It’s a fact that more people know the Super Mario Brothers theme more than their own national anthem. The question is, what if the theme WAS a national anthem. Famed game composer Nobuo Uematsu thinks that this is a good idea.
From 1up.com:
I think that the Super Mario song should be the national anthem for Japan. [Hums the death refrain] So when someone wins a gold medal at the Olympics, a Japanese athlete, the flag should go up with the theme song. Shoop! …The world would have a different image of Japan if we use that.
Check out the rest of this award winning banter here.
All I’m saying is that if Japan gets to have the Super Mario Bros. theme replace the Kimigayo, the Star-Spangled Banner should be replaced by Hulk Hogan’s intro theme…
This was the scene outside of multiple Scientology branches this past Sunday as part of a mass 4chan Scientology raid protest. The reason this wins the honor of having this week’s Friday ACE named after it. Because of the massive Rick Roll that was the London protest group…
One guy in a full-on V outfit made an announcement in a very dull and proper fashion that none of us could hear properly. We were busy heckling him (anonymous has no problem with criticising anonymous), when he reaches the end of his speech and presses play on a boombox…
The crowd went fucking wild.
500 people rick-rolling the UK Scientology head office. It was at this point I saw the corners of the cops’ mouths twitch into smiles as they realised it was ok: we were from the internets.
Thank you Anonymous for making my week. What? You were expecting a Valentine’s Day theme? Too bad. And now, your Friday ACE.
Chances are there are some of you out there that don’t watch the Super Bowl for the game itself, you just stick around for the commercials.
This made it all the more worthwhile.
Stewie is bitchslapped and Underdog finally gets his for selling out to Disney. Even after his comic has ceased publication, the good man is will always be Charlie Brown. Thus, I have created a new phrase to further illustrate utter pwnage;
“Better crack open the Sunday paper, you just got Charlie Browned!”
Before we go on, here’s last year’s theme to the occasion to which this edition of Friday ACE is dedicated.
As of this Sunday, I will be 22 years old. 22 years of walking this troubled planet and it’s convention wastelands and making it back in one piece to blow out the candles on the cake. I’ll be out of town celebrating the festivities with a friend of mine but even though there’s the promise of seeing Rambo on opening day, I still wish I could do what this guy did for his movie trailer.
This is Sakichi Sato. You may recognize him as Charlie Brown in Kill Bill Vol. 1. Others know him as the screenwriter for Gozu and Ichi The Killer and for directing Tokyo Zombie.
Anyways, click the pic to see the Greatest Movie Trailer of 2008 which consists of him being surrounded by cameras and screaming the synopsis of his forthcoming anthology film, “Sonna Mucha Na!!” (lit. That’s So Stupid!!). I can only dream of being able to get away with that for an R5 Central promo.
Anyways, it’ll be slightly shorter than usual as I’m preparing for transit to said vacation but nevertheless, here is this week’s Friday ACE!
Believe it or not, people have admitted to being freaked out by these logos when they were kids. At first it just seemed like one of those things that maybe it was kinda creepy when you were younger that you just laugh about now, that was until I actually sat through the montage and I was left scratching my head as to why and how the logos for Random House, the BBC, and That Typewriter Guy suddenly became the thing of nightmares.
Beats the daylights out of me. Besides, the time I could spend wondering how this Logophobia actually works is time better spent delivering this week’s Friday ACE!
This was the aftermath of my New Year’s Eve experience.
Juggling Rock Band with social interaction (i.e Slipping on spilled beer, watching my friend get hit in the face with a cake, etc.), the living room was covered in a barrage of confetti cannons, turning things into a miniature re-enactment of Times Square in New York. Despite it being blurry, this picture really sums it up. God I miss having a beanbag of my own.
But then of course, the best part was afterwards when I heard that my mother was spending New Year’s alone due to my father having to go into work and I embarked on a journey to try and bus it home (T’was free to ride that night). Sadly, it ended with me getting stranded and nearly frostbitten, my mom going to bed before I got there and a reminder that a certain friend of mine freaking rocks.
….Okay, enough personal bits. Let’s make up for lost time and start the year off right with a brand spanking new Friday ACE!
This rendition of Cantata no. 147 comes courtesy of Omodaka. They’ve done some awesomestuff and even contributed to the album “Holy 8bit Night” which came out a month ago.
However, as we enter the final countdown to Christmas Day, I present to you this offering of Friday ACE.
Hey guys and gals, Gaijinder with a brand new week end feature for HJU. Entitled Friday ACE, it’s filled with all sorts of newsbits pertaining to anime, tokusatsu, Asian cinema, and then some. I started doing this a few weeks ago on my main blog, Justice ACE, and Keith liked it so much that he asked if I could cross post it over to HJU from now on. So here you are, hope you enjoy it!
Ah, the day before December 1st. Here in Wisconsin, it can only mean that once again Nature doesn’t have to tease anymore and can finally unleash its full non-snowing winter fury. With Christmas quickly approaching, I can only hope that we do get some snow for the season as we got screwed out of that one last year. At the same time though, I’m hoping that we don’t get caught in 6 inches of snow as I’ll be the one that has to dig the house out.
So as I sit here anticipating the Great Blizzard of 07, here’s this week’s installment of Friday ACE: Read the rest of this entry »
