SUCH A VIOLENCE PODCAST!
HOW TO BE A PLAYBOY!!
THE KOJIRO ABE INTERVIEW PART 2
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(Running Time - 15:52)
Opening Crawl (read by Daryl):
In 1985, a top-secret photonic energy experiment conducted on the event horizon of Japanese subculture went horribly wrong. A giant dome, constructed out of space titanium, suddenly materialized on that most fantastic and impossible of all planets, The Earth. The building belonged to the Mysterians, an alien race dedicated to destroying the electromagnetic spectrum via giant monsters, robot moles, and a rapidly shifting succession of minor deities. Granted a press pass by his handlers at Counter-ESPY, Patrick astral projects into the Mysterian dome where he searches for Mystery Frequency 109, the only sound that can repair the damage to Earth’s electromagnetic spectrum by helping the aliens understand a strange human emotion known as "love." And when that happens, the entire Tohoverse will cry…HOT TEARS OF SHAME.
Relevant links
Kobo Abe biography
In the Realm of the Senses
Guinea Pig - Flower of Flesh and Blood
Mou Tun-fei’s Lost Souls
Abe's page for The Agony and Ecstasy of the Puppets.
**Downloading the Puppets trailer is mandatory!!**
Why am I crying!
Posted by: Joseph Luster | March 04, 2006 at 11:06 AM
Let me guess...your tears are hot and shameful.
Posted by: Patrick3 | March 04, 2006 at 11:11 AM
"Oh yes!"
Posted by: Joseph Luster | March 05, 2006 at 12:58 AM
"Is there any danger of your parents coming in, and sort of checking? I mean, what would they think if they saw you, kind of, doing IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES with a couple of puppets in the basement?"
Posted by: Carl Horn | March 05, 2006 at 01:21 PM
By the way, for some reason, when my iTunes is arranged by artist, Hot Tears of Shame is followed directly by the 139th Psalm, read in Hebrew. The sentiments of King David on this occasion were not inappropriate to the programme.
—C.
"Bush is the king of the world," said Zafar Abbas, 24, a Pakistani hospital record keeper. "I like that he's coming here. We can't defeat him. God has given him a lot of power and military muscle."
Posted by: Carl Horn | March 05, 2006 at 01:32 PM
I hear when you eat at the revolving markalite resturant at the Mysterian dome capes are required. Ties are optional.
-d!
Posted by: danno! | March 09, 2006 at 08:20 AM
Oh god, what's the music used in the opening? I must know.
Posted by: wildarmsheero | April 10, 2006 at 06:19 PM
It's a cocktail jazz cover of Boney M.'s Sunny from a Japanese 'How to be a Playboy' instructional record.
Posted by: Patrick Macias | April 10, 2006 at 06:54 PM
I guess there's no chance of me acquiring an mp3, huh?
Posted by: wildarmsheero | April 10, 2006 at 07:02 PM
As soon as I get over this debilitating computer crash, it is entirely possible. The big question is, what 'cha got for me?
Posted by: Patrick Macias | April 10, 2006 at 07:29 PM
I've got a number of things! Depends on what ya want. Most of what I got are anime songs, if that catches your interest.
Posted by: wildarmsheero | April 10, 2006 at 07:38 PM