Takara Tomy will soon introduce the “Hi-kara” a tiny, personal karaoke machine.
The machine is a 3 inch cube that weighs less than a pound with a 2.4 inch screen. The machine will cost around $100 and special song cartridges around $40. Warblers will also be able to download songs from the internet.
Karoake singers have longed for the day the that their efforts would no longer be confined to seedy night clubs and Japanese living living rooms. This exciting technology will make it possible for aspiring vocalists to showcase their performance abilities in venues once only dreamed of; elevators, public transportation, restrooms, fast food outlets, and even in their vehicles during rush hour traffic.
There may be some possible benefits, as well.
Shigekazu Mihashi, marketing director at Takara Tomy, told Reuters the machine was aimed at youngsters who could not go into karaoke booths or parlors, which often serve alcohol…
“Girls who are middle-school age and under can’t go to karaoke parlors by themselves even if they wanted to sing, but now they can try it at home with this new karaoke machine,” Mihashi said.
Any step that diverts traffic from the dens of karaoke violence has to be considered a step in the right direction.
Industry insiders consider this a gamble on the part of Takara Tomy, as there remains much speculation as to how karaoke performers, as well as tolerance of karaoke performances, will fare without alcohol as a standard part of the equation.
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J wrote,
“step in the right diction.”
LOL.
J’s last blog post..Songs you should never play in a bar
Link | June 20th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Pribek wrote,
Thanks J-I don’t know if I’m getting sloppier or, people are looking more closely. Either way, this is happening more often.
Maybe, I need to start a list of “Contributing Editors”.
Link | June 20th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Pat Darnell and a school of Dolphins wrote,
…those are just Freudian Mudslides, Slim.. [actually] Freud’s term for these was “faulty action” [or] “Fehleistung”
for which his editor/translator adopted the pseudo-Greek scientism parapraxis.
Freud and a former catholic colleague walk into a local biergarten. They speak as if they have electrified corn cobs in their backside orifices, and probably do.
[The colleague] He, being ambitious, bemoaned the fact that his generation, as he expressed it, was destined to grow crippled, that it was prevented from developing its talents and from gratifying its desires.
“By the way, I understand you [Freud] claim that forgetting is not without its reasons; I should be very curious to find out how I came to forget this indefinite pronoun ‘aliquis.’”
Freud summarizes the “..~..” incident and its alleged unconscious train of thought as follows:
– So, you Pribek, as you repudiated the violence of denizen Karaoke that asserts itself on one of your pet peeves “I wish a rock and roll band would play a song I could understand (paraphrased)” to the antecedent “diction…” that serves the divine purpose of giving J paroxysms of Laughing Out Loud.. and me too. Giving way to your altruistic concern for the little machine’s market value.
To you my fine man, I say “Gezundheit” with necessitated smile, or a little laugh, accompanying my verbal delivery.
Pat Darnell and a school of Dolphins’s last blog post..BuzzKill Word for the Century: Levee
Link | June 20th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Pat Darnell and a school of Dolphins wrote,
…those are just Freudian Mudslides, Slim.. [actually] Freud’s term for these was “faulty action” [or] “Fehleistung”
for which his editor/translator adopted the pseudo-Greek scientism parapraxis.
Freud and a former catholic colleague walk into a local biergarten. They speak as if they have electrified corn cobs in their backside orifices, and probably do.
[The colleague] He, being ambitious, bemoaned the fact that his generation, as he expressed it, was destined to grow crippled, that it was prevented from developing its talents and from gratifying its desires.
“By the way, I understand you [Freud] claim that forgetting is not without its reasons; I should be very curious to find out how I came to forget this indefinite pronoun ‘aliquis.’”
Freud summarizes the “..~..” incident and its alleged unconscious train of thought as follows:
– So, you Pribek, as you repudiated the violence of denizen Karaoke that asserts itself on one of your pet peeves “I wish a rock and roll band would play a song I could understand (paraphrased)” to the antecedent “diction…” that serves the divine purpose of giving J paroxysms of Laughing Out Loud.. and me too. Giving way to your altruistic concern for the little machine’s market value.
To you my fine man, I say “Gezundheit” with necessitated smile, or a little laugh, accompanying my verbal delivery.
Link | June 20th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Pooht Barnsmell and Flames wrote,
oh, look I did a Frewdian typo, hit Return thinking it was a repudiated Enter… silly me, silly me…
The song in the picture above: “Where would I be without my ____________…” you fill in the blank.
I, personally, think the young woman in the photo walking down the street, singing into her Hi Kara, was hit by a bus before she could finish that verse.. yep blind-sided on her lunch break in Osaka.
Slip out the back, Jack. Make a new plan, Stan, … just never let me hear ya frettin’ about it.
Pooht Barnsmell and Flames’s last blog post..BuzzKill Word for the Century: Levee
Link | June 21st, 2008 at 8:23 am
Pooht Barnsmell and Flames wrote,
She wore an itsy bitsy, teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini,
“Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini” is a song telling the story of a shy high-school student in a polka dot bikini …
Theory of Pribekian Slips: Is every episode of life framed in a song?
Consider this polka and the title on this post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwGnyLPSruA
This is some serious SHit !!!!
Pooht Barnsmell and Flames’s last blog post..BuzzKill Word for the Century: Levee
Link | June 21st, 2008 at 8:34 am
Pribek wrote,
PD, I am a little surprised. The original title for the post was:
“Teeny Weeny Karaoke Machiney”
I didn’t think anyone would get it.
Link | June 21st, 2008 at 9:19 am
Pat Darnell and Fair Weather Friends wrote,
Some of us in here are very astuter.
Pat Darnell and Fair Weather Friends’s last blog post..BuzzKill Word for the Century: Levee
Link | June 21st, 2008 at 2:37 pm