Europe

RS Yasu updated their blog with the notion that they are closed between 30th of december and 5th of january. Normally I would say this is not too exciting news, however they did feature a photograph of the KE30B122 pickup in front of their workshop:

Toyota Corolla KE30 pickup in front of a European looking house

It strikes me how much this workshop really looks like an average European house, like for instance in Austria, Germany or Hungary. I was fooled for a few seconds, but of course the pickup doesn't belong there since Europeans (in contrary of the Americans) are not too fond of pickups.

If you're interested in the rebuild of this nice KE30B122:
Toyota Corolla KE30 pickup rebuild by RS Yasu

Edit: it is not a KE30, but a Nissan Sunny B122 pickup:
http://www.banpei.net/blog/toyota-corolla-ke30-turns-out-be-a-nissan-sun...

Since last week I am using Last.fm. Normally people would use it to listen to their favorite music and such. I found that it is actually a very good tool to find the lost treasures of music. :)

How to use it? Simple: think of a really bad band like for instance Modern Talking and use that band on Last.fm to play similar music. Be patient and wait for Last.fm to find those little gems for you. ;)

This week I found the singer Fancy with the hit China Blue:

Not only their music is horrible and stolen from Modern Talking, but they even copied their looks from other horrible bands/artists: the singer looks like how Michael Jackson wanted to look eventually, the keyboard player and drummer look like they were borrowed from Europe and the Chinese girl, who looks Thai to me, looks like she is played by Boy George. And those bright white smile of the keyboard player!! Directly stolen from Dieter Bohlen!

If you want to know more about Fancy, try here:
http://www.fancy-online.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fancy_(singer)

I'll add another hilarious posting next week. :)

Always wanted to know how many times The Final Countdown has been covered??

Well I didn't want to know but thanks to a great colleague of mine I now now. So of course I have to pass on this valuable information!

I must say that the version by the Toy Dolls is far out the best! Furillo is a good runner up and DJ Taka made a nice Eurobeat version which is definetly worth checking out!

Edit: I found this vid a bit later:

I find it amazing people actually place these kind of videos of themselves on Youtube. It takes a lot of bravery and confidence to do that. Amazing what this guy (Netcasty) can cover! And this guy isn't half bad: he gets maximum scores at about each attempt.