Preface
Before I came to Japan I had a list of concerts that I wanted to see when I came here, in no particular order:

Bump of Chicken
Orange Range
Anna Tsuchiya
Gackt
the brilliant green
Psycho le Cemu

I’ve actually listened to all of those bands, more or less, except Gackt. Gackt just seems to have really cool concerts.
The first one to [...]

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This past weekend I went down to Tsukuba to visit Beth, and as usual, on the way back we took the Tsukuba Express back to Tokyo so I could catch my bus back to Fukushima.
Now for the few people who don’t know, Japan tends to pride itself–and with good reason–on having reliable, always-on-time trains. If [...]

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Oh, the musical opportunities I’ve been passing up here.
This evening Beth was able to go back in time and mingle in with a bunch of goth high school Japanese girls–the fantasy of many men and a dream come true for Beth, I’m sure. You see, tonight Beth fulfilled this fantasy by attending Dir en grey’s [...]

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As we’d be going through Tokyo to get to Chiba for the the brilliant green concert, Beth and I figured we might as well make a slight detour to go to the hamburger shop in Akihabara that I raved about. For the record, it’s a place called Seattle Burger that’s in a big building near [...]

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