Tokyo Damage Report

Archive for May, 2004

OLDGUY HARDCORE: tetsuarei vs. nightmare

5/29
Went do a slightly different kind of punk show tonight. A ONE-ON-ONE show. This means only 2 bands play. Both bands are very old-school jappa-core from at least 15 years ago. It was a good concept except for this: instead of doing like a 2- or 3- round fight where each band would take turns [...]

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interesting book : POKE-TO GE-MU KORE-KUSHUN (”pocket game collection’)

remember nintendo game-boy? or the Tomagochi fad from 10 years ago? well, those are just the TIP OF THE ICEBERG, BABY.
po-keto ge-mu kore-kushun is an ENCYCLOPEDIA of games.
po-keto ge-mu kre-kushun has some of the most um er um interesting games, stuff which was not only actually MADE and SOLD, but sold in enough quantity that [...]

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interesting Japanese magazine: rebel 100

 

this ordinary looking book is actually one of the most, well.. one of … um… how do i even explain it?
i’ve already written about japanese pornographic video games .
the’re a big industry. they’re basically pole-laying games, i mean role-playing games. your character tries to seduce various pixellated females, by clicking ‘choose your own adventure’ style [...]

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4 of the weirdest damn buildings up in here!

so on christmas i went for a 2 hour bike ride. interesting for ME, not so interesting for YOU. but, it just so happens that, on this particular bike ride, i was coming over one of tokyo’s low [...]

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impulsive, hazard, delta, hazard, dsb, colored rice men

@ Shinjuku DOM (rip)
image gallery (30 pics) go here.

BAND NAME: colored rice men
Where from:
How long they’ve been around: long time\
Featuring ex members of: lip cream
Stage posing: 2
Funny faces: 5. guitarist could rival Yingwe for faces. Vocal looked like a big toothless Buddha, if Buddha was in cypress hill. Well, I guess it is an honorary member, but [...]

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design festa bands: essu emmu, gomcoil

may 8/9
DESIGN FESTA ARTICLE THREE. . . the BANDS.

click the picture to go to the gallery, which also contains the reviews of the shows.
sure it would be simpler to just put the whole thing here on the main page, but then it would take forever to load.
thus, gallery.
in the future i’ll post detailed reviews of [...]

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