Well I think 14 posts was the set target for our blogs, if I'm not mistaken, and with this post I should be right on target!!!
I've been really stressed out for about the past 3 weeks and I'm gonna be really glad when all my classes are finished!!!!
I'm planning on going down to Beppu (Kyushu) next week for a couple of days. If you don't know, I lived in Beppu for almost 2 years, going to school, partying and whatnot and I'm looking forward of a week of drinking and hanging out with old friends!!!
Monday, December 3, 2007
Ron's Screenwriting Class
Whats up Ron?
Well its about 1:30am on December 4th 2007 and I'm trying to do three things at once: I'm trying to finish posting entries to my blog, I'm tryingto finish writng my report and I'm trying to finish my screenplay for Ron's other class...
...probably my own fault for procrastinating but just to let you know, Ron, my screenplay is gonna be aweseome!!!
Peace.
Well its about 1:30am on December 4th 2007 and I'm trying to do three things at once: I'm trying to finish posting entries to my blog, I'm tryingto finish writng my report and I'm trying to finish my screenplay for Ron's other class...
...probably my own fault for procrastinating but just to let you know, Ron, my screenplay is gonna be aweseome!!!
Peace.
The Simpsons
I know I should be working on my report, which is due by 3pm tomorrow or maybe today, but I just saw a preview for the Simpson's Movie on TV, which is finally coming out in Japan in January...
...I saw this movie way back in August when I was back in the states but, anyway, that's not what I wanna talk about. I'm dismayed by the Japanese cast of voice overs for the Simpson's Movie! They don't even sound remotely like the original American voices!!! The voice of Homer Simpson is the voice of an entire generation and Japan just mutilated and destroyed my childhood hero!!!
Has anyone ever watched Sponge Bob Squarepants? Well the Japanese voice actors sound almost identical to the original voices, albeit they speak in Japanese. In regards to the Simpson's, wtf?
...I saw this movie way back in August when I was back in the states but, anyway, that's not what I wanna talk about. I'm dismayed by the Japanese cast of voice overs for the Simpson's Movie! They don't even sound remotely like the original American voices!!! The voice of Homer Simpson is the voice of an entire generation and Japan just mutilated and destroyed my childhood hero!!!
Has anyone ever watched Sponge Bob Squarepants? Well the Japanese voice actors sound almost identical to the original voices, albeit they speak in Japanese. In regards to the Simpson's, wtf?
More on Japanese TV
I know I should be working on my report, but I may have just watched the best Japanese television drama I have ever seen!!!
Its a story about a traditional Japanese family who takes in a foreign exchange student from Hungary, and the problems that arise form cultural misunderstanding.
I have never seen many television dramas that employ foreign actors, for understandable reasons, but in this show the exchange student was one of the main protagonists. He spoke Japanese in this weird nasally voice but I couldn't help but become enthralled in the story (or it may be because I haven't watched American television in over two years!)
Anyway, I thought the show was actually funny but I don't think they intended it to be. Point in case: the grandfather has a heart attack or something and needs to be taken to the hospital and the entire family rushes in trying to help and the exchange student says ”じゃあ、学校へ行く”because he had to take a test for a scholarship.
It was hilarious! That's another thing that's different about American and Japanese television, sarcasm. The majority of American television is filled with sarcasm and black humor but in Japan they don't even know what sarcasm is and the literal Japanese translation for sarcasm means something different - it has a negative connotation. So if you try to be sarcastic to a Japanese, they end up thinking your just being mean.
Anyway the show ends with two of the daughters saying they want to get married: One wants to marry a white guy and the other wants to marry an African guy. At this the grandfather nearly has another heart attack and says, the black man's name is Uco, he doesn't want his grand daughter to marry someone whose name so closely sounds like "Unko," the Japanese word for poop.
What an Amazing show!
Its a story about a traditional Japanese family who takes in a foreign exchange student from Hungary, and the problems that arise form cultural misunderstanding.
I have never seen many television dramas that employ foreign actors, for understandable reasons, but in this show the exchange student was one of the main protagonists. He spoke Japanese in this weird nasally voice but I couldn't help but become enthralled in the story (or it may be because I haven't watched American television in over two years!)
Anyway, I thought the show was actually funny but I don't think they intended it to be. Point in case: the grandfather has a heart attack or something and needs to be taken to the hospital and the entire family rushes in trying to help and the exchange student says ”じゃあ、学校へ行く”because he had to take a test for a scholarship.
It was hilarious! That's another thing that's different about American and Japanese television, sarcasm. The majority of American television is filled with sarcasm and black humor but in Japan they don't even know what sarcasm is and the literal Japanese translation for sarcasm means something different - it has a negative connotation. So if you try to be sarcastic to a Japanese, they end up thinking your just being mean.
Anyway the show ends with two of the daughters saying they want to get married: One wants to marry a white guy and the other wants to marry an African guy. At this the grandfather nearly has another heart attack and says, the black man's name is Uco, he doesn't want his grand daughter to marry someone whose name so closely sounds like "Unko," the Japanese word for poop.
What an Amazing show!
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Japanese Television
I was watching tv and I finally came to the conclusion that I don't care for Japanese television programs at all. I have been in Japan for nearly 2 1/2 years and I found that the more and more I understand Japanese, the less and less I like Japanese television.
The majority of Japanese tv is composed of mindless talk shows, which involve Japanese "tarento", although I'm not sure why they are reffered to as telents, trying to see how much food they can stuff in their mouths or some fat guy walking around in his underwear. Furthermore, all of these shows take place on sickeningly colorful and flowerly sets which, in my opinion, are to detract the viewer from poor quality of the tv program, itself.
Although I suppose Japan deserves some credit: these shows cost no money to make and every single person in Japan watches them.
The only Japanese "tarento" I have respect for is Hard Gay, and even he knew when to draw the curtain and not beat a dead horse into the ground.
The majority of Japanese tv is composed of mindless talk shows, which involve Japanese "tarento", although I'm not sure why they are reffered to as telents, trying to see how much food they can stuff in their mouths or some fat guy walking around in his underwear. Furthermore, all of these shows take place on sickeningly colorful and flowerly sets which, in my opinion, are to detract the viewer from poor quality of the tv program, itself.
Although I suppose Japan deserves some credit: these shows cost no money to make and every single person in Japan watches them.
The only Japanese "tarento" I have respect for is Hard Gay, and even he knew when to draw the curtain and not beat a dead horse into the ground.
Hmmm
You know, I'm trying to finish my report for class and I'm having a hard time finishing it...
...I suppose I'll just kill two birds with one stone then.
...I suppose I'll just kill two birds with one stone then.
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