Test Drive
“I want to eat—it’s just that I always forget,” Joji tells me offhandedly, as we sit down with a plate of Japanese curry at New York’s Go! Go! Curry!. It’s the first meal of the day for the 26-year-old Japanese-Australian singer-producer, who’s freshly back in town following the nearly sold-out US tour he did with 88rising. He adds, as if registering my concern: “Yesterday I had two pieces of toast with jam in the morning and then at 10PM, I had a pork chop.”
I’d informed Joji (real name: George Miller) that I wanted to get an accurate picture of a typical day in his life—where he likes to hang out, what he likes to eat—but it was proving tricky to nail down a pattern outside of his work. “It’s structured,” he insists, of his schedule, which includes late-night walks and the occasional game of basketball. “But I’m always focused on what’s next, so things like eating and cleaning get overlooked. Which is why, you know, I just live like a teenage boy.”