Clint Eastwood can’t stop making awesome movies.
Category: Videos
Mitsuoka 50 series vs Rollerninjas
Too batshit crazy (in a good way) for words.
Link: Mitsuoka 50 series Bubu Shuttle
god of shamisen
Best operatic death rock shamisen vid, ever!
Damn, they be hungry!
http://www.godofshamisen.com/
The Parachute Ending
The first time I wrote a post about Birdy Nam Nam it was because they dropped a track that just stuck in my head for weeks. This time, it’s mostly the video that’s entrancing me:
Alouette
A classic Kids in the Hall sketch. Alouette is actually a pretty morbid song by modern standards:
Alouette, gentille Alouette
Alouette, je te plumerai
Je te plumerai…
Translation:
Little skylark, lovely little skylark
Little lark, I will pluck your feathers off
I’ll pluck the feathers off your…
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At least there’s no equivalent song about the ortolan.
Robogeisha
I can’t decide whether this is a joke or just the queen mother of Japanese B movies:
Whatever the case, it gets minus ten points for the mislabeling of a rotary saw as “chain saw.”
UPDATE: Oh no, it’s real!
Manzai Conspiracy Theory (not really)
So I didn’t even know about the Two Ronnies until today. They apparently had a show on BBC from 1971. In Japan, Beat Takeshi and Beat Kiyoshi formed their manzai act, Two Beat (aka Two Beats) shortly after that and first appeared on NHK in 1976.
Coincidence?
Or did Takeshi borrow the naming scheme from the Ronnies?
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BTW, the naming is pretty much the only thing these two duos have in common: