Manufactured Entertainment for Pedophiles

I’m getting too old for this. Being that I stopped listening to new music coming out since the mid 1990’s. While I still listen to new music that sounds interesting, I primarily listen to classic rock. And seeing as for a time I live in Okinawa, I do listen to a lot of Japanese and Korean music. But I do have my limits.

AKB48 (ages 13 to 16 years old)

Over the years I encountered great music as I have also experienced a lot of crappy music. The worst is the studio manufactured groups with the exception being The Monkeys.  At least they had a desire to be a part of music legacy. Nearly every country has these types of groups. They look and sound great, make a movie with lots of TV and magazine exposer then as they get too old for preteens they quickly disappear.

It doesn’t even have to be a group. It can be an individual. Just look at the Disney or Nickelodeon Network. Nearly all the teenage girls on these networks have made an album and went on their lip syncing tours. They had their songs replaced the original music on old or current Disney and Nickelodeon movies. Few of these individuals and groups have survived while so many others are forgotten just like New Kids on the Block and the Spice Girls.

The reason I’m venting out like this is the internet story from a somewhat racist web site called Sankaku Complex. The web site is similar to the types of gossip newspapers one sees at the checkout lines at grocery stores here in America. They mainly crater to anything close to anime porn, pro Japanese or anti anything not Japanese. They recently reported on Noel Gallagher appearing on a Japanese variety show with the group AKB48. click here for story.

Noel Gallagher comments

He was taken aback by how young they are (13 to 16 years old). Nothing wrong with his comments but the website took those comments and pretty much rewrote everything he had said to make it sound like he’s a racist. This site has a long history of being extremely negative to Koreans, Chinese, American and any form of oppression towards the livelihood of Otaku people as they continually advertise and promote links to porno related web sites. All the while trying to figure out why so many people hate certain parts of the Japanese lifestyle that they are promoting: I write sarcastically.

The site seems to really have taken offence to AKB48 being called a manufactured group. As many of their followers reading a misleading article began writing some of the most ill-thought of comments. AKB48 is comprised of preteen girls. As they get too old or unattractive they are quickly replaced.  Many have gone into prostitution or the porno industry while few have become similar to the Kardashians by modeling swim suits and sit in front of the TV camera on different variety shows and smile a lot.  Discretion is advised when clicking link to this story

Contest to meet this group require people to buy thousands of dollars’ worth of their music CD’s just to get enough enclosed tickets to just shake the group members hands. Sometimes these contest winners will ejaculate into their own hands so these underage girls will come in contact with it. The types of people who do this and buy their merchandise are called Otaku.  click here for story.

Otaku people, or pedophiles in my opinion, have no real social life as every form of money they earn goes to buying anime related products. That’s thousands of dollars of merchandise crammed into a small apartment or bedroom. They celebrate birthdays of anime characters and engage in sexual activities in front of a computer monitor. If it wasn’t for these types of people, AKB48 wouldn’t be as popular as they are now.

 The group’s daily shows at Akihabara are so choreographed and lip synced makes them no different than the stuff Disney and Nickelodeon or for that matter any record company churning out these types of entertainment. And as long as they remain popular for the music executives to rake in the millions of dollars this group will continue to be around.

Just like so many other groups and individuals that have come and gone leaves no doubt that AKB48 and others out there now are nothing more than a blimp on the radar as so many more are ready to take their places.  And knowing this makes me glad that I’m older and wiser in not being caught up in all this fake entertainment.

Heavy Sleeper

Mattresses are supposed to be light but they pretty much flattened the car tires.

Wilson, North Carolina (across the street from Walmart)

Salted Watermelon Pepsi

You know it's summer time in Japan when Pepsi comes out with it's new flavor concoction. 

Breast Milk Can Help Neutralize HIV

original story

Breast milk contains antibodies that can help neutralize the HIV virus that causes AIDS, researchers at Duke University Medical Center said Wednesday.

The discovery may have implications for the development of an HIV vaccine.

