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Japanese wackiness
Mar. 1st, 2004 03:28 pmI didn't want to come to school today. I'm not sure why, except that there are some things I want to do at home, and I would like to spend more quality time with my computer (I feel like a traitor - I'm using one of the Macs in the language lab to post this). I realized earlier this week that I was incorrect in thinking that this week would be less busy than last week, but sadly this isn't the case. Not that I want to not be doing any of the things I'm doing - I just wish the week had more days in it. But being busy makes me not want to come to school as much.
Fortunately, the day turned out to be quite amusing. In Business Writing, Minami-sensei showed us a couple of SMAP clips - a Matrix parody called "Katrix", wherin Nakai gets shot by waterguns, and a parody of Matsura Aya (aka Ayaya) in which Nakai, calling himself Mayaya and dressed like Ayaya, blows up his cheeks and makes generally cute imitations of her, culminating in him pretending to perform "Nee". It's almost a waste to parody Ayaya, since she's inherently silly and funny (which is why we like her), but it was still really funny. I couldn't stop laughing. I could tell that only about half the class got it, and the rest of them were thinking, "These weirdo Japanese - why the hell do they like dressing in drag so much?!" Hahaha. If any of you who don't know what the hell I'm talking about want to know, let me know and I'll see if I can get my brother to download the Mayaya clip for me and I'll burn a CD for you. It really is too funny. Of course, it was made funnier by the fact that we were watching this in Business Writing of all places, and Minami-sensei followed it up by asking various people if they thought it was funny - one girl told him it was weird, so then he asked us if we agreed or not. I love Japanese class. But I wish this were a Japanese pop culture class instead, and we just watched various Japanese things and discussed them.
My friend just made me watch the trailer for Casshern, a really cool looking Japanese SF movie. When he mentioned it earlier, I didn't remember hearing about it, but when I watched the trailer it struck me - this is the movie that Utada Hikaru's husband (who also directed some of her music videos - most of my favorite ones, in fact, including Sakura Drops) directed. For those of you who can't or don't want to bother looking at the Japanese site (which I will do when I get home - the font is way too small to be legible on this stupid computer and the images don't load properly), you can find a link to the trailer on JoBlo.com.
Fortunately, the day turned out to be quite amusing. In Business Writing, Minami-sensei showed us a couple of SMAP clips - a Matrix parody called "Katrix", wherin Nakai gets shot by waterguns, and a parody of Matsura Aya (aka Ayaya) in which Nakai, calling himself Mayaya and dressed like Ayaya, blows up his cheeks and makes generally cute imitations of her, culminating in him pretending to perform "Nee". It's almost a waste to parody Ayaya, since she's inherently silly and funny (which is why we like her), but it was still really funny. I couldn't stop laughing. I could tell that only about half the class got it, and the rest of them were thinking, "These weirdo Japanese - why the hell do they like dressing in drag so much?!" Hahaha. If any of you who don't know what the hell I'm talking about want to know, let me know and I'll see if I can get my brother to download the Mayaya clip for me and I'll burn a CD for you. It really is too funny. Of course, it was made funnier by the fact that we were watching this in Business Writing of all places, and Minami-sensei followed it up by asking various people if they thought it was funny - one girl told him it was weird, so then he asked us if we agreed or not. I love Japanese class. But I wish this were a Japanese pop culture class instead, and we just watched various Japanese things and discussed them.
My friend just made me watch the trailer for Casshern, a really cool looking Japanese SF movie. When he mentioned it earlier, I didn't remember hearing about it, but when I watched the trailer it struck me - this is the movie that Utada Hikaru's husband (who also directed some of her music videos - most of my favorite ones, in fact, including Sakura Drops) directed. For those of you who can't or don't want to bother looking at the Japanese site (which I will do when I get home - the font is way too small to be legible on this stupid computer and the images don't load properly), you can find a link to the trailer on JoBlo.com.
