Category: Japanese

  • Full Cycle YAM – 007

    Congrats, Amy! You’ve made it a year!
    Now please, get to work on that website you’ve been talking about all this time.

    Yeah, where is Nate? Yeah, that. Nate and I are working on something else, which is nothing at the moment… just a random gig, which will hopefully fuel our bank accounts a bit and let us work on YAM fully for a month or two…

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    This is Julz 2nd straight cover. Hooray! Omedetou!!!

    In it she covered the Stockholm Film Festival… met Susan Sarandon xD, there’s a Q&A with Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga, reviews for Precious, Up in the Air, Koreeda’s Air Doll, Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, The Cove, Thirst, Dexter Season 4, Sasameki Koto, Family Outing, Les Amants Papillons, 2pm, Shinee, Rihanna, The Swell Seasons, Crowd Lu and more! Oh yeah! There’s also a Julz BSB concert review of their Worldwide This Is Us tour, and some Eva Ayllon. Coz we love variety…

    check it out over here.

  • Asami Mizukawa for New Mobile Drama

    More Mobile Drama news!

    First, this photo…

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  • Tarantino Plays Aya Ueto’s Uncle on New Softbank CM

    I actually had read about this before, and wasn’t gonna make a big deal about it, but CM is kinda funny especially listening to Tarantino speak Japanese. xD “Tara-chan desu!” – the concept is easy to follow.

    He’s all I’m Tara-chan, and then goes all gibberish. Then his wife calls and tells him to come back home. LOL

  • Best of 2009: Music Videos

    I doubt I will catch any more music videos by now, so here is my random list of best music videos in very random categories, because that’s what I do best, I think.

    I’m writing as I go, so if I don’t make any sense. Forgive.

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  • Lilith Fair is Back…

    and it’s cleaned up its image…

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    Coz that totally doesn’t mean “hippie chick”

    Lilith Fair will be back with shows with a kind of a nice variety of music from Chantal Kreviazuk, Colbie Caillat, Corinne Bailey Rae, Emmylou Harris, Erykah Badu, Indigo Girls, Ingrid Michaelson, Jill Scott, Mary J. Blige, Sara Bareilles, Sarah McLachlan,  Sheryl Crow, Sugarland, Tegan and Sara, Ximena Sariñana.

    Yup, that’s right. Ximena Sariñana from Mexico.

    That’s pretty cool. Now if only they’d get Regina Spektor, The Sounds, CSS, The Ting Tings, St. Vincent (though I think she was against Lilith Fair),  Marit Larsen, how about some more foreign performers? Loads of Asian female performers… Salyu, Cheer Chen… Faye Wong (yeah, right! I heard she’s coming back on tour next year though!), Utada Hikaru xD

    More info over at the Lilith Fair website.

  • Current State of my iTunes

    Been backing up stuff, so a lot of stuff seems to have dead links.
    cannot think about the time to format. O.o

    Just finished moving all my music (because that’s the easiest to move).
    know some of them? xD teehee, predominantly Chinese and overall Asian-ness~~~ xD

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  • Takeshi Kaneshiro for GQ China

    Takeshi Kaneshiro is possibly the hottest Asian actor alive. LOL You can’t EVER go wrong with a Kaneshiro photo… and he speaks Mandarin, Taiwanese, Cantonese, Japanese, and English. *melts*

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  • Les Amants Papillons by Benjamin Lacombe

    I’m shallow like that, just saw this book’s cover and bought it.

    Les Amants Papillons or “Los Amantes Mariposa” based on the Chinese legend of the lovers… story as tragic as, or maybe even more so than Romeo & Juliet. I was all “wait a minute” why is her name Naoko? It’s all very Japanese/Chinese mix very much like in Mulan, but I could look passed that because the illustrations are oh so pretty.

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    by Benjamin Lacombe.

  • Hana & Alice – Kit Kat Vol. 1 & 2

    Found these ;P I think most of us know that Hana & Alice was expanded from the Kit Kat Anniversary CMs. xD Some cute moments here and there… if you haven’t seen the film, what are you waiting for?

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  • Itoh Tube and Yu Aoi?

    I have no idea abut this, but I ran into this story from Walkerplus~

    As most fans know, Yu Aoi is represented by Itoh Company — whatever their actual reputation is — and here comes a story with the title “Itoh Tube leaking Voyeuristic Videos of Popular Actresses!?” WHAT? I hope that by “Voyeuristic” in Kanji, they mean “insightful” otherwise… WHAT? LOL

    From what I could gather… meaning from what makes sense on the Google Translate. It seems like Itoh Company is re-vamping their YouTube Account (because prior to these random releases, their channel was rubbish) by creating a sort of a series featuring their signed artists… including Yu. It seems like those VH1 “Diary of…” where they followed x singer/group while they were preparing a concert, etc. It’s supposed to be going into the life of x idol while they go about their business and personal life… I think.

    Here’s Yu’s Itoh Tube space. There’s two videos at the moment — one of Yu’s Itoh Channel intro and her own intro *minna-san, aoi yuu desu* xD and a short Making of the latest dancing Kirin CM. I only understood, “It’s been a while since you last dance” or something like that.

    I’m impressed at how she manages to change her voice when talking and sponsoring. One seems very serious and even very grown-up, and then she goes on her “work voice” totally high and chirpy. Like two different people. LOL

    What you think?