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Camden Pimpin’

Posted under AardvarkAsia, Music on Sunday, 11 July 2010 by LoLyfe
SOIL and 'PIMP' Sessions are playing the Jazz Cafe in Camden Town, London on the 22nd of July. Standing or tables available from your usual ticket outlets (I got mine from TicketMaster). See you...
Camden Pimpin’

Andy Lau is Detective Dee

Posted under AardvarkAsia, Film & DVD on Tuesday, 1 June 2010 by LoLyfe
What could be better than a period action flick with Andy Lau in the lead role? How about you add Tsui Hark at the helm and Sammo Hung to direct the fight sequences? Only problem with this is that it looks like a long wait until a DVD arrives with English subs, the film is scheduled for a...
Andy Lau is Detective Dee

New Tetsuya Nakashima film

Posted under AardvarkAsia, Culture, Film & DVD on Saturday, 29 May 2010 by LoLyfe
To celebrate the upcoming release of the Tetsuya Nakashima film “Kokuhaku,” starring Takako Matsu, a movie festival was held this week to screen Nakashima’s other works. On hand were actresses Kyoko Fukada, 27, and Anna Tsuchiya, 26, who appeared in the film “Kamikaze Girls,” and Miki...
New Tetsuya Nakashima film

Sony Unveils Waterproof Walkman

Posted under AardvarkAsia, Technology on Saturday, 29 May 2010 by LoLyfe
The new Sony Walkman NWD-W253 is this nice looking waterproof effort. It has a 4GB capacity giving in the region of 12 hours worth of tunes. It's all bundled up in the headphones which will connect directly to your PC. Sony's target market is those that pursue outdoor sports activities. The...
Sony Unveils Waterproof Walkman

Assault Girl: Kentucky no Hinako / ケンタッキーの日菜子 [2007]

Posted under AardvarkAsia, Film & DVD on Saturday, 29 May 2010 by LoLyfe
Just uploaded this to YouTube, thought you might like to take a gander. This short film directed by Mamoru Oshii (Patlabor, Ghost in the Shell, Avalon, The Sky Crawlers) is taken from Shin-Onna Tachiguishi Retsuden (真女立喰師列伝?) is the sequel to Onna Tachiguishi-Retsuden consisting of...
Assault Girl: Kentucky no Hinako / ケンタッキーの日菜子 [2007]

Kitano’s Standing Ovation – OUTRAGE at Cannes

Posted under AardvarkAsia, Film & DVD on Thursday, 27 May 2010 by LoLyfe
Takeshi Kitano's OUTRAGE was shown at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday and the Actor/Director received a standing ovation when the film finished. On leaving Japan for France, Kitano was quoted as saying, "I expect to see how many people leave the film in the middle" - as it is extremely...
Kitano’s Standing Ovation – OUTRAGE at Cannes

Boom Boom Satellites – Back On My Feet – New Album

Posted under AardvarkAsia, Music on Wednesday, 26 May 2010 by LoLyfe
After a short hiatus (2008 - EXPOSED), not counting the greatest hits Double CD released earlier this year, Boom Boom Satellites are back with a new studio album. In typical BBS style, the album is spattered with tracks that have powerful beats, powerful guitars and powerful vocals - this system...
Boom Boom Satellites – Back On My Feet – New Album

Onboard

Posted under AardvarkAsia on Monday, 17 May 2010 by LoLyfe
This is from Japan Today.com: Commuters crowd into Tokyo’s weekday morning trains. Check out the Picture of the Day page for similar...
Onboard

ANIME Tourism

Posted under AardvarkAsia, Anime, Culture on Friday, 14 May 2010 by LoLyfe
Great little segment broadcast on NEWSLINE (NHK World TV) today, how anime is helping tourism in Japan. Evangelion is the subject of this...
ANIME Tourism

Todanobu Asano the Peeper

Posted under AardvarkAsia, Film & DVD on Saturday, 8 May 2010 by LoLyfe
Todanobu Asano is laying in wait, peeping through that little hole in the floor ... just waiting to take revenge... Ranbou to Taiki is the new film based on a 2005 play by Yukiko Motoya and is directed by Masanori Tominaga (Pandora's Box). Asano plays Hidenori, a man living with a woman named...
Todanobu Asano the Peeper

