Kudos

There are some hella creepy shows out there right now!  If I would have watched some of this stuff as a kid I think I’d get nightmares.  Actually, a friend of mine says that his son probably just watches the creepy ones because he’s so freaked out he can’t look away.  This is great when you want your kid to be quiet and settle down-not so much if you don’t want them to grow up and be a serial killer.  It’ll start with hurting animals, so watch out!  Lol…seriously though haha.

I now present to you the creepiest kid shows of 2008!

8.  Max and Ruby

This show isn’t as creepy as it is boring.  Couldn’t tell you what it’s about really, cause my cousins fell asleep while watching it, and I’m kinda creeped out by the bunny children that sit and hang out all the time with no parents around.

7.  Oswald

Unfortunately, my cousins loves this show (that or they’re so freaked out by the hot dog with legs that they can’t look away).  It has a weird round octopus, which is the main character, a daisy, and a dog that wears(?) a hot dog bun.  Yeah, tell me that’s not creepy.  I’m just waiting for the day when that fat ass Oswald sees Weenie and just takes a bite out of him.  He’s got to get hungry staring at a hot dog all day.

6.  The Telletubbies

We all know why they are creepy.  They coo and stumble everywhere like they’re drunk.  They have a baby’s face in the sun.  It’s a great show for babies, I guess.  Babies love seeing other babies and the voices are probably comforting or something like that.

5.  Higgly Town Heroes

There’s always random crap just popping out of their stomachs.  They’re all fat.  I guess it’s mostly accurate of what America’s children look like today.  They should go for a walk and stop eating so much damn pizza! (they eat pizza like every episode-wth?).  Like-look kids-eat tons of pizza and get really fat so you can hide stuff under your fat rolls!  What else would a child get from that show? 

4.  The Doodlebops

I’ve never watched this show They’d give me nightmares!

3.  The Upside Down Show

This show annoys the hell out of me more than anything.  They are so loud and annoying; I just want to slap them.  But again, kids love them.

2.  Yo, Gabba, Gabba!

This show gives me the creeps.  First of all, the guy in the orange jump suit is always like shouting in his creepy “I’m going to molest you” voice.  He’s often just looking down at their scene like he’s God or something…I don’t know, it’s just weird.  Plus he looks hella freaky!  He has these crazy eyes,big teeth, he’s super scrawny, and wears this bright orange jump suit!

Now, ladies and gentlemen….the number one creepiest kid show ever to pollute the television screen….(drum roll)……

1.  Lazytown

Who made this show?!?!  What drugs are they on?  It really creeps me out.  The puppets that permanently have a smile on their faces….the creepy bad guy, Robbie Rotten.  His huge chin bothers me.

 What’s with people?

  So it has once again been an aeon since I have last updated you guys about what’s going on with the band.  I know, I am an asshole.  I will do my best to not make excuses and only ask your forgiveness.  You see, truth is, I have lied.  I promised the ep would be done soon.  And considering soon was a while ago, and now is way passed soon and it is still not done. I find it hard to look you in the eyes because I am a lying bastard.   

I will level with you as I have always done my best to level with you.  Progress has been made.  Songs have been written and worked on, but we’ve had a tough time getting us all together long enough to record them.  Unfortunately we’ve all been a little scattered lately.  Most notably, Bret has had to temporarily relocate to Vancouver for the show "Reaper".  I mention this only to reiterate the dynamics and circumstances of our band as such.  We are not unlike "Voltron-Defender of the Universe" or "Team America". We all have our individual strengths and powers and at times each individual is sent on their own mission.  Even though Bret could act his way past a hundred terrorists if he had to, we have to merge together in order to truly battle the dark forces of evil. Durka, Durka, Baka Laka Durka! I know it may seem like we are taking our sweet time and neglecting the citizens of Big Japan City, but soon the Big Japan light will shine bright in the sky.
 

