PODcast Radio Show " breakfast show"

My dear friend Adam Shenkman / comedy actor created the show called " BREAKFAST SHOW " and i am on his show as KAZUY/cereal chef.

this show has been held mostly live shows and this time we got radio PODCAST offer and started this week for the first time.

this radio show will be recoeded on every tuesday and will be available on itune!!

i really have good time working with great friends and comedy actors.

i am so happy to be alive doing what i like to do.

thank you , thank you


here is the link to the first show " ADAMO breakfast show "

http://www.skidrow.la/?p=651


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The history of " COMEDY"

Whenever i talk about COMEDY , i always wonder what really " Comedy ' means to us.

my definition of comedy is " human-being " itself is the form of art.

sadness, happiness, anger, and all emotions are already the forms of art.

Comedy play itself is the manifest of human life condition.

To me, " Comedy " is something that i dont feel acting..cus i feel it and i can be who i am rather than acting in drama characters.



here is the academic quote from the book about " the history of comedy"

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ORIGIN OF COMEDY

This document was originally published in The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. 1. ed. Alfred Bates. London: Historical Publishing Company, 1906. pp. 26-28.

The evolution of comedy is much simpler than that of its sister art, though as to its origin and earlier development there is little exact information. All that Aristotle can tell us is that it first took shape in Megaris and Sicyon, whose people were noted for their coarse humor and sense of the ludicrous, while Susarion, the earliest comic poet, was a native of a Megarian town. Add to this that it arose from the Phallic processions of the Greeks, as did tragedy from the dithyramb, and we have about all that is known as to the inception of the lighter branch of the drama.

At country festivals held in celebration of the vintage it was the custom for people to pass from village to village, some in carts, uttering the vile jests and abuse unjustly attributed to the tragic choruses; others on foot, bearing aloft the Phallic emblem and singing the praises of Phales, the comrade of Bacchus. In cities it was also the custom, after an evening banquet, for young men to roam around the streets with torches in their hands, headed by a lyre or flute-player. Such a band of revellers was called a comus, and a member of the band a comoedus or comus-singer, the song itself being termed a comoedia, or comedy, just as a song of satyrs was named a tragoedia, or tragedy.

The Phallic processions were continued as late as the days of Aristotle, and we learn from one of the orations of Demosthenes that the riotous youths who infested the streets of Athens delighted in their comic buffooneries. Pasquinades of the coarsest kind were part of the exhibitions, and hence, probably, it was that comedy found a home at Athens during the time of Pericles, for it furnished the demagogues with a safe and convenient means of attacking their political opponents. When formally established as a branch of the drama it had its chorus, though less numerous and costly than the dithyrambic choir, and the actors, at first without masks, disguised their features by smearing them with the lees of wine.

By Plato comedy is defined as the generic name for all exhibitions which have a tendency to excite laughter. Though its development was mainly due to the political and social conditions of Athens, it finally held up the mirror to all that was characteristic of Athenian life. By a consensus of authorities comedy has been arranged in three divisions, or rather should they be termed variations in form--the old, the middle and the new--and these it will here be convenient to follow.



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Secret Hollywood Story / Charlie Chaplin and Japanese man

My Hollywood Icon and respect is Charlie Chaplin.

He was a successful comedy actor but had long tough life against the authority for the sake of people and justice.

I had a gig making the documentary of charlie chaplin's 120's birth and i did the role of charlie chaplin's secretary " TORAICHI KONO".

I didnt know there was such a man, esp Japanese man working behind the success of hollywood golden time.

Toraichi had worked with Chaplin for 18 years during the hightlighted Charlie chaplin's career.

In fact, the famous charlie chaplin's trade mark " walking stick" was brought from japan, yes made in japan!!

Toraichi was the most trusted guy in charlie's career but it ended because of charlie chaplin's second Wife ... she was so distruscted by the charlie's special attachment to KONO.

sadly Kono returned to japan after working with chaplin 18 years.


Kono never returned to holywood even chaplin's many offers and visits to japan and just to see KONO....

Charlie's broken heart was one of the biggest tragedy and also the comedy.

I want to share this story for the name of most contributed asian in hollywood in the history of silver screen.

here is more info about this story

KTORAICHIONO Story


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What Can we do?

there was an interesting article this morning

we need to have a simple question what is in need or not for coming world.

i love ppl and i dont want anything hurting my friends










Salmon, caribou to be tested for radiation from Japanese reactor

Read more: http://www.canada.com/news/Salmon+caribou+tested+radiation+from+Japanese+reactor/5280582/story.html#ixzz1VWp4CLZN





Salmon caught off the coast of British Columbia will be tested for traces of radiation from the nuclear disaster in Japan, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has announced.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan failed following the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country in March. The power company which owns the reactor said highly radioactive water (about 100,000 times the normal level) from the reactor had leaked into a trench, contaminating nearby water and the air.

