03/13/2024
In case you missed the Academy Awards!
ModernToys opened in 1985 selling rare Japanese toys. Over time the company has evolved to offer the best in all kinds of rock n' roll collectibles.
In 1985 we began importing Japanese toys that were intended only for the Japanese market. This included anime figures that rarely landed here. Over time, ModernToys evolved into Right Brain/Left Brain, which offered an eclectic mix of Japanese toys and other rare objects for collectors, anime aficionados, folk art collectors and more. For the past 16 years, Right Brain/Left Brain has evolved to be
03/13/2024
In case you missed the Academy Awards!
07/18/2023
A few of my favorite things. 🤖❤️
Artwork by Roscoe West and John Hernandez.
07/17/2023
A very cool modern version of one of the greatest Japanese anime characters, Tetsujin-28.
07/07/2023
Are you businessman?
10/17/2021
Best costume award goes to….
A group costume that deserves all of the full-size candy bars. 🕊️💜💧
05/07/2019
Sorry for the long delay, but we haven't posted in a while. Long story!
In the meantime, have you seen our Modern Toys Museum collection? If not, please check it out here:
RightBrain/Left Brain RightBrain-LeftBrain presents Rock and Roll vintage tour programs, backstage passes, concert tickets, Beatles items, the strange and wonderful like Japanese toys, Voodoo flags from Haiti. Just like your brain.
06/18/2016
Check out this Japanese Trump TV commercial!
Japanese Donald Trump Commercialトランプ2016 Get the track here: https://itun.es/us/P8B1cb & on Spotify! YuuuUUGE thanks to all the talented & lovely folks that helped me make this stupid thing out of t...
12/05/2015
Happy Birthday to the fabulous Little Richard (nee Richard Wayne Penniman) on 12/5/32. The Bronze Liberace, the Georgia Peach and simultaneous King & Queen of Rock n' Roll. He turns 83 today.
08/28/2015
Today is the 50th anniversary of Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited! This is a fun look back!
Happy Birthday, 'Highway 61': Dylan's Weirdest, Funniest Album Turns 50 On the enduring mystique of the icon's second 1965 triumph
05/15/2015
I, like millions of teenagers, discovered a new world of music in 1964 when the Beatles performed on Ed Sullivan. That started a leap in musical evolution for me. I was buying records from my local record shop in Lubbock, Texas. Speedy Perez was my mentor as I haunted the shop regularly. It was 1966 and he asked me if I had heard any blues music. I had no idea what it was. He sold me a copy of B.B. King's "Live at the Regal". I took it home, put it on the record player, which was hooked up to my guitar amp, and discovered an emotional side of myself that I had not really paid attention to. This was music that really moved me in a way pop music did not.
B.B. "Blues Boy" King died last night at the ripe age of 89. His was a great story from sharecropper to Blues legend. I can see online how many people's lives he touched.
12/16/2014
We've been re-listening to David Byrne's & Brian Eno's superlative 2008 collaboration "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today". In particular the ultra-modern gospel-esque "My Big Nurse".
My Big Nurse - David Byrne And Brian Eno (Everything That Happens Will Happen Today) My Lazy Afternoon "David Byrne and Brian Eno-My Big Nurse", registrazione sonora gestita da: [Merlin] InertiaPtyLtd Redeye Distribution
10/26/2014
Jack Bruce, bassist for Cream, passed away yesterday. The band played a reunion concert at Royal Albert Hall in 2005.
Cream "White Room/Crossroads/Badge" Live-2005 Live from The Royal Albert Hall 2005