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Sunday shopping and stuff
Actually, I have an advice question: for a party on Tuesday night for the teachers at school, we're supposed to buy a gift for a small gift exchange, like 1000 yen or less. I looked around Yokado and such tonight a bit and I think I've decided that I will either buy a scarf -- or some kind of food set, there are a lot of little gift sets of like, small cookies or cakes or Japanese sweets and crackers and whatnot... so getting one for 1000 yen would be pretty easy. I just can't decide which is better... food gifts is very Japanese and at least there's no worries of whether a male or female ends up getting the present. Eh.
Anyway, for the rest of the day... I went to the Tokyo Dome and I got the Fighters 2010 calendar, FINALLY! There was some cosplay event going on around there which was pretty crazy, but I avoided it and ran to the train station. After that I headed to Shibuya, with the intention of going to the Book-Off there, and getting lunch. Lunch ended up being at Wendy's (since they are closing down all the Wendy's in Japan in 10 days supposedly, so I tried the teriyaki burger there for the first and last time. It wasn't bad, wasn't great either). I didn't find anything I was looking for at Book-Off, but I did find an Ichiro photo book from 2000, which is really crazy to look through now.
There's a taiyaki stand in Shibuya now, but the line was so long I didn't get to try any. Maybe some time that isn't a Sunday. I also passed by a board game store on my way to Suidobashi! But it is closed on Sundays. Stupid Sundays.
I came home to Akabane, stopping off at Daiso for a few cheap art supplies I wanted, and then the aforementioned looking around Yokado.
At home I finally watched the DVD of Swing Girls that I picked up last weekend. What a good movie! I never actually saw Water Boys, so that might be coloring my perception of this one (or maybe not coloring, as it is) but Swing Girls was a surprisingly well-made comedy while still being a marching band geek movie of sorts. It's basically about a group of idiot girls at a high school who screw up bento lunches and poison the entire marching band, so they get blackmailed into sitting in... and start taking up brass instruments... only to get kicked back out when the real band recovers. In the meantime, they decide they actually LIKE playing brass instruments and want to form a jazz band, so they end up being "Swing Girls and a Boy", as the actual central character is a boy named Nakamura who wants to quit marching band and then does in order to lead the Swing Girls group. (And he's played by Hiraoka Yuta before he was all ikemen-like, which is great.) I ended up watching it twice through in one sitting, partially because the actors REALLY laid on the Tohoku-ben and it was kinda hard to understand their accents. But yeah, it was probably a nice way to get geared up for seeing the Nodame Cantabile movie sometime in the next week or two, as it's another music-related movie with Ueno Juri.
And well, I worked on my art project.
Now I am pretty zonked and ought to sleep...
Anyway, for the rest of the day... I went to the Tokyo Dome and I got the Fighters 2010 calendar, FINALLY! There was some cosplay event going on around there which was pretty crazy, but I avoided it and ran to the train station. After that I headed to Shibuya, with the intention of going to the Book-Off there, and getting lunch. Lunch ended up being at Wendy's (since they are closing down all the Wendy's in Japan in 10 days supposedly, so I tried the teriyaki burger there for the first and last time. It wasn't bad, wasn't great either). I didn't find anything I was looking for at Book-Off, but I did find an Ichiro photo book from 2000, which is really crazy to look through now.
There's a taiyaki stand in Shibuya now, but the line was so long I didn't get to try any. Maybe some time that isn't a Sunday. I also passed by a board game store on my way to Suidobashi! But it is closed on Sundays. Stupid Sundays.
I came home to Akabane, stopping off at Daiso for a few cheap art supplies I wanted, and then the aforementioned looking around Yokado.
At home I finally watched the DVD of Swing Girls that I picked up last weekend. What a good movie! I never actually saw Water Boys, so that might be coloring my perception of this one (or maybe not coloring, as it is) but Swing Girls was a surprisingly well-made comedy while still being a marching band geek movie of sorts. It's basically about a group of idiot girls at a high school who screw up bento lunches and poison the entire marching band, so they get blackmailed into sitting in... and start taking up brass instruments... only to get kicked back out when the real band recovers. In the meantime, they decide they actually LIKE playing brass instruments and want to form a jazz band, so they end up being "Swing Girls and a Boy", as the actual central character is a boy named Nakamura who wants to quit marching band and then does in order to lead the Swing Girls group. (And he's played by Hiraoka Yuta before he was all ikemen-like, which is great.) I ended up watching it twice through in one sitting, partially because the actors REALLY laid on the Tohoku-ben and it was kinda hard to understand their accents. But yeah, it was probably a nice way to get geared up for seeing the Nodame Cantabile movie sometime in the next week or two, as it's another music-related movie with Ueno Juri.
And well, I worked on my art project.
Now I am pretty zonked and ought to sleep...