im back jack
a rundown with pics cuz i cant be fucked to go into detail of 3 months *_*
another photoshoot with M as the photog (even though he hasnt sent me the !"'&$#%& prints yet!!!) @ kasairinka koen out by disneyland tokyo... we did two shoots, one mens one ladies. the security comes over and asks what were doing
sec: what are you doing?
hairandmake: uhhhh....
sec:a photoshoot?
hairandmake: uhh....noo....?
sec: then whats that tripod sticking out of that bag there?
hairandmake: uh...yeah....
sec: you have to pay to take pictures
me(thinking): shit! how many hundred bucks are they gonna want?!
sec: 90yen an hour. please come to the office to fill out the papers. and next time get permission!
haha. for the ladies we shot at this insane cool futuristic observatory and didnt get caught until the very end when the the security finally got exasperated and just let it go. heh
oct was spent going to a lot of tenjikai (exhibitions) for the spring/summer clothig collections. its really hard going because i dont work many stylist jobs and the PR people hover like hawks asking all these minute details about what im doing and i kida just have to shoo them off. a total energy drainer. limi feu surprisingly had some cute stuff, including an awesome skirt with hoops wires in it. heard theyre shooting to show in paris next year
went drinking and to karaoke for the first time in like a year. i fucking love karaoke! got so drunk i came home and threw up. AND managed to lose ANOTHER pair of earrings. i manage to lose jewelry EVERYTIME i get smashed. i loved those earrings too!
went to meet the manager of thane camus (AKA se-in ka-myu) the uber charisma gaijin talento and talked about me and my friend gen getting into the agency. was totally stoked about it, but it seems a little not too on the up-and-up and then i hear its not such a good agency to be in from a friend. totally pissed on my parade. but they put my profile up on their page! (i had no idea..it took them like two months.. ad i only found out when my bud vincent who is also up there found himself and i on there and called me about it!) http://www.eclipsepro.jp
debated whether i should apply to extend my scholarship to transfer to a uni as a 3rd year to get my BA. but then that would mean i would probably want to go to an art school. which means traveling an hour on train. not to mention i would still be a student. until i was 25. with only a BA anyway. i said fuck it, im in the arts and i cant be hiding behind a school desk the rest of my life. time to get my ass moving and get a job and contribute to society (and taxes .._). so i let the deadline slip. then proceeded to freak out about HOW THE HELL AM I GONNA FIND A JOB
beginning of Nov, i worked as an interpreter for 3 days at a german/swiss/austrian design convention. it was hard work at 11 hours a day with only 100 bucks a day standing and having to do `sekkyaku` which means interacting with the customers (and in japan, that means `FOLLOW, HOVER, AD DONT LET THEM GET AWAY`) which i fuckin HATE about sales in japan. but i made quite a few sales and everyone was happy about that even though the con overall was a failure with not enough buzz. got a bunch of free stuff out of it tho.
partied with nagase tetsuro. (read: THE top fucking stylist in this damn country. hes a big ol jolly man. not all that impressive to anyone who is prob reading this, but here its a pretty big bragging story. booyah)
styled for the japanese/canadian half actor jai west. for MTV. mwuahahaha... i got to go chill at MTVjapan studios. the styling was shit cuz i had no budget and i had to beg friends to lend me clothes and accessories so i had to deal with what i had. turned out pretty ok tho and he looked sharp. the studios in japan are super small and not even CLOSE to what it would be like at MTV back home, but i always get a hard-on when im in a studio. GOD I LOVE IT. i even went and saw his movie he was promoting for `hazard` with odagiri joe. crazy movie directed by sono shion who also did `suicide club` and `strange circus` (which issei happens to be in*cough*)
went with my classmates on a `research trip` which was really just `lets go on a tip as a big fucking group to kansai and annoy the shit out of everyone` (i hated all those higschool students on their big school trips in kyoto traveling in big groups and blocking the way EVERYWHERE). i dont hang out with my classmates outside of school, and this time i was forced to share hotel rooms with them. while they all stayed up getting sick off of fran and puka talking about stupid shit, i took long baths and took the chance to catch up on late-night crazy tv shows. kobe was awesome (we stayed at the oriental hotel across from mosaic and harborland on the bay with the ferris wheel), then to osaka for universal studios japan (just as boring as when i went 4 years ago... the spiderman ride was cool, but i cant believe they still have back to the future there?!) then to shorei-ji and shion-in for the night light-up which was super inspring (esp shion-ins main temple. i totally had goosebumps, and it wasnt just because it was fookin freezing), then we stayed at the prince hotel next to biwako, and finally to ginkaku-ji and some other temples before taking the shink home. it was definitely nice getting out of tokyo. GOD I LOVE TRAVELING. i want a job that travels! i wanna go to shanghai. i know it doesnt have to do with anything but GOD I WANNA GO TO SHANGHAI
