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Month: November 2004

  • Permanently Interested

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    I like this bit, from Pico Iyer reviewing Donald Richie’s JAPAN JOURNALS: 1947-2004 in last week’s TIME (Asian edition): The expatriate in Asia is often a complainer: things are so different there from the way they are in wherever he thinks of as home that he feels aggrieved, ripped off, patronized or left out. The…

  • iTunes Japan

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    Well, it’s about time we got some solid info on a release date for the Japanese iTunes store. Apple plans to open up its iTunes Music Store to Japanese customers by March 2005, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported on Thursday. The paper said that Apple aimed to offer more than 100,000 songs with an emphasis…

  • San Andreas

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    OK, I’m coming clean. The site hasn’t been so active these past few days because my life has been completely taken over by GRAND THEFT AUTO: SAN ANDREAS. I’m living/breathing the game. I spent countless hours this past weekend stealing, killing, pimping, racing, exploring… The game is truly mind-blowing. I know I’m late to the…

  • Jon the dog

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    Reading the following entry on Jon the dog at REALTOKYO reminded me of the first time I heard about this artist, from a show Patrick had attended (I think it was with Emi Necozawa). Jon the dog is actually a girl, but how she wears her dog’s costume and sings absurd lo-fi folk pop songs…

  • The Planet: Transport

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    Julian Gatto, who was one of the people involved in the “Aqui Uzumaki” exhibition earlier this year (also spawning the excellent SONIDO UZUMAKI compilation on Music Related), lets me know that he has a new show that starts today at the Uplink Gallery. Organized along with 360 Records, it’s called “The Planet: Transport,” and it…

  • Psionic Distortion

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    The JAPAN TIMES takes a look at the “Psionic Distortion” exhibition that’s taking place at SuperDeluxe. It covers underground manga, with works from artists that were associated with the old GARO magazine (the image above is by Kago Shintaro). When Missouri-born artist and curator Tim Evans first flipped through the dog-eared pages of an old…

  • Three Digital Shorts

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    Lots of digital film action happening this upcoming weekend, along with the Resfest at the Laforet Museum. This is the 2004 edition of Jeonju International Film Festival’s project producing short films of three selected Asian filmmakers. This year the three are Bong Joon-ho (“Memories of Murder” ), Yu Likwai (“Love Will Tear Us Apart”) and…

  • Magazine Bonanza

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    Thanks to some gift certificates I received from my credit card company (yes, there are some times when using a credit card can be a good thing), today was a magazine purchasing bonanza. I picked up the latest AXIS (112), ART iT (The Korean Art Scene), and +81 (26). This of course brings me feelings…