The study, which was published last week in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS One, studied immune cells in the breast milk of mothers in Malawi who are infected with HIV. The cells, called "B-cells," generate neutralizing antibodies that can inhibit the HIV virus.

HIV can be spread from mother to child through breast milk, yet such a transmission is only known to happen to one in 10 nursing mothers.

"That is remarkable because nursing children are exposed multiple times each day during the first year of life," said senior study author Sallie Permar, who is an assistant professor of pediatrics and infectious diseases at Duke.

The discovery that breast milk might help neutralize the virus is significant, researchers say, because it means that getting more B-cells to produce helpful antibodies could lead to the development of an HIV vaccine.

After School - Lady Luck PV

Bandai Ain’t No Good At Writing Japanese

I couldn’t resist writing the title that way.

One would expect a Japanese company such as Bandai would have someone employed who could read and write Japanese.  But then again I could be wrong. During a routine shopping trip, we notice something was wrong with the Power Rangers Samurai toys. Toy products based on the Japanese Super Sentai series called Samurai Sentai Shinkengers.

I should point out now that my kids love watching the Japanese Sentai shows. We have already purchased all of the Shinkengers toys long before the TV show was Americanized. So comparing the Power Ranger Samurai toys sold in American stores to the Japanese toys makes it noticeably easily to see that the American toy line is extremely pathetic.

Looking at the disk for one of the toys we finally noticed that the image of the Japanese symbol was reversed. Looking at the correct symbols you can see that it is more than straight lines and dashes. Its calligraphy as the lines is thicker at one end and pointier at the other. These language symbols are created like works of art.

So looking at the correct way of drawing this kanji symbol for ‘shin’ you will eventually see that this Japanese toy company has made a Japanese toy product with the Japanese symbol of ‘shin’ printed backwards.

Got Gas?

In a couple of post recently regarding my car problems, I have done some research with many people saying about the same thing. Depending on what type of car it is, what the manufacturer says which fuel to use and which gas stations one uses all affects the performance of the car.

When I finally got my car working right again, I stopped getting fuel at many gas stations that have ethanol mixed in with the fuel. I have tried a few different gas stations fuel to see which one gives my car better performance. That led me to Fleet Fuels in Wendell, NC. Their gas prices are the highest in the whole area but it came with an unexpectant benefit.

I am paying $4 dollars a gallon for the highest grade of gas. After two complete fuel ups so far I have noticed that my gas millage has improved and the sound of the engine’s roar has come back. This has led to an important decision for me. Pay a great deal more for gas and get a better running and sounding motor or go to a less expensive gas station but lose those benefits?

The expensive gas would mean less major car problems later on in its life. But using a different gas station, I would spend less but risk paying more for future car problems later on.  For now I’ll keep using the expensive gas at Fleet Fuels for two personnel important reasons.

The first one is that I feel safer knowing the engine is running on a more cleaner type of grade of fuel. The second is that I just love hearing the sound of that engine coming back to live as I drive on the freeway.

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WRAL TV article

Real Transformer Car - sort of...

Original Story here from Top Gear website. 

Helter Skelter 2012

Based on Kyoko Okazaki's award-winning Helter Skelter manga, the film stars Erika Sawajiri as Ririko, a model who underwent extensive plastic surgery to attain her beauty. The clinic that performed Ririko's surgeries goes under investigation for questionable business practices, and Ririko's body starts to deteriorate. As the model's prominence in the entertainment industry begins to falter, so does her sanity.

Thou I am not a Ayumi Hamasaki's fan, given that she has a prima donna attitude as her record company Avex, bends over backwards for her even though other artist such as Namie Amuro and GACKT are more commercially worldwide known. Her 2001 song “evolution” once used for a makeup commercial is the film's theme song. A couple of people who were unfortunate to see the 2009 movie Dragonball Evolution may remember hearing her song “Rule” which was used as the main theme song for the movie.

The film will premiere in Japan on July 14.

