I always took exception to the idea that the average Nylon isn't for guys, but it's fair enough.

Nice, very nice. These are encouraging developments. Keep reaching for the stars!

Nigo's house looks horrific, like if you gave the average teenage nerd with a poster of a red Ferrari on his wall ten bazillion dollars and he realised all his tawdry phallic materialist dreams with incredible literalness.

I'm impressed that they used a lake for a photographer, though.

Nigo's house looks horrific, like if you gave the average teenage nerd with a poster of a red Ferrari on his wall ten bazillion dollars and he realised all his tawdry phallic materialist dreams with incredible literalness.

You hit the nail on the head.

And while I agree with you, I find it funny that you are implying there is a "correct" way to consume at a high-class level.

So people at a "high-class" level shouldn't consume anything?
I agree that his place is complete over-kill, but I'd be lying if I said that I wouldn't buy a few crazy things* to decorate if I happened upon boat loads of money.

(*by crazy things, I'm thinking more nice, tasteful expensive furniture, oh and guitars - but only to play, not to parade on a wall. Not movie studio signage and monkey chairs.)

Nigo's house looks horrific

when i saw him a while ago on tv interviewed inside his aptmt. i actually got the feeling his point was a rather zen-like 色不異空 空不異色 色即是空 空即是色　(form is emptiness, emptiness is form etxc - prajna paramita). ：ー＞

not his point, the point of his apartment

The song "Everything's Zen" by Bush made me think of the same thing.

what ? listening to "Everything's Zen" made you think of the reverse zen of nigo's habitat.

no i mean the guy really looked content and chilled not because of all the bad taste shit around him, they were rather coexisting (him and his stuff, his stuff being far from a projection of his own ego). the scene struck me as radically different to the typical west-coast, english countryside whatever superstar house-owner. 事事無礙

I remember a Buddhist sutra somewhere saying that you can tell if a guy has reached satori by one photograph in a hipster magazine.

Like Bashô said man, "稲妻に悟らぬ人の尊とさよ,"

How noble is he
who sees the [camera] flash
without being enlightened!

Isn't this classic ヌーボリッシュ / 成金 behavior? What's Nigo's class background?

Marxy,

Nice work there, chappy. Thought you might like to know that I included Neomarxisme in the Japanzine Best of Japan on the Web feature this year, which might result in a minor increase of traffic from beer-swilling dullards to this site. Have a cupcake!

J