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Mar 8, 2008

Smelly drunk.

I don't know how long this guy had been drinking, but it was about 6:30pm when I saw this champion staggering around the BART platform talking to random people. And as soon as I saw him walk up to a sharp-dressed African-american dude carrying a Macy's bag and say, "What up pimp? You been shoppin'? Yeeeeahhh." -- that's when I whipped out my cel phone camera.

In this shot he just walks up to some random woman and starts reading her newspaper with her:

This is a shot of him realizing that the train in front of him is the one he's supposed to be on (seconds before the doors close):

And here he is settling in next to an unhappy-looking Indian girl:

Mar 7, 2008

The Mystery Method in the eyes of a Wota

The Mystery Method is a way of picking up girls as taught by a man called Mystery. You may have seen him on TV.
Details of the method I shan't divulge in great detail as that would take up too much time.

A Wota is like a hardcore fan of a Japanese Pop group.
Groups vary.

I want to argue or rather claim that the Mystery Method goes against a Wota's "nature" which is to idolise.
The main clash I can see is this idea in the Mystery Method of demonstrating higher value in comparison to whoever so that the woman will be attracted to you. This essentially goes against what a wota does when he or she idolises somebody.

HOWEVER there could be a convergence of worlds where 1) the Method has various ways of playing hard to get and 2) where a Wota really is to some extent genuinely disinterested...

I for one (if you're still interested after all my 'demonstrations of lower value') have been thinking that I should really think less about getting a girlfriend and more about pursuing my own interests... That way when I meet a girl I can be like: Either you're interested in my world or not (and if not then that's no big deal because I still have my life and my own interests to pursue).

In this way I suppose I contradict my first claim but there you go. Sometimes thought processes are like that.

BTW our own SoG has his own ongoing peice, that argues against "Game", which can be found here.

Mar 6, 2008

FaceinHole.com

You know how when you go to any tourist-y area, they've got one of those places where they take your picture and put it on somebody else's body? Like they put your face on Brad Pitt's head on the cover of People magazine?

Well FaceinHole.com lets you do that in the comfort of your own home! Check it out, they have a ton of categories:

CELEBRITIES!

MUSIC!

SPORTS!

Tales from the Office: The Appreciation Board

In the break room / kitchen at work, there is an 'appreciation board.' It's where anybody can post a note saying who they appreciate at work. Some people may appreciate the IT guys for making sure all the computers run smoothly. Others may appreciate the traffic desk for making sure Bay Area traffic is up to date in real time. One person in the building posted a note regarding one of the many Clear Channel owned radio stations in the building, to the dismay of another co-worker.

pic courtesy of L. Alger 2008 (c)

For those of you who do not live in the Bay Area, KMEL is one of the two "urban" radio stations, with Wild 94.9 being the other. Back in its heydey, they were self-described as "The People's Station" and pretty much catered to the people of the Bay Area. In elementary school, I remember everyone listened to Rick Chase (r.i.p.) right after school and tried to call in to his show to partake in his infamous 'screaming contests" or to just get clowned on by the man. He played weird audio from movies and funny novelty songs alongside the regular playlist. Even Bay Area rapper Motion Man did promo raps for Rick Chase.

After Rick's time slot, was another pivotal KMEL DJ by the name of Evan Luck. Evan's prime-time time slot boasted "Battle of the Rappers" where two callers would drop acapella verses at each other over the phone, with the winner (decided by the callers) being able to battle it out the next day. After the top 10 requested songs of the day, Evan ended his show with his "Love Lines" segment. With Moments in Love by Art of Noise as the theme music (later he used En Vogue's Love Lines), this part of the show was a hit amongst the high school and over crowd. Love stricken teens would call in for love advice or to dedicate the latest slow jam to their boo.

Other DJs from the Bay that had a chance to get down on KMEL were DJ Shadow (before Solesides), FM20 (the original Invisibl Skratch Piklz), Cameron Paul and King Tech. At the time, King Tech had won some DJ battles in the Bay, and was offered a weekly hour time-slot on tuesday nights. Having free reign to play whatever he wanted, Tech would play Malcolm X speeches, rare breaks, and underground hip hop into his mixes. He even had his emcees E-Vocalist (before he was with the B.U.Ms), Motion Man, Mysterme, Koo Kaz, and Sway get on the mic to rip shit. Tech's weekly mix show was the precursor to The Wake Up Show.

Nowadays, you're lucky if you hear any local talent on KMEL or Wild 94.9. Erik K. Arnold of SF Weekly wrote an engaging article on how radio politics have brought the demise of the "Hyphy Movement." Check out the article over here.

A Week of Namie...Day 4

day 4 brings us Amurochan's performance of Luvotomy minus Verbaru of m-flo,which is good cuz well, we get more Namie that way..so if you like sexy hip gyrations and hand movements(?), then this is a MUST watch..if you don't, then I don't know what the hell is wrong with you

Luvotomy video DL

Mar 5, 2008

Friday, March 7th

they got it right this time

Lesbians from the Hood

a Blurry BART Pics adventure

"I shaved my stomach today."

"Whuuuut?"

"Yeah. It was all hairy. ..and than I looked at my legs and they wuz all hairy...like a man! Mmm-hmmm, whuuuuut!"

[cell phone rings]

"Hullo? Who's this? ...who is this? Seriously, who is this? ...how do you know my name is 'Miracle'? Who IS this?!!"

Drafting* Chinami

The subject will be Chinami.

The conclusion will be that she has come to thrive from a "2nd place" position.

The argument is that as others took the spotlight (e.g. Risako) Chinami's personality had more of a chance to develop esoterically; that is to say amongst the other Berryz and in private.

An example of this could be that boyband romance rumour if that has some truth or her dancing in the Genghis Khan PV (which definitely seems to show "personality") or even just her expression in some photos e.g.:

...There's more than meets the eye!

* http://www.answers.com/topic/drafting-racing :

Drafting or slipstreaming is a technique in sports racing where competitors align in a close group in order to reduce the overall effect of drag or fluid resistance of the group in a slipstream [...] Drafting can be cooperative, in which several competitors take turns in the lead position (which requires the most effort and energy consumption). Or, it can be competitive or tactical, where one competitor will try to stay closely behind another leaving him or her more energy for a break-away push to the finish line.

The Berryz Effect

The subject will be Berryz because if I make it Momo it will be too much 'I love Momo'.

The conclusion will be that by effecting me Berryz have changed the destiny of the world.

The argument is Chaos Theory or if you prefer the Butterfly Effect, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect :

The phrase refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that ultimately cause a tornado to appear (or prevent a tornado from appearing).

An example I can glean from my own life is: I reject girls (on a psychic level) left, right and centre because with Berryz my standards have become so high and so DIFFERENT that most women I encounter don't fit the bill. This means romances that didn't happen, marriage that never occured and birth(s) that never will occur.

I hope this doesn't constitute too negative aproach to fandom but as always I am my own person and have my own way :|

;)

Namie Week Continued

preview clip of next week's episode of HEY! HEY! HEY with Namie and......Shokotan!! and some other ladies that I have no clue who they could possibly be

and just found this on Shoko's blog, looks like she's holding up the print club pic you see being taken at the end of the clip

AND here is today's clip from Namie's PLAY Tour DVD

Hide and Seek video DL

Mar 4, 2008

A Week of Namie...Day Two

day two of Namie Week at YODC and this time we have Namie's "Pink Key" from her 2007 PLAY Tour DVD..this is my favorite track off of her last album and her performance doesn't disappoint..now there's no fancy dance routine or anything, its just Namie standing there, singing her head off, smiling and looking fauckin gorgeous!