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I love the current dark horse star wars, star wars: republic, and star wars :empire comics that have been running recently. Great stories great artwork. By the way did anyone else notice a cameo appearance by one of the comics most famous jedi ....

Green tunics ROCK

I simply dont understand everyons adverse reaction to the gamecube. I see nothing but quality games, more importantly i see nothing but fun games. Ive ended up more on PC as of the last year or two but when it comes to console teh one i play the most is the gamecube. I own a PS2 and play games on that too but not nearly as much i always end up drawn back to Gamecube games. So what if the system doesnt get 50 titles a month , i dont need more then 1 title a month. That just means you get 5 quality games..instead of 5 quality games and 40 pieces of vaporware. The x box seems to have grown in the "look this game has breasts and guns im an adult now" category but i own a pc i dont need an x box and frankly most games look boring anyway. ( i still dont see the big hoopla over halo ...its nothing special) ps2 great for rpgs and some action titles Gamecube great for platformers and adventure games As for zelda, i cant wait this is gonna be an amazing game. i have played every zelda game since the first was released and i love em all. I dont see why people are reluctant to enjoy the 3d games. No other game has seamlessly translated to 3d as well as zelda did. The mechanics were incredible and all the fun and gameplay of the original 3 was translated perfectly. Ocarina of Time was simply a landmark game when it came to pure fun and adventure. Majoras Mask was sorely overlooked by many , the game was ingenius and the way the game played out was brilliant. As for a zelda timeline , if you follow the story in each one and read interviews with miyamoto ( in every interview proceding a new zelda he almost always lets it slip that the game is a prequal or sequal) you can easily piece together the timline. This is of course excluding the handheld games which are completly left of center plot wise. zelda ocarina of time - first link and zelda and ganon as he changes from a thief to the sorcerer and is sealed away by the sages Majoras mask - same link as oot on a personal side story of little relevance to the zelda timeline Wind Waker - A new link , Miyamoto stated in an interview that the game took place after oot and mm...watch the opening movie..its all right there New Gamecube LoZ - He also said this was to take place after WW .....hopefully we find out what happened to all the water Zelda 3 - new link ,Watch the opening movie , it goes into detail about how once there was an evil sorcerer named ganon who was sealed away by the sages ...ie exactly what happens in OOT - oh and not to mention when OoT was coming out miyamoto said it would take place before 3 and be links ancestor Zelda 1 - New link , it was 8 bit , stories werent huge yet , ganon comes back to steal the triforce bad stuff happens zelda 2 - Ganons henchmen trying to ressurect him , direct sequal to 2, oh and in an interview ( i think i still own the eqm ) Miyamoto said 3 would be a prequal to 1 and that it would be links ancestor. As a side note, all the towns in this game are named after the sages who originally sealed away Ganon in OoT, of course this was most likely not even dreamed up yet at the time so it was a nice little piece of backwards continuity There you go thats the best i can do

1989 = zelda 2 frankly all i care is that 2005 is a new zelda ....mr mikimoto can you please be the artist for that because i love this artwork

Stay on target

coming soon Pet Shop Boys the anime!

I just got my order for both Nadia box sets from deepdiscountdvd.com for 29 bucks each. These are great items. The actual box set is actually one very large plastic dvd case . While the set has no real extras content wise ..what it does include besides the ten dvds, 4 episodes on each for all 40 episodes, you get also an 11th dvd ( the motion picture ) and 4 music cds. 3 cds from the series and one from the motion picture. All this for 60 bucks , all official , all in great quality ...what a steal. While once again it has little to no content extras ( probably not missing much anyway ) the movie and 4 cds more then make up for that.

You guys got start using mysimon.com...i ordered mine from deepdiscountdvd.com for 55 bucks

Thanks ...nice website by the way

limited stuff makes me cry =( i cant seem to find any links for ordering the booster ..rail ...or myers spider bot

November 4th on AOL at 1pm see first preview of the new star wars trailer Im glad i guess i was always too lazy to get rid of aol which i dont even need, now ill wait until after the 4th

spiffy , love the colors on this kit

A friend of mine used to have a device , in which there was a wire attached to a tape recorder. While on the bus he would tap the wire onto any part of the bus that was metal, turn a few dials to zoom into whatever radio station was playing on the bus at the time, and press play on the tape recorder and whatever was on the tape recorder would play in place of the station. oh good times..

