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Nonsense

Blog of the Living Dead

Ok, I have to ask this question. Does anyone ever have the same desire as me? To be in a zombie movie. Not to star in one or anything, but for life to be like a zombie movie. Of course not becoming a zombie, but rescuing people from certain doom, trying to rebuild the human race (the living one anyway) , you know that kind of stuff. I mean I think it would be totally fun to whack the crap out of a zombie with a cricket bat. It would be a non-stop adventure. Cruising around in my Road Warrior type car smashing zombies. MAN, I WANT THAT! You would have certain members in their “roles.” You would have the total badass, the guy/girl who will jump into a crowd of angry zombies with nothing more than a pipe and come back relatively unscathed. You will also have the genius, the person who will have all this technology available to him somehow and he will always come up with ridiculous plans to narrowly escape a horde of zombies. You will also have the leader, he (it’s almost always a he sorry girls) usually has love interest. The funny thing about the leaders love interest is that it is as though she doesn’t know he likes her and vice-versa, but everyone including the family dog (providing he is not already a zombie) sees it. The leader will always do some amazingly heroic thing that even the badass won’t try. Then there is the girl in peril, somehow she always fucks shit up or gets into impossible danger. The wise older male, somehow even though this disaster just happened this wise old man knows way too much about what to do to destroy these things. It’s like he has spent his whole like battling these things when it’s been more like 30 days. The less important characters usually die. Unexpectedly at that, but not on my watch. If I were in a zombie movie, boy would things be different, probably from watching zombie movies, and having a copy of The Zombie Survival Guide. So even though the total destruction of human life as we know it might sound grim remember how much fun it would be if you were one of the survivors. I’m ready for the apocalypse, bring it on!

Question? If you had to choose which a stereotype from a zombie movie, which one would it be?
Leave a comment with your answer. I’m trying to get this blog interactive. So join in!

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Music

Za Pirosu

So, a couple of four weeks ago a friend of mine, Brian Wyrostek, told me that the pillows were coming to Chicago. I about shit a brick. (pardon my French, but it’s for emphasis) They are from Japan and not very popular in Japan at that. So I was completely thrown off guard when I heard they were coming to play an hour from me. Immediately after hearing such wondrous news went and purchased tickets, duh. I started listening to the pillows after watching FLCL (just like everyone else), an anime series in which the soundtrack is basically all pillows (I also highly recommend watching FLCL if you get a chance, grade A stuff). That was about 5 years ago. When I first started listening to them I by downloaded a few songs from the series, but got deeper into the music and started hunting for anything pillows I could find. When I went to Japan in ’05 I bought about 5 CDs; I would have bought more, but that’s all I could find. I currently have every LP they have ever released plus some rare acoustic stuff they did. So, after that back history you could tell why I would be excited. The concert was on the 20th, so last Tuesday. Let me tell you I wasn’t disappointed in the least. You know sometimes when you really like a band then go see them live they turn out to be not so good or just suck live and then you’re like for them kind of diminishes or at least is lessened. Well let me tell you this was not in the pillows’s case. They were really into the show. They were enigmatic and looked like they were happy to be there. I also have never been to a show where a band had played so many songs. They must have played between 15-20 songs, and this is with no breaks mind you. They were machines. If you ever have a chance to see them please do not hesitate, it will be one of the greatest musical experiences of your life.

Let me speak just for a tiny bit about some of the people who were at this concert. Now it wasn’t very many people because face it, not to many people know about the pillows and those who do probably found out about them the same way I did which is through FLCL, but some of these people should seriously get out from under their rock and look at society. I am the first person to tell you to be different from the crowd and stand out, but not like dis, not like dis (Matrix reference. anyone? anyone?) There were like 2983981293920183918293892.2 Naruto headbands at this concert and they were all sliding off the heads of these greasy headed nerds. (you know its bad when I start pointing the finger and start saying nerd.) I mean there was a girl there with cat ears who was crawling around on all fours acting like a cat. Double U- Tee-Eff? Not only was this girl on all fours and purring, but her boyfriend took the cake. He was wearing a beret, a pony tail, long huge hot topic-ish pants with about 42 chains, a messenger bag with a million anime pins, and a Naruto headband around his wrist. This guy was hawt. I already know writing this it will not even scratch the surface of what was there, but if I can just shed a little light onto what I saw that will be enough.

In short, despite the company I was with the concert rocked ridiculously hard. pillows=excellent. I will post pictures when I get home. I am at work right now so all my pics and stuff is at home. I also recorded some of the concert and edited it and threw it on a DVD. If you want a copy just leave me a comment and I will send you one. Speaking of comments, leave me some! I love them so much.

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Japan Media

F#@king Redshirt

I just finished Botchan a novel by Natsume Soseki.
It kind of looked dumb from the cover and I actually stole it from my Japanese class. It claims to be the most widely read novel in Japan. So I thought I would give it a shot. It turned out to be a really engaing book. It does not have much of a deep meaning. The only meaning I could pull from it was do not take people for face value. It is not really deep as it is written right on the paper. Although not a deep novel it is fun. I found myself having trouble putting down the book. It is short, but I highly recommend it. The story is that of a man named Botchan (clever title, heh) who is from Tokyo. He is labeled as the family screw up and because of this lives up to his roll. He latter assumes some responsibilty and goes to school and after completing this gets an offer to teach in a small, nothing country town. The story is about his mis-adventures in this small town as a school math teacher. I would recommend this read, it’s witty, funny and and enjoyable read. You do not have to be a Japanophile to enjoy this book. It can be purchased through Amazon or through any major retailer.