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ZENZEN DAIJOUBU (not), Shibuya Outback photos, etc
I'm at the internet cafe near Warabi station. Wow, I haven't been here since like August and the desk clerk is still the same kid and he still remembers me from when I came in here almost every night when I first moved to Japan.
I'm downloading Knoppix in the hope that I can at least use my computer at home. Seems it really is the hard drive that's gone, but I'm not really sure what to do about it at this point. Maybe replaceable, maybe not. Laptop is big and heavy and old and slow anyway. Eh. I don't think I can go laptop shopping until the weekend though, maybe Sunday... well, we'll see I guess. Maybe some morning/afternoon I can hit up Ikebukuro or Urawa.
I tried to download knoppix at work today but get this, it turns out our school's computer doesn't have a CD-R drive but just a normal CD drive. WTF? I tried to also put it on my USB stick but that didn't work when I got home. Doh. I bought a screwdriver set so I could take apart my laptop but when I did and looked at it all but nothing seems out of the ordinary. However when I put it back together then it REALLY had trouble and was like "your hard drive is failing, DANGER DANGER" and all. I couldnt even reinstall Windows on it. Yikes.
So.
Work today was crazy, too. I don't really want to talk about it in a public entry but something really bizarre happened. Also Akabane Station had a power outage in the north side so none of the shops were open for foodage -- no bakery, no tonkatsu sandwich place, etc. That sucked. I got lunch from McDonalds and then after work Eri and I got dinner at Denny's. How... American. Bleh.
Speaking of American, I went to Outback in Shibuya for dinner last night. It was awesome. Amazingly, I got a 230g (like 8 oz) prime rib dinner for like... 2300 yen or something like that. It came with a salad, veggies, mashed potatoes, and Outback bread. It was all kinds of awesome and quite delicious. While I was there, I swear there were four different birthdays, and the entire staff came out to sing to everyone, just like in America. Also the waitress spoke perfect English, although everyone else there pretty much spoke Japanese to me, it was kind of odd but nice to actually be able to order in English, it made me realize it HAS been a long time since I have.
I took these photos with my cellphone:
Before going to Outback, and the original reason I ventured into Shibuya, was to see a movie called Zenzen Daijoubu (which is Japanese for "Fine, just fine"). It was awesome, just awesome. Very funny movie. It's about this family that owns and runs a used bookstore... kind of. The father is bored out of his mind, the older (?) brother Teruo is almost 30 but mentally he's really like 14, is pretty weirdlooking, and he wants to make horror films. The other brother Hisanobu is actually pretty normal, but he's a salaryman, working in HR at a hospital, and knows it's boring. One day this completely clumsy but pure girl named Akari comes to the hospital to get a job. He hires her but eventually she ends up quitting due to her utter clumsiness resulting in some awful accidents. Akari, as it turns out, is artistic and loves books, so Hisanobu brings her to the bookstore to work there instead. And naturally Teruo (despite being completely clueless) falls in love with her, as does Hisanobu, as does this OTHER guy, a customer in the bookstore, whose job is fixing and restoring antiques and pottery. Meanwhile Akari is kind of childlike all on her own despite being almost 30 herself, but in the end everything works out just fine. Or something like that. It's kind of hard to explain what made this movie so funny but there were just silly gags all over the place (partially stemming from Teruo being a freak and/or his horror hobby, and partially just naturally funny gags). Like at one point Teruo is showing off what looks like abstract art. Curious, the guests ask "What's that?" As if it's obvious, Teruo answers, "Himeji Castle." A flashback shows the insane father putting together the Himeji castle model... completely wrong. And it's just super-funny. I dunno. I bet anything this movie will make it to SIFF one of these years, anyway, so GO SEE IT WHEN IT DOES BECAUSE IT IS AWESOME.
Before going to Shibuya I stopped in Ikebukuro at Mint, and I got some more Yukio Tanaka cards and saw some other interesting cards as well. They had Nostalgic cards too, so I will have to drag Pau back there sometime for sure.
TV ruled last night too. Thank god Ryo finally confessed to Remi so he will GET OFF THE SHOW ALREADY YAAAAAAY. If only my laptop hadn't died right after Ainori :(
Ok, downloaded! Yay. Let's see if I can burn this baby. Burn, baby, burn.
