Helloooo my Random J pop skank lovelies!!
All 3 of you who bother to check this blog may have noticed the glaring lack of activity for the past 2 weeks. This was because I was away on holiday...IN JAPAN!! Yasss!! F**k all your lives!
I didn't have enough time to do a quick post before I actually left the UK and inform you that I'd be away on holiday. I had it all planned out, that I'd get you guys to be a part of my holiday somehow. Asking those of you who haven't been to Japan what music related stuff you'd like to see and have me snap and comment on. I was gonna pick up CD's and do a giveaway and all that shit. It was going to be amazing. It didn't happen.
I figured given that Japan isn't a third world and they be all about technology that I'd be able to find an Internet cafe and jack into some WiFi via my phone - no problem. N***a please. How wrong was I!? The first hotel I was staying at had WiFi I could only access it if I sat on the stairs in the hallway. Despite everywhere having a WiFi signal, you needed a SoftBank account to access 90% of them, meaning I was unable to tweet on the go as much as I would have liked or use Google maps to find places. And every Internet cafe I'd found was asking for stupid first time use charges before giving up the good-good 100 yen for your own cubicle, refillable drinks flat recline chairs and all the Internet your fingers and hand can take. So my whole Random J Pop in Japan master plan fell to pieces like Ayumi Hamasaki's album sales. But I still had an amazing time and am already plotting my return (third time) back to JPN.
I'm still somewhat out of the loop on stuff. The only active shit I was able to see in Japan related to music was AKB48 1830m related. With the amount of promo those tricks do and how every Pachinko parlour, billboard, train station poster and drinks machine has their faces on it, I wonder how anybody else manages to sell a record in Japan when these girls have a release on the way.
I'll be using the week to just veg on the Internet and be a hot mess until it's time for me to return to work on Tuesday. I'll slowly be posting stuff and getting back into the swing of things in between fighting off jet lag and wishing I was still in Japan.
All 3 of you who bother to check this blog may have noticed the glaring lack of activity for the past 2 weeks. This was because I was away on holiday...IN JAPAN!! Yasss!! F**k all your lives!
I didn't have enough time to do a quick post before I actually left the UK and inform you that I'd be away on holiday. I had it all planned out, that I'd get you guys to be a part of my holiday somehow. Asking those of you who haven't been to Japan what music related stuff you'd like to see and have me snap and comment on. I was gonna pick up CD's and do a giveaway and all that shit. It was going to be amazing. It didn't happen.
I figured given that Japan isn't a third world and they be all about technology that I'd be able to find an Internet cafe and jack into some WiFi via my phone - no problem. N***a please. How wrong was I!? The first hotel I was staying at had WiFi I could only access it if I sat on the stairs in the hallway. Despite everywhere having a WiFi signal, you needed a SoftBank account to access 90% of them, meaning I was unable to tweet on the go as much as I would have liked or use Google maps to find places. And every Internet cafe I'd found was asking for stupid first time use charges before giving up the good-good 100 yen for your own cubicle, refillable drinks flat recline chairs and all the Internet your fingers and hand can take. So my whole Random J Pop in Japan master plan fell to pieces like Ayumi Hamasaki's album sales. But I still had an amazing time and am already plotting my return (third time) back to JPN.
I'm still somewhat out of the loop on stuff. The only active shit I was able to see in Japan related to music was AKB48 1830m related. With the amount of promo those tricks do and how every Pachinko parlour, billboard, train station poster and drinks machine has their faces on it, I wonder how anybody else manages to sell a record in Japan when these girls have a release on the way.
I'll be using the week to just veg on the Internet and be a hot mess until it's time for me to return to work on Tuesday. I'll slowly be posting stuff and getting back into the swing of things in between fighting off jet lag and wishing I was still in Japan.