Cornelius is finally going to release his long-awaited remix album CM2 in June. Here’s the track listing:

1. Tender / Blur
2. Curiosity / K.D. Lang
3. Family / Crue-L Grand Orchestra
4. Mixed Bizness / Beck
5. Hot Computer / Gering
6. Since I Left You / The Avalanches
7. Fish / Bonnie Pink
8. We Are All Made Of Stars / Moby
9. garigari-kun / Denki Groove
10. tsunami / Manic Street Preachers
11. Butterfly / Towa Tei
12. Brand New Day / Sting
13. Heartbeat / Tahiti 80

My Golden Week holiday has now officially started. Ten days off. Oh yeah.

I’m getting excited about the upcoming Mori Art Museum, which only opens in October.

Since I’m Canadian, I really should mention this. There will a Canadian animation festival taking place at the Tollywood theatre in Shimo-Kitazawa from April 29th to May 23rd. Here’s the description from Real Tokyo:

With such prominent representatives as Norman McLaren or Co Hoedeman, the standard of animation made in Canada is extraordinarily high. After all, they have that enviable institution with a history of more than 60 years, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB/ONF). Showing at this festival are 12 shorts the NFB/ONF has produced since 1980, divided into four blocks. The variety of films featured in each programme couldn’t be greater, which makes the choice painfully difficult. If you ask me to pick a single one, director Jacques Drouin’s “Ex-Child” should be a safe recommendation for both fans of animation and art. Take the chance and enjoy the cream of pin screen animation.

My neighborhood. Picture taken just down the street from my apartment.

From Japan Today:

A Narita airport staff member stands in front of a thermal imaging camera. The camera is used to detect feverish passengers from SARS-infected Hong Kong, Beijing, Guangzhou and Toronto.

Yuko studying very hard. What you see near the bottom of the picture is her new pride and joy, an electronic Chinese-Japanese-English dictionary. She got a nice communist red cover for it.

I’m sort of late on this (the event covered the month of April, so only one week left), but this Ongoing event seems interesting. From the RealTokyo description:

This month, a number of bars, coffee shops, restaurants, etc. around Kichijoji station are turning into art spaces. As part of a project aiming to “create occasions to casually get in touch with works of artistic expression in everyday environments,” artworks by young creators are displayed at eleven shops in the area. For the period of the event, the Toki Art Space is converted into the “Kichi Cafe” information center, and that’s where you might want to go first and pick up info while enjoying the place’s delicious sweets. As a nice alternative to the season’s usual cherry blossom viewing, try art viewing with coffee!

There’s a website for the event, but it’s all in Japanese.

This is just great. Norio Kobayashi has documented the ins and outs of his kitchen with a digital camera. Enjoy the huge amount of pics at his site, which are also being shown at an exhibit in Hamburg right now.

Link found via esthet.org.

I think the moblog should appear at the proper place on all browsers and OSes now. A big thanks to Patrick for pointing out a solution (setting fixed sizes for the title fonts, to which I also reduced the spacing between letters). From what I’ve heard, things are OK now. Sorry again for the recent problems that some of you might have been experiencing.

You absolutely must check out the trailer for the new Takashi Miike film, GOZU. It’s billed as a yakuza horror film. Oh man, can’t wait to see this!

An old house on the road in front of my apartment.

As you can see, there are presently no online archives of the TOKYO BOY moblog, but this is just temporary. I’ll soon put up some archive pages, setup a proper index page just for the moblog, and also probably add the ability to add comments to the moblog entries. Only 3 more days until Golden Week, which means a whole week off, and lots of time to work on all of this (as well as finishing the latest issue of GEISHA – yes, I promise, it’s coming soon).

I’ve just registered with the JapanBloggers Webring, an offshoot of the JapanBloggers mailing list, which has recently put me in contact with some incredibly friendly people who were instrumental in the implementation of my new moblog. I’ve added the code in the info box to the right (if you’re reading this entry from the index page) that lets someone move along the ring from one site to another.

Uniqlo, the Japanese clothes store that was doing gangbusters when it first started a few years ago and is now feeling the pains of the recession, has entered the design t-shirts market in a big way. There are hundreds of t-shirts available (as well as lots of design-your-own kits), they are all dirt cheap (the Uniqlo mantra), and they’ve just launched a huge new ad campaign with lots of big names in the Japanese entertainment industry (idols, musicians, actors). Being the t-shirt addict that I am, I’ll have to go and check these out. I’m also hoping Muji will do another set of limited tees like they did last year. Also, I picked up a nice t-shirt at Beams last week. Like I said, me likes t-shirts…