Zōkyō

So if you wondering how I ended up in Tokyo Im gonna do my best to give you the abridged version but knowing me, I’d say fasten your seatbelts.

Its starts with a diabolical breakup about 6 years ago…

You don’t need to know all the gorey details (Episodes 1, 2,and 3) but lets just say it sent my life into a drug induced-swirling-down-the-toilet-debaucheric episode that culminated in an Las Vegas acid trip will take the pepsi challenge against any of Hunter Tompson’s. Its truly another story entirely, and maybe coming soon to a blog near you…

Though I wouldn’t trade them for the world, those chain of events, which perhaps were both my most apocolyptic as well as most enlightening hours of life yet, got me to thinkin’, “what the hell am I doing with myself?”

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The sun has come up and I haven’t slept. Its in the wee hours of the morning and I and working on a chocolate bar sized computer at a posh apartment in the hills of Omote-Sando. Why cant I sleep and what is gonna happen tomorrow? This keyboard is ridiculously small. I had a crazy dream a few nights ago. Its starts likes this…

So I had a night at home alone so I decided to make some curry and rent a movie. I put the rice on and headed down t Tsutaya where I wondered aimlessly for the better part of an hour, somewhat apathetically settling for the weeks “Top Choice,” Starwars III which I had already seen but wanted to see it again. And there would prolly be special features and that would be worth something.

So I got back to my house, threw the curry on and started the movie…when the opening text started rolling up the screen as it always does in Star Wars I realized it was in Japanese and I couldn’t read it and then proceeded to watch it in dubbed Japanese…which sucked and I changed it back and started it over.

Anyway, I watched it all and it was satisfactory. I went to the special features menu only to find there were no special features, which was hugely disappointing. I rented it to watch the special features. Trying not to feel defeated I opted to watch the entire movie again with George Lucas’s commentary playing over the film. It was late, so I put it on the headphones. I lasted about an hour and passed out on the couch with the headphones still on.

The movie had played all the way through and went back to the main DVD menu where the emperor was saying “Join the Dark Side” repeat “Join the Dark Side” repeat, “Join the Darkside”. Anyway I must have been listening to this on the headphones for 3 or 4 hours by the time I woke up. My god I had some wild dreams…I actually dreamed the I joined the Darkside.

I had to make a choice and I chose the dark side. I don’t remember much after that except that I was in a department store and there were 4 restrooms. 2 on one side of the hall and 2 on the other. “Good” Womens and Mens on the right and Dark Side Womens and Mens on the left. So naturally I went left. I was a little scared when everybody in the the restroom looked like the emperor with black hoods on. I thought, Do have to wear the hood? I hope not. Then I woke up.

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