Month: November 2003

Earlier today I saw an ad on TV with Halcali performing a song (I suppose it’s their upcoming single, “Strawberry Chips”) while dressed as Christmas trees. It’s the cutest thing. You can view part of the clip at their site. When you get there, click the star to start, and then click on the Halcali…

While on the subject of shorts (with yesterday’s Resfest event), Jesper sent me a link to the following site. I haven’t had time to check out the shorts yet, but it looks like an interesting selection.

Just spent the day at Resfest, which took place at Laforet in Harajuku. Here’s my roundup. Johnny Hardstaff Things started off with a segment where Johnny Hardstaff, creator of this year’s festival identity, explained how the project was conceived. It was an interesting talk, if a bit short (40 minutes doesn’t seem so long when…

TRICK is by far my wife’s favorite series, and it’s gained quite a following in Japan. It started out as two series on TV (Yuko has the second series’ DVD set), which then lead to a movie being released last year (we also own the DVD of this), and now the present TV season sees…

A friend was telling me the other day of a Japanese porn video she had recently seen. It was about ijime (bullying), a very popular theme in the Japanese pornographic world. In it, a student was bullied into raping one of his teachers, and by the end of the video he committed suicide by jumping…

I think I’ve already mentioned a few times the fact that this year as seen me retreating from Japanese music. That’s not to say that I don’t still enjoy most of my faves, but I think a lack of newness has sort of pushed me into different music scenes to find things that give me…

Kurt Easterwood has just put up a gallery of black and white shots he recently took in Ikebukuro, the area of Tokyo where I live. I think it’s something I also need to do, to document the places I enjoy. I’ll try taking pics this weekend for next week’s series of daily pics.