Leaving on a Jet Plane

Off to China this morning for the fourth time this year.

Shanghai here we come.

 

Music! and Movies! (Mainly Movies!) in the Month of January, 2017

My movie and music collection from January, 2017

Hitchcock/Truffaut, a documentary

David Bowie Is, an exhibition

Marcus Miller @ Blue Note Tokyo

Misconduct

The Entertainer, The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Plays at the Garrick

The Fencer

Miles Ahead

The Interrogation

The Lady in the Van

Dirty Grandpa

Eye in the Sky

La passion d’Augustine

The Clay Bird

The Net

Chant d’hiver

Maggie’s Plan

Tecchan’s memorial party @ Blues Alley

Bobby Caldwell @ Billboard Live Tokyo

Un homme ideal

The best movie.  Hands down.

Movies! and Music! in the Month of November, 2016

Taking a break from writing about my trip to Myanmar earlier in November, here is my collection of movies I saw and music events I went to in the month of November.  So much more films than music.

Remember

Concussion

The Man Who Knew Infinity

Julieta

La Femme de la Plaque Argentique

Three different shots for Bridget Jones’s Baby: a regular flyer, a big panel display in a theater involving a “waterfall”, and see how big it actually is.

Inferno

A Bigger Splash

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Everybody Wants Some!!

Miss You Already

Il Capitale Umano

PK

Premiers Crus

Freeheld

Everything Will be Fine

The Childhood of a Leader

So many good films but this one stood out.

And a few music events…

Senri Oe @ Motion Blue Yokohama

Gacharic Spin @ Tokyo Dome City Hall

Nordic Music Trade Fair

 

Movies! and Music! in the Month of October 2016

Before I go talking about Yangon, Myanmar, here is what was happening in my world of music and film last month.

Mu:Con in Seoul, Korea

Loud Park 16 @ Saitama Super Arena

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week

Zardonic @ Space Odd

Hysteric Panic @ Liquid Room

Janis: Little Girl Blue

Candy Dulfer @ Blue Note Tokyo

Peter Barakan’s Live Magic! @ Ebisu Garden Hall

Tim Burton & Danny Elfman Halloween Concert @ Tokyo International Forum

TIMM opening reception @ Womb

TIMM showcase @ Tsutaya O-East

Tsukiji Wonderland

Un + Une

Jason Bourne

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week

El Clan

By the Sea

Janis: Little Girl Blue

Corn Island

Genius

A War

Hungry Hearts

Un Homme et Une Femme

Our Kind of Traitor

Seymour: an Introduction

Tangerines

Jane Got a Gun

And here is one movie I did not get to see due to a work commitment despite having won tickets to a special screening at the Tokyo International Film Festival.  What’s more Hugh Grant (my ultimate favorite actor) and Meryl Streep were going to appear in person.

I did manage to get to the pre-viewing greeting session but it was just Meryl that came on the stage.  Hugh had another movie to shoot (good news) and sent a pre-recorded video message.  Sigh.

I have yet to see the film which opens on December 1 in Japan.

Working in Seoul

So I am in Seoul, Korea attending an industry convention to which I was invited which is kind of nice.  The event is being held in a newly developed area of the city called Digital Media City, built mainly after the 2002 FIFA World Cup when the capital’s soccer stadium was built, somewhere you would not travel to unless you had some business in the neighborhood so people have told me.

Yesterday getting to the convention venue from my hotel.

Today

Tonight at MUV Hall, in the young and trendy Hongdae neighborhood.

More trips away from the Digital Media City would have been great.  Next time if there is a next time, tomorrow being my last day and mostly staying at the convention venue.