FrankCastleAZ

I had high hopes for the possibilities at my last, short lived place of residence, but things didn’t go as well as I had anticipated. I won’t go into any details, as I’m not someone who enjoys dwelling on the past or causing drama, but I learned quite a bit from the situation and it allowed for what is now a much loved current living situation with the girlfriend.

Moving in with the girlfriend is a step I personally was ready for as we’d been in a relationship for almost 1 year and had known each other for over 4 years. I can undoubtedly say I’m very happy. Moving in with someone you love does change the relationship quite a bit and both of us have handled things well. Most of our relationship’s success while living together has to do with the fact that our personalities mesh well and neither of us sweat the small stuff (which is IMO is the major key in any relationship). We both have a ton of our own individual projects and neither of us prevents the other from completing them or getting things done. After all, by completing projects such as school or business and improving one’s self and one’s assets is good for the future of both parties. Our only issue is that we both have a LOT of stuff. As a collector of all things geek, I have a lot of comics, computers, video games, toys, sports cards and other relative material and she has lots of anime and a ton of clothing and Cosplay costumes. The solution would be a bigger place, which is in discussion and probably coming soon enough. Hopefully I won’t be far from Tempe area.

Speaking of Tempe….Wow!

I’ve lived in Phoenix almost my entire life and I proudly tell people I’m a Phoenix Boy, but Tempe is NICE! The youthful atmosphere, clean streets, newer buildings and convenient public transportation to name a few things get an A and gold star on the proverbial city report card. Given, not all of Tempe is nice, but the percentages in comparison to Phoenix is no comparison at all.

That’s it for now on the “Personal Life” level, lots of “Personal Media” and “Business AZHP” posts coming soon.

-FrankCastleAZ

It’s been quite a while since I’ve updated as I’ve been extremely busy, but it’s time to catch up with what’s happened in the past and look at some things in the short term and long term future.

List of things I’ll be writing about:
(This will likely be edited with more material as it comes to me)

Personal Life-

Living Situation (From house in South Phoenix to Apartment in Tempe)
Girlfriend Update
New Years Resolutions

Personal Media-

Video Games acquired recently
Video Games I’ve beat in 2009
Video Games I’ve beat in 2010
Mentions on Cheap Ass Gamer Podcasts
Anime I’ve seen recently
Comics I’ve read recently
TV Shows I’ve seen recently
Thoughts on recent writing of Punisher comics
Recent success of my NFL team New Orleans Saints in Regular Season and entrance in Playoffs

Business AZHP-

Conventions and Events Past
Photography and Video at Conventions and Events
Video Game Equipment and Games acquired for AZHP
Video Game Equipment and Games acquired for resale
Arcade Machine Restoration and Customization
Connnections with Others

Business Misc-

Webhosting for NyuNyuCosplay
Webhosting for AIComics

Business Project X-

Minor Filming Details
Website Building/Finalizing
Connections with Others

I have a lot of catching up to do!

-FrankCastleAZ

I’m attending Animeland TuCon this weekend on Saturday and Sunday with my girlfriend and helping AZHP and the Con Gaming Staff. It should be much bigger than it was last year  considering they had 150+ people at the most recent official meet and greet (attendance barely over 100 in 2008 not including staff and volunteers).

AZHP Convention Gaming Tournament Schedule for Animeland TuCon 2009:

Friday
3PM to 5PM Dr. Mario (Wii)
5PM to 7PM Mario Kart (Wii)
7PM to close Super Smash Brothers Brawl (Wii)

Saturday
Noon to 2PM BlazBlue (PS3)
2PM to 4PM Super Puzzle Fighter (PS3)
6PM to 8PM Street Fighter IV (PS3)
8PM to 10PM Tekken 5: Dark Ressurection (PS3)

Sunday
11AM to 1PM Call of Duty 4 (360)
1PM to 3PM King of Fighters XII (360)
3PM to 5PM Soul Calibur 4 (360)

Besides helping occasionally with the gaming tournaments, I might have a panel with a few of the other community leaders informing people of year round options to get involved with the Anime/Cosplay/Gaming community as a whole. Not entirely sure who will be involved, but I’m fairly certain there’s TASS (Tucson Animation Screening Society), Aftercon, AZHP, SunaCosu and maybe some recently formed Tucson Cosplay group. I’m not sure how many would attend, or whether they’d actually join the communities after the convention, but it’s worth a try. Most attendees to conventions only give a shit about the once a year event(s) and don’t bother with anything else, which is unfortunate. We’ll see what happens.