I'm downloading Knoppix in the hope that I can at least use my computer at home. Seems it really is the hard drive that's gone, but I'm not really sure what to do about it at this point. Maybe replaceable, maybe not. Laptop is big and heavy and old and slow anyway. Eh. I don't think I can go laptop shopping until the weekend though, maybe Sunday... well, we'll see I guess. Maybe some morning/afternoon I can hit up Ikebukuro or Urawa.
I tried to download knoppix at work today but get this, it turns out our school's computer doesn't have a CD-R drive but just a normal CD drive. WTF? I tried to also put it on my USB stick but that didn't work when I got home. Doh. I bought a screwdriver set so I could take apart my laptop but when I did and looked at it all but nothing seems out of the ordinary. However when I put it back together then it REALLY had trouble and was like "your hard drive is failing, DANGER DANGER" and all. I couldnt even reinstall Windows on it. Yikes.
So.
Work today was crazy, too. I don't really want to talk about it in a public entry but something really bizarre happened. Also Akabane Station had a power outage in the north side so none of the shops were open for foodage -- no bakery, no tonkatsu sandwich place, etc. That sucked. I got lunch from McDonalds and then after work Eri and I got dinner at Denny's. How... American. Bleh.
Speaking of American, I went to Outback in Shibuya for dinner last night. It was awesome. Amazingly, I got a 230g (like 8 oz) prime rib dinner for like... 2300 yen or something like that. It came with a salad, veggies, mashed potatoes, and Outback bread. It was all kinds of awesome and quite delicious. While I was there, I swear there were four different birthdays, and the entire staff came out to sing to everyone, just like in America. Also the waitress spoke perfect English, although everyone else there pretty much spoke Japanese to me, it was kind of odd but nice to actually be able to order in English, it made me realize it HAS been a long time since I have.
I took these photos with my cellphone:
Before going to Outback, and the original reason I ventured into Shibuya, was to see a movie called Zenzen Daijoubu (which is Japanese for "Fine, just fine"). It was awesome, just awesome. Very funny movie. It's about this family that owns and runs a used bookstore... kind of. The father is bored out of his mind, the older (?) brother Teruo is almost 30 but mentally he's really like 14, is pretty weirdlooking, and he wants to make horror films. The other brother Hisanobu is actually pretty normal, but he's a salaryman, working in HR at a hospital, and knows it's boring. One day this completely clumsy but pure girl named Akari comes to the hospital to get a job. He hires her but eventually she ends up quitting due to her utter clumsiness resulting in some awful accidents. Akari, as it turns out, is artistic and loves books, so Hisanobu brings her to the bookstore to work there instead. And naturally Teruo (despite being completely clueless) falls in love with her, as does Hisanobu, as does this OTHER guy, a customer in the bookstore, whose job is fixing and restoring antiques and pottery. Meanwhile Akari is kind of childlike all on her own despite being almost 30 herself, but in the end everything works out just fine. Or something like that. It's kind of hard to explain what made this movie so funny but there were just silly gags all over the place (partially stemming from Teruo being a freak and/or his horror hobby, and partially just naturally funny gags). Like at one point Teruo is showing off what looks like abstract art. Curious, the guests ask "What's that?" As if it's obvious, Teruo answers, "Himeji Castle." A flashback shows the insane father putting together the Himeji castle model... completely wrong. And it's just super-funny. I dunno. I bet anything this movie will make it to SIFF one of these years, anyway, so GO SEE IT WHEN IT DOES BECAUSE IT IS AWESOME.
Before going to Shibuya I stopped in Ikebukuro at Mint, and I got some more Yukio Tanaka cards and saw some other interesting cards as well. They had Nostalgic cards too, so I will have to drag Pau back there sometime for sure.
TV ruled last night too. Thank god Ryo finally confessed to Remi so he will GET OFF THE SHOW ALREADY YAAAAAAY. If only my laptop hadn't died right after Ainori :(
Ok, downloaded! Yay. Let's see if I can burn this baby. Burn, baby, burn.
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huh, sweet potato! I forget. There were a lot of choices for side orders but I honestly can't remember if the sweet potato was on there. huh. maybe it's on the website but I can't get Japanese on knoppix :)