Monsieur Gum explains how to annoy people everywhere with our music!!

Subscribe to his channel here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ma rlowgum

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This one is close to finished and I wanted to post it because, well, because I was all excited. Anyway, I got Kasuga san from All That Grass to play the dobro solo in the middle and I was pretty happy with what he did. You see All That Grass getting their bluegrass on at the Armadillo if you go here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =RL828fJ2MJg

Check out Kasuga san at 1:38 of that video.

This song is a traditional American tune that I've loved since I was a little kid. And feels right for someone who feels like a gaijin in so many ways to be singing it.

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Here's the voting page:

http://emeets.jp/pc/artist/156 2.html

Just put in your email, click the check box, and then hit the big vote button.

And check out Roxal too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =Tuik0mR27L4

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A video for Chicken Cheeks, the new picture book from writer, actor, and comedian Michael Ian Black, published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing.

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OMG u Have To Watch It,Its is One of the best stand up i ever saw

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A few of the my comedy favourites

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News from Japan through the eyes of it's foreign residents - those lovable gaijin...

Special thanks to:

Daichen
http://www.youtube.com/daichen

and Gimmeabreakman
http://www.youtube.com/gimmeab reakman

and my friend Hiroko, for their contributions.

Stay tuned! More to come soon!

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The Outside World News #1:

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v= GYYcugP1xNk

The Outside World News #3 - GAIJIN SUCK-UP

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v= zL7US2KP-rs

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Rate, comment, blah, blah.... a billion dollars of imaginary cash if you can figure out the PUN!
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Japan's No. 1 Gaijin News Source - Outside World News #1
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v= GYYcugP1xNk

Outside World News #2 - GAIJIN BANNED - 日本語字幕
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dvm 9X-aafWM

Thanks to:
http://youtube.com/fatblueman

http://youtube.com/ghostofmats ubara



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Hey! I am daily inspired by Vic over at Gimmeabreakman, among other Youtubers that I have been watching, to get in the Youtube act for myself. I am hooked on this new media amateur t.v. Somedays it is better than any soap opera!

Anyway, I would like to become a regular vlogger, but I know that if I go by my previous record in regular type blogging, I'd better not set my sights too high. I write songs from time to time, so I'll try to get song performances posted up here.

This first one is just me and a guitar. As any experienced user of iMovie will see, I am experimenting a little with the video editing features. It's all up from here...

This song is one I just wrote in the last couple of weeks. I hope to get a few videos up with more instrumentation, so we'll see how many of my band members we can crowd into my music room in the coming weeks.

Thanks for watching.

Back to Winnipeg CD available at CDBaby:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/fatbl ueman

Or on iTunes:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObj ects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum? id=274638399&s=143455

The lyrics to this song:

I got my information second-hand
That life was better in the promised land
Now my shoe leather's gone
And the scenery's all wrong

'Cause now I'm finding what it really means
True love is harsh compared to love in dreams
Of a broken canon law
Like a sinner's first hallelujah

There's a lock for this key
But the map is incomplete
I don't know
How to go
But if you'd set your eyes on me
You'd set me free

The truth is slippery but it seems to me
You find it mainly in uncertainty
When the volume's turned down
But you're singing

The promise isn't necessarily
Just exactly what they said it'd be
It doesn't have to be true
If it gets you where you're going to

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This is our Blue Note gig as captured by their professional photographer!

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This is a re-post of a video did earlier, but someone asked me to add lyrics to it, so I did that. Eventually, I will try to add lyrics to all the songs, and then make a playlist from that.

This song I wrote with a basic theme of gaijin (foreigner) life in Japan. Anyone who knows that life well will probably pick up on the clues.

The first part of the song was made entirely of "Engrish" found on various signs and t-shirts. That is why it makes no sense. :-)

A longer explanation is here:

http://blog.myspace.com/index. cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&frien dID=56941746&blogID=270269883& Mytoken=62F31112-A3E8-4BDD-9A7 DC0C84B74D76416191233

And if you want more language humor, but in reverse, this page shows examples of Japanese and Chinese kanji used incorrectly:

http://www.hanzismatter.com/

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