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;)"Yeah, I've been always awkward toward women and have spent pathetic life so far but I could graduate from being a cherry boy by using geisha's pussy at last! Yeah!! And off course I have an account in Fuckedgaijin.com. Yeah!!!"
Samurai_Jerk wrote:My dad really got into Japanese punk in the late 80s. I remember he used to listen to some pretty good shit. I wonder if he remembers any of the bands' names.
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Iraira wrote:There was one excellent punk band from Kyoto called Taiho. Two dudes who would alternate the singing duties a gazillion times each song, and this rather cute female drummer with sleeve tats. Saw them a bunch of times when I got here (circa 1999). Alas, alack. etc., they broke up many years ago.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:I'm pretty sure pops was introduced to it by a half he was dating after my parents' divorced.
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Iraira wrote:Now you got me feeling all nostalgic....and props to dad.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Whenever I mention that my dad liked Japaense punk people seem all shocked. He's only 59 (I'm mid 30s) so punk was lot more his era than mine. I guess people are either ignorant of music history or just assume he's a lot older.
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Rube wrote:I've been waiting for that show, from what I hear it's pretty intense. We watched the first few seasons of weeds but was dissappointed that it had very little to actually do with weed.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Waiting for what? I think it's been out here for a year or two.
Rube wrote:Yup that's about what I heard. More along the line of that movie "Spun", nothing appealing about that. Too bad weeds didn't take the other approach.
Rube wrote:For real? I'll have to check tsutaya next time. They are so spotty about what they carry. About 9 years ago my local tsutaya had what one can only describe as a drug section. Fear and loathing and blow and a bunch of other flicks but since Noripi did her jelly fish dance they have cleaned up a bunch. That time was fucked up in any sense of the imagination, donkey hotei selling crack pipes.
Wife doesn't speak English so any shit that she might like I have to wait till it gets subtitled or act surprised. Wait that's not true, the other day she dropped something and I heared her say "Fuck me!" I knew I could be a teacher.
lol, I just tried to google a video of the popopo jelly fish dance and every one was taken down for copyright infringement.
For anybody who doesn't know, Noripi is a famous idol who was fucked out of her mind on meth during an interview and she kept laughing at her dress saying that she felt like a jelly fish popopopopo, what made it even funnier was that she acutally did look like a jelly fish.
nikoneko wrote:I've never heard of spun, what do you mean "nothing appealing about that"? Are you saying well written dramas about drugs are not appealing if they are about the bad side of drugs and not just partying Hunter S. Thompson style? I'm a long time pot smoker and other, and now just a raging drunk but man you lost the last credit in my eyes if that's what you are saying. Even my coke addict buddy from high school likes breaking bad and that cats waaaay out there on the partying.
Anyway back on the off-topic, Weeds got good again last season imo. Lots of friends gave up on it though so I can't back that up with anyone else's opinion. It's been all over the place, like literally, from she's a suburban housewife to the wife of a mexican drug cartel leader, and on and on. But I liked last season, they took it on the road (running away from said mexican cartel) and it was just fun in general. But that aside, the MUCH better show to watch on Showtime is Californication, this one is up there with Breaking Bad for me. Doubt it's at Tsutaya though if that's where you are getting your shows from.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:"Californication" is also at Tsutaya. All the locations I've been to in central Tokyo have tons of American dramas. Maybe more inaka shops don't. I don't know.
Anyway, if you're having trouble finding these shows at your local video store, try Tsutaya Discas. It's like Netflix in the US. They deliver DVDs to you by mail in a returnable plastic envelope that includes postage for a low monthly fee. It ends up being a lot cheaper than renting them at the store.
A figure known from videos on the Internet also has a show at Billy Shire Fine Arts gallery. Now, about that alter ego ....
April 10, 2009|Miles Beller
The show spins off of Tanaka's quirky and kicky videos. Though they are generally gentle in tone and temperament, an aggressive silliness often pokes through. Currently, there are more than 80 Tanaka-themed YouTube vids online bearing such titles as "Ken Tanaka Eats Kobe Beef," "Ken Tanaka Goes to Comic-Con and Meets a Suicide Girl" and "Ken Tanaka Goes Back to School?" The passion and the following these byte-size movies are provoking has caught its subject off-guard.
Perceptions differ
Like the videos, Tanaka's live show undoubtedly will raise questions of authenticity and truth. For while some see Tanaka as an overblown, cartoony caricature, others receive him as a provocative inquiry into the Japanese soul as refracted by American values. Whereas many find Tanaka endearingly coy, others dismiss him as merely manufactured joy, the creation/alter ego of Ury, a Sonoma native who lived in Japan for several years, appearing on TV there as a wacky foreigner who jabbered in the native tongue.
Indeed, Ury is an agile performer who does innocence better than Bambi. When Ury relocated to Los Angeles in 2001, he studied improv with the Groundlings comedy troupe and soon afterward started an acting career. He has appeared on TV series (NBC's "Heroes" and "Life") and on Sunday will be spotlighted in an episode of AMC's "Breaking Bad." In addition to acting, Ury has adapted into English more than 100 Japanese manga graphic novels.
As to Ury's relationship to Ken Tanaka, Ury willingly cites Tanaka as a long-lost twin but maintains this is where the DNA starts and stops.
nikoneko wrote:I've never heard of spun, what do you mean "nothing appealing about that"? Are you saying well written dramas about drugs are not appealing if they are about the bad side of drugs and not just partying Hunter S. Thompson style? I'm a long time pot smoker and other, and now just a raging drunk but man you lost the last credit in my eyes if that's what you are saying. Even my coke addict buddy from high school likes breaking bad and that cats waaaay out there on the partying.
Rube wrote:I've never even heard of Ken Tanaka
Rube wrote: I meant there is nothing appealing about that life style but I loved the movie.
See them live? Greji saw the Cro-Magnons live, and he even taught them how to make fire to boot.Rube wrote:I'Ve been wanting to see them for a while but it seems like they are only scheduled for the bigger shows this summer so I'm going to wait till they do they own shows at smaller venues. Anybody catch them?
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