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About a week ago a guy at my job — 0173 — tipped me off to something pretty interesting. Knowing that I have a penchant for online comics and anime (especially after seeing the background on my desktop based on Run, Saga, Run), he showed me the online comic Misfile, which is produced by another co-worker’s brother-in-law, Chris Hazelton, and which I’ll review here.

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I’m watching a music video by the J-Pop band “Morning Musume” where a bunch of teen Japanese girls dressed in navy uniforms are skipping around and dancing in a (rather large) men’s restroom, splashing water around at each other and cramming themselves in the stalls.

I don’t know about you, but — man, that’s just not right. I mean, the Japanese don’t have a navy! Oh, wait… Seriously though, bathroom… stall… water…

Uhm…

(For the record, the video is rated “G”. Not like Xuxa “G”, but — well, I guess not far form. But I digress…)

On the bright side, this is a rather happy-catchy-(almost-kitschy)-poppish song, so it makes for good listening. It’s name? What else? — “Peace!”

Because, you know, peace is exactly what I’m thinking about when watching 11 girls congregating in a bathroom stall splashing each other with water. Yep. Peace. (I dunno, maybe it’s a cultural thing. “Don’t go to bed the bathroom mad” or something…)

The following quote comes from the most recent edition of AnimeNation’s Ask John column.

To be honest, if you’re looking for a job that pays very well, I’d recommend avoiding the anime industry altogether.

That coming from someone who knows the industry. I guess that leaves “for the love of it” as the only real reason to do anything involving anime as a career.

*Sigh*

Whenever I’m writing, I’m usually buried in my Star Wars-looking headphones, listening to whatever matches my mood and the proximity to my next deadline. I listen to classical when I’m learning a new topic, pop/Rock when I need to focus exclusively on the task at hand, business-oriented talk when doing something that doesn’t involve words, and Goth, Goa-Psy, or The Matrix: Revolutions soundtrack whenever a deadline is nearing. In just about every other situation — about 60% of the time — I listen to Japanese pop music, or J-pop. This post is about J-pop, the good, the bad, and the dain bramage it can casue wehn smoenoe lstiens to tihs suftf too otefn.

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At work, whenever I’m doing something that requires a lot of thought, I’ll usually put on either Goa-Psy (tecno), classical, or J-Pop. It’s lunch, and I’m at my desk, so I decided to tune into JPopSuki tv. (It’s linked on the sidebar here somewhere. Great online TV station, but you need Winamp to watch it.)

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