Timothy Baril

Samsung, the giant Korean cell phone company has put together a GREAT series of mini-movie music videos to promote their phones. They center around either Lee Hyori or BoA, Korea’s hottest, most talented, most beautiful female pop stars, and an ensemble of other music stars.
I love BoA very much, but I have to say, Lee [...]

New Albums released from:
BoA The Face; Koda Kumi Kingdom; Ayumi Hamasaki Guilty; Kuraki Mai One Life
I LOVE LOVE LOVE these 4 releases. Each so different, yet that Japanese voice and spirit uniting them all. I’m huge fans of each of these girls, for their beauty, fashion style, vocal talents and music.

BOA

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I applied in November for a position teaching English through the best program in Asia, the Japanese English Teaching organization otherwise known as JET. The position is for an Assistant Language Teacher, working in partnership with another teacher, in a grade school setting. Pay is about $34,000, less health care fees, but no Canadian income [...]

A bedroom situated in an ancient Mayan royal palace.
You know, if you look at it, it’s just some worn out dirty rock with moss growing all over it. Shapeless, broken down and, and but for the vague outline of familiar architectural shapes, there is no reference point for human habitation here. So it feels somehow [...]

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOD!!!!
How can you end a series like this????? Aiyah aiyah aiyah!!!
It’s as if they had planned a second season, then just forgot about it, but still left huge unanswered questions and cliffhangers! It’s as bad as Berserk. Bloody hell, it’s frustrating. I know the entire fan community for Burst Angel was waiting [...]

FLCL = Fuli Kuli / Furi Kuri / Fooly Cooly
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FLCL’s odd style, hyperactive pace, convoluted, esoteric plot, and tendency to break the fourth wall sets it apart from other contemporary anime. It can be categorized as a work of comedy, drama, science fiction, romance, philosophy, poetry, and a parody of contemporary culture in general. [...]

It’s 4am and I’m still up writing computer code,
Hair’s turning grey and I’m feeling old.
Programing is such a grueling pain
Leading to anger that I cannot feign.
Sweat beads and concentration becomes a hazy mist
Errors burst forth - SNAP - through my door in rage goes my fist.
Why oh why do I spend my life thus?
Why not [...]

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The bad ass hero, Dante, is half human, half demon. Ultra laid back to the point of being “super cool”, never flinches, never falters. He runs a mercenary business called Devil May Cry. He takes on any odd job for money, mostly supernatural, but has a constant stream of debts and bills that leave [...]

I’ve heard it described by some as a guilty pleasure. Others as initially trashy, but with redeeming values. While I thought that the anime series started out very light and fluffy, without much to it, I think that, in the end, it makes a little more of itself than what I first thought.

The series is [...]

Watching the new anime series sola (Japanese for sky), it struck me that the artistry was very beautiful throughout the series. Likewise released in 2007, H2O also has gorgeous colours, sounds and even mixes select 3D effects for added depth to the work. Between the two, you can see just how amazing and far animation [...]