Frying tonight
Jan. 8th, 2005 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusOn Monday I fly to Japan. A week in Tokyo followed by six in Hakodate, Hokkaido.
Every trip to Japan is precious to me. The weeks are reeled out to me like a festive ribbon; a delight, an opportunity, a privilege.
I live, wherever I am, in a kind of ersatz Japan, a kind of ex-pat's club, a fan club, a semi-secret society. Tonight, for instance, I ate tonkotsu ramen at Cocolo Ramen, a semi-secret weekends-only 'Japanese eating event' on the Rosa-Luxembourg Strasse, a room transformed into a noodle bar by the simple addition of red lanterns, pump-up tables, and a kitchen that packs away into flight cases. The waitress wore geta and a kimono. She told me this was her last night; next week she'll fly back to Japan and start a new job in Tokyo.
Since I'll just be in Tokyo for a few days at the beginning and end of my Hokkaido stint, I ought to be planning the time carefully. But I expect I'll just follow my nose. The first thing I have to do is take my G4 iBook to the Apple Store at Ginza; the logic board just fried, a mere six months into the machine's life. The next thing I'll do, depending on jet lag, is visit the show Archilab: New experiments in architecture, art and the city, 1950-2005.
I wonder what Topo, the little rabbit we've just added to the Momus household, will look like when I get back at the end of February? I certainly hope he's scattering fewer fecal pellets on the sofa by then.
Every trip to Japan is precious to me. The weeks are reeled out to me like a festive ribbon; a delight, an opportunity, a privilege.
I live, wherever I am, in a kind of ersatz Japan, a kind of ex-pat's club, a fan club, a semi-secret society. Tonight, for instance, I ate tonkotsu ramen at Cocolo Ramen, a semi-secret weekends-only 'Japanese eating event' on the Rosa-Luxembourg Strasse, a room transformed into a noodle bar by the simple addition of red lanterns, pump-up tables, and a kitchen that packs away into flight cases. The waitress wore geta and a kimono. She told me this was her last night; next week she'll fly back to Japan and start a new job in Tokyo.
Since I'll just be in Tokyo for a few days at the beginning and end of my Hokkaido stint, I ought to be planning the time carefully. But I expect I'll just follow my nose. The first thing I have to do is take my G4 iBook to the Apple Store at Ginza; the logic board just fried, a mere six months into the machine's life. The next thing I'll do, depending on jet lag, is visit the show Archilab: New experiments in architecture, art and the city, 1950-2005.
I wonder what Topo, the little rabbit we've just added to the Momus household, will look like when I get back at the end of February? I certainly hope he's scattering fewer fecal pellets on the sofa by then.
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Date: 2005-01-08 11:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-08 11:41 pm (UTC)Would be kind of ironic as Jodorowsky (he claims) killed 100 rabbits with his bare hands for that film!
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Date: 2005-01-09 12:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-09 12:19 am (UTC)Anyway, your bunny looks cute, keep it away from mystical cowboys!
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Date: 2005-01-09 12:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-09 01:15 am (UTC)Was the Eraserhead baby a bunny as well?
Date: 2005-01-09 01:20 am (UTC)I'm doing a film with him soon. I think he would be quite flattered you named your bunny after him.
Re: Was the Eraserhead baby a bunny as well?
Date: 2005-01-09 08:45 am (UTC)