So as you can see in these photos I am posing terribly in, that I saw not just Alex "Fandango" Dimita, but also was pleasantly surprised by Gilad "Laddy Lad" Cohen, outside Shibuya station right across from the "Free Hugs" people with questionable motives. Alex told a great story about being in LA: She just wanted to see a celebrity, any celebrity while in LA just for the sake of it. So drunk in arm and arm with her cousin on her last night there, she of course sees George Strombolopolos on the street, a guy anyone my age had to grow up with, who shops at the Black Market, who I asked at a White Stripes show when I was 17 why edge 102 sucked, who is/was dating a friend of mine, who is so familiar Alex just throws up her hands and disappointedly called "George" because she's known him forever. Usually I find it really annoying if people call celebrities by first names like they're chums, but I think it worked in this case. Anyway it was incredible/sustaining to see them both, plus I met their Tokyo friends and I now have people to go with to this rumoured izikaya (a sit down bar where you get your own room and low table and usually pay a set price for all you can drink) that has a penguin walking around? A student told me, and I guess I'll know I;m a good teacher if this place actually exists and I didnt hear hauntingly incorrect.
for people waiting a facebook/email/letter response, I'm working through them.
Okay time for bed. Here is a link to the Japan Indy Media site which gives more of an explanation of the video I made before you see it.
And here is the debut of "Musashi Koganei: As We Live & Breathe" which I've been working on for a long time, and was happy as a clam to have finished tonight.
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