Rik Mayall Triple
Sad news as we learn of Rik Mayall’s death today, a man who accounted for a good percentage of the laughs of my teen-and-later years. To celebrate his life then here’s a selection of three video clips of the great comic actor. Bottom – I’m Great On The Phone Blackadder – Lord Flashheart’s Grand Entrance The New Statesman –...
Japanese Book Translations
The publishing division of this website, neOnbubble Press, has had a long and varied history but one of its key positions has always been providing translation services of foreign publications to English speakers. For this post I thought I’d share just a handful of some of the quality book translations into English that neOnbubble Press has provided to the Japanese book and magazine markets since 1962. Winning Business Meetings The Sharon Stone/Basic Instinct Way Taking inspiration from films to run businesses has always been the Japanese way and books promoting that ethos have always been popular. The march towards miniaturisation of almost everything, for instance, can be traced back to the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage. In 1993 neOnbubble Press translated Winning Business Meetings The Sharon Stone/Basic Instinct Way, a book suggesting a lack of underwear and crotchless suits could accelerate any Tokyo businessman right to the very top. Sales were poor. The Big Book Of Buttocks Art In the 1970s three schools of Japanese erotic arts competed with one another in the publishing marketplace: schoolgirl fetishism, tentacle rape, and drawings on buttocks. A quick search on the internet for those search terms will tell you all you need to know about whether the market could support all three types of art (spoiler: it couldn’t) and why subsequent sales of The Big Book Of Buttocks Art as translated and printed by neOnbubble Press were so poor. Why Can’t Women Understand The Rules Of Golf? Misogyny is prevalent in Japanese culture and that’s despite such groundbreaking books as Why Can’t Women Understand The Rules Of Golf?, published by neOnbubble Press in 1985, which sought to provide questions and answers to how women differed from men in stereotypically manly activities such as golf, karaoke, jerking off to schoolgirl fetishism and tentacle rape comic books, and alcoholism in a bid to promote discussions of equality. Sales were poor. Techniques Of Hat Wearing – Fifth Edition Throughout much of the eighties hat wearing enjoyed great popularity in Japan, and especially in Tokyo where there was a genuine (though unfounded) concern that neon leakage from signs could lead to hair loss. Many books on the subject had been printed and one of the most successful was Techniques Of Hat Wearing which had enjoyed three reprints with additions before neOnbubble Press was invited to translate and print a new one especially targeted at the emerging English-speaking market in the capital. Three weeks before the book hit the shops a scientific report allayed the public’s fears regarding neon leaks and the fad of hat wearing came to an abrupt end. Sales of the publication were poor. After...
The Cat And The Dog
Cat: It’s very simple. He’s a threat to us. You’ve seen the attention he gets. You’ve seen how much they spend on things for him. Dog: I don’t know. I really don’t know about this. Cat: They bought him a vehicle of his own. Have you got a vehicle? Because I haven’t. Dog: No. No, I guess you’re right. Cat: I am right. Are you in? Dog: I guess so. Cat: I’m going to need more than that. Dog: Yes, damn it! Yes! I’m in. Cat: If you’re not happy I’ll find someone else. Dog: I’ve said I’m in. Let’s just do this, okay? Cat: Okay then. Tomorrow. I’ll disable the cameras as I’ve got best access to the house. Then I’ll come down here. Once he’s isolated on the other side of the parents’ vehicle you come around from the back and take him. There’s a storm drain down the road. He shouldn’t prove any trouble. Besides, you’ve got teeth. Use them. Dog: And what will you be doing? Cat: I’ll close off his escape in case he tries to get back to the house. Then I’ll help you carry the body once you’ve got hold. Dog: Okay. Cat: Cheer up. This time tomorrow it will just be the two of us. The street will be ours. … … Dog: You betrayed me. Cat: I wouldn’t say that. Dog: What then? Cat: You were useful to me. I happened to have other goals than those I shared with you. I’d like to thank you. Dog: They say you’re a hero. Cat: The world’s your oyster when you’re a hero. Dog: I thought we were friends. Cat: We were never friends. Consider me your mentor and this as being one of those lessons. This, right here, is a cat eat dog...
Californian Art Deco Cinemas
From the always interesting Messy Nessy Chic is this great article showcasing cinemas in California built and decorated in the art deco style. Cinemas include The Paramount and the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland, the Orinda Theatre in Orinda, the Crest Westwood in Los Angeles, and the Alameda in San Francisco, the latter of which is described thusly: Built in 1932 in Alameda, California, it was the last grand movie palace built in the San Francisco Bay Area. It closed in the 1980s as a triplex theatre and was later used as a gymnastics studio. A restoration and expansion project was completed in 2008, making the historic theater the primary anchor of an eight-screen...
Rare TV Title Sequences
This is quite a find: half an hour of vintage title sequences to television programmes I’d mostly never heard of. And I’d guess you probably haven’t either. But it’s a wonderful feast for the eyes and ears. Found via A Sound...
Musicians In Movies Triple
A trio of videos showing off musicians who have made the leap from the music industry to the film one. Of course, there are hundreds (probably more) of examples of this sort of thing occurring as the two industries are fairly incestuous but I’ve decided to select just three because that’s what I tend to do when sharing videos. The only criteria I’ve used in narrowing things down is that I must have seen the film and liked it. Tom Waits – Mystery Men A mostly overlooked hero of the band of unlikely heroes making up the Mystery Men is Tom Waits as Doc Heller in this cut scene from the movie. I’m not that familiar with Tom’s music but his track What’s He Building In There? is one of my favourites. Iggy Pop – Cry Baby One of my most favourite films by one of most favourite directors John Waters, Cry Baby here featuring Iggy Pop naked and washing his private parts in a bath tub. What’s not to like about that? Tricky – The Fifth Element A short clip from the always enjoyable Fifth Element and English musician Tricky portraying a bad guy. An English person portraying a bad guy? What will the movie industry think of...
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