Joe the Clown's Noisy, Slightly Lonely Days

A twenty-four-hour internet café, 2 AM, and a faceless figure replaying footage of a clown's smile—searching for the crack behind the mask. "Joe Rikiichi. Who are you?" By day, Lyric House is anything but ominous. In this old share house by the canal, pudding thieves get interrogated over miso soup, balloon animals turn into confiscated swords, and a clown with tri-colored hair and a painted face argues that his life is "about as heavy as miso soup." Joe Rikiichi—street performer, freelance str