i met some random guy at a party and he called me up to see if i wanted to view the final showing of some special off-broadway type show at a theater in roppongi. i had some free time so i said sure. it was the.craziest.shit.ever. like, the main characters are all these amazing new-halfs (trannies)with 4 hot guys 4 neutral females and they do all these different types of dancing scenes. the dancing and the costumes and the set, and everything was amazing, my jaw just dropped. my favorite was this scene about a creator who made life-size Noh dolls, but somehow one of the dolls gets a soul and comes to life falling in love with her creator. but the man has a wife, so the doll kills her, and then the man has to kill the doll. it was so fucking cool! anyone in tokyo should totally check these fucking shows out..theyre only like 3,800 a ticket and the theater is behind hard rock cafe in roppongi. after the show, the audience can call one of the performers to their table for a short chat but you have to pay a super high drink fee. like kyaba-kura but with trannies. haha
umm...thanksgiving passed with me nearly totally forgetting it existed blah blah blah, fastforward to the 1st and its my bday! i had the best fucking birthday party ever, and i only invited 15 people but 17 showed up. we reserved the 6-mat loft upstairs in our friend limpeis at-home casual french restaurant in shimokitazawa. it wuld have been a papparazzo`s wet dream. olivia and her BF shogen showed up(shogen is a hot fucking ike-men dude who is on these huge 8-foot tall uniqlo ads all over shibuya atm), with tomomi maruyama coming shortly after (plays `yasu` in the nana movies), then all the K-1 fighters secret gay lover and his friend (who ended up being totally mi-ha =celebrity obsessed and pissing me off to no end and making me wish i never even THOUGHT of inviting him and i told him NOT to bring a friend, and they left wo paying and BUG ME LIKE HELL as to when im hanging out with liv or issei or enter-famous-persons-name-here next and YEAH THANKS FOR BEING MY FRIEND), and then issei actually CAME. oh my god i cant believe it. i havent seen him since then (two weeks) hell, havent really spoken since then either. but thats another story. we totally got caught being all love-love at the AMPM across the street from the train station by another guest who was freaking and telling could get snapped by a photog. err...yeah? but anyway, all of my bestest buds came and it was a blast. all of the flowers i got managed to live quite a while as well~~~
the next week was a surprise party for liv. i only remember half the night cuz i drank a nasty glass of cheap red wine on top of a handfull of gin tonics and ended up passing out and throwing up. ooooops.
SEE THE NECKLACE LIV IS WEARING. i totally made that. its fucking KEWPIE DOLLS, man. i painted em white and one of em pink (mine is neon yellow). she fuckin loved it. i should sell that muther in a boutique
also went to a shitload of parties but made sure to keep my cool. bloom, museum, dita, sonia rykiel, tokyonite, le baron, ROEN, NOi.d.,phantom, dazed and confused, etc etc. parties arent always what theyre cracked up to be tho...kinda *snooze*
been desiging a lot lately, making dresses and skirts for myself and necklaces and paintings for other people. in class we made a coat and mie was fucking awesome (made the hat too):
im making a formal cocktail dress now that is the coolest fucking thing youll ever see. i used digital printing on fucking satin man. most of it is done by hand, and i have to glue 500 black swarovski crystals on it. its a masterpiece! cant wait til its done
also been illaustrating. did this one with ink and watercolor. its an iterpretation of the 3 kings in the bible.
yesterday i went to the press screening for issei and wentz eiji`s movie `captain tokio` it was quite weird and slow but issei was pretty damn good in it, of course. damn him... then i was invited by a producer from TBS to see hikawa kiyoshi (the young enka singer) in concert. all those oba-chan were scary, man. afterwards we went with kiyoshi`s production company to 200- bucks a head shabu-shabu for dinner, and then to roppongis top hostess club. uhh... it was my first time in a hostess club and it fucking sucks. DONT TALK TO ME YOU STUPID HOSTESS I DONT FEEL THE NEED TO PAY A WOMAN TO TALK TO ME, I HAVE FREINDS, THANKYOU. the cele-doll Marie`s older sister is a hostess there. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
i have a photoshoot, a meeting with tokion magazines head editor, and a fucking huge business meeting that could change my life to deal with this week as well as a face to face enc with the BF. my head is gonna explode.
