J-Music Clip of the Week

Artist: Buono!
Single: MY BOY

I think I'm gonna have to put money down for this Single V (gotta reward steps in the right direction). Musically with the breaks n everything I'm feeling quite happily buzzed.

Hump Day Eye Candy Extravaganza

so for those that didn't look at the comments from last weeks Hump Day Eye Candy post..I'm sorry but...IT WAS A MAN BABY!!....now go take a shower and try to scrub the guilt off...but this week's young lady is in fact that...A LADY..Kana Tsugihara is her name and her ridiculous body is very reminscent of retired(?) gravure idol Miwa Oshiro, petite frame with huge gazongas. Enjoy gents..

BONUS PIC.....screen grab from one of Kana's gravure dvd's

and just incase you're not familiar with Miwa Oshiro

Diggin' in the Crates "Is It or Isn't It Legit?" Edition

Most of the items I've been posting for this feature since it started are more recent additions to my collection. This week, we dust off something that I've had for several years and nabbed when I saw it while flipping through the 7" bin at Gallery of Sound in 1997:

Artist: Youth of Today

Title: LIVE at Van Hall, Amsterdam

Label: Commitment Records

Vinyl: Gray vinyl

In what has to be a testament to the enduring interest/popularity in a band that only existed for a few years in the late 80's (in their short lifetime, Youth of Today only released two 7" EPs and two albums, but also gave rise to the still-active indie labels Revelation and Equal Vision), in 1996 a start-up label from Amsterdam called Commitment Records issued a colored-vinyl EP of a show Youth of Today played at Van Hall, a former clothing warehouse in Amsterdamn's Stattsliedenbuurt (a neighborhood "notorious in the Eighties for its strong squat scene", according to the liner notes on the six-panel insert(!) enclosed with this record.

In 1989, Youth of Today were on a European tour that was marred with problems from troublemakers (drunks trying to hit lead singer Ray Cappo in Belgium, "so-called punks" throwing beer bottles at the band at another gig, Nazi skinheads crashing a third and forcing the band to curtail the gig seven songs in). By the time the band reached Amsterdam, however, the Van Hall gig went without a hitch - something Cappo can be heard complimenting/thanking the crowd for at the end of the recording. Even more thankfully, someone had the wherewithal to record the show with a Sony Walkman.

Fast forward to July 1995 when a few enterprising Amsterdam punks started Committment Records first as a distributor to facilitate the easier availability of American and European straight-edge punk records that would otherwise be hard to get, and (to again quote this record's insert) "to release records of straight edge bands with a positive attitude" to counter what they most disliked in the then current straight-edge scene - bands who played "slow metal moshcore" with more negative lyrics, and European labels that refused to release straight-edge material on vinyl. 

To finance the operation, the label decided to press a 7" EP containing tracks from the audience recording of the Van Hall Youth of Today gig. Their reasoning was spelled out right on the record's back cover:

Why a Youth of Today Live EP?

In the first place, because we had a live recording of Youth of Today at our disposal, which perfectly captured the atmosphere existing in the European hardcore scene at the end of the Eighties, at a time in which the Straight Edge scene in Holland, Belgium and Germany was at its peak.

In the second place, the ideology of the band Youth of Today has a lot in common with the ideology from which Committment Records was started: Straight Edge, positive thinking, and awareness of the wrongs in this world.

In the third place, by releasing a record of a very popular band, we can bring Committment Records to the attention of a lot of people. All proceeds of this record will be invested in the label and the distribution service. It will give us the opportunity to lay a solid foundation for the future releases on Committment Records by less known bands. 

Now, here's the fun part: When I recently went to look up this record on Rate Your Music, they had it listed (as of today, and when I added my copy to my database there) as a bootleg. While the recording itself would be considered "bootleg" quality, the label itself is not a bootleg label.In fact, the label still continues today, has its own website as well as a MySpace page, and points out in its own label discography that some asshole in the United States managed to issue a counterfeit version of the record on black vinyl (probably without the professionally-printed six-panel insert legit copies contain). One would have to conclude that the consent of Youth of Today's Ray Cappo and John Porcelly (the band's founding and only constant members from beginning to end) plus their approval of Committment's modus operandi made the record legitimately possible. 

So, is this record a bootleg? I would daresay, only if you don't come across a gray vinyl copy. Good luck finding one on eBay.  

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Recently Acquired

yes, the sumbitch is freakin HUGE

this is only the 3rd KAWS piece I have in my collection, the other 2 being the SantasticxKaws Hasheem figure and the Kaws Trooper. The stuff KAWS releases, are typically pretty damn hard to get unless you pick them up on the secondary market and even then, you'll likely be paying 4x the retail price, if you're lucky. By chance, I was able to get the OriginalFake Companion 1000% Be@rbrick off of the Kawsone website for retail.

Bollywood Babes

Shivani Kapoor
This angelic beauty hails from London, so cheerio ol chum...Weinstein's gone British for some arse.

She came to India at the age of 14 to try her luck in the world of modeling. As luck would have it, some swarthy guy found her and voila, she's made it in to the mainstream.

She is also set to do some dance routine in some movie. Probably with some swarthy actor. She also maintains the fact that she doesn't mind doing nude photos. Just the reason to try and convince her to do the Indian version of Playboy, Play Sahib.

99 Answers for Seinfeld

follow-up to this

Hump Day Eye Candy Extravaganza

no name this time gents...

Shibuya Guerilla DANCE

Dance Bastards(and Bitches)...Dance Like The Wind

I Got 99 Problems (But Kramer Ain't One)

"Seinfeld was the ultimate show for water cooler conversations. With a countless number of inside jokes, nicknames, characters, and story lines, it didn’t take long for the show to develop it’s very own social language. Now, thanks to Kiersten Essenpreis, we have a beautiful painting depicting a massive, heaping pile of these references (99 to be exact)."

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Bollywood Babes

Lisa Ray
This hot piece of Bollywood booty is actually from Canada. Her hotness has led her from the shores of Bollywood to the landscape of international fame through her work on a flick called Water.
Geez Louise, she is smoking and she is Weinstein's people. Oh Man Oh Man, don't get her confused with the Afro American actress Lisa Raye with an "e" . She's recently been in movies which ask her to be a lesbo. And she makes out with other chicks in those movies.

Hump Day Eye Candy Extravaganza

it's been over a week now since Miki Fujimoto announced that she's all set to marry comedian Shouji Tomoharu sometime this summer...I can't help but be jealous cuz well...you see, Shouji and I are just so similiar that it makes me think that if I lived in Japan, I'd be the one ripping off Mikitty's wedding dress and ravishing her oh-so hot body on the nite of our nuptials..

Shouji and I are:

*both 33 years of age

*both of us are asian with him, being japanese and I, being filipino with several of my relatives killed by the japanese during WWII...

*we're both pretty damn funny with he, working as a comedian and I, making fun of the people I work with...

*he has glorious flowing dark hair and I COULD have glorious flowing dark hair but I CHOOSE to shave my head

*he's in love with Miki and gets to boink her whenever AND wherever he wants while I too am in love with Miki and uh..."make tacos" while looking at photos and watching video clips of her whenever I want in my room....yeah, thats where the similarities end....that lucky sonofabitch

---was gonna post the miki slideshow I did a couple years ago for her bday but it got yanked from youtube...DMCA violation...BOOOOOO