YouTube - Bleach -.::Extended Ending::.- An AMV

I was really excited when Cartoon Network started airing Bleach last year--It was one of the 4 manga I read regularly in Shonen Jump in Japan. The 3rd ending of the series actually made up of 13 different closing videos; one for each squad division. Someone did a great job of taking the original full song from the closing theme (Houki Boushi by Youna-- I think I'll post the PV later, she's cute!) and combining all 13 endings into one. Enjoy!

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/etc/bin/startup/save_us.y2j

There are only 3 things I watch on TV with any regularity... Anime, TLC/Discover, and WWE... And if you know me, you know I take wrestling seriously. It's all about the performance, and in-ring skills... But its about the mic-skills to back it up. 

Five mat-jockeys come to mind when I think about "wrasslin'" today:  The Rock, John Cena, DX (HHH and HBK) and Y2J-Chris Jericho.   Well guess what. 

RAW is Jericho once again!!  What next--  ...come on Rock...  come on, just gimme a "people's elbow" just for laughs one more time!!

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Out of the mouths of babes...

Name: Charice Pempengco
Age: At this time she was 12, now she's 15
Home: Philippines

I can't say anything else but damn... I pray to god someone at Avex/Sony in Tokyo has already signed her to at least do the next Bleach movie theme or something... or be on a track with Koda Kumi, Amuro Namie, and Soulhead... She can even sing with Misia...

If you look closely, she even has that "sista-girl" neck thing too!! Man this chick can sing!!

Check out her official MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/charicepempengco

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Mou Nihon ni kaeritai:The Real Folk Blues

One reason I learned Japanese in the first place was because I wanted to read manga and watch anime in their original and uncut forms, and get the small nuances that make up Japanese humor and drama that can never be translated effectively.

This song, The Real Folk Blues is one example. It's the ending theme to Cowboy Bebop, an anime made in 1998, that I got to see on this side that same year thanx to my good friend Koh. Every time I hear this song, it reminds me to try harder and push through the sadness. The song does have some emotionally powerful lyrics, but the music itself can transmit that; it is blues after all, and that is the same language anywhere. Its sentimental for me because its the first song I think I understood in Japanese, and I used to play it a lot on the Kintetsu and Hankyu Densha (trains in Japan) in my headphones whenever I was having a bad time in Japan. One of my friends there heard me playing it, and got me the entire Cowboy Bebop soundtrack double CD. It was also my ringtone on my keitai (cellphone).

This is the actual live concert of the band The Seatbelts. The chick with the Native American headdress on keyboards is Yoko Kanno, the lead composer of the band. I wonder if she's taken... And that's Mai Yamane doing the singing. I am in love with her voice.

Enjoy.

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If I could write a book...

One of my friends on Facebook asked me a question:

If you were to write a book, what would it be called and who would you dedicate it to?

to which I posted the following reply:

it would be called, "100 Creative Ways to Kiss My Ass" and I'd dedicate
it to all the haters, posers, flakes, and dumbasses I've encountered in
my life.
And the cover would have this picture on it... Yeah!

And yeah, I STILL love this picture of me...  It is definitely a reflection of my mood right now...

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