new KANJI DAMAGE in full effect.
For about 5 years I’ve been working on a revolutionary new approach to studying kanji; the "TEACH YOURSELF KANJI VIA YO MAMA JOKES" method, aka KANJIDAMAGE.
Then about a year ago I put a rough draft online, but the entire dictionary was one giant .html page and basically crashed everyone’s computer.
So I hired a great programming company called Mobalean to turn my kanji dictionary into a ‘real’ website. After 6 months, we have a beta version ready to go. It’s not super graphic-designy but all the data and features are there.
This shit has been my main shit that I work on, since I gave up doing music. Parts of it are funny or rude but I’m dead serious – this should be the main thing that is taught in the classroom.
It is motivated by my general hatred for all the normal teaching materials that are written by foreigners but somehow copy all the mistakes that native Japanese make when teaching. . . .and my contempt for cheapo "learn japanese fast" apps that all use the same fucking public-domain-ass data-set.
Anyone who is studying Japanese, please check it out.
If you’re NOT studying, tell friends of yours that ARE studying! For god’s sake! I have no idea for how to promote this damn thing!!!
OK!
Link to the NEW website; kanjidamage.com.
That’s right: kanjidamage.com.
Link to my kanjidamage ‘textbook’ which explains how to use the website, the Forbidden Secrets of Kanji, problems with how kanji is taught, and a picture of a nutsac getting kicked. If you read it a year ago, it’s hella different!!! Shorter, better, less spelling mistakes. Very professional and academic.
Go HERE to give us some feedback: I’m talking about stuff like
factual errors,
site navigation problems,
graphic design issues,
features you’d like to see,
questions about the method,
and especially : ideas for how to promote the site to nihongo students around the world,
and so on.
Also, here is a video of my friend’s band.
10 commentsJanuary random photos
Below, a booth at the 2009 PREMIUM INCENTIVE EXPO:
Below: a festival in Asagaya:
Below: picture this guy singing, THE SUN WILL COME OUT, TOMORROWWWW….
Who needs a shower, when you can bathe IN FUZZY SUNBEAMS?
below: shredder. Note how there is a reverse button. What does that do? Un-shred?
Talk about your least-profitable-applications-for-dude-who-discovered-how-to-reverse-entropy.
Also, a close-up yields even more evidence of the genius behind the MS handy-shredder (check the icons)
Don’t put your baby in here. I wonder what genius was responsible for the incident that led to THAT warning?
Below, possibly the most Japanese thing ever:
A vending machine that sells gauze-masks.
And look at how many different styles!
Below: the ANTI-BLACK POWER poster, as I like to think of it.
This was at a HOSPITAL.
Below, Kabukicho at its finest:
Below: Tokyo’s most stingy bar – at Shimo-kitazawa.
Below: the beard style my "pirates of the carribean"-loving friend calls "the Kraken."
Below: my tour was a failure.
Finally, the setlist of psyche-punk-noise band ABRAHAM CROSS:
I love this because the song titles THEMSELVES read like a kind of haiku:
bad end cat fuck, I need!!
Don’t we all need, Abraham Cross, don’t we all?
11 commentsJ-punk vs. Western: is it just fashion, or what???
I’m not a huge fan of ‘political punk’ or the ‘good ol days’ of MRR, back when MDC got called out on the front cover of the magazine for (gasp!) taking a plane instead of a bus to one show. "Sell-outs!" That shit was never my deal.
But I think Western punks take it for granted that “fight the fuckin’ system, maaan” is kind of the foundation of hard-core.
I don’t think that is the case with Japanese punk, however. I think most of these Japanese guys never had any fundamental beliefs like SxE, vegan, anti-war, anti-corporation, etc.
I can’t speak for scenes in Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo, etc. but in Tokyo basically the difference between a real and fake punk occurs when they get to that age. if they keep being a freak after 23 then they basically are saying, "OK, I’ll work construction for the rest of my life."
So, in short, don’t think about it like "fashion" versus "real politics." Only a Westerner would make that the particular line in the sand.
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