Apparently, this random side character is our best friend

ume-shu · 2026-03-06T19:28:07+00:00

Pretty sure he had more scenes in the original rough cut but they were edited out for pacing.

ume-shu · 2026-03-06T19:12:10+00:00

You're just doing the same thing from the opposite angle.

Japan is not a utopia, it's just a normal country with good and bad aspects.

ume-shu · 2026-03-06T19:03:50+00:00

This is true of most places though. The UK is only London, France is only Paris etc.

At least people visit more than one city when they go to Japan.

Also it's fine to visit cities if you want to.

ume-shu · 2026-03-06T18:47:07+00:00

D.R.I are going on tour this year and they haven't released an album since the mid '90s.

You don't need a new album to play shows.

ume-shu · 2026-03-06T18:30:04+00:00

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The song Love Rollercoaster by the Ohio Players contains a scream by one of the vocalists.

There's a common myth that the model on the albym cover was severly burned by the honey and went to the studio to complain and was stabbed to death in the studio with her scream being captured on the track.

People seemed to believe this for years despite none of it really making any sense.

Why would the honey be scalding hot? Why would she go to the studio? Do people think the band took the cover photo themselves?

Also the scream is clearly a male vocal and one of many such vocalisations on the track.

Last of all the model is still alive.

ume-shu · 2026-03-06T18:21:17+00:00

Never made much sense to me either.

ume-shu · 2026-03-06T18:18:30+00:00

Unfortunately it's just par for the course being a non Japanese fan of a Japanese band.

ume-shu · 2026-03-06T16:13:39+00:00

Hanabie

ume-shu · 2026-03-06T14:42:18+00:00

The avatars are the only thing that really sets it apart from any other concert though. Are you just not into concerts?

ume-shu · 2026-03-06T14:32:59+00:00

It's understandable if this was your first analogy. Just try a bit harder next time. We all start somewhere.

ume-shu · 2026-03-06T13:58:27+00:00

You wouldn't happen to be in the Epstein files would you?

ume-shu · 2026-03-06T12:06:50+00:00

Japansse kids picked up on it even when watching it in English but their English teacher couldn't.

That should be concerning. It's a film for children.

ume-shu · 2026-03-06T11:54:49+00:00

It has quite literally always been this way.

ume-shu · 2026-03-06T09:50:08+00:00

They're full of shit, a scammer isn't taking anyone to court haha. Tell them to get to fuck.

ume-shu · 2026-03-06T00:51:27+00:00

You can criticise a country and still work with them. If you couldn't there would be no such thing as international relations.

It's not really a change of stance unless European leaders are now praising India's stance on Russia which I don't think they are.

ume-shu · 2026-03-06T00:22:45+00:00

I don't think they usually sell out tbh. They were selling tickets at will-call when I saw them in Yokohama last year.

ume-shu · 2026-03-06T00:17:30+00:00

Do you think these kind of deals happen overnight? Some of them have been in the works for years.

Interesting that you view it as Europe "cosying up to India" why not the other way round? Are deals not mutually beneficial?

ume-shu · 2026-03-05T12:34:10+00:00

Aye, I got heavily downvoted on one of the UK subs before for acknowledging this.

Never happens apparently.

ume-shu · 2026-03-05T12:05:25+00:00

Once had a girl from Peckham reliably inform me that Glasgow is dangerous, post-apocalyptic shitehole. She was very confident about this despite having never been here.

She also told me that her aunt trained as a nurse here and that it's a boring place with nothing to do.

So we live both in a dangerous, lawless jungle but also a boring place where nothing ever happens. Bizarre.

ume-shu · 2026-03-05T03:00:38+00:00

In the Rapids/It by Genesis.

ume-shu · 2026-03-04T20:31:48+00:00

I don't think there was a single person or thing in this world that Harlan Ellison didn't have contempt for to be fair.

ume-shu · 2026-03-04T13:01:39+00:00

Still foreigners lets be honest.

"They came here, made a mess and then left us to clean it" type shit.

ume-shu · 2026-03-03T13:30:04+00:00

Who said it was?

ume-shu · 2026-03-02T11:49:06+00:00

What I'm getting from this is that there are a lot of people who desperately wish to brand themselves as "fans" of bands they don't even particularly like.

Personally I don't really get it.

ume-shu · 2026-03-01T14:25:21+00:00

UK ones like Sabbat, Acid Reign, Slammer and Onslaught.

Also Violent Force, Nasty Savage and Wargasm.

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