Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat, page 25
I’d be remiss not to mention all the television and cinema I’ve consumed over the years, much of it initially introduced to me by my parents—think Bogart and Blade Runner, Hitchcock and Fred Astaire, Zorro and The Man With No Name, Akira and John Woo, Hammer’s horror and Roger Corman’s Poe.
Much respect also goes out to noir greats Hammett, Chandler, Spillane, and Cain, all of them paving the way for future can openers like me. And I can’t forget the cities of Melbourne and Tokyo—without either TSMG wouldn’t exist.
About the Author
Andrez Bergen is an expatriate Australian journalist, musician, photographer, DJ, artist, some-time filmmaker, writer, wayward graphic designer, and ad hoc beer and sake connoisseur who’s been entrenched in Tokyo, Japan, for the past nine years.
Under the alias of Industrial Form, he dabbled with graf, then moved on to audio/visual art installations for events put on by pioneering Melbourne experimental electronic music label IF? Records (which he now helms). He currently creates music under the pseudonyms Little Nobody and Funk Gadget.
Andrez has written for the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper in Japan, The Age newspaper, and VICE Magazine in Australia, American mags Anime Insider and Geek Monthly (ex-Cinefantastique), Impact and Mixmag in the UK, and various other publications on movies, music, anime, culture, travel, food, etc.
In 2005 Andrez married artist Yoko Umehara, and in November of that year they had the world’s cutest daughter, Cocoa.
Text copyright 2011 Andrez Bergen
andrez@anothersky.org
eISBN 978-0-9845597-2-5
Edited by Kristopher Young
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