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Music

  • Are We OK?

    It's a nice autumn day here today: warm for the season, the blue sky now scattered with wispy clouds, the trees past their peak colors but still with plenty of yellow and orange and red.  So should we blog about… Continue reading

  • Something Beautiful

    I've been distracted, too disracted of late to blog or do much else besides the immeidate tasks before me.  I'll get back to it soon.  In the meantime, here's something beautiful… Continue reading

  • Sudo Genki – Machine Civilization

    I have not kept up with my favorite Japanese pop star.  This video, "machine civilization," came out in March or so.  Great stuff.  It seems to be asking us if we have become dehumanized by our modern mechanized economic-culture.  … Continue reading

  • Sudo Genki does a commercial

    Well, I guess it was inevitable: Sudo Genki has taken his World Order musci/dance thing commercial, in an ad for Dell.  Some fun moves here but I hope he comes up with some new, artistically, soon: Continue reading

  • Sudo Genki in NYC

    I have been a bit remiss keeping up with my favorite MMA-fighter-turned-J-pop-star, Sudo Genki.  Turns out the day after my last post about him, back in September, a finely produced video of he and his fellows doing their thing in… Continue reading

  • The Tao of Genki Sudo: Mind Shift lyrics

    OK, this may seem a bit obsessive – and perhaps it is – but I really do enjoy Japanese MMA fighter-turned-J-pop-Star, Genki Sudo.  I revealed this interest to one of my students and she (thanks Mai!) graciously translated the lyrics… Continue reading

  • Genki Sudo hits New York!!

    I have blogged about, and embedded video of, Genki Sudo before.  But I just found two new things.  This one covers his visit to New York, I think in August.  The music is "World Order," but the coreography is drawn… Continue reading

  • Shake Your Groove Thing

    I was at a party last night and some disco came on.  My wife and I started to dance, just like we did all those years ago in college, back in the seventies when disco was ubiquitous. It made me… Continue reading

  • Sudo Genki

    Just because I like these guys (ht Sullivan for the original): UPDATE: Here is a translation of the lyrics (I can't vouch for accuracy or feeling, but it's all I've found thus far): We have opened the veil of the… Continue reading

  • What you won’t see on PRC TV for the National Day celebration

    Here's clip of a HK indie band, My Little Airport, singing an English version of their song, "I love the country but not the party" (我愛郊野，但不愛派對) in Shanghai last Saturday.  Notice the local Shanghai audience cheers for the lyric: "I’d… Continue reading