Why do you like Japan so much?

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"lol thinking you "get" a country because you like a small subset of its culture and its stereotypes."
Yeaaah... half my friends are native Japanese people.
I speak fluent Japanese.
I don't understand American 'culture' at all.
I understand Japanese culture to a moderate degree.

That's all it takes for me to undertand Japan better.

Oh, And I'm leaving the 21s of March.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado, Enlarges Christs OrganIsm (The GZeus), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

man this isn't even funny/provactive trolling. ;_;

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

he is on topic though......

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

wow I cannot spell good. :/

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

It would have to be trolling at all to be...any kind of trolling.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado, Enlarges Christs OrganIsm (The GZeus), Sunday, 21 January 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh, no.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

You should give the brand-name '60s yakuza films a try (Criterion and HVE releases) - not at all as genre-nerdy as Japanophile-friendly anime or samurai.

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know if anyone with Asberger's as obviously as the GZeus could ever "get" any culture.

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck it, I'm banning him!

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link

UART variations:

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link

FOR THE UNINITIATED FFXII will be one of the worst games ever made.

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link

― am0n (am0n), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/images/fatnerd1.gif

― am0n (am0n), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:47 (seventeen years ago) link

who's to go to la ooioo?

― indian rope trick (bean), Monday, 22 January 2007 02:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Me, probably...

Hopefully.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 22 January 2007 02:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I am very tempted to roadtrip to Chicago for ooioo.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Monday, 22 January 2007 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Sweet, they're coming to portland.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:09 (seventeen years ago) link

awesome, they're playing in Bozeman!

― attack all monsters (skowly), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link

yesss. and gilberto gil on the 24th!

― plan b: videodrome (fauxhemian), Monday, 22 January 2007 07:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Someone posted about the dance 2 noise comps a while back... anyway... I was googling "Grandmaster XTC and the Ecstasy Dogs" which is some Osaka House LP Ian got me for christmas and found this 2chan thread about dance2noise

http://music.2ch.net/legend/kako/1041/10414/1041482958.html

― UART variations (ex machina), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:23 (seventeen years ago) link

4.AUDIO SPORTS = AKKI ONUA, NOBUKAZU TASKEMURA, EYE YAMATHUKA,

^ possibly best romanization i've seen!

― UART variations (ex machina), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:24 (seventeen years ago) link

wabi sabi??

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:34 (seventeen years ago) link

YSI THAT COMP DUDE

― UART variations (ex machina), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 07:02 (seventeen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yoko_Ono&diff=next&oldid=103485686

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 26 January 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La!_Neu%3F

Both La! Neu? and Dingerland have been inactive since 2001. Klaus Dinger's next planned project is a re-recording of La Düsseldorf's most successful album, Viva, using Japanese musicians.

― am0n (am0n), Saturday, 27 January 2007 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

http://hbml.org/fresh/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/b0003180_2310599.jpg

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=osore&m=text

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/135/382807442_edbb1eb5ef.jpg?v=0

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/137/380564343_9094128929.jpg?v=0

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

aren't those chinese originally

― Charmmy Kitty's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

ok my attempt failed. first car american, cat is chinese. so what about:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/185/380567435_3c2fcd1884.jpg?v=1170875616

i will never stop being amazed at their (in)ability to appropriate american culture.

also tommy lee jones and cameron diaz are prostituting themselves in some ads.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i mean that's not a failed attempt but what's up with calling a clothes shop "rocker and hooker" and selling bland clothes?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

tomorrow i'm going to try buying the ps3. (trying as in tokyo it takes fucking forever to leave your flat and getting somewhere.)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

no, its a meiji era invention. ask jack cole or erin carruthers about maneki neko.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

xposts to jw

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

nath, where do your folx live?

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Nakameguro. It's such a GREAT neighbourhood! They used to live in Shirokanedai, but that was just so fucking boring. No Japanese restaurants and just... well nothing. Whereas Nakameguro is ACE. I can understand they never want to return to belgium.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

nice, there are some killer clothes and record shops in nakameguro.

i think there's an APC outlet around there too.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I saw one recordshop. Didn't really check it out that well, maybe next time. I'll probably be back in six months time. You staying in Japna at the moment?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Not even bro, I am in California, dude!

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

ah crap. or maybe not. did you like it in japan?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Tokyo's nice, but I like Kansai prefecture much better. Better food, music, art, shopping, fashion, record stores, etc. People are a lot more laid back and friendly too.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

At the sushi restaurant the cook came up to talk to me. He was from Kansai. Fucking hard to understand what he was saying. I mean, shit, my Japanese is pretty basic, but I can usually getthe gist of what a Japanese person is saying. But I know what you mean, Kansai people are much friendlier.

Hakone was amazing however.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

That's great. Next time you meet a person from Kansai at a restaurant (esp. a chef!) say "kuidaore!"

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Book Description
The Ganzfeld returns with a special issue devoted mostly to Canadian and Japanese artists. From Japan, legendary animator and designer Keiichi Tanaami contributes a 20 page section of new work. Cartoonists King Terry, Shigeru Sugiura, Yuichi Yokoyama, and Tanioka all are represented with substantial amounts of their work printed in English for the very first time. This nearly 80- page section will be a manga-lover's delight. Also featured in the Japan section is EYE (from the Boredoms). From Canada, Marc Bell, Julie Doucet, Scott Evans, Marc Connery and Destroyer's Dan Bejar will all be featured. From beyond Japanada, artist Jim Shaw contributes a section of his visionary dream drawings, British illustrator Will Sweeney is featured with a brand new comic story, and the issue is filled out by articles on record cover designer Barney Bubbles (The Damned, Elvis Costello), mushrooms, and Steve Gerber (the creator of Howard the Duck).

― be home by 11 (orion), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

From beyond Japanada

WAHT

― Charmmy Kitty's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (ex machina), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

special issue devoted mostly to Canadian and Japanese artists.

― be home by 11 (orion), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Pandas and Panthers do not live in Japan

― Charmmy Kitty's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (ex machina), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.la-duesseldorf.de/japandorf.html

― am0n (am0n), Friday, 9 February 2007 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gicTEKbczxw

― jaxon, Friday, 20 April 2007 01:06 (seventeen years ago) link

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