Extraordinary lung capacity

So... I've tried to refrain from putting too many YouTube links in the T3A list, partly because my parents have an internet connection that pumps bits about as fast as a kindergartener typing in Morse code, and partly because the whole T3A philosophy was to get myself to notice and share the beauty of life around me, not silly web links.

However, it would be denial to pretend that the internet isn't a part of and an influence on my life, and many of the links I've been forwarded lately have, in fact, been YouTube links. I spent a good hour today catching up on watching all the videos I've been sent over the past couple weeks, and this one was too awesome to let slip.

#1 - Beatboxing while playing the flute

This man is a god! I am in awe of his breath support and sense of rhythm...

The guy's name is Greg Pattillo, and he has a couple other videos on YouTube, although I found this one to be the most impressive of the ones I watched:




#2 - Bunnies.

They're cute, they're furry, they're athletic, they're survivors. They're the canonical basis for comparison when discussing reproductive fervor. Bunnies.

Born in the year of the Rabbit in the Chinese calendar, I can't help but identify with them to some degree. I never thought I would get requests for things to put on the T3A list, but hey, why not? This is pretty awesome. :)

Yes... it's the Danish Bunny Show Jumping Championships.



And of course, how could I not follow that up with a nostalgic clip showing what bunnies can REALLY do...



#3 - Underage

So tonight I went out with a friend from Osaka, and some of his friends from Shimane Prefecture, and a friend they knew from Tokyo, who happened to have some Japanese friends who were DJ's and who were playing at an event with Sinbad, a world-famous DJ from (France, I think?) whose name I had heard but whose music I had not. Anyway, I ended up going, of course.

As I was mingling with the crowd and meeting interesting people, I noticed a Japanese guy who appeared to be underage. Now, they're pretty lax about enforcing rules about that here... I only know one major club that regularly cards people, so it was completely reasonable to assume that somebody underage (20 years old is the cutoff for pretty much everything in Japan) had gotten into the club.

His actions really kind of gave him away. Everyone else was dancing in a very relaxed, sort of adult way (the music was pretty mellow at that point), but he was sort of jumping around awkwardly. He didn't really seem comfortable talking with people, either. I didn't see whether he had been drinking or not, but at one point he just came up and hugged me, while looking off in another direction, then he left again, distracted.

Finally, at one point a couple of my friends went up and asked him how old he was. It turns out he was three. He was playing with Matchbox cars too... I guess that was another giveaway. :P

That was kind of interesting. Not exactly what you would expect to see at a nightclub. He was adorable, though.