This past Wednesday I was over at my friend’s place for a mini-vacation. While I was there I got the opportunity to go to the Mitsuwa Japanese marketplace in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Now you may be thinking this sounds suspiciously like something I’d write in a real blog. Well, it certainly does, but there’s [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Mitsuwa
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fort Lee, Hagiwara Mai, Hi-Chew, Mitsuwa, Sanseido Books, Suzuki Airi, UTB, Yajima Maimi on August 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Karaoke Effect
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1A, Caramell, Caramelldansen, Dream Fighter, effect, Hiroyuki Suzuki, karaoke, MIDI, Perfume, Scooby Doo, Speedycake Remix, Teriyaki Boyz, Work That on August 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The other night I went to Duet48 (which makes me think AKB48??). For people who don’t know, it’s a karaoke place in New York City, somewhere… At any rate, I went with a housemate of mine and our circle of friends.
Given my taste in music, I have virtually no reason to pick any English songs. [...]
NO!!! ERIKA!!!
Posted in Hello! Project, J-Pop, Music, Umeda Erika on August 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So this news was brought to my attention in an extremely anticlimactic way. First I noticed that the subject of the night at wotachat was Erika, when I was scrolling by what I missed during the night. I ignored that, and then noticed much later what it was really about, thanks to the Wotachat subject [...]