The insain night of Karokie, pachio and video games,
not enough footage was shot on these three venture i thought were sorta interesting, the Karoke places and pachincos spots, which were all over the place,and loud!, One night we went up a karocke place in Kobe , it was an experience, about 10 bucks a head and you got to drink all the booze you wanted, mainly some rum and sprit drink made at the place you had no choice. Jimmy seems to really get into karocku. I, on the other hand, tolerated it, Earlier this year i went to a karoike night over in Austin at his bar called Ego's and it was fun to watch if you in the mood, i don't know just not my style., But jimmy my god!, it seems like every fiber and pore of body was made to secrete this for this kind of entertainment,. its almost seemed like crackhead discovering their first high over and over again,. He gets progressively loader and more dramatic trying to overrider the last song as "this one is it! no really,!" , like a perpetual climax. Jumping up and down on the seat getting up into your face yelling, singing, rocking me back and forth saying "look george and AC/DC song is next!!!" two lady there egging him on but after about an hour of it, they sat down coasting down on a post drunken slumber waiting to get something to eat, even kjell was flabbergasted but not Jimmy !, As i focused on the the TV screen and pondered the lyrics of "love is a battlefield"and wondered about the meaning of the songs and the dramatic reinterpretations of the songs as portrayed by the music videos the Japanese made about this song, like little skits with models to illustrated this particular song. I would start to realize the meaning of the song on a deeper level just as soon as jimmy knee stopped ramming my shoulder and he went to sarnea somebody else, " yea Kjell look he iis over there!" Well the night ended and Jimmy explained to me what the hell karioke was like and we hit some oddball romin shop with the ladys,
One Venture i was unable to capture was the positioning of these two place a Texas steak house and a video game place right across form each other, I think in this new video tapping venture i have to be relaxed to find stuff that would be good enough to print, ad make a video out of it, humm,, its still a mystery in itself., plus my camera broke half way threw the trip so the camping deal is gone.
travels: June 2008 Archives
check out this vid it has
Kalldue who rubbed my belly , the street of death , where a bike cold knock a drunk off the street, some more of jimmy's massive red blow up things, and ..
all praise be to two buddys
Kjell Hahn of Kjellhahn.com
and the Lord and Almighty
Jimmy Kuehnle
of JimmyKuehnle.com
and
Wiessraum In Kyoto, thanks Mr Fuji
One of the goals about going over there was to find a Wife, yea right?! whats the likelihood of that, think again?, But i am amazed how many of my fellow guys about my generation have Asian wifes, why?. i wonder hummm is it that getting older and male, i am in my late thirty's , is tuff on guys who have a career and trying to find another career centric women who has there own life, rarely meet up unless the power of attraction is so great they they come together, but on a whole i would speculate its difficult nowadays, so alot of men head to the east to see if there is anybody out there, as one of my exe's said"to see if anybody would put up with their bullshit!", but by Asian standard, American men are nothing, after being tenderized by American Women. I would guess its the ol' patriarchal male who has been short changed in the looks dept and average amounts of success and have unrealistic demands in the "looks dept." on women here that find them selfs dissatisfied about dating in America. So fuck it let just find anybody, who can do this, date bullhead average American Males, who still have memory's of mom and a wife.
One of my favorite stories about cross culture dating had to deal with one of my good ol buddy s, Serg. who was a notorious womaniser and quit torturous on the women, but enduring and a romantic at heart," Mex style," He started dating this women who was from the Congo spoke like four languages and was in Grad school, they got along great but alot of the local women who knew the couple mainly from a local hippy coffee shop hated Serge, and was constantly bad mouthing him and portraying his girlfriend as a victim of his evil machismo ways,The lady form Congo was black African and grew up in a village and was very attractive , she thought Serg was cute and liked the amount of romantic drama, that he necessarily delivers to most of the non=anglo dating sprees he coasts on , but the White women, they had another take on it, mainly sensitive Austin liberal types, who were trying to convince the Congo lady not to put up with this abuse&bullshit!, One day i over heard this in a conversation where two women who hate him, went on about him , she said, (the Congo Lady), "listen, i have had boyfriends over in Africa, and compared to Serg, he is a schoolgirl, you American Women take men to seriously, liten up!, i am glad he isn't violent! or tosses fits, thats my job!". And After a year of dating, he said to me George , listen i cann't get rid of her, i have tried everything but nothing works, she is stalking me! . and threaten other women etc, the Anglo women you can scare off quickly when you want them gone but this is crazy.
