Jurassic World: Rebirth

broderic on July 18, 2025

Do we need another Jurassic World movie? We need another Jurassic World movie like we need another hole in our heads. Well, considering I have an extra hole in my head, we got Jurassic World: Rebirth, another movie to jump start the second trilogy of Jurassic World. Again, it must be asked, “do we need another Jurassic World movie?”

This version gives just enough to keep you watching. There are several red shirts willingly given as dinosaur fodder. There’s the kids in jeopardy. Why are they even there? There’s the scientists who fight for dinosaurs to be given there space and their right to live without being bothered. There’s Scarlett Johanson looking for a paycheck, and there’s the hero who you knew could not die. This is a complete throw away of a movie, and yet, it is just barely necessary.

Definitely, we don’t need another Jurassic World movie. We got one anyway. If you see it, just enjoy it.

3 of 5 stars.

America is Broken

broderic on July 4, 2025

Donald Trump. Project 2025. The Big Beautiful Bill. ICE.

America doesn’t work anymore.

Feels like the idea of American goodness is dead as the founding fathers.

Nothing left.

Turn out the lights. Lock the doors. Pull the shutters down. It is done.

Happy 4th of July, everyone!

Meiji Jingu Baseball Stadium

broderic on June 27, 2025

明治神宮野球場 — Meiji Jingu Baseball Stadium has seen legends. Babe Ruth played there. The current occupants, the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, have recently won the Japan Series — NPB’s version of the World Series, in 2021. And it is Nogizaka46’s home field as well.

Like I said, legends.

I write this post every summer, because once again Nogizaka46 is going to hold concerts there in September. It is my Mecca. Actually, watching Nogizaka46 there is my Mecca. I doubt that I will ever, but I can dream with the members.

The song is Summer Day (Manatsubiyo) off of their upcoming 39th single. I hope you enjoy it.

Why Screaming Blue Messiahs?

broderic on June 27, 2025

Is this my favorite band ever? Maybe…

It is said that your choice of music solidifies in your teens. That may be anecdotal, but I definitely still listen to the Messiahs now and then forty years later. Three albums, a few B-sides and EPs, and then done. For a decade from the early 1980s to the 1990s, they were often in my tape deck. They very much a part of me growing up. So lately, I hope to find some smidge of information about them and find my younger self as well.

Link of the Day [6.20.25]

broderic on June 20, 2025

Nothing in particular, but here’s the quick link to Nogizaka46 member’s birthday playlists. It’s none of the member’s birthday. At least I think it isn’t.

You say you can’t read Japanese, then just go ahead and pick one. They’re all good even if you can’t understand Japanese. Would I do you wrong?

https://nogizaka46.lnk.to/BirthdayPlaylist

Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning

broderic on June 19, 2025

Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning is the culmination and summation of the Mission Impossible franchise of the last thirty years. Thirty years?!?

It has been going on that long. The way this one dragged a bit let’s hope it is truly the final.

The story picks up from the last one — in the hunt for the Entity. Except it feels disjointed. The last had us finish with Ethan Hunt in the wild. This one starts immediate and slow. It takes a bit to get going. And why is every mission have to be stressful? Why can’t it be quick and simple? No rolling nukes!

Anyhow, watch it for the ending.

3 of 5 stars.

Link of the Day [6.18.25]

broderic on June 18, 2025

Oshima Rion was the best Japanese weather caster on WNN, Weather News Now. She was also an F1 fan. I had the biggest crush on her when she was a weather caster. I still do. My favorite trivia about her is that she is a Nogizaka wota as well.

Anyhow, I hope you read this, because it’s great to see her pretty face again.

https://getnavi.jp/entertainment/1046675/

The Surfer

broderic on June 6, 2025

Nick Cage is The Surfer. That’s not enough to describe this movie. The plot revolves around a man, the titular Surfer, trying to buy a house at this very “locals only” beach, and he’s harassed by the locals over three days. It leaves hims psychologically scarred. Same for me.

I was expecting action, but got trippy psychedelics. Was he even who he thought he was? Was he the bum on the beach?

The locals were even crazier. Turns out they were led by man of the “man-o-sphere” who lived life through pain. He put his underlings through a lot and they would respond like wolves. Alpha-males all around. This leader was causing much suffering and it was expressed as localism.

Anyhow, as I sat through this I knew that I ended up in a late career Nick Cage film. Weirdness abounds.

2 of 5 stars.

You Should Know Them By Their Voices

broderic on June 6, 2025

This will be a random post so that I can keep writing on my own blog.

Lately, or rather every so often, the marketers call me to say that my website has been hacked. It’s just a sour link in my system that goes to nudes or bad sites that is flagged as a hack. Or that was what was told me the first time they called. I checked. It’s just those bad links which I put there myself. They keep calling me, yet I wonder if I do have a hacker in the system.

Another thing I feel is that I am not healthy both mentally and physically. Since COVID I have abdicated living. I not sure if it’s a death wish, but I feel I don’t like where I am. This is me being sad.

I buy too many books. I read not enough. I did go through a few books on some of classic hip-hop. Books on the Native Tongues and on Spotify. Music sucks nowadays, but it sucks in all eras. I still love that hip-hop though.

I think I need a new job.

That is all…