HIGHLANDER 4 ORIGINAL DVD REPOSESSED!

As I type this, my adorable nephew Epi is sleeping on my bed. Aww...

I finally got my original DVDS back from my uncle. So now, my Highlander movie quadrilogy is complete! I got this one the last time I was in Hongkong. It's original, Region-1, with a ton of cool features. The coolest thing is, it finally got to explain why I saw 2 different versions of this movie - one where I watched it on the big screen, and one when I watched it on pirated VCD. It's not really a biggie, in one version, Jin Ke [Donnie Yen] killed himself and Kate [Lisa Barbuscia] lived happily ever after with Duncan [Adrian Paul]. In the other, Jin was never shown killing himself but Kate was killed. One sad thing about the movie was the fact that Connor was killed so that Duncan would be strong enough to beat Jacob Kell. It's a shame, but all for the best, I guess, considering Lambert was getting too old to play Connor and this paved the way for Duncan to be the Macleod of choice.

EVANGELION JACKPOT!!!

I got this ORIGINAL BOX SET of Neon Genesis Evangelion from bidding at Ebay.ph. The seller is Comic Sale Central, and for only P2,000!!!

RICHMOND'S BIRTHDAY; DVD BUYING SPREE AGAIN

Spent today with my friend Richmond and my translator ChiChi. We had lunch at Burgoo Podium, and while I was walking around Podium I went in Astroplus and I found my prize... original videos of the Highlander Tilogy! Well, Highlander 1 was in VCD only =( but at P150 per original DVD!? That's a find! To my dismay, I found out that the Galleria branch had the DIRECTOR'S CUT of Highlander but not anymore.

DVD buying spree... originals on sale

Just got back from my usual trip to the Greenhills Post Office… had my usual iced latte with Equal at Starbucks. As I passed by the kiosk of Astrovision in front of the theater, I found and bought four original DVDS of Steven Seagal for only P299 apiece. I had bootleg copies of these before, but as time went by, I lost them because so many people borrowed from my DVDS. I was at Metrowalk the other day and tried to buy these again but they were no longer available. I wanted to buy them off Ebay where some of them were sold for only $0.01 (that’s right, one penny or P0.52) but that would have taken forever. So I decided to buy these on sale:

Above the Law, Hard to Kill, Under Siege 1 & 2

I have been acquiring videos for personal viewing for a very long time. Whether it is original or bootleg didn’t really matter as I just wanted to watch them over and over. Heck, there was a time when I would just rent laserdiscs and record them on betamax!

Lately, I have been trying to find all those things that I was into about 10 years ago. It could be old videogames, old videos, whatever… I guess I can blame the fact that everything is pretty mediocre these days and there isn’t really anything worth getting into, so it’s back with the old… even Seagal isn’t really what he used to be anymore.

A couple of days ago, I was at Metrowalk and since I couldn’t find the latest season of NYPD Blue on bootleg DVD, I ended up buying the James Bond box set. 20 007 films in one box, not including “Never Say Never Again” (favorite ko pa man din) and “Casino Royale” (the first Bond Film).

On a slightly related note, if anyone remembers the first time Voltes V was aired on GMA7 back in the 70’s, they would remember that the background music was different than the version we all get to watch now in those VCDS sold just about anywhere. This is because at the time, Telesuccess didn’t have the original music and effects track for Voltes V and had to make their own music and effects. So as background music, they took music from the 007 movie “You Only Live Twice”, which was shot in, you guessed it, Japan! I used to have a copy of this version in Betamax, but I didn’t keep it…

MY CLAIM TO FAME AS A VOICE TALENT

Okay since I knew of some stuff I wanted to put in this blog long before I started it, there’s going to be a backlog of some sort when it comes to subjects that I want to tackle. Here is one of them.

Before I end up forgetting (some of which I may have forgotten already), here are the roles I have played or should I say, characters I have dubbed in my 6 years as a voice talent.

