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Month: June 2017

  • Star Wars T-Shirt

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    Couldn’t help myself, ordered this tee the other day.

  • Yuzo Koshiro

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    Polygon recently posted a big feature on legendary video game composer Yuzo Koshiro, and it’s a great read.

  • Starbucks with Tatami

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    If I was in Kyoto, I’d definitely drop by this new Starbucks (opening at the end of the month) that looks more like a traditional tea house than the cafe chain we know. More in this Spoon & Tamago post.

  • Mulholland Drive

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    The second part of my Lynch double bill was Mulholland Drive, a movie I’ve grown to love over the years. I remember not hugely liking it when it first came out. Knowing the story that it was a failed TV pilot that was later reworked and turned into a feature film, I disliked the way…

  • Lost Highway

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    My absolute love of the new Twin Peaks series (I’ve already watched episodes 1-4 three times, and this week’s episode 5 a couple of times) has me appreciating the work of Lynch again, and so the other night I decided to do a double bill of my two favorite Lynch films, Lost Highway and Mulholland…

  • Sometime/Someplace

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    While we anxiously await the release of Cornelius‘s upcoming album (out in Japan on June 28), he’s just a released a new single/video for the track “Sometime / Someplace.” I was listening to Fantasma this afternoon, and I love it as much now as I did back in 1997.

  • Katsuyuki Nishijima

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    I love the beautiful rooftop woodblock prints of artist Katsuyuki Nishijima, as seen in this tweet.

  • Redesigning the Times

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    As I mentioned a few times earlier this year, I was incredibly excited to see my buddy Andrew Lee redesign the Japan Times. At the most recent PechaKucha Night in Tokyo (Vol. 147, held on my birthday no less) he did a presentation on how the whole redesign came about, and it’s now available online.…