bizarro world

LAF. So, was continuing my meandering through Ishkur's guide to Electronic Music, which has quite funny descriptions of all the genres that may or may not exist. It also has nice samples which illustrate the genres very well. They're good to listen to while I do mindless work.

And guess what? There's a jpop listing! It's quite an entertaining one too. There's a sample from Hamasaki Ayumi (of course), and Megumi Hayashibara.]

To find jpop, you can click on the "House" button, and it's on the far right.

For other funny entries, you should check out the section on German under "trance". LAF.

sushi fighting

The Japan Times has a funny article on sushi snobbery.

To the Japanese, entering a good sushi restaurant is similar to entering the confessional booth: you're rewarded, yes, but at the same time you'll get your dose of punishment.

Speaking of food, these vegetarian restaurants around Omotesando sound good. Might drop by one of the cafes.

ibitha

Hey, anyone wanna tell me why the British seem to pronounce Ibiza as "Ibitha"? Just curious. Maybe it has something to do with the Spanish pronunciation.

competition is good

Have you noticed that after Yahoo upgraded all mail accounts to 100 MG (after Google started testing gmail with 1 GB of space), that major mail providers have started advertising their planned space upgrades? Hotmail says that they'll be upgrading to 250 MG this fall, and Excite says they'll be moving to 125 MG soon. I love competition. All for free services. By the way, I wouldn't get an excite account. it's not very easy to use. In fact, I shouldn't use mine. I've been pumping the unimportant but fun newsgroups to that account, but the interface is a real pain. Now that I have lots of space on yahoo, I can use that instead.

New vocabulary

It occurred to me that I haven't posted much Japanese lately. Time to change that, as the best way to practice is to use the language.

最近日記は日本語であまりを書いていませんでした。一番いい日本語の練習は日本語を使うことですから、日本語で書いたほうがいいと思います。

今日の新しい単語は、「寮」という言葉です。寮というのは、英語でdormitory又はdorm.

寮は、前習ったけど、いつも忘れちゃいました。

quote of the day

From an article about Iranian women and blogging:

Bloggers can get quite feisty, as one commented in Farsi on the ruling clerics: "It's very pleasant to have to talk with 18th century people in 2004."

Ryuji Miyamoto Retrospective

The Setagaya Art Museum has an interesting photo exhibit of Miyamoto work at the moment. It's only there until July 4th though.

The Ikko Narahara exhibit is only there till July 11th though. Too much going on :P.