Each Tuesday, Epic Meal Time brings the heartburn. I was first introduced to them around Thanksgiving time with their TurBaconEpic Thanksgiving monstrosity.

Well, they’re back, this time with some fast food sushi action:


New York based Japanese Action Comic Punk band Peelander Z is my most favorite band in the entire universe. I’ve seen them bajillions of times and I’ve always left feeling awesome. There’s a raw energy that they bring to every single show that just has to be experienced.

Here they are at a bowling alley in Detroit singing an unplugged version of their hit single, “Ninja High School.” And wouldn’t you know it, they’re playing this Saturday in Arlington at Artisphere! I got a holiday party that night, but I think I might try to head out there afterwards since the show starts at 11pm. Gonna be a late ass night, but totally worth it.


This weekend and next weekend, the Smithsonian’s Museums of Asian Art, the Freer|Sackler, here in DC is presenting a number of fun Asian films. Tomorrow at 7pm, they’ll be showing Linda Linda Linda which is an absolutely adorable film about four classmates at a Japanese high school who form an all-girl cover band to perform at the annual high school rock festival. Slight spoilers, here’s them performing the title track of the movie.

I totally love this film. The music is great, the characters are all highschooly and awkward, and it’s terribly fun. Even if you don’t catch it at the Freer, you should Netflix this one. Oh, the drummer is the chick from Battle Royale, the guitarist was in the live action Death Note, and the lead singer was in The Host.

This Sunday, is The Harimaya Bridge which I haven’t seen but from the description sounds like something right up my alley:

After an African-American painter dies suddenly in Japan, his estranged father travels from San Francisco to retrieve his belongings. When he discovers that his son had secretly married a Japanese woman, he is forced to confront his own prejudices and those of the tradition-bound community where his son lived. As more secrets from the painter’s life emerge, his father learns to appreciate the unexpected legacy he left behind, and the strong ties he formed with his hosts. This moving drama about familial bonds and intercultural understanding features cameo appearances by Danny Glover and Peter Coyote. (Dir.: Aaron Woolfolk, United States, 2009, 120 min., English and Japanese with English subtitles)

I’m going to have to Netflix this one since I’ve got plans for Sunday. But if you’re in the DC area, this looks like a good one to check out.

Finally, next weekend the Freer|Sackler pays homage to Bruce Lee presenting Enter the Dragon on Friday, December 10, and something called Power Moves: From Bruce Lee’s Interrupting Fist to Hip Hop and Beyond on Sunday which is kind of a dance thing:

Choreographer/dancer Peggy Choy re-envisions the legacy of martial artist and film star Bruce Lee with a presentation of her recent work, which fuses Asian martial arts with diverse forms of dance—from Korean court dance to hip-hop. After an introductory talk, she and her dancers generate a vivid playing field of dynamic movement while exploring Lee’s intentions behind creating Jeet Kune Do, or “the way of the intercepting fist.”

This will be the world premiere of Choy’s newest work, Jeet Kune Do, set to music composed by award-winning Asian-American jazz composer Fred Ho. Choy performs Yelllowwww Matriarch, Toni Renee Johnson performs Boxher, and Ze Motion and Rudy Reynon will perform Jeet Kune Do. Original costumes are by Jillian Maslow.

Choy’s alchemy of focused mind and moving body is fueled by Korean, Javanese, and urban dance forms, as well as martial arts. Choy has performed at venues including the Kennedy Center and Dance Place in Washington, D.C.; Dance Theater Workshop and Danspace Project in New York; Honolulu’s Kennedy Theater; the Seoul Art Center; and Jakarta’s Utan Kayu. Her awards include Danspace Project’s Commissioning Initiative, an NEA/Atlantic Center for the Arts fellowship, and Princeton and Cornell university commissions

Sounds like it could be cool.

I think all the events are free of charge so if you’ve got time to spare, head on down to DC this and next weekend and check out some fun Asian cinema. I think we may need to organize a big outing for Enter the Dragon next week. I’ve never seen it on a big screen.


So I missed the Cyber Monday hyper shopping DX GO yesterday, but I’m making up for lost time! From now until Sunday, December 5, you can get 5% off your total order from Shark Robot. So if you’ve been waiting to pick up some Yellow Peril goodies for the holiday season, now’s your chance. Just enter the coupon code want2cyber to get the discount. We’ve got five wonderful flavors for you to choose from.

For you Gundam and Halo lovers out there, we’ve got our very own Master Chief flavored Haro:
Haro Chief

Those who enjoy the cute yet terrifying antics of panda bears may enjoy our Panda flavored offering:
Pandas Are Bears

The many who enjoyed this quote from a while back may enjoy this cute little monster:

Lovers of bow ties, fez’s, and sexy companions may treat themselves to this Dalek flavored item:
I Dalek UK

And for the lovers of the classics, there’s this whimsical Love of the Worlds ditty:
Love of the Worlds

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Oh man! This is so freaking awesome! One of my Angry Zen Master readers, Grandmaster Chu, is an MC living Beijing. He decided that I needed a proper theme song for everyday use like when I walk into a room or step out of the shower or sit down to eat something. And here it is!

Oh man, this is freaking UH MAY ZING!

Thank you so much, Grandmaster Chu, for making everything that much more awesome! I’ve posted the lyrics over here and be sure to check out Grandmaster Chu on Facebooks, YouTubes, and Tumblrs.