Monday, November 26, 2007

Trains going by..

Shimokitazawa is a great little place, except when you have to wait for 7 tains to go past before you can cross the lines.. >_<

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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Funniest english

This is from 2000, and was my favorite part of Sanma no Karakuri Terebi back then. It was also just about the only thing I understood!

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Golfish Bloke revisited

Walking around Harakjuku this afternoon and, well I just couldn't miss an opportunity to give old きんぎょうさま (kingyou samma) a bit of good old fashioned brog rub!

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The Shirts debut live..

The Shirts, live at Heavens Door, Sangenjaya Tokyo, November 3 2007. This was the first song 'Trains going by'. See other Shirts videos here.

Saturday, November 17, 2007

OSX

Installed Leopard, sweet new bells and whistles, and it looks sooo good..

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Friday, November 16, 2007

Jinnai Tomonori..

..is a comedian on a show called "Enta no Kamisama" (the gods of entertainment). He's the guy that does the presentation style sketches, really funny stuff. He's also married to the very desirable Fujiwara Norika! Here's another favorite (with subs):

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Keitai photography

I love the way my phone captures explosions of light. Needless to say, Shibuya is full of them..

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Shoto #504

Home, for another 6 months..

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Advertising in Tokyo..

.. is an artform unto itself. Take this 'back of a semi-trailer' full scale model of two well known TV talento sitting at a table discussing the new Toshiba note PC..

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Park Life: Stairs

The stairs leading up to the bridge that connects the two parts of Yoyogi park..

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お宅 (Otaku) Photography #2

..next verse, same as the first..

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Saturday, November 10, 2007

もりざえもん

Morizaemon posts great youtube vids of Japanese comedy shows with subtitles. This dudes sketches are particularly funny..



Friday, November 9, 2007

Prevention

At the Shibuya festival last week, an interesting take. Just in case you didn't know what you were looking for..

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お宅 (Otaku) Photography

Every weekend on koen dori, loads of wanna-be idols line the streets and footpaths to perform. Otaku (nerdy JP guys) take advantage of this opportunity by crowding around them and filling their memory cards with.. memories??

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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Bad Gaijin

This is a term that Japanese people use towards foreigners in Japan when they behave disrespectfully. If there was ever a need to give an example of this term, I would show this video. I can't imagine Japanese getting away with this in a western country..

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Daiki Kameda: episode 3

Last Friday the media went mad once again over the shamed boxer. Daiki, his trainer and his brother attended a press conference in which they publicy apologised for their errant behaviour in the recent title fight, and also announced their father's retirement from the sport (he had been banned for life anyway..). These pictures were taken by Andy McGovern at the press conference before the fateful bout.

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Seated at the press conference is the Japan Boxing Commissioner Yasukochi, Kameda, and his trainer Kaneishi.