It's 14 years old, and this song is still completely amazing.

I'm so into this right now.

Here's the story, as far as I can tell.

This band started off as some sort of generic girly polished Morning Musume-ish pop band with like 5,000 girls in it, as "Harenchi Punch". Then some girls left and they changed their name to "80*Pan" but were still making bland uninteresting rock/pop (my opinion!). Now, they are down to a duo and are called "80_pan", and I can't believe it but its brilliant indie/trash/electro/disco-punk (the sort of thing journalists would call "new rave" *shudder*).

Please watch this brilliance.



From what I'm reading on the internet, fans of the original group are REALLY upset, but I have to say that this is the most stupid-fresh, wonderfully half-assed pop song to come out of Japan since Halcali's debut. This song is very refreshing considering the current wave of Capsule-produced songs featuring nothing but maximum autotuned vocals.

This is the kind of song that you hear at first and go "hmmm" but then 15 minutes later yourself going back to it.

I will be purchasing this album immediately. More of this please!

While I'm sending you on random links places, you should probably check out my big sister's blog because it's filled with excellent pictures from her garden and is basically too darn adorable for words.

My long time friend Becca in Seattle has been working like crazy on this web show called Bulldog Skin. This is a show about high school, and from the test clips I've seen it reminds me a lot of the show "Popular". The site has a lot of info about the characters and some preview/test clips... think of them as mini-episode teasers. She has been working hard on this for a long time and I can't wait to see what she & the crew will do in a full episode! So please go check it out and sign up for her fanlist while you're there!!!

I just finished up the flyer for this upcoming gig at Dante's in Portland, OR!

Zombie Summer Vacation! w/ Living Dead Girlz, Day Of The Zombie, Maggothead, Carny Jerkwater

Awwwwww yeah, I scored a chase Stereotype toy from Superdeux.

I don't know what it is about these, but they're my favorite toy series to collect - I don't know why I hardly ever see them in stores.

So Alex and I secured a new apartment, which is a block or two farther up hill, and hence slightly less of an appeal to crackheads. Also, apartment is way larger. I know I promised everyone pictures of our current apartment, but we never really got to that "super cute, hella organized" state we wanted to, so you're going to have to wait until we get settled in the new place. We're painting this week and moving in on Saturday. I think our goal... okay, my goal, is to get featured on one of those awesome-designer-apartment blogs. We watch too much HGTV.

In fact, Friday we're getting the cable set up at the new house and we've decided to spend the extra $7 for HD, since we got our new TV and all - we went back and forth on it since the only 2 things we watch are HGTV and Seinfeld reruns. So, now we'll have HD-HGTV.

Also, in completely unrelated Wii news, I totally beat Super Mario Bros. 3 last night. Thanks, Gamefaqs!