I will primarily be taking a lot of video at the convention (not just gaming tournaments), as that’s the #1 thing people like to see after a convention is over. Hopefully it will bring people into AZHP and they can become more active in year round events.

See you there!

-FrankCastleAZ

FrankCastleAZ, Duncs and TDotimus welcome PICASIOPICASIO and talk about Anime news, Comic news, Gaming news and what we are doing in each of the BIG 3 (Anime/Comics/Games)

Shownotes and Download here:

http://www.arizonahp.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7783

-FrankCastleAZ

I’ve been on a major push to get these videos done.

So 3 more are available to view on the front page of AZHP:

www.arizonahp.org

or click the EVENT VIDEOS/PICS button to view all videos

08-25-07 – AZHP Gathering at Arcadia Ice Arena

10-24-07 – Atomic Comics AnimeFest Halloween 2007 – AZHP Console Gaming “Team Tournament”

10-24-07 – Atomic Comics AnimeFest Halloween 2007 – ‘Maja” Hip Hop Performance

-FrankCastleAZ

I’ve been attempting to get as much AZHP work done as possible for many reasons, mainly so that I can continue my work on Project X.

A lot of the videos I have to edit and release are of events from quite some time ago and I’ve wanted to  get them released ASAP so when I do take new video I don’t have a huge queue of old stuff.

So I’ve finished 4 videos within the last few days all of which are available on the website of AZHP. I’ve yet to give each video their own page within the “Event Videos/Pics” tab as it’d be much more convenient to do them all at once.

They’re available to view on the front page of AZHP:

www.arizonahp.org

or click the EVENT VIDEOS/PICS button to view all videos

10-27-07 – Atomic Comics AnimeFest Cosplay Contest

07-12-08 – Anime TuCon 2008 – Tucson Kendo Kai Demonstration

07-12-08 – Anime TuCon 2008 – AZHP Console Gaming Room

07-12-08 – Anime TuCon 2008 – Dealer’s Room

I’m gonna be editing a lot more in the near future.

-FrankCastleAZ

FrankCastleAZ, Duncs and TDotimus chill with nasty Natural Ice beer and pizza and talk about this weekend’s Cosplay events, Anime news, Comic news, Gaming news and what we are doing in each of the BIG 3 (Anime/Comics/Games)

Shownotes and Download here:

http://www.arizonahp.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7602

-FrankCastleAZ

FrankCastleAZ, Duncs, JENOVA and TDotimus cover the AnimeFest/GamingTournaments/ComicSigning, we mention AniZona, next weekend’s Arizona Asian Festival and do NEWS on Anime, Comics and Games and talk about what we are doing in Anime, Comics and Games

Click linkage for Shownotes and Download:

http://www.arizonahp.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7597

-FrankCastleAZ

After a night of editing, I’m finished with episode 4. I’ll be burning copies onto CDs and having some of the AZHP people hand them out to people at the Atomic Comics AnimeFest/VideoGameTourney/ComicSigning on Saturday. Helping provide entertainment and information for the Arizona people  is what I strive to do. Also the experience I’m getting from recording, editing, producing and participating in these podcasts is tremendous.

Linkage to Podcast episode 4 and shownotes:

http://www.arizonahp.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7579

-FrankCastleAZ

Just need to do some editing and release it.

I will also burn a bunch of CDs with the podcast and hand them out at the Atomic Comics AnimeFest/GamingTournaments/ComicSigning on Saturday and hopefully people will enjoy it and check out the future podcast releases.

It’s late, I’m off to bed.

-FrankCastleAZ

I walked thru the Atomic Comics Mesa store today with NyuNyu and the store manager Julian and checked out where we’ll be putting the AZHP run gaming tournaments as well as the Anime and Comic events for next weekend. It all seems that it will work just fine and it should be a packed house. Saw Wakkatana shopping a bit while I was there and caught up on things with him since I hadn’t seen him in a while.

Should be a good weekend.

-FrankCastleAZ

On Wednesday, I took the tour of the hotel for SabotenCon 2009. It’s a nice hotel although it seems quite small for a convention expecting 800-1000 attendees.

Rather than attendees complaining about a lot of people in a bunch of small hallways like last year, they’ll be complaining about a lot of people in the main hotel lobby.  Oh well, people will ALWAYS complain.

AZHP’s Gaming Room at SabotenCon 2009 will be the Kachina Room A+B which is a combined 1200 square feet. It’s the second smallest space we’ve had in all of our convention gaming rooms but I guess that will make it easier on a staff level. I’m worried about us breaking fire code though and it means we may not be able to run tournaments if any at all.

Here’s the layout and some pics

We’ll see what we can do

-FrankCastleAZ