day one, nagoya japan.

the worst turbulence i've ever experienced. seriously, there were points during that flight that felt - well, you knoｗ when you:re descending in a plane and you can actually feel yourself going down? i'm feeling that but it seemed way faster than it should have been. it was like the pilot truly had no control over how quickly the plane was going down. at one or two points i said something like 'damn, this could be it'.

but i made it. in one piece.

as soon as i walked out of customs 'sean!' shogo hikosaka, of hamamatsu city, is there to greet me. hamamatsu is about 2 hours from nagoya, so he took thet shinkansen (bullet train) down to meet me. stoked, since the signs on shit here are only about 10% english rather than the 50% you see in korea.

we make it into osukannon, the neighborhood where the show is. a joyful reunion with a bunch of friends, and a japanese hardcore show. very surreal. what's different about japan? pretty much everything except for the fact that smoking is a rule rather than an exception.

there is a photo on shogo's camera that features me singing SSD's 'glue' and aram says it makes me look like 'a monster coming out of the sea to attack a child'.

yeah. more later. we're going to fukuoka today.