Month: January 2003

The infamous DENPA SHONEN TV show has just broadcast its last show. A very popular show for 10 years, bits of it have been profiled around the world. When non-Japanese journalists have wanted to show examples of Japan’s wacky TV shows, DENPA SHONEN was usually a good pick. Known for its crazy stunts (a man…

This is the cover to a new Tommy February6 single that will be coming out in early February entitled “Je t’aime je t’aime”. This makes me very happy, as I love Tommy-chan, and I had heard that the album she released last year was just a one-off project (she’s in the band The Brilliant Green).…

Went to Naka-Meguro today to meet up with Jason and do a bit of walking around. We had lunch at the Organic Cafe, where I could partake in the sizeable (a rare thing for a trendy spot I find) and tasty Triple-Decker Sandwhich. We then walked around a bit, checking out Cow Books, which exhibits…

The OPi8 site has just relaunched with a brand new design, and it looks really nice. Everything is not done yet, as there are still error messages here and there, so I’ll still wait a bit until I restart doing my Tokyo Boy blog, which hopefully will be soon.

Had a great outing last night with Jason in Harajuku/Aoyama. We first checked out Fey, which is pictured in today’s pic. I really enjoyed this place. I has a very modern design, with appropriate music to let you relax. The food menu is also quite good, and amazingly affordable (basically everything under or around 1000…

I haven’t made a Tokyo Boy update at the OPi8 site in at least 2 weeks, and although I was planning on putting a new up the other day, I see that there seems to be quite a few errors at the site. I know that the people that run the site were planning on…

OK, now I’m really getting upset. I’ve been trying to go to one of my favorite ramen shops here in Ikebukuro for 3 days now and I’m constantly confronted with insane lines of people. This is just nuts! We usually make it a habit of going for a bowl of ramen on the first of…

GANGURO “look” is to have dyed blonde or brown hair, plucked eyebrows, tan skin, mini-skirt, cool shoes, “ganguro gal” are the brownskin girls, “gonguro gal” are the more deep brownskin, “Yamanba gal” is silver or white or brown hair, brown or hard-drown face, heavy makeup or panda makeup. I’m just happy that we don’t see…

It’s now 2003 in Japan! Came back not too long ago from Gokokuji, a pretty big and famous buddhist temple not too far from where I live. It was a nice walk. The temple itself was built by one of the Tokugawa shoguns in honor of his mother. There was a huge lineup of people,…