My Little Pony and Throbbing Gristle make strange bedfellows. No, not in that way. The plastic horse and a poster of the industrial noiseniks both decorate Shirokuma, a funny little bar on Shibuya's Center Gai.
Give a kindergarten art class a room, some pocket money and a buffet of hallucinogens, and you'd get something like Shirokuma.
Hand-cut cardboard stars dangle from the ceiling; 8-bit Nintendos have been glued to the wall. Stuffed toys hang like victims of a lynching; a stuffed squirrel probably was lynched. Technics 1200s incongruously share a DJ booth with a collection of bootleg cassette tapes. The toilet is devoted to Fuss, a hand-sketched character that makes Hello Kitty seem photo-realistic.