Unless otherwise stated, the show is owned and was dubbed by Telesuccess Productions and more often than not, shown in GMA-7. However, I also dubbed for shows in ABS-CBN, some went straight to home video, and some home videos were for distribution in other countries. My apologies for no timeline, I don’t really remember what year it was when I did these… but they were all from 2000-2006. Also, “(S)” also means I was the scriptwriter for the show.

I will try to list it with the earliest roles at the top. Show is on the left, followed by the character I played:

SHELVED PROJECTS [IN ENGLISH]

COMBATTLER V (S) – JUZO NANIWA

TAGALIZED PROJECTS [ANIME]

FLAME OF RECCA – DAIKOKU
DAIMOS (S)
FUSHIGI YUUGI – CHICHIRI, MITSUKAKE
MONSTER RANCHER – GOLEM
MASTER OF MOSQUITON – FRANKY, BUTLER
TRIGUN (S)
HELL TEACHER NUBE – KATSUYA, MR. TAMAMO
GRANDOLL (S)
GHOST IN THE SHELL (S)
STARLIGHT SCRAMBLE (S)
DANGAIZER 3 (S) – PROFESSOR
BUBBLEGUM CRISIS 2040 – NIGEL, BUTLER
CAT’S EYE – GUESTS
HUNTER X HUNTER (S)– HISOKA, MILKY
SLAM DUNK (S) – KOGURE, ODA
KNOCKOUT (S) – AOKI, HAYAMI, MASHIBA, YAGI
COWBOY BEBOP – ANDY
KIDDY GRADE (S) – TWEEDLEDUM, DEXTER
TENHJO TENGE (S) – TAWARA, BOB
CHRNO CRUSADE (S)
DEAR BOYS (S) (ABSCBN) – KADOMATSU

TAGALIZED PROJECTS [TOKUSATSU]

MASKED RIDER RYUKI (S) (ABS-CBN) – REN/KNIGHT
SHAIDER (S) – DRIGO

TAGALIZED PROJECTS [ASIAN DRAMA]

ALL ABOUT EVE – WARREN KIM

TAGALIZED PROJECTS [US SHOWS]

24 SEASON 1-3 – TONY ALMEIDA

ENGLISH PROJECTS [LOCAL HOME VIDEO MARKET]

LUPIN III – GOODBYE LADY LIBVERTY (S) – JIGEN
LUPIN III – BANK OF LIBERTY (S) – JIGEN
STARLIGHT SCRAMBLE (S)
KNIGHT HUNTERS (S) – KEN
BURN UP EXCESS (S)

ENGLISH PROJECTS [SINGAPORE HOME VIDEO]

ROCKMAN.EXE – DEKAO, GUTSMAN, COUNT ELEC, HINOKEN

Whew! And these are just the ones I remember from the top of my head. I’ll try to update this post in the future if I remember any more.

Time for breakfast… oatmeal is getting cold. Bye for now.

Opening Salvo

Well, this is my first crack at blogging and I really don’t know where to start… I actually signed up for another account last year but I never got around to posting anything. Heck I don’t even like the username or nickname I chose back then so the heck with that one, I just signed up a new one.

Some may wonder what “giehar” means. Actually it has no real deep meaning. It’s short for “AnGIE HARmon”, that’s the name of the actress who plays ADA Abby Carmichael in NBC’s police/courtroom drama “Law and Order”, which I was very much into lately. I was trying to think up a unique username that wasn’t already taken. I was getting sick of all the Japanese names I was thinking of (shades of being an anime fan) so I decided on a different genre to coin from.

I really don’t have a plan as to what I want to say in this blog. I might be using it as a personal rant zone or soap box to voice out my opinions about what’s been ticking me off about the world lately… or maybe just to narrate everyday things happening in my boring life. Well, I am not writing this to give people something exciting to read… I guess it’s more for me than for others…

Anyway, that’s it for now… “You Only Live Twice” is on Star Movies and I am missing one of my favorite Bond movies.