Kick Punch Blog

Hmm, yeah, I see you're getting better ...

I had an array of options for spending Friday night, but I never decided on any of them, which turned out to be good because now I'm doing something completely different. Turns out The Pillows are playing in Nagoya tomorrow night, so .. like I needed an excuse to spend Friday evening in Nagoya. Shit, I was probably gonna do that anyway. That and collapse the game show stage (once I got past LaFours).

So there's that. Saturday I got sucked into a road trip with some girl from work (who now that I think about it looks a lot like her), then Sunday is sweet sweet Capoeira practice, which I probably don't mention here very often because most of you probably don't care about Capoeira, though to think about it I've actually been doing it off and on since since December 2002, which means .. I should be a lot better at it than I actually am. But anyway. Sunday I always go to practice and then read and drink coffee at Cafe Doutor (Doutor coincidentally being the name of my Capoeira Mestre in Philadelphia) and then take a train home and relax till Monday morning. Oh! Monday I was going to try to go see The Black Dahlia Murder in Osaka, and good God could I use a metal show to take out some aggression at these days, but to make it to the show I would have to:

1) leave work early, which would cause my Honor Level to go down, right after I raised it up a bit by being good at CATIA
2) pay $30 each way for a 100-minute train ride to Osaka
3) pay $55 for the concert ticket
4) risk not making it back in time for work the next morning.

Granted, I've spent more than this and traveled scores further than this to see some bands, but that was always a special exception. Plus, I would have welcomed getting fired from that job, whereas here I'm a bit more wary (find me another job that will pay for me to live here and doesn't involve hanging out with JETs, and I'll be rocking out to Detroit-based melodic death metal Monday night after all).

I intended to type something of actual substance (why the fuck would any of you care what I'm doing this weekend? Do you want to come along?) but either the 270mL of sake or the instant ramen (which is exquisite here) is kicking in and making me want to lie down now and not get back up till I absolutely have to in another 6 hours. Maybe next time ..