All time favorite translation fumble: from the Japanese movie poster for "Legally Blonde 2" with Reese Whitherspoon, released in Japan titled "Cutie Blonde Happy Max".
Off to the Mori Tower to see some art. Finishing Zebrahead's new artwork this week, and just wrapped up There For Tomorrow, Abandin All Hope, finishing Biffy Clyro's single (which'll be released on vinyl which is badass, and the song is even more so), and just sent off a 16x22 3 color poster to Bloom press in Oakland that'll be a hand screened limited edition bit of art for sale at the June CA run of shows, culminating in our hot date with the Fillmore in SF on the 14th. the show flier is a tiny segment of the whole.
From Tokyo with love and seaweed breath, which are not generally bedfellows,
S
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fillmore show is going to be amazing.
So Matt Whalen is just still Matt Whalen in the background.
Thanks for the video, Ben.
Also Scissors for Lefty is by far the second most appropriate band to tour with the Matches. They are incredible. I love that band. Especially since it's two sets of brothers and they sometimes dress up like reindeer and sing songs about chimpanzees cousins, ginger-snaps, and the coming broom.
P.S. Me and my friend Izzy have officially named this tour the Scissors for Salty Eyes Tour.
All this is very nice but seriously, where is the video for Yankees?
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Well, I sure as hell cannot wait for the Fillmore show.
Hooray!
Write to your local radio station and ask them to cease playing Wake the Sun so that we may put out our next video. kidding. Yankees will be with us shortly. By all means, don't stop prodding me for it.
^God, I'm patient. I appreciate that you guys put your own hardwork into this, and this blog is just an example of how busy you are.
By soon, I hope you mean within the next month or two though. hahaha.
how bout you come to montreal on august 21st, shawn.
Not before, not after, but august 21st.
=D
Seriously. Awesome.
I have a splendid idea.
The Matches play Montreal on... August 21st. :]
I'll be up there for like 2-3 days, and it would be great to see you in another country.
among other reasons.
:D
also, please be saving a poster for me in chicago.
i will give you pizza, cookies, and coloured pencils.
btw those last two comments were, indeed, written by two different people.
i promise.
but we mean business.
august 21st. montreal. or else.
In which case may I also prod you for What Katie Said and Little Maggots? I do recall a post about a dvd with them on but nothing ever came of it :(
I want to see Matches liveness. :( Boo to living in the midwest.
That poster is quite neat. I wish I could go to that show, but since I'm on the opposite coast, I don't think I can make it. Darn.
Also, mangled translations are always entertaining. This is my favorite site for them: http://melissamaples.com/category/bazaar/ It's a woman who goes to a Turkish bazaar frequently and takes photos of the bad translations. There are some really funny results.
Oh, and of course that video is amazing as well.
Completely jealous of the time in Japan. I wish I could make it to the June 14 show. I got nothing else. Buena suerte en Japan!
awesome poster =]
..i wish i was at that show >.< looks like a seriously awesome time.
Matt Whalen sits alone.
=]
Yay for the upcoming and recent video.
Love the poster.
Great job on being an amazing band.
Wish I could see you guys live again. Best night EVER.
*prods Shawn*
Well, this Yankee video certainly eases the wait for the official video...just a bit.
=)
Mmm, seaweed (I'm not even being sarcastic). 'Yankee in a Sushi Shop', perhaps?
You guys looked great; you always seem to put all you've got into every performance. That audience looked totally into it.
Australia loves you too! You should drop in while you're on this general side of the globe. Yep, sounds pretty logical.
I am very much looking forward to he Fillmore show. And telling us not to stop prodding you for the Yankees video just gives us free reign to poke you incessantly. So thanks for that!
Maybe if we were merfolk..
Other than that, it seems like you have your hands full. Keep it all coming.
Holy Crap Shawn, did you give Ben a make-over? He is surely lookin' FINE in his new myspace pic. Were u playing at a mall in Japan? There was some cute tops behind you in the vid.
ps: r u coming to the east coast this summer?
I miss seeing you guys play live.I missed the last show at my home town and it feels like forever since the last one I've been too... =(
looks like you are having fun in Japan!
That poster is too gorgeous.
i think eventually i will road trip across this country of ours and end up in cali in time for a hometown matches show. now that would be something to see however i risk not wanting to go back to home sweet pennsylvania. i just need enough money for gas, food and lodging and maybe a companion or two to help split the costs. this may take a while :/
Since I live in the Stone Age and still have dialup, sadly I can't see the video (however I do spend more time reading than YouTube-ing - things even out). HOWEVER.
Sweet zombie Jesus. That poster is seriously the most badass thing I have seen in a long time.
