Too Close

The Nikkei Marketing Journal (Oct. 13 issue) reports that there's a good-old-day shop Matsunoya near my apartment, which opened this past January.

Nine months, and belated first visit.
In the late afternoon, the shop was cozily dark and smelled woody and spicy.


徒歩3分。めっちゃ近いやん。
ブリキのちりとりや藤の脱衣かご。
ところで、ブリキ（blik)ってオランダ語やったんやね。

Yah Yah Yah

Don't know why, but I always scrabble a lot of arrows (--> ya) while on the phone:

Company, ya.
who, ya.
to whom, ya.
please call back, ya.
number, ya.

A rain of --> marks.

Actually, I don't think I can take phone notes without them.
Probably my brain recognizes --> as a "got-it" program code.

Takeshi and Mic Rig

The "World Great TV Special" on NTV wasn't that "great."

But I had enough laugh and awe, especially when I saw

Ugly Ms. Takeshi Kitano
http://www.ntv.co.jp/marumie/takeshi/index.html

and Mic Rig (Specially built car for "the Fast and the Furious")
http://www.cinema.com/articles/594/fast-and-the-furious-the-production-notes.phtml

Ain't Kansai

Sometimes I wonder why I'm in Tokyo.

わたし、何してるんやろ？
関西帰りたいーーー　ってどうしようもないことあるけど
東京は東京で　自然にあふれてるし
意外と居心地良かったりもする。



Ohshima Island, Tokyo.
December 22, 2009