...Happy Halloween Y'all...
Excuse me while I wax lyrical about my first Halloween evah.
So in defiance of our shitty schedules that involve working from 7am every Saturday and Sunday...myself and 2 of my English boys headed into the great unknown of a halloween party at an underground goth club here in Osaka town...
Smoke billowing, gothic industrial playing on the decks....meter high hairs...chains out of eyes...
Everyone dressed as antique russian dolls in ornate gowns of gold and red, a bondage mat hatters tea party dancing in slow motion...a sea of snake tatoos, red cheeks, dainty hands and mock fighting. Top hats, velvet, leather, whips...ballgowns, sunglasses, pigtails....glitter.
The word random is no longer in my vocabulary in this place (a shock I know) there is no longer any random moments in Japan....it just is. So anyway...created my goth gypsie look that convieniently can go from club to work...
made friends with scary sweethearts...subtly gawked at the fashions...enjoyed girl talk with the queen bees in the bathroom...feeling like guests at a secret party.
The truly surreal moment was when the live act came on...a bizarre canadian lady with a synthersizer and giant pigtails presenting songs that were not unlike subliminal english lessons...nothing would suprise me anymore. So we all bopped away like poppy teenagers forgetting goth angst for a couple of hours before the smoky magic atmosphere returned again.
So highlights...well the whole night was a definate going out highlight, so exciting to be a normal person on a Saturday night with the masses and shocked it has taken us 7 weeks to do this...
Highlight number one...returning from the ladies room to discover every person from the dance floor now crowded into the bar chatting and laughing not unlike at a church potluck....
....eating free spaghetti with chopsticks.
If I may be permitted to use the word random once this may have been one of the top 3 most random moments in my life...goth club...osaka...spaghetti...3am. It was very beautiful and incredibly surreal. I get accused of bastardising these words surreal and random but it really was! The people here are so beautiful, I mean really. I finished my plate and looked around where to put it when my friend nudged me to say an enchanting boy in a velvet matrix jacket, oversized lace cravet and chains from holes in his cheek wanted to take my plate and put it in the bin. So touched and such a sweetheart. I was a slightly naughty gaijin and bummed a smoke just to see if my new enchanting friend would light it. He did. So yay I got to use more of the 11 words I know.
We have student files that include the reasons they study english...I have always laughed at the urbane comments including 'one time I was at universal studios and I couldn't understand the tour guide' But I swear in that moment I wanted and still want to learn Japanese just so I could communicate with that beautiful boy.
As far as I'm concerned alot will have to happen in my life to top that spaghetti moment. But it's still not that suprising, expect the unexpected is the only motto to life here.
Highlight number 2 not that amusing but quite enchanting...dancing in the smoke with my new goth friends when the DJ mixed in the phantom of the opera aria...an incredibly haunting, eerie and perfect 10 minutes...I know damo/davie that it probably was shitty djing to do that but never has a moment in our life soundtrack been so appropriate...
It was finally time to end...5am subway opens...eating greatest chutney/pork/boiled egg sandwich of all time...run the 5 mts home from the station and another random moment...guy sitting in my foyer says 'I can speak english' after my panicked Sunnimasen! AKA get outta my way I am gonna be late for work and have to look like a skank all day. That was the first stranger that has talked to me in english the whole time basically. I was so shocked all I could say was 'um How are you?'
And with a change back into my Clark Kent gear another day dawned...
So highlights...well the whole night was a definate going out highlight, so exciting to be a normal person on a Saturday night with the masses and shocked it has taken us 7 weeks to do this...
Highlight number one...returning from the ladies room to discover every person from the dance floor now crowded into the bar chatting and laughing not unlike at a church potluck....
....eating free spaghetti with chopsticks.
If I may be permitted to use the word random once this may have been one of the top 3 most random moments in my life...goth club...osaka...spaghetti...3am. It was very beautiful and incredibly surreal. I get accused of bastardising these words surreal and random but it really was! The people here are so beautiful, I mean really. I finished my plate and looked around where to put it when my friend nudged me to say an enchanting boy in a velvet matrix jacket, oversized lace cravet and chains from holes in his cheek wanted to take my plate and put it in the bin. So touched and such a sweetheart. I was a slightly naughty gaijin and bummed a smoke just to see if my new enchanting friend would light it. He did. So yay I got to use more of the 11 words I know.
We have student files that include the reasons they study english...I have always laughed at the urbane comments including 'one time I was at universal studios and I couldn't understand the tour guide' But I swear in that moment I wanted and still want to learn Japanese just so I could communicate with that beautiful boy.
As far as I'm concerned alot will have to happen in my life to top that spaghetti moment. But it's still not that suprising, expect the unexpected is the only motto to life here.
Highlight number 2 not that amusing but quite enchanting...dancing in the smoke with my new goth friends when the DJ mixed in the phantom of the opera aria...an incredibly haunting, eerie and perfect 10 minutes...I know damo/davie that it probably was shitty djing to do that but never has a moment in our life soundtrack been so appropriate...
It was finally time to end...5am subway opens...eating greatest chutney/pork/boiled egg sandwich of all time...run the 5 mts home from the station and another random moment...guy sitting in my foyer says 'I can speak english' after my panicked Sunnimasen! AKA get outta my way I am gonna be late for work and have to look like a skank all day. That was the first stranger that has talked to me in english the whole time basically. I was so shocked all I could say was 'um How are you?'
And with a change back into my Clark Kent gear another day dawned...
5am Station Shot
posted by japanesetakeout @ 2:18 AM
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