Archive for August 2006

13 Aug 2006 0842H

Ginza Fest & Korean Street Fest

I had a lot of fun at Ginza, but, it’s really cos the people we were with. I snapped some pix with my cellphone, the Razr, again cos, well, the SD500’s with Susan in Leiden. But really there weren’t much to photograph. As usual, it was a smattering of Buddhaheads, and the rest were gaijin, [...]

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13 Aug 2006 0250H

Uyoku

At Ginza Fest today, Ryan and I somehow got on the topic of the uyoku (右翼, literally, the “right wing”), these infamous Japanese ultra-nationalists who’ve tied themselves to the Yasukuni Shrine and drive around in black vans with loudspeakers blaring bombastic anthems and nearly unintelligible statements. Well, as it turns out they are not exactly [...]

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12 Aug 2006 0957H

Augustana: “All the Stars and Boulevards”

Whatta great album. The song lyrics are, admittedly, rather wailing and angsty and jaded, but one of their thematic strengths is in the love-hate relationship tied to one’s sense of place, ranging from the ennui of staying in one place, longing to be somewhere else, and yet going so quickly from one town to the [...]

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11 Aug 2006 2250H

Live from Chicago

Took these pix with my cellphone:

This is a shot from one of the many galleries on Halsted near 18th we hung out at tonight, me, Mots, and Yokota. The show that drew me to the area, Mots, Raettig, Jamie, their pals, at this gallery, was nice. Good crowd attending too.

And this is a [...]

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