When I win, I am so totally doing this too!

Labels: Japan, nut, success, tv, winning

This time with a twist....


don't break my balls, please
yes- I know the Haiku rules
this has something more

Labels: haiku, Japan, ninja, peace, performance, poetry, warrior, why

Labels: haiku, Japan, ninja, photography, tv

SHINSHUN KAKUSHIGEI TAIKAI which, as far as I can tell is "Left Pig Team vs. Right Pig Team Talent Show" It probably has an elegant translation, but if you watch it you'll see what I mean: one act after another representing two teams. Ice xylophone players, kettle drum trios, square log rolling, E.T. mini-dramas, new wave magicians, and tons of commercials.

I had a friend who taught English as a Second Language and I asked him if he had any students who were Japanese and did they have any Japanese TV shows, because they were, like the U.S. on the NTSC color standard. He did, he asked and I was given this tape.

I didn't really edit it, so there's one or two glitches, and no beginning but it's like turning on the wayback machine and tuning in a 1983 Japanese TV to see what's on. Unadulterated. Wacky. Compelling.

It runs 1 hour and 47 minutes so if you pause for a while and let it load you can skip around. Conversely, if you watch it, you'll find it pretty mesmerizing at times.

Labels: amateur, commercials, contest, Japan, new wave, talent, tv, wow

I was looking at a site where somebody had posted a link to this as a download, and it made me wonder if it was public domain. Looking at another site today, I discovered it was.


Google Video has looooooong videos, and sure enough, someone already posted the entire film in its entirety.



The venerable Archive.org has it in a downloadable version, for those of you who wish to migrate it somewhere else.

Wonderfully enough, they also have the story (in Japanese) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. A chap has translated it into English here.

The remake is also great...

The Outrage

With Paul Newman as a Mexican Mifune
Shatner.... as... a.... minister
Edward G. Robinson as a swindler
Laurence Harvey (Domino's Dad!) as the objectively conflicted husband


NOT ON DVD - why?!?!

Labels: archive.org, classic, film, Japan, kurosawa, lies, lying, nihilism, public domain, rashomon

WET Magazine - the magazine of "Gourmet Bathing and Beyond"
Presented at the link in the cover image below.

One of the coolest things is the head-to-head comparison interviews of John Lydon versus David Lee Roth. Guess who wins, cool people?

Plus an Ed Ruscha article. Pass the ketchup.....and gunpowder.

Cool ads, too.

Also:
Kissing
Japanese love hotels
Brian Wilson ready to dive
Xerox abuse

Let the page load - it's about 7 megs (I'm guessing.) 80 pages

Also, this being an Assload of work, be sure not to comment- I'm getting a jump on '07 being edification-free.

Labels: bathing, Ed Ruscha, Japan, John Lydon, Los Angeles, WET magazine