I am too sleepy, actually more like exhausted, I have worked for 22 days straight now getting on average 6 hours sleep a day, luckily I will not be working on the upcoming weekend, BANZAIIIIIIIIII :) anyway its bedtime here so goodnight (oyasumi nasai) sleep well everyone, have sweet dreams, love honour peace and pride.

Whats in a Lyric?

"Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
'Cause I saw the end before we'd begun,
Yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won.
So I took what's mine by eternal right.
Took your soul out into the night.
It may be over but it won't stop there,
I am here for you if you'd only care.
You touched my heart you touched my soul.
You changed my life and all my goals.
And love is blind and that I knew when,
My heart was blinded by you.
I've kissed your lips and held your head.
Shared your dreams and shared your bed.
I know you well, I know your smell.
I've been addicted to you.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
I am a dreamer but when I wake,
You can't break my spirit - it's my dreams you take.
And as you move on, remember me,
Remember us and all we used to be
I've seen you cry, I've seen you smile.
I've watched you sleeping for a while.
I'd be the father of your child.
I'd spend a lifetime with you.
I know your fears and you know mine.
We've had our doubts but now we're fine,
And I love you, I swear that's true.
I cannot live without you.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
And I still hold your hand in mine.
In mine when I'm asleep.
And I will bear my soul in time,
When I'm kneeling at your feet.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
I'm so hollow, baby, I'm so hollow.
I'm so, I'm so, I'm so hollow."

What the Heck

I love Gamera, in fact probably slighty more than Gigan (only due to the fact Gamera has his own movies), well to say I love Gamera I mean the Heisei period Gamera, you know the mean looking mother of a turtle, so imagine my excitement when I found out they were making a new Gamera movie, then I saw the title and became slightly worried Gamera: Little Braves surely not. The Heisei Gamera was quite a dark series of movies showing what a Keiju should really be like, Gamera was portrayed as a defender to humanity who occasionally had to sacrifice some for the protection of the many, and above all he looked HARD as ROCK. See one mean looking Kaiju (not like Mothra who looks effeminate)

Next we see an image of the Gamera from the new movie

What the hell's going on here thats not a Kaiju, thats a pet turtle, in fact if you look closely Gamera looks more like one of those damned Ninja Turtles as you can see in the evidence below

GAMERATELLO

ARGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH no please don't let this be so, please let there be a real Gamera in the movie, the Heisei period of films won high acclaim both in Japan and abroad due to its darker approach, it was fresh and appealed to a wider audience than was usual for Kaiju films, sadly it looks to me as though Gamera Little Braves is aimed purely for the child market, this is a sad day for me:(

Inspiration

Two off my favourite bands of all time are Nine Inch Nails and Bauhaus so when I found out they were touring together I was excited but quickly got depressed as I realised that it was an American based tour and they were unlikey to appear in the UK together:( But then Trent Reznor (NIN) announced on his website that there were going to be radio broadcasts of himself and Peter Murphy (Bauhaus) so I could hear my two favourite artists perform together. Then even better than this the NIN website has put videos of the performance on this page http://www.nin.com/current/radioshows/index.html check it out, probably not to everyones taste but for me it is joy to my ears:) . Its rare that I look up to people but these two guys are amazing, and both are older than me which gives me hope that I still have time to learn guitar and make music (in my dreams but still hope). Anyway to Trent and Peter best of luck guys, thanks for the music.........

Love honour peace and pride

Mothra Dead Ha Ha Ha

As anyone(if there is anyone) who has read my blog may know, I don't like Mothraaaaaaa very much, I believe Mothra to be the most unbelievable Kaiju EVER, and the stupid moth killed my buddy Gigan (which in my opinion would be impossible). So as revenge I have been playing Godzilla Save The Earth on the XBOX and using every monster possible to really kick Mothra's butt at any given availability, I derive great pleasure in destroyed that useless piece of cloth winged, prism eyed, stuffed flying sock. Sad but True.

