Helicopter Man

Kazumi Kurigami made a number of commercials that were done well.


Now, the day after that post was made, I asked dear Wifey about the helicopter.

"Oh, that's Issei Miyake..."

Issei who?


Though he's more well known for the turtlenecks he gave to Steve, he's a force to reckon with. A piece of history.

When you watch something like this:

When you watch something like that that erases your matrix and then witness the reloading, it might just do something to you. Apparently, the 'man in a helicopter' was something like seven when he saw history unfold, erase, and then start all over again.

For him, it might just have inspired him to say, "What the fuck?"

(Or some approximation of that)

Yeah, watching it all sort of 'go boom' might do something to a person. 

A person might then go on to lead a life to do pretty much whatever they really wanted to do in the face of the 'shouganai' copout that people pretty much have succeeding in mind-fucking themselves with. 

Miyake and the people who were working with him when he was doing things for Parco had a huge impact on the 'gaikoku' that pretty much, in my ignorant and whatever opinion, impressed a lot of the world. 

And a lot of us got 'sucked in' to where we are now. Their creativity attracted a fair number of us, okay - me at least, to this land of the rising fallout. I naively expected people to know names like Eiko, Keiko Matsui,and Masayoshi Takanaka (played with Santana once upon a time). But, nooooooo! There are very few people who didn't give that blank stare. (Think I gained maybe just a little respect from an engineer who happened to have an interest in quantum physics and music when I mentioned that Takanaka was an influence for my deciding to come to Japan... whatever)

But that man in a helicopter clip... it showed something. Wifey saw it once and understood, almost effortlessly. The bitch.

"Yeah, those are his girls, he's introducing them to the world." 

What I can't figure out is... what the hell has gone on since then?


Issei lives. Eiko is with us no longer. It's almost like they thought forward and almost everyone else thinks backward, if at all. Which is not quite true. Sometime, you just gotta step back from it all.

The world... yeah, it sure is an interesting place live. Never a dull moment. I could use a good campfire now and again. Take some time out or something. 


Whatever...