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“You can imagine what it smells like”

Published on September 19, 2021Leave a comment

“British comedian does a bit on trans people” is a phrase that normally strikes fear in the heart, but Joe Lycett here is funny without punching down.

What I like about it is that it’s neither making fun of trans people or the idea of being trans, nor doing easy dunking on transphobes, but that Lycett takes the time to explain these concepts in between the humourous bits. Most of the humour here is aimed at the commercialisation of Pride and how much of it only focuses on the “g” in LGBT at the expense of the other letters and how some of these letters, like trans people feel under attakc by the right wing press, but not as much as they are under attack by “my mum’s friend, Linda”. It’s well thought out and sympathetic and it’s so rare to see this. Going through the rabbit hole of Youtube recommended clips of Channel 4 comedy panel shows and stumbling over this was a very pleasant surprise.

How to change the oil on your Super Cub: an anime tutorial

Published on April 28, 2021Leave a comment

“So what was episode four of Super Cub about?”

“Well, Komagu got herself a part time job couriering documents between her school and another one in a different town and we spent most of the episode watching her ride her Super Cub between the two. At one point she got caught in the rain and had to buy a raincoat that cost her a day and a half of salary, roughly. Oh, and she learned to change the oil on her bike”:

Gods I love this series. Twentytwo minutes of the most mundane shit possible, sold entirely through body acting and animation. It’s not even particularly spectacular animation that’s on display here, just solid craft. Nothing that makes your eyes go pop if you’d watch it on a monitor at an anime con, but when you give it a chance an episode is over before you notice. If you like Yuru Camp, you’ll love this.

Risu: “I’m still okay” knock knock “I’m not okay” — Hololive showcase

Published on April 22, 2021Leave a comment

Posted because I fell from my chair, laughing when I watched this earlier today. What happened when squirrel girl Risu stole mamah Moona’s piggy bank to count the coins in it:

It’s fairly normal for popular media franchise to be exported from Japan to other Asian countries, establishing branches there. And while Hololive’s foray into China wasn’t succesful, it was a logical move considering the potential size of the vtuber market there. Much more unexdpected was the establishment of an Indonesian branch, rather than say a Korean one. Ayunda Risu is one of the three first generation Indonesian Hololivers and she’s just as she appears here, a mischievous squirrel. Her generation mates are Moona Hoshinova, whose piggy bank she stole and Airani Iofifteen, heard late in the video offering seasoning to Moona to make squirrel satah. The first generation of Indonesian Hololivers all live together you see, with Moona being the mother and Iofi the father and Risu as their unruly child. A setup that works well, producing hilarious videos like this. What also makes HoloID stand is that before the English language branch of Hololive was established, these three were the sole Hololivers regularly streaming in English, often doing trilingual streams even, using Japanese, English and Bahasa Indonesia.

Clip created by Holoclip.

Watame’s lullaby — Hololive Showcase

Published on April 5, 2021Leave a comment

Watame has such a great, soothing voice:

Hitsuji mofu mofu / Kedama moko moko
Watame fuwa fuwa / Do do do do
Futon ni kuru mari / Kyou mo oyasumi

Ashita no koto de / Doki doki shitari
Sowa sowa shitari / Shinai de
Yukkuri nan ni mo / Kangaenai de nee you
Nemure nai yoru ni / Yorisou hitsuji ga
Beeeee iru yo
Atatakai miruku ni / Hachimitsu ga tokeru yo ni
Good sleep sheep sheep

Hitsuji mofu mofu / Kedama moko moko
Watame fuwa fuwa / Do do do do
Futon ni kuru mari / Kyou mo oyasumi

Tsunomaki Watame is supposed to be a sheep, singing you to sleep. Well, it works for me. In general her streams are soothing enough already, let alone like here where she deliberately tries to put you at ease.

Larnell Lewis is sickenly talented

Published on March 17, 2021Leave a comment

Michel is right. It’s unbelievable how talented Larnell Lewis is, that he can learn to play the drums to this song in the time it took him to fly to the studio:

The first I heard about Snarky Puppy too. It reminds me of Pierre Moerlen’s version of Gong, especially their first two albums, Gazeuse! (1976) and Expresso II (1978), fusion/jazz rock with lots of mellow brass, piano and bongos. Not the most innovative music in the world in 2021, but gorgous nonetheless. Certainly deserving to be listened to in more detail.

And, sickening as it is watching Larnell Lewis hearing “Enter Sandman” for the first time and immediately nailing the drums when you yourself struggled for three years learning to play “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” on the guitar —badly–, you can’t deny the man’s talent. Not just in being able to play a song perfectly after hearing it once, but also in how he breaks it down beforehand while listening to it.