No problem, sorry I forgot to get to it sooner. I love me some Pavement.

In reply to this comment by Bleedingsnowman:
Thanks, dude!

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
*promote

Thanks so much on that, that was driving me crazy

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
I don't recall how we set that up, but that's likely the case.

At least we both know now that we're not crazy!

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
Are you using firefox? If you are, it should be pretty easyto see...just go to any video and look at the links under the related videos and such...they appear in a very light silver text on a white background.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Hi Japr- Thanks for reporting back, but I just spent a few minutes browsing the Asia and I still couldn't find the silver links you're referring to.

Do you think you can paste a URL and mention where exactly you're seeing it? If so I'll have a better chance to fix it. Thanks!

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
Hey, just a quick word, there are still text sections that are really really hard to see when using Firefox on the Asia channel, specifically the text color for links when not moused-over.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
I've made a couple of changes, but still haven't been able to locate any silver links on a white background anywhere in the Asia channel.

Is it okay now? Thanks, btw.

Whoah, there we go. That's strange, I don't recall ever setting a preference for the background display color, maybe it was defaulted at white? Because I recall Gorgonheap having the same problem according to that thread on sifttalk.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Yeah, I'm using Firefox. This is how it looks to me:
http://bayimg.com/image/jakldaabh.jpg

My guess is that you have specified a background color of #ffffff in your account preferences so it's forcing the background to be white instead of green.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
Are you using firefox? If you are, it should be pretty easyto see...just go to any video and look at the links under the related videos and such...they appear in a very light silver text on a white background.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Hi Japr- Thanks for reporting back, but I just spent a few minutes browsing the Asia and I still couldn't find the silver links you're referring to.

Do you think you can paste a URL and mention where exactly you're seeing it? If so I'll have a better chance to fix it. Thanks!

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
Hey, just a quick word, there are still text sections that are really really hard to see when using Firefox on the Asia channel, specifically the text color for links when not moused-over.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
I've made a couple of changes, but still haven't been able to locate any silver links on a white background anywhere in the Asia channel.

Is it okay now? Thanks, btw.

Are you using firefox? If you are, it should be pretty easyto see...just go to any video and look at the links under the related videos and such...they appear in a very light silver text on a white background.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Hi Japr- Thanks for reporting back, but I just spent a few minutes browsing the Asia and I still couldn't find the silver links you're referring to.

Do you think you can paste a URL and mention where exactly you're seeing it? If so I'll have a better chance to fix it. Thanks!

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
Hey, just a quick word, there are still text sections that are really really hard to see when using Firefox on the Asia channel, specifically the text color for links when not moused-over.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
I've made a couple of changes, but still haven't been able to locate any silver links on a white background anywhere in the Asia channel.

Is it okay now? Thanks, btw.

Hey, just a quick word, there are still text sections that are really really hard to see when using Firefox on the Asia channel, specifically the text color for links when not moused-over.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
I've made a couple of changes, but still haven't been able to locate any silver links on a white background anywhere in the Asia channel.

Is it okay now? Thanks, btw.

My friend who got me into Dinosaur Jr disagrees, but I think it's as good as You're Living All Over Me. The production is much better, for sure, and the songwriting has only gotten catchier. I went out and bought that little circle of joy the day after it came out, and it was one of my favorite releases for that year. I haven't been paying attention to their current state, but I hope they keep it up and make us another album within the next year or two. Thanks for sifting that, everybody should see that video for great awesome.

In reply to this comment by youdiejoe:
>> ^JAPR:
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.
I was going to queue this up (I think I might have done so once), but the only videos of it on youtube had embedding blocked, and I never think to check myspace for this stuff, lol.
Great song, great video. I hope they make another album soon, this new one made me so happy when it came out after so long with nothing.


W O R D, brother. This album has stayed in HEAVY rotation on my iPod.

Here it is:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Bill-OReillys-Producer

Sorry I didn't post the link to start with, I had to go through my list of upvoted stuff to find it.

In reply to this comment by Fedquip:
wheres the original i'll vote for it

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
This is unfortunately a dupe.

