[ Video ] Michael Schenker Group: Dancer

by | May 6, 2010 | Post

The “Rock You Like a Hurricane” Scorpions was not the only German rock group in the 80s. Michael Schenker, the younger brother of Scorpions’ guitarist Rudolph Schenker, was, with his Michael Schenker Group (MSG), more popular than the Scorpions in Japan. This may be...

No Impact Man: Leading a Green Life Inside a Gray Building

by | May 4, 2010 | Post

The documentary No Impact Man follows the story of a man who decides to create an experiment: Make the least possible ecological impact on earth. The catch is not in what he changes but in what he does not change—his address, in Manhattan, New York. His wife and...

[ Video ] John O’Banion: Legend of Eight Samurai

by | May 2, 2010 | Post

During the 80s, hiring a Western singer for a movie’s title song was in vogue for Japanese big-budget, special-effects movies, a tradition that has been maintained in the world of advertisement to this day (check out the wonderful collection of movie stars selling out...

Changing the Blogging Schedule

by | May 2, 2010 | Post

For past several months I have been blogging once each other day, but recently it is getting hard to keep up with this schedule. I decided to prefer quality over quantity; from now on, I will update my blog twice a week, on Tuesday and on Friday. I will do my best to...