A lot of Western movie stars sell out for Japanese television commercials, but at least Tommy Lee Jones has done so with surreal class.
- Alien Jones eats at a Yoshinoya.
- Alien Jones works at a factory.
- Alien Jones works at a Don Quixote.*
- Alien Jones delivers a package.
- Alien Jones gets a parking ticket.
- Alien Jones works at a karaoke box.
- Alien Jones works at a host cafe.
- Alien Jones hands out pamphlets.
- Alien Jones works at airport security.
- Alien Jones goes home…or does he?.
- Alien Jones visits a hot spring.
- Alien Jones visits Akihabara and a maid café.
My first reverse culture shock when I returned to the U.S. was the day after I arrived in California, when I couldn’t buy canned coffee at Ralph’s. I looked and looked but just couldn’t find it. Eventually, I understood that was because they didn’t sell it, and something inside me ached. (See #10.) Cold or hot, canned coffee is a delicious and powerful shot of tasty energy for just over a buck. It fills an important market niche in between “tap water” and “32 oz., $5 latte” and, along with unflavored unsweetened teas, is something we desperately need more of in the States. No wonder SUNTORY BOSS is the boss of them all since 1992.
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February 5, 2008 at 11:58 pm
http://www.kunion.com/can/can-past.html
holy hell
February 6, 2008 at 10:51 am
I can get canned coffee at the grocery stores near my house but i live in a predominantly vietnamese area of town… I’m sure you can get some mr. coffee if you look! But maybe not Ralph’s
February 6, 2008 at 11:19 am
Ha, man, the one with the immobile pen-grip ping-pong is excellent.
It is true, though, lack of widely available canned tea and coffee is a dire poverty in the US. When you can get it, it’s _room temperature_. GOD.
February 6, 2008 at 12:44 pm
These are all great. I’ll be pointing people towards this post for years to come (or until these clips are no longer at these links).
February 6, 2008 at 2:21 pm
By Mr. Coffee do you mean Mr. Brown? I can get Mr. Brown in bulk at the Chinese grocery store…it’s pretty tasty! Mr. Brown is also a pimp, as compared to the BOSS’s sheer bossitude.
February 6, 2008 at 7:32 pm
yes i meant mr brown
February 6, 2008 at 7:54 pm
BOSS! I miss canned coffee and tea…and corn soup. Or maybe I just miss the feel of a searing hot can keeping me warm while I wait for the train.
February 8, 2008 at 8:27 am
thank you, I now have a thirst I may never quench. The search for Mr. Brown begins..
February 8, 2008 at 10:08 am
It is clear that my onetime college roommate friend has been replaced by a Japanese megacorporation robot, who seems to be advertising coffee. Also, somehow, Tommy Lee Jones is connected to this, and is a space alien. Maybe I won’t buy any more psychedelic mushrooms from the weed dealer?
I have seen Starbucks canned coffees in Southern California grocery stores. If you are capable of being satisfied by trendy overpriced yuppie coffee, I would be more than happy to try to make arrangements to get a case of it ferried from the Smart and Final near my house to your domicile somehow. If, on the other hand, you simply pine for the beauty and freshness provided by Japan’s apparently rather more competitive market (which I was unaware of until reading this), then look upon http://www.cannedcoffee.com/coffee/all/ , and weep. (Thank goodness I no longer drink coffee anyway)
February 10, 2008 at 7:29 pm
You’re welcome.