Jean Snow [.net]

Month: December 2003

  • Mikey's Cafe

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    Can’t believe I missed this, but there’s a Mikey’s Cafe, based on the hilarious OH! MIKEY! TV series, at Foret in Harajuku. It’s a temporary thing, lasting only 2 weeks. Patrick went there yesterday and took loads of pics.

  • Loophole

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    The new Sketch Show album, LOOPHOLE, has been on fairly heavy rotation in my iTunes and iPod of late. It’s not a totally new album as it features a few tracks from their recent EP, but how can you fault something that’s still very good (and that EP, TRONIKA, was also excellent). A few tracks…

  • But Can She Cook?

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    There’s a new funny TV commercial with Beckham and Victoria in which they spoof American sitcoms that are shown in Japan (it’s the typical voice-overs that you’re used to hearing). What’s especially funny is that Yuko said she saw a making-of thing on TV the other day, and they had to do a million takes…

  • Ticket Machine

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    Something most Tokyo residents have contact with all too often. It’s a ticket machine for the JR line.

  • No Cheating

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    The organizer of the Asia Weblog Awards just let me know in my previous post that it seems that some cheating has been going on in the voting for my site. To whoever did it, thanks for the thought, but doing this (i.e. voting many times and just putting in different email addresses but from…

  • Ohnangman

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    The website created for the new Korean film OHNANGMAN is fun. I don’t really understand anything at the site, but I like how things pop up here and there, with sharp little graphics. Link via K10K.

  • Saikyo Line

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    Waiting on the platform of the Saikyo line (a platform shared with a few other lines) at Shinjuku station.

  • 40

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    Daddy just got his Christmas gift early. 40GB of goodness.