Dancing almost all night (Hotel pt 8)

Man, I idolized this singer, Monta Yoshinori, back in early 80's. Young me would imitate his singing but it was essentially impossible for pre-puberty boy like myself to have that husky voice unless I was sick or have been screaming my butts out for like 15 minutes non-stop. Anyhow, I was really happy to see him in this clip, let alone still be able to sing this awesome at the age of 59. Here's him singing the same tune "Dancing All Night" from the 80's.



Japanese love Ramen noodles. I feel like I might have already blogged about this but hey. The ramen soup can come in different flavors but here are the most popular ones: shoyu(soy sauce), miso, and tonkotsu(pork flavored.) This Tonkotsu soup actually takes seriously like a day to make a "stock" of, basically boiling the hell out of different parts of pork bones in boiling water until the soup has this particular "milky" color to it. It's probably not very healthy for you to have this every day but man, this is some good stuff. If you're so brave to make this ramen from scratch, here;s one site I found:
http://www.akiba-station.com/blog/?p=8033

Thank you Alex for another fine job.
Enjoy,

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Snow!

Sorry no video yet.
Just wanted to let you know that I'll be snowboarding in South Lake Tahoe(California/Nevada)this weekend, but be back next week.

Have a good weekend

S
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Wicked Wicky (Hotel pt 7)

Imagine for a minute, that you're a Japanese business man/woman who just escaped from your daily packed commuter train. You step outside of the station, catch a fresh air(it's all relative right?) and starts to walk, and all of a sudden out of nowhere, this guy sticks a microphone and says something like "Good morning, how are you? (in English of course.) Not only are you startled, but damn it, you have to get to work. Leave me alone!!!!!
Well, that is exactly what used to take place somewhere in Tokyo metro train stations from 1979 until 1994.
The man behind the microphone is Anton Wicky. He was born and raised in Sri Lanka but came to finish his college educations in Japan and later on became a professor as well as a small time celebrity. Anyway, this show was called "Wicky-san's One-point English Conversation" and it must have traumatised many Japanese business men and women alike to have to embarrass themselves in front of cameras. The funny part of the show is to witness some people just literally running away from Wicky-san. He was literally like Moses who can depart the sea of Japanese people in half.

Yes, Wicky-san caught you!


This song by Ayumi Nakamura was a giant hit in 1985-ish and it was a huge "blast from the past" moment for me when I finally realised who she was. Here's her singing the very same song,"Angel with broken wings" in the 80's. Nice bangs!


Enjoy,
Special thanks to Alex for yet another awesome job.

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Gari Gari kun (Hotel pt 6)

When the outside temperature clocks close to your own body temperature, there's nothing better than sucking on the popsicles to help you not melt your eyeballs. Well, that was back when I was a young boy in the 80's. Now, I just whine and complain about it in an air-conditioned room.

This particular popsicles called "Gari Gari kun" was (and still is) very popular in the 80's. This popsicle has the usual outside layer which is cold, smooth and tasty, but the nice surprise is that as you bite into it more, there's a core of slushy iced shaves inside. Very cool idea.


Sometimes, after you suck out the last moisture out of the wooden stick, you find that you get to have another one for free. It would be clearly carved out on the stick like this;

Picture this though. I'm outside (most likely front of Mom and Pop shop)with my friends eating this popsicles. When I'm done, I see that I get a free one. Cool, I immediately exchange the stick with new popsicle, show it off to my friends and devour it as if I hadn't had anything like it before. But then the nightmare sets in. I not only would get the brain freeze from eating two popsicles but I also just gave myself a colon cleanse and detoxing. Let's just say that I would spend the rest of the afternoon by myself.

One of the Gaki No Tsukai episodes had popsicle props called "Gaki Gaki Kun" which was essentially a parody of the "Gari Gari Kun." The manufacture was so thankful of Gaki crew for doing this, it is said that Matsumoto was sent box full of the popsicle thereafter.

Special thanks to Alex.


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Remember that movie, Ring? (Hotel pt 5)

Here's another veteran actress, Bibari Maeda, who can get the Gaki member's laughs rolling. She can also be seen in the "No Laughing Newspaper" series from 2008. I have to say she looks great for being 60-something year old.

Her name Bibari is not a common name in Japan, and it is because her American father originally named her "Beverly." But to make it easier for Japanese to pronounce, it's been changed to Bibari or in kanji characters, it's written like this; 美波里.

Here's Bibari Maeda circa '66


A name that gets mentioned many times in this clip, Yuko Takeuchi, is an actress. You might recognize her from the original Japanese horror movie called Ring (or Ringu.) But that was more than a decade ago. Anyhow, she's appeared in many Japanese TV dramas and movies since then. But most recently, you can catch her in the American TV show called the "Flash Forward" on ABC where she has an recurring role as a....what do you know? A Japanese woman.

NO, nobody will be crawling out of your TV. Stop crying!


And yes, I am on Twitter now. I'm posting anything Gaki related. And if you wanna be kept updated in real time on where I am with subbing, here's your helping hands.

Special thanks goes out to Alex


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VELOTAXI (Hotle pt 4)

Velotaxi is a public transportation system that utilizes hybrid electrical bicycles in (mostly) metro areas. It was started in Berlin, Germany in late 90's before it made its way to the Land of the Rising Sun in early 2000's. Obviously, what's cool about this bicycle is that it has the electrical power to assist you when you're pedaling up the hill or you're lucky enough to give couple of Sumo Wrestlers a ride to the Yakiniku (BBQ) joint. What's also cool is that you can control when to activate/deactivate the "electric assisting power" at your finger tip.

As I understand it, you can catch this bicycle taxis at most of the big cities in Japan. The cost is about $3 per first 0.5km for an adult then 50cents per 0.1km thereafter.

I personally have never utilized this system, but I hear if you got the time, it's a nice ride.

Um sir, I asked for Velotaxi. Nice try though.



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Deluxe Edition (Hotel pt 3)

Another fan favorite, Matsuko Deluxe was an editor for a gay magazine called the "Body" before he became a columnist and some sort of a television personality.

According to my unreliable resource, Deluxe does not dress as a woman outside of television appearances. It is a character he created for the show. Because of his size, all of the wardrobes are custom made by him. And He proudly claims that the clothing material he uses can cover a 25-meter swimming pool. Awesome.

Couple of other ideas for his name before he became "Deluxe" were:
Matsuko Royal
Matsuko International

Long live the Deluxe.

Again, thank you Alex for the coloring, fonts, and positioning.
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