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Japan Day 15
Sep. 16th, 2006 12:12 amGod this keyboard sucks. A LOT.
Um, today Oren and Carl left for Kanazawa. We got breakfast together at the Vie de France bakery in the Ikebukuro station, then they went to their train and I wandered to East Ikebukuro, where I went to Animate and found out they no longer sell any Pop'n'Music stuff, and then went and played some Pop'n'Music for a bit. I called Krispy and woke him up and made plans for tomorrow, though, so that was good.
I ended up spending the afternoon at the Tower Records in Shinjuku. I didn't MEAN to spend three hours there, but they have a ton of CDs that you can just listen to -- more than I remember any of the American stores having, or maybe the Japanese music is so different to me that I ended up listening to a ton of stuff. It was sort of annoying because I found a bunch of things where I'd like ONE song on a CD but not the rest of it so I just couldn't justify buying it -- in particular there was a guy named Matsuki Ayumu, whose new album Distortion has a great third track, but that's apparently not a single, and the rest of the album sucks. It reminds me of Orange Range, sort of, where I adore about three of their songs and the rest is just garbage noise as far as I care. Bleh.
Anyway, after listening to a ton of stuff I picked up like three albums, one that I didn't know about before (aiko's new album) and two I'd been unable to find used (the best of The Blue Hearts and the best of Sambomaster). Whee.
Then I headed back to Ikebukuro, where I grabbed some food and then ended up feeling a little sick and laid down for ten minutes, and then I realized that I couldn't go see any baseball if I didn't leave soon (it was past 4pm by then). So I ended up going back to Tokorozawa and seeing Seibu beat Orix. I had a pretty good seat and it was actually a pretty good game. I wrote about it on Marinerds, of course, and this keyboard hurts my arm so much I'm too lazy to go link.
Came back. Should sleep. Whee.
Um, today Oren and Carl left for Kanazawa. We got breakfast together at the Vie de France bakery in the Ikebukuro station, then they went to their train and I wandered to East Ikebukuro, where I went to Animate and found out they no longer sell any Pop'n'Music stuff, and then went and played some Pop'n'Music for a bit. I called Krispy and woke him up and made plans for tomorrow, though, so that was good.
I ended up spending the afternoon at the Tower Records in Shinjuku. I didn't MEAN to spend three hours there, but they have a ton of CDs that you can just listen to -- more than I remember any of the American stores having, or maybe the Japanese music is so different to me that I ended up listening to a ton of stuff. It was sort of annoying because I found a bunch of things where I'd like ONE song on a CD but not the rest of it so I just couldn't justify buying it -- in particular there was a guy named Matsuki Ayumu, whose new album Distortion has a great third track, but that's apparently not a single, and the rest of the album sucks. It reminds me of Orange Range, sort of, where I adore about three of their songs and the rest is just garbage noise as far as I care. Bleh.
Anyway, after listening to a ton of stuff I picked up like three albums, one that I didn't know about before (aiko's new album) and two I'd been unable to find used (the best of The Blue Hearts and the best of Sambomaster). Whee.
Then I headed back to Ikebukuro, where I grabbed some food and then ended up feeling a little sick and laid down for ten minutes, and then I realized that I couldn't go see any baseball if I didn't leave soon (it was past 4pm by then). So I ended up going back to Tokorozawa and seeing Seibu beat Orix. I had a pretty good seat and it was actually a pretty good game. I wrote about it on Marinerds, of course, and this keyboard hurts my arm so much I'm too lazy to go link.
Came back. Should sleep. Whee.
