at least i got a free drink
last weekend i was to meet my friends (let's call them ron, sam, and mike) at a "j-pop" show. "softly! nights," feat. orangenoise shortcut, hazelnuts chocolate, and the aprils. [think belle & seb on coke. with a huge blue dancing panda bear on stage, who played air guitar and air bongos. god i wish i had pictures.] after taking the wrong train, then taking the right train in the wrong direction, i was running a "little" late. i had a map of where the club was, but still managed to get lost in [what i thought was] daikanyama. had i just looked at the map, i would have been straight, but in this city one wrong turn can be a serious ender, and i felt like i knew where i was going.
i finally made it to the club, unit, paid 3500 JPY to the cute door girl, and made my way down 4 flights of stairs (all the hip clubs here seem to be underground). i met up with my friends (who thought i wasn't coming), and only then did i realize just how late i was. "yeah dude, this is the last band!" "what?" "yeah, the show started a few hours ago." "...." so, i saw about 4 songs of the aprils' set before the lights came up and they were telling us to get out. [you'd think the door girl would have said something or let me in for free, right?] [on a side note, as we left, mike was like "hang on, i wanna get those sandwhiches i stashed in the alley." he ducks into an alley next to the club and emerges with a 7-11 bag full of sandwhiches, which he promptly housed. you can imagine how tickled i was at the sight of this.]
after the show, they cleared everyone out and got ready for another event later that night. as it turns out, unit is like the hip all night club you think about when you think of the tokyo night scene. it's 4 stories underground [literally and figureatively] and features big name DJs all the time. superpitcher is coming in a month or so, and i'm really tempted to check it out (he might be my all time fav -- his remixes are nothing short of perfection. see his treatments of M83 and the MFA). however, i don't want to go by myself and i'm pretty sure he goes on at about 6am (i'm serious). hopefully i'll meet a cute tokyo hipster that will take me out with her.
i finally made it to the club, unit, paid 3500 JPY to the cute door girl, and made my way down 4 flights of stairs (all the hip clubs here seem to be underground). i met up with my friends (who thought i wasn't coming), and only then did i realize just how late i was. "yeah dude, this is the last band!" "what?" "yeah, the show started a few hours ago." "...." so, i saw about 4 songs of the aprils' set before the lights came up and they were telling us to get out. [you'd think the door girl would have said something or let me in for free, right?] [on a side note, as we left, mike was like "hang on, i wanna get those sandwhiches i stashed in the alley." he ducks into an alley next to the club and emerges with a 7-11 bag full of sandwhiches, which he promptly housed. you can imagine how tickled i was at the sight of this.]
after the show, they cleared everyone out and got ready for another event later that night. as it turns out, unit is like the hip all night club you think about when you think of the tokyo night scene. it's 4 stories underground [literally and figureatively] and features big name DJs all the time. superpitcher is coming in a month or so, and i'm really tempted to check it out (he might be my all time fav -- his remixes are nothing short of perfection. see his treatments of M83 and the MFA). however, i don't want to go by myself and i'm pretty sure he goes on at about 6am (i'm serious). hopefully i'll meet a cute tokyo hipster that will take me out with her.
posted by digital bees at 15:00
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thought for the night....you are way too young to know anything about Belle and Sebastian...ACT YOUR AGE and talk about Nelly and Nickleback...I'm sure they'll be in Tokyo soon.
Random question...you're like 6'6", right? The natives are like 4'6", right? Do your legs hang over the end of the bed when you sleep?
it's not so much about my legs hanging off beds as it is about me having to duck to walk through doors. i don't know if you've ever seen shawn bradley in person, but since everything is scaled down here, i look like bradley does in the US.
it's only a matter of time before i knock myself out in my apartment, where the door frames are a good six inches too low.
oh yeah, and sean paul is coming to town. is that young enough for you? i'm actually pretty into SP.
Just gimme the trees an we'll smoke it yo.
It don't make me please so don't provoke it yo.
We don't need no speed so we going to coke it yo.
Set we mind at ease we got to take it slow.
DOPE!!! you even got the club version.
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