You are an amazing musician James! I saw you perform on Wesak at Community Church of New York not too long ago and was stunned by how much more powerful the shakuhachi is live.

Nyoraku Thank you

The video with the two Tasmanian Devils, I did not quite understand. They are on the verge of extinction due to a pathogenic cancer passed on through an infected animal, a carrier. But a cancer passed on orally? I am sorry but you may as well be worried about Gingivitis in your liver and start to gargle extra hard. If Cancer could spread via a bite in Tasmanian Devils I think some extremely nervous and paranoid people in lab coats would start to show up ... A Cancer that is spread through a bite like rabies.  And yet people can get rabies.

And this might be me but if you told me I was looking at what might be an extinct species we were breeding to keep them from disappearing from the planet ... the chances are I wouldn`t be laughing so hard at them, regardless of how cute they are fighting for food. Of course I am not going to go out and adopt one anytime soon, the last sound I need to hear is the sound my ankles make while Chucky is cracking them open to get to the marrow ... and yet I still want one for my Aunt Florence.

Pierce

Nice piece! You've got the shamisen laying down the funk around 7:00! Me likey.