TheHappySpaceman Reviews - Daft Punks Electroma

TheHappySpaceman Reviews - Daft Punk’s Electroma

So how does a Daft Punk movie hold up, sans anime?

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Music: “Dark Matter” by Dark Matter

The Cartoon Physicist's Noughtie List - One Year Anniversary

So yeah, I recently appeared in The Cartoon Physicist’s one year anniversary video! I only recently found out about this, hence why I’m posting it so late.

You can check out her YouTube channel here.

Also, take a look at the outtakes! I only appear for about a second in the actual review, but I get a few seconds more in my cameo here.

A Little Elisa Maza Appreciation

Since we’re nearing the end of Black History Month, I decided I would like to input my own thoughts about it. Now having seen a lot of other posts about this on Tumblr and other sites, I can’t really add anything much about people who were helpful in the Civil Rights Movement or in establishing equality for black people that hasn’t already been said, and I wouldn’t know how to talk about those types of things, anyway. But there is one thing I do know how to talk about, and that’s cartoons.

In the mid-1990s, there was a cartoon on Disney’s afternoon programming block called Gargoyles. It was about a clan of gargoyles from 10th century Scotland who would come to life every night and fight crime in New York. The show sadly around twenty years ago, in 1996, the same year I was born. It was one of the more underrated and brilliant cartoons of the ’90s, but I’m talking about it today because it was one of the first well-known cartoon series to have a black woman as its leading (human) character.

Voiced by African-American actress Salli Richardson, NYPD Detective Elisa Maza was arguably the character that held Gargoyles together. She acted as the April O’Neal of the show, the character who helped the gargoyles adapt to the world, and she just so happened to have an African-American mother and a Native American father. Her mixed heritage suited the show’s allegory of tolerance and anti-prejudice.

But in general, Elisa could have easily had a show of her own. She was kind, helpful, funny, and hot as hell, but also strong and independent, not taking any BS. Her last name “Maza” was even supposedly a Sioux word for “iron.” Even when times were at its toughest, like in the episode when she was temporarily transformed into a gargoyle, she still triumphed and stood up for herself.

Of course, on of the major running arcs for her was her oft-teased romance with the lead gargoyle, Goliath. Adding to the show’s metaphor for racial tolerance, the relationship between Elisa and Goliath clearly represented how taboo inter-racial relationships were at the time and still are today. Not to say that they were romantic from the start; the two of them worked together as partners and friends for a good two seasons before they finally became a couple in the series finale.

Elisa Maza was truly one of the underrated female characters in cartoon history, mainly because Gargoyles didn’t truly attract a fanbase until after its series end, so this Black History Month, I’ve decided to dedicate an entire post to her: One of the first black leading females in a cartoon, but also just a really great character in general, Elisa Maza will forever live on in the hearts of ’90s kids like myself.

At Live Arts, ‘Dreamgirls’ traces familiar characters' ascent

Opens this weekend and and runs Wednesdays through Sundays through June 11.

Article in a local paper about Dreamgirls, the play I’m playing keyboard in.

So you've started reviewing more popular movies with High School Musical, but you also review obscure ones. You review movies you like and movies you hate. Is there anything you WON'T review? (apart from non-musicals)

While I have dropped my rule of not reviewing anything the Nostalgia Critic has already reviewed–I’ll be looking at Labyrinth this coming June for its 30th anniversary–there are definitely some things that I won’t review.

The biggest thing is that I won’t review any movie where I don’t think I could add anything new to my review. This includes pretty much any movie that has been talked about to death already. Even though I have begun reviewing more popular movies, I don’t think I will be reviewing movies like Singin’ in the Rain or The Wizard of Oz because they are considered classics and have had so many videos made about them. (I might review Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return, The Wiz, or one of the two anime Wizard of Oz movies, though.)

Also, part of the reason I originally had the rule of never reviewing anything the Nostalgia Critic has already reviewed is part of the same reason as above. For example, I doubt I will ever make a review of Mamma Mia! because I don’t think that I could say anything about the movie that the Nostalgia Critic or Musical Hell didn’t say in their reviews of it. Obviously, the other reason I created that rule is because, well, I don’t want to accidentally make the same jokes as other reviewers.

But no, apart from that, there isn’t much that I wouldn’t review, as long as it isn’t still in theaters and I actually do have the clips for the video. Hell, next month, I will even be making a crossover review of a movie that’s still massively popular right now.