  Ok, I’m being an idiot, but seriously, I apologize, we have not been able to spend the time collectively, required to get the ep done(yet).  And to be honest it may be a little while, however there is light at the end of the tunnel so please read on.  I will address some questions that keep coming up.

I know this is kinda long and boring, but I just wanted to say hey and I thank you all for being so supportive and patient.  Stay tuned, I will be in touch.  Durka durka!

I was swimming today. It felt good. I think I am going to start eating better and trying to get back in shape. Not for any reason other than wanting to have more energy. It will be all in the name of webovision. I need to eat a bit better and excercise more. Swimming was great. There is this great swimming pool on the top floor of the hotel I am living in. I hadn’t been up there yet. I’ve been here for three weeks, and I really regret not having gone up there sooner. They have a hot tub up there, I sat in the hot tub for a bit today. Started thinking about life a bit. I was hangin out with some friends, swimming, and talking about life. A pretty good day.

I then went and had a salad for lunch. Felt pretty good about it. It tasted pretty nice with the two Margheritas and the conversation. My friend Mike and I have been goofin off all around the province up here on weekends. Pretty nice to get out of los angeles for a month and shoot a movie. And the movie is going to be great. I’m really excited about it.  I really enjoyed the whole process and we have several ridiculous and fun scenes. Pretty excited for all of you guys to seee the film.

I’m here for anther two weeks, and am really excited about all the goofballism that should ensue. I love making movies. They really are a creative and exciting form. It’s nice to be able to pretend you are somebody else for a month.

I have to get up at 6:30 in the morning tommorrow. Off to shoot more fun stuff. We have some ridiculous scenes that we are going to be shooting tommorrow.

I haven’t been contacted. When I tested, I tested for the role of The Flash.

I auditioned for the role of "The Flash"  there were about 32 of us.  George Miller  just said, "We’re having a test." I don’t know if he had a specific role until we got there. None of us knew the specific role until we got there. The Flash was written next to my name when I was there, so that’s what I was under the assumption I was auditioning for, although they did say that it was kind of a blanket test. There was one scene and everybody did the same scene, so we could have been auditioning for any role.

No one’s seen a script. The scenes we auditoned with were out of like drama books. They had nothing to do with the actual movie. All those things you’ve seen on the Internet about what the script’s about, all those 14 leaked pages, I can’t confirm any of it.

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Okay, well…I made an agreement with someone to write a blog about six weird things about myself.  Now there’s a lot of different amusing but strange things about myself that I’d rather not share, but I’ve decided to talk about some of them.  Damn you Katie.

Number 1 (uno)- why am I doing this?  Okay…well, sometimes when I’m visiting New York for long periods of time, I enjoy walking down the streets…generally the safer ones.  I either go with my buds or just with myself, but when I am by myself I like to walk up to some homeless dudes in the alleys.  Yes, the "safe" alleys, if there is such a thing…Well, anyway…without being mean I tell them that I’d give them money if they did a little dance for me.  Since they don’t usually know who I am, they could really care less.  I take out a couple Lincoln’s for motivation…and then they start up their dance routine.  I categorize them into their skill level.  Level 1 would be barely tapping a foot but humming a nice tune, level 2 would be swaying their hips…humming, and tapping a foot, level 3 would be all of those except they’re singing instead of humming, and then level 4 where they actually dance their hearts out and sing a tune that I’ve actually heard.  Some may find this cruel to homeless people, but I find it as a way for them to make some well earned cash.  They can usually make up to twenty bucks.  Now the weird part lies in the fact that I actually dance with them…it all depends on the lighting of the alley.

2. After a long and hard day…I like to take off my socks and smell them.  Now, some may not find this weird…but when I’m not satisfied with the socks, I like to move on to my underwear…which is usually an entirely different story in itself.

3. I’ve recorded episodes of General Hospital.  Okay….that’s a lie.

4. When some fat bastard makes a gigantic methane gas ball of death escape from their ass, I like to claim it as my own…to gain cool man points from the ladies.

