In the past few weeks I've been keeping the TV on in the evening to pick up more language and culture.  Post midnight shows are where it's at, but of course I'm not always up that late.  The crazy girl above, known as Imoto, has an interesting show where she travels around the world searching for weird animals.  I like the show for a few reasons.  The premise is cool, and also interesting to see the Japanese perspective of the rest of the world.  The girl is interesting and friends referred to her as "田舎クサい”, or in English, a redneck.  I think thats what I like about her, her sass-mouth.  Really don't care for the respectful ones anymore.  I've actually met a few girls like her here in Kasukabe, but they're hard to come by.  Anyway, nice eyebrows. 

Going back to last Wednesday.  Met up with the guys in the band.  That's Kazuma up front and Yuuya in the back.  Sat around the river and thought of a few new songs before I headed out for a birthday party in Shinjuku.  But right before we left, somewhere near that bridge in the back a little kid fell in the river and drowned.  Pretty weird.  There were like 10 fire-trucks and a diving team.  Never heard from it again, but it didn't seem good.  Interesting note; when it happened, there were announcements on live speakers in the nearby neighborhoods, thats how we knew what happened. Nothing like the entire neighborhood hearing about your kid's death right after it happens. 

  

So the party was weird from the start.  I had met that girl from the previous weekend in a rather brown way.  Somehow she liked me enough to invite me to her birthday party.  There were only about 7 people there, of course no one that I knew.  There was an American student there who didn't know any Japanese, being the subtle reason for my attendance.  Anyway, I really turned into "that guy".  And got a kick ass picture to prove it.

Heeeey. Whose the creep?

Afterwards, we went to karaoke for 2 hours longer than it needed to be, but they always run till 5am so we didn't really have a choice.  Birthday girl basically hit the floor, a couple who kinda fought the whole night left early, leaving me and the birthday girls friends trying every song in the book.  I was full of energy so it was actually pretty fun. 

heeeeey. whose the creep?

Anyway, it was fun.

Earthquakes............................................................are something else!

After the big one there was another one 2 days later, only 1 point lower than the first, though a little farther from my home.  It woke me up at 5 am.  The room was rocking back in forth to the extent that the wood holding up the second floor was creaking, but still weaker than the first one. Kinda felt like sitting on a riding lawn mower and rolling over some tree roots.  But actually, it was just the earth moving. Then......another smaller one this morning at about 6a.m.  I think there might have been more in the past, but at the moment I'm sleeping on the first floor and it's perhaps a little easier to feel them.

More things happened.  Went back to Roppongi and it wasn't as fun as the first time.  Mostly because the guy I was with drank too much, leaving me alone, but that's alright. He would end up outside with his head in a trashcan for a few hours.  Unfortunate because of how expensive it was to get in.  Went back inside and got a cute girl's number, but lives in Yokohama. Bummm bummmm (foghorn).

 Roppongi at 5:14 a.m.  Thats about what you can see by that point.

The bands been practicing all week. Our first show is on Saturday and what else can I say, it'll rock some パンツ(pants), if you know what I mean.

heeey. whose the creep?