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...clubland smash. (The band also scored the PlayStation 2 shooter game, Rez.) With a catalog of over 20 albums and mix CDs, Tsuyoshi, whose return to Tokyo in 2000 triggered a nationwide trance boom, is that peculiar millennial superstar: the bankable DJ. Last month, he even launched his own Tokio Drome clothing line (named after his monthly Tokyo parties...
...show attracted the attention of Sony Music, which gave the band a three-album deal; the first, Meteor Rain, was released late last year. It was pop-fluff stuff, a sonic fusion of Japanese groups SMAP and Tokio. But Taiwan's teens had not had a local boy band to worship since Little Tigers disbanded a decade ago, and 400,000 copies of Meteor Rain flew off the shelves; it sold more than 1 million Asia-wide. That success was quickly replicated on the mainland, where bootleg copies of the show, album and merchandise hit the streets...
...want us to save the world using this poetry board!" writes Tokio incredulously. "Art is not responsible for socio-political problems, etc. and is, in my opinion, not particularly suited to being a forum to discuss such issues...
...Tokio, obscenity--as beauty--is ultimately an instrument of social good. "All these geniuses who believe in our moral obligation to save the world as Harvard students post only malevolent comments on this board and fail to bless the poor masses with the beauty of their poetry," Rose raves. "Oh poop...
...around the poetry board, students drowse and old books sigh, unwittingly caught in a silent crossfire of "poop" and "shit." Tokio Rose's poems, and the diatribes they have inspired, are curling in the dry air; occasionally a sheet floats down to the floor, revealing a dark blue rectangle of unfaded construction paper...