Alright! Party Time! Excellent! Bonus...

So yeah...we've been quoting Wayne's World nonstop over hear. (Try reading the rest of this blog as if Wayne were saying it) Ok. Cool.

Here's the thing:

When you're away from America long enough to forget the taste of PBR, you start hanging on to those miniscule moments of home. So after we watched Wayne's World, Wayne Cambell and Garth Algar have become homeland heroes of ours. Aurora Illinoise! Alright! High five!

Ok, so I thought you should know, it's been raining for a week straight! What gives?!

Although I must admit, a zesty bowl of ramen never tasted so good as after a night in the rain.

Also, there are umbrellas everywhere...excellent! People just seem to grab em as they go, and they get passed around. The other night, I had 4 different umbrellas over the course of the evening...I dunno if that's typical, but I felt dirty...and kind of excited...haha

So today we watched 4 hours of footage....starting to catch up with ourselves...only 16 hours of fottage pending currently...

Then we split up for two shows...only there wasn't two shows...which we found out upon arriving at one of the venues...so Eric and I hopped back on a train and got to Koenji to catch the second half of Akinori's set. He plays classical guitar in a unique way, often scraping the strings, and using different objects percussively to make obscure noises. He has a heavy influence from the noise genre of music, in which melody is avoided, and the focus is more on individual sounds...sometimes coallescing into a moment of layering, sometimes standing alone in sonic space.

His music made for some very pensive moments. I found myself thinking deeply about all that has happened since coming here. In many ways it was like dreaming. My thoughts varied and flowed freely from one subject to another. At times, I felt very tired, although maybe the sensation was more like hypnosis than fatigue. It's the same way I felt when I watched 8 1/2 by Federico Fellini.



After the show, we did an interview with Akinori, fascilitated by Makoto's translation, and then hung out with them and other performers and friends who were at the show. We got some recommendations for places to visit when we travel around Japan our final week. Alright! Bonus!


So time to sleep. Got another day of production tomorrow.


In unrelated news, here's a picture this guy sent us the other day...he's a big fan of the video's online. Alright, our biggest fan!

Also, check out this short clip we've uploaded from the Elevation show. Micah is the drummer, and has been translating for us...cool dood. Again sorry about the poor video quality...it's hard to watch HD footage get downconverted into this mess...but you'll get the idea.



Alright, peace from the East.

Ian