Spilt Tea

I think I have done about 10 films that have shot within one...

Thu, 02 May 2013 19:32:09 -0400

I think I have done about 10 films that have shot within one minute or five minutes of where I live in Hong Kong. That is why I can’t leave, that is why I have to stay there. Chungking Express is actually shot in my apartment. […] The bloody film was shot in my bloody apartment! (laughs) I should’ve stayed in a hotel. I’d be working all day and sleeping on the floor at night. We couldn’t mess up the set. The film’s very special in that way given the connection to my personal life…

The interesting thing is after the film—I guess it was the Hong Kong tourist board put out a map of film locations—for three of four years there’d be people following this map to my door. Especially Japanese tourists for some reason. They’d go on the escalator and look for the apartment. So, I’d be going off to work or to a bar and there’d be people waiting downstairs. Once I found kids literally on my doorstep wanting to go in.

— Christopher Doyle

Just about to head home after 12 wonderful days in Kansai. Sadly, I did not cross paths with my...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:16:00 -0400

Just about to head home after 12 wonderful days in Kansai. Sadly, I did not cross paths with my celebrity crush Domoto Tsuyoshi although we were both in Nara at the same time. Damn it!

I now have my own legal copies of two DoTsu CDs (previously, I only had illegal downloads). Kinokuniya Umeda has these two in stock which happen to include three of my most favourite DT songs (ラカチノトヒ -moon arrange-, ひとからなにかへと and the superb 赤い Singer). I could not find a music store in Nara.

Although I’m not back to my level of 11 years ago, I feel that my spoken Japanese is much improved compared to my last trip here six years ago. It may sound ridiculous but I think this is because I watched so many episodes of ‘Domoto Tsuyoshi no Shoujiki Shondoi’ over the last few months. That show is great for shopping, dining, sight-seeing and casual small-talk listening comprehension. Thanks, Shindoi!

Domoto Tsuyoshi’s album of cover songs has a release date:...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:57:57 -0400

Domoto Tsuyoshi’s album of cover songs has a release date: May 8th!

Official Album Twitter here.

There seems to be some kind of hippopotamus motif. But of course.

Please recall that Tsuyoshi’s karaoke attempt at ‘I Love You’ has been known to make women cry on television. (See this clip from Shoujiki Shindoi.)

….Sigh. I’m leaving for Japan tonight and coming back on April 9th. A whole month too early to buy my own copy in store….

archaeology: New Dates for the Lion Man New radio-carbon dates...

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:27:52 -0500

archaeology:

New Dates for the Lion Man

New radio-carbon dates for bones found in the same strata as the “lion man” indicate that the Ice Age figurative sculpture is 40,000 years old, or 8,000 years older than previously thought. Carved from mammoth ivory, the first fragments of the lion man were discovered in 1939 in Germany’s Stadel Cave, just a few days before the outbreak of World War II. Archaeologists hastily filled in their trenches to protect the site and stored the sculpture in the City Museum of Ulm, where it was first reassembled in the 1970s. Recent excavations by Claus-Joachim Kind have recovered another 1,000 bits of mammoth bone that are now being added to the sculpture using computer-imaging techniques. The Ulm Museum plans to unveil the refurbished lion man in November. See ARCHAEOLOGY’s “New Life for the Lion Man” for an in-depth look at the process of reconstructing the Ice Age masterpiece.

via

That’s cool but I thought radio-carbon dating had a tendency to get a little inaccurate at around 40k years, causing lots of stuff to be dated to that time? Or maybe I’m out-of-date…

ilovecharts: Origins of American slang diagram from “The...

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:22:27 -0500

ilovecharts:

Origins of American slang diagram

from “The Dictionary of American Slang,” 1967.

Domoto Tsuyoshi/ENDLICHERI☆ENDLICHERI circa 2006 ♥♥♥ Edit: video...

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:10:00 -0500

Domoto Tsuyoshi/ENDLICHERI☆ENDLICHERI circa 2006

♥♥♥

Edit: video being wierd? Direct link. It’s worth your time, Dots fans.

Photo

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:37:31 -0500

That awkward moment when you’re hoping for someone to do the noble thing and they just...

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:35:00 -0400

That awkward moment when you’re hoping for someone to do the noble thing and they just don’t.

wkwlovers: Visit Cafe de Goldfinch in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong,...

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 20:38:16 -0400

wkwlovers:

Visit Cafe de Goldfinch in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, the setting for scenes from ‘In The Mood For Love’ and ‘2046’, where you can get your photo taken in the iconic diner both.

You can see the rest of the post here.

via akw

My submission!

High School Fads, 1944

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 11:16:26 -0400

High School Fads, 1944

most-awkward-moments

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:05:30 -0400

most-awkward-moments

Best gifs, made in Japan. rrrrrrrroll: R_22

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 21:33:26 -0400

Best gifs, made in Japan.

rrrrrrrroll:

R_22

foreverthem: wannatee: Love - Tsuyoshi (from his special movie...

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:01:31 -0400

foreverthem:

wannatee:

Love - Tsuyoshi (from his special movie on marching J)

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your..."

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:59:09 -0400

“You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”.”

- Erin (from A Dress A Day)