March 22, 2004
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Our mission yesterday was really to buy another ‘console table’ from Target, seeing that we’ve run out of space for Eddie’s growing collection of music equipment. Instead, we ended up windowshopping in Little Tokyo…
At Anime Jungle, we were both so mesmerized by what we were seeing on the shop’s TV monitor that we had to buy the DVD - which is a compilation of opening and closing titles from several Japanese live action-hero TV series c. 1975-1983. It was pretty pricey but how could we resist watching crazy masked and costumed characters kicking-ass to catchy music? (eg, to give you an idea of how awesome this stuff is — one villain’s outfit was made up of smoke-emitting cigarette butts; another is a grey skeleton wearing a giant sombrero. Yes, in Japan!)
We’d tell you more but we’ll have to watch the DVD first (and the cover is entirely in Japanese).
P.S. Just found this listed on the Anime Jungle website…Ours is “Toei TV Hero Tokusatsu Theme Song Collection Volume 2.”
Eddie also picked up an old issue of Tokion Magazine devoted to Jamaican Dancehall Music from the 50′s – 60′s (pre-Reggae). Lots of interviews with DJs and Studio One producers; and a Japanese Custom Lowriding magazine which funnily enough, consists of 90% fashion & accessories (for gangsta-wannabes), and 10% cars.