Sharp Adding TV with Blu-ray recorder – built in

Posted under AardvarkAsia, Technology on Saturday, 1 May 2010 by LoLyfe
The Sharp Corporation have announced that it will be adding eight new models of its DX range of LED AQUOS TV's and they will have Blu-ray disc recorders built in. These are to be released primarily to the Japanese market at first, but fingers crossed it won't be long before they reach our high...
Sharp Adding TV with Blu-ray recorder – built in

Gundam Cafe opens in Akiba

Posted under AardvarkAsia, Culture on Monday, 26 April 2010 by LoLyfe
I'm surprised that this hasn't happened before now, but on Saturday a Mobile Suit Gundam themed restaurant opened in Akihabara, Tokyo. Customers are entertained with 31 years worth of nostalgia, whilst they are eating and drinking in the sixty seater cafe. As with Maid Cafe's, patrons are...
Gundam Cafe opens in Akiba

Oops!

Posted under blog on Thursday, 22 April 2010 by LoLyfe
Apologies to all my regular readers. The LoLyfe Towers are currently being renovated and my Internet access is limited to my iPhone. Updates will come but will be sparse....
Oops!

Ayumi Hamasaki – Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus

Posted under AardvarkAsia, Music, Reviews on Thursday, 15 April 2010 by LoLyfe
I'm pretty picky when it comes to the music I listen to, but when I started to become interested in all things Japan my music tastes become somewhat eclectic. At first it was just garage band type guitar music, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant for example, but after becoming immersed in Japanese culture...
Ayumi Hamasaki – Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus

Ebizo returning to London to perform kabuki

Posted under AardvarkAsia, Culture on Friday, 26 March 2010 by LoLyfe
Kabuki star Ichikawa Ebizo XI will be returning to London in June to perform ‘‘Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura’’ (Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees) at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre. It's the second time the production has been seen in the UK, the first being in 2006. This run will be from...
Ebizo returning to London to perform kabuki

LoLyfe.com – Mobile Friendly!

Posted under Geekdom Incursive, WordPress, blog, web.design on Friday, 26 March 2010 by LoLyfe
After the latest update to the site, I got a few messages from people who read the blog on-the-go and were having problems with access and readability. So, I had a look around the WP Plugins Directory to see if there was anything that would help. I came across the WordPress Mobile Pack that cured...
LoLyfe.com – Mobile Friendly!

Jackie Chan’s Little Big Soldier

Posted under AardvarkAsia, Film & DVD on Wednesday, 24 March 2010 by LoLyfe
Jackie Chan is back and in top form in his latest flick - Little Big Soldier. This period action/comedy/drama is set during the feudal of ancient China and sees Chan starring as a Liang soldier, who has inadvertently captures a general (Leehom Wang of Lust, Caution fame) of rival kingdom Wei....
Jackie Chan’s Little Big Soldier

2010 Terracotta Film Festival – London

Posted under AardvarkAsia, Festivals, Film & DVD on Tuesday, 23 March 2010 by LoLyfe
This year's Terracotta Far East Film Festival is back on in London. The main venue will be the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square, which will also be holding parties to celebrate the festival. Clear your diary between the 6th to the 9th May for films from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong,...
2010 Terracotta Film Festival – London

Air Doll

Posted under AardvarkAsia, Film & DVD on Sunday, 21 March 2010 by LoLyfe
Nozomi (Bae Du Na) is an inflatable air doll, nothing more than a sex object for her lonely, doting owner Hideo (Itao Itsuji), but she gradually develops self-awareness. One day, while her owner is at work, she steps out of the apartment for the first time. Leaving the grasps of her owner, the...
Air Doll

Donnie Yen’s 14 Blades

Posted under AardvarkAsia, Film & DVD on Saturday, 20 March 2010 by LoLyfe
In the final years of Ming dynasty, the Jinyiwei has come under the control of power-hungry eunuch Jia Jingzhong. Secretly conspiring with an exiled prince (Sammu Hung) to rebel against the emperor, the corrupt eunuch frames the Jinyiwei captain Qinglong (Donnie Yen) for treason and orders his...
Donnie Yen’s 14 Blades