Marco Polo

(The one on Netflix)

I just watched the first episode of Marco Polo and I can’t say why people complain about it. Yes the story feels kind of familiar, but what show doesn’t? Is not the core plot but how do you work it, and for that you have to watch the series and after that you make up your mind. Breaking bad had a familiar core, in the movie “Falling Down” you can see a normal guy breaking and making a difference because he feels in the dumps same core different treatment.

By the things I have seen in the trailer I can be sure that it is not a biographic series but more like and imaginative remake of history with a fantasy touch and that is not bad, I think?

I also heard that “there are only men in the series” well what do were you expecting, in that time women didn’t had a big part on society and if you are going to tell me that they are getting fantasy elements they could put at least a witch, well as far as I know the witches in this kind of subtle fantasy are always hidden and appear later in the story, and there are women, the concubine and the wives are women, that I’m almost sure that they will take more important rolls, because for once there are like 3 promo posters with the girls of the show, one is even wielding a sword. I mean is from Netflix the company that brought “Orange is the new black” that is pretty much an all-female cast.

3 out of 9 posters are female cast so 33.3% and we have fighting smart and powerful women so stop complaining

 The photography and the cinematography look great you cans see where all the money went on this production, and it has that calm and steady passing to get enough tension and important to each scene.

Some people have say that is a poor try of make "Game or Thrones" but I applaud this people to make big budget quality TV, I hope this begins to trend and then we will only have good TV in the future :D

I’ll get a more elaborated review after watching the whole series that will be in like 2 weeks because I think that this series is better to watch it one episode at the time, also I have tons to do now :P

Trying to keep everything alive.

Hello, it’s been some days since my last post, and that is because I’m trying to keep my youtube channel alive and my memecenter account up to date.

I had some pictures already made for my Memecenter account that I haven’t uploaded and I just made a couple, I suck at drawing but is more like the joke than the image, also I think I can get better with time, and eventually who knows, I might even use photo shop to make my so called web comic.

For my Youtube channel I had some videos already made that only needed to edit, and if you know my equipment you might know is not the greatest ever, I have a 5 year old acer aspire one, I use Sony Vegas 7, Photoshop 6, I capture video with windows movie maker, and for locations I use a Kodak easy share V803 to make the videos, so It might take me 4 minutes to edit something but I takes me like 3 hours to render a 10 minutes video.

So but I’m getting the hang of it and I think that now I can make de videos and the posts, and the web comic all the time, so bear with me until I have mastered all of this.

Also I don’t have distractios to take time from me.

Don’t worry I’ll never abandon this blog.

IT’S ALIVE!

Hey! Great news everyone! I have started to multitask all over the place and now I have more than this place for you to see what I’m up to :D

First I have brought back to life my Youtube channel where you can see me bitch about life and talk my life away, also the video review of movies is on the way but one step at the time, that channel is mostly a blog but sometimes I go out and make some fun stuff, also I take requests, and since I shot it, edited, write it, and upload it, by myself I don’t need to ask for permission to do anything :D

If you want to take a look here is the channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Mortenius

Yep, who needs a crew when you have hands?

Also my Memecenter account has moved, I just uploaded a new image there, because I found that one that was on a notebook that I have misplaced, also I have 2 more on queue to upload and one on progress, so at least I have 3 more uploads and be sure I’ll do more. And here is the address for the pictures, if you don't want to go to the about me section: http://www.memecenter.com/Mortenius

If you were wondering, no the drawings here are not mine, I'm not that good, but maybe later.

That and writing on my spare time, and I also give service to the furnace of the heating system of the house, so yes I’m a regular one man army ;)

I'm more like a one man marching band, but you get the idea :P

Tips, tippers and tippees or whatever.

Days ago I read an article about a LeSean McCoy from the NFL team Philadelphia eagles that left a 20 cent tip on a bar over a 60 dollar bill.

I heard people outraging because it was a very small tip, and the owner of the bar published the bill with the 20 cent tip and the signature of the guy on it. Also the owner trashed LeSean saying that the waiter gave him a great service and he is a millionaire so he should have gave her at least a 20% tip, at least 12 dollars for all of you who doesn’t  want to calculate it.

The infamous tip, I applaud LeSean Tip the amount you want

LeSean said that the service wasn’t good, so that was reflected on the tip. So who do we believe? The owner who never will admit that his restaurant gave poor service or the guy who say it wasn’t a good waitress?

