press her and a coffee will be made there

dudes! OSAKA care package from s hason! she's rad. fed ex is rad. japan is rad. but most rad of all is the pizza dice that came in this fed ex box. give em a roll and they tell you what kind of toppings to have on your pizza. buzzelli.... these have your name on them. pick me up at the airport friday night.

i am getting really behind here. things have been happening so fast. shows in japan are getting better and better. i mean crowds/kids. i remember really polite responses and super attentive crowds from the past. which is really nice and respectful but not really what a band wants/needs at a rock show. they really need to hear some crowd action to feel like they are having a good show. but the past few for dinosaur and broken social scene have been amazing. a perfect combination of both.

first up was osaka. i was at this place the very first time i came to japan in 2001, the osaka quattro. it's in a mall, just like all of them. and the dressing room is just the best. there's something about the graffiti in that room that is different from other dressing rooms around the world. all graffiti covered dressing rooms in japan have this feeling. i think it's cause there aren't any dicks. there's no drawings of naked women. not a ton of trash talking about other bands. mostly it's just people writing their band name and what year it was they were there. i think you can feel how stoked everyone is to be in japan when you are in these rooms. i found ad rock and fredo tags from that tour 7 years ago. and there was this this M.I.A tape tag on the door that was totally camo but totally obvious at the same time.

i don't have any shots of the osaka show for some reason. but i have shots of an okonomiaki pancake! yum. the best part about shows in japan is they start at 7 pm and are done by 10 pm so people can get the last train. doors at 6. it rules. then you have plenty of time to hang out after the show. and that means eating. we went to this oki place and gorged. i even tried the tokyo style that was described as looking like vomit. it ruled. 3 beer party that night. and they were playing satellite death metal radio at this restaurant, just in the bathroom tho. i heard opeth and entombed when i visited. a bunch of white north americans latched onto us after the show and somehow ingratiated themselves to a couple people and i ended up having to pretty much tell this girl that i didn't want her sitting at my table. i mean i just don't want to talk to white people on asian tours. especially not ones that pretty much invited themselves along to a meal that the promoter was gonna pay for. i'd rather sit with the people i am working with and the local people from the label and the promoter. not some lame 22 year old college girl that no one is interested in. so anyway, when i told her she had to go to a different table i am pretty sure she thought i was a prick. and when i was standing behind her in line at starbucks the next morning i still didn't feel bad.

shinkansen to tokyo the next day! totally rad. comfy seats. smooth ride. we went from sun in osaka.
to clouds.

to snow

and back to sun again just in time for mt fuji.

the first tokyo show was at the liquid rooms. the crowd was so polite at first it was like a library. it's only after they were given permission by the band to go nuts did they. and then it was kick ass. except for the white girl in the front that kept yelling for the set list and literally stood perpendicular to the stage the whole time and didn't seem to be having very much fun. you can see her here.

actually you can see her in a most of these.

kurt and courtney were there.

chu-hi time. i gotta go. like i said, things happen so fast over here.

** more about white people at shows in asia later on. **

Comments

[gloria]

Okay, I give, what is a chu-hi? A beer? Sounds like you are becoming a racist!!

[gloria]

Never mind, found it: Chu-hi: A fruit flavored carbonated alcoholic drink, sort of like 'hard lemonade' but in a lot more flavors. It's basically alcoholic soda

P.S. great photos of Mt. Fuji. Glad the sun came out for it.

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i could spend an entire day looking at photos and picking out perpendicular girl from the crowd.

brisbane was too brief. see you next time.

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[kime]

OF COURSE I WILL PICK U UP!

But we will be eating pizza the minute you exit the plane. Ok, maybe within the first half hour. Jillian has been swearing and getting bleeped on our show like crazy. I should warn you that I have still not cleaned my place. Did I mention why? I landed a rad ART JOB- ask me ask me the good news

[gloria]

It finally hit me what your title to this day's blog might mean. Is that a literally translated instruction on a coffeemaker in your room or something?