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movie and other stuff
Getting freaked out about my laptop being totally ready to die again. It's lived 14 months longer than I expected to (at least we got it past the 3-year mark) so I can't be too sad I suppose. But it's been running slow and weird, needing more reboots than usual, always hanging on stuff, and yesterday when I rebooted it, it started doing a disk check. Not a good sign. It just has to last one more week until I get back to the US!!
So, yesterday. During the day I didn't really get enough done -- in retrospect. At the time I didn't realize it. I called the electric company about stopping service, still need to call water and gas, and go over to au/KDDI to negotiate stopping internet. (I could call them too but they're close and it's easier for me to do in person.) I'll do that later this afternoon -- for now I'm planning to go to Jingu in a bit to see Shimabukuro's college debut.
In the evening yesterday, I went to Shinjuku to watch a movie, namely Konzen Tokkyu, which I thought would be a lot funnier than it was from the reviews. The basic premise is that there's this complete psycho hose beast named Chie, in her mid-20's, who has 5 boyfriends, who she even enumerates the good and bad points of, from a 54-year-old guy who's rich and together but his bad point is being married, a 33-year-old who's really nice and who she seems to like the best but his bad point is she feels she doesn't know him well enough, a 29-year-old motorcycle mechanic who's free but noisy/distant, a 19-year-old college student who's ridiculously good-looking but of course immature, and then a 26-year-old dork named Tanashi whose bad points are many: he uses her apartment's bath because his has none, he has no friends, he's an otaku, he's dorky, he's lazy, he's poor (he works in a bakery), etc. His good point is that he's comfortable.
Anyway, after Chie's best friend Toshiko gets married, Chie suddenly decides that she too wants to get married, so the idea is she's going to break up with all of her boyfriends and the last one remaining, she'll marry. Of course, you can guess that she thinks the first one to go should be Tanashi. But naturally things don't work out that way ("Tanashi, I've decided that we should break up." "Break up? But we're not dating, are we? So there's no need.") And in the end naturally she ends up breaking up with 3 out of the other 4 guys through random circumstance... the 4th, well, it's a little complicated, but in a bunch of scenes that show exactly what a complete psycho bitch she is, you assume that the guy finally sees that and runs screaming, I think.
There were some pretty funny scenes in this movie but overall it was not the "laugh fest" that a review had led me to believe it is. The last 10 minutes are, kind of, but a lot of stuff before that is odd but not laugh-inducing.
I saw the movie at a theater I'd never been to in Shinjuku before though so that was good. And it was right by Sanchome so beforehand I was able to stop into Kinokuniya and finally get the Kagayake Koshien no Hoshi magazine about senbatsu because I'm a girl. And I stopped into Yodobashi Camera for a minute to print photos (hoping to get signed today... who knows if I'll succeed). And afterwards I was able to walk over and have dinner at that kaitensushi place right by the east exit, and I had taiyaki too. So, yum!
And afterwards I went to the Akabane Book-Off and traded in a bunch of stuff from my house that I don't want to waste the suitcase weight/space on taking back to the US. I got 510 yen for it and a 50-yen discount coupon, and found Shibariya 5-8 for Carl for 200 yen each, so effectively that kinda covered the cost of those, almost. Heh.
I guess today marks one week until I leave Japan. Scary :(
So, yesterday. During the day I didn't really get enough done -- in retrospect. At the time I didn't realize it. I called the electric company about stopping service, still need to call water and gas, and go over to au/KDDI to negotiate stopping internet. (I could call them too but they're close and it's easier for me to do in person.) I'll do that later this afternoon -- for now I'm planning to go to Jingu in a bit to see Shimabukuro's college debut.
In the evening yesterday, I went to Shinjuku to watch a movie, namely Konzen Tokkyu, which I thought would be a lot funnier than it was from the reviews. The basic premise is that there's this complete psycho hose beast named Chie, in her mid-20's, who has 5 boyfriends, who she even enumerates the good and bad points of, from a 54-year-old guy who's rich and together but his bad point is being married, a 33-year-old who's really nice and who she seems to like the best but his bad point is she feels she doesn't know him well enough, a 29-year-old motorcycle mechanic who's free but noisy/distant, a 19-year-old college student who's ridiculously good-looking but of course immature, and then a 26-year-old dork named Tanashi whose bad points are many: he uses her apartment's bath because his has none, he has no friends, he's an otaku, he's dorky, he's lazy, he's poor (he works in a bakery), etc. His good point is that he's comfortable.
Anyway, after Chie's best friend Toshiko gets married, Chie suddenly decides that she too wants to get married, so the idea is she's going to break up with all of her boyfriends and the last one remaining, she'll marry. Of course, you can guess that she thinks the first one to go should be Tanashi. But naturally things don't work out that way ("Tanashi, I've decided that we should break up." "Break up? But we're not dating, are we? So there's no need.") And in the end naturally she ends up breaking up with 3 out of the other 4 guys through random circumstance... the 4th, well, it's a little complicated, but in a bunch of scenes that show exactly what a complete psycho bitch she is, you assume that the guy finally sees that and runs screaming, I think.
There were some pretty funny scenes in this movie but overall it was not the "laugh fest" that a review had led me to believe it is. The last 10 minutes are, kind of, but a lot of stuff before that is odd but not laugh-inducing.
I saw the movie at a theater I'd never been to in Shinjuku before though so that was good. And it was right by Sanchome so beforehand I was able to stop into Kinokuniya and finally get the Kagayake Koshien no Hoshi magazine about senbatsu because I'm a girl. And I stopped into Yodobashi Camera for a minute to print photos (hoping to get signed today... who knows if I'll succeed). And afterwards I was able to walk over and have dinner at that kaitensushi place right by the east exit, and I had taiyaki too. So, yum!
And afterwards I went to the Akabane Book-Off and traded in a bunch of stuff from my house that I don't want to waste the suitcase weight/space on taking back to the US. I got 510 yen for it and a 50-yen discount coupon, and found Shibariya 5-8 for Carl for 200 yen each, so effectively that kinda covered the cost of those, almost. Heh.
I guess today marks one week until I leave Japan. Scary :(
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...And this is where you lost the American. Normally there's some English context I can follow. :)
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So, they also produce a magazine called Kagayake Koshien no Hoshi, which is about high school players. It's not quite as fashion-magazine-ish as PY Ai, but it is still VERY much geared to, IMO, high school girls, and women who love high school baseball as well. They really make a point of making the high school players look very "cute", and do interviews that are pretty personal, relatively.
(They also had a series about college ball but I'm not sure it's going to continue this year. If not, it's a shame, because it ALSO did a fantastic job of really getting personal with some of the big-name players that it's hard to get to talk to.)
My joke about the Koshien one really was that "all the high school girls in the stands at Koshien had it, but nobody else". So I didn't buy it at first... then I realized, whatever, I enjoy reading the silly little articles they have in there too. Even if I feel a little bit like, why am I looking at pictures of cute baseball players half my age...