Angry

There are so many reasons for me to be angry right now. Number 1 I am angry at myself for dropping out of uni. Basically because of that I cant live in Japan long term, I have to leave in September. I dont want to leave, infact I never want to leave. While I was in shitty fucken Australia I missed the BEST party, the VICE party....Guess who was there? COBRASNAKE www.thecobrasnake.com/partyphotos.html he took photos of all my friends (check out the tokyo pics)...but of course not me. He takes all the photos from cool parties around the world and he is very very famous...I mean he took photos of Mary-Kate, and he also propelled Cory Kennedy to stardom via Nylon mag. If I go back to Australia there is none of this, no possibility of meeting anyone cool or famous, no possibility of any FUN. I dont know what to do. A friend suggested seeing if I know anyone who can sponser my visa...they suggested the Spank gals...but I'm 100% sure I need a degree to be elegiable to be sponsered. Fuckity Fuck fuck fuck! If anyone knows how I can stay longer than the extra 6 month visa extension let me know please!!!

Anyway I had to write that down because I needed some healing!!! (crazy yes?)


UPDATE: some of my friends are on www.gawker.com/news/blue-states-lose/one-ironic-elvis-fan-can-be-wrong-261676.php
Which is a blog that teases cool people! Why? Cos they are jelous honey...anyway #7 is Yuki, #2 is Ole and Rory and #1 is Jonte! Check it out!!!

Sayonara

Birthday Gal, SPANK! party, Vice mag Gals AND Tokyo Fashion!!!

It was my 23rd Birthday on Wednesday. I didnt really do much, as I had to work and as we recently had a huge wedding party I couldnt be bothered orgainising something else! Instead Henry made me my fave meal, vege tacos for dinner and gave me a cute birthday cake!


I also have been feeling really inspired lately to draw and design and to just generally be creative. I feel that online there is this whole community of creative people doing things and I need to be part of it. Suddenly there are all these street fashion blogs from around the world, I used to take photos of people on the street in art school as art 4 years ago!!! Now its very common. If only I was more tech savy back then, I could have a cool blog read by thousands of people. BUT I dont find blogging very fun, its slow, I hate computers and I get bored easily...so I guess I cant be bothered. I do this blog sparadically, and only recently have I been doing more than 1 post a month. I'm living in Tokyo, there is alot to do every day, so blogging isnt a priority...but I wish it was...and I wish I could be bothered doing it everyday and post photos of all the crazy Japanese fashion I see, get more readers and become famous! lol

Anyway here are some drawings I did of ideas for my wedding dress



The SPANK! gals had the BEST PARTY for their 3 year anniversary of their shop. It was held in Shibuya in this really cool club. It was the 1st time I had seen more than 10 SPANK! gals at a time. We walk into the club and their are like 150 pink faries dancing so hyper like 5 year olds who ate too much fairy bread and drank alot of red cordial! Soooooo cute!

So many girls, soooo much pink!

Yohei is back from London, where he was shocked by the drug use at Boombox
(hot London party) Tokyo has no drugs!!!

So cute, I heart you!

Bunny's

Petty, who is a model for Zipper...or Cutie?

Gallermic has new gungaru Shibuya boy hair.

From left to right: Ebony from myspace, Saki, Jamie from Vice mag, me and
Peggy a fashion designer from Kansass city.

Dance floor

Yuki and Maya perform the crazy SPANK! dance!

Toxic Lipstick, a band from Aus who live in Osaka.

Maya and Yuki as bunny's

My outfit for the night. I love my shirt!

Henry's outfit

The other night at 4am me and Henry were bored so we got crafty. Right now we are loving baggy t-shirts worn as dresses and House of Holland prints...so we got some cheap tees and some fabric pens and set to work on a fab creation!

CHOOSE
HAYLEY
TRAVERS
HUGHES

Henry was blown away by the coolness of our craftyness

So as mentioned there were some Vice gals here in Tokyo. Jamie is a photographer for vice and Peggy is a fashion designer, both are from Kansass in the USA. I missed the huge vice party because I was in Melbourne, but we got to meet them a few times. Nice gals, and it was nice to speak English instead of Engrish! I believe Jamie was here to take photos from vice mag about Tokyo fashion, so maybe that will be in the Aus edition, I'm not sure.

Yuki, Tabouchi, Peggy and Jamie.

I got a new dress the other day. Here it is worn at Tokyo Dome City amusement park, where we missed the rollercoaster by 10 mins. I really wanted to go on it....poo. The dress is from a vintage store in Shimokitazawa and it was such a find, just what I have been looking for, and only $40 which is good for vintage in Tokyo!

The dress looks better teamed with a white t-shirt and white shoes and my new fave hairstyle, high ponytail in a black and white polkadot scrunchy. Photos of that will come soon!!!

