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River's Diary
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Right, what's the news today you spoiler-laden TARDIS journal?
It's the last day at Namco Namjatown
Today is the last day to visit Namco Namjatown, which is of course an indoor theme park in the Sunshine City shopping center in Ikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo, Japan. You got a full opening hours to visit this place while you can because tomorrow, January 15, 2013, the Namco Namjatown will closed for renovations and it will be reopen in Summer 2013.
Is it Toyota86? No...
At the recently concluded Tokyo Auto Salon, there are some odd tuning lurking around here and seems that the Toyota 86 is no exception here. First off, Japan's Nihon Automobile College (NATS), the students that brought you the kei-car version of the Honda NSX back in 2007, created their project based on the Toyota 86 sports coupe and would you look at that? A Toyota 86 that looks like an Audi R8! THAT'S NATS!
If the NATS R86 wasn't quite enough for you, the people at DAMD Styling Effect took long hours of butchering the Toyota 86 by transforming it into an 86...that looks like the now-defunct Lexus LFA from top to bottom! They called it LFT-86!
The 2UX3J Booth
Also at the recently concluded TAS 2013, you may have noticed that there's a booth that says
2UX3J. Did anyone checked that out? There are some sharp-designed Lexus cars, especially the one-off LFA Spider, on that venue. Wait...Lexus?! So...2UX3J....That spells LEXUS...backwards! Quite an eccentric trick for Toyota's luxury marque if I'm honest.
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Lexus GS450h F-Sport Arctic Wolf |
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Lexus IS-F CCS-R Mountain Lion |
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Lexus LFA Spider White Tiger |
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Lexus LS600h Black Leopard |
The new IS...
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2014 Lexus IS |
IS stands for Infinite Stratos but oh no...Sorry, no new Stratos for now because of Ferrari but for Lexus, yes, the new IS is revealed and by the looks of it, it's somewhat unorthodox. It maybe look like the LF-CC concept but the design is far too many, they should have inspire this car from the looks of the Akatsubaki but judging on the interior, now that is more of an LFA look-alike, even the speedo really looks like the LFA!
Scoop:
http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2013/01/2014-lexus-is-officially-revealed-in-22.html
The (other) new IS...
Speaking of Infinite Stratos, you may remember that back in last month's Comiket 83, the Infinite Stratos booth offered a new novella in a bundle that also comes with a 30-minute drama CD of the novella's story, a tapestry (B2 size), clear file, and a shopping bag, complete with a new exclusive artwork. Long story short but way before that, the author behind the IS light novel, Izuru Yumizuru, told that despite Media Factory no longer publishing Infinite Stratos (well Volume 7 was published back in April 2011), this title is now under the hands of
Overlap and this new company promises to revise Volumes 1 to 7 this year while the 8th volume will be available this April 25.
Overlap, never heard of it but they are now their responsibility for Infinite Stratos and for that, there's going to be an
IS Al-Night Fstival on April 20 where the complete series will be screened and the cast will be there. Advance copies of the light novel series' eighth volume will also be available for purchase. The main venue will be the Cinema Sunshine building in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district.
That's not all, there's going to be an audio drama and character song CD series as well!
URL:
http://over-lap.co.jp/IS/
70th Golden Globe Award winners
In case you missed the 70th Golden Globe Awards, here's the list of the winners of this year's Golden Globe Awards...
MOVIE:
Best Movie: ARGO
Best Comedy or Musical: Les Miserables
Best Director: Ben Affleck for ARGO
Best Actor for comedy or musical: Hugh Jackman for Les Miserables
Best Actress for comedy or musical: Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook
Best Actor for drama: Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln
Best Actress for drama: Jessica Chastain for Zero Dark Thirty
Best supporting actor: Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained
Best supporting actress: Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables
Best Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained
Best Original Score: Mychael Danna for Life of Pi
Best Original Song: Skyfall by Adele for 007: Skyfall
Best Animated Feature Film: BRAVE
Best foreign film: Amour
TV:
Best Miniseries or TV movie: Game Change from HBO
Best Drama: Homeland from Showtime
Best Comedy or Musical: Girls from HBO
Best Actor in Drama Series: Damian Lewis from Homeland
Best Actress in Drama Series: Claire Danes from Homeland
Best Actor in Comedy or Musical Series: Don Cheadle from House of Lies
Best Actress in Comedy or Musical Series: Lena Dunham from Girls
Best Supporting Actor for series, miniseries or movie: Ed Harris from Game Change
Best Supporting Actress for series, miniseries or movie: Maggie Smith from Downton Abbey
Best Actor in miniseries or TV movie: Kevin Costner from Hatfields & McCoys
Best Actress in miniseries or TV movie: Julianne Moore from Game Change
Miss New York wins Miss America 2013
In case you've missed it, the best girls from the USA are fighting for the title to become Miss America 2013 and guess what? There was a winner on this year's beauty pageant. Congratulations to Ms. New York, Mallory Hytes Hagan, for winning the 2013 Miss America pageant, all thanks to her tap dancing and her winning gown.
Scoop:
http://ph.omg.yahoo.com/news/miss-york-crowned-miss-america-061052159.html