The Kaisatsuko is the unique creation of a Japanese experimental musician. Half upright fiddle, half hurdy gurdy, the Kaisatsuko has a suprising sound.
With a few days away from a computer, I thought I’d share some recent finds. Here’s a few gems of older Korean pop music…reminds me how much I love the classics.
Here’s an exceptional article and a quick lesson in a facet of Japanese history, “Komuso: Japanese Zen Priest, A chance encounter with a vision from Japan’s past”. Check it out.
Muxtape: “a simple way to create and share mp3 mixtapes”. I was thinking of how I could use this thing and then it dawned on me — SparkPlugged Muxtape! With 12 songs to play and mess around with, the SparkPlugged Muxtape will be updated pretty often.
Yuichiro Miura once again left Japan heading towards Everest. The difference between him and all other adventurers heading towards Everest is…
After firing over 20 maids in just three years, HK star Jacky Cheung must be one tough man to please — and the Philippine government agrees.
While Jacky Cheung (张学友, Cheung Hok Yau) may hold a title as one of the four “Cantopop Heavenly Kings”, he’s earned another nickname: Jacky “the Terminator” Cheung.
That’s the nickname [...]
SparkPlugged’s quick guide to typing Korean
It’s one thing to write Korean but if you’re like me, you want to be able to type it.
The problem: The placement of Korean letters on keyboards is not the same as QWERTY keyboards. The order of the letters is different and not equivilent to the Latin alphabet. [...]
“Udedamashii” is a Japanese arcade game that will break your arm for only 100 yen. Wow, what a sweet deal!
An arm wrestling arcade machine broke a man’s arm as he played it. The man, a 25 year-old Korean is not alone since the machine also fractured the arms of a Japanese guy and a [...]
What do you get when you cross world class athletes and acrobats with crazy Japanese humor? You get an event so weird that it can only be known as a ‘muscle musical’ and can definitely be found in a weird little town known as Las Vegas.
I recently went to Vegas during the summer. While [...]
Have you ever dreamed about riding on a flying Giant Panda? Perhaps not, but thanks to ANA now you can. ANA has some of the prettiest planes in the sky when they’re painted regularly. But they have had some pretty great [...]
