Tokyo Drifter

I wrote a big long blog entry, and then my STUPID Internet Explorer miffed it up and erased it by refreshing the page. ARGH!!!

So I am too frustrated to re type everything...

Point form version:

1. Went to Tokyo for 3 days to visit my friend Matt.
2. Took the shinkansen (bullet train) - very expensive, but very fun and very fast.
3. Went to the Museum of Western Art - saw an exhibition on Matisse, and also checked out the main collection which included Monet's Water Lilies, and a few Picasso's, Renoir's, and Pollock's.
4. Went to the Pentax camera museum in Shinjuku, met a cool Japanese girl who has studied photography in N.Y. and hung out with her for the afternoon.
5. Went to Meiji Shrine in central Tokyo -- very beautiful.
6. Went to Shibuya and Harajuku. Shopping district and the site of the youth culture in Tokyo. The kids dress up like it's halloween everyday of the year.
7. Went to a rotating sushi bar where the sushi rides by you on plates. SO GOOD.
8. Went to Tower Records which has 6 floors of music. One floor is completely devoted to Indie music... I was in heaven... bought an amazing new album.

--- The end.

This weekend I went to Nagoya and met up with a bunch of JETs and a friend of mine from Canada who is is also a JET who lives about 2 hrs north of Tokyo... We went out for karaoke. He's pretty into it... sings like he's on American Idol. We did a dramatic duet together to the Bangles song "Eternal Flame" --- "Close your eyes, give me your hand, darling..." SOOooOOooo circa 1987.

Anyways... hope everyone is well!