Month: November 2003

The second issue of READYMADE MAGAZINE is out, and this one features a DVD with some sexy Romantica performances. Patrick picked it up and quite enjoyed it, and he says that it mentions an upcoming Yasuharu Konishi produced compilation on the label called TOKYO NO KOIBITO. Also, he was at Konishi’s monthly gig with Tatsuo…

A big thanks goes out to Michael Kalus for letting me know about a great little program called Kotoba. It’s a tiny thing that you keep open in the background, and it keeps flashing Japanese words or expressions in kanji, hiragana, and English. My biggest weakness is my vocabulary, and I’m always trying to find…

Anybody else been watching these new shorts being shown on the Cartoon Channel? They’re produced by the guy behind SAMURAI JACK, and I’m really digging them. It’s all action, and features the same no-dialogue sequences that are SAMURAI JACK’s trademark. They’re showing 10 now, and another 10 next Spring. I think Lucas should let these…

Last night I picked up my ticket for next weekend’s Resfest (the Japanese site has ticket info for Tokyo, the schedule can be found at the English site), taking place at Laforet in Harajuku (like every year). I got a day pass for Sunday (the 23rd), which gives me a chance to see my favorite…

I wasn’t able to enter my Movable Type system to post entries for the past 24 hours because of a scheduled upgrade to my host’s cpanel systems, and that’s also why it was impossible to make comments to posts. The upgrade somehow deleted the MySQL database that my MT installation uses. Seems like my host…

I had forgotten about the nice online publication Tiger Magazine. Issue 29 out now (I thank Being Hunted for reminding me). Not quite as good as my favourite e-zine; This is a Magazine, but still enjoyable. Update (16/08/13): This post was part of a week-long “Next Century Modern Blog” stint, by guest blogger Jesper Larsson.

Swedish Radio rocks sometimes. This is from a new experimental internet radio channel called SRC (were SR stands for the national Swedish Radio). Make sure you check out the Let them sing it for you by Erik B?nger (and help him out with new soundfiles) Update (16/08/13): This post was part of a week-long “Next…