1. smRts 7″/ep launch
was last night at kulcha, on a dark and stormy night. not like this picture at all. we played to a crowd of people who dared brave the weather conditions, in a venue that is lovely, clean, has good sound and friendly staff, and serves tea, coffee, chocolate and pringles at the bar. not just a world music venue anymore. when i got home, i dumped my gear round the back door and went to bed, but after some phone calls and messages. the stuff is still lying there, just relieved that everything went well.
2. love is my velocity cookbook II
if you pull out the cards for the limv cookbook, you will find a very good rendering of my artwork to accompany apricot rail’s apricot brandy recipe. the colours came out well in print, i’m happy with this one!
3. three hams in a can
is a film premiering at the revelation perth film festival, which is also a documentary of part of the trip we took together to japan last summer. japanese summer is the most unavoidably humid, rainy, sun seering hot summer you can get. this will only appear as beads of sweat on celluloid, which you can view at the astor theatre on july 4th and 6th. i appear occasionally as sidekick, and i also designed the poster.
June 9th, 2009 shiny
specifically, two things:
1. the video for shiina ringo’s ariamaru tomi
cheap baubles and glass falling after the 4:45 mark, which i keep watching over and over. but appropriate because the lyrics talk about things you can’t buy…
2. opening titles for BOSS
easily the shiniest cop drama screening at the moment. though the hand held camera gets a bit annoying after a while, amami yuki is the sassiest 41 year old i’ve seen in ages. (oh, is that a pun?) also this series is seriously going to get me munching through a pack of m&ms, the habit of the lead character…
lately i’ve been eyeing the “classic, elegant, romantic” style of juliette et justine. though sometimes too princessy and veering dangerously close to the over the top hime gyaru, i am a complete sucker for lace and ruffles though. and thanks to rakuten’s overseas shipping service, i was able to order an item, which i hope will last me for many years to come.
there are also simple english translations on the help and shop pages. customers describe the experience of having an hour to themselves in their amagasaki store before opening time, being served tea while trying on clothes at their leisure. customers also have the pictures of themselves wearing the clothes they tried on emailed to them later. how is that for service?
i was still surprised when i received my box about a week later via ems.
for when i opened it, i found it was packaged neatly, with another juliette et justine sticker, and a ribbon on the bottom…
and a card addressed to me (with my surname first though, japanese style), a laminated card detailing the skirt that i bought, plus a fake rose.
(a closeup of the card and rose)
while expensive (22050 yen plus shipping), the details on the skirt are lovely, with three tiers of lace ruffles. i was a little worried about it not being quite big enough, but being elasticised waist and 96cm in the hip measurement proved just right for me. i like this kind of “mermaid” cut skirt as it is flattering to my proportions!
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