X-Japan: Reunited?
Toshi, ex-vocalist of famed, legendary (insert fangirly adjective here) band X-Japan wrote an entry in his blog last March 21, about meeting with an “old friend in Los Angeles”, which led to a “new project [that] is about to start soon.” In the JRock fandom, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out who he was referring to: Yoshiki Hayashi. X-Japan’s founder, leader, drummer and pianist. (read: rock icon.) X-Japan’s...
J-Crunch: Ripiito!
J Crunch is back! And it’s coming on full blast with everything that you liked about the first one but this time so much better! Brought to you by Juujiro J-Culture Organziation, Inc. in cooperation with L’arc~En~Ciel Philippines Fans Club Inc., J-Crunch Ripiito will be held at the Amphitheater, Makati Park and Garden (in front of Pamantasan ng Makati, just in case you didn’t know) at 7 PM. There will be band...
Pinoy humor at its best
Christine Gambito is teh female Rex Navarrete. Christine a.k.a. Happy Slip Productions is (mostly) a one-woman production team behind “Mixed Nuts” – the video that won second place for Best Comedy at the 2006 YouTube Video Awards. For me, Christine’s humor resembles that of Mr. FOBulous himself (Rex Navarrete). Not only do both of them share the same background of being Fil-Am’s raised by pure-blooded...
Japanese pop culture is owning Korea
Ang Pinoy magaling manggaya! [Filipinos are great imitators.] But even with that statement, we don’t feel threatened. I mean, after four centuries of colonization, some influence from other cultures have definitely rubbed off. And we don’t just imitate. We own! Take the jeepney for example. That’s a US Army jeep that we made into our own funky transport system. Same goes with our telenovelas, teleseryes and...
Suppa saizu mi!
Okay, so whenever I think of “fat” and “Japan” I think of sumo. But get a load of this, the fattening machinery MacDonald’s is now making our ordinary Japanese friends into super sized fatsos. Uy, akin lahat yan! Take a load of this monster. It’s the Mega Mac. A large lard burger with 4 patties. And MacDonald’s Japan made it available this year. Ever heard of the Okinawa Crisis? The next...