Category: General

Seems like there’s a new used bookshop in town, and it’s part of the Las Chicas complex. Antipixel’s Jeremy has this to say: Across the courtyard from Las Chicas in Jingumae there is now a small but very interesting English-language bookstore called Intelligent Idiot (not a great web site, but what can you do?). It’s…

A while back I was totally blown away by Futureshock’s “Late at Night” video, by design group NE-O, and now they ask me to share this notice for a shoot that will take place in Tokyo: We are looking for western people for a Sony Ericsson TV commercial for the UK and Europe. You don’t…

Momus has more new musical goodness on offer at Click Opera, this time a track that goes by the title of “The Life of the Fields.” And if you like it (or even “Jesus in Furs,” which he put up the other day, and my current obsession with an obscene play count in my iTunes…

From Paul’s IN-duce site: A good overview of the work produced by my friend Kazuhiko Kawahara-san (alias Palla) is now online. Can’t wait for the real book! Some really nice imagery there, and very nice presentation.

First it was the Astro Boy theme song at the station to announce the arrivals and departures of trains, and now this: Tokyo’s Takadanobaba district will start on Wednesday using “Astro Boy” currency, which features the image of the famous “anime” hero, as part of local revitalization efforts, community members said Tuesday. Shops, organizations and…

This time it was someone else’s turn to come to Ikebukuro and show me a place. Robert was in the area last night, and we went to Caravan Books, the used book shop located on the west side of the station. I was really impressed by the huge selection of books they had there (I…

Got this from Boing Boing: This is an absolutely stellar video of Japanese guitar virtuoso KeiicHi performing a rendition of the theme from Super Mario Brothers, hendrixing power-up and coin-grab sound effects by wringing his axe’s neck with long and clever fingers. Tasty. Click here for the video.

Kaneda, can you give me a ride (here also)?