i cast myself towards infinity. trust me, i had my reasons.

i lost another umbrella last night. given my behavior patterns, i'm fortunate not to have lost more things here. but the saying is that "no one loses anything in tokyo." [except umbrellas apparently]. when you leave something somewhere, they either chase you down to give it back to you or they hold on to it until the next time you come. last night, a bartender greeted one of my friends with a hat he left at the bar several weeks ago. how he remembered who it belonged to i don't know.

it's been a good week, but i fear for the weekend. i don't know how i'm going to keep up this pace for the rest of the semester. i've become pretty consistently nocturnal, so even when i "take it easy" i can't go to sleep before 6. might as well stay out, right? i'm driven here by a sense of urgency and a fear that i might miss out on something, so i push myself. i think you can characterize that in a number of ways: immature, desperate, near sighted, etc. but i came here to do exactly what i'm doing, and i'm not ready to stop. "it is now or it is never."

if you've never heard destroyer, well, you should. they're majestic. my proudest sxsw discovery (2004).

http://www.mergerecords.com/band.php?band_id=29&.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/d/destroyer/destroyers-rubies.shtml.

last night we stayed late at a bar that looks like skywalker's place in mos eisley. it has a name, but is known to us as "mos eisley." it's basically in someone's living room (luke skywalker's living room, yeah?). i made friends with the dj and simon chatted up the bartendress. 6:30am, waiting for a cab in tokyo, japan.