In Washington, D. C., the Controls played their first gig in spring 1977, but the city's second wave really broke the following year with acts such as Urban Verbs, Half Japanese, D ' Chumps, Rudements and Shirkers.

# " Half Empty "-3: 44 ( Japanese bonus track )

* Jad and David Fair, musicians ; founders of the band Half Japanese

* Half Japanese

* Loud ( Half Japanese album ), 1981

* ARCHITECTURE OF ISLAM by Takeo Kamiya ( Half in English and half in Japanese )

Daniel Smith has cited his musical influences as including " T. Rex, Rapeman, B. A. L. L., Syd Barrett, Bob Dylan, Bongwater, My Bloody Valentine, Beat Happening, Cypress Hill, Ween, Donovan, Sonic Youth, Royal Trux, Beatles, Half Japanese, A Tribe Called Quest,

It is set to be featured on a compilation album by Thick Syrup Records alongside artists like Matt Cameron of Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Half Japanese and more.

* Half Japanese – The Band That Would Be King ( 1991 )

: This article is about the band called Half Japanese.

Half Japanese is a punk rock band formed by brothers Jad and David Fair in their Coldwater, Michigan bedroom around 1975 ( though they, themselves have dated the beginning of the band from 1975, after the family's relocation to Uniontown, Maryland ).

After 30 years, he still does not play in any traditional manner ; in the documentary Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King he states that " the only chord I know is the one that connects the guitar to the amp.

Since that time, dozens of musicians have come and gone under the Half Japanese banner, including Howard Wuelfing, Don Fleming, Jay Spiegel, and many, many others.

Jad is the only member who has been with Half Japanese from the beginning.

The next line-up of Half Japanese came together in the late 1980s, proving to be a long-lasting and stable unit recording several albums and touring frequently throughout the U. S., Europe and Japan.

Fans of Half Japanese include Penn Jillette, who helped the band release some of their albums on his label, 50 Skidillion Watts, and Kurt Cobain, who had them open for Nirvana on the group's 1993 tour.

According to reports, Cobain was wearing a Half Japanese t-shirt when he died.

The band's history and influence are chronicled in the 1993 documentary Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King by Jeff Feuerzeig.

* Best Of Half Japanese ( Timebomb Japan, 1993 )

* Best Of Half Japanese Vol.

* The Half Japanese Fan Site

* Half Japanese band page at Alternative Tentacles label website

* Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King

* Epitonic. com: Half Japanese featuring tracks from " Hello "

* Half flip, a one-half rotation jump with a flip entry and forward toe-pick assisted landing.

* Half lutz, a one-half rotation jump with a lutz entry and forward toe-pick assisted landing.

* Half loop ( also known as a " Euler " or " Thoren "), a full-rotation jump with a loop entry but landed on the back inside edge of the opposite foot.

* Half axel ( also known as a " Bell jump "), a one-rotation jump with an axel entry and a forward landing.

* Half a broken poker chip ( permits entry to a gambling den where he hides from both the Company and the police )

Tony Benn controversially claimed " Half a million jobs lost in Britain and a huge increase in food prices as a direct result of our entry into the Common market ", using his position as Industry Minister as an authority.

where they were instantly rewarded with a No. 1, "( If Paradise Is ) Half as Nice " in early 1969, followed by another Top 5 entry with the Roy Wood composition, " Hello Susie ".

The race took place on Saturday evening until 1982 ; the entry had expanded to several hundred and the decision was taken to switch the Half Marathon to the Sunday afternoon in 1983.

Half the manhours you pay for on most jobs are wasted because the job was not planned right, so the right tools were not handy at the right place at the right time, or the right materials were not delivered to the handiest spots or materials were not stacked in the right order for erection, or you bought cheap materials that took too long to fit, or your workmen had to come back twice to finish a job they could have done on one trip.

Half a mile below at the mouth of Salyer's Canyon was an old ranch that the company had purchased from A. J. Armstrong, occupied by a Mexican, his wife, and an old trapper.

When the Half Moon put in at Dartmouth, England, in the fall of 1609, word of Hudson's findings leaked out, and English interest in him revived.

The mate, Robert Juet, who had kept the journal on the Half Moon, was experienced -- but he was a bitter old man, ready to complain or desert at any opportunity.

Half an hour after he finished his round, Player holed out at the 18th green with a 69 and a three-round total of 206, four strokes ahead of Palmer.

A Half Wheeler trailer bike at the Golden Gate Bridge

Bogart told her, " Half the world's female population would throw themselves at Frank's feet and here you are flouncing around with guys who wear capes and little ballerina slippers.

On October 19, 1991, Glover bought a samosa from Catherine Martinez at the Farmers ' Market with Half HOUR # 751 — the first use of an HOUR.

Douglas Hunter, in Half Moon ( 2009 ), believes Hudson may not have mentioned his supposed discovery of the island because he was " loath to address a crew insurrection that might well have erupted at that time, when the men realized where he was trying to take them.

Half a manatee's day is spent sleeping in the water, surfacing for air regularly at intervals no greater than 20 minutes.

On March 14, 1942, the first patient was treated for streptococcal septicemia with US-made penicillin produced by Merck & Co. Half of the total supply produced at the time was used on that one patient.

Half a dozen or more times a day, Potsdamer Platz ground to a halt while a train of 60 to 100 wagons trundled through at walking pace preceded by a railway official ringing a bell.

* " Theodore Roosevelt Dies Suddenly at Oyster Bay Home ; Nation Shocked, Pays Tribute to Former President ; Our Flag on All Seas and in All Lands at Half Mast ".

With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ) ( and its much darker German counterpart Westfront 1918 ), Howard Hawks ' Road to Glory ( 1936 ) and Grand Illusion ( 1937 ), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's Doughboys ( 1930 ) and Wheeler & Woolsey's Half Shot at Sunrise ( 1930 ), or exciting tales of the U. S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's Flight ( 1930 ), The Leathernecks Have Landed ( 1936 ) and Tell it to the Marines ( 1926 film ).

Kingston is served well by a modern bus system ( JUTC ), mini buses, and taxis, which operate throughout the city with major hubs at Parade, Cross Roads, Half Way Tree and elsewhere.

Kingston is served well by a modern bus system ( JUTC ), mini buses, and taxis, which operate throughout the city with major hubs at Parade, Cross Roads, Half Way Tree and elsewhere.

The marathon is the only road running event featured at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics and the Summer Olympics, although there is also an annual IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.

Upon his return in round 13, Carey spent much of the remainder of the Home and Away season at Centre Half Back.

Stints at Centre Half Back and in the midfield that year had him notch consecutive 30-plus possession games and add yet another dimension to his game.

In the Bay Area, for example, the average maximum temperature in July is about at Half Moon Bay on the coast, at Walnut Creek only inland, and at Tracy, just inland.

Between them both, at the eastern end of the valley, is Half Dome, the most famous and most recognizable natural feature in the Sierra Nevada.