"Neu Zexy Replikantz! Jah, jah!" (und links)

Kicking myself really hard for not posting more, that’s what I’ve been doing!

It seems like I’m making more coherent, thoughtful and introspective comments around the blogosphere than on my own blog! Sheesh!

Some topics I’ve been mouthing off on and the places I’ve been doing the mouthing off include:

Remembrance of Chainsaws Past @ Soiled Sinema

Books I’ve Been Reading @ Otto Mannix

CAMPATHON, CAMPATHON, we want CAMPATHON! @ She Blogged By Night

Nobody Likes Satan Jr.—except me! (Also @ She Blogged By Night)

Lovecraft's Unhappy Hollywood Adventure @ Dinner With Max Jenke

Ivanlandia joins the Nuclear War @ John Kenneth Muir’s Reflections on Film/TV

More Post-Atomic Vehicular Madness @ John Kenneth Muir’s Reflections on Film/TV

Roger Corman takes a trip to Las Vegas and Sees the Center of the Universe @ Eternal Sunshine of the Logical Mind

Here’s one of the best articles I’ve read in a while—all about the overblown hysteria around meth and the stigmatization of folks who like to have fun….

BTW, I finally caught up with Black Swan—what incredibly loony craziness: great stuff!
If you took Mommy Dearest, William Castle’s Straight-Jacket, De Palma’s Carrie, a dash of Suspiria, a teaspoon of Ken Russell and a pinch of John Waters’ Female Trouble—add a heaping dose of Tchaikovsky, and voilà! Black Swan.

And now for more pictures….ENJOY!

This Week & its Sexy Replikoids

What a week! First, Liz Taylor (RIP) transcended this material realm and joined Richard in Valhalla, then I had to go to the dentist: yeeeeeeeeeeee-OUCH!!!

(Oh yeah, The National Film Board of Ivanlandia finally got around to screening Los Angeles Plays Itself--great stuff, highly recommended. Find yourself a bootleg and watch it
NOW.)

Sumimasen, nihongo wakaramasen

Tokyo Streets (2007)

Not a movie per se, the DVD Tokyo Streets is more like video wallpaper for any Japan-o-phile: something to have on in the background at a party, or on the overhead TV at a hipster bar. Tokyo Streets is a little too fashion-centric for my tastes, but there’s some really cool stuff, too.


It may be just street life, but that sort of thing always fascinates me. I hope I’m wrong, but unless you’re a big fan of the Frederick Wiseman-style of documentary (no narration), I get the feeling that the viewers who might enjoy this most are those who’ve actually been to Tokyo.

Forget it Jake, it’s Tokyo.


BTW, there’s no reason for this DVD to be rated NC-17; it’s a PG at best.


A photo album: Tokyo (unless otherwise noted), Summer 2006.


What the fuck? This is TOKYO, not Berlin. I’m in this town less than an hour and my brain’s already fried. This was in a tiny alley off Shibuya. A place troubled, I'm sure, by waking nightmares...

Graffiti translation courtesy of my cousin: it’s a haiku:

The lost child Crying, crying, but still Catching the fire-flies

(Speaking of fried brains and waking nightmares: Some trippin' during Godzilla Vs. the Smog Monster: an inadvertant psychedelic classic! No lie.)

Cuteness and CCTV: your fun will be closely monitored for any anti-fun infractions.

A noodle-eating dragon: "Keep 'em comin', bub! I sunk a freighter this morning and that always gives me a powerful hunger!" (Osaka)

Candidates: They have all karaoked to Alice Cooper’s "Elected" in anticipation of their certain victories. (Kyoto)

Scary candidate: “The Lone Wolf” (Kyoto) (Dig the stickers holding up the poster!)

“Look into his eyes—he will restore the Chrysanthemum Throne to its former glory!” (Kyoto)

The incubation chambers are waiting. Now the humans need to be inseminated...

Vending machines and flying houses—paradise, I tells ya, paradise!

Friendly and bilingual!

Mr. Pac-Man got himself some hairplugs and eye surgery and opened a love hotel in Shibuya. Don't worry, he's on good terms with the Yakuza...

Froggie, I love you! Mwah! (Kyoto)

Smoggo's lesson of the day:
Sumimasen, nihongo wakaramasen: “I’m very sorry, but I do not speak Japanese.”
This is probably the most important phrase a traveler there should know.