This news sucks. The IHT is reporting that: Japan’s music industry . . . has asked the Japanese government to charge a royalty, to be added to the retail price of portable digital music players like Apple’s iPod, which has been explosively popular here. Money earned from the fee, likely to be 2 percent to [...]
Archive for October, 2005
New trains
The news says that the Chuo Line will be getting a facelift soon. Actually, more than a facelift: the cars in the new trains are updated versions of the ones they’re using on the Yamanote, with the TV screens over the doors showing ads and news and info on which station comes next. These things [...]
The Jeff Concert
Well, actually the group isn’t called “Jeff.” It’s “Antony and the Johnsons.” But Jeff is the bassist in it. He’s also a guy I went to school with in the 1970s and early 1980s . . . Some of the last memories I have of living in Oregon before leaving for Japan involve the Commodore [...]
