Category: Clips

  • Old BiBi Interview with English Subtitles

    I think this is the only video of Bibi with English subtitles. It’s short, barely three minutes of it… but makes me miss BiBi circa her NOW/WOW albums… which reminds me, gotta review those.

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    Her last bit singing gives me the shivers.

    From the last few performances she’s done, something is amiss. Her voice is quite not right, and I think it might be due to the production of her last album.

    *sighs*

    Forgive the lack of updates, but then again… you do know there’s YAM, right?

  • The Best Mistake I’ve Ever Made: Sholly

    Ahh fandom… NSFW fandom.

    Shane and Molly have Asian fans! It figures~ I wonder if some pairings are more popular in each region just because of cultural preferences. The fact that Shane wanted to become a better person… more studious, more knowledgeable for Molly is what sold me on the pairing. I also think it’s a very Asian thing xD

    Plus, they’re hot… but Shane and Carmen was hot– but too much drama.

    I liked they used a song by a Taiwanese singer called Joanna Wang. She reminds me of the style of those easy listening tracks by Kendal Payne, or those tracks used so often in Grey’s Anatomy xD And the ending of the video, so sad.

  • The Best Performance on NHK’s 61st Kouhaku? DREAMS COME TRUE

    I’m not even a fan, but woman knows how to work that stage. She certainly knows how to close a show! On a very VERY long new year night… imagine having to download 11Gb to watch a roughly 6hr show, Jpop duo DREAMS COME TRUE was the most memorable number of the night — which includes a giant tsuru (crane), and a rock n’ roller tongue-wiggling ojiisan,

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    Are you kidding me? A marching band (the Kouhaku Marching band) with a lead singer jumping in a kimono? That’s an automatic win. xD Plus, Ikite yuku no desu (生きてゆくのです) is super catchy, the performance just brings it to the level of memorable.

    This is the best I can do for the moment, the only clip I’ve been able to find. If/when I find something better, will re-post. Now, if NHK was smart, they’d be posting the Kouhaku performances on their own site for embedding, instead of taking down the performances that make it online…

  • NHK Taiga Drama Gou 15sec Tease

    OMG, how time flies!

    Gou begins this Sunday!! And it’s supposed to be a 70min. episode.

    Please, that clip of Juri possibly crying… and possibly pulling at each other’s cheeks, I’m going to be crying and laughing with this… just like when Atsuhime aired.

  • Wait a minute: Zhou Bichang + NSYNC?

    I’ve never seen this video of Bibi during her Super Girl days. And I never knew she sang Gone by NSYNC! She even has a more likable – hint: not nasal – voice than Justin Timberlake. Someone tweet this to him ASAP! xD

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uypEKsCcvZU

    I wish she had changed the line about “being a man and be strong” xD but to what?

    Then? Then she pulls of the ABC song in blues? Please, WTH.

    I’m also making a YouTube playlist titled “Why Zhou Bichang is Awesome” LOL And you see the 2nd clip on that list? The duo with Priscilla Chan – that’s the same song she sang on this clip up here in the contest.

    Makes me feel so proud.

  • Word Lens: Spanish to English + Viceversa

    This $hit is amazing stuff.

    But I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some Japanese cellphone that could do that same thing translating on the spot, but in Kanji. Now take that and tell me that’s not amazing? xD

  • Australian Film Institute Noms, Yokohama Film Festival Awards, Plus Oscar Animated Shorts and VFX

    That’s the longest title I’ve ever written. I think. Not sure, but pretty~

    First, let’s start with Oscar talk. There are 10 animated shorts line-up for 3/5 spots at the Academy.

    • Coyote Falls
    • Day & Night
    • Let’s Pollute
    • Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, A Journey Diary)
    • Sensology
    • The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger
    • The Gruffalo
    • The Lost Thing
    • Le Silence Sous l’Ecorce (The Silence Beneath the Bark)
    • Urs

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  • The New York Times: Fourteen Actors Acting

    The New York Times’ got around 1min. clips of actors acting titled Fourteen Actors Acting. From Tilda Swinton to Chloe Moretz going through James Franco and passing through Michael Douglas, all the way to Jennifer Lawrence with a tinge of Noomi Rapace.

    And… I want to say it looks great, because I love black and white – but really?

    Even I can’t fangirl.

  • Noomi Rapace – I by Max Vitali & Nils Ljunggren for Bon Magazine

    Oooooooooooh, stylish.

    I think it’s time to add a Noomi Rapace tag, right?

  • The 90s Were Back: New Kids on the Block + BackStreet Boys @ AMA2010

    I know a bunch of people were watching the American Music Awards on Sunday – does anyone care about the AMA once we grow older? I actually complained there was no broadcast, when there actually was… I just didn’t know there was, because I guess I didn’t care.

    Also I rarely have the TV on in anything other than CNN, NHK, or CCTV LOL

    Anyway, the New Kids on the Block and the BackStreet Boys performed together – which they’ve done before, only the video leaked that time was just a bunch of women screaming. So this one is an actual broadcast performance bringing oh so many memories.

    They sang a mash-up (Glee fan-mode on) of Hanging Tough with Everybody, which then turned into I Want it that Way, which turned into Step by Step with The Right Stuff, and they finished off with Larger than Life.

    Please, I was a teenage girl once – I know every single track name from any pop song of any pop idol prior to 2002. I know the choreography to those music videos. LOL

    But now? Now I work on YAM, and I’m all about WORLDWIDE stuff.

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