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Love Naruto..plus Fighting Dreamers is the name for me and my friends bowling team..hahaha..we got matching shoes the other day..we're getting shirts next with the logo and everything :hehe:

awesome... but i never liked bowling... dunno why... maybe cause of the gutters.... :beaten:

I hardly get gutters..rarely get strikes..mainly 8, 9 or spares and one strike on a good day..I suck though..just fun to play with friends ;)

Yea thats good fun....I seem to pick all the expensive hobbies such as motorcycles, cars, golf, computers.... :hehe:

golf? I suck at miniature golf..imagine me playing the real golf..it would be going on for months..can't watch golf..it's so boring..don't understand the lingo at all as well.

TWO THUMBS UP ON BIKES AND CARS! :applaud:
Only if I had money to suppor that hobbie :beaten:

Mr.ChoyBoi wrote:Yea thats good fun....I seem to pick all the expensive hobbies such as motorcycles, cars, golf, computers.... :hehe:

You left out the most expensive one: women. :hehe:

by the time u read this..it should be monday i think.. so how did it go dennis?.... and did anyone else from here go?..i'd love to hear about it... ;)

Hi everyone! Just got back from PMX but everything went well for the first time event. A lot of major players in terms of the Asian entertainment circle checking the event out to see how things go and also if people are ready for other artists from other countries to perform in America at an event like this.

Great news that for a paid concert event, the TMR/Tamaki Nami event brought close to 4,000 people. Having it at the Anaheim Convention Center was wonderful and Tamaki Nami and Nishikawa Takanori are awesome people.

The fans were incredible and many traveled from Japan and also the East coast to support the artists.

The Psycho Le Cemu was an awesome concert as well with great support from fans and both events, I am sure have converted new fans to their music.

There is potential with PMX and there were some areas that I felt could have improved but for a first time event, it was good. It depends what you came there for. The music was the big push and those who felt anime was the big push, then I'm sure those individuals may have felt the anime presence.

Anyway, I have a clip that I will share with you guys in awhile. I hope you enjoy it.

kndy

hey kndy

was there any jdorama-ers there? are you gonna post any links with pics sometimes soon? too bad it didn't happen on the east coast here... :(

niko2x wrote:hey kndy

was there any jdorama-ers there? are you gonna post any links with pics sometimes soon? too bad it didn't happen on the east coast here... :(

Hi niko2x,

I met two but they told me they don't post but they read a lot of the messages. Can someone do me a favor and test the following bittorrent file (22MB). It's an MPEG (brief coverage) of TMR and Tamaki from PMX. Thanks.

http://www.nt2099.com/MEDIA/pmx1-coverage.torrent

Will seed it and see how things go.

kndy

PMX was one helluva ride.

I worked on staff AND had the burden to perform with one of the acts, and it was such chaos, but now that its all over, I couldnt be happier with how badly it went, lol.

Not that anyone cares, but I'm gonna complain. When I left backstage on the first night this guy had his video camera in my face the whole friggen time, and as cool as it was to be on camera, it got really irritating too.

I got to meet TMR as he and I were going to our rooms; we were 2 doors away from each other. They guy is as short as me, which really was cool. I also got to meet the drummer of PLC outside of the arena on Monday. Great stuff, I tells ya!

If anyone missed PMX, you didnt miss too much. It was a very small convention. But dont miss it next year. There was a ton of problems with it, but even so, I still had a whole lot of fun going to it, so definately show up next year, to anyone who missed it.

[quote="Winter"]PMX was one helluva ride.

I worked on staff AND had the burden to perform with one of the acts, and it was such chaos, but now that its all over, I couldnt be happier with how badly it went, lol.
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I was strictly there for the music events but if I was going to look at the whole event, then yeah...hehe...it wasn't superb and there was not much to do. Even the video game room sucked. Btw, which act did you perform for?

As for TMR, it was cool kicking it with him for a little while. It was my second interview with him and again, interviewed him about his career and nothing about anime. I don't like asking the people I interview anything about anime unless it's necessary. It was bad enough otaku press kept asking Tamaki Nami "do you watch Gundam Seed?", "What do you think about this character?". I have so many gripes about certain press people especially one who got into TMR's videographer way during concert night as she was there just to sketch out the band members.

