Ringo Cultural References
 

http://www.linda-movie.com/

I saw this utterly charming movie yesterday, and encourage you all to check it out. I bring it up here beacuse one of the girls in the band, while they are searching through old tapes and music books to figure out what songs they are going to cover for their high school "rock festival", suggests Shiina Ringo!

The suggestion immediately gets written off, because, as one of them states, they only have three days to learn it, and they don't really know how to play all that well to start with. The singer is a Korean exchange student, whose grasp of Japanese is pretty rudimentary. They go with covering The Blue Hearts, instead.

The movie is almost worth seeing just for the enigmatically strange Du-na Bae, who plays the lead singer, but the cast is all good.

Oh wow, that's so cool!! >_< I wonder how many other movies mention Ringo that we don't know about... Thanks for sharing that with us, since I probably won't be able to see the movie. T_T The movie does sound interesting, though. :(

I need to see this, and will.

I wonder if Swing Girls is good too? It sounds like basically the same movie.

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Linda Linda!! Linda-Linda-Linda-aaah!!

yeah, i laughed when they said, "too hard" in response to sr.

their cd is great - called "paranmaum" after their band name, which is the blue hearts in korean.

i love the film, and kashii yu (the guitarist) is very cool.

swing girls is similar, but a brass/swing band - a little more contrived, but i liked that too.

Other Ringo references:

in Hana Yori Dango 2, ep. 1, you can hear Surabal adult ver. during the episode (during a photo shoot with a model)

in Kareshi Kanojo no Jijoou (KareKano) the anime, at the end (the last episode I think) they go to karaoke and the main female characters says she's gonna sing Kabukichou no Joou

I saw Linda Linda Linda a while ago (maybe a year or two?) and I really loved it. Du-na Bae is one of my favorite Korean actresses and the movie was really fun in an awkward way. Worth seeing, but to be honest it isn't for everyone.

Anyway, I think I missed the Shiina Ringo reference...I wasn't a fan of hers back then. >_<

We all know Ringo is mentioned one or two times in All About Lily Shu Shu.

I didn't know that. o_o;; Is that a movie?

Woooow, cool!! *_* Thanks for sharing that! I'm going to stop being lazy and finally download HanaDan 2 now. >_<;;

in Ikebukuro West Gate Park (I so love this series =))) ), a girl sings Kokode kisu shite right at the beginning of episode 1 (or was it ep2? oO)!!

(Hey! MBF's joined us! yay!)

Yay!! :D

Oh man, now I want to watch all these shows just to watch the Ringo parts. ;_;

I changed the title of this thread so it can be more about all Ringo cultural references in general. Anyone have any more? Put them here! :)

hmm... my spider senses seem to be warning me about some sarcasm around here... :D

[No, I won't spare anybody *harr*]

Okay, so I finally saw "Linda Linda Linda" today (the original topic of this thread before my intrepid co-moderator tweaked it).

Loved the movie, until the end! All the way through I'm totally into it. No melodrama, no slick gimmicks, just a well-told story. I'm loving these characters, enjoying their quirks, and by the time they're rushing to get to the stage at the end, in the pouring rain that's drawing a huge crowd into the school auditorium, I'm ready for a dramatic explosion.

Then the fucking DVD glitches out!

I missed the last 7 minutes of the fucking movie! This whole thing is leading up to this one performance of this Blue Hearts song, and this all-girl amateur band I've gotten to know like my own sisters shows up late in rain-soaked clothes, and the suspense of whether or not they're going to pull off a performance, and how, is nearly killing me. Then just before they get ready to go onstage, the DVD dies.

Fucking Netflix!

Put that disc in a newer Plextor drive (a real one - some Plextor models are rebadged BenQs or whatever), run DVD Decrypter with maximum retries, and break that movie like it was Junji or another one of Shiina Ringo's boy toys.

Lol, that's a very high-tech solution. I'm sure it would've worked, but I was so pissed I went old-school on this DVD.

I boiled it.

Made a pot of boiling water, dunked the DVD in there for about 3 minutes, dried it with a soft paper towel, put it back in the player......and it worked!

I got to see the end, and it was sooooo worth it.

*blinks* You what?!

Where did you learn of such a remedy! I can't imagine cooking my JCHI if something went wrong.

Yeah, seriously...what??? That doesn't hurt the disc label or anything?

I read about it, but never tried it until now.

Once the water is at a boil, turn off the heat, and then very carefully put the DVD on the surface of the water, data side down, label side up. The label won't get messed with. Let it sit about 2-3 minutes, remove with utensil or quick fingers, dry with paper towel, and voila.

I wouldn't vouch for this unless I could testify it works, and I assure you it does. I went to the very chapter Linda Linda Linda wouldn't play before, and it played without a single freeze or skip.

This is where I learned this method:
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=447554

It should work with video game discs as well:
http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread...hlight=Boiling

Wouldn't the disc slightly bend outta shape? I may tried this for a few of my games...

Data soup...yummmm

Don't leave it in the water too long, just 2-3 minutes.

Mmmm I'd like to have a byte of that

*bah-dum-bum**pssh*

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I'll try it

back on topic
I was reading karekano few days ago, and when miyazawa and her friends were talking about karaoke, one of the girls said that Kabukichou no jou is a good song to sing or something like it

Lena-chan! You like Kare Kano too? (Come to think of it, it kinda reminds me of you XD) Yeah, I think that's 1 of 2 SR references in Kare Kano. I really like that :3 Kare Kano is amazinggggggg

The hot water thing is a miracle. I tried it on some pirated dvds, and it worked! :D Thanks for sharing that NIMH Rat!

I always wanted to read karekano
but I'm too lazy
so when it did begins to being publicate on Brazil, I didn't have a excuse to not buy it XD
now I have till vol. 8 /o/

and if the hot water thing work, I'll try it too /o/

looks kinda girly haha but i think i'll watch it, thanks for tellin us about it!

OMG hahahahahahahaha, I love corny jokes!!! XDDDD They make me laugh the hardest. :lol: Hahahhhahaha

And omg, that's the weirdest thing I've ever heard of. I want to try it too, but I don't know what to test it on. @_@

Hehehhahah

Stupid question following:


Does this also work with CDs or just with DVDs? o.O

This would be the cheapest way to save my (rather new) GO!GO!7188-CD... ^^"

^ Should work on most disc-based media.

Yup, should work. Never tried it on a CD-R but the principle's the same.

I tried my 200 gb external usb2 drive but it's just plain dead now. What?

Its disc-based....

....HOT WATER METHOD! >=D

Yazawa Ai (author of girl mangas such as Nana, Paradise Kiss, Gokinjo Monogatari, Kagen no Tsuki) mentions in her self description at the end of one of the Paradise Kiss (French edition though) that she likes to listen to The Yellow Monkey and Shiina Ringo. I'm not sure if that counts as a reference, but I was happy to see this shout-out :D

If wonder if she thought about Shiina when she's been asked to choose the singers for the NANA anime themes ...

Aha, then that should work on by ksk!

Ringo Culture? this makes me think, does Shiina Ringo have her own culture. I mean shes no Hendrix, and it's not like Tokyo Jihen can be compared to the Beattles, but I guess there is a culture that goes along with SR and TJ.