Saturday, March 25, 2006
my hair could charm the pants off you
I did not buy this conditioner for it's price, I certainly did not buy it for it's minimal environmentally helpful packaging (it is packaged in the thickest, gaudiest, over the top plastic dispenser), I did not buy it because it comes from the highest quality of hair salon monopoly...I bought this conditioner because I couldn't think of anything more lush than having hair 'at the beautiful fascinating state of being charming'!
come on mr sun!
Today was a gorgeous Tokyo day. But I simply cannot wait for summer! I love summer in Tokyo, in fact I love summer anywhere. Summer in Tokyo means salary men sweating in suits, summer festivals, fireworks, shorts and singlets, watching harajuku girls melt, slurping on watermelon, sexy street singers...
Thursday, March 23, 2006
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we still have not worked out what service this place was providing...
Sunday, March 19, 2006
tokyo wind
Today was one of the windiest days I have ever experienced - anywhere. On the corner of Gaien Nishi Dori and Aoyama Dori, the wind was so powerful it blew a lady straight off her bike. She, along with her bike and what it was carrying spilled right out onto the road. I was thankful for my big bones today, they kept my wheels turning and my load planted to the saddle.
phones cannot swim
we confirmed last week that not all cool things can swim. seconds after zume dropped my phone in my drink it hit the bottom gasping for air, the screen went all fuzzy and cool eighties look, took its last breath and died! we rushed it straight to phone hospital but they said unfortunately there was nothing they could do, they bowed, apologised and told us we could take a ticket and wait in line with all the other grievers who had also recently lost their phones.
After a long, tiring and confusing process we were granted a new baby and i only had to wait a day before i could touch her, hold her and start to bond with her. come to think of it i haven't given her a name ?? i like to think of her as a bit 60's and retro in a cool, modern kinda way...so i will call her - agent 99
After a long, tiring and confusing process we were granted a new baby and i only had to wait a day before i could touch her, hold her and start to bond with her. come to think of it i haven't given her a name ?? i like to think of her as a bit 60's and retro in a cool, modern kinda way...so i will call her - agent 99
a day of many faces
it is always so fascinating to me how each day can be be so very different from the last, how each day can be a diverse adventure; one that you are never quite sure where it will take you.
morning:
sitting in a meeting spoken only in Korean, of which I understand not one single word.
staring at: the Korean flag high up on the back wall, thinking i really must find out what the black lines and dashes placed around the center circle mean
as i look around: i discover that most people are not really paying attention to the speaker at all and assume that eye contact in Korean culture is not necessarily a sign of respect
afternoon:
squeezing and stretching all (or hopefully some) of the toxins out of me, in a shabby yet chic omotesando yoga studio
staring at: any thing I can that will help me to balance and not fall into the person next to me recreating a scene from a dominos tournament
as i look around: i note that the human body is an amazing thing, and think one day i will be able to contort mine just like the rest of my class can
evening:
some how i found myself in a small and intensely smokey music studio gig somewhere in nishi ogikubo; the music so deafening that i couldn't even complain - i remebered i had not been to something like this since i was in uni, and then i remembered exactly why - the hard thrashing and the rock look does nothing for my soul, but i still think the musicians are hardcore, crazy and extremely fit
staring at: the coolest bass playing japanese girl i have ever seen, thinking if i ever have a girl child she is forbidden to be anything but a bass player in a band
as i look around: i realise that the crowd of thirty odd people crammed into the tiny studio look more like statues in a park than young hipsters at a rockabilly/ metal gig and wonder why they are not thrashing about and going wild to the music they have come to enjoy
morning:
sitting in a meeting spoken only in Korean, of which I understand not one single word.
staring at: the Korean flag high up on the back wall, thinking i really must find out what the black lines and dashes placed around the center circle mean
as i look around: i discover that most people are not really paying attention to the speaker at all and assume that eye contact in Korean culture is not necessarily a sign of respect
afternoon:
squeezing and stretching all (or hopefully some) of the toxins out of me, in a shabby yet chic omotesando yoga studio
staring at: any thing I can that will help me to balance and not fall into the person next to me recreating a scene from a dominos tournament
as i look around: i note that the human body is an amazing thing, and think one day i will be able to contort mine just like the rest of my class can
evening:
some how i found myself in a small and intensely smokey music studio gig somewhere in nishi ogikubo; the music so deafening that i couldn't even complain - i remebered i had not been to something like this since i was in uni, and then i remembered exactly why - the hard thrashing and the rock look does nothing for my soul, but i still think the musicians are hardcore, crazy and extremely fit
staring at: the coolest bass playing japanese girl i have ever seen, thinking if i ever have a girl child she is forbidden to be anything but a bass player in a band
as i look around: i realise that the crowd of thirty odd people crammed into the tiny studio look more like statues in a park than young hipsters at a rockabilly/ metal gig and wonder why they are not thrashing about and going wild to the music they have come to enjoy
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