Poznan Radio

[imomus]

Hisae had to renew her visa, so we jumped aboard the Berlin-Warszawa Express and went to Poznan. It was my first trip to Poland. Here, in the form of a radio programme, are my first impressions. As a Polish pope dies Hisae and I watch Wong Kar Wai's 2046 in Cantonese with Polish subtitles, look at paintings, sit in cafes, admire the architecture, read design books, lie in the sun on the central square... and try to figure out why the local skinheads are wearing White Power Poland t-shirts when we can't see a single non-white person in town.

Poznan Radio (mono mp3 file, 39 mins 17 secs, 17.9MB)

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[sparkligbeatnic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the mini tour of Poland.

IKEA in Japan: There are plenty of competitors who do something similar to IKEA, but with more style. Muji is the well known example. Many home/hardware shops (in Kansai there are chains such as Konan and Nick) have inexpensive, semi-disposable furniture (cf. Douglas Coupland's observations on IKEA) which ship as flat pack. Every such shop will deliver purchases by Takyubin Kuroneko, for free (or a nominal charge). Perhaps IKEA had not worked out convenient delivery options.

Funny what you say about the name Kowalski. "Killer Kowalski" was the cruelest, meanist, dirtiest fighter on "Grand Prix Wrestling" in Montreal. At the other end of the Kowalski spectrum, I once knew a super-gentle Kowalski who wore a yarmulka. He was constantly being teased about the "Killer". He unfornately died of leukemia after completing a thesis in medical physics. His work involved a rather large plutonium source. Here's to the memory of the self-sacrificing gentle Kowalski ...