http://www.coinlockerbaby.org Yuuya's weblog Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:27:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So Jisub - The man whose melancholic charm gets stronger with every "bad guy" he portrays At the moment, the Korean actor So Jisub (32) is gathering a lot of attention in Japan and abroad. He's received several movie awards for his film "Rough Cut" (Korean title: Yeonghwa neun yeonghwa da; ... http://www.coinlockerbaby.org/2010/01/interview-translation-scans-so-jisub-vogue-nippon/ Happy new year, belatedly, as always. In a tiny bit, I'm going to post a translation of a long interview So Jisub did for Vogue Nippon. I did that translation almost two months ago which goes to show that I collect all sorts of things to update with but then ... http://www.coinlockerbaby.org/2010/01/like-a-submarine/ This is going to be a massive post about ... sheep! Yes. My grandfather used to own a couple of sheep (5 or 6?) so I should have been able to form a valid opinion an these animals but to be honest, sheep have always been a bit of a mystery ... http://www.coinlockerbaby.org/2009/11/sheepish-nonsense/ I'm too busy to make a new layout for this place (and I still like it a lot too), but after the (invisible) WordPress update earlier this week I modified the blog code a bit based on the new WordPress version so we now have tags for every post and ... http://www.coinlockerbaby.org/2009/11/we-have-tags/ Updating this blog to latest version of WordPress: done. (Should have done it ages ago, it looks so much better and is so much easier to use than the one I had installed previously. But I'm always worried about the update process going wrong or losing my database or something so ... http://www.coinlockerbaby.org/2009/11/556/ As the end of the year draws closer and closer I can safely say that Aruto koronii no teiri (アルトコロニーの定理), the 5th album by Japanese rock band RADWIMPS, is already among my favourite albums released in 2009. I've been meaning to translate a "7 Keywords" feature they did as part of ... http://www.coinlockerbaby.org/2009/10/radwimps-7-keywords-b-pass-42009/ Oh, I still like knowing what's become of the (ex-)members of the bands I followed many years ago. Yesterday when I was browsing random music information sites, I came across the news that kannivalism are going to resume their activities very very soon! Kannivalism are the band Ryo and Kei were ... http://www.coinlockerbaby.org/2009/09/kannivalism-comeback-of-the-man-eaters/ I'm still a little bit blinded (positively!) by G-Dragon's debut performance at Inkigayo yesterday. (Oooh, the stage design ♥ And *cringe* at the tomato pants.) And now that Big Bang are back in Korea and busy with musicals/promoting or recording solo albums/recovering from car accidents, their summer activities in Japan are ... http://www.coinlockerbaby.org/2009/08/big-bang-breaking-chart-records-in-japan/ Well look, another summer's almost over and I've still not fully recovered from my bad case of blogging fatigue caused by writing too much in other places. But today I come here with something slightly more substantial than nothing, something which doesn't even require that many words. Of course I can't ... http://www.coinlockerbaby.org/2009/08/writers-on-screen/ Murakami Haruki's new book 1Q84, his 12th long novel, went on sale today (technically yesterday, Friday 29th). Shinchosha was being completely secretive about the story before it was published and didn't even give any hints on the novel's official site, just that it was more or less connected to Hard-boiled ... http://www.coinlockerbaby.org/2009/05/1q84/