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Month: July 2003

  • Amelie Nothomb

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    A few years ago a friend of mine lent me one of Amelie Nothomb’s novels (I forget which one), and I’ve always meant to pick up another one. Today’s DAILY YOMIURI featured an article on the film adaptation of one of her novels, STUPEUR ET TREMBLEMENTS (FEAR AND TREMBLING), by French director Alain Corneau. This…

  • BR2 Review

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    This week’s issue of TIME ASIA reviews BATTLE ROYAL II, which is opening nationwide this Saturday.

  • Wall

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    A close-up of the stone wall that surrounds a neighbor’s home. These are quite frequent in my neighborhood.

  • SOB-A-MBIENT

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    There’s a new compilation out called SOB-A-MBIENT; Music for Your Favorite Soba Shop. It features two tracks by Yasuharu Konishi, and you can watch a very nice video for one of them at the site. My friend Patrick picked it up today (along with other goodies), so I should get to hear it very soon.

  • Insight Guides: Korea

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    I wanted to pick up a guide for the weekend trip, and ended up getting the Insight Guides‘ Korea book. I tend to be a visual person, and find the Lonely Planet guides to be utterly dull. The Insight Guides are completely in color, and have quite few pictures on every page. Sure, it makes…

  • Agitator

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    Fans of Japanese film director Takashi Miike (like me) will definitely want to check out the new book AGITATOR – THE CINEMA OF TAKASHI MIIKE by Tom Mes, who writes for the excellent Japanese film review site Midnight Eye. The above link leads to a special feature on the book, with lots of samples, as…

  • Construction

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    There’s lots of contruction work taking place in the Harajuku/Aoyama area right now. It’s good that they’re being creative about it (like with the LINK LINK photo exhibit), but it still makes for quite a few eye sores as you walk up and down Omotesando dori.

  • The 20th Century Voyage

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    I just installed THE 20TH CENTURY VOYAGE screen saver by Futurismo Zugakousaku, which is absolutely gorgeous. Got the link from Antipixel. Oh, and it’s for Mac OS X only, so get a Mac why don’t you.