Archives for the ‘humor’ Category

A true “baby grand piano”

By Shay • Dec 1st, 2006 • Category: Japan, humor, music, news, toys0 comments

I could make a ’small pianist’ joke here but I won’t…
This is pretty neat: Sega Toys has come out with what’s probably the world’s smallest piano. This tiny piano measures in at only about 10 inches wide and 7 inches tall. The “Grand Pianist” even has a full 88 keys! That makes each key less [...]


i love hoops and yoyo

By Shay • Nov 27th, 2006 • Category: More, Opinion, humor, internet7 comments

Hallmark’s eCard superstars hoops and yoyo have officially won me over. The pink cat (hoops) and green bunny (yoyo), famous for such eCards as the “1,000,000 thank you’s” and more have quickly made me a fan.
I was under the impression and hoops and yoyo were simply characters featured in a series of eCards. Upon [...]


Wii > PS3?

By Shay • Nov 20th, 2006 • Category: More, Opinion, humor, video games3 comments

Well, I think this proves how much better the Nintendo Wii is than the PS3. I couldn’t have said this better myself.
This is a parody of those Apple commercials. Instead of a PC and a Mac we get a PS3 and a Wii. This little clip was on Attack of the Show on G4. While [...]


5 cool Japanese band names

By Shay • Nov 16th, 2006 • Category: Japan, Opinion, humor, music26 comments

I’m a fan of an array of Japanese musicians. Many of those artists, bands specifically have cool names that seem pretty normal to a native English-speaker such as myself. But amongst the heap of normal names emerge the bands with wierd/humorous/odd titles….cool names if you will.
Here is a list of some of the bands with [...]


Halloween with The Candy Spooky Theater

By Shay • Oct 25th, 2006 • Category: Audio, Japan, humor, music10 comments

Halloween…ghosts, ghouls, witches, goblins, and The Candy Spooky Theater. Besides trick-or-treating and going to haunted houses, there seems to be no better way to celebrate Halloween than listening to Halloween-ish rock music. Enter The Candy Spooky Theater, a Japanese rock band whose music and style are based upon horror, Halloween, and Tim Burton flicks.
I’m no [...]


m-flo loves Daft Punk?

By Shay • Aug 20th, 2006 • Category: Japan, Opinion, humor, music5 comments

Well, that may not entirely be the case but m-flo’s VERBAL sure seems to like ‘em. Between his TERIYAKI BOYZ project sampling their song “Human After All” and this photo, I’m convinced.

(l to r) fakeTHOMAS BANGALTER, VERBAL, fakeGUY-MANUEL DE HOMEM-CHIRSTO…photoshopped heads or paper cut-outs? o.O you decide.


Hard Gay isn’t Gay!

By Shay • Aug 13th, 2006 • Category: Japan, Opinion, humor, news11 comments

The Mainichi Daily News has reported that popular comedian Hard Gay has recently tied the knot, with a girl! Hard Gay (aka Masaki Sumitani) married 23 year-old model/celebrity Anna Suzuki.

This comes after the unfortunate realization that Hard Gay is merely a character persona for entertainment’s sake. That’s no suprise though since everybody knows that [...]


The Ultimate House of Dominoes

By Shay • Jul 13th, 2006 • Category: Japan, Videos, humor, internet5 comments

The featured movie on Dailymotion is usually good…this one is exceptional…
…some background: Three young Japanese guys have way too much time on their hands and make ‘the ultimate house of dominoes’. They place everything in their house that can by stacked on its side. From cds to video cassettes to books to bars of soap [...]


random: A FAKE NIKE COMMERICIAL

By Shay • Jun 22nd, 2006 • Category: More, Videos, humor, internet2 comments

This is a hilirious parody of a regularly cool NIKE ad…I laughed quite a lot I must say.

 


Batlesbian

By Shay • Jun 1st, 2006 • Category: More, humor, news1 comment

This isn’t quite Asian pop entertainment, no, it’s more like American geek entertainment. Oh well.
DC Comics has announced that it will bring back the character of Batwoman. The catch is that this generation of the Batwoman character will be a lesbian. Apparently, the original Batwoman was killed off in 1979. Well she lives again, to [...]