and heres some street musicians i met

Having come back from Japan a little more then a month ago i feel i should comment on price. Japan is not nearly as expensive as people say it is. Yes to live in any big city it is going to cost you a penny and i can only speak as a visitor but before i went people warned me that was going to come back with a wallet 3000 dollars lighter. Ridiculous, maybe its just my ability to manage money but i spent all told 600 or so dollars in the ten days i was in japan. Now keep in mind 450 of these dollars was on models and gifts ( the amount of stuff i purchased across seas was ridiculous, i had 2 check in bags that were enourmous, i brought them to japan completely empty. When i left they were full and i had barely enough room to fit anything even on my carryons. Of course this is still visitation and i do know its very expensive to live in the major areas of tokyo...but thats kind of to be expected. I you look out upon the fringe areas of the city you will pay no more then you would were i live now ( los angeles). As for japan itself, yet another place people "warn" you about and how you have to understand the way things are going to work or your going "to hate this or that". Never take advice when you go on a trip, experience it your self. When i go onvacation i never plan more then hotel and plane tickets. The same applied to Japan. I went to Japan with very high expectations, afterall i had been fascinated with the cutlture, music and art since i was about twelve. Where this fascination came from i have no clue ( macross?? wahcthing anime when i was little maybe ?) at any rate i had very high expectations having wanted to go somewhere for almost 15 years. Well all i can say was i ignored peopel and just went and experienced it myself. Im happy to say that it was one of those rare occasions where your expectations were exceeded. I love japan. Never before had i been in a place where i felt more liek i was supposed to be there. Never did i go somewhere i felt happy just to walk through teh streets. I stayed in ikebukuro and loved walking around in the lights at night, visiting teh arcades, watching young couples dressed in kimonos go to summer dances together and win prizes from the ufo catchers. I loved the small fishing house in the middle of the lake under the bridge in akasaka. I fell completely in love with the place. The only place in tokyo i didnt like were the areas like ginza and akihabara which were aimed at selling and appearing more westernized. Nor did i enjoy whatching sleezy middle aged balding white businessmen picking up hookers at night. I cant see myself living in central tokyo , but i could see myself living in Japan. I am a realist however as much as i am a romantacist and i know things simply do not work like that. I am currently trying to get into cal state long beach, however i plan on returning to japan possibly during spring break. Japan is a very odd world for me, my japanese is very limited because i do not study it as i once did and i am not nearly as good at it as i once was. I am also very shy and this is just a very strange thing for a foreigner in japan to be. Most japanese simply will not start a conversation with you and expect westerners to be forward. The one time i was appoached was from a photographer who had gone to college in california and spoke english. It burned me that i didnt bring my guitar as many japanese have a great love of music. I have to say it is unusual if you walk without seeing at least one person with a musical instrument within the span of 5 minutes.Bringing a guitar would have been a great barrier breaking device as i often stayed up until the early morning hours watching young street musicians play in the subway tunnels and street corners. Well i can only say i missed a great chance to meet people, i did at least try. I could go on for hours talking about how i felt and what i felt for the country but to say everything is to be a bore. I need to scan some of my pictures but for now i can post some of the less then wonderful digital pics i took. Heres Ikebukuro at night

By the way speaking of DYRL....has anyone noticed yet when you play the "making of episode 3 videogame" , one of the devlopers has a huge ass poster in the background of minnmay singing from DYRL. Not sure if it was mentioned before.

18/18 pity me

Actually i saw Bowie play earlier this year ....the amano sketches look like what bowie STILL looks like

OK i went to Amanos World last night and wow was i suprised by the front page. It seems my favorite artist in the damn world is drawng a book written by one of my favorite writers based on a character of one of my favorite musicians. It just cannot get better. Yoshitaka Amano and Niel Gaiman present : The Return of the Thin White Duke

Ive always said that to really be an artist or musician you have to be unemployed. That would be impossible to me since i live alone and recieve no money from anyone but me. Right now i really hate where i work and who i work for but its the best job i ever had because it actually makes money. I work for the federal govt doing decurity in teh airport but i know the job ( which is of course important to protect people) was created for no other reason then politics. You would be amazed at how inept this orginization is, if the govt was so concerned with public safety you think they could pay for x rays that didnt break down every 20 minutes, or covers for the screens so the sunlight didnt block out images. We actually everyday at noonish have to duct tape umbrellas or pieces or cardboard to teh top of the monitors to keep out sunlight because the govt refuses to pay money. Very classy. The point mainly being i dont want to be here in a year , but at the same time it beats working at restruants for pennies. I hope i can at least get the job part time. Right now i wake up at 230 am work from 4 am until 230 pm. Its a very stressful job as everyone pretty much hates you...passengers, and other airport employees, especially pilots, just for trying to protect them. I cant blame them all the time since the job is filled with so many inept people whio i cant for the life of me understand how they got a job like this ( though i probably can). I think part time is closed right now i have to check again, the current part timers were made to be full time because of lack of people. Currently looking into a job which would require me to translate wire tappings from tape into type. The hours would be much more flexible and better on the head, and the pay actually higher. This would also put me more in control of time. Thank you mr march btw, your post gave me some ideas.

