February 09, 2005
Day One: The Return
I have arrived in Tokyo today. It’s February 9th, 2005. I usually don’t get hung up in any sentimentality, but I guess this is for all intents and purposes the day in which my actual life begins. If my life somehow became a film, this would be like the moment it flashes back to in the beginning to begin the story. It’s basically my first ‘real’ job; the first thing I am doing after having completed my formal education.
And so I sit, on Eric's floor (while he is at the W+K office), Audio Visual Japan DVD projecting onto the section of blank wall which serves as a screen. It’s obvious to me that I want to fall asleep, but am somehow physiologically unable to do so.
I come directly from a modest 2 weeks or so in Orange County, CA. Full of old friends, burrito eating, and World of Warcraft playing, followed by sleeping in really late. And suddenly I land here, exhausted, and half-asleep and somehow intoxicated by a lessening degree of seperation to this hyper-oshare Tokyo glamour world which somehow I just drop straight into the moment after disembarking from a cab ride to the office, which was preceeded by the ever-savory Airport Limousine ride between Narita and ANA Hotel Akasaka coupled with Ipod.
Within a minute of entering the office I am hearing that Sun (who is also staying in this apartment I am in now) is going to be in Relax magazine with someone from Buffalo Daughter, (A band who's recordings I do enjoy, although the one live show I saw of theirs wasn’t the best thing I’ve ever seen), and is at the photo shoot now. On top of this, he will play at some exclusive party with Cornelius, and other members of the Japanese indie music elite guard, in a couple of weeks. On W+KTLab front news, Hifana and Uppercut will be in the office on Tuesday to discuss new albums, and particularly the video content therein, which will be developed simultaneously within a production schedule of the next 70 or so days. There may be a collaboration with Koichiro Tsujikawa (Cornelius vids for drop, etc.) in the works, which would be nice, as I quite enjoy his work.
Apart from all this, I must finish the details of my job, get a proper visa, find an apartment, and try to find time to work on personal shit (because its been reeeally long since ive done that in any capacity, and this modest blog is a small start of it.) In short, there's gonna be a whole lot of work to do.
Posted by shane at February 9, 2005 10:45 AM