Demon Kogure

This is Demon Kogure. He is a self purported demon bent on world dominantion. Well, actually, acording to him, he has already taken over the world... it happened in 1999. His medium for his message is faily straight forward, Japanese heavy metal music, obvoiusly.

Where did I first get introduced to our malevolent ruler? A Japanese interior decorating show... he was one of the guests. I was in the post office getting my national insurance, and there was a small television on, with a show that was dedicated to interior decorating in houses so large, there is no way they were constructed in Japan. Every so often he would pop in to the show, in a picture in a picture... picture, and he would comment on how lovely the drapes were, or how he perfered the gold framing over the silver framing of a painting of a duck.




When you first get to this country you are amazed at how clean everything is, how nice everyone is, and how reliable the trains, people, cars, and restraunts are.

But Japan is a country of contrasts. It is strikingly old, and suprisingly new, that sort of thing. But more intrestingly, this country seems to be over the top traditional and conservative, but more perverse than anything I have seen or heard of, ANYWHERE in San Francisco. I am not so bold as to say why, or to judge this, but I am definatly confident in the fact that I can observe it.

This country is like a 14 year old boy. On the surface its something that a grandmother could love and respect. On the inside though, its perverse, dirty, gross, insecure, brilliant, and nervous.