An hour in Osaka

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Someone called Richard Henderson sent me $7 for the radio piece I made in Kurama last week. 'Just getting round to listening to this,' said the Paypal note, 'fantastic, more of this kind of thing, please. It'd be even better with video! You've already got iMovie, right? Drop a few hundred bucks for a used cam on eBay, and you could release a new documentary/lifeblog snippet with a self-composed soundtrack every couple of days!' Well, daily movies might be a bit of a stretch, but Richard encouraged me to make a new radio piece. This time it's an hour-long ramble around Osaka. You'll hear (and see in your mind's eye) an Australian rabbit giving a guided tour of an art centre called Graf, a bunch of funny Jinglish mottos on girls' T shirts, some tips on killing cockroaches, the lowdown on an up-and-coming district, some thoughts on homelessness, and a serenade by a sad restauranteur. All in glorious low-res mono. Come ramble with me!

An hour in Osaka (One hour, mono mp3, 27.74MB)

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[eveninginmadrid.livejournal.com]

ps. interested to hear about your article on "osaka homelessness" in vice. i spent a few days in march interviewing homeless and korean day laborers in shin-sekai (south past tennoji and the zoo-- one of the most interesting neighborhoods in japan) for the previously-mentioned dialect research. standing in the street drinking juice boxes with a korean boxer, construction workers, old chess-playing man and their wives. where were you doing your interviews?

umai-bashi; delicious bridge