5. When nobody is present in the room…and it’s about 3 in the morning…I like to… play Candy Land in candlelight.  What?!  You thought I was going to say something about the internet and my hand, weren’t you?!  Get your mind out of the gutter!

6. I don’t smoke weed…some may find that weird.

These are some of the questions i seem to get regularly so I thought I’d try and knock them all out in one blog.

How did you guys come about?
-Bret, Nathanial and myself, have been friends for some several years. Like many groups of friends, we decided to start a band. Our inception was very much like a scene from Oliver Stone’s "The Doors". Nathanial and I were on the beach playing bongos and Bret just sorta staggered his way up, sat down and started singing "all the fish in the sea are stupid sluts anyway". It was far out man. No, I’m totally kidding and being silly. Really what happened was this future dude came to us in a telephone booth and told us that we had to start a band to save the world.(kidding)

So why don’t you record your new songs so you can put them up on your page you f_cking idiot!?
-We started recording a song recently and will soon go back into the studio to finish harmonies, mixing and to start on another.

Started recently!? Will be back in the studio soon?! What the fuck is that supposed to mean? It’s been forever! How long does it take to record one fucking song!!?
-Ah, very good point. The short version of that is…. as most of you know, each individual in the band has their other individual careers and projects outside of the band. This is not to undermine our individual dedications to the band, but sometimes it can be hard to get us all together. For instance right now, Bret is in Vancouver shooting a pilot. The other reason it takes so long is… How do I say this. We as a band subsribe to the "self sustaining band credo". This because some members are limited in what they can contribute. Myself for example, very closely resembles the starving artist cliche. Therefore, we play a show, it goes in the band fund. We sell a shirt, it goes in the band fund etc. In other words, there is no secret benefactor bank rolling Big Japan. We pull favors and operate on a budget and if you know anything about the recording process, you know it can be expensive and time consuming. This all said we are very close to having some new songs recorded and ready to put up on the page.

Where did the name Big Japan come from?
We’re still trying to get this telephone booth to work so we can go back in time and come up with something better.

Are you ever going to come to (insert your home town here)?
We would love to. We had so much fun doing the west coast, we can’t wait to play all over. Like I said before scheduling is our biggest issue, but things are getting sorted out and we are planning a tour summer-ish so hopefully it will include your town. If you would like more specific information, contact our booking agent, Craig Bruck.

Is this really Adam Brody? Who runs this page?
I for the most part am in charge of the page.  I do what I can to keep up with the page and I’m sorry if I don’t respond to everyone. I really appreciate the flattering and encouraging comments and even the critical ones.

Adam I love you! Why are you so Hot?
-I’m hot cause I’m fly. You aint’ ’cause you not.

This blog is getting really long are you going to ramble on forever?
-Well there’s a funny really long story about that……

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So what’s going on today, right now?
-Well like I said Bret’s shooting a pilot in Vancouver. I’m on a week trip to see friends and family right now,  San Diego at the moment. I recently took some time off so I can dedicate the majority of my time to writing and working on music but now i’m back on the movie business ( currently filming Death Love ). That’s what I’ve been doing mostly lately. Hence the starving artist cliche.

IMPORTANT!!!-  This message will self destruct.

First of all, apologies for a lack of update over the last few months. So in short, here’s the brief version.

- Show at the Viper Room this Friday.
- We’ve started recording
- We will be doing our first National College tour this Spring. If you’re a promoter and interested in us playing a show, please contact our booking agent.
craig bruck
ICM®
International Creative Management, Inc.
40 West 57th Street New York, New York 10019
Tel: 212-556-5684
Fax: 212-556-6847
Like I said I this is the brief and I will elaborate on all the details soon. And I promise I will be updating and blogging and webcasting podcasted wordpressing facebooks all over your youtube on a more regular basis. Yes, I promise. Cross my heart an……Yes I pinky swear.