Archive for August, 2002
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Monday aug 5
Karaoke, transvestites
This morning Nakamura-san surprises me by giving me not one but two stuffed hello kitty dolls that look like they’ve been sitting on her shelf since the mid seventies. I’m so happy. I wonder what can I give [...]
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Sunday aug 4
Wonder festival
Up at 7 after 5 hours sleep. Drag my half-dead ass all across the city to TOKYO BIG SITE. It’s in a section of town where EVERY SINGLE BUILDING is a convention center or something. It looks like a [...]
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saturday aug 3
Gauze show
Sleep all day again, and then bail out to Yokohama for the gauze show. Yuko and yuka (her brother) pick me up at the train station.
Then we go to the famous club YOKOHAMA F.A.D. (flower and dragon) in the middle of yokohama’s [...]
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Thursday aug 1
Big day, milk club
I’m off to the Watari Museum in Harajuku. It’s really more of a gallery than a museum. . . 4 floors of art by some German guy named Carsten Nicolai. He’s into science/exploratorium type art. [...]