HAPPY NEW YEAR ( Read more... )

Buck-Tick Zone update/revamp todo list! (or I need clones ( Read more... )

Buck-Tick Zone update/revamp todo list! (or a rush and push to finish this in 2012 ( Read more... )

I've been a fan of Buck-Tick before Japan had internet and credit cards so you're probably thinking I wake up to some black (cherry) coffee and make a living (on the net) providing information in the Fish Tank office, take photos of Atsushi's cats and walk Hisashi's dogs, get my rockarollica on by doctoring up some dirty B-T memes, spank the monkey ( Read more... )

Buck-Tick Zone update/revamp todo list! (or this is slower than molasses ( Read more... )

I have been a fan of Rock en Español for many years. I may not know all the bands or even a band from each country whose official language is Spanish, but I've listened to many bands for many years, attended many shows, met the musicians I like, etc. I'd wager that I even know it better than the Japanese rock scene. I can talk the talk and walk the ( Read more... )

Buck-Tick Zone update/revamp todo list! (or forgive me father for it's been 2 weeks since my last confession ( Read more... )

I know LJ is on life support but I posted this on twitter too with no response so I think people are asleep or I'm just not as funny as I think, HAHAHAHA ( Read more... )

From NHK World with a foreign host (she's not half-Japanese). A nice little cheesy tourist introduction to Okinawa from more of a music perspective. Nice since probably the people who are viewing this entry are familiar with Japan due to modern music. Perhaps you'll notice Okinawans look a little different, perhaps not. As we always joke, Okinawans ( Read more... )

Sometimes we may get a glimpse of another culture and laugh or criticize it. Maybe we laugh because we think it's whacky and those people are 'so crazy'. I feel like that's the Western impression of Japanese. What a bunch of kooky people, always good for a laugh (book of inventions, re-edited tv shows, things long gone in Japan). Fine, you may not ( Read more... )