It’s been a busy few days sightseeeing! On Friday the sun was shining, it was a perfect day to photograph the autumn leaves, so I decided to cycle to Arashiyama! It took me almost an hour to get there & when I arrived hundreds of people were there trying to get shots of the autumn […]

It’s Sunday afternoon and I’m still huddled in the bedcovers. Last night was the big Rock Commune AGM where they argued about minutiae for aaages and then we elected a new glorious leader. 8 people stood up and said what they’d do if elected, amusingly. I didn’t put myself up for election, but nonetheless was […]

Giita just got her disposable camera photos from the past 2 months developed. They feature us looking sweaty with pals for the most part. Here are a few of em. First up is us with a sweaty looking Keith McIvor  (Dj Twitch) at the Optimo shindig in Osaka.

This is after the university welcome party (6.30pm […]

This weekend was the Ritsumeikan Festival, featuring hundreds of stalls selling food and clothes, a load of stages for music and performance, hundreds of people milling about and me, being ignored by those people as I tried to hand them flyers whilst holding a placard for the Rock Commune. On the upside, I did get […]

I went to Vitalic last night in a little club in Osaka called Triangle, it was great to see him play in such a small venue. There was about 200 people there & it wasn’t uncomfortably full. From what I remember he played ‘la rock’ ‘no fun’ and ‘poney part 1′ the set was over […]

Another week gone. Not much has happened other than our lecturer today harrassing our class for being too slack and some shopping during the week that yielded new jeans to replace the ones Giita accidentally bleached. They were too long and the assistant took them behind the counter to a sewing machine and had them […]

Apologies for the long silence on here. It’s been a busy week study-wise with not much else happening. Amongst the things I have learned are: Fujiwara Sensei and my class may not necessarily appreciate a 10 minute Japanese speech about Aidan Walsh followed by some muffled live footage; gobo is a great vegetable; not only […]

It’s been a slow week and there has been nothing much to report.. our evenings have beens spent studying or lazing about at home. It’s getting colder here in Kyoto & we’re setting the aircon to warm our little apartment and wearing woollen jumpers.

I finally found a pair of shoes!! I went to osaka with […]

We went out for an Indian for Ã?ris’ birthday, which was nice, then decided to go to the Japanese soul food place that Giita and I went to on our first night for a drink. It made a nice comparison, going back to a place where I hadn’t really managed to communicate at all previously, […]

This post doesn’t actually contain any scientifical madness. I’ve just started to name posts after the song playing while I write. Apologies to anyone disappointed by the lack of science and/or insania. Just two sleepy hungover people in our mansion right about now. It’s been a good week, though. Nice and sunny, still not winter […]