It’s Japanese-y.

Here’s Nancy Nova’s “Made in Japan,” a charmingly inappropriate gem from 1982, via Dinosaurs and Robots: 

The chorus, to wit:

Nissan! Datsun! Japanese-y!
Panasonic! Mitsubishi!
Take your business nice and easy!
Ah, so it goes!
Akai! Sanyo! Teac! Sony!
Yamaha, ha! Nice head phone-y!
Nikon for your one and only!
Get one of those!
Kawasaki, ride it solo!
Sukiyaki! Nice kimono!
Honda bike-y! Yoko Ono!
Everyone knows…
Buy one of those…
How well it goes…
Lucky you chose…
Something with that name MADE IN JAPAN!

Oh 1980s, you silly time, you. Piston Honda says “Sushi! Kamikaze!” to that.

 

Food Party is eggcellent. Egg seriously. Egg egg egg.

Cooking show – awful + Yolk-o Oh No + handmade neon set + puppets + insanity = Thu Tran’s Food Party. 

Make sure you watch part 2 and part 3.

She’s also got a blog where she shares more ridiculous food love. Like dead cobra whiskey. Yum. And she’s an artist outside of the LSD-fueled food medium. And wouldn’t you know it, that work is great, too. I especially love her intaglio prints. .

Thu Tran may have won me over, but only at the high cost of enforcing my disturbing belief that good things are only coming from Williamsburgians these days. Come on, creative folks in less-fashionable burgs! We shall overcome!