Friday Jukebox: Journey to the West Side of the Palace Edition

 I've got some fairly rough thoughts to put down about this coming Tuesday...but sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. I've had a lovely couple of days off this past Thursday and Friday, and I wanted to post something fun and lighthearted, so, this.

This is another one of those "anime music videos", or AMVs, and I love this one because the creator - "Sarah the Boring" - is anything but.

First, she took two wildly different anime and mashed them up into a "Prince and the Pauper" story, but which totally works, because of how similar two of the characters look.

Both are tall and skinny with long reddish hair. But that's where the similarity ends.

The scruffy looking pauper guy is from 幻想魔伝 最遊記, Gensōmaden Saiyūki, the anime version of the old, old story Journey to the West. He's Sha Gojyo (沙悟浄) and is some sort of weird human-demon hybrid. He's the Bad Boy in classic anime tradition:

The Prince is 桐生 冬芽, Kiryū Tōga...

...one of the characters from Revolutionary Girl Utena - 少女革命ウテナ Shōjo Kakumei Utena. This anime is described as "...follow(ing) Utena Tenjou, a teenage girl who expresses her desire to be a prince through her strong-willed personality and tomboyish manner of dress." 

Apparently there are sword duels - I've only seen bits and pieces of it.

Anyway, everything about this little AMV is perfect; the editing, the lip-synching, the mismatched-but-matching characters, and most especially the ridiculously goofy, poppy, hooky song "King of Spain" by some sort of Canadian novelty group call Moxy Früvous.

So for your Friday entertainment; "The Prince and the Kappa" - you'll have to follow the link to YouTube; unfortunately the creator won't let me embed it. But do, please; it's a fun Friday entertainment!

 

Back tomorrow with more serious content.

 

 

 

What happens when life intervenes

 What happens is that you're shanghai'ed into a panic-level dam reconstruction project...

(True fact; you can actually build a 40-foot high mine tailing impoundment dam and nobody will notice. Until comes the day when the MSHA inspector retires and the new kid comes in and happens to glance over, as he's walking past the processing plant, at the ginormous fucking un-permitted, un-engineered earth dam which - as it just so happens - is piping and shedding materials off the insanely-oversteepened sideslopes.

Needless to say, one he'd stopped hyperventilating and screaming the MSHA dude called the subagency of FEMA that inspects and certifies dams, and, something that will unsurprise all of you, that organization shut down the operation most quick smart.

Now the owners are buttressing the thing in hopes of reopening their mine pit.)

...and you end up slammed and working 14- to 16-hour days.

Brutal.

I'll try and post something here before the end of the week; this thing wraps Wednesday, and not a moment too soon.