rock and roll night

just a quickie post because i don't have my computer on me. last night was tremendous, and my first live music experience in tokyo. the club was in a deep small dark basement. 5 bands played in 2 hours, which is normal because the djs come after, lucky for me because shows start around 6 or 7, very sensible for me. the first band was the romaines, an amazing 3 girl band doing ramones covers, with black leather jackets, and the perfect joey ramone stance. i loved them so much, but i love the ramones, one of my favorite bands of all time. the second band was the nou, all boy band, one of the best bands of the night, locally very popular. the third was scum city, not my favorite, tended to have their shirts too unbuttoned and eventually completely off. a little on the emo side, which is not my thing. the 4th was the mas melo, a 2 girl guitar and drum duo which kicked ass, and then the big headline, supersnazz! i can't believe we finally have seen them, and got our pictures taken with spike and jeff gave tomoko the song that was written for her. it was so fun. and i have some very good pictures from the show because i squeezed my fat american body right to the stage where the energy is always the best, and made dancing friends with a famous dj who kept leaping on the stage all night long. katzu joined us, as well as a guy named dan who we had met a few days ago and mentioned the show, and he actually showed up. he is from LA and has moved here 3 years ago because tokyo is the best city and he loves it. all you have to do is learn the language, and your set. if you teach english here, the pay is good and there are plenty of jobs. the government pays you, so the benefits are good. it's so tempting. after the show we went to a wild conveyer belt sushi joint, and jeff ate raw horse. he will eat anything, and the world loves him because of it.

today we are in daikanyama again, but this time we have found some truly amazing things, like this 50s style bondage cafe with about 150 snoopy dolls in the window, old fashioned dart boards, a great antique pool table, a front end of an old oldsmobile hanging above the bar, lava lamps everywhere, snoopy fans on each table and all the tables decorated with old bondage and sex pictures, postcards, magazines, etc. and a las vegas book in kanji. underneath is another unbelievable store called outlet, which seems to be a continuation of the same stuff as this memorabilia cafe. we saw a totally un-pc little baby doll smoking a cigarette with a pack of "little smokes" and all kinds of games and weird plastic jungle guitars that play animal sounds, god, i can't even remember what else. i'll have to let you know after we enter the extravaganza. today we have to stay out of our place from 8am until 8pm, so i think we will probably walk to shinjuku and try to find the loft, another club that a sun ra type of band that is very popular is going to be playing at in february called osaka monaurail, a huge funkadelic band that we heard if you close your eyes, you can't tell the difference between them and james brown's band. how cool is that?