Archive for July, 2002
2002 Japan trip page 4
Tuesday 30
nakamura-san, recover
Yuko helps me move to cheaper hotel in Koenji. it’s only 5500 yen a night, about half what I was paying before. but it’s run by these two 70 year old women, nakamura-san and kim-san, who don’t speak [...]
2002 Japan trip part three
Saturday July 27
Puroland, church of misery
anyway it’s time for me to make another pilgrimage to Puroland, with kayoko.
we don’t have so much time today. so I’m stressed about fitting everything in, and also I wind up taking so many [...]
2002 Japan trip part two
Thursday July 25
visual show #3
we go to see visual kei show. Saiya couldn’t come but she found a friend of a friend to meet me, even though the friend couldn’t speak any English. the friend was named layla. she was [...]
No comments2002 Japan trip part one.
tues/ wed july 16/17
plane ride
take off was delayed. landing was delayed. forty-five minute wait in customs. 90 minute train to Tokyo. eeugh. I’m in a business suit with a hello kitty backpack looking very respectable.
Tokyo fashion report
women have Spanish seniorita blouses and ‘low cut’ socks [...]