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ROCK OF ASIAN: King Ly Chee
I’ll be honest you. I pretty much didn’t understand hardcore until I started playing Guitar Hero. It’s not that I don’t own Black Flag and Minor Threat records, that I didn’t vibe with straightedge kids in high school, that I don’t think Ian MacKaye is a damn genius. I just–yeah, I just didn’t understand it. Not much more to it than that. Eventually, of course, when I started fiddling around with my little plastic guitar, and realizing how insanely hard it is just to wrap my head around 8 measures of chugga-chugga-chugga…well, I learned my lesson.
I’ve come around. I love those lickety licks, I love the raging vocal energy, I’m down with music so intense and raw that it hurts you in the sternum. Hardcore is the shit. And I’ve gotta give it credit–hardcore has raged on while it’s sensitive little brethren, emo and indie, have clipped on ties and gone corporate-soft.
So bravo to King Ly Chee, a fuggin’ batshit hardcore band out of Hong Kong that rocks a stage so hard it makes my chest ache.
Enjoy more here. Protect your earnest organs while listening.
Filed under: Black Flag, Emo, Geniuses, Guitar Hero, Hardcore, Ian MacKaye, Indie Rock, King Ly Chee, Minor Threat, Postcore, Sternums, Stuff We Don't Understand
Love Animasian
We learned via TechCrunch that the newest Interwebs sensation in Japan is a social networking/virtual dating site called Webkare (“web boyfriend”). The site is geared exclusively towards girls and, to participate, they compete and collaborate with other members to win the heart of one four desirable cartoon boys on the site.
Let’s ignore the details of the competition for now. From a glance at the boys, I can admit that they are among the, um, prettiest virtual people I’ve ever seen. But until somebody looks like my boyfriend Teppei Teranishi…
…I’m not playing.
Filed under: A New Take On Internet Dating, Boyfriends, Cartoon Love, Computers Don't Snuggle, Huh?, Stuff We Don't Understand, Teppei Teranishi, Viral Internet Trends, Weird Japanese Behavior, Yum
