Hardwood floors are such a bitch to clean, especially if one is set on waxing them. *grumbles*

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I had completely forgotten about the annual Kohaku until I stumbled on this blog entry, which includes this year's lineup. It looks like the usual mix of breakout artists who are appearing on Kohaku for the first time, steadily popular ones ( Read more... )

57th NHK Kouhaku Utagassen participant list

Hosts: Nakama Yukie and Nakai Masahiro

Hmmmmm, interesting combination. An aside: I never realized how rough Nakai's voice is until I watched a random episode of Utaban. I've only seen him in Mohouhan and in that, he was this coldly intelligent murderer so he had an icy smooth, caressing voice. Huh ( Read more... )

I was watching another one of those ridiculous Japanese variety TV shows where they were talking about natto and the different ways you could eat it. Now, I love natto, but some of the natto dishes were rather wild:

Natto mixed with mayonnaise
Natto mixed with sugar (seems this is common in northern Japan)
Natto on toast and noriNatto spaghetti ( Read more... )

Since a batch torrent for Aikurushii popped up on D-Addicts, I downloaded the first episode out of curiosity. I wasn't impressed with the writing (I think it tried to take on too many storylines at once) but I was taken with some of the ( actors )