doods im in bogor indonesia with sara. indonesia rules but we are stupidly broke. which is pretty shameful - the landlord in our hotel saved money for years to do a trip all around europe, and brought all the food (and ricecooker and everything!) from home cos she couldnt afford the food in europe. And here we are , asking for a room without bathroom because it costs 4 euros instead of 6.
tomorrow we are going to the jungle and on monday or tuesday we head to yogya where sara
has her gamelan group.

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I dont feel like uploading pics from my phone right now cos i hav e barely slept in 3 days (worked thursday, friday and saturday at the bar, saturday met my exflatmate for a website job and sunday morning all the bar staff went to do 花見, hanami, watch the cherry blossom and have a picnic and drink in the park straight after work. more on that on a future post.
So im posting some images from this technopo band instead. because the other day somebody asked me, why did you move to berlin, and it really caught me off guard, because im used to being asked why i moved to japan, a question thats as annoying as its unanswerable. And without thinking I said "I wanted to be in the same city as Jeans Team". And i guess its kind of true, however stupid it is.
No matter how worn out ive become with arty, nerdy, vaguely conceptual acts, especially the berlin kind which im most familiar with, they still pull a whole bunch of my strings at once and effortlessly like the first day i saw them, 8 years ago.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that I was on my first E, but I also saw pizzicato 5 that night and i cant listen to them anymore really.

CHECK OUT THE COOL TEMPURA I JUST DID.
AWESOMEEEE
AND I ONLY UNDERSTOOD HALF THE INSTRUCTIONS
MY COOKING ROOOOOOOLS
IT TASTED SOOOOOOOOO GOOD

THIS WEEK I GOT TAMAGOYAKI, KONNYAKU AND TEMPURA DOWN

NEXT STAGE:
uhmmmm
i guess....UDON!

heres some pics of the maywa denki visit that i inflitrated with some dudes at the RCA design interactions department a month or so ago. I have some more in my computer that show more stuff but they are not mine so i cant really post them sawrry.
dude works in a bunker full of crazy stuff. he had most stuff packed for a tour around high schools in minnessotta or somewhere in america so most of what the boss had to show was earlier stuff from college which he admitted was darker (it was all about nightmares he had about freaky fish - like a bow an arrow set shaped like fish bones with the arrow going thru its spine and being shot from the mouth) and that he had become more pop later cos he needed to sell
this is maywa denki in case you are not familiar with their stuff (i talk in plural because they talk about themselves as if they were a family corportation, but it felt a lot like it was one mans vision)
they create strange and funny musical robots

i need a viiiiiiiiisaaaaaa
someone give me a viiiiisaaaa quiiick
i need a real joooooooooob
please baby give me a joooob
baby baby
just a job
oh oh
please give me some fake certificates baby
something serious looking babyyyyyy
cat statues and cows dont need visas
neither do cauliflowers or poisonous spiders
and they are more dangerous than i am

some random images. Installation inside a love hotel, the neons from a cheapo game center in koenji(2 games of street fighter 3 for 60 euro cents, can you beat that?i bet not.they had tekken 5 and of course the ubiquitous Gundam virtual-on ripoff thats nowhere as cool as virtual on and doesnt have the awesome twin sticks)
some cool ad.
a guy in yoyogi park on sunday doing caligraphy in a weird mask. like wtf.