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I heard this song called UMA by OOIOO on KXLU a while back and became obsessed with it.  It seemed to always be on the radio whenever I was in my car for a week.  I guess all the deejays at the station were obsessed with it too.  Hearing new good songs that I would never find on my own is the best thing about KXLU.  Lets face it,  I'm not a spring chicken and I don't have the stamina anymore to be obsessed with a music scene.  I'm glad someone I trust can do it for me.  KXLU the best station ever.  I was fortunate this time to find out what song it was.  I haven't been so successful with the last few songs that I wanted to find out more about.  So life goes.

This is UMO also by OOIOO.  It has cute creatures in it.

Christmas Musical

This is a super cute, super Japanese potty training video for kids.  I wonder if this video inspired Trey and Matt of South Park to create Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo.

Paris-Tokyo Part Deux

Now that we have covered Japan's influence on European design, let's take a look at from the other side of the mirror.  Jun Takahashi, designer, founder, and president of Tokyo based, Undercover has one of the most refreshing views on fashion.  He is very daring in a unassuming way at times, which I find quite daring.  Lately, his collections have been focused on ladylike dressing, but with a new sensibility.  It's great to see a designer that is not bound by their past or tied to a certain image that has been attributed to them by the media.     

These pictures and video are from the Spring 09 show shown in Paris. 

  

Double Dutch

Victor and Rolf have been around for over a decade now.  They received a lot of attention when their career first started in Haute Couture and rightly so.  Now that they have a bonafide fashion house with men's and women's collections along with top selling perfumes, it's easy to forget about their creative magnitude.  

In 2006, the duo designed an exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam entitled Women from Tokyo and Paris.   This East meets West dance performance accompanied the exhibition.  

Music: Eddy de Clercq, Choreography: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa,
Concept & design: Siebe Tettero, Viktor Horsting, Rolf Soeren

This House Is On Fire

Janet Weiss must be tired.  She had to do double duty for Burn to Shine project.  Here she is again with her now defunct band Sleater-Kinney playing "Modern Girl" off their last album The Woods.

I know everyone is asking about the burning house.  Did they really burn it down?  Here is the house burning down after the musical show.

Quasi Modo

More music kids.  Quasi is a Portland based band made up of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss.  I don't know which one is the heart and which one is the soul, but I know they have plenty to share with the world.  This clip is from the Burn to Shine- Portland edition, a project that involves burning down a condemned house after a group of curated local bands play in it.  It's a medley of "Peace and Love" "Beyond the Sky" from the album When the Going Gets Dark.

Hugs, Bears, and Kisses

In honor of Day Without a Gay- Call in Gay Day, I'd like to share with you a video by the English band Huggy Bear.  "Pansy Twist" is from their monumental 1993 album Taking the Rough with the Smooch.