Random aside - I WISH my local radio station played Wake the Sun. It'd make me a lot more inclined to listen to the radio. I don't give a flying rat fuck whether or not Madonna has four minutes to save the world.
Bad ass poster, I'm stealing this and painting it.
gotta clarify (and thanks for the compliments) -- the fillmore flier is just a 2 inch section of the whole 16x24 poster that will be at the shows. I forgot my password and am too lazy to find it, hence the anonymous post. Haven't done one of those since I posted that one about myself being a sham and a slut, and how this isn't a revolution, but a mere smudge of feces on the world wide web. Who's got time for a revolution when our egos are so thin and starving?
oh, ps- sometimes the obvious must be said in a sea of sarcasm and lobstering. Each one of you is a complex, intelligent, highly inexplicable and fascinating individual, impossible to condense into a demographic or stereotype, and I respect and admire you and your interaction on this blog, and otherwise. I'm not void of an ego- i don't think anyone can claim to be-- but I try to keep that ugly thing in check, because it isn't who I am, and I think that most of us are interested in being here, for just a few minutes a day or week, for reasons deeper than ego. Most of the time.
-S
Ego, those who have reason to be entitled to it, deny it. Yet those who's qualifications are scarce, seem to embrace it fully.
Ah life.
Shawn Harris, you should do a podcast. I'd listen to it. Religiously.
Because I think in images before I can help myself, I immediately associated "sarcasm" with a literal lobster. How cool would that be? A talking, sarcastic lobster. Such a thing should be genetically engineered.
PS yourself - your ego should not be thin and starving, and if it is allow me to nourish it by saying that you are thoroughly amazing. And that your lyrics are spectacular enough to have me singing them on the senior balcony of my school, at least until someone threatens to throw me off of it. =]
Are doppelgangers individuals, too?
You seem to me the type of person who appears busy even when they aren't at all because they're so preoccupied all the time. What do you call relaxing?
I hope you're doing well and having fun.
Well, here it comes...
Can you hear it...
"Beatles Big" the articles chant.
-D
By the way Shawn, I saw a kid walk by me at the mall the other day with your signature emblazoned in ink on their shoulder blade. Does that ever freak ou out, seeing your handwriting forever on someone's skin?
-D
I have a video of you guys doing Yankees that I like more because you look at me when you say "oakland is never more oakland..." It is the best thing ever I love it dearly!!! but alas the video wasn't shot in Japan, it was Berkeley darn...
I'm glad someone else said it.
COME BACK TO AUSTRALIA!
seriously, we love you guys here.
I think you should come to Jersey... very soon.
Connecticut misses you too.
i noticed that "Scissors for Lefty" is printed on the left arm of the flying skull angel thing, was that one purpose?
New York is the loneliest of all the states. please come sometime this summer. PLEASE.
Can you put these posters up for sale on your "webstore"? I think more than a few of us would cough up some clams for it! Nice work!
please come back to houston, you'll be glad to hear i've gotten more people to listen to your band :) and they want to come to a show
hah cool video. I was under the impression that you were playing for a crowd of hungry mall-goers in a food court. Was that just my imagination taking over again?
some random statements before I shift to my other usual sites of daily web browsing:
I enjoy your works of art.
As always, I hope to see the cerillas gents come my way. I've yet to enjoy a great spectacle of your talents in person.
Good luck kickin' it in CA. Shake a hip, or two.
I wonder if Japan has any chip shops.
until next time!
Please come back to Japan again soon!!
Please...
I like how an American band is singing a song in Asia.based around events that happened in Europe.
Random hero makes a good point.
Ah, the effects of globalisation.
I think one more continent (Australia) needs to be thrown into the mix. Hehe.
magnificent.
i miss you boys.
do a tour.
Oh God. The video's not working for me. D|
I take it back! Real player saved the day! :D
I wish you had played this at the shows I went to, amazing song.
Who Let The Gaijin In The Sushi Bar?
montreal.
^on august 21st? =D
I'm really liking the ZH album art, good job.
montreal on august 21st, eh? whudda ya say? :]
if you have a milkshake and i have a straw and it reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake...I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!
^
i JUST got done watching that movie.
Nothing says Tokyo like two Japanese girls in the backgrounds.
Brilliant vid.
Texas misses you.
prodding is occuring for that video....
*prod*
Oh and with all this prodding going on.... why dont you come to australia?
itll be fun i promise
The whole globe wants a piece of you.
Come to australia NOW and it wont be hot and annoying. its 8 degrees outside right now. you can wear layers.
Even your acoustic shows are filled with so much energy I envy.
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