Month: April 2003

As you can see, I’ve made the text color darker, after quite a few comments about the difficulty to read the previous pale beige I was using (and I admit it was not a good choice on my part, but I liked it for esthetic reasons, which I realize shouldn’t be the first thing to…

There’s an article on Dr. Nakamatsu (or NakaMats, as he prefers) in this week’s issue of METROPOLIS (it’s not a permanent link, so after a week it’ll be linked in the column to the right, for issue 474). As I was reading the article I had the Dr. Nakamatsu theme song playing in my head.

I would love to stay at the HI design hotel in France. I just found out about it this afternoon while leafing through the latest issue of WALLPAPER. The inside is total eye candy. I need to go there, I just need to…

Today’s DAILY YOMIURI features an article on Shinjuku’s Golden-gai, a street populated by lots of tiny bars. I still haven’t gotten around to checking it out, but would like to sometime. A friend of mine went to a few bars in the area and said it made for an interesting outing.

It seems like a whole bunch of Japanese films will be part of this year’s Cannes film festival next month. The following is from the latest Midnight Eye newsletter: The annual Cannes film festival has long been a hotbed for Japanese cinema. This year is no different, with six films joining the fray in the…

Cornelius is finally going to release his long-awaited remix album CM2 in June. Here’s the track listing: 1. Tender / Blur 2. Curiosity / K.D. Lang 3. Family / Crue-L Grand Orchestra 4. Mixed Bizness / Beck 5. Hot Computer / Gering 6. Since I Left You / The Avalanches 7. Fish / Bonnie Pink…

My Golden Week holiday has now officially started. Ten days off. Oh yeah.

I’m getting excited about the upcoming Mori Art Museum, which only opens in October.

Since I’m Canadian, I really should mention this. There will a Canadian animation festival taking place at the Tollywood theatre in Shimo-Kitazawa from April 29th to May 23rd. Here’s the description from Real Tokyo: With such prominent representatives as Norman McLaren or Co Hoedeman, the standard of animation made in Canada is extraordinarily high. After…