Saske 21 Is On The Way...

I searched around Blogger or whatever the hell this is called for any Sasuke (Ninja Warrior in the US) related blogs and other than the random outdated one where somebody lists it as their favorite show, there's nothing very informative about it on here. So, being a pretty big fan of the show and wanting to be someone to spread the goodness of Sasuke, I'm going to begin posting tidbits about the event on here leading up to the 21st tournament. Maybe I'll do a faux-live blog or something. We have DVR now, so the world is my oyster!

Anyway, I guess I should mention for anyone reading this that doesn't know about Sasuke what the heck it is. Basically in Japan 2 times a year (one in the spring & one in the fall) the Tokyo Broadcasting System runs an extremely challenging obstacle course. 100 people from all over the world compete in 4 grueling stages testing speed, endurance, and strength. Since the first tournament in September of 1997, only 2 men have completed the full course, Kazuhiko Akiyama (Sasuke 4) and Makoto Nagano (Sasuke 17). The US cable tv station G4 sends a couple people to compete in the tournament and in Sasuke 20 Levi Meeuwenberg (who was one of the people G4 sent) was the only person to make it to the 3rd stage. Anyway, if you want to know more than my bastardized summary of Sasuke provided, then head on over to the Wikipedia page about it here.

Hopefully more to come...

Batman vs. The Parking Garage

Haven't written on this thing for awhile, mostly because my girl and I went to Orlando for a week from July 2nd to the 9th. I had my video camera so once I figure out how to upload videos onto this thing, I'll put them on here.

Anyway, Thursday night we went to see The Dark Knight at a midnight showing. We got there an hour early and barely found seats together. We show up any later and Erica (my gf) and I aren't sitting together...which is very bad. I'm not going to bore everyone with a review because I can't do the movie justice, only to say that every good thing about it you've read is true even all the stuff about Ledger's performance deserving an Oscar. I had EXTREMELY high hopes going into the theater and all my expectations were more than exceeded. Definitely GO SEE IT!!! The only crazy thing that happened that night was that the theater we went to was in a shopping mall that had a big parking garage attached. When all 4 showings of the movie ended all the people got to their cars and left at one. This created a huge dilemma since there were only 2 people working the gates to get everyone out. Needless to say there were loads of white people with their panties in a bunch. By that point I was too tired to care and just wanted to go home. So, we sat in our car in this parking garage until it looked like we wouldn't be sitting in a line for hours, wasting gas. Needless to say, the movie ended at about 2:55am and we didn't get home til around 4:30. The thing is, the movie was so good I'd do it again in a heartbeat.