eccentric buzz

There are plans to launch a long-range missile. It concerns many Japanese as well as others. Save the dates, April 4-8. Thankfully, I will be out of here by March 30.



Kim Jong Il

He's fascinating.
Why is that?

"He is said to wear platform shoes and favour a bouffant hairstyle in order to appear taller than his 1.57m (5ft 3in). "

"He is said to have a library of 20,000 Hollywood movies and to have even written a book on the cinema. He even went so far as to engineer the kidnapping, in 1978, of a South Korean film director and his girlfriend."

"the North Korean leader had live lobsters air-lifted to the train every day which he ate with silver chopsticks."

"according to official North Korean accounts, he was born in a log cabin at his father's guerrilla base on North Korea's highest mountain, Mt Paektu, in February 1942.

The event was reportedly marked by a double rainbow and a bright star in the sky."

quotes taken from article in link

i <3 gossip

retro illustrations

retro inspiration from here.
everything is retro inspired. maybe some are taken from old/new vogue editorials, no?

free and easy

magazines online

hey dj

just skip the whole thing altogether

trippple nippples friday at le baron, now a duo (xx qrea xx)

taken from an email to a friend

but here i have your painting. it's not hung. i never put holes in the wall. i tried hanging it from the ceiling, there's a wooden piece along the top where the wall and the ceiling intersect, but i couldn't get the nail in at the right angle. now it's resting, stable against the wall.
i love it very much. no one has ever given me an artwork they made.

a couple weeks ago i met this guy in his late 30s in nakameguro. he was on his bike and looking for a restaurant. i was on my way to meet a friend, and told him i didn't know, but he wasn't really looking for that restaurant in particular, he was looking for any good restaurant in the neighborhood, turns out hes writing a nakameguro restaurant guide book and ranking them based on flavor and price. he came with me and we started talking. he knows a lot about marketing and advertising in japan and said that there is a very simple formula to it all. you have to have an interesting story and sell that story. he is very willing to help me start a brand here in japan. then i met up with him the other day with naoko, and we talked a lot more. naoko has no job now, and might start working for him, trying to sell the book because it's marketed towards young women who want their money's worth, and image-wise it would be wrong for a man to try selling it. so we had dinner and he's maybe the most interesting japanese guy i've met. he's saving money now, writing this restaurant guide book, and living in nakameguro in exchange for lessons. he's teaching this guy how to make money on the stock market, and whatever profit, he gets a certain percentage. so he's saving and saving until 2012 when he'll have enough money to do what he ultimately wants to do. which is write childrens books. which he will call something like, the mysterious world of adults. it'll be stories about the religious war between palestine and israel, stories about all the waste huge companies like starbucks and mcdonalds make, about how smoking cigarettes will kill you. he wants to make these stories to make kids feel embarrassed about the world they live in and what their parents do and are a part of. it makes no difference to write stories for the government or the companies, it must start when you are young. many kids stories in japan have no morals, teach no ethics, like aesops or grimms. then when i told him, i'm going back to ny and going back to school, he said school is for people who are afraid to go into the real world. the economy is terrible now, and the majority of people think that it's a bad time to start a new company, but it's exactly the opposite. it is exactly the time to start something and make a huge profit, because no one else will take the chance. okay, so to start a brand, do you know what you need? money. start a website where you sell things from america you cannot get in japan. and vica versa. once you make tons of money with that, start your own brand and sell that. he is all action. in a japanese man that is very refreshing, and makes me wonder if i should stay in japan. or go back to ny. there is also a wonderful school in belgium i want to go to.

i got your postcard. arigato
dubrovnik was where miyazaki imagined when he wrote porco rosso. did you tell me that?
i might come visit in the summer.
i have no uncle with a restaurant. gommen.
it's almost 3am. i can hear the guy in the room next to me snoring!!!!!!!!!

xx
mitsue

location location location

fotos from the coveted

threeASFOUR,
they are of new york.

Blend: Has New York been a good place to nurture the label?

Gabi: It’s the only place. It’s the most open-minded city in the world. It has the most opportunities, because it doesn’t discriminate. You can be whatever you want to be. As long as you are yourself, you’re accepted here.

Ange: From the beginning, when we started doing things, there was hardly anything around except for the big guys. And people always would say, “Oh, why don’t you move to Paris,” but we said, no, we believe in this city. We need to change things here. It’s so easy to go to Paris, every idiot can go there!

Gabi: It’s also about your life and how you’re living everyday. Paris is depressing to me.

Ange: It’s just not us.

Gabi: So why should we do that?

taken from here

no, check this

The drawing should be taken at face value, it's for a hair salon+cafe in Shibuya. You don't need a particularly keen sense of smell, rather, I'd imagine it would be better if you didn't...hair products+coffee, let's discuss.




This, you just don't see it that often...


This, you do.



coca cola zero




I love that the bicycles are a part of their 'image'.




like butta

Jean Paul Gaultier "Prêt-à-Porter" 2009 Limited Edition Evian Bottle, a gratuitous novelty for the maniacs, of which Japan has many.

Ah, the commercial market and it's never ending gimmicks to lick the consumer. You make every train ride, every vending machine, every trip to the supermarket worthwhile. I feel assured that the global economy is in good hands.



xx