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So the past week I have been watching all the star wars movies again... mainly because I once saw this snippet of Star Wars 3 online somewhere. So after not having seen the movies in about 4 yours (and a lot longer ago since I have seen the original star wars movies) I thought it would be cool to watch them again. So I did.. and when I watched the first 3 movies (in epdisodial order) I was like damn they're so cool. So I moved on to the 4th one which is Star Wars: A new hope ofcourse. And even though I knew it was going to be cheezy, it still got to me xD It wasn't so bad that I didn't enjoy the movie or anything. But the cheeziness of the movie is just so overwhelming that the sun pales in comparison, or something. But then, that's to be expected of the mother of cheeziness on SF movies.
So then I went on to look for some stuff on some of the cheezy sound effects and it somehow got even cheezier as what I found was mostly of the original not yet remastered movies, enjoy: (note, I still like the Star Wars movies as much as I did before :P they're just classic, but as I have grown somewhat, some of the stuff has just lost some of its magic.. :/)
Compilation of "Howie Long screams" in several media:
The "Howie Long scream" in the original (i think) Star Wars: A new Hope TIE-Fighter scene:
Compilation of the famous "Wihlem scream" which has been used liberally by Star Wars' chief sound technician (who also did a lot of Indiana Jones movies):
Mirk:  bouncy |
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This is an RC helicopter, but, imagine you sitting inside that thing o_O;;
That dood's got some skiiiiiillzz yo!Mirk:  amused |
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Jun. 26th, 2009 @ 11:41 am
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today is simply fucked up, for various reasons.Mirk:  aggravated |
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This is the B-side of morning musume's new single. It's also the promotional song for this summer's Anime Expo in Los Angeles which Morning Musume is going to attend as Guests of Honour. The song alone makes me want to go there xD, I really like it.
Mirk: amused Singe: モーニング娘。－3、2、1 BREAKIN'OUT! |
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that is all.Mirk:  curious |
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Check out these 2 clips: The first one is BoA's new dance MV (which contains some very cool chair dancing btw) and the second clip is about a 60 year old man who constructed a robot beetle which actually moves!
( Check! )
Well that was it basically. Hope you enjoyed! Oh and here's a bonus for those of you who like to surf :P http://xkcd.com/570/Mirk: chipper |
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Today I went to the Cherry blossom festival in Amstelveen. I can't exactly remember how I found out about it but I went there because I definitely knew the cherry blossoms were blooming (last year they apparently were not). Anyway, I took a few pictures, met a few people (an ex- Japanese classmate and my ex-Japanese teacher).
So here are the pics:
( Pics! )
I should've stayed longer though, because moments after my mom and I left, the sun began to shine, and I did see the cherry blossoms in the sun but at the time the sun would only show itself for 5 seconds at a time, way too little time to take out my cam and take a proper picture.
Anyway, this is the end of my entry. Hope you enjoyed!Mirk:  artistic |
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So i went to a birthday party yesterday. And who was also there was this friend who happens to train European sword fighting for almost a year now, and because he just came back from training he had his training swords with him.
There are some very old texts which they use to learn different poses and ways to strike your opponent and contrary to popular belief European sword fighting is every bit of a martial art, just like kendo and jujitsu. The main difference is, it's European.
After basically all the guests were gone, we (me him and another friend of ours) stepped outside so he could show us some of his moves. In what I thought was going to be a demonstration of a few minutes ended up in a full blown medieval sword fighting lesson of a few hours. When we were done my friend and I had been taught all the basic poses and most of the basic strikes. Looking at our watches it was 2 in the morning. That whole thing took place on the street and occasionally someone would leave a house and those remaining would stand on their doorstep and watch what we were doing, how often do you see guys with real (blunt) swords striking at eachother right?
Anyway here is a clip of the club where he trains his sword fighting. In the beginning you can see a guy doing a great deal of quick fluid strikes towards the camera, I believe those were the moves we learned as well, although a lot slower of course. The rest of the clip has a few demonstration duels and some practice duels. (Oh and do ignore the rather cheesy intro, AND the fact some of the guys look like banished dwarves from Lord of the Rings.)
( Clip )
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Checkit:
( The chords to end all chords. )
the chords the chords the chords the chords the chords the chords are so nice!
Can someone -please- help me figure out what they are?Mirk: artistic |
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