I can't call it homie

I need to have my two cents in this Japan glorifying business. I lost my log in for a minute but this is it. Way past my bed time but let's just say it is 7:30 in Japan so I'm either waking up or partying and bull shit.
I can't outdo Thomas on the pictures, no friggin way! thanks Money
I still got some gardens to make movies off so don't lose this sight out of site (or vice versa)
I stayed for ten more days and went to Hiroshima, Kyoto, Osaka and back to Tokyo. I need to sit down and give you the whole story. Now It's just rantings of a man with tears in his eyes and a taste for tuna on rice, period.
Without a doubt one of the high lights, besides the performance, was the batting cage in Jingu park in Tokyo! Sweating like a hog, feeling the blisters in your shoes and on hand palms, alive as a 16 year old fart with a new pack of bubble gum no one tried before...
I just say, Kampai

P.s. I got the karaoke movies to prove that Karaoke is for all ages!!

TO KY YO

I'll spare you the million more picture we took in Toky YO! Instead i'll give you a short impression of the stuff we did over there. We did loads more, this is just the stuff that was suitable to post (I mean, it's a work related blog after all).
So amazing. 360 degrees of buildings and people. What a city. 30 million people live here. I mean: 16 million people live in the whole of the Netherlands.
Jacob and I had fried shrimp. It was good. I like eating at the bar like that. Come to think of it. I have an overall fondness for bars.
I forgot the name of the most famous temple in Tokyo, but here we were. We drew our fortunes from those metal boxes. I drew "small fortune", which basically means that I'm small time now, but I end up BIG. It's written in the stars. Just so you know.
After karaoke we ended up in probably not the best bar in Tokyo. There were some Egyptians. Two hookers. And us. The beer was good tho.
Karaoke was off the hook. We went into this nine story karaoke castle. The place wasn't that special. We made it special. They litterally heard us eight floors down. Ok. Maybe I'm exagerrating. But we we're proud to be loud.
You've probably seen this side of Tokyo in the movies. So did I. And now we were there. Crazy.
Caprice looks lost. He was. We all were. We asked for directions in a bar. We never left. Tokyo is like that.
Electric City Tokyo. I was having diner some place else. You can't be at two places at once. But that would be convenient.
Everybody makes this shot. I've seen it a million times before. But now I'm in it! See me? 23d asian dude from the upperleft corner.
My guess this is tuna. But I didn't really care. We didn't sleep. It was 7.00 in the morning. Let's not discuss fish.I'm intrigued by squid. I don't know why. I can tell you this taste's funny on your sushi roll. Wanna see a couple of tall dutch people crammed into a taxi cab. There you go. The point is WE WERE IN TOKYO. This is just your avarage "the party in club NUTS ended" pic. Where's this club Nuts I mentioned? You know where. Hey Naoki, good luck with stashing that 2.10 m dude in the broom closet. Thanks for a great dinner. Next time we'll not do that directly after sweating like an ox in the batting cage.
I bought some overpriced stuff at this museum. It was at the 52nd floor of the Mori tower. Yes I was impressed.

This is how people tend to look after a good night clubbing, not sleeping and having sushi for breakfast (the freshest sushi in the world that is, but it's hard to appreciate that fully when the hangover is about to set it).

And did I mention we had fun? Ow, you got that impression already. Then my work here is done.

Thanks you all!

These were some of the people we hung out with. Add some good music, good food and good booze. Good times is what you'll get.

30 seconds of Tokyo

We had such a good time. I made like 2000 photo's. I should've made more movieclips, because this hardly gives a good impression of Tokyo. But I made and posted the clip anyway, because you can't be at the office spending 2 hours on a clip and NOT post it. So here goes. And by the way, yes something is wrong with the size of the screen. Whatever. I'm not a film maker. I just like to post stuff.

Thank you Michiko!

Jeez. We had a really really really great time in Tokamachi. Really. After we slept off our hangover we visited some amazing artworks of the Echigo Tsumari Art Triennal. We went to a spa where I really relaxed, a long with like 40 other asian brothers from a lot of other mothers. At least people know who MO - RO is now. We had Korean BBQ dinner with the lovely Michiko, who was our guiding light the past couple of days. The energy and time she put in. The amount of patience she mustered. Arigato gosai mas, TANAKA san! And now people are still not asleep. Tomorrow we're off to Tokyo. LET's GO!

Warning

This is a slideshow containing 348 photo's. We had a great time rehearsing, hanging out, jamming, performing and partying. These are just my pics. We made like 1000 that day, because this day killed! I really can't say too much about it, because it was amazing in many different ways. I mean:

- this one guy worked three weeks on the stage
- only to see his creation washed away in the most heavy rain in ages
- the festival was planned on the last day of the rain season, so I guess rain felt like shining one more time
- Caprice, Rianne, Moro, Michael, TooTall, Gina, Kid Sublime, Guitar man, Cuban-Japanese girl jammed till the sun broke through... MAGIC
- twenty very VERY stoked dancers working it
- people crawling over the floor because of that one drink too much
- the traditional tea ceremony and the geisha girls confessing they preferred beer and sake
- and...
- and...

Day Three

Here's a belated peek at our activities for day three. Most of us can't sleep at night due to different time zones, so day three started off kind of slow. I woke up at 2 pm and I was an early bird, if you get what I'm saying. But from then on we did a lot of stuff. We filmed some intro-shots in kimono's (or at least we'd like to think the hotel bath robes we kind of stole are kimono's). We had dinner at a really good Ramen place. Caprice did a workshop with four local artists which was cool. Then we were off to the festival site, where we rehearsed with the dancers. Here goes: