Monday, 26 March 2007

Hutton's Footy Franks Are Best.

Yellow Magic Orchestra "Rydeen" in a Kirin commercial.
Biggest Playas in Da Game.
Brrraaaaapppp etc.


Which got me thinking about the TV series Monkey that was on in Australia every day after school year in and year out. I have the album from the band Godiego who wrote the them song. They have a song called "Asiatic Fever". The lyrics go like this:

Got the fever
The Asiatic fever

Somebody help me
I got it bad
It's driving me crazy
I'm going mad

I'm turning yellow
My hair's turning black
I'm talking funny
But it's a real snap


I looked up the video and found the Japanese version and it was cool to watch the opening sequence and listen to the man speak Japanese but know EXACTLY what he was saying: "Elemental forces cause the egg to hatch..." etc. BUT when the stone Monkey old as creation springs from the egg I was in for a real surprise!! The version I had grown up with had been re-edited.


When I was in Tokyo once there were cardboard cut-outs of Pigsy [the ORIGINAL one] as the real life dude dressed in a suit advertising something in loads of stores I went into. The weirdest thing I saw in Tokyo was on TV - the movie Mad Max dubbed into Japanese.

Another thing you probably won't find funny unless you are Australian is this:



Or this:


Later dudes xx Lektrogirl

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