im out
another photoshoot with M as the photog (even though he hasnt sent me the !"'&$#%& prints yet!!!) @ kasairinka koen out by disneyland tokyo... we did two shoots, one mens one ladies. the security comes over and asks what were doing
sec: what are you doing?
hairandmake: uhhhh....
sec:a photoshoot?
hairandmake: uhh....noo....?
sec: then whats that tripod sticking out of that bag there?
hairandmake: uh...yeah....
sec: you have to pay to take pictures
me(thinking): shit! how many hundred bucks are they gonna want?!
sec: 90yen an hour. please come to the office to fill out the papers. and next time get permission!
haha. for the ladies we shot at this insane cool futuristic observatory and didnt get caught until the very end when the the security finally got exasperated and just let it go. heh
oct was spent going to a lot of tenjikai (exhibitions) for the spring/summer clothig collections. its really hard going because i dont work many stylist jobs and the PR people hover like hawks asking all these minute details about what im doing and i kida just have to shoo them off. a total energy drainer. limi feu surprisingly had some cute stuff, including an awesome skirt with hoops wires in it. heard theyre shooting to show in paris next year
went drinking and to karaoke for the first time in like a year. i fucking love karaoke! got so drunk i came home and threw up. AND managed to lose ANOTHER pair of earrings. i manage to lose jewelry EVERYTIME i get smashed. i loved those earrings too!
went to meet the manager of thane camus (AKA se-in ka-myu) the uber charisma gaijin talento and talked about me and my friend gen getting into the agency. was totally stoked about it, but it seems a little not too on the up-and-up and then i hear its not such a good agency to be in from a friend. totally pissed on my parade. but they put my profile up on their page! (i had no idea..it took them like two months.. ad i only found out when my bud vincent who is also up there found himself and i on there and called me about it!) http://www.eclipsepro.jp
debated whether i should apply to extend my scholarship to transfer to a uni as a 3rd year to get my BA. but then that would mean i would probably want to go to an art school. which means traveling an hour on train. not to mention i would still be a student. until i was 25. with only a BA anyway. i said fuck it, im in the arts and i cant be hiding behind a school desk the rest of my life. time to get my ass moving and get a job and contribute to society (and taxes .._). so i let the deadline slip. then proceeded to freak out about HOW THE HELL AM I GONNA FIND A JOB
beginning of Nov, i worked as an interpreter for 3 days at a german/swiss/austrian design convention. it was hard work at 11 hours a day with only 100 bucks a day standing and having to do `sekkyaku` which means interacting with the customers (and in japan, that means `FOLLOW, HOVER, AD DONT LET THEM GET AWAY`) which i fuckin HATE about sales in japan. but i made quite a few sales and everyone was happy about that even though the con overall was a failure with not enough buzz. got a bunch of free stuff out of it tho.
partied with nagase tetsuro. (read: THE top fucking stylist in this damn country. hes a big ol jolly man. not all that impressive to anyone who is prob reading this, but here its a pretty big bragging story. booyah)
styled for the japanese/canadian half actor jai west. for MTV. mwuahahaha... i got to go chill at MTVjapan studios. the styling was shit cuz i had no budget and i had to beg friends to lend me clothes and accessories so i had to deal with what i had. turned out pretty ok tho and he looked sharp. the studios in japan are super small and not even CLOSE to what it would be like at MTV back home, but i always get a hard-on when im in a studio. GOD I LOVE IT. i even went and saw his movie he was promoting for `hazard` with odagiri joe. crazy movie directed by sono shion who also did `suicide club` and `strange circus` (which issei happens to be in*cough*)
went with my classmates on a `research trip` which was really just `lets go on a tip as a big fucking group to kansai and annoy the shit out of everyone` (i hated all those higschool students on their big school trips in kyoto traveling in big groups and blocking the way EVERYWHERE). i dont hang out with my classmates outside of school, and this time i was forced to share hotel rooms with them. while they all stayed up getting sick off of fran and puka talking about stupid shit, i took long baths and took the chance to catch up on late-night crazy tv shows. kobe was awesome (we stayed at the oriental hotel across from mosaic and harborland on the bay with the ferris wheel), then to osaka for universal studios japan (just as boring as when i went 4 years ago... the spiderman ride was cool, but i cant believe they still have back to the future there?!) then to shorei-ji and shion-in for the night light-up which was super inspring (esp shion-ins main temple. i totally had goosebumps, and it wasnt just because it was fookin freezing), then we stayed at the prince hotel next to biwako, and finally to ginkaku-ji and some other temples before taking the shink home. it was definitely nice getting out of tokyo. GOD I LOVE TRAVELING. i want a job that travels! i wanna go to shanghai. i know it doesnt have to do with anything but GOD I WANNA GO TO SHANGHAI
