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Cute faces …everywhere.
A broom at the dollar shop with the best mustache ever.
Those faces are too cute to eat off of.
This is a bit overwhelming...
These faces make the cups stand up properly.
These fuzzy slippers clean the floor as you walk around. And, of course, they have faces.
These clips are made to look like they're eating the potato chip bag. Or carrying it in their mouth. Too cute.
How to make the vege-peeler have a face... hmm. This one's really streaching, but in Japan everything needs a face. So here ya go.
These pictures are just a sample of hundreds of products I’ve seen with faces. I think it would be possible for every single item in a Japanese apartment to have a face. Seriously.
-j.
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Moose
Spatula
Deer
Moose
Spatula +
Deer =
Moose..?
ヘラ +
シカ =
ヘラジカ
So, in Japanese, a moose is a Spatula Deer. Awesome.
-j.
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Food is cuter in Japan
This is what I eat on weekends:
Tiny scones
Tiny appetiser
Tiny portions for dinner
Portions in Japan are much smaller, but there are a so many of them that it ends up being quite a lot of food. Also, it looks nicer than single, huge main dish.
-jer.
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Alden Penner, center right, of the defunct band The Unicorns, has been working with Charlyne Yi and Michael Cera lately.
As Mariz mentioned a little while ago (scroll down), Paper Heart is looking like a pretty interesting/ incredibly cute movie.
Well, according to pitchfork.com, the soundtrack should be at least as great as the story, which won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for outstanding writing at 2009’s Sundance Film Fest. Alden Penner of The Unicorns fame has worked with Yi and Cera to put together an original score, writing and producing music with the adorable couple. Check out the film’s myspace for a sneak preview. The music sounds reminiscent of The Unicorns, just a bit more positive.
Oh yea, Zach Condon of Beirut provided a song as well. Woohoo.
-j
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D.Lee
Found this site as I was creeping someone on fb. I just so happen to be listening to Radiohead’s ‘Nude’ and the visuals time with the music so beautifully! This is like when someone had the bright idea of putting ‘Nosferatu’ against ‘Kid A’ except it’s so much more enchanting.
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xx
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Ok, I like the whole indie rock thing; seeing an amazing band in a small venue is breathtaking, but its just so hard to keep up with the trends. I sometimes read pitchfork.com, unfortunately the reviewer’s taste is usually so weird that it warps my own perception (yea, Pavement and the Neutral Milk Hotel are great, but do they belong in the top five of the best albums of the 1990s?) But recently, I found some decent video journalism that gives a reasonably accurate taste of new artists. It’s all packaged into interviews just a bit longer than a pop song, and it’s…. on the American Broadcasting Company’s website… What? Yea, ABC Amplified.
Click on an album, then find that album in the short list. There’s also a lot of other great bands interviewed on the site.
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus
Peter Bjorn and John - Living Thing
Passion Pit - Manners
-jer.
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Penguin Classic Reissue #1
Julie Doucet cover art with clever descriptions of the girls thinking as regular teenagers. The title is shiny and red like Christmas tinsel!
A page from My Most Secret Desire (juliedoucet.net)
I think some people would be surprised to know that next to Annie Hall, Little Women (1994, dir. Gillian Armstrong) is my favourite movie. I watched this movie non stop when I was 11 or 12 using a dubbed VHS copy that my dad made for me after we rented it from Blockbuster (he was hip to all the illegal pirating stuff). I still have that copy, it’s got all these little stars and things I drew on it because I loved it so much. It’s such a great tale of family, female camaraderie and relationships that I was really intrigued by. Jo is easily the most relatable for me because I wanted to be her–I wanted to have Laurie as a best friend, I wanted to pursue a career as a writer, and I wanted to seek adventure in New York. I tried to finish the book a few times but as it happens, life gets in the way and I never did. Last year, one of my most surprising birthday gifts was a Penguin Classic reissue from my friend Jane. What I loved was that A. She remembered how I told her of her that it was my favourite movie, and B. it was a beautiful reissue with new cover artwork by Montreal born cartoonist Julie Doucet. I recognized her work instantly because it has this dark, dirty, or what I call ‘lefthandedness’ to it that I find pretty distinct. I read her comic My Most Secret Desire waiting in line at VPL way back when. It’s not really for the faint of heart.
I only recently started reading Little Women again. It’s awesome. You just have to throw out the version you have in your head and imagine new faces for the characters. I had to take a break from it because I just finished the chapter when Beth receives the piano from Mr. Laurence and I started to get teary. Go pick it up!
xx
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Best ever MJ
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Konbiniya
Here’s another thing that’s way better, cooler, more fun, and more interesting in Tokyo: Convenience stores. Sure, they all generally carry the same things as they do here in Vancouver, but we were pleasantly surprised by the quality of food they had to offer.
I went to Tokyo for fun last month with my bff Karlo. We got in at about 9pm, tried to sleep, couldn’t, so we got up at 2am and left the inn at 5am hungry. This is before we realized places weren’t open until 10-11am. We noticed a 7-11 (aka Seven & I Holdings) near our ryokan and decided to stop in. There were tonnes of refrigerated foods to choose from: noodle dishes, bento boxes, and triangle sushi rolls that were wrapped in cellophane to name a few. We ate quite a few of these because they were Y85 each, a filling go-to snack. They were tricky to open at first– it had been wrapped separately from the nori so carefully to protect the rice from completely hardening, sort of like an origami sushi. We decided on some familiar looking buns with tuna, cheese and ham at about Y125 each and ate in front of the convenience store. We saw a young girl coming out with a full bag of groceries and I remember thinking how weird is it to buy all your groceries from 7-11, but remembered just how common that is amongst language school students here in Vancouver–convenience stores in some parts of Asia are grocery stores. And why not! In Vancouver the idea is disgusting because you’re paying $6 for a loaf of bread when you could be paying half at grocery store x…
There’s this store on Robson that you’ve probably seen or passed by: it’s called Konbiniya, Karlo swore by all of their prepared food last summer when he was living off of Davie. Like T&T in Vancouver, they have a prepared food section which they gradually mark down towards the end of the evening.
I personally don’t like the prepared food here. I tried, but I just can’t eat it for some reason. BUT, unlike this picture suggests, they have added a crepe window where they make Japanese style crepes. I HIGHLY recommend this place if you want something different from Cafe Crepe. It’s only a few more blocks down and they make a more ergonomically rolled crepe for walking than the Cafe Crepe does–you can just grip it better. In Harajuku I had a crepe with peaches, frozen yogurt, and whipped cream. I had the identical one at Konbiniya a week ago and it was just as amazing. Ok, not really because we were walking down Robson on a Thursday night and not on any given day in Harajuku. Still, it nearly brought a tear to my eye…
Konbiniya has all those hard to find Japanese treats, like Glico brand cream filled cookies that are super yummy. It comes in a red box with the face of a little Asian boy happily eating the cookies. You can get that black coffee gum too. And all those canned iced coffees , except the Suntory Boss Brand, which is a shame. Anyway, it’s a nice place to visit when you miss Tokyo, minus the irasshaimase.
xx
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