The Mercedes-Benz of delivery bikes.
Posted on December 23, 2007 at 01:34 PM | Comment (2 comments)
Super Champion Drunken Fun Zone!
These were all taken in this massive electronics store in Tokyo. Since you can basically drink beer anywhere and at anytime, Shadi, Herne, Luke, Nish and I grabbed some cold, crisp Asahi’s and hit it up. There were camera’s, gadgets, mechanical bulls, basically, everything and anything that takes a battery or has a plug. Good times.
Posted on December 09, 2007 at 02:33 PM | Comment (0 comments)
Did this logo for JB and he just got a small run of t’s made for his crew of Reggae 45 diggers. More colors coming soon. Stop by Bembe for Tuff Tuesdays if you want to snag one.
Posted on December 09, 2007 at 02:01 PM | Comment (0 comments)
Massan Gets Hit. Igei’s Bike Stolen.
Massan got into it with a cabbie a couple of nights ago, folded a front wheel, but was ok and rolling the next day. Igei didn’t actually get his bike stolen, but he might! (by Me.) He did post some photos from the trip though. Photo by Suzette.
Posted on December 06, 2007 at 10:58 AM | Comment (2 comments)
Sometimes funny, unintended things happen on signs in Japan when they are translated to English. I was a little disappointed when I went to the “Rocker Room”, only to find a bunch of Japanese businessmen hanging out in towels. Respectfully, again, I have to thank Pai, Makoto and Yohei (and so many more patient people) for putting up with a bunch of English only speaking, possibly drunk, Yankees for two weeks. Good times.
Posted on December 04, 2007 at 09:12 PM | Comment (2 comments)
Towards the end of the Japan trip, money was getting a little tight for everybody. My last night there, I decided to go the capsule route for the night. Only 3000 Yen (roughly $30.00) for a night. Check in at 5pm and check out at 10am. It feels like going into a laundromat with a wall of dryers, but then having people climb inside and spend the night in the dryers. Men only, you have a choice of top or bottom. Each one has a curtain that you pull down for privacy, and there is a 70’s style console inside each one with am/fm radio and a small TV. You get woken up by a cattle call loudspeaker that echoes through every floor of the place. They are cheap and clean, but if you are claustrophobic, I might think twice about it. Strange also that there was a a sticker on the door of the hotel that, from what I could figure out, banned Yakuza from staying there.
Posted on December 03, 2007 at 08:42 PM | Comment (2 comments)
I Thought It Was You. (It was just your vocoder.)
Speaking of vocoders, Herbie Hancock uses one extensively on Sunlight (1978). Its probably right before Herbie really started to piss off jazz purists and went more and more mainstream with his sound. The first song ”I Thought It Was You”, Herbie uses a vocoder for the length of the song. Its ridiculous, borderline comical but definitely interesting. “Come Running To Me” gets the vocoder again. Basically any song that was not an instrumental (there are a couple) got the vocoder treatment. I guess Herbie was into the vocoder. And apparently, a shit-load of keyboards and synthesizers. The album was not well received by most people from what I’ve read, “For much of the album, he seems most interested in establishing a new career as an electronic vocalist”. And commenting on his insane keyboard set-up, “Stevie Wonder, he’s not.” Ouch. But he is Herbie Hancock, same guy that Miles Davis wanted in his line-up in 1963. He’s had a crazy run of so many musical styles. If you find it cheap, its worth picking up.
Posted on December 03, 2007 at 07:57 PM | Comment (0 comments)
Smoke us a cigarette. . . and go back to sleep.
Admittedly, I’m probably not the person you want to ask about popular music today, I haven’t turned on the radio in years and am out of touch with most new music. I’m ok with that. Most of you have probably seen Snoop’s new video, Sensual Seduction, but its really blowing my mind right now. I don’t know who directed it, but it is done so well, even down to the shitty VHS style “PLAY” graphic that appears at the beginning of the video. I could do without his breakdown towards the end (I’ll listen to Deep Cover for that) but the fact that the whole song is sang through a fucking vocoder is mind blowing. Plus the When Doves Cry mirror-screen action with a Robert Palmer-esque gang of exceptionally hot girls “playing” keyboards and guitars. And the scene with the circular bed floating in space? “If you don’t know by now, Doggy Dogg is a freak, freeeeak, freeeeee-eee-eeak.” Classic.
Posted on December 03, 2007 at 12:07 PM | Comment (0 comments)
