Yesterday I met Nobue-san again for lunch, this time we met at Iidabashi and went to one of the cafes by the lake there. It was quite pleasant there sitting on the lakeside, watching people feeding the fish. Though it was spoilt a little by being next to a fairly busy railway line with trains interrupting the conversation every minute or two…she seemed a little quiet so I hope it was because of the trains and not because I’ve offended her by asking lots of stupid questions (or stirring my iced coffee with a fork, or doing some other gaigin thing).
The software for my MP3 player is now obtained and installed so I’m going to be spending the next few weeks doing bitrate conversions – the player deals with 64, 96 or 128kbps, nearly everything I have is 256 or vbr. Still, the software itself is all in English with the only Japanese being on the box, so at least I understand what to do.
Last night I went to CyberAgeVoodoo in Ikebukuro again. Along with your ticket they give you a little bundle of flyers and CDs, this time there were three CDs, though I’ve been too busy doing mp3 bitrate conversions to listen to any of them yet.
Once again a fairly dancable set, though weighted a bit more toward the industrial side of things than EBM this time. The only exception being Falcos “Tango the night away”, which there really is no excuse for. There was only a single show this time around, a collective called ‘Sino (rebuilt project)’, who were great in a noisy-no-words kinda way. They had guiter (their spelling not mine), keyboard and vj, and seemed quite willing to abuse them. This is the kind of band I would like to be a part of, if I were ever to revisit making music.