Cap Lori

Friday, January 8, 2010

Welcome 2010

Miyuki pays her respects at a temple in Asahikawa

Windy eyes-half-open Tennessee in front of an Asahikawa temple

Leo wants in

December Japan Tour 2009

Kaz get's drunk in Tokyo and climbs up a telephone poll, risking the life of himself and his dearly loved "Rascal Hat"

Scary Demon Dog spotted in Tokyo on Christmas

Kaz eating CupNoodle

Kaz poses with his Rascal hat

The lovely Shenandoah Davis arrives in Japan

Christmas group photo after playing our show. My cheeks are pretty red from all the Christmas wine...

Tomo played 'Linda Linda Linda' during his set (Mari and I were his uninvited back up singers) and we closed the night with all of us singing "After Hours". Oh so sweet...

Christmas Kaz

Mari chan poses for a photo!

Some people from Australia came to our Christmas show and I had a hard time making small talk in English.

Kaz sound checking with new gold guitar in Chichibu.

Let Them Eat Cake!

Kaori chan

Shenandoah outside our hosts house in Chichibu.

Kaz and his Ice Cream

Me and my yogurt with bean paste, grapefruit, and whip cream!

We met the beautiful Mari chan for Korean food on Sunday before playing our last show of the tour.

CupNoodle

Back in Hokkaido

Kazutaka And Tennessee Rose's Lazy October And November

Kaz taking his very first bubble bath. He seemed quite perturbed by it...

He announced after the bath that he would like to take another one sometime. Success!

Arm drawing during our new band QUILTS first (and only successful) band practice. It was an epic night with four beautiful songs written on the spot.

Kaz being pretty

Miyuki's birthday party at the Nomura families favorite restaurant, Olive.

てんちゃんのねこじた (Ten chan's cat tongue)

Kaz and the beautiful red Mustang

Self portrait with Kaz's glasses and jacket

Kaz checks out his tongue in a handmirror

Toothpick beard

Asahikawa's first snowfall

Friday, October 9, 2009

Dringe Augh played with us in Matsumoto and invited us to Korea to play a show! The whole trip was only two days (one whole day and two half days) but it was really great to explore Korea and the show was one of the best this tour.

Drunk and happy after our show.

This is the most popular playground in the city according to Dringe. You'd think they'd clean it up a bit for the kids...

I don't usually like beer, but Korean beer was really good and refreshing tasting. And cheap!

Dringe Augh

These things actually work and you can win toys and stuff out of them. They were always tucked in the weirdest alleys and usually by a pile of trash bags...

The owner of the venue letting us in. I liked the colors...

Kaz checking himself out in a tiny spoon.

Kaz and I passed this teddy bear three times. The first time he was laying down in the back of the trash pile looking drunk, the second time he was propped up a bit as though he was recovering, and by the time the our show had ended someone had brought him out of the alley and had sat him nicely in front of the trash.

Chicken.

Love,
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September Japan Tour 2009

Kaz before our first show in Sapporo. After the show everyone pulled up tables and chairs and we all drank. I was given several rums and some beer on top of the sake I had smuggled in earlier in a water bottle (I love that sake looks like water). Kaz wrapped a towel around his throat 'cause we both had soar throats that night...

Kaz's high school friend

Another one of Kaz's high school friends and a girl whose little brother went to school with Kaz. Everyone moved to Sapporo...

One of the guys who gave me rum...

Yanagawa san set up a great show in Tokyo and Kaz and him showed up with matching shirts!

Sound check...

Kazutaka Nomura

Mari and Yanagawa

Tokyo neko #1

Tokyo neko #2 (I could waist a whole roll of film on stray cats in Tokyo. They're everywhere!)

I think purple was the color of the tour... Everyone was wearing it.

Koware Kake No Tape Recorders sound check. (Purple)

Dennis and Yu chan (Purple)

Mari, Kadotchi, Yu, and Dennis. (Purple)

Door guy Kaz.

Bar

Joe kun

Matsumoto show was really fun! This band was the highlight of my evening for sure. It was their last live for awhile because they are pregnant and due in November. They played really well!

Dancing with cat toy.

We signed the wall of the venue before leaving

Chifumi set up the Matsumoto show and let us stay with her. She lives with her parents in an apartment over their sushi restaurant. They fed us so much delicious sushi and for breakfast they made curry.