Thanks alot for the help guys. Heres the thing money isnt a problem as far as living is concerned. I wouldnt be able to get money from any family sources as they havnt any and i keep no close family ties im pretty much on my own and thats one of the main things is basically i make around 30k a year ( before taxes ) so around 25k. However i make this much because i work horrible hours in a very stressful job. Thats one problem i cant substitute the job because i have to pay for ...well ..life. Its really a balance thing i mean taking one class a semester as i have in the past wont get me very far. As for competition , im not worried, if im making enough to live and doing what i love , im happy. I guess the main reason to go to college has more to do with the way i work when it comes to art. I havnt drawn for ages, i almost fear it , i used to be very good but i get VERY frustrated when it comes to artwork. I usually predict failure before i get to it, i mean its odd i never worried about those things before but in the last few years its been like that. I know i dont NEED college i could get home from work and draw and paint for hours on end...but its not going to happen. Im at my best when im assigned a project to do...if not im a dreamer i can come up with 1000's of fascinating unique ideas...but it kills me that i cant even begin to get these down on paper. When im assigned a task im more apt to do it. Im also more apt to do things when im around people who are creative. I remember being in AP art and that was the greatest creative time i ever had. I loved how we could be given an idea and then during review everyones artwork on the same subject would be 100% different. I mean i could be drawing right now...but im not...i mean , its not laziness ..its i dont know , fear. Im an idea person, maybe too much a dreamer, im always coming out with great ideas people seem to enjoy but it never goes beyond that. Something changed when i went back to japan, after meeting street musicians and i dont know the people in general. I have this drive now...i have to do this. Yea if i really wanted to id be doing it....trust me i really want to i always do. I also always let things get in the way. I really want to go to Pasadena....its probably $$$ and i need to make a new portfolio. I left all my old artwork with a friend when i moved to cali 4 years ago...who then promtly vanished with all of it and my guitars , lots of other stuff. I live in Lakewood right near long beach , any schools there that are reasonable and not an arm and a leg to get into? I really wish i hadnt missed el caminos add in cut off date , at least i could take a class to help build a portfolio. Anyway thanks alot guys , pls go on if you have anymore help, this website is one of the best outlets of creative people around. I think tomorrow when i wake up...i will be pulling out the sketch book again , not let anything get in my way...no fears, no age , no 95 degree LA heat with no air conditioner so im stuck to my chair......nothing sorry its late and this sounds more liek rambling..... someone i know just gave me the full $$$$ pofessional version of maya im going to install it now and work my way through it the most militiristic youll ever find me is playing joint operations =)

Im at wits end really , every single begining semester i end up not going to college ..mainly because of work hours which lead to laziness. I really dont know where to go or how to get there but i feel like everything i want to do in life is slipping by . I dont care about being famous or having tons of money all i really wanna do in life is artwork for games or movies or etc anything in that field. Every year i watch my chances slip by because i dont even know where to start so i turn to macrossworld which is filled with artists and creative people. I seriously would be happy just going to school and at least6 TRYING. Now i live in california, and ive looked up all the local ( los angeles) BIG schools and no i dont have 12 thousand dollars a semester. Im 25 and had very high grades in HS ( more reason to be bitter) but i think im too old for scholarships. Does anyone know a good school around here that i can apply to that fits the bill. I mean i know i have to wait all the way until spring again..which is incredibly depressing. The only college ive ever attended was a few classes at el camino which amounts to little. Its depressing enough to have to wait all those months to apply again its such a waste of time. i dont know what to say please help. I was accepted to SOVA a very good art school in NY when i was 18 and didnt have enough money 3 days before entry and they said i couldnt start without paying. Ever since then its been all downhill since then working jobs a labotomized monkey could handle...i feel like my mind is worthless and any skills i had or could form are wasted. I know i know...thats LIFE..trust me i know. but like i said ...i would be happy just being down the path or in the direction i want, i just really need help or advice on how to get there step by step. Any advice help would be appreciated.

Does anyone know where i can buy ( online ) pre thinned paints made for airbushes. And please no " its better to do that yourself" posts because ive been down that road . If you know a website pls lemme know.

If anyone in the Tokyo area still wants to do something pls let me know i have two days left here and its a wonderful city but very lonely if you are by yourself

Just picked up a macross perfect memory orginal with the band and poster for 40 bucks at mandarake in nakano.　Weeeeeeeee