Archive for April, 2004

Weekend Music

« 12 April 2004 | 13:34 | humour, media, music | No Comments »

Two music posts:
Beatallica — Beatles songs in Metallica style. “Leper Madonna”. “Hey Dude”. Ingenious. Hilarious. Free. A must listen.
Denki Groove’s latest Singles and Strikes. This always happens – I go to a CD store to buy gifts, and walk out with at least one for myself :) Had mixed feelings getting [...]

Who is that with Jeremy?

« 8 April 2004 | 2:27 | America, humour, media | 1 Comment »

This is hilarious. I see a coffee-table book in the making! The wide variety of photos make it look legit; the father is obviously someone in the entertainment industry; any one know who?
Update: a quick whois on the site reveals it is Michael Zorek’s son. Google it if you’re curious for more.

Utada Hikaru

« 7 April 2004 | 19:08 | Japan, diary, media, music | 3 Comments »

Bought my first (and probably last) Utada Hikaru album today — her Single Collection Vol. 1. (For those who don’t know, she is one of, if not the, highest grossing Japanese pop artist — and she just got married to her 40 year-old producer 35 year old video director (but that’s for another [...]

News bites

« 7 April 2004 | 13:03 | Japan, biznomics, geekery, scitech | No Comments »

Best returns for private equity in Japan? Starting to sound like we’ve hit bottom; or Guy is gearing up for a run down Pamplona?
Only three times as many PS2 users online than XBoxers. I would have thought higher; hm…
Cutting the landline – only 10% want to? Must be a combination of deadspots, [...]

Use AAA in Japan!

« 6 April 2004 | 12:20 | Japan, diary, tokyo life | 2 Comments »

That’s right! Yay!

Aqua-culture

« 3 April 2004 | 16:38 | diary, tokyo life | 2 Comments »

Every 3 to 4 months we have the “local” (he lives about an hour outside the city) tank-guy come clean out the kitchen fish tank. Grandma bought the setup a number of years ago, but hasn’t been able to take care of it recently so aside from feeding the fish and shrimp and watching [...]

Hanami

« 3 April 2004 | 16:27 | Japan, diary, tokyo life | 1 Comment »

Hanami. It’s neat. It can be fun and beautiful. But at night? In a graveyard? Weird. Some photos here.

Clie NX70N/V for sale

« 3 April 2004 | 15:49 | diary, geekery, scitech, tokyo life | No Comments »

English version, comes complete with original manuals, disks, etc. Looking to get 25,000yen, but negotiable. Reason for sale: I bought a TH55.
mromaine at va dot rosenet dot ne dot jp if you’re interested.
Anyone know of a good “Craig’s list” or ebay-Japan?
Update: Sold!

Bank Times

« 2 April 2004 | 11:21 | Japan, biznomics, salaryman, tokyo life | 1 Comment »

Resona extending hours!
From 3pm to … to … to … 5pm! Ooooo.
Apparently Shinsei’s success hasn’t been much of a learning experience for them.

Selling my computer!

« 1 April 2004 | 1:15 | geekery, tokyo life | 1 Comment »

I’m selling my desktop, seeing as I haven’t been using it since getting my PBG4. There’s no Craig’s list Tokyo, and Metropolis stinks, so until I find other methods of publicity, I’m using my blog :) email mromaine at va dot rosenet dot ne dot jp if you’re interested. Kanto region residents [...]