Month: August 2003

Just a reminder that THE AGITATOR: THE CINEMA OF TAKASHI MIIKE, the new book by Midnight Eye’s Tom is now out. You can get more info at this feature that appeared at ME, as well as at the publisher’s website. I’ll order it when I get back to Tokyo.

Well, I made it to Canada safely, but it wasn’t the smoothest of trips. All our bags were opened and checked at Narita, which took time, and then when we got to the counter to get our seats, it ended up that me and Yuko couldn’t sit together. Then, on the plane, there was a…

This is the last message I’ll be writing in Tokyo. Just woke up, and we’ll be heading out to Narita in a couple of hours. I do intend on still blogging while I’m in Canada, but it probably won’t be so frequently, I don’t think I’ll be putting up daily pics, and I definitely won’t…

So yesterday I’m packing my stuff for the trip, looking for things I promised to bring back to my parents (I’m giving them my old Kodak digital camera, which has been buried in a box for over a year), and I find a couple of postcards that I had written during my trip to Beijing…

My good friend Patrick, he who provides us with great deals on Japanese music with his Tokyo Record Hunting Service, has just launched his own blog. Being the music freak that is, I imagine it will be a good place for news on album releases and events regarding the Shibuya-kei scene and what has come…

If you were trying to visit the site earlier today and found that it wasn’t there, well it seems that I reached the max of my allowed bandwidth capacity. Things quickly recovered as it happened on the last day of the month, so it just took a few hours for the 1st to come and…

Tonight there was a new Lupin the 3rd TV movie on NTV, and the closing theme was by Kahimi Karie. I only watched it on and off, but Yuko said it was pretty good. The Kahimi song was not bad, but nothing very different from what we’re now used to getting from her.

A mini Korean film festival is coming at the end of August at Sogetsu Hall in Akasaka, and the good news is that the new films will be screened with English subtitles. Here’s the schedule: 8/30 14:00 – OUR SUNNY DAYS 17:00 – WET DREAMS 8/31 11:00 – NO COMMENT 14:45 – ADDICTED 18:15 –…