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The folks from the fine shop and brand Dicokick in Ura Harajuku took me out to dinner. Seafood is always nice and this spot was super cool. I have no idea how people pick places to eat in Japan. There’s way too many of them. Thanks much Dicokick and Goodsmile The angles people play to take photos. That’s Masahiro Takeda! I dig the iphone shooting. Toro y Moi! straight up on a billboard in Tokyo. Nice job.
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Forgot to tell you all, esp since I was ragging on airlines not too long ago… yesterday? Anyways, here’s something sort of funny. Plane to Tokyo is about to land. Lower, lower, lower, and as it hits ground, the guy two rows in front of me who’s sitting in an exit row at the front of the cabin, with a steward and stewardess facing him vomit launches on the cheap carpet in front of him. Quickly, the smell wafts backwards. The steward is on his hands and knees cleaning it up. The plane is now taxi-ing to the gate. It’s a bummer. I would have made every effort to put into the pillow case, or even in the blanket that every seat has, but no, this guy let it rip. Soon, they use an air freshener and the smell was gone. I last saw the steward wiping his shoes.
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The station Vocalo.org put the content of our talk online. It’s an interesting station since if you read the FAQ it actually tells you that you can make content, submit it, and they may use it. Maybe something like Current TV. I sort of don’t remember the interview too well, since it seemed to fly by, but here it is again online for anyone to hear. It’s a real station, but I think a feature like listener added content is a cool way to go. http://vocalo.org/explore/content/64458
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It’s out! The repress of this great album. Historical and great. Unfun the album that started it all is out on Blackball Records. 20th Anniversary of one of the greatest and more influential bands of our time. Here’s a link to Blackball Records
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The tennis courts… I step onto a court and some guy says, “are you good enough to play here?” He then he points a finger on my chest to slow me down from getting on the court. I tell him “don’t touch me” and he remarkably says, “I’m not gay!” I keep walking through it and I tell him, “I’m a terrible player.” I hear people saying, “don’t touch him.” I walked through it. Then while I was on the court just a few minutes later, the guy walks onto my court area and starts babbling or something (it wasn’t an apology) and I told him to leave my court with some expletives and then he kept coming forward. That’s when it got ugly seeing a bunch of people running around to stop this. Yes, he got pushed a couple of times, and I remember him saying, “you can’t say that to me, I’m going to call the police!” and then it was more mayhem. I just remember people holding me back, holding back my cousin, holding back that old man, and a lot of words. It turns out the guy has complaints against him. One person showed me a document that he filed to the police and park director from 2006 including the guys photos. That’s life on the public courts. It’s best to ignore it. Can you believe tennis can be like this? It’s honestly not worth this blog entry, sorry to waste your time.
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