Blog - Weekly revue: 2013 week #14 (March 30 to April 5)

Weekly revue: 2013 week #14 (March 30 to April 5)

Food: - Curry at Tapir (Shin-Ōkubo), Cochin Nivas (Shinjuku), and Pakumori (Shibuya)
- Bread from Kuropanya, Shin-Egota
- Cakes from Sunday Bake Shop
- Galette bretonne at Breizh Café Crêperie, Shinjuku Takashimaya

Art events: - We went to a screening of the first movie by director Matsukage Hiroyuki, short film "sunayama" (18 min., trailer), featuring Aida Makoto. The event also featured MC Yamada Hirono (underground filmmaker who does live narration over his films), who screened a few of his films that featured Matsukage as an actor.
Also shown was another new movie, "ouse" (2013, 37 min.) by director Kaneko Masakazu (who did cameras on "sunayama"). This movie also starred Matsukage as an actor. (Sorry this is getting confusing.)
There was a talk session with Matsukage Hiroyuki, Aida Makoto, and manga artist/columnist Shinsan Nameko.

- Exhibition by graffiti artist "ROUSOKU" (aka Z¥$). Various works and photos can be seen at Tokyo Cultuart by Beams, until April 10 (info).

- We had the opportunity to meet interesting pottery artists Riyoo Kim and Shinozaki Yumiko, who were just back from a group exhibition in New York. Both will have exhibitions in Tokyo in the following months so I'll post details later. Thanks Jiro-san for introducing us!

Music events: - On Wednesday I dropped by Acid Panda Cafe in Shibuya for a DJ event of Fukuta Takeshi (8-bits) and Edobor. Together the two form B2B DJ unit "beach on the S*X". Fukuta Takeshi first played a set of 7" vinyl only, followed by an Edobor set of 8cm (3") CDs only! Then were free sets by the two, but I had to leave not too late. I'm pretty sure they must have done a performance of their fun B2B unit later in the evening.

- And on Friday, I went to Tower Records in Shinjuku for an in-store live by Kaji Hideki! He was accompanied just by flutist/saxophonist Nari-san, who is often part of his live band. I really like Kaji-kun's latest album "Sweet Swedish Winter", which he explained is a sort of an acoustic break between bigger albums. He can be caught live on April 18 at Star Pine's Cafe (Kichijoji, info).

Set list: amai koibito / Sweet Swedish Winter / Milk Walk / shitauchi Girl (?, new song for this TV commercial) / anettai Girl

Outing: Went to "cat temple" Jishō-in in Ochiai-Minami-Nagasaki (Shinjuku-ku). The temple contains a large cat statue displayed only once a year on March 2. We'll have to go again next year to see this!