Today’s Levitation and Roppongi Art Night
So for one reason or other I found myself at a couple of art events in the more stylish areas of Tokyo over March. Yeah, I think it’s weird, too. First, the more recent one: Hayashi Natsumi’s Today’s Levitation For those not in the know, Hayashi Natsumi is an...
JPN Rush: DEEP IN ROPPONGI–The Wild And Crazy Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Museum
In the simultaneously stylish and seedy Tokyo neighborhood known as Roppongi lies the headquarters of Japanese TV giant TV Asahi. In addition to being host to a Doraemon-themed cafe promoting the new movie with a theme song by Perfume, something else Nakata Yasutaka-related lies on the opposite side of...
Omokage Lucky Hole VS Machiyama Tomohiro “We’re Sick and Tired of Songs about ‘Believing in’ things like ‘Sakura’ and ‘Tomorrow'”
Or, “Sakura” ya “Ashita” o “Shinjiru” Uta wa Mou Takusan! Last week there was a talk event between OLH and subcultural superstar Machiyama Tomohiro in Itabashi. You may know Itabashi as one of those stops on the Sobu line between Ochanomizu and Shinjuku. I couldn’t be asked to read...