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Today I wandered down to Jimbocho as I seem to do so often these days. The goal this time was to go to Biblio, which is a sports bookstore (Jimbocho is, for the record, the used bookstore neighborhood in Tokyo, and a lot of the stores specialize in one particular kind of book, even down to things like there being a "military history" used bookstore, or a store which I swear specializes basically just in dictionaries. Things like that). I figured maybe they would have the issues of 大学野球 that I'm looking for. And they're closed on Sundays, and I basically always seem to be down there on Sundays, so today was Saturday and they were open.
But, no, they didn't have the stuff I was looking for. They did have some awesome old college baseball magazines from the 1980's and 1990's, but they all cost like 2500 yen, so no way would I get that unless I had some good reason to. And you can't look through them, either, which bites. I did sell them a few of my books/magazines but the guy gave me like, 10 yen per book. Sheesh. Um, does anyone want my old copy of You Gotta Have Wa? Now that I have the new edition I don't really need the old one... it's 20 years old but has some great stories about Japanese baseball in it.
Oh yeah, I went there via the Tokyo Dome. The Fighters calendar is still not out, which is making me basically say WTF. And I got curry for dinner on the way. Hooray. I did a lot of walking today, which was my sub-goal.
From Jimbocho I headed to Kanamecho, which is near Ikebukuro, and went to Book-Off. I also went to the new Book-Off in Ikebukuro proper. I was looking for DVDs to watch while I'm sitting at home buried under my kotatsu. I saw a lot of stuff but didn't want to pay a lot (I'm considering going back to get The Magic Hour anyway, even at 2450 yen, so I can bring it to the US and make Carl watch it) so I ended up getting a Tokyo Big 6 College Baseball DVD -- from the Spring of 2007 season, and then I also got Swing Girls (movie about high school girls in a jazz band), and Buta ga Ita Kyoshitsu ("The Classroom With A Pig", a movie about a teacher who has his 6th-graders adopt and raise a pig for a year and says they have to kill and eat it at the end, I read about this ages ago but never saw it).
When I came home, I ended up watching the Tokyo Big 6 DVD three times in a row while playing Puzzle Pirates. How doubly dorky is that? It's basically that during the Spring 2007 season, thanks to Yuki Saitoh showing up at Waseda and being the most famous high school baseball player in the country at the time, some TV station wanted to air his games on TV, but the league said "If you air his games, you have to air ALL the teams," or something like that, so as a result they took tons of footage of that semester of baseball and were able to make a DVD afterwards with clips from all the games. It is VERY VERY VERY Saitoh-centric, but to their credit they do show at least something from every single matchup every single weekend. I was looking out for some players that I know played though and they were barely shown at all. On the other hand, there's a lot of footage of Keio's Mikinori Katoh... I forgot how much I liked him :) I only saw him pitch once or twice in the minors this year with Yakult. Oh yeah, and all those guys like Kume, Shigenobu, Mizuta, Ohzawa, they're in there. Shashiki has a feature as "Another rookie that Saitoh pitched to!!" and they do show when Yuichi Suzuki hit a home run, but barely. Things like that. Mostly it is all about Waseda and Saitoh. Lots of Keijiro, ew, but also lots of Hosoyamada, yay, and Yukinaga Tanaka (yay!) Also Kota Suda, who I had also forgotten about.
Yawn. Not sure what I will do with my Sunday. I could do things at home, but I'm worried I'll just end up doing nothing instead. I have some cards to make for people at school... and more books/magazines to sort through. (I thought of getting rid of them, but it's hard to do.)
But, no, they didn't have the stuff I was looking for. They did have some awesome old college baseball magazines from the 1980's and 1990's, but they all cost like 2500 yen, so no way would I get that unless I had some good reason to. And you can't look through them, either, which bites. I did sell them a few of my books/magazines but the guy gave me like, 10 yen per book. Sheesh. Um, does anyone want my old copy of You Gotta Have Wa? Now that I have the new edition I don't really need the old one... it's 20 years old but has some great stories about Japanese baseball in it.
Oh yeah, I went there via the Tokyo Dome. The Fighters calendar is still not out, which is making me basically say WTF. And I got curry for dinner on the way. Hooray. I did a lot of walking today, which was my sub-goal.
From Jimbocho I headed to Kanamecho, which is near Ikebukuro, and went to Book-Off. I also went to the new Book-Off in Ikebukuro proper. I was looking for DVDs to watch while I'm sitting at home buried under my kotatsu. I saw a lot of stuff but didn't want to pay a lot (I'm considering going back to get The Magic Hour anyway, even at 2450 yen, so I can bring it to the US and make Carl watch it) so I ended up getting a Tokyo Big 6 College Baseball DVD -- from the Spring of 2007 season, and then I also got Swing Girls (movie about high school girls in a jazz band), and Buta ga Ita Kyoshitsu ("The Classroom With A Pig", a movie about a teacher who has his 6th-graders adopt and raise a pig for a year and says they have to kill and eat it at the end, I read about this ages ago but never saw it).
When I came home, I ended up watching the Tokyo Big 6 DVD three times in a row while playing Puzzle Pirates. How doubly dorky is that? It's basically that during the Spring 2007 season, thanks to Yuki Saitoh showing up at Waseda and being the most famous high school baseball player in the country at the time, some TV station wanted to air his games on TV, but the league said "If you air his games, you have to air ALL the teams," or something like that, so as a result they took tons of footage of that semester of baseball and were able to make a DVD afterwards with clips from all the games. It is VERY VERY VERY Saitoh-centric, but to their credit they do show at least something from every single matchup every single weekend. I was looking out for some players that I know played though and they were barely shown at all. On the other hand, there's a lot of footage of Keio's Mikinori Katoh... I forgot how much I liked him :) I only saw him pitch once or twice in the minors this year with Yakult. Oh yeah, and all those guys like Kume, Shigenobu, Mizuta, Ohzawa, they're in there. Shashiki has a feature as "Another rookie that Saitoh pitched to!!" and they do show when Yuichi Suzuki hit a home run, but barely. Things like that. Mostly it is all about Waseda and Saitoh. Lots of Keijiro, ew, but also lots of Hosoyamada, yay, and Yukinaga Tanaka (yay!) Also Kota Suda, who I had also forgotten about.
Yawn. Not sure what I will do with my Sunday. I could do things at home, but I'm worried I'll just end up doing nothing instead. I have some cards to make for people at school... and more books/magazines to sort through. (I thought of getting rid of them, but it's hard to do.)
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