英和ビデオYOUTUBE LIVE TOKYO 2008

[fatblueman]

Hmm, depends on what you mean by fluent. I think "semi-fluent" would be a better fit in my case.

[kuratosu88]

あっ、日本語をわかりますか？

東京はどうですか？

(do you understand japanese? How is Tokyo?)

kind regards Bjørn.

[javaiempire]

how long have you been speaking Japanese?

[fatblueman]

As you can tell, not nearly long enough!

[javaiempire]

haha, no, I can't tell the difference, I was just curious.

[arturo1990]

how do you know Japanese? do you live in Japan? how long have you been studying japanese? thank u

Gob Bless

[fatblueman]

I live in Japan. Have been trying to pick up the language for 6 years or so.

[arturo1990]

wow.. i wish i knew japanese =P i wanna live in Japan too T_T.. i bet u have a cute japanese girlfriend hahaha

[lys1127]

u say too much

[fatblueman]

???

[ninjerhunter]

やっぱ外人コンプレックスのある日本人はマジうざくない？邪魔！­

[toto101]

where do i go 2 see tokyo live?

[gabi326jjk]

dude I don't know ware to go to go see tokyo live!!!

[JimmerSD]

So cool for you! I am so happy that you are seeing success! Good luck tonight!!!!!!

[shinobi300]

geishin damn...

[KINGgzcDDD]

konnitiwa!!

[yasumi07]

Your Japanese is fine, but English could use some improvement.

[Crisharn]

lol, your disturbed :P

[tsjoencinema]

it's so cool

[yoichi5]

He is so hot and cute !

[Gimmeaflakeman]

Cool. We gonna meet Simon? You know he's featuring your video?

[fatblueman]

Yeah, thanks for the tip. I am not sure if he'll be there. We gotta practice your part!

[novanine]

Congrats on the YTLive invite, that's awesome!

I like how the second half of this vid is a black screen and then at 8:12 the Time podcast kicks in. Very, er, symbolic... symbolic of what, I'm not sure! haha

[fatblueman]

Yeah, see there was this wormhole...

[techish2004]

Wow!! congratulations! Very cool to see the good people get the break for a change.(sorry been living in America for the last 8 yrs ha ha) I am very jealous I can not be there but I hope it goes well. Question? When you do this live onstage will your colaborators be there too? (I.E. Victor and Ken and the other guy whos name I forget)

[fatblueman]

Thanks! It looks like it is going to be the band plus Victor, as that's who they invited and are paying the way for. Ken is in the States somewhere. Maybe we can connive a way to sneak Dai in....

[silicon2001]

That dialogue at the end time travelled from your earlier vid.

[fatblueman]

Exactly! The quantumly physical wackiness of it all simply cannot be denied.

[fatblueman]

Just listened to the bit in Kaku's book today about ESP. Wow. Just wow. Makes me think that anyone who makes "final" dogmatic statements whether in the scientific or religious realm are fools.

[runnyrunny999]

Hey! It's time for you to say ''YATTA~!!''

♪I've never seen anything like Fatblueman They perform on the stage, guess it turns people on, They get a million fans and that's with their music on, With those big loud beautiful sounds!♪

[fatblueman]

Hey, I like the sound of that song!

[shotamerican]

why is there a dialogue at the end of the video?? i got scared cause i was cleaning while i was listening to your video.

oh, i've been in korea so i'm sorry i've been non existant.

[fatblueman]

My bad! My bad!! Just carelessness while constructing videos! But your story makes me laugh. Happens to me every time I fall asleep to U2's Zooropa CD. Try it and you'll understand the similarity!

Good to have you back. Wanna be in a Christmas song?

[Ido013]

Nice you're invited to the live Tokyo! If my memory serves me right last year was reallyyyyy nice! Good job!

[fatblueman]

You went? I didn't realise there had been one already!

[Ido013]

I didn't but I thought I saw some video of it last year...maybe I was wrong, but anyways who cares you're going to be on the same stage as BOA right? It's freaking awesome!

[SuperTodaiNinja]

Congragulations!!! Thats awsome news! Your get to perform with BoA!!! She's like the biggest thing since Ayumi Hamasaki.

Good Luck!

[fatblueman]

How is she doing in America? I heard she just tried to release a single over there.

[animecrysis]

Awesome and congratulations!!! I hope you and your band have a great time.

[fatblueman]

We will! Thanks for saying.

[Hikosaemon]

Dude! Rockin' out with the bilingual! Hehe, great news, and Studio Coast Ageha is an AWESOME venue - really one of the top clubs in Tokyo. Great to see you get involved in this event - hopefully it will turn into a break that you guys totally deserve. Good stuff man!

Peace

[fatblueman]

That's good to hear. I didn't know what kind of place it was at all. It would be nice if we could make some good connections.

[Colinnnnnnn]

Although I can understand your Japanese I didn't appreciate you saying the same thing twice.

[fatblueman]

You mean BECAUSE you can understand my Japanese, you didn't appreciate me saying the same thing twice. Imagine if it had been incomprehensible! Now that would have been entertaining!  :-)

[hmarkn]

Hey!!! Huge CONGRATS! I hope you have a fantastic time. I told you personally, but I will say it here also, Thank You for the CD download!! I very much enjoy the new, fun music on my MP3 player.

