hotel happy call

locks
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The plan was to go to a ryokan this weekend, but everything was booooked so we ended up going to Kamakura and enoshima. Its on the ocean and there was some "hiking" and a few temples... We stayed at a place called hotel happy call. Its normal for people to live with their parents till they are 40 or married here, so when people need a little privacy or a place to have an affair they go to "love hotels". Theyre often themed rooms that you pay for by the hour or you can overnight there. We found a room with dolphins and shells and "ocean waves" from some sounds of nature cd pumping. There was a huge neon gambling machine in the corner also- just like on Japanese beaches, and a couple interesting vending machines. It all looked much classier with the black lights on.

hidemi n me

hidemi n me
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got some new specks.

magnifying glass

magnifying glass
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bummer this picture is so blurry. Its an old man who runs a flowershop in town having tea and reading with a magnifying glass. I hope he can still smell well. Passing by the shop is a great break from the smog and fish markets.

2005 mitsubishi whiteybot

2005 mitsubishi whiteybot
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$2.50 for a box of Kurafto dinna and its worth every yen.....

camus

camus
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This guy was reading Camus and now and then sneeking peeks at the knees next to him.
Just to add to the grossness he kept squirming in his seat. Barf
Speaking of barf, we went out for pasta the other night. I picked pasta with mushrooms and tomato sauce because it wasnt under the meat sauce heading I thought I was safe. Turned out that tomato sauce has tonnes of ground up pork and bacon in it. Hidemi traded plates with me and I tried her okara/natto pasta. Natto is this fermented bean stuff that smells like feet. That mixed with the okara felt like a mouthfull of saliva and smelled horrible. I almost pulled a george bush and barfed all over.

me:me

me:me
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we went to the tokyo bicycle exposition today. I was super excited, hoping to find a sweet frame to build up a fixed gear but it was mostly the newest of the new, ultra light/ultra expensivist bikes ever. One bike was $10,000... Spent the day drooling and going on about bikes while Hidemi nodded and smiled...

teleport

teleport
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...and then we teleported home

the end

the end
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I spent a day this week visiting an international school in Yokohama. Talk about money... The resources are amazing- tennis courts, 46,000 book library, video cameras in everyclassroom, sweaters jauntily tied across shoulders a la tennis anyone?
I sat at a cafe later and watched the ferraris and benz go by and people go and buy buy buy. The hood is all stores like louis vuiton, versace, and burberry. Japan is so consumed with consuming. I wonder if anyone notices that everything is cement, covered in soot, and it smells like exhaust.
Sometimes Japan seems like a huge shopping mall from blade runner.
I really want to get out of the city and see some countryside... Hidemi and I are heading to Tochigi or Hakone next weekend. Check out some monkeys and stay in a ryokan. Sliding doors and kimono stlylin.

salty eggplant toothpaste

salty eggplant toothpaste
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I came home this evening to my roomie all drunk and doing her nails.
"what day are you moving out?"
"uh, december 3rd" I answered
"ahh, ok, yeah so I want to talk to you about that. I can charge you by the dailey hmmmm?"
"Yeah thats fine"
"yeah, and I want to charge for Hidemi too"
"Your crazy, no"
So now shes in her room smoking. 19 more days...
In other news-Ive given up on the handlebar moustash, and I started brushing with salty eggplant Jet Black Dentrifice.

perfect

perfect
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some people arrange flowers, this person arranges every vegetable at the store. all the stickers on the tomatoes (thank you dan quayle) are all in the same direction.

imagine the electric bill

imagine the electric bill
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turn the lights off when your done in the bathroom

doumo arigatou mr. roboto

doumo arigatou mr. roboto
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a 40 year old kid runs this store. every square centimeter of every wall, every shelf and everywhere else looks like this.

look both ways

look both ways
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If you had a car and wanted to score a lot of points, you could plow over a couple thousand people here

whitey

whitey
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They have whitey statues too

happy birthdady

godzilla
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roomie

roomie
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for all ye who have been curious to put a face to the roomie character in my life-here she is. Shes a miserable slog.

