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 [...]

Full wrap-around advertisements on public buses is nothing new. Some catch your eye and others don’t. But there are some that really stand out. These ads don’t use the bus’s flat walls as simple canvases; rather they [...]

Hi everyone. I’ve been away for a while huh? For that, I apologize. I’ve been away and busy for quite some time. With this (challenging) semester of school winding down, I’d like to get SparkPlugged back up and running [...]

Having trouble finding the guitar chords or tabs for some of your favorite Japanese songs? I know I did…until I found XXX SOUND, a Japanese guitar chord/tab site.
It’s been one of my favorite secrets until now, so I’ll share it if you don’t already know of it. XXX SOUND is a Japanese site that offers [...]

Have you ever had a song stuck in your head that you didn’t know the title of?
The folks and midomi.com are here to help you. While it’d be most useful for them to somehow magically erase the tune from your mind, they do the other best thing: help you find out the name of the [...]

Among the cool things that I picked up in Japan were a handful of free music magazines. Mostly near record store counters and amongst pay-magazines, these 0 yen publications are pretty interesting.

Free magazines such as BGMAGAZINE, Keep ON, and TOWER constituted my collection of free music periodicals. These publications could be considered equivalent to a [...]

Hey, I figure now’s a good time to take a quick break from the live reports and make a site-related announcement.
I’m looking for 1 or 2 co-authors to contribute to SparkPlugged. This would enable the site to grow into something much more profound and helpful to readers. The collaboration of multiple authors with similar [...]

Hi everyone…Shay is finally back. I’m here and ready to get back into the wonderous groove of things. I’ve actually been back from Japan for almost a week now…but now I’m actually back to the ol’ college thing so I’m finally at my computer again.
My trip to Japan was amazing. I have way to [...]

This may be my last post for a while. I’ll be away from any serious computer time for a few weeks while I’m in Japan. Upon my return I’m sure to have tons of stuff to talk about! Anyways, I know I couldn’t update much during this past week (ick!…finals >.>) oh well (also no [...]

Today (December 2nd, 2006) officially marks the 1st YEAR BIRTHDAY of SparkPlugged. WOW!
SparkPlugged has come quite a ways in 1 year. Here’s some of my favorite posts from the past year:
December 2005
SparkPlugged Defined (first post ever)
Janurary 2006
Big News, the Death Note Movie! (SparkPlugged’s most-googled post)
February 2006
Solid Gold (ahhh man, I miss the Olympics)
March 2006
Night [...]