as usual
I was going through websites, looking up the current info in this incest oriented business I'm in, called music.
Then I saw a name which rang a bell. Her name rings a bell every time I hear about it, but I keep forgetting.
The story is that a friend of mine from college, M, is now one of the more prominent DJ's in Japan. I haven't seen her since college though and I dropped out, started seeing the $ too early. But I think we went to 69 a few times together back then, the infamous reggae bar in the dead centre of the gay district in Shinjuku. I was talking about it with J and her friend the other day, of all those places back then in the late 80's and early 90's. I think 69's gone now, at least I don't think I can do those dance hall moves anymore, well, maybe if I was under the influence.
I had my dance partner Shara back then as well. Shara was some dandy dude, he had a cool collection of mostly soul and doo wop I think it was. God, I used to have some kind of T shirt I really liked back then, ska thingy, I forget.......... anyway, Shara and I used to go to those clubs together. I've always been the insular type, mostly keeping to myself, but Shara sometimes had me do my thang. I should ask Ken what's up with Shara these days, last time I heard, he was married, had a kid and bought a house and regretted it or something........that was a while ago.
Fuck, I remember that we went out and bought a full turntable set. I had my friend Mike Daikubara from college, Shara, and me. We got one Technics SL1200, that was like $600? then we couldn't afford another, so we bought a Gemini copy for $400? Then the mixer was pre DJ revolution, so we bought something called a discomaster I think, because it had a 15 band graphic EQ on the main outputs buss....... I think I ended up owning the mixer, and it going to Ken..............fucking 'ell man, Ken, I want it back, that EQ should sound NASTY and quite usable now........anyway, god, that's embarassing, I had an Atari 1040ST running Steinberg Pro 24 and my sampler was I think a Roland S550...... had a Tascam 16 channel 4 buss mixer that distorted quite well.........fuck, i'm not going to even think further about all the embarassing things that went on with that stuff.........Ken, I just want my mixer back, I know you read this sometimes. Give it back.
Aaaaanyway, wonder if it's worthwhile to look up M for the stuff I'm doing? She should have a faint memory of me, since I was one of the very few men in the department.
That was another problem with college, I couldn't remember every damn girl's name, it was all those "Hi Minoru's" and I was "yeah, I know your face......."........if i wanted to chat up a girl, i had to find out the name, but the problem was, I couldn't ask a girl, since they would be "wtf?", then I'd think of asking a guy and he's be "don't know either".......... then some of them would tell me in their drunken moments that they fancied me when it was too late.........oh well.
I'd quite fancy seeing all them Bunuel, Godard, Fellini and whatever else fancy films I used to frequently see during high school again. They used to show all that stuff in the cinemas regularly in Tokyo, but because of rentsal DVD's and the like, they've gone into hiding into the home. It's kind of sad to see that stuff at home, alone though.