Not since Pink Lady and Jeff have I enjoyed such a fantastic Japanese import. Engrish is a site dedicated to the humorous English mistakes that appear in Japanese advertising and product design. Most of the Engrish found on Engrish.com is not an attempt to communicate - English is used as a design element in Japanese products and advertising to give them a modern look and feel (or just to "look cool"). There is often no attempt to try to get it right, nor do the vast majority of the Japanese population (= consumers) ever attempt to read the English design element in question (the girl wearing the 'Spread Beaver' shirt for example, had no idea what it said until a foreigner pointed it out to her). Or Miss Urine Tester U.S.A., Hacker Candy, Pork Joy Gloves, McDonalds Flesh Drink, and Nippless for swimming, dancing and t-shirt time. Perhaps it is the cocktail of leftover children's Sudafed and a General Foods International Coffee that is making for my love of bizarre posts today. This head-cold has me feeling like giant bobblehead Jocko. I picked up book designer turned author, Chip Kidd's 'The Cheese Monkey's A Novel in Two Semesters' and it is shaping up to be seriously entertaining. I also opted for Dan Clowes 'David Boring' collection. Pick up Print magazine this month, Daniel Nadel has written a decent piece titled 'Panel Play: Auteurs and small press publishers are redefining the esthetics of comic books, turning them into objets d'art.'1:20 PM :
Thursday, October 17, 2002
How 'POP' is it when your lovely portrait can be transformed into a beautiful and distinctive LEGO artwork! Make a grayscale LEGO mosaic using your own photographs. Use a digital camera, a scanner to make your photograph into a .jpg or a .gif file on your computer. Edit and send off to LEGO-LAND where a million tiny color blind employees will generate your items. When your LEGO mosaic is returned to you in the mail, you'll get up to five different colors of 1x1 LEGO plates, a baseplate to build on, black slope bricks for your frame and a brick separator, plus detailed instructions on how to put together your picture. Send porn, send 3 kittens with a ball of yarn, sad clowns, send in the Mona Lisa, Elvis on black velvet!
A Starbucks in every new Target store, that even scares the shit out of me, or ummm... excites me, I can't figure out which. Perhaps I am just really excited by the term 'kiosk'. Right alongside the advert that reads 'Viagra Faces Stiff Competition' I found this article about the Scottish McDonalds, seems some McHaggis lovers were spicing up their meals with a little hard core porn.
Jocko loves him a big helping of Young Bradford, and Corey, my list is open to suggestions, please add! I draw the line at Green Day!
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Wednesday, October 16, 2002
Super gray flannel kind of day, cold, rain, sweatshirts and jeans, chicken soup, orange juice, trying to warm up, carrying a steaming hot cup o' joe, damp, plenty of reading, work etc. but I can't tear myself away from a web scramble with the 'Yeah Yeah Yeah's' as they dropkick me over the desk with their xtra special 'Miles Away' Mp3. Their proto-punk sound always makes me flip my lid and grind my teeth. Slicing the time pie, I placed my order for the Res-Fest DVD, now in it's 6th year, the festival showcases the year's best shorts, features, music videos and animation in an environment that combine screenings, live music events, parties, and intimate conversations with visionary filmmakers. Director Michael Moore's scathing ummmm...'documentary', is this the right term? 'Bowling For Columbine' opens this week, very anxious to check out his latest, Marilyn Manson and George W. Bush star as themselves. Moore staged a hilarious brou ha ha on Crossfire the other night. I'm wacky, I'm french it works for Yomgaille.com, and it should work for you too, with plenty of fun audio-interfaces and wacky web noodlings.
The W.W.E. dabbled in the debacle of a gay storyline, pro-wrestler, Eric Priest better known as 'The Underwear Model' works a gay angle... The Epitome of Masculinity?! Or why.... this idea is hyper-homo!
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Tuesday, October 15, 2002
Ah, life is becoming one giant 'Zagat Survey' and I'm down with the blueplate Businessman's Special. Sheeesh, who'da thunk Devo would be creating McDonald's commercials?! TOKION USA serves up spud boy Mark Mothersbaugh on 'McGriddles', and a nice laid back dubby 'afterwork set' by Smith and Mighty on Tokion Radio. The NYPost is a special brand of newspaper, they never overuse the term 'preggers', but why is Sandra Bernhard's trip to the movies a story; Check the pic of the perplexed actress. I must take issue with Adam Buckman's commentary of this season's Sopranos, it's still entertaining, so FAHGETTABOUTIT!
The New York Times�s decision to print same-sex union announcements has turned the issue into a priority, striving to be fair and religious conservatives striving to keep gays invisible.
Jockohomo's ode to Proustophobes...
And at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, its brevity illusory � this new sensation having had the effect, which love has, of filling me with a precious essence; or rather this essence was not in me, it was me.
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Monday, October 14, 2002
'Homosexuality is God�s way of insuring that the truly gifted aren�t burdened with children...
That fun loving Latin playboy Se�or Coconut lets all hell break loose with Electrolatino, a super sweaty blippin and bumpin dance number that will have you shakin' your maracas all over the place. Aye Papi!
Destiny's Chile song 'Independent Woman' gets the 'Kitty' makeover, sure to push any sane person over the edge. Sad to see Blackalicious Blacksploitation star Teresa Graves star of the 1970s cop show 'Get Christy Love' pass, I suppose Policewoman Pepper will have to go at it alone. 'Elvis Has Left The Building' coiner dies at 86, (Thanks Jaime!) When oh when is Jimbo going to post those gratuitous beefcake shots from The Transporter? I indeed love Anaheim Angels star Troy Glaus, at 6'5" and 245 pounds, that's a mighty tall drink rounding out third base.
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