Month: August 2003

Kristen McQuillin has launched a really cool site called Yamanote29. It’s “a collection of photos, essays, video, and audio about the Yamanote line, its stations and neighborhoods.” I use the Yamanote line every single day, so I’ll probably try sending in some stuff to the site.

I like to look at these every once in a while, and so here are the top search strings that lead here during the first 2-3 weeks of August. 1. juon 2 – There can’t be a lot of info online for this film if my site is turning up on searches. 2. battle royale…

Nadine over at Tokyo Shoes is letting people contribute to the site as guest bloggers right now. Tokyo fashions through the eyes of many is good. Good ol’ Jesper makes an appearance with, of course, some BAPE goodness.

Drool. I cannot wait for this. Update (16/08/13): The poster image isn’t available anymore. I’m not quite sure which one it was, but I do remember being incredibly excited for the film!

While in Canada I’ve been picking up THE GLOBE AND MAIL (one of Canada’s national newspapers) on Saturdays, and this past weekend the book section had a big review of 3 Japanese novels that have just been translated and released in North America through a new publisher, Vertical, that was started by a Japanese man…

Momus’ site is online again, but at a new address: imomus.com.

There’s a new trailer out for ZATOICHI, the new film by Takeshi Kitano. The top link is the new trailer, and the bottom link the old one. The film opens September 6 in Japan.

Yuko is 32 years old, and the other night she was barred entry to a pub because she didn’t have any ID on her. The legal drinking age in Canada is 19 years old, so let’s just say she was a bit shocked. It happened during the big celebrations downtown for Acadia Day, so they…