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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

New Song.......the Requiem For Van Slashed's Brother

MySpace Music Playlist at MixPod.com

(The above cassette tape is a mixpod player. click the play button to hear. Also there are advance and rewind buttons on each side. )

A very emotional song for us, the song written for the deceased brother of Van Slashed. He committed suicide about 3 months ago and thus....these lyrics.

We will be playing this song at the live too.

The second song on this player is a remade version of Dear. We redid it for the gig so we decided to upload it again here too. Uploaded songs on Myspace seem to lose some quality though unfortunately.

ANyhow thanks for listening ;)

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Friday, November 13, 2009

American Flavored Jelly Beans - Links

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog...

Who would buy this???? Oh...my husband would... - Still His Better half's MySpace Blog |
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I haven:t linked in a WHIIIIIILE but i just enjoyed this so much i thought i would share. I guess we americans can:t complain about not having kitkat flavors when we have all these jelly bean flavors to choose from! wow! some are really disgusting.....and she answers the question of whether they really taste like the flavor!

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

The New KitKat Horror and some others from long ago....
Category: Food and Restaurants

Yall....this is getting rediculous...the more i look...the more flavors i find.....There must be an endless variety of past flavors. Seriously. Well...each time a new flavor comes out i will also show some of the old ones too. geez.
well...anyhow this time...
What were they thinking.....

Ginger Ale

It is SOOOOOOOOOO sweet.....let me stress that again.....IT WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
SWEEEEEEEEEEET!
Ugh...i think i even crunched down on some sugar.....

This is not going to go over well with the japanese at all..

But yes it did taste like ginger ale....Even at first smell your stomach will turn.

To immitate this taste* Put a tsp of ginger ale, a half tsp of syrup and a white chocolate kitkat in your mouth and chew.....

ugh...

ChocoBanana

French Rock Salt

banana minis

Caramel pudding

melon (cantaloupe) kitkats and passionfruit kitkats,

Triple Berry

Caramel macchiato Mcflurry

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Monday, November 09, 2009

Our Live Show

I guess i should announce it formally.

It:s now 100% certain that we will be playing at Tokyo Rock Meikan on Dec 24. There will be several other visual bands as well.

Admission is free. It will be in Meguro, Tokyo.

We will be playing Fancy, Dear, Stress, and two new songs Crazy and Requim. I:ll try to get those recorded soon and put them up on myspace. Fancy Dear and Stress have all been improved too.

It will be the first time i sang infront of a large group! 300 people to be exact....

*FEAR*

It will just be the 3 of us, so the drums and synthesizer will be prerecorded.

I will try to get it recorded onto video. I:ll show yall later on if i don:t do tooooo terrible hahaha.

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Sunday, November 08, 2009

Some of the Japanese stuff i got for my Birthday
Category: Travel and Places

Sigh

Getting older sucks. well...except for the gifts...if you:re spoiled enough to still get them like i am haha.

Here's some of the stuff i got:

1. A shopping cart!
These are mostly used by old ladies but because i am always toting heavy colas and groceries i really needed it. I live about 10 mins (walking) from the nearest grocery store and about 30 mins from the farthest one i go to...it doesn:t sound like much but when you are loaded down with tons of bags it is heavy!!

Most women use bikes but i dislike riding the bike in the sun.
There is a rule about using shopping carts though. You are not allowed to pull them in with you through the stores. You must leave them by the registers or at the bagging area. Just find an empty area (I like to put mine within view of the employees) and try to keep it out of the way. Don't worry....it is very rare for something like this to be stolen. I wouldn:t call it impossible but many people leave bought items on their bicycles and those don:t seem to be stolen either....so compared to that...this is pretty safe...

There is another variety of these that is just a seat that folds out. It is for the elderly who get tired while walking and want to take a rest anywhere.

2. Macha liquor....this is green tea powder flavored liquor! It is great for mixing in with milk or for making matcha flavored cakes etc. i already made a green tea roll cake.

3. ice cream cake. baskin robbins. the birthday cakes are rather different in japan. There are the ice cream cakes (usual) and the whip cream frosted cakes. There are none of the usual buttercream frosting cakes...at least not that i have seen. They are most likely way too sweet for the japanese tongue. Plus, the powdered sugar required to make them is very expensive. The japanese seem to believe that all cakes should be refrigerated. They even store yeast breads in the refrigerator.

Anyhow this cake is popping shower flavored (an amazing ice cream flavor with pop rocks mixed in).

4. a neck warmer....a tubular stretchy acrylic band to wear around your neck in the winter. yay!

5.and 4 boxes of benadryl (allergy pills) capsules from the usa (since they are so expensive here in japan).

oh yeah and some knee high black boots.

man i racked up.

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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Azuki Bean Flavored Pepsi
Category: Travel and Places

I am still working on the kitkat blog promise i made...

so in the mean time....

Something horrid just in time for Halloween.

The newest Pepsi flavor in Japan...

Azuki

Now if you don:t know, azuki beans are, well, beans....and they are usually sweetened and formed into a paste and are actually very tasty. .....in traditional japanese snacks.....NOT in pepsi!!!

I liked the shiso pepsi....but this.....this is a disaster....

It smells like beans and it tastes like....well...i don:t know what it tastes like...it sorta reminds me of a beer fermented smell....but also sorta like beans....

Ugh...

I noticed someone on youtube has the opposite opinion though. He liked the azuki but not the shiso....he said that the azuki pepsi tastes like raspberry...but i have to wonder how he got that impression..

It seems like everyone on youtube trying this product describes its taste totally differently.....there are a lot of those videos by the way, if you are curious.

