Fabio’s favorites Pabo performed, but unfortunately, paired with some old guys. Perfume got to do a solo, but they were pretty terrible with the synthesized Cher-o-phonic distortion thing going, but they still weren’t as bad as show opener Hamasaki Ayumi. I wonder how long it will take people in Japan to wake up and realize that she really sucks jagged kidney stones? Speaking of suck, NHK resurrected the dead with a performance by washed-up has-beens,Speed. Last year it was TMR who got a chance to reprise his youthful days as a top-selling artist. This year, Speed went on to prove that time and a mediocre wine yield an old, mediocre wine. They were still as bad as they were when they were on the Oricon charts, with flat notes and voices strained on the high-pitched edge of cracking in the same places they have always been. Mikawa Kenichi’s performance was somewhat rudely intruded upon by some gangly tall transvestite. I guess recently, they have felt the need to have something on the shocking side - last year it was that naked fitness dude, and the year before that it was HG. Probably the best performances of the night were the operatic tenor dude and Jero (Jerome Charles White, Jr.). Angela Aki, Aoyama Thelma, and Hirai Ken performed well, although I am not a big fan of their genre of pop. Needless to say ,there was no good rock. There have been rock acts in the past, but nothing harder than L’arc en Ciel. They really needed Krauser II and DMC! Here’s the official site if you’re interested.
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Just about now, the sun is rising in Japan for the first time in 2009. On the webcams in Hokkaido, people have been up since dark, getting ready to photograph it at various scenic spots. Being the furthest part of Japan to the East, Hokkaido will get the sunrise first.
Just watching now to see the moment…
Oh… there it goes!
Shin-nen akemashite omedetou gozaimasu!
Cade Roster’s Cade Roster puts the “F” in “Fine Art” show opens at Chinatown Boardroom tonight at 18:00. The show will run thru the 27th, so go check it out! The gallery’s normal hours are Tuesday thru Saturday, 11:00-16:00. From the info I have received so far, he’s painted on skateboard decks, so this might be your chance to get some sweet custom wood by a great local artist.
Stay tuned for some highlights from the show…
I saw this neat paint chip at the Downtown Post Office loading dock that looks like a galvanized-colored version of the popular image of what a devil is supposed to look like in Western culture.
Saw this sticker on the back window of an old Honda Civic.
No, I will not.
No, this isn’t.
I really hate when people take the “Drive with Aloha” thing to inappropriate levels. If you’re on the freeway and it’s gridlocked and someone is trying to merge in at an on-ramp, sure, show some Aloha and let ‘da bruddah’ or sistah’ in. It’s when people go out of their way to let you in and cause inconvenience to everyone else around them is where I draw the line. Yesterday I was making a right turn from a side street onto a divided highway, and there was a space coming up in traffic that I could pull into. Continue reading ‘No Aloha for You!’
Where does Aunty Linda get the audacity to attempt to downplay Barry’s connection to Hawai’i? He was born here and spent the formative years of his youth here for crying out loud! She was just the opposite, arriving as an immigrant from the contiguous 48 after graduating from college.
Give me a break!
And what of the fact that she’s off lame-ducking it on the mainland on some party-sponsored junket while her adopted home state faces critical economic issues? Nero’s off playing the lyre as Rome burns…
Wow! A DVD/CD set with live concert footage from the “Cannibal” album tour, a pile of original music videos, and a CD with the audio from the live performance on the DVD. You like Static X? Then you better go out and get this right away!
Concert audio on the CD and DVD is reasonably good. There is some ringing resonance and muddyness here and there. There are apparently multiple camera angles, but I haven’t messed with that yet. On the performance of “Black and White”, Wayne’s voice breaks up, and he can’t really hit all the high notes. The speed-vocal sections seem to elude him also. Considering that this specific performance was the best one taped from all the instances that the concert tour was recorded, this song must have been at the end of the set on a regular basis.
It’s good to see Koichi Fukuda back, but it was a little disturbing to see Tripp Eisen in videos of songs that I was under the impression were recorded during the first Fukuda era.
The DVD is all-region, and for some reason is in 4:3 aspect ratio.
MSRP around $24 USD/street price around $17 USD
Recommended
Four out of four skulls
Sorry – no. This manapua is raw, and nobody has any idea what to fill it with. At least with electric trains, there is the possibility of using any of a variety of renewable sources of energy, many of which can be fairly quickly implemented here. This ridiculous BRT idea relies on diesel, which is not specifically a bad thing - in fact diesel is probably the way things will have to be in the near future - but with the insistance of the current powers-that-be to race headlong down the dead-end street of E10 and E85 because of the Corn Lobby, development of biodiesel technology will be delayed about 10-years in the USA.
Once again, everyone who thinks BRT or Lexus lanes will solve the problem forgets the most important caveat: Where the F do you plan on putting all those cars and buses once you get them into downtown?
For those who will be on O’ahu today or tomorrow, the Regal Dole Cannery 18 theaters will have a special screening of the second live action movie from the Death Note franchise. There will be one screening each day, at 19:30.