JAPAN APPRECIATION
djsheep
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BEST RECORD STORES IN THE WORLDHOT BITCHESWHO HAS BEEN TO JAPAN?WHO'S FUCKED A JAPANESE GIRL?WHO'S FUCKED A JAPANESE MAN? (no homo)peace.
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I studied in Tokyo for one short-term. It all started with a pick up at Narita airport by a Japanese girl - so called "conversation partner"
haven't been there since 1999. planning on making a trip there sometime in the next year or so, definitely back on radar. too bad all of my friends there have turned into lifeless zombies by this point, repping some crews like Sony, Dell...TOKYU HAND.
who has been pissed on??? (or whatever that shit is)
ewww this is the worst thread i've read today.
(and highly out dated)
thank you mr. 73 posts
Yeah! SHEEP, great thread, I've never been to Japan yet but one day I hope to go visit this country with you (no homo...LOL)
I should start saving now... Cause I wanna do EVERYTHING!!!
People are telling me that when you leave the cities and go out to the rural areas, it's like going back a hundred years!!!
Sheep, u need to be there when I get out that way! U must show me how you kick a samurai in the ass!!!
Yeah dude, even where I lived about 30 minutes outta Tokyo, it was kinda going way back to the old school... It's a spin out. Hit up the town of Nikko if you go to Tokyo, or even better go to KYOTO. You **CAN NOT** miss Kyoto if you go to Japan, note that down everyone. The *SICKEST* temples ever. Kinkakuji, Kiyomizu, etc. beautiful. Especially in Autumn.
Oh yeah, that photo was taken in Nikko... How I kicked the Samarai in the ass? -- when I left the amusement park (Edo Wonderland, it's themed like ancient Japan with Hatori Hanzo type Ninja and Samarai shows), he bowed down all formal to say "thank you", so I seized the oppurtunity for a funny snap.
I think I'm gunna be out there November 17th for 3 days... I work Wed, Fri and Sat, so I can only go Sun-Wed... sucks huh...
peace.
on a related note, i'm willing to contest that i make the best chawanmushi of any roundeye in north america.
HAHA
I love that pic!!!
We're thinking about getting a rail pass and do it up! But I must have some extra time hitting up spots in Shinjuku. I'm a gadget junkie and they must hook up tiny crazy electronic gizmos right to my veins!!!
I'm down to see and do everything Japan has to offer. Only thing is I don't eat is seafood, which should make things a bit difficult. But whatever...
Konichiwa BITCHES![/b]
i remember one day riding through Hokkaido with my cousin, and the whole fucking town was out sweeping the sidewalks and streets and my cousin had to duck down in the car as we drove through town so he wouldn't be ashamed that he wasn't helping. so i think there is a stifiling kind of social conformity that goes on there, but at the same time the country is fucking beautiful and people APPEAR to love what they do. but i stress the word in bold. haven't spent enough time there to know what really goes on and i'm sure there's some negative shit that goes down as a result of it. like in hokkaido women still can't ever be more than an office secretary. like when i visited my cousins school it was this woman's job to get me some coffee, but that was it. and she did it with such purpose, but i must have been the first visitor in weeks and still the government paid her for this job--so that every few weeks or months a visitor would come through she was there to provide a cup of coffee. hard to say if it's ultimately good or bad. ok, she had a job. but it's efffective every few weeks. otherwise she might be homeless. but that's extremely taboo in japan, and obviously a fucked up situation. not that we have any solutions in America, but it's an interesting situation. pay someone for a bullshit mind numbing job or leave them to the streets. japan seems to take the former position, american the latter. really hard question...any thoughts?
nihon umare babe~
(:peace and appreciation not japan depreciation)
Looking back though I only miss a few things, the income (500 000 yen a month) and the record stores.
Great place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there
visited japan 3 years ago. definitely felt in love with the culture and people. my japanese lessons start next week. will be there as soon as possible...
That??s so true. I bought a lot of kitchen equipment - knive, oroshi gane (kind of a special handmade grater), Japanese omelette pan, bunches of stainless steel Yakitori sticks aso - there and the stuff is simply unique. You can really feel the pride and effort they put into their products. Of course, high quality Japanese knives are great, but they are currently in fashion worldwide and a lot of crap is sold (on a sidenote: One of the first things my Japanese host family told me was that German knives are such a great thing
ive been living in tokyo for a year now. i am scared about returning to melbourne and the record shopping that awaits me. i really have been spoilt.
have you bought yourself a copy of the record map? you can get it from tower records in shibuya for about 2000 yen....its in japanese but you can read maps right?
shibuya as you probably know is the best if you only had one day in japan to go digging, tho certainly not the cheapest. disc union and reco fan are where youll find the bargains however they generally know their stuff so your not going to be robbing them too often (tho your a little more likely to at reco fan)
check out jimbo cho...its a second hand bookstore/ record shop/ university kinda area on the other side of tokyo. the shops there are mostly run by old guys who are into their jazz, classical kinda stuff so the prices for more modern stuff can be really cheap. its organised by katakana, (thought in some cases not at all) so its a bit daunting at first but dig around and im sure youll figure it out
always remember to look up...often record shops are located on the upper levels of buildings that dont look like they have any businesses at all in them. theres an awesome(but expensive) rare groove collectors shop on the 11th floor of an aprtment building in shinjuku.
shinjuku is also dope but i always get lost walking around there.
and yes the girls are hot (dont call them bitches....youll never get any with that attitude)
Australia is fucking shit for records. I haven't been diggin' in a record store *ONE TIME* since I've been back for 10 months or something...
word, universounds... they are my hommies. I traded them a stack of Aussie stuff a couple of months ago. If you bring really obscure and good records there, they will look after you. Probably the best overall shop in Japan for raers...
peace.
DAMN son! What happened?
Actually, not to sterotype but all my mates who have Japanese girlfriends, have *weird* problems. Like fights and arguments that 12 year olds would have in a relationship. I get the ice grill from one of my hommies j-girlfriend too... apparently I'm a "weird gaijin"...
peace.
Japanese food is where its at though. mmmmmmmmmm.
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peace.
Since i'm a kid i wanna go there.
.....and it's not gonna happen soon