Normally the videos are over there…but this is a special occasion. If you don’t own at least one Marvin Gaye album…well, I guess that would be your loss…Happy Birthday to The King of Soul, The Prime Minister of Players, and the Saint of smooth…

How to build a panic room Has it come to that yet? I remember watching that Jodie Foster flick and thinking that if I had a panicroom in my house, I’d hang out in it all the time, even if Forrest Whittaker weren’t trying to steal my stuff. Instead of a panic room, i think a calm chamber is what I need. Hopefully with a cheeto cabinet. The Box House

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. -Hunter S. Thompson Cher: Would you say I’m selfish? Dionne: No… not to your face. -Clueless “When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.” -Honore de Balzac Don’t tell me you don’t …

We just happen to have the first Cherry Blossoms that bloom in Naka Meguro  right outside the window of the Kinfolk Lounge. The sun rises in the east and so it seems, is Naka Meguro, the place where springfirst decides to reveal her face. We had to all toss on the spectacles to get all happy about the cherry blossoms. Kinfolk, family, Kazoku, we got flowers. Get some.

Kinfolk bar, Ha you gonna be comfortable, and you gonna be shit smiley, after one of each of these you will get up the courage to chop with one of the beautiful ladies that somehow haven’t realized what a man’ocentric bar Kinfolk is. now is your chance son, Sell the dream, She really wants you to, you just got to step up to the plate. She keeps smilin’ and Maceo is behind the bar ready to throw sugar into your game by mixing up some marvelous shit. By Any Means. …

Japan and China`s mutual dislike of one another seems to be one of those cases in which an older generation successfully pass their beliefs down onto to the next generation. The whole time the Olympics were on in China earlier in the year, it rained almost every day in Japan. So the Japanese press blamed China and their cloud-seeding for the deluge of rain in Japan those two weeks in August. I was going to say “torrential” but it really wasn`t torrential rain, more like drizzle. I just wanted to …