Day Three: Harajuku

there was some type of tour going on there for some musical artist or tv personality or something. im not sure, but all i know is that there were traffic law violations and pushing and shoving all the way from here to cape canaveral.

this is harajuku



and this is even more harajuku

this cat made the observation that the shirt i was wearing actually had two hearts on it. he kept touching my chest.

the eki (train) was too small for the number of people going in and out of that place, and as it is the eki that falls between shibuya and shinjuku, i would have expected it to be bigger-- but it wasnt.


no matter. harajuku is where the neokids come out on sundays to showcase fashion, style and talent. it was like a street freakshow. you have people dressing like goths, ravers, new wavers, all kinds of stuff, but my favorite of all that day was this guy.


and i of course liked him so much that i got some pictures with him.


and there were lots of more wacky people. not to say that anyone there was brain damaged or otherwise mentally ill, but theyre just ballsy to do what they do, and in the city on the absolute cutting edge of fashion, this road is their catwalk.

so i got pretty mad cause for some reason some "just-dressed-in-a-cowboy-outfit guy" was guarding all the super weird looking neokids. maybe MY camera wasnt big enough or something? i couldnt understand it at all, but there were flashbulbs everywhere and people taking hundreds of pictures of these kids.

i eventually found myself at the center of the photography when i took out my guitar and
started to play. it was great to become another one of the freaks of harajuku.

about this time was when people started taking plenty of pictures-- and im not gonna lie-- it was pretty sweet! i let the pink man strum the guitar while i fingered the chords on the fretboard and sang, and boy the folks sure did like that.

i made friends with a legit israeli guy and some other neat japanese kids there. they all signed my guitar before i left and the pink man even stole one of my pics and ran away with it.

he apologized later and asked me to autograph it for him.

some pictures i promised some folks i would post...

more havoc to come