Anyone who’s been following our Twitter or Mini-posts on the Of Rice and Zen magazine homepage will be aware that editing this page is not my only job. The shameful “I blinked and missed it twice” moment yours truly went from nobody to slightly more of a nobody by accentuating my own nobody status on Japanese TV is now available for all to snicker at on Youtube.
I was at work when this aired, but thank you to the kind folk who recorded it and passed it on to me. I’m sure you’ll agree there’s never been a bigger waste of the miraculous technology we know and take for granted as “the Digital Versatile Disc”.
Now the big question: Did he look down the barrel? Didn’t he? Debate will rage on and on for literally seconds. Perhaps it was the surprise of seeing a cameraman holding his camera two inches from the floor that distracted my attention away from my co-star. We at Of Rice and Zen think at least 70-80% of all shots, and by extension TV, should just be shots of walls and curtains like this. We as a culture spend too much focusing on… you know… not curtains.
Being paid a few thousand yen per second for appearing on daytime TV was a fun experience, but turning up at a film set surrounded by a large number of people who cannot speak English is something that truly tests the mettle of a chap who finds it nerve-wracking to even order a coffee and places acting about 9th on his list of careers.
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