this is bridgit, reporting from the high temple, in osaka...

[bridgit]

godzilla has just drunk all the sake; big green ass goof ball s.o.b.; no wait...mothra is kissing his big green ass. my reporter's instinct indicates that this just isn't going to turn out right. this is bridgit signing off...over & out

:woohoo: :rofl:

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. The sky fell over cheap Korean monster-movie scenery

And spilled into the mezzanine of the crushed capsule hotel
Between the Disney abattoir and the chemical refinery
And I knew I was in trouble but I thought I was in hell

So you look around the tiny room and you wonder where the hell you are
While the K.K.K. convention are all stranded in the bar
They wear hoods and carry shotguns in the main streets of Montgomery
But they're helpless here as babies 'cause they're only here on holiday

What do we care if the world is a joke
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We'll give it a big kiss
We'll give it a poke
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We're only living this instant

The black sand stuck beneath her feet in a warm Sorrento sunrise
A barefoot girl from Naples or was it a Barcelona hi-rise
Whistles out the tuneless theme song on a hundred cheap suggestions
And a million false seductions and all those eternal questions

What do we care if the world is a joke
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We'll give it a big kiss
We'll give it a poke
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We're only living this instant

So they flew the Super-Constellation all the way from Rimini
And feasted them on fish and chips from a newspaper facsimile
Now dead Italian tourists bodies litter up the Broadway
Some people can't be told you know they have to learn the hard way

Holidays are dirt-cheap in the Costa del Malvinas
In the Hotel Argentina they can hardly tell between us
For Teresa is a waitress though she's now known as Juanita
In a tango bar in Stanley or in Puerto Margarita
She's the sweetest and the sauciest
The loveliest and the naughtiest
She's Miss Buenos Aires in a world of lacy lingerie

What do we care if the world is a joke
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We'll give it a big kiss
We'll give it a poke
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We're only living this instant

Japanese God Jesus robots telling teenage fortunes
For all we know and all we care they might as well be Martians
They say gold paint on the palace gates comes from the teeth of pensioners
They're so tired of shooting protest singers
That they hardly mention us
While fountains fill with second-hand perfume
And sodden trading stamps
They'll hang the bullies and the louts that dampen down the day

What do we care if the world is a joke
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We'll give it a big kiss
We'll give it a poke
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We're only living this instant

We braved the cold November air and the undertaker's curses
Saying "Take me to the Folies Bergere and please don't spare the hearses"
For he always had a dream of that revolver in your purse
How you loved him 'til you hated him and made him cry for mercy
He said "Don't ever mention my name there or talk of all the nights you cried
We've always been like worlds apart now you're seeing two nightmares collide"

What do we care if the world is a joke
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We'll give it a big kiss
We'll give it a poke
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We're only living this instant

[bridgit]

3. come in tokyo come in...

:rofl:

[Magrittes Pipe]

4. You're fuckin' loaded.

[bridgit]

6. what the hell ever...

:rofl:

[bridgit]

7. do like your lexicon however...

:rofl: not at you just :rofl: that's all

[Magrittes Pipe]

8. That's Elvis Costello.

[bridgit]

9. never listen to him...

[Elidor]

13. Dayyam. Cool lyrics

My girlfriend will thank you for getting me interested in Elvis.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Quick, bridgit!

get outta there while you still can! Before all the escape routes are closed, permanently! We can't lose you...to those...those...godawful MONSTERS!

[bridgit]

5. hey there, Peg; taking your advise packing up...

equipment while still able; be reporting back in from next stop: leningrad (hoping snows to be falling), as soon as sound crew is able to skee-daddle. thinking of you as always, C.P., therefore be safe & happy as indeed we must all be always. yours, your intrepid: bridgit :rofl:

[Bok_Tukalo]

17. I'm digging that drawing

Nice.

[bridgit]

18. coolness, that's ub = ub is kick'n...

http://www.annieawards.com/ubiwerksaward.htm

[qnr]

10. Thank you for the report! :) Incidently, "over" & "out" are contradictory.

Over indicates you want a reply and Out says you are signing off and will not be there to accept a reply.

[bridgit]

11. ""over" & "out" are contradictory", check...

:thumbsup: or roger, or whatever works...

[Az]

12. Ok, finally someone in Osaka

I keep hearing about how Osaka is the equivalent of the south here in the states. Whenever they dub a character that has an Osakan accent they give them a southern accent. So you are. What if anything is different about Osaka from the rest of Japan.

For ref I have been to Tokyo and the immediately surrounding area.

[bridgit]

14. indeed so i've heard it said...

i'll pick up some brochures on the way out :thumbsup:
http://www.city.osaka.jp/english

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. Nothing particular "Southern" about Osaka, except that the

people there have a distinctive dialect, and unlike dialect speakers in other parts of Japan, they're highly likely to use their dialect with outsiders and even to use it in writing.

Osaka residents are said to be business-oriented and conoisseurs of fine food. Their dialect sounds rough and abrupt to Tokyo people.

In fact, when I attended a translators' conference in Japan a few years ago, the after-dinner entertainment was a pair of American comedians who lived in Kobe and did sketches on cross-cultural conflicts. One of the ones that the linguistically oriented audience most appreciated was a sketch about a meek little foreigner who is always getting pushed around by snooty officials and the like until he takes lessons in Osaka dialect. Then he's able to intimidate anyone.

Here are some of the differences I'm aware of:

"No good" Tokyo: Dame Osaka: Akan
"Idiot" Tokyo: Baka Osaka: Aho
"It's true" Tokyo: Hontou da Osaka: Homma ya
"Excuse me." Tokyo: Sumimasen Osaka: Summahen
"Tired" Tokyo: Tsukareta Osaka: Shindoi

The dialect is used in the mass media so much that you start to understand it if you spend much time in Japan.

[Az]

16. I had heard about the business sense

I am just trying to put a social context to it. I also have heard of the "pushy" attitude supposedly held there.

Thanks for the info.

[Huckebein the Raven]

19. You mean Rodan wasn't invited ?

I can't blame you though. He can be a bit vicious when shitfaced

:P

[bridgit]

20. lol...

:rofl: he was formally invited but was a 'no show' :rofl: