Yes, Shiina Ringo music videos are being uploaded on VEVO accounts, as well as Tokyo Jihen ones, at 360p or 480p- BUT, baby steps. They’re pretty good 360p videos, though. They look better than some HD versions unofficially uploaded and ripped from the net. I’m not picky as long as Japan lets me watch the music videos of the artists I like and stops me from worrying whether the video I’m posting is gonna disappear in the next few days.

Speaking of the devil.

The main culprit is, of course, Sony Music Entertainment (SME) with their usual notice of “this content is not available in your country.” and their killer content take-down [1][2][3][4]. And in Japan, it feels like everyone is owned by Sony xD that’s why I have such a hard time with Mika Nakashima, when all her uploads on her channel are region restricted. However, it seems that she’s also got a VEVO account revamped this past February.

It used to have only that one fully-uploaded video [1], but now they’ve been uploading short versions of the PV

It’s Japan — and it’s SME. I’ll take what I can. I hope they start uploading MVs at the time of release, even if they’re one-minute or two-minute clips. Remember, Japan used to not care about it.

They’ve also become a bit better with iTunes! The other day I had Shiina Ringo’s latest single ready on my store.

I know she’s growing up so quickly, and she’s got a small role in Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim — probably that one small scene for which she got papped in Toronto. I suppose she’s playing a kid version of Rinko Kikuchi… I never though they would look like each other, but I guess it works for Hollywood.

I swear, every time I search for photos of Ashida Mana, I end up cooing and awing. She really melts all my sorrows away. It doesn’t matter if she grows up because we will have Mother, and hopefully (giving much much good vibes for that) she will have a good childhood and grow up to be a sensible adult and not be effed up by this business. Those are my wishes. Will always be.

My mother says that she could stop wars with that smile.

I used to tape this every afternoon because I was never on time from school, they used to show it after Gargoyles on Frecuencia Latina, and then after we got cable for the first time- actually a few years after that, I think — Cartoon Network Latin America got all big on showing anime series, and among the Inuyasha or Rurouni Kenshin episodes they used to broadcast, they also had some of this.

I remember they also used to show Sakura Card Captor and Corrector Yui [1, with latino audio].

Around that time, it was when I was trying to google this song online but back then it was nearly impossible to find song information if you had very little info, especially if you didn’t speak the language. I did eventually find that this song was called Kaze Fuiteru (aka. The Wind Blows, 風吹いてる – by Yuki Kuroda), and that my friend had a CD with songs that were anime themes that contained the track.

Of course, the Spanish version they did [1] is not as good as the original. But I’m glad that they at least kept the original music, instead of changing it to something “hard rock” like in the American broadcast.

Lookie 1, lookie 2

If you switch Vremya Tantsora for Doctor Zhivago (which was a tv miniseries), and place it on the 5th spot, shifting everything that’s below Good Bye, Lenin! down, I think you have a solid Top10.

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Lyrics in English taken from Playbill.com

Having said that, you CAN’T sing to it. It’s a pretty literal translation.

Bigger (Más Grande)

Hola, soy Neil. No estaría aquí si alguien no se hubiera negado a animar el evento… así que un saludo especial a Shia LaBeouf [1] por esta oportunidad.

Puedo romper tu corazón con una obra de arte,
y una canción que es pequeña y silenciosa,
pero estamos de regreso en dónde todo comenzó:
Radio City Music Hall.

Así que esta noche lo haremos más grande-
Eso es, más grande.
Es la noche más grande de Broadway,
y estamos ansiosos de comenzar.
Hagámoslo más grande.
Esta noche es más grande.
Quién se llevara una estatuilla Tony?
No lo sabemos!
Les garantizo un show verdaderamente legendario.

Los nuevos reclutas de esta temporada incluyen al elenco de Kinky Boots-
Saben, son hermosos y tan musculosos como unos Navy Seals,
y podrían rebotar una moneda de 25c del trasero de Billy Porter.
Dios, el hace ocho shows a la semana en taco 20.
Me saco el sombrero ante Berry Gordy,
se encarga de Motown como un jefe,
domina el Top40 y se acostó con Diana Ross!
Escribió su propio libreto, lo que es realmente genial.
Tomó cada clásico de Motown y dijo “ponlos todos.”

Hazlo más grande.
Eso es, más grande.
Me acabo de aprender este baile hace media hora.
Lo haremos más grande,
mucho más grande.
Alguna vez han visto tantas divas en una fila?
Bueno, quédense conmigo, porque su director de evento es un pro.

Es Pippin! Sin resbalarse, siempre haciendo piruetas,
al desear por su pedazo de cielo,
pero el cielo está lleno de su reverenciado elenco de gente de circo volando por ahí.
El elenco de Bring It On tuvieron treinta y dos en debut,
Hey, chicos- bienvenidos a Broadway, no olviden lo que le deben al gremio.
En un tándem, como lo planeamos,
perdónenme si suena extraño.
Mike Tyson tuvo su propio show,
hay que darle un aplauso, y hacer las cosas más grandes.

Eso es, más grande.
Estoy aquí con el Mike de Hierro,
es un peso pesado!
Hagámoslo más grande,
Esta noche es más grande.
Hey, tenemos porristas, contorsionistas,
por eso busca un bar de deportes y cambia el canal a nuestro show.

