Japan is definitely a funky place! I keep saying that, cause every day here brings me more and more original discoveries.
Last weekend, I went in Kyoto for Gion Matsuri, the biggest traditional festival in Japan, that was great, nice, cool, impressive, and amazingly crowded. I’ll post some pics sooner or later. Also, I redesigned the photo section of my website. Now it looks cleaner and less 14 year old teenager’s first website.
Yesterday, I went clubbing in osaka and I met some cool guys from Montréal. We headed towards my favourite bar, who serves a “delicate” drink from Okinawa called haboushou. There’s a dead snake infusing in a huge bottle of alcohol, it tastes like death, as you’re about to enter hell’s playground, but actually it’s quite healthy, as long as the minimal delay of one week is respected between two consecutive shots.
Then we went to a japanese-only club (some guys suggested us to), where I spend a lot of time to analyze the social behavior in japanese herds of über-trendy guys. You got like a band of 10 guys who must contribute to at least 1% of the national income of japanese hair saloons making some choregraphy on the stage. But these guys were not a band or what-ever, just the funkiest people elected from the club, and they all knew the choregraphy, so this complex kata must be quite famous. So what? The point is that all the people in there has to imitate the same choregraphy in real-time in order to be considered as normal, so people were wathching weird at me because I was just dancing normally, and they looked even weirder when I attempted to do the movements. I found it so scary! However, I felt like what it is to be a foreigner in japan. It’s scary! They even didn’t want to serve me water from the tap at 5am! Geez! People at my japanese pottery class (I’m straight okay?) are nicer than these real incarnation of manga heroes! Shinjirarenai!
Gotta take a nap. My brain requires some serious rest right now.