All the best!

Mark

[fatblueman]

Glad to hear it!

[watsursnbaby]

Congrats man thats a pretty big deal.

[fatblueman]

Thanks. We are fairly pumped...

[deshouuu]

Woah, sharing the stage with BoA?! That's hugeeee!!!!

Congrats!!!!

~Umeko

[fatblueman]

I like to think of it as her sharing the stage with me...

:-)

[fatblueman]

Yeah, I was just actually doing some BOA research now.

Thanks!

[KIZUMAN]

wow!!that's great!!

comgratration!!

I want to go...

[fatblueman]

Hey Kizuman, thanks. Are you near Tokyo? Maybe we will see you at the concert!

(was my Japanese ok??)

[KIZUMAN]

ok! ok! nice japanease!!

perfect:)

umm... my old is 17 years old.

but tokyo LIVE is not going 17 old...

18...

[fatblueman]

残念だ！じゃあ、私たち来年もでなきゃならんだな！

[KIZUMAN]

そうですな＾＾

俺もがんばらなあかん。

[fatblueman]

Hey, thanks for saying that. It's encouraging. I am out of my twenties now and had kinda decided that this would just be a side hobby. Wish I had found Youtube a few years earlier...

[NichiBeiTrader]

Congrats John! Well deserved.

[fatblueman]

Thanks! I am glad you have been tuning in. Too bad I missed you when you were in Nagoya.

[NichiBeiTrader]

A new biz opportunity might land me in Japan more often. If it happens, I'm sure we can figure something out.

Plus, I need to record more of your music. I'm just not making enough money off of your free Winnipeg album! ;-)

[fatblueman]

Oh you hardcore capitalist barracuda. Just you wait until proletariat rises in rebellion...

I just fear that the fact that you can't make any money of my FREE album does not speak well of the quality of the album...

[bell02]

Congratulations!!!

Next up is to just sell out to a big label :P

Maggie Bonはアメリカ人とおもうりますか？うそじゃないか？

[fatblueman]

Indeed. At very least I can promise that I will only sell out for a very high price... :-)

Magibon really is an American. But she is flying in for the concert!

[ibrahimsuheyl]

wheeeeeeeeeee! Best week in ages! good things are finally happening! You guys earned it, savour it! :)

[fatblueman]

Yeah, it's been a good couple days!

[ElevenColors]

An updated artists' list just appeared on the livetokyo channel, complete with fatblueman. Caught about a half a second of Victor's visage. Golly, that mean he's coming up too?

[fatblueman]

Of course! we have to have him do his solo!

[bonwatcher]

Congrats!! That 35 minutes of lost beauty on your train ride was worth every minute! I love this vid... 4 min vid on a 9 min runtime with dead air until the 8:30ish point in which the podcast is still attached from your "time" vid! Very Prison Campish!!

[fatblueman]

Damn! I didn't even notice that til right now. And now if I fix it, I will lose all the comments won't I. **note to self... be more careful with video construction**

And yeah, I have started commuting to work by car. Maybe I should go back to the train...

[bonwatcher]

You can worry about vid construction later John. This is GREAT news! I found it by mistake...I was typing a comment and the vid continued running to the end...and that's what you get for giving your music for free to NichiBeiTrader who's makin' the big bucks off your music! LMAO! I loved that comment he put up!

[WaflMike]

Hahahahaha congratulations! This is awesome, I can't wait to see the video. I really enjoyed this video too - I'm studying translation and stuff right now so it was great to see how you deal with various sentences :)

[fatblueman]

WARNING!! Do not use my Japanese for study purposes!! I wash my hands of any responsibility for disasters that could arise from such practices!! :-)

Thanks for the comment!

[HypnoSurf22]

That is not big news. That is freaking humongous news. Congratulations. Pretty amazing the things that come from youtube ey? Can't wait to watch.

[fatblueman]

Seriously. I wish I had started Youtubing years ago. You don't know how many crappy, empty bars I have played in the name of "getting the music out there..."

[weeyin1155]

Congratulations guys! Go show em how it`s done and have fun! Hugs..Jan and Susan.x

[fatblueman]

Thank you very much. It is going to be a good time!

[Daichen]

I think this is a great opportunity for you guys. I'm really excited for all of you. You guys deserve every bit of it and more!

[fatblueman]

Thanks man. You have been the best supporter around.

[ElevenColors]

へぇ～！ Way to go for the Magibon song.

With BoA though... jeeeesus christ. She is... yummy, to say the least. Plus weezer covered one of her songs for their last album.

[fatblueman]

Which song? I'll go check it out. I am worried about not knowing anything about them just in case we happen to run into them! I need to do some prep!

[ElevenColors]

メリクリ (meri-kuri). It's the last bonus track on the Japanese/domestic print of the weezer Red album. If you search YouTube for "メリクリ BoA" or "メリクリ weezer" or "meri kuri weezer" you'll find lots of folks who've uploaded it in some form.

Personally I'd go out and buy the album but I'm kind of old-fashioned that way. ^_^/