Monthly Archives: June 2007

California countdown and the BEMF’s Psyche by Lully

By Maria Varmazis | Published: June 22, 2007
Comments and URLs posted in this blog are now officially DOFOLLOW. So comment away :)
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(American) feminism’s irrelevance in contemporary J-rock/J-music

By Maria Varmazis | Published: June 21, 2007
This blog’s been quiet for a few days, longer than I’d meant. I do apologize—while trying to get things organized for my upcoming vacation, the work’s been piling up.
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East coast vs. West coast fashion sensibilities

By Maria Varmazis | Published: June 15, 2007
[edit] My cell-phone snapshot of Faces was the featured picture on Universal Hub yesterday. Hurrah! [/edit]
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Journalism, coding, confusion

By Maria Varmazis | Published: June 12, 2007
I’m going to add my voice to the chorus of confusion over reporters-as-programmers. Howard Owens says reporters should go for the gusto and get some coding skills, though fluency is not requisite. Matt Waite says something similar: “The idea is to create new forms of journalism with whatever tools we can, and if they don’t [...]
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As promised, a photo of Faces

By Maria Varmazis | Published: June 11, 2007
I took this very quickly with my cell phone… while driving. Yea, I’m one of those people. Anyway, I hit the shutter and put the phone down, didn’t even look at the picture, and figured it came out horribly.
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The internets! It knows me!

By Maria Varmazis | Published: June 11, 2007
The flickr greeting I received today was both unintentionally quite funny and a bit unnerving at the same time: click to enlarge the picture Reaction #1 (too-cool-for-this neo-geek-hipster wanna-be snark): O RLY? Reaction #2 (cripplingly self-conscious): is my greek so bad that flickr assumes i don’t even know how to say hello? Reaction I should [...]
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Goodbye, Faces (hello, Davis Square crime)

By Maria Varmazis | Published: June 11, 2007
Just a few days ago, while idling in evening rush-hour traffic around the Alewife Brook Parkway, I stared at bit at Faces. That creepy, dilapadated building right on the tail end of route two east has been slowly decomposing since I was in elementary school. (Sorry if this makes you feel old — if it’s [...]
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Oh FFS – purple SKY magazine & Jrock in America

By Maria Varmazis | Published: June 8, 2007
That didn’t take long, did it?
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Any veneer of respectability—gone gone gone

By Maria Varmazis | Published: June 7, 2007
I, like any respectable geek, really dig Wil Wheaton’s blog. For the uninitiated, Wil’s the actor who played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, the young ensign that so many loved to hate. Except me, because I wanted to be him. Precocious kid on the same bridge as Captain Picard? Hell yes! Not [...]
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Surface view of Yoshiki’s next project: S.K.I.N. (an undertaking of epic J-rock proportions?)

By Maria Varmazis | Published: June 6, 2007
Those of us who follow Japanese rock are all a-twitter over the latest news from Yoshiki (the man! the myth! the legendary J-rocker!) Disclaimer: If you have never heard of Yoshiki or Japanese rock in general, the rest of this post will be utterly confounding. Apologies in advance! Last year at Otakon in Baltimore Yoshiki [...]
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