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Month: June 2017

  • Lost Highway

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    My absolute love of the new Twin Peaks series (I’ve already watched episodes 1-4 three times, and this week’s episode 5 a couple of times) has me appreciating the work of Lynch again, and so the other night I decided to do a double bill of my two favorite Lynch films, Lost Highway and Mulholland…

  • Sometime/Someplace

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    While we anxiously await the release of Cornelius‘s upcoming album (out in Japan on June 28), he’s just a released a new single/video for the track “Sometime / Someplace.” I was listening to Fantasma this afternoon, and I love it as much now as I did back in 1997.

  • Katsuyuki Nishijima

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    I love the beautiful rooftop woodblock prints of artist Katsuyuki Nishijima, as seen in this tweet.

  • Redesigning the Times

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    As I mentioned a few times earlier this year, I was incredibly excited to see my buddy Andrew Lee redesign the Japan Times. At the most recent PechaKucha Night in Tokyo (Vol. 147, held on my birthday no less) he did a presentation on how the whole redesign came about, and it’s now available online.…

  • Dangen Entertainment

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    One of the fantastic things to come out of this year’s BitSummit was the reveal of Dangen Entertainment, a new indie publisher/facilitator that includes a bunch of people I really like (Ben Judd, John Davis, Nayan Ramachandran). Their site is quite nice and gives you a good look at the titles they’re launching with, and there’s…

  • Tetsuya Noguchi

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    It’s been out for a bit, but in case you missed it, the latest episode of Toco Toco TV profiles the highly detailed samurai sculptures of artist Tetsuya Noguchi. The episode also includes a trip to Tokyu Hands (one of Noguchi’s favorite spots), and man did that make me miss having access to Tokyu Hands…

  • John Wick: Chapter 2

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    Let me start by saying that I loved the first John Wick film to pieces. It was surprising to watch, with an energy level that you just don’t often see in American action movies, and with a creativity in its violence that made it a visceral thrill to watch. So how’s Chapter 2? I was…

  • Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Season 3)

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    Strangely, I’m having a hard time finding the drive to watch this new season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. I loved the first two seasons to death, and was super excited to get a new season last month. But I’ve watched the first 2-3 episodes, and they’re just not hitting for me. I don’t think it’s…

  • Into the Badlands (Season 1)

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    I watched the first episode of Into the Badlands back when it originally aired, and thought it was pretty good, but at the time I didn’t end up watching the rest of that first season (it takes a lot to get me to watch stuff on a weekly basis these days). After being incredibly disappointed by…

  • Artless Craft Tea & Coffee

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    The Artless design agency has opened a new office/gallery/cafe in Nakameguro (a move from the previously smaller space they occupied in Harajuku) and it looks like a stunning space (see photos in this Spoon & Tamago post). The gallery is strangely by appointment only, but the cafe is open to all, and specializes in both coffee…