A Night Out in Osaka

Hey Everybody!

I've come to the conclusion that I don't blog enough... and well, this is an attempt to stop that. Last night I went out with Marcus. What started as a solid two-man crew turned into an all-night awesome-fest.

We started out by going to a great little bar in Amera-mura called Scorpion. It can fit about 20 people max, so it's not the best place to go to meet a whole bunch of people. Regardless, it's a great place to start out a night. The drinks are overpriced, but they have a computer set up so you can choose your own music. So after some debate over what song we should listen to first (which turned out to be a classic tune from the Beatles), we tossed back some Gin & Tonics, made a great playlist for our time there and had a great two-and-a-half hour "otaku" (Japanese nerd) conversation. Naturally, it revolved around vinyl records, great headphones, Gundam, anime and other quality topics that we can only talk about with each other (he's my nerd fix and it sadly keeps me from going insane).

After a few drinks and some card tricks by the bartender, we decided to hit up Kanon, a great little rock club that has indie nights on Thursdays. Marcus knew a J-Girl there and he wanted to meet up with her. After getting in and witnessing some mild (yet hilarious) harassment by a Japanese guy, we hit up the bar, grabbed our poison of choice, and let the good times roll. There were a bunch of teachers there (some we knew and some we had no idea who they were) so we mingled and Marcus found his J-Girl.

As you guys probably know, my dancing skills are pretty bloody disastrous. However, I didn't let this stop me--I was out on the dance floor shakin' my tush, pumpin' my fists, and bobbin' my head like I always do after a few sodas. Now, I must say my favourite thing about Japan is that bars don't close, which means there's no last call and it's never too late to go out and have a good time. Marcus, J-Girl, her friends, teacher friends, everyone (except for the Crunk harasser, who just watched), and I had a mad dance-sesh until about 4 a.m., when we realized that we were pretty tired of dancing. And as they say, "we don't wanna go home, but we don't wanna stay here," so we made the best decision of the night: early morning karaoke!

Luckily, an Eggman Karaoke was right next door, so in we went, grabbed a room big enough for the eight of us, got some drinks and sang like there was no tomorrow (or today?). I'm not gonna lie to you, Journey's "Don't Stop Believin' " may be a great karaoke song to start the night out, but there's no better way to finish a night! Of course some lovely Dolly Parton, Beatles, and the Ghostbusters theme song doesn't hinder it either!

Before I knew it, it was 7 a.m. and the sun was peakin' out of the horizon so, we decided to call it a night. I biked back to my warm bed and thus ended a great night out in Osaka.

I hope that everything is going great back home and we miss you all!

Cheers,
Scott & Jo