Archive for January, 2010
January random photos
Below, a booth at the 2009 PREMIUM INCENTIVE EXPO:
Below: a festival in Asagaya:
Below: picture this guy singing, THE SUN WILL COME OUT, TOMORROWWWW….
Who needs a shower, when you can bathe IN FUZZY SUNBEAMS?
below: shredder. Note how there is a reverse button. What does that do? Un-shred?
Talk about your least-profitable-applications-for-dude-who-discovered-how-to-reverse-entropy.
Also, a close-up yields even more evidence [...]
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J-punk vs. Western: is it just fashion, or what???
I’m not a huge fan of ‘political punk’ or the ‘good ol days’ of MRR, back when MDC got called out on the front cover of the magazine for (gasp!) taking a plane instead of a bus to one show. "Sell-outs!" That shit was never my deal.
But I think Western punks take it for [...]
kabukicho : epiphenomena of fuzoku
Kabukicho (KBC) is basically Vegas, everyone knows this. Lots of mobs-run things ( brothels AKA ’fuzoku’, and gambling joints), combined with teen-oriented things (like game arcades and karaoke) to form the "entertainment district."
I’m going to ignore BOTH kinds of "entertainment" , and instead concentrate on the SIDE-EFFECT businesses: perfectly legit shops that cater to KBC’s workers [...]
Sick of this mess!
I’m going to piss off some people!
There’s this idea – both in japan AND in the west – that if you say you’re ‘into Japanese punk’ then you must be ‘into ‘80s punk’ , because ‘80s bands are “The Real Deal.”
Balls to that idea!
I am obsessed with Japanese punk, (in fact, it’s the whole reason [...]
zeni geva, gallhammer, pigmen
fri Dec. 4th, 2009 @ earth-dom
This was an odd show because ZENI GEVA is famous overseas but gets very very few props in their native land. When I got here, the first band was starting, there were only 3 people in the audience, Mr. Yoshida (ruins’ and ZG drummer) was in the corner of [...]
KISS
I don’t love Kiss or hate them. I don’t even care enough to have an opinion. They had two OK songs. The FACTION had six good songs – the black room ep, plus “Why save the whales?”. That means, to me, that THE FACTION is exactly THREE TIMES as good as KISS. But two good [...]
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