Episode #6 Japan and Beyond

Well Japan was quiet a while back now. probably even 3 weeks ago. But its still worth writing something about, so here it is. Jessa was going to write this for me, but she didnt, or i didnt hassle her enough so im just going to do the highlights.

we took a bus to busan thursday, then taxied to the ferry terminal.
friday we hydrofoiled to Fukuoka, Taxied to the wrong airport terminal, shuttled to the correct one, and got delayed 2 hrs for an unknown reason. flew to Tokyo, and promptly took a monorail to Tokyo Station where we met a helpful Japanese guy and a lady who helped us get to the festival – at 10pm. we missed Muse because of the delay, and werent going to be let in because we were too late. but they called someone, we got in and set up and enjoyed what was left of the night – the cure, tim deluxe and that was about all we knew of. The next day the weather was perfect, saw iggy pop beastie boys, !!!, Kula Shaker, Motion city soundtrack, Scarful kings, Lily Allen, G.Love and Special Sauce, The bird and the bee, missed Feist,and saw a few other dancelike bands at night. The next day saw Chemical Brothers, Mika, The Shins, Battles, DeerHoof,PeterBjorn&John, Clap your hands and Say Yeah. We hung out with clap your hands on our way home for about an hour or so, we were just hanging around this swing thing, and noticed they were there, Jessa picked up one of the drumsticks from them during the show so got them to sign it- they did with names like Slash etc..festival area was great, lots of walking, but the setup was really well done lots to see.

Tokyo was the opposite of korea. Clean, quiet, polite. i think it would be hard to come back to korea again – if not for the money, japan just has a great feeling, the culture seems more mature, more diverse, there are hippies and not everyone is the same and completely rude. . . .the food was better, there WAS more english, but the japanese which is learnable seemed really prominent too. Id have to say im a fan

So besides Japan, notable things happening here. Ah im very sunburnt, missed my back shoulders and stomach, arms neck and face are fine , all from yesterdays very early start for Brighton Beach day…plus side was we had Karaoke on the bus and started to drink at about 11am with the co-workers.  the beach was great. swimming was lots of fun. jessa and i both lost our glasses when we got knocked down by an unexpected wave, found them 5 minutes later- mine float which is good to know. hers dont but an old korean man found them.
bought a 500gig harddrive today so am currently filling it up.
no plans yet for Cheosuk (5 days off in september) might go back to japan and see gio and brendan, might go to taipae or hongkong, we’ll see whats cheaper.

thats all for now. till next time…..