I thought I’d take this opportunity, between killer adventure stories, to get some neat stuff up here that doesn’t involve first person narrative. The first thing I’ve been meaning to do for a while is update those of you who click the links on my blogroll on my friend jon’s new web address. His blog is the daily steeze, and the address is now http://thedailysteeze.tumblr.com/. Check it out, he’s got a cool video of Huf on there, some other cool stuff, and he updates a lot more often than I do. The Huf video also inspired me to poke around on youtube for some skate footage from Fukuoka, as there are in fact skaters here, and they’re quite good. I found this video almost right away, and it has some guys in it that I recognize. I met a few of these guys a while ago in an alley in Tenjin at around 4 am, and they’re kind of loony, but really good skaters. They hipped me to this skate spot that’s actually like 2 minutes from the kaikan where I live, and now I really wish I had a skateboard.
The spot at 0:57 is right around the corner from my place. The guy skating there I THINK is named Katsuhiko. A lot of those areas are right nearby in Kashii, which is pretty neat. Anyway, Fukuoka’s on the map with some of the skating going on here, so I thought you all should know that. Gotta rep your location, and this is where I’m at right now.
Also, a follow-on to the last post on here, the guy who took the funny group photo is named Maru, a member of Zero Reality, and you should look at his t-shirts and artwork at his flickr page, which is here. Here’s one of his pieces.
If I had some more money I’d be buying these things. Well, if I had more money I’d be doing a lot of things. Sorry for the quality of writing here, there are some people yelling at each other in Korean in the kitchen down the hall and loudly clanking pots and pans. I’m pretty sure they’re just talking and making dinner, but it sounds like someone’s about to get killed. The korean dudes here get really amped up when they get together, and let loose some of the most booming, bellowing guffaws you’ve ever heard in your life, and the jokes are in korean, so from down the hall it sounds like a bunch of great apes tickling each other. They’re rad dudes, but I can’t have them in my room or the kaikan police will show up. Korean’s a cool language, I feel like it might be the Italian or Greek of East Asia, in that it lends itself really well to shit getting out of hand. It seems like it’s really fun to yell at your friend in Korean and tell raunchy jokes, because the more intense the conversation gets, the more the language starts to sound like Batman sound effects. Lots of PAHs and OWAAHs at the end of words, and I mean that in a good way. It might just be this group of kids, but it always turns into a rowdy time the minute someone starts going off in Korean. Anyhoo, I’ll leave you with this hilarious thing by Takashi Taniguchi.
If you understand Japanese, here are some of his other shorts-
Taker easy
