I hope everyone had an wonderful thanksgiving. i had a lovely time. my mom made an amazing meal and i got to spend time with my whole family. unlike a lot of traditional thanksgivings where families sit around the dinning table and eat a huge meal, my family likes to watch movies… but we still get the huge meal (xmas is our eating around the dinning table meal). some of the things watched during the day include, three parts of the ifc monty python documentary (that was everyone’s pick), little miss sunshine (my mom’s pick), the night at the museum (my dad’s pick). all of them were good and the whole day was a lot of fun.

today the mr and i vegged out. sort of…
i was working non-stop on some moss brooches. a little experiment in making fake moss that i absolutely adore (i have the obsession with moss). it’s quite time consuming and i was only able to complete six but the end results are worth it. i want to work this into my sweater display for shows. i’ll show pictures later.

it’s a brainless process so to keep myself occupied i was watching mini marathons of “Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!”. it may have not been a good idea in the end. i was laughing so hard i found it hard to work at times.
anyway, the idea is three or four out of these five comedians are forced into a specific location. in twenty four hours they are told not to laugh. if they do they are punished. the punishment can be pretty harsh and in most cases involve the rear end. in one they got a whip to the butt and in another they got blow darts. and this was every time they laughed O_o. it may not be for everyone. it’s not so much the punishment that has me rolling. in fact i’m not sure how these guys can take it (my butt would have been ground beef if i was in their shoes). it’s the watching them try so hard not to laugh and sabotage each other that gets me.

the clip below was one where i lost it every time. in this episode matsumoto, yamasaki, endo and tanaka are forced to go back to school and in this clip they are in an english class. the part that gets me is the video of comedian jimmy onishi trying his best to read, count and say the days of the week in english. the men try so hard not to laugh. oh, and be warned their punishment is a good whack on the butt with a bamboo sword. there is a lot of laughing and quite a few punishments handed out so if thats not your thing you may not want to watch.