Me Sansuichi

This was my 31st birthday. I awoke after a weird dream in which my birthday was actually going to be April 6 this year because of the 12 hr time difference from home. Odd.

Having not been out late the night before we were able to get up early today and hang out with Daragh. We also took stock of some of our purchases as we planned to visit at least another record store today. Deciding that yummy curry was a great option for birthday food we headed to Nataraj buffet in Kichijoji. As much as I love the organic Japanese resto around the corner this was an awesome choice. Also listening to Daragh's concept for a metal band based around the theme of teaching ESL was way entertaining.



We then went on the hunt for Irregular Rhythm Asylum. It is an anarchist store somewhere in the midst of the maze of Shinjuku streets. There is no way we would have found this without Daragh. They were super nice and bought some 7" from us. We bought some CDs, patches and buttons. I wavered and eventually passed on the purchase of a cool shirt, however Craig was nice enough to get it thru Daragh and surprise me at Christmas. Whatta guy. Anyway check em out at: Irregular Rhythm Asylum Site They rock!



After this we split up with Daragh and hung around Nakano Broadway Mall which is a great place to check out socks and toys. I bought some of both for me and friends. They also have a 3 story 100 yen store. Craig tried to show off his Lip Cream record to some idiot in the Mall who was too dumb to be impressed.

After we grabbed a snack and headed back to Daragh's as we had dinner plans with he and Yuki. We went to the best noodle place ever called Misoichi. We managed to get seats after a bit of a wait - it is a small place just outide Nakano Broadway Mall. It is an auto soup joint, in that you order the soup and beer from a ticket vending machine and pass that to the cook. We had a disasterous encounter with one of these places our first trip when we ventured out alone, but Yuki ordered us a great big spicy bowl of soup full of fresh noodles and veggies. Though we ordered a step down from the hottest it was still very spicy. Copious amounts of fresh garlic made it absolutely yummy.



As per usual we got beer and a green tea and red bean manju on the way home.

This was the best birthday ever.