Category: General

For fans of vending machines in Japan, this site if for you. Includes a pic of the infamous used pantie machines (which I’ve yet to see anywhere).

You gotta love Kiiiiiii! They “play songs by… The Wiggles, Chip munks, Roco’s modern life by NIKELODEON, Hooley dooleys, and kiiiiiii!” Go to the MP3 page to find various track links on the big graphic, and start by downloading the “4little Joeys Remix.” From the pics on their site, it looks like their live show…

Haven’t made up my mind if this bike from Finnish Helkama is ugly or nice. But it looks functional and the swedish promotion site is really nice: http://www.studentcykel.nu/ (Keep in mind that “FRAM?T” means forward and “BAK?T” means backward in swedish.) Update (16/08/21): This post was part of a week-long “Next Century Modern Blog” stint,…

A reader sends me a link to this page that features a couple of new TV spots shot in Tokyo, part of automaker Lincoln-Mercury’s latest ad campaign. Nice overhead shot of the Hachiko crossing in Shibuya at the end.

This is priceless. “Dokaka is the Japanese beatbox artist whose acapella remakes of well-known songs have earned him a worldwide fan base.” Check out his rendition of “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”

Earlier this week, the headphones on my old iPod, the one I gave to Yuko, finally stopped working (they were in pretty bad shape, even showing their inner wiring) and I took the opportunity to upgrade to the new Apple In-Ear Headphones. At first I just wanted to replace them with the same earbuds as…

As you’ve probably noticed, guest blogger Jesper Larsson has started his latest stint here. He’s quite busy putting things together for the upcoming Tokyo Style in Gothenburg event, but he’ll try to keep us updated on things he’s been discovering/enjoying as often as he can. The posts by him are marked with the following icon:

I’ve been wanting to write a post on self-proclaimed “eroterrorist” Inrin of Joytoy for a while now, but Robert beat me to it. Born in Taiwan but living in Japan since the age of 10 (although Yuko says her Japanese sounds strange and that she often doesn’t understand certain words), she’s become quite the TV…

Patrick finds a bit of info at the Escalator Records website on an upcoming full-length release for Yukari Rotten. The first single has left me quite disappointed (and Patrick also shares that opinion), but I’ll be curious to see what a whole album sounds like, to see if she explores different things on it. The…

Warren Ellis has a new edition of his Brainpowered column up at Artbomb. I donated five bucks to download a bunch of Momus stuff, too. I listened to his premix of “Spooky Kabuki” last night, and later had a dream where it became a Mishima-themed musical number in the middle of Bob Fosse’s ALL THAT…