An Eternal Thought in the Mind of Godzilla

"This is the real picture of Hell"

Hey sinners. It's Halloween and I have a J-horror themed show (and a cold, and jet-lag) at ATA's Other Cinema tonight in San Francisco. I'm basically going to run through excerpts from the major works of director Nobuo Nakagawa before capping it off with a screening of his 1960 masterpiece Jigoku (Hell). Above is a behind-the-scenes shot thereof. All remaining known facts about the show are here. The other hot ticket today in SF is, of course, Matt Alt's yokai lecture at New People.

Golden Repair

hi going craxy but we have some new contents for you soon. 2-3 new hot tears of shame plus a new batcharoo of behind the scenes godxilla pix. I do it all for you...in the last 72 hours in Tokyo death spiral now, so wish me...luck?

Podcast: Hot Tears of Shame x Episode Thirty-Five

PARTICIPANTS
Patrick Macias - editor in chief, OTAKU USA magazine
Patrick W. Galbraith - author, The Otaku Encyclopedia
Renato Rivera - PhD. Student at Kyoto University
Adrian Lozano - co-founder, Otaku2.com

DISCUSSION TOPICS
Can otaku content spread to the mainstream?
Otaku subculture vs. mainstream anime and manga
Divisions within the otaku community
Moe and new models of creativity
Otaku power, sexuality, and identification
Ukiyo-e: 2010 is 1910
Japan as “the Other”
Pachinko!
Anime as nationalist propaganda machine
Galgames and the end of the Japanese game industry

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Podcast: Hot Tears of Shame x Episode Thirty-Four

From the official Nakano Broadway website...

NAKANO　BROADWAY　WELCOMES　FOREIGN　VISITORS

Nakano Broadway strives to always be lively and foreigner friendly. NAKANO　SHOP　ONWERS　ARE　ALWAYS　POSITIVE.　This Multilingual　Information　website shows　their　gratitude to foreign shoppers. ‘Yokoso　Nakano’　You are always welcome!!

That is...until a shop owner goes insane and accuses Matt Alt and "Patty Mac" of a crime they did not commit!!!

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Akabane Mental Clinic

It is a rough lot that gets on the dobutsu-sen train bound for Ikebukuro and points north. Loutish men in mediocre suits bearing battered carrying cases. Faces framed by odd haircuts and configurations. Blotchy skin like recovering burn victims, patched up by leftover shoe leather. Only two women on this train, fragile framed until their legs descend into nearly-matching engineer boots. Late afternoon weather almost too blue now, but the post-typhoon trains are still slow, every line of track a groove running out of synch with itself. Ads for One-Cup Ozeki sake plastered on the windows. Do they really have to push the product up here? The persona is practically free for the price of a ticket.

Blenda Black October

Fun facts about the Taishomei Jidai:

1. The Bubble Economy never ended
2. The Gerotan Invasion actually happened
3. “Tokyo times itself” is Tokyo2
4. Col. Baldwin is old US Black Ops deeply involved with Project ESPY
5. Weapons and drugs are hidden in secret locations known as “Liquid Rooms”
6. Taisho, Showa, Meiji = Taishomei Jidai
7. In this strange and elegant time, 80% of all girls are named Yuka, Yuuka, or Youna
8. Symphonic Suites have replaced all forms of pre-21st century muzak
9. ESPY stands for Extra Sensory Perception Youth
10. I sometimes work for them, or Counter ESPY, or whoever pays the bills
11. Psychic energy can be stored and recharged, like a battery
12. I am not, nor have I ever, used the alias “Pedro Edogawa”
13. The overtones are the spaces between the Earth’s harmonic frequency range and are magic
14. An imprisoned anime producer conspires to create his new masterpiece behind bars
15. The Gorgeous 10 Minute War AKA The Goka-na Jyu-pun Senso is happening right now.

set-ups, diversions, and countermeasures

No wither, wherewithal, or the hope of hanging on. We are headed straight into the heart of the big overtones via a Xanax void-all until we reach Tokyo2. What’s left of the California sun intense on my neck here, shadows striking the thin navy blue carpet beneath me in a prison bar pattern. Passengers sauntering in to pre-flight loading bay in drips and drizzle. No one speaks here. Obasan planted into O magazine, Another next to her with pink DS. Behind them, an aging Thai boxer maybe. Permanent pissed off expression carved into striking face. Shaggy, inappropriate Jeri curl hair dyed blonde on the sides and tips, going green. Someone else: one of those ultimate white people you only ever see on international flights: crew cut, red flannel shirt, buttoned up neat, tucked into Nike sweat pants. Two cold/flu masks on a pair of passengers screaming biohazards to be.

 

Rapid fire Immigration. Like, no one is coming into this country anymore. I’m either finally off the list that demands entry interrogation or they just really, really need some more warm bodies in here.

 

 

Godzilla: The 1973 Jet Jaguar Mt. Fuji photo shoot