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I was listening to the radio this morning and in addition to a 30km evacuation zone surrounding the Fukushima nuclear power plant, there was another 20km (yeah I listen to BBC radio sometimes, whatever!) radius of people told to stay indoors, but now on top of that they have apparently found contaminated spinach 150km away! OH NO, CONTAMINATED SINACH! Meanwhile, the New York Times is reporting that repairs at the reactor have been delayed again by the discovery of another machine in need of attention. Oof. It is just a very scary situation is all, and it’s one of those disasters–as if there is another kind of disaster–where we all of us are forced to sit helplessly by and watch as the world threatens to unravel at the seams. Of course, we aren’t ALL completely helpless. Some of us, when faced with these types of crises refuse to sit on our hands, and instead we just put on our best pink wig and gigantic panties, head down to the rape basement, and record a song called “Japan’s Villagers.” It’s called PRO-ACTIVISM. Look it UP.
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I didn’t know other people knew about rape basements.
I know. RAPE BASEMENT? That got me, too.
Rape basement?
I wonder if you’re tied up tomorrow, IN MY RAPE BASEMENT!?! (uh-oh, I said the loud part quiet and the quiet part loud..)
I just thought I was an innovator, but apparently not. That’s all I’m saying!
Lee Pace!*
*makes me less terrified of the video
For every Rape Basement Song we sing for Japan, this man will match our donations.
That guy’s just an allegory for the consequences of nuclear power like Godzilla, right? I mean, he can’t exist.
At the Devo show in LA this past Saturday night, Mark Mothersbraugh said never fear, because Godzilla will rise from the sea to save Japan.
This was when he was wearing the baby mask right? I think I recall catching the tail end of that statement… bit of a haze.
I will always upvote Chris Colfer gifs. ALWYAS.
Das right, gurl!
I would start a gif party, but I don’t know if I’d ever want it to end, so, more upvotes!
On the other hand, it does *seem* like something the Japanese would be into.
Get out of my head!
But I’m one of the *good* voices!
This does seem like the kind of thing that Japan would really appreciate.
On a scale of 9 through 10 how NSFW is this? I haven’t watched the video yet and am trying to decide.
The screenshot is as unsafe as the video gets.
I dunno, any video set in a rape basement is pretty risqué.
Have you seen the screenshot?
In my dream scenario, someone would rip off his mask to discover… IT’S UCLA GIRL’S DAD! Twist!
Glad to see Lady Gaga found a new cause to support now that DADT was repealed.
Is “sinach” the same thing as spinach? I’m not trying to be a typo hunter, I just really want to know if maybe it’s something the cool people say that I need to add to my vocab. (“Vocab” is also something cool people say.)
Can my screams help Japan, since I have a lot of those to donate all of a sudden
You’re wrong for this Gabe.
I’ve got to go and bleach my brain.
I wonder what that dude’s annual bucket and lotion budget is.
Do you like Justin Bieber? How long is your rape basement?
In Japan, this is known as Kapukie Theater.
This video gave me mouth cancer.
watching this video made me realize how totally desensitized I am by the internet
first thought was, “hey, this song is kind of catchy”
Hasn’t japan suffered enough?
Jeeeeeeeeeeeeesus. That guy is fucking bonkers
But also, can we stop asking people to donate to the Red Cross? They take a lot of the top and I’ve heard more than a few anecdotes about their less than kind attitudes in times of crisis. People should instead donate to places like http://www.japansociety.org/earthquake or http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/japan-earthquake-tsunami-relief/ or http://www.shelterbox.org/donate.php where close to 100% (or in fact 100% in one case) of your money goes to relief efforts in Japan
http://blog.givewell.org/2011/03/15/update-on-how-to-help-japan-funding-is-not-needed-we-recommend-giving-to-doctors-without-borders-to-promote-better-disaster-relief-in-general/
by “refuse to sit on our hands” did you mean “refuse to not tuck in our balls”?
No, sorry.
TONETTA.
As terrifying and unpleasant to look at as the video is, the music is surprisingly like too good for this. It’s kind of catchy.
Yeah, this guy actually goes by Tonetta….he released an album last year, 777, that’s just really lo-fi (rape basement-y?) and bizarre. He’s got a bunch of other weird stuff on YouTube.
TONETTA BECOMES MAINSTREAM
Remember before the Internet? When you wanted to look into your neighbor’s basement, you had to crawl along the side of the house and push the shrubs aside to peer through the little half-windows? Where has the innocence gone?
Tonetta! Surprised it took him this long to show up on Videogum.
He actually seems like a pretty balanced dude in interviews. And he’s a great visual artist, too: http://www.artistadvocacy.com/music/features/tonetta/
oh, actually Tonetta’s been featured here before. Gabe just gave us time to almost forget before he reminded us there’s a hell once again.