Controlled Karaoke: Let’s Learn Nakata Yasutaka’s Ten Golden Rules, Shall We?

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WMyjU5RweU”] A moment of praise to all people actually good at Japanese…especially the folks at Perfume City who recently launched a channel devoted to sub-titling Perfume-related videos into English. Of the clips on their right now, an early favorite of mine would be a program that interviews producer Nakata Yasutaka about the “ten golden rules”…

Station To Station: Music Station For November 19, 2010 Featuring Perfume, KARA And Taylor Swift

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfCTBOTHsVU”] Man, Obama looks so uncomfortable surrounded by all those weird-ass robots. Dude did get to try out the Charles Xavier chair though so I’m sure that was cool. KAT-TUN “CHANGE UR WORLD” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue1M1BRVzOs”] It’s almost time to buy a new page-a-day calendar, and as the 2010 editions brace for trash day my biggest surprise…

Station To Station: Music Station For November 12, 2010 Featuring Arashi, Koda Kumi And Ken Hirai

After reading this, I hope you’ll see why I think I need a small vacation. Arashi “Hatenai Sora” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTG1HAxgfWM”] Glancing back at recent entries into this series…collect ’em all by clickin’ the tag!…I’ve noticed a slight increase in overall negativity aimed at most of the tracks appearing on Music Station, one of my major sources…

Controlled Karaoke: New Utada Hikaru Video Sorta Kinda Rules

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfpX8lkaSdk”] Utada Hikaru’s new song “Goodbye Happiness” comes with a swell new video worth watching. The little “U Tube” logo in the corner should tip you off, though probably not as much as the from-a-web-cam perspective that it’s a send-up of all those devilspawn performances making up 60 percent of YouTube (which, ironically, are all…