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Day 6 / 2024.S7.E6 - In another season… (別な季節に) Maruyama Park (円山公園) was a beautiful respite last year…right before the tourist chaos of Kiyomizu Temple (清水寺) with its winding, uneven walkways and shops from end to end. As lovely as the park was, seeing the red colors juxtaposed against the...

Thanks! I'll try to match up some photos to the theme as best I can! Cheers, or I should say Kampai!!!

Day 5 / 2024.S7.E5 - Simplicity (単純) Japanese art often focuses on minimalism…preventing the background distracting from the subject as much as possible. Sometimes a simple subject is all that is necessary to convey a message. Play a record that gives you cause for you to think over the course...

Day 4 / 2024.S7.E4 - Why are there so many like this? (どうしてこんな物が多くあるん？) In Yokohama, the Cup Noodles Museum is a popular tourist attraction for its cheap entrance fee and, of course, the ability to customize your own instant cup noodles! Very popular with families, and I made sure to have one...

Day 3 / 2024.S7.E3 - Childhood Memories (子供時代の思い出) Stopping into a Studio Ghibli store is a common tourist spending drain…especially with the rapid depreciation of the JPY 💴 ➡️ USD 💵 . Everything from pot holders, tees, stuffed animals, enamel pins, mugs, you name it. There’s are a bevy of...

Day 2 / 2024.S7.E2 - A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity (一期一会) Being in Kenrokuen (兼六園) was unlike any other outdoor space I have set foot in, nothing compared to its sheer scope, beauty, and tranquility (when there were spaces free of talkative tourists). It seemed that no matter where you were...

Feel free to ask any questions. It has been over 20 years since I was there though. Otsukaresamadeshita!

This month's challenge is really up my alley. Many years ago, I lived in Japan for almost 2 years, and have fond memories. I really hope to get back there someday soon! I also have a LOT of photos, pre-digital, that I need to get sorted someday. Perhaps this thread will inspire me to do...

Milk Crate w/ records Post 2008 Hip Hop Oppotumus Brown, not brown radioactive Cozumel, Mexico I have no idea how any clues would line up, but here's my incorrect guess... Imagine Dragons - Night Visions

I like having the most recent months pinned to the top of the vinyl club page, they're easier to find. Maybe having previous year's in a sub-section might be good.

I really wish there was an easier way to copy/paste the details of one submission to another. I have this one: https://www.discogs.com/release/15301451-Lido-Pimienta-Miss-Colombia and most all the details are the same except the runouts and barcode of this one...

This arrived today! Very nice pick! For the drink pairing, I chose an espresso martini with cocoa powder and coffee bean garnish. Some of my favorite coffee blends and roasts are from Colombia and Latin America. Cocoa is also from the americas. So the drink ties it together nicely. For the...

I don't have an iMac. This is the best I am willing to do using Excel... I had to make a minimum of 3, otherwise it would just be chaos.

Nice. I will hopefully check that out one of these days!

Fortunately most everyone in the audience was attentive, and more than a few I saw digging it and bobbing their heads to the music. Bill Nace didn't seem fazed or care all that much about the crowd as he kept his eyes shut the majority of his performance. That's cool! Is that at Kaiju? I've...

I am curious about this. As an artist of the avant-garde experimental music, what kind of reaction from the audience does the performer expect? Last night's crowd seemed acceptive, but also kinda bored? I remember seeing a similar act as an opener for Sleep, the Weather Warlock. They were...

That'd be me. I am already deaf, that's how.

Agreed. Did you catch the opener Bill Nace? Not sure I am enough of an audiophile to understand what he was doing, but damn my ears! 5 minutes of him punching just one button had me thinking of reaching for the power plug. lol Kim Gordon was great. Her band looked like they were teenagers...

Latin American pop? Something by Shakira, perhaps?

I cheated a bit to remember , but got most of the others.