Have a beautiful weekend

Love Honour Peace and Pride

Hot and Overworked

It's Friday I should be getting ready to relax for the weekend but.......I HAVE GOT TO WORK ALL WEEKEND GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR...... I was looking forward to a nice quiet weekend but because of a few small problems where I work (we have to make some products quickly to ship to Russia to be used at a conference with President Putin and we really don't want to let down the Russian government) the result being I HAVE TO WORK. Its getting hot I want to just relax but no I can't do that I have to give up my weekend so that the company I work for meets its deadline, I didn't set the deadline but it seems to be my problem ARRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHH.

Actually when all is said and done, I don't mind to much really, my workplace is clean, usually stress free (even for me and I am a team leader), the product we make is good and occasionally we can get free tickets to Live Concerts (last year I went to the Summersonic Festival in Japan thanks to my company), and as an added bonus most of the people I work with are nice and friendly.

Sorry its a boring post but I am to hot to think of anything amusing.

Love Honour Peace and Pride

Hurt

what have i become?
my sweetest friend
everyone i know
goes away in the end

Flower

Ask A Ninja

Check out this site http://askaninja.com/ this guy cracks me up, my wife finds it highly annoying but for me it is just so over the top that I have to laugh out loud, the best sketch's for me are Question 6 Master of Disguise and Question 18 Minjas. Minjas are midget Ninjas by the way:)
This guy is insane, not to everyones tastes but give his clips a try you may love it:)

Memoirs of a Geisha 2

After watching Memoirs of a Geisha and being bored by it, I decided that I would audition for the remake I am far prettier than Zhang Ziyi and think I would be better as a Geisha than she is as proof here is me made up as a Geisha, go on admit it I AM BEAUTIFUL :D

And Heres me in as I would look on the poster for the remake

Emi and Doris Movie :)

Sucked

This is a short movie one of my friends made for his university course, It stars me (the ugly man with the strange face hair) and someone else that I never actually met, we recorded our parts seperately due to time constraints. I was quite pleased by my performance, its not wonderful but it was my first attempt at acting(badly), I APOLOGISE now for the use of some strong language (Sumimasen to my Japanese friends) , it was not my script(though I did ad-lib most of my lines as my memory is so short I forgot the real lines:D) Its a Horror film about the consequences of greed, hope you like it. Also sorry for the sound quality the compression I used to keep the file size down was too high so the sound is muted slightly:(

Gigan

Just in case anyone is interested, and to show PrincessRuby the difference between the original 1972 Gigan and the best version of Gigan from Godzilla:Final Wars here are the pictures.

As you can see the 1972 Gigan on the left looks rather out of shape with the big belly(looks like my belly) and he has a horrid colour scheme, now look at Gigan on the right, he looks like a real badass, slimmed down, built for speed and endurance, good musculature, knee and elbow spikes, he looks like he could really kick some serious butt.

GIGAN FACTS.

1. Gigan was the first monster to ever make godzilla bleed.

2. Gigan can fly at speeds up to 2,094 mph, 3,370 km/h.

3. Gigan has a buzz saw made of an unknown alien alloy on his chest and abdomen which causes considerable damage to his opponents.

4. Gigan fires a large beam out of his eye that separates into multiple lasers like a shotgun blast and are highly-explosive upon impact. The eye beam is called "Cluster Light" beam.

5. Gigan is DEAD thanks to that stupid big moth Mothra(oooh really scary giant moth, I am so scared of you, here have a mothball and stop eating my clothes).

Worst Guitarist In The World UPDATE

While trying to learn a new chord today I thought of an amazing way to play better...............get someone else to play for me, GENIUS, its definitely the way forward..

Japanese English Flag

Here is my amalgimation of a Japanese and English flag, hope that it offends no one, it is just representative of my home, where everything is a mixture of Japanese and English.
I think it makes quire an interesting shape.

Some Pictures

Here are some photos I took recently

this is a sign post in Bridgenorth, a town not far from where I live here in the UK

This sits next to my TV, the T-Rex is me, the Stegosaurus is my wife :)

Image Change

On the left you may notice a new image:) its Gigan from the Godzilla movies, its only a temporary change from my ugly face lookin at you:)