Archive for December, 2008
PACHINKO CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT!!
(a tour guide)
As per my recent rant on Japan’s “capitalist communism,” if you find one crazy little store by accident, chances are that there are 12 crazy little stores right next to it SELLING THE SAME THING. Here is a good example.
I was in Ueno, and saw this crazy-looking neighborhood that seemed to have exploded [...]
UEEEEEENNNNNNOOOOO!!!
Rad field trip!
Hella dudes is claiming to be the expert of Akihabara now – that ain’t me. I wanna be the King of OKACHIMACHI.. . .or at least AMEYOKO or HIGASHIUENO! That’s this neighborhood NEXT to Akihabara – between Akiba and Ueno. Full of old buildings : not just falling-down wrecks but the kind of [...]
JAPAN ’S CAPITALIST COMMUNISM. . . .
. . . .where businesses in the same field all cooperate with each other. . . to screw the customers! A very Japanese phenomenon. Capitalist Communism ~ All the greed of the former, with the stifling, uncompetitve, lack-of-incentive of the latter! None of Communism’s workers’ rights, and none of Capitalism’s unpredictable, dynamic hustle! FUCKIN’ NOT [...]
theatrical comedy rock show: shine shine dan, qp crazy, HEDORANOME, digital city junkies, RIMPU SEN HARETSU, logistics, planet gold 2008
@ shinjuku LOFT
comedy rock and roll show.
Tonight’s show was a mix of joke bands, nerd bands, and suspicious bands.
The audience was mostly fake-leather-pants geeks, rejects, friends of the bands, and women who are into "boys [...]
2008 winter engrish
december New Year engrish bonanzaaaa!
Below – the Boy George store:
Below: guess what this is?
Yes. You can find it at Yoyogi JR Station, and I think Shinjuku station as well! Great for making vacation soviniers. Suvineers. Souvineirz. Fuck.
Above: the Comwell group’s stand-up comedy seminar.
Above, KNT! It’s not dirty. They do group tours.
Wait, that makes it worse.
Um. [...]
Blood Xmas gothic show.
2008 Dec 14@ Studio 326
"BLOOD XMAS" SPECIAL
It’s 4 pm in Tokyo, and already the goths are dancing. Not just dancing but singing along with United States Marine Corps slogans and the marching music known as ‘cadences.’ : some DJ had put on a record that sampled some cadences and all these kids in fishnets and [...]