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 eigo juuyou koubun 400 (Important english grammar 400)

HOW TO WRITE AN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK:
1) teach idioms popular during the reign of Queen Victoria, and . . .
2) cram each sentence full of idioms until it becomes profoundly weird.
3) involve native English speakers in the production of the book, but never give them enough power to point [...]

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 August 21 @ 20000V.
"WET PUSSY GETS WILD"  show, put on by Cunts Japan.
 

 
 CARRE

 Carre played noise – a mix of harsh ‘power electronics’ and blissed-out ambient whooshy stuff.  Always kept a really low-pitched oscilator going as a foundation, which is the kind of noise I like.
 Their set slowly segued from one emotional vibe to another. Limited [...]

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OK. Maybe you heard about the  "No-underpants Coffee-houses" that Japan had back in the economic boom times of the late-’80s/early-’90s.
The good news is, they didn’t die out when the bubble burst. They just got smaller, cheesier, and dirtier. . . .
The bad news is, in today’s grim economic climate, seeing the  vaginas  of one’s waitress [...]

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 FIrst of all – welcome to the magical musical world of DICK MINE.
 

DICK MINE （ディック　三根） was a pop singer of the 1930s. You can find more videos HERE.
Cole Porter was always trying to hang around the dude. Anyway, next.
 

above, a banner: THIS MONTH IS ‘ANTI-ILLEGAL-IMMIGRANT-LABORERS-COUNTERMEASURES-MONTH in 3-foot-high letters.
The banner was in Shinagawa station, right next to [...]

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 On Aug 4th, I biked to the Meguro Nature Study Garden (something I’d reccomend to everyone)
On the way, I passed these amazing, decayed pylons (traffic cones) – the decay made weird patterns that seemed more like modern art than anything else:
 
 

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This show took place on Monday, July 20, 2009 – 梅の日 (National Ocean Day)
at WASEDA ZONE-B, without a doubt the most smoky, tabacco-filled, polluted, no-ventilation-havin’ club in all of Tokyo, which is saying something.  Short of having a show inside of a giant cigarette, or having SKREWDRIVER play a re-union gig inside of a tumor, [...]

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