Part two of Alex, Makiko and Rob cycling around the JR Yamanote Line on 17 September 2007. We started at around 7:35 at Shin Okubo Station and finished up back there at 17:00. Listen to Alex's pre-ride motivational speech on our voice message box over on the right of this page. See it? Please leave your own message, if you'd like. Be nice! "The Girl Has Not Eaten" audio sample by Eric Seaholm.

Check out the first stage here:  http://media.libsyn.com/media/newsfromtheotherside/Yamanote_Line_1.m4v

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Tags: NFTOS, Alex Brooke, makikomo, Rob, JR Yamanote Line, Tokyo, Shinjuku Station, Japan, Yoyogi Station, cycling, radsport, le velo, ciclismo, Seaholm, trainspotting, 山の手線, 弓, 弓道, 代々木駅, 新宿駅, 東京, 日本, 自転車, 電車

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Charles, do you have an MP3 of this? Oops. I realized this isn't the music I put at the end of Panic Living #40 now... and that it was E.T. Transe Techno instead. Do you have mp3s of all this stuff available on your blog? If not, you should put a few up on last.fm or on the podsafe music network.



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Back from a grueling hike on Sado Island, I still have one day to recouperate before I have to go back to work, so let's panic living!

The show starts with T-shirt(s) of the day and closes with a haiku by me and a song by Charles Billard and human beatbox Takezo Aoki called E.T. Transe Techno performed live at Cafe Absinthe.

Watch the YouTube video in order to begin to fathom what Charles Billard's song is about--a song that I'm going to upload soon. I don't know much about it, but after listening to Charles' version twice and this one once, I can say it's kinda catchy. Is it the next Pokemon craze?



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Tags: NFTOS, ??り??り虫, Charles Billard, E.T. Transe Techno Osaka, Japan, Joetsu Shinkansen, Niigata, Hotel Nikko Niigata, Sado Island, mapple.net, Kinpokku San, Ryotsu, Rotary Restaurant Cafe, Taiwan Long Chuan Beer

View it! Details within. Posted by Rob.



Tags: NFTOS, DJ Wes, Hitomi Nova, Rob a.k.a. El Gringo, Chove Chuva, Higobashi, Osaka, Japan

At the French-Japanese Institute of Tokyo in Ichigaya Alex reads an old journal entry. Rob talks about his library card and some music he hasn't listened to yet. You get to hear music from Seaholm.com and a cacaphony of cicadas telling us summer is almost over...

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Tags: NFTOS, seaholm.com, Alex Brooke, Rob, El Gringo, Ichigaya, Tokyo, Japan, L'Institut Franco-Japonais, reviews, journal reading, coffee drinking, cicadas

Another national holiday, but this time I don't have anything planned.

Yet another 40 files counted down. More links coming soon! I'll do my best, but don't expect them to be exactly in the same order as on the podcast...

200. Talk Show #19: Trading Places for the holidays. 199. Jerry, Sae & Alex: "Jerry's Funk" a.k.a. Wine Red no Kokoro. 198. Talk Show #28: Tasmanian Pissing Cicadas. 197. Bicicleteiros #9: Operación Friburgo. 196. Jonny Heartbreaker: Song for My Girl. 195. Jonny Heartbreaker: Surfer Girl. 194. Bicicleteiros #8: Race to the Bottom. 193. Bicicleteiros #12: There is Hope. 192. Me and TripleB #2. 191. Fake Pilot vs his dad: Luke, I Am Your (Swedish) Father (Rob's edit). 190. Bicicleteiros #5: Paris-Roubaix. 189. . 188. . 187. . 186. . 185. . 184. . 183. . 182. . 181. . 180. . 179. . 178. . 177. . 176. . 175. . 174. . 173. . 172. . 171. . 170. . 169. . 168. . 167. . 166. . 165. . 164. . 163. . 162. . 161. . 160. .

Photo: "No Ghosts in their Shells" by Rob. Posted by Rob.

After a few weeks off, we're back to talk about our late summer adventures, and of course, commentary on the pro bicycle races. This time we roll in on Yves Montand's "Bicyclette," and get right down to business discussing Vuelta a España (a.k.a. the Tour of Spain) and the Tour of Missouri. Other topics included transgender issues in sport, reducing your carbon footprint and much much more! Posted by Rob.

Tags: NFTOS, Yves Montand, Bicyclette, Tour of Missouri, Discovery, Vuelta a España, Chicago, Illinois, Shane Winn, Andy Sargent, Matt Murphy, Mitch Murphy, Al Stern, Charly Mottet, Andy Hampsten, Robert Millar, South Chicago Wheelmen, John Marino Open, RAAM, Northwest passage, carbon footprint, birth control, birding, rafting, transgender issues, Yamanote Line

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The ALT Rap on the Juso Bridge over the Yodo River in Nakatsu, Osaka. And here's an up-to-the-minute discography...

Videos:
ALT Rap video
ALT Rap improv with live drums at Osaka jyo koen Station
(outtake from the Loop Line Series)

Song versions:
ALT Rap vocal track only
ALT Rap Alex Brooke version
ALT Re-Rap by Quest
ALT Rap remix by DJ Kung-fu Grip
Anarchy Larynx Tatoo by Jerry Gordon
ALT Rap Answers the Questions by Charles Billard
ALT Rap other classics improv with Jonny Heartbreaker and friends...

Credits:
Original lyrics by John Sanders and Rob (a.k.a. El Gringo).

The ALT Rap is available in 4 versions on MySpace as well as on YouTube, Revver, Google video and others. Now go tell your friends!! Posted by Rob.

Tags: NFTOS, Alex Brooke, Rob a.k.a. el gringo, Japan, Osaka, Nakatsu, Juso bridge, ALT, JET Program, rap, music video, acapella, Yodogawa, Yodo River

Today we cycled around the JR Yamanote Line, and we made a video, of course. We started at around 7:35 at Shin Okubo Station and finished there 17:00.

Listen to Alex's pre-ride motivational speech on our voice message box over on the right of this page. See it? Please leave your own message, if you'd like.  Be nice!  And please subscribe to us on iTunes!  All our recent videos play on your iPod (unlike some of our earlier ones)... 

Yamanote Line #2 is now up:  http://media.libsyn.com/media/newsfromtheotherside/Yamanote_2.m4v

Posted by Rob.



Tags: NFTOS, Alex Brooke, makikomo, Rob, JR Yamanote Line, Tokyo, Shin-Okubo Station, Japan, Shinjuku Station, cycling, radsport, le velo, ciclismo, DJ Wes, 山の手線, 新大久保駅, 新宿駅, 東京, 日本, 自転車, 電車

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The saga continues. Alex and Rob catch dinner at Bar Uno in Sakuranomiya. Then, over the Ogawa (in view of Osaka Castle), past the "love hotels" and "fashion hotels," past moonwalking toddlers with their grandmas, on to Kyobashi, where they run into a fellow superhero, VodaRanger! Posted by Rob.

Tags: NFTOS, JR Loop Line, Osaka, Tenma, Sakuranomiya, Kyobashi, Bar Uno, love hotel, fashion hotel, VodaRanger!

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