Hey FujiCoupe, here is the Corona Version of Staying Alive (attached as movie file)...

 

Hey FujiCoupe, here is the Corona Version of Staying Alive:

 

Well done. The dog looked unfazed by the whole thing.

 

This should become the anthem for the current situation. When I lived in Miami('79-91), these guys had a 'Compound' on Key Biscayne.It was just after the height of their popularity. They were still recording and performing. Sometimes when driving by, they would be out and around the Key. Anyone who recognized them might stop and say hello. Esp. Barry, just one of the neighbors.

 

I'm waiting for a My Sharona cover.

OMG

 

The little bottles are totes adorbz. LOL I admit, I probably would be able to get through a lot of that quicker than most of you. Shamefully so. I would start in Japan, methinks.
I'm really into late 70s Japanese Jazz, and a friend in Oakland opened a listening room jazz club bar, which are popular throughout Japan. The Whiskey craze is a bi-product of that vinyl listening room culture.
They took the end of early 70s American jazz, which derailed along with Motown/Soul, and recreated it, better. And as they do, with many things, they've done it with scotch.
The last number of years the top 5 scotches have been Japanese. I am a big Balvenie fan tho.

I happen to be listening to this right now, no joke: and I just listened to this 12min sampler: soundcloud.com/bbemusic/hideto-sasaki-toshiyuki-sekine-quartet-1-stop-over-album-sampler (link wasn't showing, so add https://)
BONKERS.

But again, I like all of it. I'm like a chocoholic for booze. (An "The Onion" joke)
BUT NEVER DRIVING NOT EVER. Not my whole life. Really proud of that compared to what I've seen.

Also, this video is unrelated but a lovely distraction and frankly a weird reminder you used to be able to DO THINGS.
It may not be cars on the road, I think you'll be fine with that.

 

Always impressed with air traffic control that day. I can't remember how many they landed and how fast, but it was unreal.
This is a graphic of the aftermath and landing of all planes in the air within the matter of relative minutes. All domestic travel landed within hours.

 

As an out of work hospitality guy, I'm worried about employees that worked for many years and ***** benefits (not our props! promise) and little opportunity to save or invest. My next career might be figuring out the way we can pave their way.
I think figuring out roles in healthcare that are non-technical is a short term stopgap.

 

First time I left home since Sunday, and it was to get a curbside pickup from the local liquor emporium. While waiting at the door I saw a shopping cart roll down the sidewalk towards my car. I moved, but not fast enough. It pitched over the curb and landed on the front. It's right in front of the hood, but fortunately not the hood. I don't think it will buff out.

DAMN YOU, COVID-19!

 

What’s the name of your friend’s bar? I’ll have to check it out when this is all over.

Also if you haven’t tried them already, there are several pretty amazing Taiwanese whiskies

 

Am Japanese and can confirm, whisky bars in Japan are completely different from the typical bars you find in the US. Japanese whisky demand has seen a surge domestically within Japan as well as internationally, and the manufacturers were way off in their long-term forecasts. It's sad that just about everything with an age statement has been discontinued, and what stock remains is priced through the roof. I have a bottle of Nikka Yoichi 15 year that I picked up for about $80 as soon as I heard it was being discontinued - I just did a quick search and found only one place in the US that has it, and they want $900 for it... It's good but not that good.
As for jazz, two good places I've come across in the US are Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit and Blue Whale Bar in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.

I also have a bottle of Kavalan Solist Fino. They make some great stuff that they're able to turn around quicker than Japan or Scotland owing to the warmer climate.

 

Doing better now when I just got my F-type out of winter hibernation

 

TY for the rec, and https://www.barshiru.com/
Bar Shiru!

 

I wish there was a youtube or skit or something on how they tell you to be quiet. First crossed fingers as an X, then crossed hands, then crossed arms. LOL
You are not to speak loudly, gentle sir. =)

I can't wait to travel again and go to Japan.
This **** is ****ing sad.
I have a lot of ferociously intelligent friends, and I am not sure people are understanding the scale of this.
This will terraform the earth into a new future.

and not just the Economist nor Financial Times, but this quote from ARUNDHATI ROY
https://dnyuz.com/2020/04/04/arundha...c-is-a-portal/


we're in a new place.

 

[QUOTE=Lani Kai;2213021]Am Japanese and can confirm{/QUOTE]

I could PM, but culture is wonderful and this is already OT, so.....
Sorta gotta ask about your user name. I am Haole from Cali, but have had Kauai and Maui Aloha in my blood my whole life (pop worked in hospitality there).

We're legit planning on moving to Hana or Lānaʻi, actually. *Maybe* Hana, but multi-year plan stuff. Lots of friends in Hana and around the islands. And the speed limit on Lānaʻi is legit the reason it's a problem. LOL Road to Hana in an F-Type would be UNREAL at the right time of day, especially east to west ha

Aloha is why I am in (was) in hospitality. Aloha courses through me.

I know Lani Kai was in Blue Hawaii and had a decent music career, and I think his momma was royal??? Whether American, Japanese, Hawaiian, etc... I just REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR USER NAME.
It washed over me with some needed joy and memories of a time that was not this time. =)
Now I want to spend too much money at Mama's Fish House.

Not sure it's cultural appropriation to say it's Tenjiku there? LOL I don't know if I have that right. =)

 

It doesn't really have any deep origins; it's the title of my favorite album from my favorite (Japanese) band. It, in turn, comes from Hawaiian for "heavenly seas"

I think the road to Hana is too tight to be properly enjoyed in an F-Type. What I really like is the road past Hana toward Kaupo, but there are unpaved sections which would also be unsuitable for a sports car. Keep going from there around the southern end of the island, back onto the paved stretch and looping toward Keokea and I think that's where the F-Type would really shine, as there are some nice stretches of road that are completely deserted.

"Tenjiku" is the old Japanese / Chinese name for India. "Tengoku" means "heaven in Japanese, so maybe that's what you meant?

 

I heard a personality on TV saying that in this time of the Coronavirus and COVID-19, and staying at home, that we should focus on inner peace. To achieve this. we should always finish things we start. Further, we all could use more calm in our lives. I looked through my house to find things I'd started and hadn't finished. To start, I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of Chardonnay, a bodle of Baileys, a butle of wum, tha mainder of Valiumun srciptuns, an a box a chocletz. Yu haf no idr how feckin fablus I feel rite now. Sned this to all who need inner ****. An telum u luvum. And two hash yer wands,

 

Clever, fuji, thanks for the giggles!

 

Can't wait to get started

 

coincidentally, I began finishing off various bottles of booze about 3 weeks ago. Not driving much makes that endeavor feasible.