The Koffing-face is a meme for sure. That one even spilled over into American memes thanks to 4chan: http://macrochan.org/search.py?tag=Themes%3AShows%3APokemon%3AKoffing

I'm not sure how long-lived the "western show" meme was, but it spawned a lot of videos trying to imitate the style on nicovideo.

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
I read it - but just because it's weird Japanese stuff, doesn't make it a meme. That shits been around a while.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
answered on the video

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
How is this a meme?

answered on the video

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
How is this a meme?

No problem. How can I NOT promote something with "slut band" as one of the tags?

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Oh, nice, thanks! Turns out this is just what I needed to listen to on a Monday morning.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
*promote

Just another sign that some people don't appreciate original composition nearly enough.

In reply to this comment by Debacle:
Thanks for the promote, but I don't think it's going to make it!

[I knew I should have edited a kitten into the background!..]

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
*promote

Nah, don't worry about it, I'm at least as much to blame, and it's easy to misread something like that. No big deal.

English isn't your first language, huh? Cool! What's your native tongue? Mine's English, and I'm studying Japanese and Chinese.

I wonder if most people even have any interest in that topic though. I translate Japanese songs by groups that I like as a hobby (not like LOL TRANSLATION, I'm about to finish fourth year college Japanese as a 2nd year student), so the nuances and problems of translation are REALLY interesting to me.

In reply to this comment by Kreegath:
Yeah, I really like the fact that we can hold a good conversation here on the sift and exchange thoughts like adults. Didn't mean to sound confrontative in the thread, it's just hard for me to read in comedy over the net, especially since English isn't my first language.
Let's hope we get some more people interested in the discussion, would love to continue talking about this and see how people feel about it. I think we're able to make a pretty good case for ourselves

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
responded to this over there.

This is a really good conversation we've got going on, I'm enjoying it a lot. Sorry if I came off like I was being rude with quoting myself, it was more of a kind of comedic way of pointing out that I totally agreed with you/we were saying the same stuff. It didn't really come off clearly I guess, haha.

In reply to this comment by Kreegath:
I agree that it's still ridiculous in the Japanese version, turns out it's the acting and script we've got a problem with
But what I wanted to say before was that the cutscene isn't necessarily bad because it's not a direct translation of the Japanese version, and that it could actually have been worse had it been directly translated.
Being a high-budget production, it's not out of line to assume they had a plan for dubbing it, but either the communication went wrong at some point or we weren't the target audience for the dubbing.
I wasn't trying to get at you with the post, but instead trying to flesh out your comment with some thoughts on the whole process, because it's quite the ordeal to translate something and it's so much more than just trying to fit the speech to the characters' mouth movement. We both agree that the cutscene wasn't very enjoyable, after all.

responded to this over there.

This is a really good conversation we've got going on, I'm enjoying it a lot. Sorry if I came off like I was being rude with quoting myself, it was more of a kind of comedic way of pointing out that I totally agreed with you/we were saying the same stuff. It didn't really come off clearly I guess, haha.

In reply to this comment by Kreegath:
I agree that it's still ridiculous in the Japanese version, turns out it's the acting and script we've got a problem with
But what I wanted to say before was that the cutscene isn't necessarily bad because it's not a direct translation of the Japanese version, and that it could actually have been worse had it been directly translated.
Being a high-budget production, it's not out of line to assume they had a plan for dubbing it, but either the communication went wrong at some point or we weren't the target audience for the dubbing.
I wasn't trying to get at you with the post, but instead trying to flesh out your comment with some thoughts on the whole process, because it's quite the ordeal to translate something and it's so much more than just trying to fit the speech to the characters' mouth movement. We both agree that the cutscene wasn't very enjoyable, after all.

Haha, guess I just have really awesome timing.

In reply to this comment by gorgonheap:
And on my birthday too, who spilled the beans? Thanks for the promote.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
*promote

Oh, hey, thanks for that!

In reply to this comment by marinara:
http://www.videosift.com/video/bloodthirsty-butchers-Yeah-1-PV