Heart 2 Heart

Electronix — 28 July 2009

*Do* check out IntergalacticFM’s new show called Heart 2 Heart.

Heart2Heart will help you reach deep inside yourself, get in touch with your emotions and start the painful and fulfilling process of shaping your own destiny.

It’s a kind of mock up love and life advice radio show, listeners ask “Dr.” Lina for help in solving their problems. It is funny, original and features some nice tunes – works for me.

Update: No new Heart 2 Heart shows for now as Dr. Lina is unavailable. Check out the first seven shows if you haven’t already.


The dark side of the japanese economy : Ura Hello Work

Japan related — 21 July 2009

New shit on Tokyo Damage Report! I’ll let Steven explain:

“Just for grins, I’ve translated Shinya Kusaka’s URA HELLO WORK. [...]

HELLO WORK is what Japanese call their unemployment office, where people go to find job listings. URA means ‘the dark side of.’ URA HELLO WORK basically means ‘grey-market’ jobs – things that are not entirely illegal, but everything is paid in cash, under the table.

Anyway, Shinya Kusaka interviewed twenty different people, each of which has a shady job! The 20 different jobs are arranged from least illegal to most illegal.

Anyway, this translation will be a regular feature on Tokyo Damage Report – every Monday, I’ll start off the work-week with a new chapter, and a new job for you guys to get!”

Here are the links to the individual chapters:

- Interview 1: Tuna fishing
- Interview 2: Human Lab Rat
- Interview 3: Publishing Broker
- Interview 4: Nuclear waste cleaner
- Interview 5: Locksmith
- Interview 6: Door-to-Door newspaper sales
- Interview 7: Cult member
- Interview 8: Out-of-court settlement negotiator
- Interview 9: Toxic waste disposer
- Interview 10: Korobiya – Drug Courier
- Interview 11: Sokaiya
- Interview 12: New Hida’s prostitute
- Interview 13: [Missing?]
- Interview 14: Uncensored porno shop owner
- Interview 15: Con man
- Interview 16: Night escaper
- Interview 17: Marijuana cultivator
- Interview 18: Forgery creator
- Interview 19: Loan Shark (Yamikin)
- Interview 20: Internal organ broker