i've just moved to tokyo. . . i need some advice, and want to share some adventures!
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My name is Steven Schultz, I'm a musician from California, in Tokyo
studying nihongo.
I just moved to Tokyo 3 weeks ago. But already I've been to 3 punk
shows, a DIR EN GREY live, the ‘gangsta-rap barber shop' in shinjuku,
and a gay bar named ‘blue oyster cult.'
But even though I know some interesting things to do here, I'm always
on the lookout for more stuff. . .i'm sure I haven't even explored
one percent of the city! In particular I'm looking for .....
* supermarkets that sell ‘tasty bite' brand precooked Indian meals (I
know QUEEN'S CHEF has some, but not the kind I like!) . . .or
tofu-burgers, veggie meals, etc.
*how do I get in the audience for HEY HEY HEY MUSIC CHAMP? (or any
other tv show, for that matter?)
*Is there a store that sells second-hand stuffed animals? Because all
my favorite Sanrio characters have been discontinued!
*Where are the famous ‘indoor skiing' and ‘indoor surfing' shops?
*And, where can I find underground performance art shows?
*What about ‘noise' concerts?
*And where can i buy‘print club' purikura magazines made by high
school students? Maybe they don't do it anymore. . . but there must
be a ‘furuhon-ya' that sells old ones.
Anyway, if someone can help me find even ONE of these things, I'll be
your friend for life!!
Also, I'm keeping a sort of online journal since i moved here.
I know, online journals are horrible. . .but there's so much cool
stuff here, I just have to keep a record of everything unusual or
humorous that I find. Yes, there are pictures.
If you've lived here for a long time, I suppose you won't be as easily
impressed as me. . . , but chances are you'll find SOMETHING new and
bizarre. . . for instance, they have karaoke versions of SLAYER
songs.
So if you want to read more, here is my link:
http://www.harmful.org/homedespot/ADIARY.htm
and the link to my other japan trip (it's got lots of photos of visual
kei, cosplay, new-half, the Hello Kitty theme park, and even a robot
convention )
http://www.harmful.org/homedespot/japanweb/japanindex.html
anyway, thanks for reading,
steven
Michael Cash
belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
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>Anyway, if someone can help me find even ONE of these things, I'll be
>your friend for life!!
Was that meant as a threat?
--
Michael Cash
"There was a time, Mr. Cash, when I believed you must be the most useless
thing in the world. But that was before I read a Microsoft help file."
Prof. Ernest T. Bass
Mount Pilot College
Louise Bremner
> * supermarkets that sell 奏asty bite' brand precooked Indian meals (I
> know QUEEN'S CHEF has some, but not the kind I like!)
Kaldi (south of Ogikubo's South exit) has some, but maybe the same
selection because I suspect the importer doesn't import any others. But
why settle for boil-in-the-bag curries when there's a vegetarian Indian
restaurant in the same street? Their lunch-time special is Y945 for all
you can eat of four curries, rice, salad, and naan (and if you tell them
you don't eat dairy, they'll do you a chapatti instead).
> . . .or tofu-burgers, veggie meals, etc.
I haven't explored tofu-burgers much, but the only ones I've encountered
were held together with minced chicken or sardine.
> Anyway, if someone can help me find even ONE of these things, I'll be
> your friend for life!!
Uh.... I think I could survive without that.... Please?
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mukade
> studying nihongo.
Good luck. By the way, it's called Ying-Yong.
>
> I just moved to Tokyo 3 weeks ago. But already I've been to 3 punk
> shows, a DIR EN GREY live, the ?gangsta-rap barber shop' in shinjuku,
> and a gay bar named ?blue oyster cult.'
I hope you enjoy your honeymoon period.
> * supermarkets that sell ?tasty bite' brand precooked Indian meals (I
> know QUEEN'S CHEF has some, but not the kind I like!) . . .or
> tofu-burgers, veggie meals, etc.
I'm a veggie. Don't eat the tofu-burgers. The tofu comes from cows.
As for veggie meals, I know this thing called cooking.
> *how do I get in the audience for HEY HEY HEY MUSIC CHAMP? (or any
> other tv show, for that matter?)
Being a teenage Japanese girl seems to be the only requirement.
> *Is there a store that sells second-hand stuffed animals? Because all
> my favorite Sanrio characters have been discontinued!
Ask your neighbours about recycle shops.
> *Where are the famous ?indoor skiing' and ?indoor surfing' shops?
Probably indoors.
> *And, where can I find underground performance art shows?
I thought the whole point is you can't.
> *What about ?noise' concerts?
If you stop one of those big black vans with the Japanese flags pasted
all over them and ask them to switch on their speakers, I am sure they
will oblige.
> Anyway, if someone can help me find even ONE of these things, I'll be
> your friend for life!!
Try Department H. I'm sure you will find friends more suitable to our
tastes:
http://www.links.net/vita/trip/japan/sex/department-h/
Mukade
Dave Fossett
> Try Department H. I'm sure you will find friends more suitable to our
> tastes:
>
> http://www.links.net/vita/trip/japan/sex/department-h/
Sort of like a toned-down version of the fjlij get-togethers?
There are two guys standing on the stage wearing nothing but their shoes and
socks, and the first thing the Japanese guy wants to ask the foreigner is:
"Do you like natto?" :-o
--
Dave Fossett
Saitama, Japan
mukade
I think the Japanese guy is saying:
"So the gaijin slab thing was a hoax after all."
Mukade
Michael Cash
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>"Dave Fossett" <re...@via.newsgroup> wrote in message news:<nlMQa.550$FN4...@news1.dion.ne.jp>...
Certainly looked that way in the pictures, didn't it?
Professor Bollocks
If he likes natto, he will swallow anything.