So, the utter insanity that was today. Starting from a nice, relaxing morning (after getting to sleep in a bit; so nice), we went back to Smile, a hostel in Asakusa area over the bridge from here to meet up with our new buddies Shea and Dan. Both from North Carolina, they’re two really cool guys that we met when we stayed at Smile last week after the AJIKAN concert for the night. They’re basically exactly like the two of us, with Shea being really into the same music as me. At the time last week, I took advantage of the opportunity to see if they were interested in going to the L’Arc show with us, since I still had a pair of extra tickets. They were glad to buy them off of me, and I’m glad they got to. It was an excellent show; I would say easily one of the better ones from L’Arc, but I’ll be putting up a dedicated post tomorrow morning with all of the gory details for you.

@Dlyan: It was entirely different from the show in Paris and I did not expect most of the songs or routines. You will be quite jealous when you read the full write-up.

At any rate, the show was fantastic, and we went from there with Shea and Dan back to their hostel over the bridge and rounded up a few (by which I mean a metric fuckton) of people to join us for karaoke at a place not too far from Asakusa station. We asked a few people at the bar that was on the first floor of the hostel and literally the entire bar wound up going with us. It was fantastic. We had about 13-15 people by the time we got there, having picked up one extra random person on the way. The final country count went as follows:

  • 3 people from South Jersey
  • 2 people from Belgium
  • 2 from Calgary
  • 2 from Japan
  • 2 from North Carolina
  • 1 from Montreal
  • 1 from London

It was a good time. All classic fan favorites were hit, including Don’t Stop Believing by Journey and Livin’ on a Prayer by Bon Jovi. Shea and I did L’Arc’s HONEY and 1/3の純情な感情 from SIAM SHADE. The chick from London cut us off during MY HEART DRAWS A DREAM, which was NOT cool, cuz I like that song. But after she left I got to do AJIKAN’S アフターダーク with Talone and ループ＆ループ by myself. I couldn’t even remember all the songs we did, and we were out till close to 4 in the morning. I closed the night with the all-time Japanese classic (which I’m told no Japanese karaoke party should end without): さよなら by オフコース. It was very nice in the end.

That’s all I’ve got for you now folks; I’m gonna go pass out now so that I’m coherent for a little while longer. Expect a full write-up of the L’Arc live tomorrow evening. We’re probably gonna spend the day exploring the Asakusa area on Paul’s suggestion, and maybe hit up Akihabara before the day is through. Rock on minna!