OMG! An on time post!

Yes, I am actually going to give keeping this sordid affair updated a try.

So this week was interesting. Mainly, want to talk about Tuesday.

I have started going to a bar. New School. It's a neat, trendy little bar around the corner from my dorm. One night, coming back from dinner, we passed the bar, and the bartender ran outside to give us free drink coupons, and so what the hell, we decided to drink there. I went back a few times, and got to know the owner, Takao, and the bartender, Mattchan. Takao speaks English, and I can understand enough of Mattchan's Japanese to get by. Now Mattchan was once a Waseda studnet, but dropped out to pursue his dream; music. He plays alto sax, and really well. His normal band is a funk band, Funky Headlights, but Tuesday night, he was playing a gig at a jazz bar in Akasaka called B Flat. It was a pick up band of Waseda students doing improvisational big band jazz. Knowing a few Europeans and Asian who are really into jazz, I got a little entourage together and went to see the show. Wow. Pretty freaking amazing.

Now I am not a huge jazz fan. I dig some Miles Davis and some Charlie Parker, but recorded jazz leaves me flat most of the time. Rather, I prefer live jazz, especially when it is just a few guys jamming out. This concert was pretty fucking amazing though.

So my New Year's resolution is to get out more and into the Tokyo music scene. I wanna find smokefilled, seedy little bars where great underground acts play. I am pretty lucky now, as one of my friends DJs in NYC and has made some connections at clubs here, and the other has met some prominent DJs in the Tokyo scene, and I ca usually get on the list if I want to go to dance clubs, so I am trying to do that more. Something about the big city makes me at the same time depressed and elated lol.

Here at least, I am letting go abit of my straight laced inhabitions and trying to "act a fool" a bit more, i.e. loosening up about drinking, and clubbing. Growing as a person has been easy here, and I intended to , as K-os put it, "Get back into the man I used to be."

Enough of that now, for now.

Next week みんなさん。

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