Las cuatro famosas Matildas se robaron el show,
y casi nos matan por lo que se llevaron un Tony especial,
lo que molesta a los viejos Billys,
quienes ganaron Tonys pero fueron despedidos al crecer.
Y aquí están los niños de Christmas Story, Annie y sus huerfanitos,
Cuántos niños actores llenos de Red Bull y endorfinas.
A penas te llegan a la rodilla,
pero cielos, cantan como los mejores,
y son la razón que esta temporada parezca un Chuck. E. Cheese,
y cielos, es más grande.

Eso es, más grande.
Hay alguna Guardería Tony a dónde todos ustedes van?
Se están haciendo más grandes,
esta noche es más grande.
Acaso sus padres les guardan su dinero de Broadway?
Cuando hice de Doogie, no importa eso, sigamos con el show.
Oh, Broadway es donde los famosos van.
Aunque ser famoso no te garantiza una buena reseña,
así que Alec, escríbele a Ben Brantley si quieres [1], eso es entretenido también.
Tenemos magia que hacer!

Más grande.
Eso es, más grande.
Camino por un pasillo acompañado de algunos de Newsies.
Este show es más grande,
esta noches es más grande.
Si hay algún Newsie que prefieran, háganmelo saber,
recibirán un Newsie en su bolsa de regalo cuando se vayan!

Me dan mi acercamiento Tom Hooper al estilo Los Miserables? [1] Verán, en Broadway no necesitamos acercamientos extremos para probar que cantamos en vivo. Cantamos en vivo ocho shows a la semana. Compruébenlo!

Al final del día nos reunimos para honrar a los mejores,
y mañana el Fashion Police reportará sobre tu vestido y quién lo usó más apretado.
Si ganas, sera el momento de tu vida-
Dile “Gracias.” a tu manager, tu papá y a tu mamá.
Mándale un saludo a tus hijos, a tu esposo o tu esposa,
tal vez un saludo por las puras a Tom Hanks!
Nada es mejor que ver a un veterano recibir una ovación,
o ver a alguien que empieza enloquecerse al ganar su primera nominación.

Hay un niño en medio de la nada, que vive por presentaciones del Tony,
cantando y bailando al ritmo de los Pippins y Wickeds y Kinkys, Matildas y Mormonses.
Por eso le aseguramos a ese niño, y hacemos algo para alentar a ese chico-
pues te prometo que todos nosotros parados aquí esta noche,
fuimos aquel niño y ahora somos más grandes.

Esta noche es más grande,
así que creemos el espectáculo más grande que conocemos!
Ven a ver a las súper sexys hermanas de la Cenicienta celebrando.
Chicas, cojan a un chico, el tempo acelera.
Hombre Araña, Pippin, Motown, Phantom, Kinky, Rock of Ages,
Chicago, Bring it On, A Christmas Story compartiendo el escenario.
Mamma Mia, Lion King, The Jersey Boys haciendo tap,
Kathie Lee es una letrista de Broadway, así que todo puede pasar.

Más grande! Nueva York es más grande!
Así´que los invitamos a nuestro más grande y mejor
de los mejores Tony Show de Broadway!

Neil Patrick Harris just pulled off a massive introduction for last night’s show, not only including fellow show nominees, but they also included some snarky blow at Shia LaBeouf, whose theater scuffle made it outside Broadway circles. I have no idea about Broadway news and the who is who, but I knew about it. Go figure.

I know tickets have been down for Broadway shows- all shows across all media, I believe. So I hope last night’s award show boosts the popularity, because if the numbers keep going down, there’d be no place for…

There’s a kid in the middle of nowhere who’s sitting there living for Tony performances. Singing and flipping along with the Pippins and Wickeds and Kinkies, Matildas, and Mormonses. So I might reassure that kid, and do something to spur that kid. Cause I promise you all of us up here tonight. We were that kid.

Two episodes a sitting- it doesn’t even matter if you skip a week, since you can catch up the next week! And it’s perfectly timed with my dinner on Sundays, so I don’t get eerily hungry whenever they show Hannibal cooking.

During the commercial for tonight’s episode, Dr. Alana Bloom talks to Will about her decision to not pursue him as a love interest… because he’s unstable. And obviously, as a Wonderfalls fan [1], I immediately though of Jaye as a crazy person. It’s like a perfect conversation!

I’m sure there’s a photoshop tweak here and there- after all, it IS a one-color wall.

And though Crawford remains quite flawless, there’s this bit weird about her face that you can notice faintly in some of the shots [which you can check out on Fashiontography], it’s even more noticeable on the cover for Muse, sadly. I would have preferred this shot.

There’s also a Making Of available if you’re interested.

My main grip about Korean is that if I wanted to type it, I had to customize my keyboard so I knew which syllable was in which position, instead of typing gibberish the first time I tried to use it. LOL The same thing is happening with me and Russian. Every time I try to type something, I have to press every single key because I can’t find them. xD

So I was looking for a LED-based keyboard that would do just that. Change layout every time I would switch keyboard settings on my computer. And Apparently I wasn’t the only person in need of one (and I’m too late to the party). Someone pointed me towards Art. Lebedev Studio, who happened to be a studio based in Moscow, Kiev and New York.

Because only non-English speakers, or multilingual people would need to come up with this sort of gadget. The concept was solid, and apparently all the keyboards are sold-out, even though the “popularis” version (so the compact one) is priced at 797 Euros or $1086 USD. xD

The concept for the Tactus one looks cool, though, I’ve never warmed up to digital displays in the form of typing devices. I HATE typing on smartphones and tablets.