Well is easy, tipping is not a responsibility, tipping is a gesture that says “you worked great here is a little something” and is a little something, is not like there should be a rule, or you have to tip everybody because is part of the job description. The waiters and waitresses have a salary, waiter is a paid job and tips are the extra. Yes they expect to have some extra cash but is extra they shouldn’t count on it as part of their payment, because that destroys the whole meaning of tips, if you are already counting on the tip you are not going to give that extra mile for the chance to have some extra cash.

That point bring me to my other point, it is LeSean money if he wants he can leave 1,000 dollars tip or none, no matter how hard the waiter had worked if he doesn’t believe in that he has the right to just pay his tab and leave, no matter how much money he makes now. You know how long a NFL career is average? 3 years, so if he waste his money those 3 years he will be homeless the rest of his life. And NFL players have bad knees so they can be waiters.

I'm with you man, if the service isn't good there will be no tip.

Who is the bad guy here, the government and the restaurant owner, why? Because on Pensilvania the law says that you can pay $2.83 an hour to anyone who receives tips, and in that restaurant the tips are divided among everybody waiters, busboys, bartenders, and cooks. So that jerk of an owner called Tommy Up is fucking everybody paying a sub-slave salary and now throwing insults to the clients because this poor people make too little money.

The face of a guy who thinks that the clients should pay the waiters' salary, Jerk!

This owner is the real jerk here, and now he is insulting a guy who fucked up his knees and get concussions for a living because he is not paying a fair salary and the waiter need more money.

Time ago I was broke (as usual) and I went to a dinner with friends, so a friend pay for my dinner. The service was terrible, it took them close to 2 hours to bring our food and the waitress was nowhere to be found all night except when she said “are you going to stay longer? Because we need the table” in other words she was kicking us out. So my friends pay and a girl said “we have to put a 20% tip” I remained silent but thought “that woman don’t deserve a dime!” my friends put on a tip of around 70 dollars (we were a big table) and left. I tip when the service and the food was good and I like it, but that night was horrible.

What I want to say is, fair payment to employees and tip if you want, but don’t attack somebody for not tipping.

Slavery has a logo now, and they sell burgers.

Pritz or Baby Metal?

 

Many people pointed (not on the comments but by inbox and mail –What’s the problem with comment on my blog? I’ll never know-) that last post wasn’t that much of a comparison but an analysis of the band Pritz, and that I should get into it better, showing why this bands are different and not just the flaws or points of one band but to show each band, so now here I give you the dissection of both bands.

Both bands might look like the same for people how don’t pay attention or don’t care, but they are very different. Frist we will start with the singers.

Baby Metal has the lead singer Su-Metal and to support singer/dancers Yui-Metal and Moa-Metal. This means that the main part of the song Su sings while Yui and Moa yell, back up chorus or dance, but the song is mainly Su singing.

Pritz have 4 front girls, they dance a similar choreography and sing equal parts of the songs, and there is not one face to the group but 4. Everybody is a backup of the other girls losing identity and melting into a chorus the whole group.

In metal bands there is only one lead singer like in Baby Metal where Su is the front and lead.

The sound of the songs is very important in the pop bands where they are 4 or 5 they voice is the most important, the music made by the instruments is just a guide and with a little vocalization you can remove totally the instruments. But in Metal the voice is just a part of the band, if you try to make the song without the instruments you lose a lot of the song. Pritz continues with the format of classic K-Pop and Baby Metal uses the style of a metal band.

I mean they are 4 and the 4 are important but that leave behind the music and lyrics. Someone had to pay.

The songs by itself are way different Pritz uses a format of K-pop of getting a really simple lyrics and hammer over the chorus over and is a chorus that is really easy and catchy, while Baby Metal uses a metal format, that is a song a little more complex (I say a little because isn’t difficult) but as I said, when you have 4 different front girls you can’t make a song without leaving at least one of the girls out.

The format of the songs themselves are different, because Baby Metal uses almost the ‘80s metal template where the song has its instrumental breaks and the musicians show their abilities, and Pritz while they did it on the last video Sorasora, the rest look more like classic K-Pop.

 

The lac of Riff on Pritz is disturbing. Also Dave Mustain all the way :D

The change in rhythm is a classic of Baby Metal, changing from metal to J-pop or hip hop, anything goes, things that you thing to different collide and show you that can be part of the same song, while Pritz uses changes too this ones sound more organic and smooth too much that can pass without notice.

Baby Metal created its own way of metal while Pritz created heavy K-pop.

 
So to conclude they are different, is like when people compared Metal Gear and Siphon Filter there is no big thing to compare because they are not on the same track. In other words consume what you like.