So maybe there is a quality about Asian women who are stronger than American woman, like they don't quit,.
Drinking beer form a vending machine, i thought was pretty incredible. As a matter of fact the whole venturing around Seto was neat. It was a typical Japanese suberia, there was tons of vending machines all over the place. Me and Jimmy remarked not in America this couldn't happen the vandalism and hoodlums would fuck up all this shit, there was no graffiti, no trash, anywhere all the streets were bike friendly , and cleanly black topped with well lite everything, no required hours to quit serving beer, it is a society where everybody trusts everybody and vandalism or fucked uped teens hell bent to do shit is not the norm here, at night the city was vacant you could bike anywhere, no loud cars driving by blarring music, well all the cars were small and went about 35 miles an hour more like jumbo golf carts, no road rage, as a matter of fact all the people i saw seem very calm , i liked it, , the customer servis is off the rictor scale from what i gathered about this place,. when i went to what was like a dollar store Walgreens the cashier when handing me my recite , felt like he was proposing marriage to me or something, Mannn.! Shopping was a big deal there, mainly for women, cause you can take the train down town and shop at the maul which were spectacular, down town Nagoya or hell anywhere!, as i found out,. they really dress up , like miniskirts and high heals, and lots of accessories,. the book stores were strange alot of Comics , and what seem to be as if the common magazine rack was nothing but catilogs and nudey magazines, and celebretiy gossip plus food, and cute teen stuff, which had a nudey section to that too, and men would commonly line up to brouze the section, hummm,. stuff like, what would brity spears eat and ware? TV is odd to, gameshow galore, cuteness, small toy jewel type of stuff,
The reception at the gallery store was fun in Japan, the first thing I noticed was the very relaxed drinking laws, like what the hell!, i stood around in amazement and watched jimmy drink beer on the subway , convenient store parking lot, while bicycling , walking down a busy street, and even in front of cops, we even shot video on it!, well the gallery Wiessraum severed beer a pint was 3.50, . they had a local crowd that showed up plus the arty types, they played the "the blues brother soundtrack", and the locals like to quot Elvis songs so we sorta stood out, but it didn't take long for complementary beer to start shooting our way,!, thanks! , so three times we traveled over there form Nagoya to Kyoto it was like a crazy party and the big problem was trying to figure out where to stay, Kjell ended up joining us, he was a long time buddy of Jimmy and wanted to take a break from his job working at a ceramic studio.
the gallery had some funny things about it like the "canned goods" idea which i thought was great! its like what bar food should be weird meats on crackers, or strait, while chasing a beer. Spam is a big deal over there , they like it a lot. in the small room people would sit around barrels and pick the can they would like and it would be severed up on a plate. Jimmy had three sculpture items on display some weird thing that shot out of a room and this like bounding red spiked thing that he would inflate and bounce down by the river, the inflatables would defiantly occupy the space, So in the first day me and jimmy hauled the pieces down to the gallery, on buses and trains,. and set up.
He did several performances there, over the three weeks i was there, and we got to know Kyoto a lot, mainly the street and river, where we discovered the fast paced and dangerous drinking environment that became the side walk in front of the gallery and store. Ohhh ,
every evening we were there, we would drink beer and look out the door at the gallery, and on to the side walk and step out there, and the danger that lye right to our left and right,
well zooming bicycles by the dozens it was like a frogger and once you thought you missed them another one came whipping by it was a lot of fun stepping out there with a beer ,(oh yea no fucking law about beer leaving the establishments you can do that to!) and there you were face to face with some one going real fast trying to miss ya, man what a lawsuit,! but not in Japan , man i love this country. I asked some people why they don't have civil law suit or safety shit preventive type of stuff insurance, i think they said, well its Karma dumb ass! if you get run over,, my God thats genius, they got the idiot factor right in there! unlike America who tries to protect an idiot from themselves.
So as i enjoyed my beer buzz, and tried to explain things to the locals who said typically," i understand some English but i can't understand anything you said" Jimmy would back them, claiming he is from Texas we don't know what he says either, Thanks guys!,.
the night descend into late night buzz and slamming cheep ramen shops, the streets were busy and the trill was in the air, until we had to figure out where the fuck to sleep?
The long venture to Japan and back again is over
i would say all praise be go to Jimmy!
For making it a great trip and basicly Saving CDC here form utter destruction, all i have to do is secure the name.
So what new folks
i am in the process of making scenes of the video i took plus photos
but first Japan....
tid/bit one....
