Now, i’m posting in a collective place, for a better future, for the truth, a place where three black expressionless columns rise against ignorance : lilela.net.
It’s in french because the english internet has already too much stuff in it. The french internet is in dire need of good contents.

Anyway, ptyx.org isn’t dead it’s just sleeping right now.
To give an update to the three people reading this stuff here’s what happened. I joined a television channel here, in Japan. It was pretty gruesome at every level, especially the work hours. I’m doing freelance now while looking for a job, i’m also learning to use very nerdy software that no human being should be confronted with. This is the price we pay for toying with technology i guess.
Anyway i’m looking for a job in the post-production field, in Japan, i’m not looking for freelance stuff, i’m looking for a salary. Yes, i want more hours and more sweat, it probably comes from my catholic upbringing, even though i’m still not religious i still have the masochistic impulses.
Like many gaijins i’m wondering if i should leave japan or not. In a way it has been good for me, the past few years i’ve been there, in another it has been pretty rough.
People working in japanese companies knows what i’m talking about, foreigners or not. I may sound like it but i’m not complaining, i’ve learned a lot and i’m actually grateful for the pain (again that catholic stuff i was talking about).

Anyway we’re pretty happy with lilela (also known as lll), it’s an humble begining, no ego whatsoever, We basically take stuff from the internet, put it there and say “hey look at that!”.
It’s not very original, i know, but it’s done with love, what can you say against that. Love will always triumph, even against bittered internet hipnerd like us.

Urazawa is a japanese show that gives practical tips to better your life. No, it’s not some kind of “how to be successful” or “How to lift your ass from the couch” type of show.
Those are genuine practical tips, such as “how to get crab meat out of its shell”, “how to fold a t-shirt”, “how to roll your sleeves” or “how to stir your coffee”.
You might think you already know all this but no, you don’t. You don’t know shit as a matter of fact. Because you simply haven’t been told by your lazy parents and your depressed teachers.
Geniuses of everyday life are at work in Japan and they have researched and invented the best way to do those simple things.
Until fairly recently most japanese women were housewives. This was up until the bubble bursted.
Japanese women use to marry, have children and call it a day as far as their job was concerned. Remember that also, until recently, the japanese nuclear family usually included the grand-parents.
In Japan, you don’t put your parents in a home, you stay at their house with your wife and kids and you take care of them.
It’s that way that housekeeping science was developed, passing from generation to generation. But Japan has changed lately, the cycle has been broken. Thus the invention of Urasawa, to keep young people up to date on how to do things properly and not like those pathetic mongoloids from the west.
Fortunately the internet is lifting the lid on those secrets.
Thanks to youtube user Arekure, here’s the list of things you should know (ok, you can skip the one about tofu).

Yurayura Teikoku is one of the most popular indie band in Japan. They’ve been recording stuff for almost 10 years and they can fill huge venues. Yet they’re almost absolutely unknown in the west. Wait, it’s not weird that they’re not famous in the west, after all they’re japanese. Only dorky hipsters like myself care about japanese music. What’s weird is that even with the dorky hipsters crowd they’re totally unknown.
Once you come here you realize that most of the japanese stuff that you heard about in the west are almost totally unknown in Japan.
Take all the indie japanese filmaker that are considered like medium geniuses in the west like Tsukamoto, Kyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Miike and all that bunch, completely unknown here. Same thing with bands, nobody ever heard of Acid Mothers Temple or Afrirampo or Zeni Geva here. I went to an Acid Mothers Temple show here and the microscopic club was almost empty and there were at least 10 gaijins amongst the 30 people present. Hell, Kawabata was ordering a drink at the bar when i came in.
When i saw them in Paris a couple of years back, the place was packed.
The weird thing is that japanese hipsters will talk about bands and filmakers that you probably never heard about before. It’s like there’s two completely separated undergrounds, the domestic underground and the exported underground.
Yurayura teikoku was part of the domestic underground, was because now they’re more like on White Stripes popularity level. I saw them live in the Tokyo equivalent of Central Park where they were giving a free concert. There were people everywhere coming from every background. The weird thing is Yurayura’s music is not even catchy. They’re playing this kinda weird repetitive psychedelic-garage rock, you can’t even sing along to.
It’s not like they’re fucking Weezer or anything.How they can move such huge crowd is a total mystery to me.
Now i’m talking about yurayura because recently Pitchfork every dork favourite media has written a review for their last album, Sweet Spot. Oh, and i found this video on youtube which is pretty neat.
Oh and here’s some other Yurayura related links:
Yurayura Teikoku’s american label
Yurayura Teikoku official site
Yurayura Teikoku’s profile on keikaku