Lots of paper writing to do. 5-7 pager for Monday. Korean Civ 10 pager *and* BA both due Friday.

I'm so screwed.

To entertain you while I'm gone -- Shibuya-kei!

"Shibuya-kei is the world seen from Tokyo." (Don't let the Italian throw you off)

"Whereas Britpop was a movement based on the premise that bands signed in Camden had relevance worldwide, and was marketed by an export drive marked by copious use of the union jack, Shibuya-kei (taking place in the same time period in Japan) was all about import. The young Keigo Oyamada of Cornelius, the young Kenji Takimi of Crue-L Records, were CD and vinyl junkies. With no weekly music press exerting the straightjacket pressure of peer group conformity, Keigo and Kenji simply bought whatever records they could afford, disregarding category, period, country of origin and critical endorsement. They bought records with cool sleeves, in languages they couldn't understand." -- Momus

Talk about a testament to modern Japanese consumerism. The rest of the article is here.

Once you've read that, you'd know that an important part of Shibuya-kei is the album design.