Slept
late, did a little shopping at Daiei, for 1) a flannel shirt, 2) a
sweat jacket, 3) another lip ring, this time with balls (you know
what I mean!) and 4) anything else cool. Unfortunately, none of the
flannel t-shirts conform to visual kei fan regulations (i.e., red,
white and black only, though
sometimes a thin yellow stripe is acceptable as well).
Sadly,
Daiei had mostly a bunch of lumberjacky every-color-of-the-rainbow-combined-into-a-vomit-hued-mess
style flannels, but with and a couple interesting monochromic (light
blue / dark blue) plaids of passing interest thrown in. And in addition,
the sizes, even the LL's, were too small (LL usually ends up being
only larger around the waist, and short in the arms, so they're useless
to me). LT (Long talls) are nowhere to be found, except in the occasional
Big & Tall shop. But mostly, B&T shops cater solely to the
Bigs. Bastards!
I did
find a cool ball lipring with the aid of the same Claire's Boutique
girl that helped me with my other lipring purchase -- and she remembered
me, so that was cool. But I think she likes rap (the in-store speakers
are always tuned to some L.A. hip-hop radio station).
I also
saw a couple cheapo address books at one of the stationery-ish shops
in the Daiei mall; I bought two, for Y50, and only because the plastic
booklet thing they came in seemed to be the same size as a CD single;
so I got home, sliced in half one of my 20-yen Koi Gokoro 3"
singles, inserted the two halves into the checkbooky plastic booklety-booklet
and voila, a kick-ass Aikawa Nanase-y address book, for Y70! It looked
so cool, I chopped up my used, Y100 Zan 3", and now I
have a Dir en grey one too. :) But somehow, the Nanase one looks better
-- I think it's the darker color scheme... anyway, I'll probably pick
up a zillion more of those address bookies later on and make more,
for, like, omiyage or something! And finally, a use for 3"
singles! (All of which are selling for way cheap nowadays -- they
stopped making them a few years ago, and now they're about as hip
as an 8-track tape.)
Today,
because I slept late, I missed the last day of the Takashi Murakami
exhibit at MCAT (that's "the Museum of Contemporary Art -- Tokyo"
for you untrendy dorks out there <) which is a shame, because he
does some kick ass anime style statues, usually involving around sexual
themes, but since he can speak "art-style" ("the semen
represents the intellectual bourgeoisie; note the texture of the cream
which recalls pre-minimalist values"), he gets respected like
crazy, whereas most cool anime artists are just regarded as "pop"
and dismissed. Something like that. So he gets exhibits around the
world, and has to go to lots of boring show openings every day, and
wear a black beret and and smoke feminine cigarettes. Something like
that!
I also
missed my chance to see the Tokyo Motor Show, which seemed to have
lots of cool cars, which looked kinda cool from what I saw on TV (one
Toyota, I think it was, cries when the gas level gets too low; little
lights stream down from its headlight "eyes"). Also, there
are lots of chicks in tight skirts that pose with the cars. Y1200
doesn't seem too much to ask! But, ach, today was just another one
of those lazy Sunday type deals. I just wish I had a Sunday New York
Times. (They're available, if I schlepp to Shinjuku and Kinokuniya,
and pay $20 for one. Or I can just get online, but it ain't the same.)
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From
the Macabre DVD
Kyo and Die... I was just watching this video again today;
at one point, there's a 100 or so fans gathered outside a
hotel lobby, and Kaoru is watching them from the stairs, half
hidden, and commenting. It's cool. He seems really happy and
appreciative of the success he's got (unlike a lot of now-famous
musicians). Plus, for the fans who were there, they must've
seen this track (track 20 or so on the DVD) and been like,
"Oh christ, he was watching us the whole time!"
Coolness.
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