Archive for October, 2008
2008 Kawasaki haloween parade
2008 10 / 26 HALOWEEN PARADE @ KAWASAKI
it was so fucked up. The whole thing was like an airline who overbooked the flight – a situation arranged by business suits in some fluorescent office, who decided to screw the regular street-level staff, the customers, and the bystanders all at once!
The parade went through the most [...]
october engrish
This is the perfect thing:
A how-to-speak-English book that fucks up the TITLE.
Above, a laminated sign from a lighting-rig at the Robot Convention. "Be careful, it’s hot!"
Above: a samurai hairdo with a child’s sock.
Above, a product called KEITAROU, which claims that, with the touch of a button, you can jam any cellphone within a few [...]
No commentstokyo crazy-ass buildings and nutty ROOFs
TOKYO ARCHITECTURE SPECIAL PHOTO THING.
Tokyo crazy-ass roofs:
Giant cranes lowering UFOs onto building roofs:
This bullshit!!!!
nice houses!
above, what seems to be a UFO landing on the roof of a Shibuya building.
Below, a fairly typical-lookin’-ass house:
Or is it? Check out the side view:
It’s so narrow, homey’s van pokes out the front AND back sides. He had to tear [...]
No commentsINTERVIEW: HIROKO YODA and MATT ALT
Hiroko and Matt are professional translators who also publish their own books.
They just released a rad tome called YOKAI ATTACK – the only book in English about Japanese folk monsters (all the other books are either in Japanese or the even more inscrutable dialect of Academic ) . They were nice enough to let me [...]
Gauze, mania organ, colored rice men, total fury
October 12, 2008
GAUZE @ SHINJUKU ANTIKNOK.
This show was exceptional in several ways: Usually GAUZE only plays for 12 minutes or so. But this time, all the OTHER bands played 12 minutes and GAUZE played for a real long time. Also it was only $12, about half of the usual. Plus I actually got good photos [...]
2008 summer vacation
ok! SO. No updates for a while. Bloggers commenting about their lack of comments is something of a cliche – who am I kidding? It’s a fucking terrible cliche – but I gotta say at least I have an excuse: earlier this summer, I came down with a bad case of Coolio Beard:
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