Timestamp, waiting for bus, usual routine, switched up outfit to *slightly more* autumnal duds but sweet holy heaven, sky is thick on this day
Packed: sm towel, spare shirt + light jacket in bag because ya just don’t know do ya (also bilingual doctor memo, various cards & accessories)
[Realized my phone charger cable doesn’t work but had “Ariel” from Sylvia Plath in my satchel to keep me company through various injections both incoming and outgoing]
Home from hospital, recap:
- 2 buses there
- Injection cocktail (nuerotrophin, b-vits++)
- Consult & exam with TCM doctor
- Blood out for test (cortisol etc)
- 2 vending bevvies
- Lunch at ‘not really so secret’ Liberal Café, chat with owner
- Taxi to bus center
- Side quest to record shop
- Bus home
- Now bath
Saw The Smugglers “Rosie” at Orab records in Okayama! ¥1800! Didn’t purchase but did get “dub narcotic sound system” from #OlyWa‘s K Records (former ISP customer) & (mysterious New Zealand bedroom artist) “Salvia Palth’s” Melanchole (since I had Sylvia Plath’s Ariel book in my bag)
Many interesting records of course but being tight on money, exercise restraint Had an eye on this Nina Hagen desk as well as a 12″ three song EP of Talking Heads’ wild wild life from my favorite movie “true stories”
Aside: send a note to Mr. Ricefield records who’s been encouraged me to visit Orab
I finally did it, in between the hospital and the bus station home, I climbed the stairs, turned the corners, dug through crates, purchased two items, bit of chitchat with the boss, told him you are always encouraged me to visit – took him a second and then he figured it out and said "he lives in Saitama now right?"
and also told him i bought from his "records corner bin" at bear's coffee shop at the new performing arts center
Gave him my card and invited him over "if you ever get a day off" ha ha
Many more items I'd like to purchase but money is real tight these days, maybe I should be doing "Santa Claus for hire"
Alas does not have the ミドリ records I'm seeking but no one does, did buy dub narcotic sound system, one of my old ISP customers, K records in Olympia
Also noted the band “back country, new roads” are coming to Japan but like so many bands, only playing Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, ¥8400 for ticket Never sure why bands don’t ramble a little bit more widely since they made the trip over
Mac the goat shepherd will probably go, just be beyond my energy envelope to get from here to Osaka and then from the Blade Runner station to the venue and then back again and no I don’t sleep in capsule hotels
