Miles Pieri's definitions

gloomy sunday

Song, originally written by Seress Rezo in Budapest in the late 1920's. Became famous in connection with string of suicides. Later recorded by Billie Holiday and, as in Hungary, was connected with several cases of 'self deliverance'.
The writer killed himself in the late 1960's.
Incidentally, until recently Hungary had the highest suicide rate in the world.
Original title - Szomoru Vasarnap

"Little white flowers will never awaken you / not where the black coach of sorrow has taken you"

by Miles Pieri January 7, 2004

white lolita

Japanese sweet derived from the classic Pocky Stick. A larger breadstick that the pocky covered in a white sort-of-chocolate substance.
Delicious, but not up to the standards of Pocky classic.

Man, I'd love to suck on a white lolita right now!

by Miles Pieri February 2, 2004

Leprechaun Ninja

Also: Tom Cruise in 'The Last Samurai'

Did you see the Cruiser in that dumb movie? He was even smaller than the Japs. Looked like a Goddamn leprechaun ninja!

by Miles Pieri January 21, 2004

pocari sweat

Strange, tangy supposedly 'soft' drink from Japan which, according to the blurb on the can, replaces the electrolytes lost through perspiration.
The sensation of actually drinking the stuff is like putting your tongue on the twin terminals of a 9v. battery.

Pocari Sweat is Japanese Coke to Calpis' Pepsi.

by Miles Pieri February 2, 2004

kogaru

Ahh...the dyed yellow hair, the big socks, the bleeding-edge mobile phone. We all love Kogals, those young Japanese schoolies who hang around in gangs everywhere from Osaka to Oxford. It makes life just that little bit easier to take, watching them with their Badtz Maru handbags and Domo-kun Alice bands.

'Did you see the legs on that Kogaru? Like a bloody elephants...'

by Miles Pieri January 20, 2004

haruki murakami

Fine Japanese author of urban magic realism. Novels such as 'Dance, Dance, Dance' and 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle' have made Murakami one of the most popular writers in his native country with young people. His story of young love in the 1960's 'Norwegian Wood' was a sensation when it was published in the 1980's.
Best novel (IMHO) - Sputnik Sweetheart

Selected books

Pinball
A Wild Sheep Chase
Hardboiled Wonderland And The End Of The World
Norwegian Wood
The Elephant Vanishes (Short Stories)
Dance Dance Dance
The Wind Up Bird Chronicles
South Of The Border, West Of The Sun
Sputnik Sweetheart
Underground (Non fiction)

by Miles Pieri January 7, 2004

ghibli

Strong middle-eastern desert wind. Also the name of one of the two (along with Pixar) finest animation studio's on the planet.

Better tie down the Camels, there's one helluva Ghibli comin'

by Miles Pieri January 21, 2004