as far as the eye can see

I keep getting these

agitated emails,

along the lines of

"Geez, Das, don't you ever listen to

Japanese indie music from the 80s?"

Sure I do!

Check out all this great stuff:

(1) My all-time fave compilation,

Drive to Heaven, Welcome to Chaos;

(2) The very entertaining

(not to be watched

on a full stomach tho)

Tetsuo: The Iron Man;

(3) The impossible Plastics;

(4) Tenko, the irritable mother-in-law of 80s Japanese avant-garde;

(5) After Dinner, the beautiful girl who went to art school, and you snickered because she's so pretentious, but she actually made really great music;

(6) The incorrigible Scylla and Charybdis of undanceable pop: Syzygys

(which is Scylla plus Charybdis, innit??)

AND

(7) the one that got away - Gyakufunsha Kazoku! I have not seen it!
but I have seen the actress Youki Kudoh in Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train,

which is a GREAT 1980s film!