Anyway its 4am, my usual bedtime

Sayonara

Tokyo Design Festa

We went to the Tokyo Design Festa at Tokyo Big Site in Odaiba last weekend. It is Asia's biggest design festival, and the biggest thing like it I have ever seen. It had over 500 stalls, all with crazy art, fashion, music, toys, dolls....anything. My friends Yuki and Cagey had a stall, but I didnt get to see it because they only had it for Saturday and I had to work!!!

Tokyo Big Site

Lots of people in the foyer

Some nu rave music

A crazy robot thing that really moves!!!

Yellow Art. live painting (we missed the live part)

Pink art

Red Riding hood....the emo version

On our way we got very lost. We caught the right train....going the wrong way, and didnt realise for 30 mins! It took 4 trains and 2 hours to get there! Gosh Tokyo is confusing sometimes. AND we only got on the right train by accident, because Henry thought we were in Shibuya not Shinjuku which wasnt the case...its a long story ahhhh!!!

Anyway me and Henry wanna go shopping for giant t-shirts in Harajuku now.

Sayonara

Tokyo Fashion for not much cash!!!

Tokyo has changed my style. This was evident to me as soon as I touched down in Melbourne. People were staring at me, commenting on my outfit. It was strange. I didn't realise how different I was dressed. In Tokyo right now grunge is "in" in a pretty big way. Its all about giant shirts, baby doll dresses, smiley faces, peace necklaces, white wayfarer's, shiny leggings and oxford style man shoes. That pretty much is my uniform now. In Melbourne people are dressed fashionably...for last season. Anyway I felt like showing you some of my fave looks and accessories that I scored for not much money!

Wayfarers: Topman Harajuku ($37)
Owl necklace: Koenji flea market ($14)

From Left to Right
White platforms: ebay ($60)
Black pumps: Vintage store in New York ($50)
White jelly's: Takeshitta street Harajuku ($20)
Silver oxfords: Takeshitta street Harajuku ($20)
Black heels: Mollini Melbourne ($120)

Mary Kate = Fashionspiration

Shirt (worn as dress): Vintage store in Koenji ($20)
Shiny leggins: Kinja Harajuku ($7.50)
Badge: Spank Shibuya (Free)
Peace Necklace: We Go Harajuku ($10.50)
Bag: Thank You Mart Harajuku ($3.9)
Shoes: As before
Total: ($61.90)
Wow a completely Tokyo outfit, and very cheap too!!!

Dress: Savers Melbourne ($3)
Peace Necklace: Paris Kids Harajuku ($3.15)
Bag and shoes as before
Total: $30.05
Toooo cheap, its almost Free!!!

T-shirt: Henry's (FREE)
Skirt: Savers Melbourne, was a dress ($3)
Shoes as before
Bag: AMAP Harajuku ($50)
Total: $73
The bag made this outfit expensive!!!

*All prices are in AUD, anything bought in yen has been converted to AUD.

Melbourne and back to Tokyo

As you all know I went back to Melbourne for a week because my Nana died. It was nice to see my family, but it was very weird to be coming home for this. For me it was really weird because I never saw my Nana sick, so I was still kinda expecting her to be in her rocking chair in the lounge room.

My sister did a very good job organising the funeral. It was nice, and I got to make a speech about how much of a good Nana she was to me and Ebony. On Mothers day we took the flowers from the wreath to the beach where my Nana grew up. From out of nowhere beautiful black swans appeared as we threw the yellow roses into the water. It was very moving.



I also got to catch up with friends. I went out with Lauren to her ex bf Dylan's gig. He is a drummer. The band is kinda crappy but his drumming is amazing!

Here they are posing "Japanese style"

I also went out with Henry's parents and sister for dinner, yummy Vietnamese. God I missed Melbourne food. I had all my old favourites, bimbos, Vietnamese, la porchettas and hungry jacks. All the portion sizes were HUGE! I couldn't finish anything! It was nice to see Henry's mum, she was very happy that me and Henry are married now, which was a bit of a surprise!

I really missed Henry while I was away, it made me scared for when he leaves in July. We will have 3 months apart again, and I'm not looking forward to it. Going back to Melbourne for the week made me not dread going back like I once did, its really not that bad, just a tad small.

Anyway I'm back in Tokyo now. The first weekend back was Sanja Matsuri, which is a big festival in Asakusa. Me and Henry went and took lots of photos. There were thousands of people watching the festival. What happens is groups of people carry a temporary shrine called a mikoshi around the town, chanting, singing and blowing whistles. The are many different groups from all over Japan. I'm not exactly sure what this Matsuri is about, I know that Matsuri's that happen in September are to do with the rice harvest. It was Henry's first Matsuri, so he really enjoyed it. Some people stand on the mikoshi, but that was banned for the 1st time ever this year, but yakuza looking men did it and were promptly arrested.






OK that's all from me for now

Sayonara