Japan Nite
Last night, I ventured south to Ukrainian Village for a friend’s birthday dinner that included cake and Japanese whiskey (Yamazaki made by Suntory), followed by some Japanese electronic music and punk at the Empty Bottle. Our friend John (one of our two Chicago friends) is very fond of themed events, especially when bicycles are involved.
The electronic artist goes by Omodaka. It was one person onstage with a laptop, a Nintendo DS, a Sony PSP, a gameboy color, and a Korg Kaossilator. I was elated to see the Kaossilator onstage because I have one and never thought I’d see someone performing with it. The artist wore mask onstage and held the microphone in front of a lady singing on a big LCD screen. It was very odd, and I like odd.
Here’s a better description than I can give you, “Omodaka is the name of the project developed through a trial and error process of mutational fusion of music and motion graphics.” Other artists are also involved with the project and the creation of these surrealistic videos. These videos are so weird I am going to have to post more of them than you’ll actually watch:
Next up was Red Bacteria Vaccuum, an all girls punk band from Osaka, Japan.
Their show was so much fun and though I wasn’t really dancing, for the first time in a long time I was moving back and forth to music! This experience made me rethink our decision to live so far away from a lot of the happenings in Chicago. I also decided that I need to try to go see some more music while we are still here. Nearly every touring band comes through. I used to drive here from Columbus, Ohio to go to shows then drive back the same night. It is pathetic how few I have been to now that we are living here!
They said, “We saw Michigan Lake. Huge!”
I missed the last band because I had to ride 10 miles to get home and didn’t want to get back too late. I also had to buy Jared a tongue scraper. I stopped at CVS. I deliberated for two minutes over a brand name tongue scraper or generic CVS scraper and eventually went with generic.
On my way to the counter, a man with an Eastern European accent stopped me and asked, “Why are you so colorful?” I said, “I…just…I dunno.” Then he pointed to my socks and said, “Why?” I said, “I…just…like…colors.” He laughed. Then he asked me, “Are you camping?” He may have thought I was a hobo because I had on my very dirty bike touring jacket. Then I laughed and said I was riding my bike. Then I turned and walked away. It was a strange yet somewhat joyful encounter.
Poor Jared. His teeth are still in a lot of pain and his breathe smells putrid. To make things worse he hasn’t been able to eat solid food in 5 days because it is so painful to chew. Today all he had to eat was some gritz for breakfast and cream of mushroom soup for dinner. It’s as though he has a tapeworm. We decided that Trenchmouth is going to be the next big diet craze.
Arigato!
-L
lar – pull them out. fuck. i hope he’s getting some good pain killers.
hey judi- i try to get him to all the time. we are just really really broke.
dude stole my video.
the detachable penis one? i think it was a coincidence but i was thinking woah judi just posted that on DC.
girl, get your man to a dentist and use some plastic! he’ll get an infection soon if he doesn’t get his mouth looked at.
hey judi- i think you missed the trenchmouth post a couple days ago. he already got an infection in his gums called trenchmouth. it was gnarly he had a fever and everything. we got a prescription and he’s on antibiotics now.
still waiting to figure out what we’re going to do about the dental care situation.
Lauren is the man around here.
that korg device is sweet, its like you can play a videogame while making music. Maybe it can interface with that crazy device that belongs to Jared
my wiener?
detachable penis
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDiILrNbM4
Man I haven’t heard that in awhile and if Lar would stop blasting her Huey Lewis’ discography I could actually listen to it. Nice video embedding action.
jared you are confusing hall and oates with huey lewis.
Yeah, if you move to Hyannis, Nebraska or Hinton, West Virginia or even Bloomington, Indiana, the weird factor will diminish dramatically. And, as a gourmet, you must know that pizza quality will dive exponentially the farther you get from Chicago.
and increase factorially as you get closer to new york.
the pizza here mostly sucks.
pizza? can we order pizza tonight?
No, jared is incapable of eating it