Archives For January 2010

Maid Cafe. The very concept makes me giggle.

But you can never go wrong with Karaoke and Yakitori…
okay maybe the same can be applied to Maid Cafe too.

I wasn’t a big fan of the This Is Us album, and Bigger wasn’t my favorite track in it… and the video is normal, but it just kinda works. I mean, it’s Japan~~~ And did I mention the Maid Cafe, Karaoke AND Yakitori?? xD

This link seems to look a bit better, but can’t embed.

Behold!

Nominations are done!!

It’s actually kind of exciting, even if not that many people sent nominations. However, it’s actually a really great way to hear about all these many other films that people mentioned so many times, and I knew nothing about.

Of course, if more people had actually sent nominations, the experiment would’ve worked better. Maybe next time… so watch many more films this 2010, so you can participate next time around.

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What happened to MTV Unplugged anyway? It feels like it just went away. I do remember Alicia Keys and Maroon 5 had MTV Unplugged albums, right? Or was it only Keys?

Anyway, Vampire Weekend on MTV Unplugged.

Does that mean they’re famous? I thought only famous… like household names had MTV Unplugged albums. I really liked Vampire Weekend’s debut, and their sound translates well on this unplugged scenario. But what’s missing? I guess I’m used to really different arrangements. As it it now, they just sound kind of the same.

Check out some clips (6 songs is a full show?) over at the MTV website.
* seems like the embedding didn’t work for me.

Awww… that is so awesome, non?
Major points for the music~~~
But of course, the big points come
from all that light painting~~~

Here we go~~

These aren’t necessarily 2009 albums, but were listened in the last days of 2009. xD

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Best of 2009: Films

January 8, 2010 — 2 Comments

I’ve seen a lot of films, but somehow it still feels I haven’t seen enough.

This is the last day for everyone to send me their nominations for the Experiment Awards.

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If Only… Miao Miao

January 8, 2010 — 8 Comments

Posting one by one my 5 picks mixed with Acerk’s so he doesn’t get bored re-reading his entries.

Anyway, I invite all Yu fans to participate… you know, if you’re interested.

Please, no “I wish Yu could be in Avatar” – I beg you. LOL

Also… please, subscribe subscribe and take notice of the ad pimps.

5. Miao Miao

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If Only… April Story

January 7, 2010 — 4 Comments

by Acerk.

In my opinion, Yu’s had a pretty decent 10-year career. She’s been a supporting character more than I would prefer, but who cares, she’s still young and has a long way to go. Here are 5 movies that I wish she could have been in. I believe each film selected would have helped her career in one way or another.

5. April Story

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Independent Film has a new post by Heidi Van Lier talking about her hopes for Indies this year, which I found interesting… considering last night’s People’s Choice gave Favorite Indie Film to Inglourious Basterds. If you do a quick google, it turns out that Inglourious Basterds cost about $70M USD to make. That’s indie in America for you.

Small studios to actually give out, en masse, small amounts of funding to indie filmmakers to make films under $500,000, and not just talk about doing it. Hell, even $250,000. (Do you know the fab film I could make with $250,000?)

I’m all for more distribution of indie films and foreign.

I’m still trying to find someone to pick up my idea.

The video is pretty disappointingly average,
but the song is quite good. =)