December 11, 2008 // Posted by: Content Keyword RSS // Category:
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† View Comments December 6: drove from Los Angeles to the desert for a photoshoot at Hesperia Airport. The lot was filled with small (and dangerous-looking) planes from the 1970s. The clothing line has been on the back burner because I was in Tokyo for the past 2.5 months and have two book contracts to complete... ... but I'm getting on it. My LA
November 09, 2008 // Posted by: Content Keyword RSS // Category:
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† View Comments Anyone else here a raving fan of the Garfield and Friends cartoon (1988-1994)? From the third to seventh season, the theme song went a little bit like this: Dancing, fiesta! Romancing, siesta! Samba, la bamba... aie caramba! That's what I was humming to myself (okay, singing aloud) as I moseyed around Tokyo's Design Festa. The two-da
November 01, 2008 // Posted by: Content Keyword RSS // Category:
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† View Comments You know you're jaded when a fetish/bondage/bloodplay show causes you to yawn uncontrollably. My Halloween hangover began yesterday with a Tokyo Dark Castle special, dramatically titled Operetta of the Darkness. Genet (event organizer and Auto-Mod frontman) pulled out all the fetish-grotesque stops. A Victorian magician dragged out
October 23, 2008 // Posted by: Content Keyword RSS // Category:
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† View Comments I visited Marie Antoinette's palace in 2004 and it was a ghost of its past opulence; a mere shell of the Rocaille. But the court didn't fall with the Bastille - it's simply moved to Tokyo and reincarnated itself through Visual Kei band Versailles (now known as Versailles -Philharmonic Quintet- in the US for lawyerly reasons).
October 23, 2008 // Posted by: Content Keyword RSS // Category:
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Yay- It’s time for Halloween- yet another festival that has passed through Japan’s cultural filters and morphed into something fun, idiosyncratic and weird. Halloween is brilliant in Tokyo- all the wild parties, horror movies and costumes, without any pesky trick-or-treating kids getting in the way. I wrote about Halloween in Japan last year here. There are plenty of suitably spooky places to go- as well as various venues that are creepy all year round, such as Shibuya’s Alcatraz ER (
