Videos
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@home 2010
Justin, Nam, Max, and Mina are visiting the Yoshida clan home in Cali for most of May. We are checking email sporadically, but are offline as much as possible. I know that means missing out on gems like the following, but that’s a relatively small sacrifice to make.
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Don’t put that in your mouth
This video made me feel better about myself, because it proves there are stupider people with stupider jobs and stupider friends:
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Stop Motion 80’s Arcade Recreation (wherein this title is a descriptor)
Yes, it’s a shark’s tooth.
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Tool’s 9-8-7 on the Koto
This is Tool’s song Lateralus (originally titled 9-8-7) played on kotos and bass kotos. It’s also surely the ultimate traditional Japanese music/Fibonacci sequence nerd jam of all time. //////////////////// I’d like to mention here that the new YouTube layout is absolute crap and apparently I’m not alone in thinking so. And changing the five-star system to a like/dislike one is pretty much the worst user feedback decision I’ve seen in recent times. I guess the user testing groups were firmly set in the Keewl It’s Just Like Facebook demographic.
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Tony Bourdain + Ted Nugent + M60 =
Best. No Reservations. Ever.
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Japan – The Strange Country
The author got too much flak for drawing little squinty eyes (with his own little squinty eyes), so he pulled the English version. Those people were missing the point, really. The artwork (infographics) tells most of the story even if you don’t understand Japanese.
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ippon demo ninjin
Max is a little less enthused by this than I am, but I found the greatest song for learning counting (and introducing the concept of counters) in Japanese this week: It’s just a great song, really. I hereby declare this a Cosmic Buddha reunion number. There was apparently some fluff about this song being switched to the A-side when the album was repressed, so they repressed again as it originally was, on the B-side. The thing is, it seems this song was originally (released in 1975) not very popular and the A-side song that became a hit, when compared now, sounds really boring: ?????????. //////////////// LYRICS ////////////////// 1 ?????? ????…
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Stevie on Sunday
…because it’s our day to chill and listen to YouTube music. Max got to see twenty vids, now it’s my turn for one. Actually, there is a version with an actual music video here, but the audio sucks. /// It’s funny, I played this song a few months back when we were setting up a PA, and my coworker Bruce suddenly stood up and announced he hadn’t “heard this since it came out!”
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RIP Seba Jun
Nujabes died in a car crash last month in Tokyo. He was my age… Damn.
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Battlestar Sabotage
…or Those Frakkin’ Beasties? Anyways, this is a fine mashup of two of my favorite things. The author notes: This transformative work constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law. //////////////////////////// UPDATE: The obligatory side-by-side with the original.
