Thursday, October 21, 2004


The delightful cute Ayumi Hamasaki herself (by the way, her music's awful!) Posted by Hello

Ayumi Hamasaki
"Ayumi, what!?" You're probably thinking. Unless you're in the know, and appreciate that Ms Hamasaki is Japan's answer to J-Lo or Beyonce.

Just been subbing the text for a J-Pop profile of Ayumi for the first issue of Neo magazine. Laugh out loud funny that, no matter whether you're West or East, the cancer of pop diva-dom is everywhere...

So, apparently, Ayumi tears into some young girl in the front row at one of her gigs. Giving her a hard time about not getting out of her seat to dance.

Turns out she didn't realise the kid was actually disabled and in a wheelchair.

You can imagine what a field day the UK tabloids would have had if Brittany or J-Lo had pulled off a stunt like that.

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Living The Dream
So I'm half way through my first week as a full-time magazine editor. One of the main perks of this new job (apart from the mountain of anime DVDs I get to watch, videogames I get to play, and creative gubbins I get to do... when I can find the time) is that I get to work from home and still write comicy-type-stuff into the bargain.
So I guess I'm living the dream, then?