"The monitoring of fish off the coast of B.C. is part of a series of measures intended to monitor the impact, if any, of the nuclear crisis in Japan," Alice D'Anjou, a spokeswoman for the CFIA, told Postmedia News in an email. The agency does not expect to find harmful levels of radiation in the fish, D'Anjou said.

"If it's sockeye (salmon), then it's a wise precaution," said fisheries oceanographer Tony Pitcher from the University of British Columbia. Sockeye salmon migrate quite far north and west in the Pacific Ocean into waters that are also crossed by currents coming from Japan, Pitcher said, so there is a chance the salmon will come into contact with organisms carrying some radiation.

Whether the salmon are affected by the radiation depends on what the salmon eat, Pitcher said, and also on the half-life of the particular radioactive isotope that entered the food chain from the reactor.

Pitcher said it is not likely the fish will reveal contamination, but it is important to test them and rule out the possibility. Other salmon species such as Koho and pink salmon do not migrate as far as sockeye and spend less time at sea, he said, so they are much less likely to be affected by the reactor failure.

The CFIA has already tested air quality, B.C. milk and Japanese imports and found no harmful levels of radiation. The sampling is already underway and will continue until September, D'Anjou said.

Meanwhile, Yukon's Department of Health also plans to test the Porcupine caribou herd for radiation from the reactor meltdown.

"There is no reason to believe any significant contamination from radiation has occurred," said Brendan Hanley, chief medical officer of health for the territory, in a statement released Thursday. "We just want to reaffirm that the caribou are safe to eat."

According to the Porcupine Caribou Management Board, Porcupine caribou are hunted mostly by Gwich'in, Northern Tutchone, Han, Inuvialuit and Inupiat peoples in Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Alaska. The meat is a staple food and the hide is used to make clothing such as mukluks and parkas.

The herd has been monitored on an ongoing basis for 15 years for other contaminants.

Read more: http://www.canada.com/news/Salmon+caribou+tested+radiation+from+Japanese+reactor/5280582/story.html#ixzz1VWoxnMlL



















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"Good News from Old Friend" / Comedy Reunion Night

I had a great reunion with old comedy friends that i used to do the live show together back 2 years ago.





i saw his talent growth and good vibe with new casts.

Actually his act was very developed and impressive.

Adam Shenkman, April Shenkman, and adam mother, father, also austin shenkman

they are my second family here in comedy friendship



i am really happy to see all my old friends showed up and saw their growth and effort.

it was great night for me to go back to the roots and new determination.



We gotta do it and we will do it no matter wut!!

thank you all for your support

love

kazu



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Summer Festrival

I have always a big fond memory of summer festival in japan.

when i was kid, the heat of summer and beautiful fire-works in the dark sky ,,,,,beautiful contrast with the background music of bon-festival.

i used to be excited about dancing with crowd...


do you have such memory in your childhood?


i want to share it with you.


here is the clip of my home-town summer dancing festival " yosakoi soran"

dynamic and youthful energy....uplifting music beat.



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This festival is held in SAPPORO CITY (HOKKAIDO JAPAN). This festival includes not only local people but people from all over Japan and the world. It is a well known event attracting thousands of performers and millions of spectators.

Many years ago a student from HOKKAIDO went to a city called KOUCHI.There he saw the local YOSAKOI Festival and was so moved by it he wanted to bring the dance to HOKKAIDO.

The YOSAKOI SORAN Festival is a combination of YOSAKOI FESTIVAL forms from KOUCHI and SOURANBUSHI (fisherman's song) from HOKKAIDO. The first time (1992') the festival took place in HOKKAIDO only 100 people joined. The YOSAKOI SORAN Festival is now celebrated by more than two million people. Now summer in SAPPORO means the YOSAKOI SORAN Festival !!

yosakoi soran dance clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aY9CetYn6Q


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FILM " It's a Wonderful Life" 1946 / classic

This film is one of my favorite classic hollywood movies telling about life and value.

first i saw this film and tear came out of my eyes naturally...it made me think what is really the basic happiness we tend to forget in our daily life.

here is the story line....

George Bailey has spent his entire life giving of himself to the people of Bedford Falls. He has always longed to travel but never had the opportunity in order to prevent rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town. All that prevents him from doing so is George's modest building and loan company, which was founded by his generous father. But on Christmas Eve, George's Uncle Billy loses the business's $8,000 while intending to deposit it in the bank. Potter finds the misplaced money and hides it from Billy. When the bank examiner discovers the shortage later that night, George realizes that he will be held responsible and sent to jail and the company will collapse, finally allowing Potter to take over the town. Thinking of his wife, their young children, and others he loves will be better off with him dead, he contemplates suicide. But the prayers of his loved ones result in a gentle angel named Clarence coming to earth to help George.










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