Having unexpectedly survived the Friday evening at the pub with my colleagues, I set off on Saturday evening to have dinner with friends at David’s place, in Elephant & Castle (which is officially the best name ever).
Once all the great food and wine and whiskey were over, we left to find a floor to dance [...]

As I was saying in yesterday’s post, it has been snowing last night.
Well it turns out it hasn’t stopped, and it brought pretty much the whole city of London down to a halt. Not that we’re anywhere near some “Day After Tomorrow” scenario with liners ships unexpectedly showing up around Oxford Circus. It is a [...]

Petite escapade nocturne vendredi, après le pub avec les collègues, pour aller voir Max Tundra à Cargo, à deux pas de mon bureau à Londres. Entrée gratuite pour le concert de l’auteur d’un de mes albums préférés de 2008, Parallax Error Beheads You, dont j’avais déjà parlé ici. A déguster d’urgence.

Max Tundra @ Cargo, [...]

And yet, it isn’t raining. Not as I speak. Not inside, anyway.
Instead, the roofs are all covered with a soft layer of fresh snow. The sky adopted a gloomy, reddish grey texture, the texture of winter nights.
I have been in London for merely three weeks, and I’m still struggling to figure out how to turn [...]

It is largely impossible to convey the stimulating feeling I sense as I wander in Shibuya. It isn’t merely an ubiquitous cognitive overload, but also a cultural one: guys and gals wearing impossible clothes, displaying impossible haircuts, posing under the ever-lit neon lights and brand signs in Center Gai, right in front of the [...]

As the shinkansen arrives in Tokyo, I feel its mood again.
Streets irradiated by a kaleidoscope of neon-lit brand signs, giant screens masking facades to boast loud video clips or advertisements, while elsewhere jazz is playing on the streets through benevolent loudspeakers; forest of ads hanging in metro wagons, invasion of signs for discounts, directions, special [...]