Catching up with people a bit more...
Dude. Darvish and Ma-kun on News Zero in an interview (with Sakurai Sho of all people!). I guess it IS Spring Training season after all. On the other hand I just finished watching today's Ainori (poor Yamaji... technically she retired, but... also only 5 episodes left omg) and SMAPxSMAP and so on and aside from the TV having such crappy reception, it's kind of nice to be back into the routine. Now if I just had a job...
(Well, I have another interview tomorrow.)
Let me backtrack a second. I spent Sunday hanging out with![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
alibash. We went to Ikebukuro and saw 誰も守ってくれない, a movie about... I guess it's a movie about how oppressive the Japanese media can be. Krispy picked it after I said I'd prefer to see a Japanese movie, and since I like Sato Koichi and Shida Mirai and basically everyone else in this movie (it took me this long to realize I recognized Kimura Yoshino from her role in Zenzen Daijoubu!) I was up for it, knowing it was going to be a kind of serious movie. And it was... basically Mirai-chan plays this 15-year-old girl Saori whose brother commits murder and so the Japanese press is trying desperately to make the family pay for it all, while Sato plays a cop named Katsuura whose job is essentially to keep Saori away from the Japanese press. Enter Sasaki Kuranosuke as a jerkbucket reporter who is determined to get to her -- and isn't he ALWAYS a jerkbucket? -- and the internet as his ally, and you have a weird chase movie without being an action movie. I dunno. It was ok. I don't know why there are no comedies out right now though, given that last winter at this time I watched at least 3 or 4 of them.
After wandering through a few arcades on Sunshine-dori, Krispy and I ended up getting Mexican food for dinner at El Torito and hanging out chatting for a while. It was good to see him again! Shame we had to meet under sad circumstances for both of us.
Today I meant to go down to Shinagawa in the afternoon but woke up and felt crappy so I ended up not going anywhere, and spent the afternoon throwing resumes at a dartboard, essentially, while doing half my laundry. I guess I'm getting a little freaked out by the job hunt, most likely exacerbated by my trip back to Seattle because I'm worried about being able to interview and all. We'll see.
In the evening I went to Shibuya and met up with Pau, who I hadn't seen in several months, obviously. He got tickets to Games 1 and 6 of the WBC, so we'll be at the boring Japan-slaughters-China game and we'll also be at the finals for the Tokyo rounds! Wooooo! Anyway, Pau and I went to Momo Paradise and I gorged on shabu-shabu which was maybe not the best idea, but it had been a while and I was starving. Yum.
It seems he'll be around a few more months, so hopefully we can manage to play board games and baseball and whatever else, but who knows. It is kind of sad how the nature of being friends with other foreigners in Japan means that by definition, you are all going to go home someday, so one way or the other, you have to go find new friends.. but it's such a pain to find new friends in some ways. I wish Lisa was still here too. Blargh.
Krispy and I had also been talking about how people don't seem to do things spontaneously here. I think that might be true... and I guess I wonder if I can get better and/or more efficient at planning stuff.
Anyway, fun times. Went around Shibuya a bit more after Pau went home. Turns out Popolare, my favorite arcade there, has closed, which makes me super-sad, although it seems that another arcade I forgot the name of has turned their second floor into "Bemani Only", which was nice of them. Eh. Whatever.
I wonder how the next few days are going to shake down. I still need to get to Shinagawa and it turns out Wednesday is a holiday. Oops.
(Well, I have another interview tomorrow.)
Let me backtrack a second. I spent Sunday hanging out with
alibash. We went to Ikebukuro and saw 誰も守ってくれない, a movie about... I guess it's a movie about how oppressive the Japanese media can be. Krispy picked it after I said I'd prefer to see a Japanese movie, and since I like Sato Koichi and Shida Mirai and basically everyone else in this movie (it took me this long to realize I recognized Kimura Yoshino from her role in Zenzen Daijoubu!) I was up for it, knowing it was going to be a kind of serious movie. And it was... basically Mirai-chan plays this 15-year-old girl Saori whose brother commits murder and so the Japanese press is trying desperately to make the family pay for it all, while Sato plays a cop named Katsuura whose job is essentially to keep Saori away from the Japanese press. Enter Sasaki Kuranosuke as a jerkbucket reporter who is determined to get to her -- and isn't he ALWAYS a jerkbucket? -- and the internet as his ally, and you have a weird chase movie without being an action movie. I dunno. It was ok. I don't know why there are no comedies out right now though, given that last winter at this time I watched at least 3 or 4 of them.After wandering through a few arcades on Sunshine-dori, Krispy and I ended up getting Mexican food for dinner at El Torito and hanging out chatting for a while. It was good to see him again! Shame we had to meet under sad circumstances for both of us.
Today I meant to go down to Shinagawa in the afternoon but woke up and felt crappy so I ended up not going anywhere, and spent the afternoon throwing resumes at a dartboard, essentially, while doing half my laundry. I guess I'm getting a little freaked out by the job hunt, most likely exacerbated by my trip back to Seattle because I'm worried about being able to interview and all. We'll see.
In the evening I went to Shibuya and met up with Pau, who I hadn't seen in several months, obviously. He got tickets to Games 1 and 6 of the WBC, so we'll be at the boring Japan-slaughters-China game and we'll also be at the finals for the Tokyo rounds! Wooooo! Anyway, Pau and I went to Momo Paradise and I gorged on shabu-shabu which was maybe not the best idea, but it had been a while and I was starving. Yum.
It seems he'll be around a few more months, so hopefully we can manage to play board games and baseball and whatever else, but who knows. It is kind of sad how the nature of being friends with other foreigners in Japan means that by definition, you are all going to go home someday, so one way or the other, you have to go find new friends.. but it's such a pain to find new friends in some ways. I wish Lisa was still here too. Blargh.
Krispy and I had also been talking about how people don't seem to do things spontaneously here. I think that might be true... and I guess I wonder if I can get better and/or more efficient at planning stuff.
Anyway, fun times. Went around Shibuya a bit more after Pau went home. Turns out Popolare, my favorite arcade there, has closed, which makes me super-sad, although it seems that another arcade I forgot the name of has turned their second floor into "Bemani Only", which was nice of them. Eh. Whatever.
I wonder how the next few days are going to shake down. I still need to get to Shinagawa and it turns out Wednesday is a holiday. Oops.
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