J-Music Clip of the Week..Part Deux

Artists: Morning Musume
Single: Resonant Blue(lesson studio version)

Resonant Blue video DL

**does this version remind anyone else of New Edition's "If It Isn't Love" video?..no?..well I guess I'm just THAT old to know who New Edition is

J-Music Clip of the Week

Artists: Morning Musume
Single: Resonant Blue (another version)

Resonant Blue video DL

**I don't think Reina looks like some cheap street walker in this pv..more like a reasonably priced escort, just paying her way through school, who I'd be more than happy to shell out 20k in yen to spend some quality time with

BEST RAP BATTLE EVER

Dude Eli got MAD FLAVA

The Black Flag Hairline Timeline

Courtesy of Mike Lupica @WMFU.org. Found by Egon.

J-Music Clip of the Week

Artists: Ruby Gloom(Nana Kitade)

Single: Siren

Siren video DL

Tales from the Office

a week late but here's one of the hijinx our tech department set up around the office for April Fool's Day..

CJ's Video of the Moment "Rippin' It Up with Mike Watt & The Black Gang" Edition

From the just-completed recording sessions for Mike Watt's next album... Nels Cline (yes, the same guy that's in Wilco now) ripping it up on guitar.

BADASS

'NUFF SAID

You Maniacs!

Charlton Heston 1923-2008

J-Music Clip of the Week

Artist: Emi Hinouchi

Single: Ai dake ga

Ai dake ga video DL

Sleeping dude

I have no idea who that dude is. All I know is the girl got on the stop after mine and sat across from me. The dude got on the same stop as her, but came in a different door. As soon as he saw her he made a beeline for the seat next to her--where he took up 2/3 of the space, leaned over to see what she was working on, and then immediately threw his head back to sleep. WTF?

I've never seen this guy before, but he's asian and wore a big wool coat on top of a shirt and tie. My guess? CELLULAR PHONE SALESMAN.

Momotarō / Dschingis Khan

Reaction to Takeo Doi's "The Anatomy of Dependence" (Part 4 -

Possibly last part because I'm almost finished the book)

The book:

[...] Momotarō [...] For all his closeness to his parents [...] could not identify with them; he found something unsatisfactory about the parents who had raised him. When he grew up, however he discovered a goal in life - the conquest of Demon Island - toward which he could direct the feelings he could not direct toward his parents, and thanks to which he was transformed into an adult [...] For him, the conquest of the demons was a kind of initiation into adulthood.

First of all "Momo"! It would be awesome if Berryz's Momo were to confuse me sexually & play this part in a TV series like Monkey Magic!

O.K. D. Khan link is simply that he was a conqueror too.

Also Demon Island reminds me somewhat of helloisland.com who upon 1st encounter with I tended to bash on the regular. So much so that I was afforded the title "H!I No.1 Pedo" for my efforts. Well I suppose you could say I was transfering some kind of inner personal conflict (demons) and I more or less changed my tune after a while.

Dr Doi is saying young people are like Momotarō looking to test their strength (but also that they risk becoming like demons themselves).

Reaction to Takeo Doi's "The Anatomy of Dependence" (Part 3 -

Possibly last part because I'm almost finished the book)

So OK quickly, the book:

[...] but an individual is said to have a jibun when he can maintain an independent self that is never negated by membership of the group.

Which bodes well for those in Buono!

And, the book again:

A word about hysteria: it refers to cases in which the motive for the individual's behavior is to attract the attention of those about him which frequently involve extreme actions, the subject all the while keeping an eye on what is happening about him. Although this might seem "self-centered" in it's attempt to focus attention on the self, it indicates not the presence of a true self but a fear that unless the subject behaves in this way he cannot be sure of his own existence at all. [ideas were put forward earlier in the book that sense of self may have a social aspect] [...] if the circumstances in which the subject finds himself suddenly change, he too must change, with a result that he is prone to sudden enthusiasms and equally sudden coolings-off.

Again I think something of wota psychology can be seen there.

Pic of the Day "AWESOME Album Covers" Edition