Cell Phone pics from My Cool Day

So, yesterday I went to this really cool place.  The whole gallery was red (except for the articles on sale and the art).  The reason that I went there with my friend Haruhi is that there were four Banksy works on exhibition.  Two were on canvas (one was even hand-signed!) and cost as much as a small car, according to Meibi, one of the guys who works at the shop.  We hung out on the store for a whole while and got to be friends with the two guys that work there.  One of their girlfriends has some stuff in the gallery, and I really liked it.  Click Here to peep her blog.  They also had some work by Banksy-inspired artist named Prole.   Pretty sweet stuff.  We met up with everyone later after Haruhi and I did a little shopping around Shinsaibashi went out to yakitori with one of the shop workers (I forget his name because we just kept calling him otousan (dad) or maru (circle)) and the wife of Ken Hamazaki, the red gallery's namesake.  Isn't the toilet funny (for all you art history nerds)...Somewhere in between gallery visits, Haruhi treated me to lunch.  It turns out that her dad actualy owns a restaurant in Shinsaibashi on Dotonbori on the other side of the street from this fugu called Dotonbori Imai.  I had egg and duck soba soup like thing, and it was awesome.  

Harihi looks pretty badass, ne?
I FOUND BIC LIGHTERS!  Funny thing, though, they have no child safety thingies...

AND NOW FOR SOME RANDOM IMAGES~

There was a rainbow around the sun on Friday.  It was only around (pun intended) for like 15 minutes.  SO cool!  Have you ever seen anything that cool?
The advert for the host club next to a Club Pure that I went to last Friday.   Where's Marinara?
That's all, folks.  I'll try to be more consistent in the future.  No guarantees, though.

Love Love

TAKARAZUKA

This is the outside of Takarazuka.  It took up like an hour and a half to get here.  You bet I took a picture.
These are the Takarazuka stairs the my teacher likes. 

This is Patrick.

This is my friend, Masa.  I think he was pointing to the chandeliers, which he probably said were "fierce".  Yes, I taught him that.
Takarazuka is an all-female production with amazing stage changes and tons of flamboyant costumes (bright colors and glitter).  The people there are mostly women and there is a whole culture for when to clap for your favorite actress and the women get really into the women that play male roles and it's crazy bizarre.
I apologize for how late this is, it's really embarrassing.  You must know that I do care about you and love you all, but I have been busy.  

blingee is the best

it's like purikura, but on the internet.  heh.  ok.  sorry i haven't updated in a while, i have been mad busy.  

love you

花見

Okay, so, sorry it's been a while guys, you know that I'm having so much fun that sometimes I don't need, want to use or think about the internet.  But I know that a lot of my friends and family maybe need to live vicariously through me so, perhaps, they need my blog to for entertainment and/or happiness.  Sorry for the delay, folks.  On Sunday, I did 花見, which reads ha-na-mi and means flower viewing, flowers referring to sakura blossoms, which are in full blast right now.  Hanami usually involves going to a place where there are cherry blossoms blooming with a bunch of friends, a tarp and some alcohol.  Since the park we went to already had tarps laid out in advance for all the flocks of people that come every day, we had more room for drinks!  We went to Kyoto, the best place in Japan (and thus the world) for this kind of activity.  We went to Maruyama Park, which is apparently pretty well-known for hanami.  The pictures are pretty self-explanatory.  
God bless Macro setting
Sunset!

These are these baskets with burning logs in them.  You can't really get that close to them but I think that they are a tradition either of this park or of hanami in general and their function is to either keep bugs away or keep humans warm.  Or both.  

This beer was smaller than my hand.  It was really cute.  I didn't buy it though, I opted for sake.

Part of the park, there was a small temple.  I know that some people try to do hanami in DC or whatever but that is pathetic.  I don't really have pictures of the size of the biggest Sakura tree in the park or the mass of people in this park, but they were both awesome in every regard.  

I also heard that this year, the flowers are especially pink due to the cold winter.  

WTF

I LOVE VEGI