Late Nite Music Club with Red Hot Chili Peppers
By John Amato Wednesday Oct 08, 2008 7:00pm
In honor of a pretty cool Japanese flick called "Death Note." I haven't seen the anime series, but this live action version was a lot of fun.
They used RHCP's "Dani California" during the closing credits.
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They all sound the same. Love Mother's Milk and Blood Sugar!!!
Breaking the Girl!!! It actually has a melody!!
the anime is 1000% better. recommend Monster and Berserk when you get time.
Alas, I cannot get the video to work.
Those Homeland Security inspectors are busy thwarting all that subversive cross-border music activity, ya know. You betcha!
I go away for a couple days and now everything's all... different!
Today's signs:
http://freewayblogger.blogspot.com/2008/10/ea...
the first one went up around 12:30, I'd love to know how long it lasted.
It makes me miss Stanley Rosenthal. :-(
Just two last thoughts,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zTxUxFjLB0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1PDaw7s3pY
P.S. Thanks for preview.
;)
The anime "Death Note" is a 30 episode or so (if memory serves) TV series and one the greatest anime of all time. With "L" -- a post-modern version of Sherlock Holmes -- one of the greatest anime characters of all time.
Many purists seem to hate the live-action version, but the film-makers made some elegant decisions in their storytelling (can't say more, too many spoilers) and did a really nice job.
playing lead guitar for RHCP THIS week?
Just as planned...
Early night for me, too, aangus. Cheers to all!
:)
All right, here's my music snob credentials. Can't stand anything by the Chili Peppers after Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Their sound changed a good deal and well, it's not the band I dislike so much, it was the fan base they picked up. And they're truly different without Slovak.
My nods for the evening:
Sublime - Caress Me Down
Pure - Anna is a Speed Freak
Treble Charger - Even Grable
Soul Asylum - Somebody to Shove
Jayhawks - Blue
Wow. This is probably one of the nicest videos I've seen on Youtube set to Martin Sexton's "Way I am"
I saw the Death Note movie on sale when I was at AWA in September. I didn't even know it was released in the US until then. If you get the chance, you should watch the Full Metal Alchemist anime. One of the best ones ever. Another classic is Rurouni Kenshin.
The American remake of Death Note should be a thinly-veiled allegory to Bush. Anyone who's seen it will "get" my comment.
To me, the central theme of the manga is that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Think about it.
Raito/Light is a really good kid. Best grades, top of his class, one of the top students in Japan. He has very good morals and standards. He's on the right path. He then finds this item (Death Note) which allows him power over who lives and who dies. Soon he deludes himself into thinking he and only he has the authority to decide who should live or be punished.
I recall reading somewhere that the author of the manga said that he personally felt if Ryuk had never given Raito the Death Note, he would have gone on to become one of the greatest detectives ever, even working alongside L.
(I think the book that was in was called "Death Note: How To Read It".)
Tsugumi Ohba rocks.
I like RHCP, Kiedis' lyric always crack me up. He writes lyrics like a kindergartner. Apparently to the man, if it doesn't rhyme, it's no good- so it's got to rhyme, no matter how dumb of a concept it is. But in the end, it all works.
I heard an interview with Flea on NPR, he's going to music school! I was pleasantly surprised what a thoughtful and intelligent chap he is.
Flea Goes Back To School
Bass.
I love Watt!
Brave Captain
yet. The movie was pretty fun, but I love Asian cinema and J-horror.
Some folks interpret is a deranged Alice in Wonderland. I think of it as Sho Aikawa is McCain and his journey into madness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMgPK2nXng0 - the other Chihuahua movie
I'd post the "birth" scene at the end, but it's a bit over the top!
Who'd She Coo
Fire On The Bayou
Things Ain't What They Used To Be
Who'd She Coo? Andy, you deliver every time! The Ohio Players play some very cool 'coo'.
:D
i once did a scene in a movie w/flea before he was in the peppers. he was (and presumably, still is) a kewl guy.
skippy's got the peppers doing their cover of the ohio players' love roller coaster.
aka Blackie Dammett? Nice guy.
skippy, that is such a kewl roller coaster. Loved the ride!
How about some John Waite?
Can't stand the arrogance of Kiedis (and the tunes aren't enough to get past it) but have always loved Balzary's (Flea's) bass. Great version of "Higher Ground" - one of the best covers of Stevie Wonder barring George Michael's "They Won't Go When I Go".
It's one of the Cartoon Networks highest rated shows. http://www.adultswim.com/shows/deathnote/inde... you can get every episode in clip format. Some of the clips are out of order. So start from page 21.
The manga is also out in bookstores such as Barnes and Noble.
Oh Light was pretty much a sociopath. He was thinking about killing criminals and the Death Note gave him the perfect way to accomplish it.
Near was the better detective but still another person had to assist him to be the successor to L.
I thought the same -- regardless of what the manga author himself might have intended as revealed in the quote posted further above.
What's on the screen in the anime -- IMO -- is a young man who seems cold and amoral -- just WAITING for the Death Note. It "picked" Light for a very good reason. (Did not seem random that he should be the one to find it.) He was a Shinigami (Death-god) himself -- without the means... until the means came to him.
..to me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BndAytmV9_g - Guided by Voices - My Kind of Soldier
and of course,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XpUbsYqsTk - GBV - Bulldog Skin
Love those tunes, StirFry.
Bulldog Skin is especially sweet. Ah, the nerdy junior high school memories!
ps, good night and thanks to all.
For Mitzi-
sometimes when i'm dreaming
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05eNtZnzfFk
Love and Happiness.
Wild Night.
The Manga and Anime were better,
They have more detail, which makes the story so intense.
The movie has changes in it. Contrary to the movies, the anime series closely follows the original storyline as much as possible.
Light Yagami (Kira) & L
The Death Note's instructions claim that if a human's name is written within it that person shall die. Light decides to use it to kill all criminals and earns the title Kira (derived from the Japanese pronunciation of the word "Killer"). His ultimate goal is to cleanse the world of evil to create a utopia and then reign over this new world as its God. He calls himself Justice. "L" is an eccentric and intelligent detective who quickly learns that the serial killer, dubbed by the public as "Kira", is located in Japan.
L also concludes that Kira can kill people without laying a finger on them. Light realizes that L will be his greatest nemesis, and a game of psychological cat and mouse between the two begins.
Yes, you've guessed it I’m a nerd
The Call Up.
Can this guy sing more than 2 notes????? BOOOOOOOO
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