Below is a scene during production follow by the new movie trailer.

North Carolina Marriage Amendment

North Carolina voters elected to change the state constitution on Tuesday, prohibiting any union outside of a marriage between a man and a woman from being recognized in the state. here are the results.

My Generation

My generation is the greatest of them all. That’s what every person has been saying about their own generation for as long as time itself. Recently when I went on a school field trip with my youngest son I was able to really see the difference between both our generations. The luxury’s he takes for granted now was unknown technology when I was his age. I once suggested to my two boys that they should live one day with the technology I use to have. They fled to their mother almost in tears saying I was torturing them. Eventually she stopped laughing.

A long time ago before Wal-Mart and Target invaded America there was a small department chain called Maxway. It was clothing, arcade center, toys, electronics, food, auto and more; a mini version of what Wal-Mart is today. My mother was the assistant manager at one of these stores in Zebulon, North Carolina. And I was spoiled by nearly all the new technologies that were coming out during the 70’s and 80’s.

I got to play all the new arcade games for free when my mother closed up the store at nights. She would open the panel door so I could keep playing. When they did night time inventory, she would let me stay overnight in the store so I could play all the arcade games. I held all the top ten spots on all the machines. When the Atari game system came out she would bring it home at nights so I could play it then take it back to work with her the next day.

They used to rent out the VCR player when it first came out, as well as the movies to watch; a precursor to Blockbuster Videos. You had to pay a $100 deposit that was given back to you when you returned the VCR unit but not for me. The best part was that a lot of the movies that were coming out on VHS tapes during this time were B rated movies with lots of nudity and violence. And I got to watch every one of those movies for years without having to pay.

But time moves on as the place now sits empty. The store was split into two different shops as one is a Dollar General Store and the other one still sits empty right next to a Piggly Wiggly store. But at one time, this place was the busiest store for miles with the latest tech toys and games. I bought the very first water proof Walkman cassette player. I got first pick of all the new Transformers, GI Joe and Voltron toys before they went to the shelf. I had the best childhood ever.

Now my kids have a gaming system that does things that was considered science fiction when I was there age. My wife’s MP3 player is smaller than my thumb. My computer talks to my TV and cell phone more than I do. My satellite receiver can copy over 100 hours of programs with a trigabit of extra storage space of over hundreds of channels for me to choose from. Cellphones working like mini computers that can turn cars on or off as it orders pizza for you. So many different forms of technology to make everyone live a more joy-filled life.

I know my son loves being a kid, taking for granted things that weren’t even invented when I was his age. He feels like he’s in heaven but I still feel like I had the greatest childhood. Because with all the technologies that I grew up with, the biggest joy I had was getting out of the house and exploring the woods behind my house on foot or on my bike. Something I feel many kids nowadays lacks.

I Survived a 5th Grade Field Trip

My youngest son recently had his 5^th grade field trip to the Aquarium located at Pine Knoll Shores on Emerald Isle, NC. At the request of his teacher, I was asked to accompany him, as were many other parents asked to come with their children. It was a wonderful experience that I will always remember no matter how hard I try.

All the kids could bring their Nintendo DS’s or any other electronic gadget. So that night he charged up his while I loaded the tablet with as much of his favorite TV shows and videos on it. I packed both of our backpacks with the most essential items that we were going to need; a tablet, comic books, lots of soda, chips and junk food. Coming home that night I wish I’d included aspirin.

We got to school just as the two charter busses arrive.  After the usual mayhem of organized chaos, we all were loaded up and ready for a three hour tour ride to the aquarium. A few parents chose to drive their personnel car. Due to the high cost of fuel these days, I considered them the lucky ones after 30 minutes of seating on a charter bus seat. Not much leg room with little cushion to relax.

But the kids didn’t mind for once we left school, one of the teachers started a movie for everyone to watch. My son loved it because we were sitting right in front of the TV set. I immediately started reading a book, Zits Zombie Parents, the perfect book on how to handle teenagers. Three hours of seat shuffling later we arrived at the aquarium as the organized chaos disembarked and for the next few hours we all enjoyed ourselves.

