Speaking of Turning Japanese, is anyone else completely in love with the Charlie’s Angels soundtrack? Yeah, from way back in 2000. That album was [as a Christmas card I recently received would say] primo shit. It introduced me to Deelite, any album that includes Deelite is [again] primo shit. Anyway, it included this song called, “Turning Japanese” by the Vapors, I believe. Short story long, all morning I’ve been researching my trip to Japan, and it made me think of that song.

Oh, yeah. I’m going to Japan. And I’m going to do it for $4,000. That is the budget I have given myself for my 21st birthday present to myself. Hopefully I can divide it equally between money it takes to get there, and money to spend there. I’m really looking forward to seeing Akihabara, it’s kind of what inspired my trip. For the uninitiated, Akihabara is a sector in Tokyo, that is primarily known for it’s shopping. Thankfully, by shopping, I mean stories upon stories of the latest electronics, gadgets, and gizmos. You know in Japan, they have that super-secret James Bond type shit. Watches that double as lasers, sunglasses that are really thermonuclear binoculars. Okay, maybe not. But I just want to go.

Originally, I was planning on going to New York. But honestly, I hate New York. And I’ve already been there. I wanted to go somewhere wild and foreign. I didn’t want to know the language, and, most importantly, I wanted to be able to get lost. Have you ever just wanted to lose yourself in the grand scheme of things? A lot of the time, I feel like I have a very pointed position in life. At work, people know to come to me to fix their broken computer, or my residents know to come to me when life is down on them. And I’m not saying I don’t enjoy that, quite the opposite. I just want to lose myself. There really isn’t any other way I know how to articulate that thought.

So, tentatively speaking, come June 13th, 2010 I’ll be in Tokyo