Song of the Day

Anders Ilar: Rare Islands

Gorgeous, slightly sinister ambience, reminds me of Walter/Wendy Carlos in some ways.

Twitter

I am wasting more time tonight and trying out another new communication style, this time on Twitter, which seems like sort of like a mix between instant messaging and blogging. I don’t know if its appeal will last more than 2 weeks for me, but, hey, my blog’s has. Currently, I have 0 friends, so please, jump on the “Web 2.0″ bandwagon with me:

http://twitter.com/sleazy_d

conbini run, part 2

every month the technology gets better.

Song of the Day

The Free Design: “Bubbles”

The Free Design have been name-dropped by all kinds of hipsters over the last few years, including a few whose opinions I respect, so I finally got around to checking them out. It turns out a lot of their music is as addictive as crack, including this song, which is basically Brady Bunch funk brought to perfection.

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kickin off another friday.

Just Another Day In Shinjuku

It was good weekend, but hardly productive. Friday, H and I met some friends near the gay bars and decided on a quick Indian curry dinner. Then we proceeded to this popular little bar (really more a street corner than an actual bar) where me met up with a friend we haven’t seen since last year (he had gone back home to London for a while). That was a drunken good time and I ended getting quite a bit of attention (well, for me, anyway), which is always nice. Saturday was worthless. Today, we walked to Shinjuku to run errands, basically, but H somehow talked me into seeing Dreamgirls (quite a gay weekend, eh?), which was OK, but really pretty boring, in my opinion. It just wasn’t for me. Oh, and it’s a musical. That American Idol girl is quite the singer, though.

Pizza Hut Japan Strikes Back

Every once in a while, H and I really like to trash up our bodies good with some Pizza Hut, and from the looks of their inventions, it seems like Pizza Hut Japan thinks heart disease is a some kind of joke. This is the new “cheesy roll” pizza, not to be confused with the “sausage crust” pizza H talked me into trying last year. Half of our “cheesy roll” was “gorgeous salmon”, and half was “gourmet”. I must say, the gourmet half was pretty darn tasty. For a closer look at the offerings of Pizza Hut Japan, look here.

Again

another, this time from the bathroom.

Chinese Food

from my favorite chinese place.

Beer With a Free Prize

There are sometimes wonderful beer promotions here which I can’t imagine interesting any beer drinker but myself. I must have more in common with the average Japanese person than I think. Last night (during the conbini run) I spotted some free miniature toys attached to the top of cans of Sapporo Draft One (a pretty nasty, not quite real beer, though), so I quickly snatched up a couple. The photo is of the winner of the bunch — it’s the torii at Itsukushima Shrine near Hiroshima. This series of toys, by the way, is themed around Chugoku, the region where Hiroshima is located.