We saw a presentation on jelly fish and took lots of pictures being in front of sharks, turtles and all other kinds of fish imaginable. The only thing that really got him excited was the machine that flattens out a penny into different shapes for 50 cents. For me it was the Dairy Queen shop by the gift shop. It was lunch time and I was starving.

But after all the fun times there we drove to a picnic area near Fort Macon where we all pigged out on prepared school lunches and home cook foods. My son and I ate junk food and soda from a 2 liter drink. Afterwards we were all herded to the beach for a class picture which became the best part of the trip as there were a lot of women on the beach getting a tan.  They quickly became surrounded by 5^th graders, their parents and teachers. A few women were unable to quickly move away due to the fact they had the top bikini strap undone.

So as all the kids were lined up with the ocean behind them, everyone else was taking their pictures as every dad was trying to get a look at all those women sun bathing or playing in the water. A few female teachers were making joking comments about all of us guys trying to sneak a peek but something else did come to the attention to everyone else. As we heading back to the bus we notice that these 5^th grade boys were also looking at the women on the beach. It was easy to spot them for they were moving their heads and not their eyes.

And so everyone is loaded back on both buses as we drove to Fort Macon. A few blocks away as an invasion force of 5^th graders transformed this quiet place into a warzone of noise and activity. My son started a trend. He ran up to the cannon in the lobby, stuck he whole arm in it and asked for volunteers to blow it up. Within a minute every kid in the place wanted their arm blown up.

But we walked around the place as kids stuck body parts in all the cannons, ran from room to room and simply enjoyed the view of the ocean from atop the place. After a visit to the gift shop to buy some confederate money we all headed back to the bus for our three hour adventure back home. Unable to get comfortable the entire time, I felt like a sardine in a can. But there were a few good moments on the way home.

As we were coming up to Havelock, a few of us noticed a lot of jet fighters in the air. We figured an air show must be going on at the Cherry Point Marine Base for there was a lot acrobatic flying going on. We even notice a lot of people just sitting out in their yards or shopping areas watching these planes fly around.

But as we drove on past the town I struggled the entire way as I was not getting a migraine headache.

Once back at the school I had our backpacks in hand as the doors opened up as my son and I bolted for the car and were half way home before anyone else left the school. Once home my son was non-stop talk as I handed all the souvenir stuff and camera to my wife as I drank a ½ bottle of Nyquil and went straight to bed. I didn’t even eat anything for dinner.

If someone asked me to do that all over again I would still say yes. The reason is very simple. Just as I was falling asleep, my son came into the bedroom and told me how much fun he had being with me. He even promises to let me sit by the window next time so I could rest more easily. I fell asleep as he was still talking to me. But the last thing I clearly remember is him telling me that I’m a great dad.

Vegetarianism VS Everyone Else

I found this from a Google+ user. After 10 minutes of laughter I posted this for others to see.

Saving The Battery Powered Car

The big problem that limits the sales of battery powered cars is the range of how far one can drive it before it takes all night to charge it back up again. That means no long distant car trips for the family vacation, which limits the sale of these vehicles to inner city usage, slow drivers and Hollywood celebrities pretending to support the environment.

As with all new technologies that have come out over the years, the size decreases as newer innovations are developed. Just look at the first cell phones, VCR players, TV sets; big and bulky to super small and light weight. So as newer technologies are developed to shrink these car battery packs even smaller can create a new job market.

A new type of service stations can be created. Say a car is running low on battery power; the driver can pull into the service station where the battery pack is unplugged from the car, removed and is replaced with a fully charged battery. All this can be done while the driver is inside the store using the restroom and getting something to eat and drink and then heads back onto the open road.

Just an idea that may increase the sale of battery power cars and new types of auto service stations that can motivate people away from gas guzzling cars. But until that day comes, I will still prefer driving a Mustang.