i met some random guy at a party and he called me up to see if i wanted to view the final showing of some special off-broadway type show at a theater in roppongi. i had some free time so i said sure. it was the.craziest.shit.ever. like, the main characters are all these amazing new-halfs (trannies)with 4 hot guys 4 neutral females and they do all these different types of dancing scenes. the dancing and the costumes and the set, and everything was amazing, my jaw just dropped. my favorite was this scene about a creator who made life-size Noh dolls, but somehow one of the dolls gets a soul and comes to life falling in love with her creator. but the man has a wife, so the doll kills her, and then the man has to kill the doll. it was so fucking cool! anyone in tokyo should totally check these fucking shows out..theyre only like 3,800 a ticket and the theater is behind hard rock cafe in roppongi. after the show, the audience can call one of the performers to their table for a short chat but you have to pay a super high drink fee. like kyaba-kura but with trannies. haha
umm...thanksgiving passed with me nearly totally forgetting it existed blah blah blah, fastforward to the 1st and its my bday! i had the best fucking birthday party ever, and i only invited 15 people but 17 showed up. we reserved the 6-mat loft upstairs in our friend limpeis at-home casual french restaurant in shimokitazawa. it wuld have been a papparazzo`s wet dream. olivia and her BF shogen showed up(shogen is a hot fucking ike-men dude who is on these huge 8-foot tall uniqlo ads all over shibuya atm), with tomomi maruyama coming shortly after (plays `yasu` in the nana movies), then all the K-1 fighters secret gay lover and his friend (who ended up being totally mi-ha =celebrity obsessed and pissing me off to no end and making me wish i never even THOUGHT of inviting him and i told him NOT to bring a friend, and they left wo paying and BUG ME LIKE HELL as to when im hanging out with liv or issei or enter-famous-persons-name-here next and YEAH THANKS FOR BEING MY FRIEND), and then issei actually CAME. oh my god i cant believe it. i havent seen him since then (two weeks) hell, havent really spoken since then either. but thats another story. we totally got caught being all love-love at the AMPM across the street from the train station by another guest who was freaking and telling could get snapped by a photog. err...yeah? but anyway, all of my bestest buds came and it was a blast. all of the flowers i got managed to live quite a while as well~~~
the next week was a surprise party for liv. i only remember half the night cuz i drank a nasty glass of cheap red wine on top of a handfull of gin tonics and ended up passing out and throwing up. ooooops.
SEE THE NECKLACE LIV IS WEARING. i totally made that. its fucking KEWPIE DOLLS, man. i painted em white and one of em pink (mine is neon yellow). she fuckin loved it. i should sell that muther in a boutique
also went to a shitload of parties but made sure to keep my cool. bloom, museum, dita, sonia rykiel, tokyonite, le baron, ROEN, NOi.d.,phantom, dazed and confused, etc etc. parties arent always what theyre cracked up to be tho...kinda *snooze*
been desiging a lot lately, making dresses and skirts for myself and necklaces and paintings for other people. in class we made a coat and mie was fucking awesome (made the hat too):
im making a formal cocktail dress now that is the coolest fucking thing youll ever see. i used digital printing on fucking satin man. most of it is done by hand, and i have to glue 500 black swarovski crystals on it. its a masterpiece! cant wait til its done
also been illaustrating. did this one with ink and watercolor. its an iterpretation of the 3 kings in the bible.
yesterday i went to the press screening for issei and wentz eiji`s movie `captain tokio` it was quite weird and slow but issei was pretty damn good in it, of course. damn him... then i was invited by a producer from TBS to see hikawa kiyoshi (the young enka singer) in concert. all those oba-chan were scary, man. afterwards we went with kiyoshi`s production company to 200- bucks a head shabu-shabu for dinner, and then to roppongis top hostess club. uhh... it was my first time in a hostess club and it fucking sucks. DONT TALK TO ME YOU STUPID HOSTESS I DONT FEEL THE NEED TO PAY A WOMAN TO TALK TO ME, I HAVE FREINDS, THANKYOU. the cele-doll Marie`s older sister is a hostess there. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
i have a photoshoot, a meeting with tokion magazines head editor, and a fucking huge business meeting that could change my life to deal with this week as well as a face to face enc with the BF. my head is gonna explode.
im out