vacant lot (with flowers)
aprox km1927 Toride, Japan
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Day #21,323
Today's Walk: Toride Station going west, south to path along golf course, north to station
vacant lot (with flowers)
aprox km1927 Toride, Japan
vacant lot (with flowers)
aprox km1927 Toride, Japan
Monday, May 4, 2009
Day #21,322
Today's Walk: from Abiko Station to the lake and then along the lake to Highway 8 (and return)
fish pendants
aprox km1920 near the lake and Highway 8, Abiko, Japan
Today's movie: San Francisco(1936, W S Van Dyke)
Drizzle during my trip to Abiko and out-and-out rain the rest of the day so this evening I'm curled up with my laptop watching another old Hollywood classic. Seems this one won the academy award for best picture in 1936. Well, there are a few good things to say about this picture: nice montage work on the earthquake sequences and a nice job by Jeanette MacDonald (whom I'd never seen before due to my aversion to musicals). However, the plot is absolutely horrid. It seems that Clark Gable is a nitwit because he doesn't believe in organized religion. Only when he goes down on his knees and gives in to the lunacy does a) he get his girl back and b) the San Francisco fire stops. Good god!
fish pendants
aprox km1920 near the lake and Highway 8, Abiko, Japan
Today's movie: San Francisco(1936, W S Van Dyke)
Drizzle during my trip to Abiko and out-and-out rain the rest of the day so this evening I'm curled up with my laptop watching another old Hollywood classic. Seems this one won the academy award for best picture in 1936. Well, there are a few good things to say about this picture: nice montage work on the earthquake sequences and a nice job by Jeanette MacDonald (whom I'd never seen before due to my aversion to musicals). However, the plot is absolutely horrid. It seems that Clark Gable is a nitwit because he doesn't believe in organized religion. Only when he goes down on his knees and gives in to the lunacy does a) he get his girl back and b) the San Francisco fire stops. Good god!
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Day #21,321
Today's Walk: Rippongi Station to Shibuya Station
Today's Walk #2: Shinochanomizu Station to Mitsukoshimae Station/(metro)/Asakusa Station to Juyoh Hotel
Monday shoppers in Shibuya
aprox km1907
Today's Walk #2: Shinochanomizu Station to Mitsukoshimae Station/(metro)/Asakusa Station to Juyoh Hotel
Monday shoppers in Shibuya
aprox km1907
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Day #21,320
Today's Walk: Juyoh Hotel to Asakusa (and return)
Sunday afternoon strollers at the Senso-ji temple
aprox km1900 Asakusa Tokyo
Today's Movie: Gentleman's Agreement (1947,Elia Kazan)
Took some time off from doing the tourist bit to watch a nice Sunday afternoon movie. Finding Japanese movies with English sub-titles proved to be too hard so I went with another Hollywood blockbuster that for some reason I'd never seen before.
Couldn't really get behind this one. Was it too much like shooting fish in a barrel? Was it Elia Kazan's conduct a few years later in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee? And why such a sad ending for Celeste Holm's character?
Sunday afternoon strollers at the Senso-ji temple
aprox km1900 Asakusa Tokyo
Today's Movie: Gentleman's Agreement (1947,Elia Kazan)
Took some time off from doing the tourist bit to watch a nice Sunday afternoon movie. Finding Japanese movies with English sub-titles proved to be too hard so I went with another Hollywood blockbuster that for some reason I'd never seen before.
Couldn't really get behind this one. Was it too much like shooting fish in a barrel? Was it Elia Kazan's conduct a few years later in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee? And why such a sad ending for Celeste Holm's character?
Day #21,319
Today's Walk: Juyoh Hotel to Ikihabara Station
a wall of CDs, just 250 yen each!
aprox km1897 "Book Off" store in Ikihabara
a wall of CDs, just 250 yen each!
aprox km1897 "Book Off" store in Ikihabara
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