Kyoto Schmoto

So Kyoto was amazing, and everything was sweetness, don't have much to say because like I have said before I'm not much of a writer, but I did take tons of pictures that can speak for themselves. We had a wide variety of activities throughout the weekend including many a shrine, and a monkey park. We stayed at a hostel that had the hardest beds I've ever felt. Anyway here are some pictures.....

Karaoke the first night

The Golden Palace

Monkeyz at Monkey Park

Many Many Gatewaysz

The Greatest Sundae Ever

And Like I said these are only 5 out of about 250, all of which you can see here KYOTO-BUCKET. Also you can check out my facebook if your into all of that stuff.

Relief sux, and Kyoto shoudl save me

So this week I have come to the conclusion that I hate the medium of relief printing, especially when its done by hand. its just so sloppy and inaccurate and dumb. Anyway, I feel weird writing a blog with no pictures to talk about or to show because I'm not very good at writing, but the next week or so should make up for all the shitty school I've had to deal with.

This weekend we are using the 4 day weekend to go to Kyoto. Should be a big change from the busy life of Tokyo, and we get to see shrines and what people call "the real Japan". We have planned tons of stuff to jam into the short 4 day trip, so there will definitely be tons of pictures to be posted later.

After this weekend Nicole is coming to visit which should bring me up aswell. We plan on visiting tons of stuff that I havnt gotten to see yet in Tokyo, ad well as revisiting some of the better places. Again there will hopefully be a ton of great pictures to post.

Theeeen, about a week after Nicole leaves, Ryan will be coming to visit, so again I will be running around checking out all the sites again. Somewhere in there, I have to shoot video for my digital class, print my final book 10 times, and write a paper.... should be tons of fun.

UPDATE: Purchases

Got a nice couple things to my display collection mentioned them below, and here are the pics.

Jabbas palace and characters model

Some new Be@rbricks.

A nice 1/6 model of Lando

2 new editions to my favorite toys PUPPET MASTER

Pinhead Regular version

Six-Shooter Regular Edition

Im so sick of all these star waaarrz

So today I went out on my own in search of toy purchases, I attempted to go found BountyXHunter, but like most cases my map didnt help me at all so I couldn't find it, though i did stumple across Stussy Undefeated and the X-Large stores which were all really nice and had some cool stuff. So after a good walk around in Harajuku I decided to head down to Nakano to find another toy store i read about that was on the 2nd floor of a mall. Last time I tried to find this store we walked around for like an hour and couldnt find it, but now i knew it was in the mall so I headed out. When i got there is discovered quite the site. About half the upstairs was toy stores, and each store had atleast a whole wall dedicated to Star Wars, and we're not talking about like the new episode gayness, Im talkin about mint original episode IV figures in their boxes priced at about 300 a pop. There was also a sick airsoft gun shop, as well as a real gun store, that i think only sold unusable guns, but i have no idea. One store also had a whole collection of Battle Toads and Madballs, Noel would crap himself. Overall I came back with some key purchases, 2 bearbricks, 2 puppet master figures, a Lando 1/6 scale model, and a model set of Jabba's palace and all the figures including non other than Max Rebo and his band. Ohh and last but not least I came away from the whole adventure with a sweet plastic full sized storm trooper mask!

the REAL gun store

the AIRSOFT gun store
looks like something out of a movie

A full scale replica ET

Noel F would crap himself if he saw these



Bringin it back to 92'. a full BATTLE TROLLS collection

Ohh the amazing Star Wars finds I wish I could afford

I wish i took more pictures but I promise I will be back and load up my camera, also pictures of my purchases will be up soon. Also if I had to sum up this mall's 2nd and 3rd floors and give it a new name I would have to say "Nick Poyners Dream Mall"

MY SPECIAL DAY!

The whole gang decided to head out to the Juke for my birthday, but when we quickly realized there wasn't much to do we caught the last train (literally) out of the area and back home and decided to Karaoke all night, well of course I mean AFTER we got some beef and rice, the equivalent to the greatness of a Crunchwrap Supreme back in the states. SO the night started pretty slow, except for MarioKart arcade game, which I didnt even know they had. But by the end was extremely radical and my voice was shot. Best songs of the night for me were Johnny B Good, Smack That, I don't Wanna Know, and of course Happy Birthday, which Jonathan and Hannah were great enough to karaoke for me. We ended the night with Welcome to the Jungle which was quite the moment of greatness for me and Jon, too bad we didn't get video of that.

Me and Jon killin the drums in the Juk

Helping ourselves to some delicious BEEF and RICE with white spout red cap sauce

the BIG ECHOOOOOO

Me and Jon opening the night with a Linkin Park medley

Jon and Hannah doing a Mariah Carey duet (Jon doesn't know as many words as he thought)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

Beryl and Hannah singing GIMME MORE (nice teeff)

Ending the night with a bang, WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE!

CANNABIA!

THE ONLY BEER I DRINK!

A better Blog

I obviously suck at blogging, so if you are looking for what we are doing here and my scarce entries arn't enough then go to Jonathan's blog, its way better. http://thatcanbelearnt.blogspot.com/

THE BUUU!

ULTRAMAN!!!

So last night we went to the Mito Museum in Roppongi Hills to check out the contemporary art exhibit and the Ultraman retrospective. If your not sure who that is hes basically like a Superman of Japan, bigger than Godzilla and from the same creator. anyway there were no pictures allowed in the contemporary exhibit but I was able to get some in the monster section for the ultraman one except it was very dark so a lot of the pictures came out blurry cause the flash wasn't working so well either. Then went to the Tokyo Skyview because the museum was on the 52nd floor of the building so you could see the huge city that is tokyo from quite high up.

Jonathan at the monster exhibit

The Monster that has to eat coins or he dies

A look over the great Tokyo, and the Tokyo Tower

And finally I got a crappy shot of the giant spider at roppongi hills

HERE IN JAPAN

just set up this blog to keep track of all our activities in Japan, and Tokyo more specifically. Today we are going to the museum and should have tons of pictures to load up from that. So far the weather wasn't so amazing so we held off on taking pictures.