I just found out that my friend Andy Mueller from LA has a solo photography show opening at a gallery in Shibuya tomorrow night. The show is called “Point + Shoot” and consists of about 100 photos
> taken between 1994-2007. More info on the gallery’s own website.

【POINT&SHOOT】と題して、彼が20年間撮り続けてきた作品を
6つのカテゴリーでご紹介致します。これまで公開されたこと
のないプライベートな作品も多く、新たなアンディ・ミューラー
の世界観をお楽しみ頂ける内容になっております。

今回の写真展では、「Pictur Taker」と題した写真集を限定で20冊販売致します。
（直筆サインとシリアルナンバー入り！）
『The Quiet Life』の商品も一部展開致しますので、どうぞお楽しみに！

また7月20日（金）のオープンニングレセプションには本人も来日し、
18時よりささやかなパーティも行います！

ぜひこの機会に皆様お誘い合わせの上、お立ち寄り下さい。
スタッフ一同、心よりお待ちしております。

Not sure how public this info is, but, well it is now. Just got tipped off that Axl Rose / Guns And Roses are doing some after party thing tonight… Should be a scene for sure. Here’s the scoop:

Yo! So the rumours has been out and yes! Axl Rose is going to have a Sayonara party with his band members at Le Baron tonight after his last show at Budokan.

We have been told that he will ACT JUST LIKE A NOTORIOUS ROCK STAR and be surrounded by beautiful chicks and tons of booze. No cameras allowed!!! and you can only watch from out side the cage!!! Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

I’m not going because I live in Los Angeles and get to see Axl Rose look like a turd in public all the time, but for everyone who doesn’t live in Los Angeles this is your opportunity and you should go for sure. More details after the jump.
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After reading the review of Shibuya’s Vegan Healing Cafe over on Metropolis.co.jp (I was hunting for vegan options in town using vegan.wikia.com) I decided I had to get myself over there and check it out. The landmarks in the map from that review made it super easy to find and I was very happy to find that the single employee spoke English when I walked in. I was more than happy to just point and smile at the items I wanted but right away the gentleman there started telling me which items on the menu were the most popular and how everything they served was 100% vegan. The menu was also in English which I thought was a great sign. I took his advice and ordered the main course that he suggested as well as an iced coffee. He wrote it down, and ran back to the kitchen. Moments later he brought my coffee and I thanked him.

I was the only customer in the restaurant at this point but it wasn’t long until some other folks showed up. A couple showed up and ordered food and drinks. They were served, and then they ordered desert and were served. I still hadn’t received my order but thought perhaps it just took a while to make my dish. That couple left and again I was the only person in the restaurant. Another employee showed up, a lady this time (perhaps the same woman mentioned in the review but I’m not sure) who went right back to the kitchen. Another couple arrived, ordered, were served and left and I still hadn’t gotten anything. I thought it was getting to the point of being really odd when I realized I’d been sitting there waiting (I was reading so wasn’t entirely aware of the time) for almost an hour. I tried to get the attention of the guy who had taken my order to no avail. And when I say I tried to get his attention, I mean I was the only person there and he kept walking right past my table and I would try to talk to him but he wouldn’t make eye contact and just kept walking. Same with the women when I moved on to trying to get her attention.

At this point I was sure something was up but didn’t know where the line was between being rude and just trying to get their attention so I didn’t get up to chase them around or anything and tried to continue being patient. More people came and ordered some stuff to go, which was prepared and given to them and still nothing headed my way. By now I’d been there for over an hour and a half so I gave up. The coffee I ordered was listed on the menu for 480 Yen so I left 600 on the table and walked out. No one followed me or even looked at me as I left. I’m totally baffled here. Does this make sense to anyone?

Hi Tokyo. I’m in your city for the next week or so and I’m having a blast so far. Normally I’m in Los Angeles, USA but decided I’d wanted to come to Tokyo for too long and not come so so now I’m here. I’m going to try and make a few posts here while I’m in town that don’t sound like a total tourist but I might not be able to pull that off. We’ll see. If you are into the total tourist perspective feel free to read this post from my own personal blog about the trip so far. I’m also posting tons of photos to this flickr set but fair warning there are tons of street scenes and probably things that folks who live here have seen plenty of times and aren’t impressed by any more.

I can say that the trains are not nearly as scary or confusing as I was led to believe before getting here. Everyone I talked to made them out to be completely impossible to navigate and tried to convince me to stay away from them unless I had a well versed guild. Totally not the case, and very easy to use if you know where you are going. Anyway… Nice work with this whole city of yours, I’m enjoying my visit very much!