Express your love through airbrush

First of all, the inspiration from MotherStamper herself.



Then I just had to DIMyself





These guys helped by keeping me too scared to sleep. I live in the Glass Menagerie.

Pieces are moving into place

GET ON THE BUS BECAUSE WE'RE TAKING OFF

OMG! BECKY!~~ LOLzz

Mall Madness Commercial

With all the recent press on school bullying epidemic and rise of supposed aggression among girls in particular, one has to wonder where it all comes from. Well my friends, look no further than the classic game Pretty Pretty Princess.

A Pretty, Pretty Princess in Action

The theory: Pretty Pretty Princess encourages competition between women, ultimately benefiting men around the world. Why? Look at the rules themselves-- there can only be ONE Pretty Pretty Princess. It's a classic no win situation, ultimately undermining cooperation between women (just like the infamous CIA letters to Black Panther leaders). But let's not be sexist here; who's to say that only women fall prey to the siren's call that is Pretty Pretty Princess...

Rhinestone Records Crush!

I've had a crush on New Orleans for awhile now. Aside from being a town focused on delicious, cheap eats (a la $3.50 po-boy sandwiches) and remarkable roots in mysticism etc., New Orleans is a model for experimental music in the South.

Quintron in London

There's a lot that's still secret about Quintron's background. Whether he's really a reincarnated Dee Dee Ramone, former science school teacher and electrician, or outlaw chicagoean on the run, one thing is apparant-- the man knows how to rock. He was a part of the Chicago No-wave scene and played in bands like Math and released his first album as a drummer. Years later as a southern transplant and marching band organizer/friend of Ernie K-Doe/organist from hell/inventor, Quintron is truly one of my idols. I think no where else is this more apparent than with his Drum Buddy infomercial video...

The Drum Buddy Show!!!

The Drum Buddy Show is a model for all amateur musicians. We ourselves at Platypussy Records have been immeasurably inspired by its excellence, and hope to finish our Platypussy Friendship video project in order to share a copy with our Rhinestone Records soul brothers and sisters in the big easy. But perhaps before that we'll be seeing some special collaboration with the one and only MC Trachiotomy.

The 19th Hole

Not much is known about MC Trachiotomy. Bob Log III says he's a cool dude, and only recently has a Myspace page surfaced for the man himself. His music combines various frequencies, normal and otherworldly, with a rap flow that ranges from bombastic to train wreck. The man's got range is what I'm trying to say. If you want to hear his best, try to find his 30 minute peformance on WFMU.

Foreigners In Japan

Japan is a very homogenous country. At a time when teachers are dying naturally brown hair black (lawsuit ensued) and the country is feeling caught between past and future, what role to foreigners play in japan?

Old School Gaijins

The above video should remind you of Tokyo's Golden Era of Insanity during the 90s. My own major crush on Japan comes from this period, when the youngsters in FRUITS fashion hung out in Yoyogi park and in Harajuku, where reclaim the streets type activists had managed to get the streets closed to vehicular traffic. So what next?

Harajuku Station's Yoyogi Park

All of this coolness in the 90s brought a lot of foreigners to Japan. Unfortunately, the 21st century saw the end of the closed street that facilitated the thriving Sunday street scene in Harajuku. It's still a hip section of town, but not what it once was. So what happens when a more conservative Japan meets with the Gaijin rush brought by their awesomeness during the 90s?

Gaijin on Your Block

But even more so than culture, the practical need for English teachers in Japan has allowed so many foreigners to enter an otherwise homogenous society. But are the Japanese ready to face the beast they've created? (Note: ALT stands for Assistant Language Teacher. The JET Programme began in 1987 as an exchange program for students from the UK to teach in public middle and high schools in Japan under the supervision of a trained Japanese Teacher of English, or JTE.)

Dozo Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu

Namen ja neee yo~ ^_^

Nyaaan! Nyaaan!

Cats got a lot of videos.
More than that song got "Day-Ohs!"
Cats.
Cats are so hot they're heat
Coming out from every street
Lookin for some meat.
Cats.


Not Cat

Cats in Hats

Nameneko

Nameneko is a Japanese cat band. Band of cats? However you scratch it off, these guys are badass. Apparently the whole deal brought on the wrath of the Japanese PETA, who denounced the band and their performances as 'cruelty to animals.' Though Platypussy Records never condones animal cruelty, we must stress that some animals just want to rock. Period. So why not let them smoke and drink at the malt shop? Love's a bird that's gotta be free man. Freebird! (Note: The name 'Nameneko' has the japanese words 'Namen' and 'Neko' in it. 'Namen' roughly translates as 'lick' and is used in the phrase 'Namen ja nee yo!' which means 'Don't mess with/underestimate me.' Neko means cat. Together it's 100% badass)

Graceful aging

The "gateway" drug

Ha ha! Lets put a sock on the cat and watch it walk in a stupid manner. Think that's funny?

Think Again.

You know, I see punks like you every day. First you're putting socks and outfits on cats, next thing you know you're in the basement of some deli forcing puppies to do lines of coke while your sicko buddies watch Milo and Otis. You make me sick.

Why even associate with this person?

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Eventually whatever I did to fuck this blog up will clear itself up. This statement can extend to practically everything else. I'm sorry. If you've received a "Save the Date" wedding announcement recently, you might know the feeling. The sensation of knowing that interesting things are happening to other people, by their standards. If this is so, this is my "save the date" announcement in a less specific time window, as things of this nature cannot be measured in calendar days. There is usually a tremendous edginess, and then surely something will happen. As the documentation of the loss of my tan has been thoroughly documented, it's time to move on to the arts and crafts element, starting from the where it began. So we're going to take the beginning of this, and do it nice and easy, and then we're going to do the ending nice and rough. That's the way we do Proud Mary, or, as PP Arnold of the Ikettes could clarify, the first cut is the deepest.

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Open up your Furry Heart

Hopefully I'm not preaching to the choir on this one. I thought everyone knew about Furries. But then I moved to a new city and tried to chat it up with my new friends. Potential friends. How could I know that they would stare their eyelets out at me when I casually mentioned "So you know what Furries are, right?" Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Here's a lesson from Vancouver. Check that bitchin' accent! Is she a robot?



Apparently Furry stories are the new baby-in-a-well story for the 2000's. Or maybe the new Goth news item. Heck, it was even featured in an episode of C.S.I. But for every rabid Furry supporter (you can be sure that us at Platypussy Records back the Furry cause), there's a intolerant anti-Furry somewhere out there.



This is one of the surrealest video finds I've seen lately. Take note of 1) the Furry Fighter Hunter's strange vocal work, which seems to be a common theme in fan videos. Everyone loves a strange, made up voice. I think there's some platy-spirit in that. 2) Mindless Self Indulgence. If you're not familiar, M.S.I. is a rock/metal/goth/furry/raver type band that uses a frequent falsetto voice and repetative lyrics/riffs to compose most of their songs. I first heard them on a Hot Topic sampler disc... you know, back when Gadzooks was beginning to suck clothing wise and Hot Topic wasn't just goth/emo city. They sold those car seatbelt buckle belts, so what did I care! But M.S.I. enjoys popularity in nearly every small teenage subgroup, from furries to ravers to goths to... indie kids? But even inside these smaller groups, there still exists certain special individuals who take things to that next extreme. Meet, the Gangster Furries:



Somewhere behind the fursuits and the online roleplaying/social networks of Furries lies a spirit that's very close to our own here. A need to celebrate and create eccentricity. A desire to wear costumes. An urge to create... fan fic. But has anyone taken time to consider the animals' feelings in all this?