But the good news for PMX is that there were major players there at the first night from the entertainment industry and this will definitely open things for PMX who hopefully will include artists from other Asian countries and possibly the US as well.

kndy

glad to hear u had so much fun Winter.... nice to hear from someone whowas there, thanks for sharing that! :thumbsup:

on a side note: dennis i dled the torrent off the j-ent! mailing list.. but it doesn't seem to work for me.. and i've been trying for 3 days!...i mean it connects..(i think) .. maybe there are no seeds? :mecry: anyway just wanted to let ya know.... I DIDN'T WORK FOR ME...

i'd love to hear from ppl who got it to work tough! :)

lovelessemotion wrote:glad to hear u had so much fun Winter.... nice to hear from someone whowas there, thanks for sharing that! :thumbsup:

on a side note: dennis i dled the torrent off the j-ent! mailing list.. but it doesn't seem to work for me.. and i've been trying for 3 days!...i mean it connects..(i think) .. maybe there are no seeds? :mecry: anyway just wanted to let ya know.... I DIDN'T WORK FOR ME...

i'd love to hear from ppl who got it to work tough! :)

Hi Loveless,

Try d/l'ing the MPG (www.nt2099.com/MEDIA/). Hopefully you can grab it quickly.

kndy

Oh..forgot...sneak peak of my interview with Tamaki Nami:

http://www.nt2099.com/INTERVIEWS/nami_tamaki/nami_tamaki-interview.pdf

My interview with TMR and J!-ENT interview with Psycho Le Cemu are coming soon...

kndy

kndy-nt2099 wrote:


I was strictly there for the music events but if I was going to look at the whole event, then yeah...hehe...it wasn't superb and there was not much to do. Even the video game room sucked. Btw, which act did you perform for?

As for TMR, it was cool kicking it with him for a little while. It was my second interview with him and again, interviewed him about his career and nothing about anime. I don't like asking the people I interview anything about anime unless it's necessary. It was bad enough otaku press kept asking Tamaki Nami "do you watch Gundam Seed?", "What do you think about this character?". I have so many gripes about certain press people especially one who got into TMR's videographer way during concert night as she was there just to sketch out the band members.

But the good news for PMX is that there were major players there at the first night from the entertainment industry and this will definitely open things for PMX who hopefully will include artists from other Asian countries and possibly the US as well.

kndy

C'mon, you didn't like that video game room?? :hehe:

Yeah, I've seen some of the otaku press sites, read their articles leading up to and after PMX, and looked at their photos. These are press people???

I'm glad there's a PMX and that it doesn't want to be just another anime convention.

My website of PMX goofiness: http://super-no1.com/pmxindex.html

Super No. 1 wrote:

My website of PMX goofiness: http://super-no1.com/pmxindex.html

Ahh...wish we met up!!! We were the guys below....wearing our sunglasses at all times. Blazers at all times.

<img src=http://www.nt2099.com/BANNERS/j.jpg>

Aiyaiyai...Checking out your site. Pictures of friends cosplaying.... Cool! I didn't have a chance to see them. Thanks for posting your link!

kndy

Super No. 1 wrote:
Yeah, I've seen some of the otaku press sites, read their articles leading up to and after PMX, and looked at their photos. These are press people???

too good!...lol

hey dennis that Tamaki interview looks sweet man.... u've got a hell of a job doode.... :D

NOTE: If you attended Pacific Media Expo in May, I am currently working on an article and very much would love for those to attended to participate.

What I need:

Answers to the following questions:

What was your highlight and what was your low point of PMX?
Was PMX an Asian pop culture event or an anime event?
What would you like to see more at Pacific Media Expo?

Also, a name to use and a photo of yourself.

Of course, depending on the number of submissions, we may not be able to include everyone but I would really appreciate if you can participate. Please send your reply and photo to: [email protected].

Deadline to send info. is on June 25th.

Thank you for your time!

kndy

Here's the Psycho le Cemu article from nt2099/J!-ENT's Garland Gee:

http://www.nt2099.com/INTERVIEWS/psycholecemu/plc.pdf