hippo

hippo
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Put your money in the tray so you and the check out girls (hippo's) dont have to touch eachother. Germies are gross

heads in the clouds

heads in the clouds
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these businessmen were totally crashed out this morning, bonking heads when the train sped up and slowed. they must have been really tired because it was so sunny that Im sure they were seeing red threw them eyelids.
My roomate fell asleep watching a movie with me tonight at around 8pm. I wonder if maybe all the electromagnetic fields have anything to do with sleepiness? Everything is electric here. I was blabbing with the Japanese teacher today about snowboarding in Hokkaido and she said that the roads in the cities there are heated so the snow melts. The roads are heated. THE ROADS ARE HEATED. Canada, did you hear that? Heated roads!

mini stuff

mini stuff
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This is super tiny stuff that you get in vending machines. Adults go nuts over this stuff and put it in little plastic boxes and put them on wee shelves. Inside the boxes are individual little pieces of plastic bread, the stuff on the tray all comes apart. Hours of fun playing house...
Hidemi and I played "no english" last night. I speak Spanish and she speaks Japanese and we have to work really hard to understand what the hell the other is saying. Dinner burned while we were signing and struggling.
Ive been getting all kinds of freak out emails from friends in the US and Canada about the "election". Here are a few excerpts from them, and this is the last time Im going to blab about it. After this post Im going to pretend that Ive taken my medication and everythings hunkey dorey... The president is swell!
I love this one- "oh, matt! i'm so depressed! i heard about two words of bush's victory speech in the car this afternoon and burst into tears. i think the general feeling here is like no one's in charge, no one knows what to do. it's like being a kid but with no grown-ups around; all the adults have vanished, and we're all bewildered wondering who's going to tell us what happens next. even the reformist organizations, like moveon.com and impeachbush.com are silent. the websites are down or neglected. it's so lonely. we're all isolated in our
basements waiting for the remaining signs of the apocalypse."
another friend says
"I have been making pipe bombs all night. I don't know, people are just depressed really. The upside is that it is a better set up for 2008 and it makes Bush have to deal with the problems he has created in the meantime. Keep on Rocking in the free world "(Japan).
Heres another "sheeeeat, vavy. i really thought people were smarter. the only thing that has made me feel better was watching steven colbert thank the red states on behalf of the blue states for "saving us from ourselves" on gays and terrorism.  it's the closest to a fuck you as i've seen, but i can't bring myself to turn on the television much right now, so it's not saying much. the south park debate between the Giant Douche and the Turd Sandwich was pretty funny shit too. maybe you should start setting up the tokyo chapter in some global refugee program for stunned and battered liberals like me and jesus.  in case they find my Darwin sticker. 
i mean, they'll probably just incinerate me, but whatever.  plan B in the house!
drowning in my soup, L"
Theres been a flood of hits on Immigrate to Canada websites from the states. Canada, you should totally take us. The good states are the ones who like hockey. You could have all your players back too!
Ok thats it.

The sky is falling

ugh...
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"A new term is a new opportunity to reach out to the whole nation," he said in a victory speech in Washington. "When we come together and work together, there is no limit to the greatness of America."
Republicans will hold at least 54 of the 100 Senate seats, three more than they now have, and widen their slim majority of the 435-member House in the new 109th Congress, set to convene on Jan. 3.

That will make it easier for Bush to push his conservative agenda through Congress, potentially making his tax cuts permanent and appointing more federal judges including possibly some U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) justices.

"With a bigger majority, we can do even more exciting things," said House Majority leader Tom DeLay, a Republican from Texas.

This, uh news is from an article on Yahoo.

hon

hon
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So I had the movin out talk with roomie last night. I dont think it was much of a surprise to her. Weve been pretty much avoiding eachother since Hidemi showed up on the scene. I stay in my room and she smokes and watches tv in her room. Shes even bumped her alarm clock up to go on after I leave for work. She tried asking me for a security deposit. Duh, your supposed to ask for that when somebody moves in.