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tayutau and jaaja at urban guild
Tayutau (たゆたう) is one if my very favorite bands. The duo — Nishimoto Hiroko on guitar and Ikagi Akiko on violin and found percussion — play music that is haunting, beautiful, playful, and cleverly quiet. Both of them sing and when they harmonize it’s as if a third, invisible instrument has suddenly taken the stage. […]
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25 things
1) I have an early memory of standing in the yard of my grandmother’s house in Bolinas, trying to learn to whistle. There was a hummingbird flying around the yard and it suddenly swooped down and skimmed through the top of my hair. At that moment, I whistled. 2) In high school, I spent an […]
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While Marié was doing a soundcheck with RF at Urban Guild, Akita and I went to Gallerie Aube to see Tanaami Keiichi’s latest exhibit, which was stellar. Tanaami’s avant-garde work includes animation, graphic design, painting, and poster design. His 1960s work, like Yokoo Tadanori’s, engages with a style of poster art known as ungurashibai. As […]
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Tags: 1960s radicalism, 60s, 70s, ギャルリ・オーブ, bodily secretions, 田名網 敬, dreamscape, Galerie Aube, graphic design, Kim Deitch, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Layers, Mt. Fuji, poster art, psychedelia, psychedelic, radical politics, sex-pop mysticism, sexual, sexuality, social explosion, Tanaami Keiichi, underground comix, Ungurashibai, Yokoo Tadanori, 横尾忠則, 京都造形芸術大学
Nakano
After spending the early part of the day in Akihabara, Jess, Tomo, and I headed to Nakano, another node for Tokyo subculture. The center of Nakano’s subculture is the Broadway（ブロードウェイ）building, which contains a stunning array of shops that specialize in used/collectible manga, figurines, limited edition and handmade items (especially t-shirts), and counterculture matériel. Most of […]
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Tags: まんが, まんだらけ, やおい, タコツェ, ブロードウェイ, マンガ, Broadway, collectibles, comics, Dada, ero manga, fetishism, Godzilla, kaiju, Mandarake, manga, Nakano, nostalgia, ramen, shojo manga, t-shirts, Taco Ché, Tofu Head, Ultraman, yaoi manga, 少女漫画, 漫画
