Samurai Equine

Hello there, my crowd! Welcome to my Weekly Musings: Red Edition. 

[I ❤ JAPAN] -- [I ❤ THE COLOR RED] -- [I ❤ CELESTIA]

Bump, bump, bump, bump~!  Can you feel the thumping beat of the music, my crowd? Let me tell you about it.

 Nothing REALLY significant happened this week for me. Lots of little things, but they all add up. Besides finishing off the last of Thanksgiving leftovers, my mother and my uncle are getting adjusted to their new working situations. I am trying to make plans on how to celebrate Christmas and maybe get presents for everyone in my family after all. Speaking of my mother, construction at the rental property she owns is really picking up again. Lots of people were over during the weekend; an internet guy, an air conditioning guy, and some plumbing people. There's been talk about getting finished with the bathroom real soon; and little ol' me with carpenter skills REALLY wants to go over there and help! But they keep telling me I'm not necessary! 

 There's also been some personal distractions. Because of this, I need to say, NO KIRAMAGER & SABER THIS WEEK!    I'll do my best to make up for lost time next week. I also plan on seeing some Holiday movies and giving my thoughts on them too! There was nothing gigantic keeping me from watching Tokusatsu this week, just a lot of little things. Besides what I mentioned above, I made a HUGE update to my Sonic the Hedgehog music collection. I collected the movie soundtrack and all versions of "Speed Me Up", the Non-Stop Dance Style Party remix album, all 3 volumes of the Sonic Throwback Collection, a Jun Senoue collab single, an album by Jon Batiste, and Vol. 2 of the Sonic Adventure Music Experience! I updated an old Sonic album I previously had, and I'm still looking for a full rip of the music from the Sonic Boom games. I wonder if there is any rips of the Sonic Boom cartoon music... I mean, people do the same for other shows, so why not this?

 There's other small things too. I've been making time to work on my LiveJournal some more, and I've begun making some more fanart! I've had an idea for an enemy character for my OC Samurai Equine. His name is Snow Leopard, and I have begun drawing him. I also plan to eventually draw an image of Shogun Equine, Samurai's mentor and battle general. However, I have less of an idea of how I want to design him. I think I want to use Big Mac's body as a base to build off of, I've got some ideas for his mane, tail, eye, and facial-hair style. However, I don't have a full idea of how I want to handle his clothing/armor. I have some ideas, but how I'll approach drawing it is another thing.

 To my surprise, the Zi-O movie that Shout Factory was streaming for ONE DAY ONLY was back on streaming again! Happy Holidays to ME! Not sure why it's back, but I am glad it is. I have the app on my smart TV, and I got to watch it in surround sound. Love having a wall of sound to go with my tokusatsu. It just feels right. I also got to see the 1984 Christmas Carol movie, the one staring George C. Scott. I've seen it before, so I won't make a full review. It's fine for the time it was made in, but it's not one of my favorite versions of that tale. I still hold a candle for the Mickey Mouse version and the Jim Carrey version. Both of which I cannot watch legally because I don't have Disney Plus!  ...Seriously, I need to get a VPN. I bet you can find the movies on a foreign version of Netflix... I still believe that everyone that likes/celebrates Christmas has their own, favorite version of A Christmas Carol. And I bet everyone has their own favorite Santa movie. His origins and abilities have been re-imagined MANY times, and he's asked TONS of people to save Christmas for him. 

 On Sunday, the weather started warming up again. Wouldn't say it was actually warm, but I didn't need to layer clothing during the day.  I really hope that's just a fluke. I don't want it to warm up on December... I've been enjoying two good weeks of cold weather!

That's it for now, my crowd.  Take care, and get ready for the rush.

Remember how I mentioned that Jun Senoue collab album? The only reason I collected that was because, to my surprise, it contains a vocal version of the Emerald Coast theme "Azure Blue World". ...And it's in Japanese, of all things! The Sonic community hasn't seen vocal Sonic music that is purely Japanese since the original Japanese release of Sonic X! Since I mentioned it, I guess I gotta share it. From the single album "JxJ/Ready!" (where he collabs with vocalist/voice actress Junko Noda), here's the song "Ready!".