Archive for November, 2008
Gothic bar Heaven
vanished empire
featuring DJ CHIHIRO. – on the left, with the face.
This band sounded like Skinny Puppy if Skinny Puppy only used ‘General MIDI’ sounds.
Every song went like this: disco drums, no snare, four basic punk chords (one bar each) with some distorted synth melody over the top nonstop the whole time.
They had a song [...]
UNITE IN FIGHTING 16: Padlock, crossface, tempest, organism, veihaz
PUNK @ 20000V , 高円寺 SUNDAY NOV 23, 2008
PADLOCK presents "UNITE IN FIGHTING Round.16"
This was another one of those "Great Bands / Not Enough Audience To Really Get A Party Started" – vibe-having-ass kind of shows. Also, most of the bands had moustaches. Keep an eye out.
CROSS FACE
Crossface often plays with Burning Spirits bands [...]
No commentsTranslation of Kobayashi Yoshinori’s manga about whaling.
Lately, I’ve been really interested in Kobayashi Yoshinori. He’s famous for being a right-wing cartoonist. There aren’t many of those, in any country! He publishes a magazine called “WASHISM” – either a pun on “washi” (meaning, “me”, or “me-ism”), or a parody on “fascism,” depending on who you ask. Mr. Kobayashi prides himself on being [...]
2008 winter design festa
November 6th or so @ Tokyo Big Sight
DESIGN FESTA WINTER 2008
You can search for other D.F. artists at the Design Festa page, here.
I wasn’t expecting much this time, but I was retarded. There was so much good shit, it took me 7 hours, and I didn’t even see everything! Not only that, but a [...]