But vtec agrees with me on both....Vs agrees that the azuki is crap (we poured ours out), but he also did not like the shiso.

I liked the shiso so much that i bought up extra bottles....

oh well....

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Friday, October 30, 2009

Van Tecan (our bassist) now has his own page.

Add him if you like!

He:s a very very sweet, very smart, very talented, very funny and generally awesome guy!

He speaks mostly Japanese but he knows a little English.

www.myspace.com/vantecan

There are some other pics of him in our pic section.

Did i mention he:s single??? Dont: know why....coz he:d be a great man for some lucky lady.

Anyhow add add add!!!

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Sunday, October 25, 2009

And you Thought it was Just the Kitkats......(part 2)

Did yall notice the price on these pringles? The large cans are around 2.50 - 2.90$usa.

Yikes!

Anyhow...moving on....

Bacon Sourcream:

onion cheese gratin:

(left to right) New Yorker's Street: Cheese Dog, American Diner-i can:t read the name but it looks like cheese covered french fries?-, American Diner- Cheese Burger, and LA street - BBQ Chicken

Extreme: Balsamic Vinegar

Bacon Caesar Salad:

Spicy Chicken:

Chese Carnival:

I can:t believe they don:t have Camenbelt (however you spell it) cheese yet....it is such a popular flavor...

Grilled Cheese......This is probably just a remake of the regular cheese flavor lol....but i still want to buy it.....it seems like it would taste better just having the imagination of grilled cheese instead of plain cheese....but i have to wonder......do Japanese people even know what a grilled cheese sandwich is???? I:ve never seen one here....

And of course....Funky Soysauce:

And then after having all these flavors...the Pringles company can then repackage the regular plain chips as though they were something special again...and maybe they are something special ;)
Discover Classic Salt: Shouldnt that be rediscover??? lol....They couldn:t possibly be different from plain chips....

And it:s not just Japan (though i suspect japan has the most flavors, as usual).......Other countries have unique flavors too.....

Ketchup flavor from canada:

Rice Infusions: Salt and Vinegar ---- i am curious about how they taste made from rice-----

Thai sweet chili and lemongrass:

Prawn Cocktail

you can see other rice infusions and some other flavors like these

at this site:http://www.pringles-fan.nl/low-fat.html

Now i think i:m about ready to rip open that tube of mushroom pringles...but i guess i should wait and share them with VS lol ;) I:ll just go get into that caramel that i made the other day and then whine about a low metabolism while i stand on the scales hahahahaha

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Sunday, October 25, 2009

And You Thought It Was Just the Kitkats....(part 1)
Category: Travel and Places

Nope....the utter unfairness of American products being offered in awesome flavors TO OTHER COUNTRIES ONLY does not stop with the kitkats and colas.....

nope....

meet the extensive flavor collection of Japanese Pringles....

What's the deal??? Don't americans like flavors too? Is it really such a bad marketing idea to offer new flavors all the time in the states???

Well whatever...as long as i:m in japan i don:t guess i can complain.

The Pringles flavors come out about as often as the new kitkats do......another dent in my wallet and blow to my diet...maybe it:s a good thing that new flavors don:t come out much in the states lol.

So let's check out the flavors i could find on the net....i had to search for a few i had seen using japanese text....so no doubt this is only part of them.

american circus - Funky Mustard Flavor

Honey Roast Chicken and Swiss Cheese Taste

Red Chili Chicken:

Garlic Seafood:

Cheese and Bacon:

These are hard to read but i think they say Smoky Bacon and French Consome ( chicken soup flavor)

Pringles Extreme: Extra Pepper

Extreme: Honey Mustard

Smoky Salami:

Spagetti flavor:

Beef Kebob:

German Selection: German Sausage

Night Club: Adult's Spice Black Pepper - ...........wow...Now that sounds REALLY spicy lol.

i just bought this next flavor yesterday...but i haven:t tried it yet: Extreme: Mushroom

Crushed Pepper and Spanish Salsa Pizza

And now on to part 2 before myspace deletes all this work i:ve done and i get too pissed to redo it.....

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Friday, October 23, 2009

Headlice? What headlice? Not in Japan !
Category: Travel and Places

Headlice is still fairly common in the usa. Every year, one or two times, the school nurses will go around the schools checking kids' heads. They are looking for the little white, itchy, hard to kill bugs called headlice. If you have had them, you:re probably cringing about now....

More often than not at least one kid will have them.

I had them once or twice when i was little. I was not a poor or dirty kid. My family was rather normal and i took bathes every day, but i guess what they say is true that lice like clean heads.

But what they don:t mention is that lice can survive in dirty heads because they are not killed off immediately. so really, a dirty head is a lice factory. I caught mine from one of those factories..

And i guess this is why the usa still has them. Not everyone has the best hygeine. Most do...but not all.

So i was surprised to learn that headlice are very very hard to find in japan these days.

They do not even check for them in schools anymore.

When my mom in law was little, she had them once, but these days she seems to have a *headlice are outdated* attitude. She was surprised that the usa still has them. Why would an advanced country have a bug from such a pre-advanced era?

So are we just a dirty nation? Why can:t we get the upperhand on the little devils?

They are indeed hard to kill. The only way i finally got rid of mine (after weeks of using the shampoos and combing out nits and getting haircuts and washing the whole house over and over) was to use Cow lice dip. The bottle says not to use it on humans...and boy did it stink....probably gave me brain damage...but i was lice free!!!! after just one application!!!

But anyhow....that:s something to think about. Why does the USA still have lice when japan does not????

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