Print Story Drunken Diary Entry
Diary
By R343L (Tue Nov 15, 2005 at 04:32:37 AM EST) (all tags)
So, I just went to the Warrior Celt pub in tokyo (linky).


I meant to just pickup some dinner and then go home. But all the stores in ameyoko were closed and/or closing down. So, I thought, hey why don't I go to that pub around here. Well, the Warrior Celt (Taito-ku, Ueno, 6 chome, 9-22) is quite a nice pub. I met some nice guys there (a Canadian and several Brits of various flavors), there was an awesome singing group (blues and various American music but sung by Japanese).

Plus, I am soooo drunk. I haven't been drunk since I came to Japan. I mean, how do you get drunk on little half-pint size non-dark beers? Huh? I mean really! Well, I just had four, count them, 4!!! Guiness (not the best stout in the world, but when that is the only stout....).  I mean, I'm pissed (the brits have rubbed off on me). Plus, I might get an email for a conversation partner (to learn japanese and teach english). Best 4400 yen I've ever spent.

Nice parts about this bar:
  * everyone was friendly. The brits, the canadian, the japanese.
  * there was guinness (at 900-en aka $8 a pint, but still...)
  * the music was great
  * I have somewhere to take my husband on friday  (he's coming here on thursday! yay!)
  * I was tempted to smoke (only happens in social situations where I'm drunk and having a good time. I have not actually ever personally smoked).
  * my seafood pizza was strange but well, tasty.
  * the japanese guy that insisted on talking to me AFTER I was waaaaay intoxicated and the group was playing so I couldn't hear a damn thing he said. The brit next to me agreed that an essential social skill in Japan is to nod one's head and smile and/or laugh.
  * The walk home. I was exhilirated. Plus, I felt completely safe. Can't say that about the US.

So, all and all a good night. Better than working. (I had planned to pick up dinner, go home and work. That is insane in retrospect.)

So good night it was. Best in a while. Japan is very certainly a cosmopolitan place.

I am, by the way, still waaaay intoxicated. It is very hard to type.

I love beer. (But I love my husband more -- he makes beer.)

That is all.

Rachael

< RIP | BBC White season: 'Rivers of Blood' >
Drunken Diary Entry | 11 comments (11 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback
You are in Japan... by atreides (2.00 / 0) #1 Tue Nov 15, 2005 at 04:35:25 AM EST
I don't suppose if I sent you money you could hunt a few albums down for me, could you?

What happens in Canada stays in Canada. -Millman




I could *try* to hunt down some albums for you by R343L (2.00 / 0) #2 Tue Nov 15, 2005 at 04:46:39 AM EST
I'm not so sure how good I would be at it (that is, I don't know where to go, but then, how hard could it be?).

But, I have to warn you, I will not be back in the US for at least a month. So, unless you wanted to deal with the intl shipping, I wouldn't be a lot of help (you might as well use amazon.co.jp). However, if you tell me soon, I would probably be able to convince the aforementioned hubby to carry them back to the US (assuming we found them...)

Rachael

"There will be time, there will be time / To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet." -- Eliot
[ Parent ]

Ship 'em!!! by atreides (2.00 / 0) #3 Tue Nov 15, 2005 at 05:33:01 AM EST
I've got no problem with that. The band is fairly well known in Japan (Gontiti). I have a bunch of their albums but they have a bunch that I either can't get over the Intarweb or can't have ordered. XO should be easy. The older ones? I don't know.

Is the listed email right? If so, I'll send more specific info...

P.S. Thanks.

What happens in Canada stays in Canada. -Millman


[ Parent ]

email is correct by R343L (2.00 / 0) #6 Tue Nov 15, 2005 at 06:03:01 AM EST
Well, hopefully the perl part is too.

And hey, everyone else gets to do random favors for random internets fellows, so why not me? Hmm, why should I be left out?

Okay, obviously waaaaay too intoxicated...

Rachael

(although at this point I'm sure I'm using it as an excuse to be silly.)

"There will be time, there will be time / To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet." -- Eliot
[ Parent ]

A 6 foot drunken woman walking through Toyko? by Rogerborg (4.00 / 1) #4 Tue Nov 15, 2005 at 05:36:04 AM EST
I'm pretty sure we'd have heard about that on the news, what with the inevitable trail of destruction and all.

-
Metus amatores matrum compescit, non clementia.


well... by R343L (2.00 / 0) #5 Tue Nov 15, 2005 at 06:01:22 AM EST
I was a smiling drunken, 6-foot woman. Perhaps the happiness makes me look polite and thus not worthy of notice?

;)

Rachael

"There will be time, there will be time / To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet." -- Eliot
[ Parent ]

Japanese .... by Tonatiuh (2.00 / 0) #7 Tue Nov 15, 2005 at 10:59:04 AM EST
... and other Asian people are less tolerant to alcohol than other peoples.

Europeans, native Americans and others built tolerance for alcohol for millenia: it was the best source of safe drinking water.

In places like Japan and China that source was tea. Just check it, it is hilariously easy to get a Chinese or Japanese person drunk :-D



*makes notes* by pinkcress (2.00 / 0) #8 Tue Nov 15, 2005 at 12:18:03 PM EST


--

[ Parent ]

perhaps by R343L (2.00 / 0) #9 Tue Nov 15, 2005 at 02:19:33 PM EST
I'm never sure I ever bought that stereotype. Sake (I mean nihonshu, oh whatever) is fairly alcoholic and has been drunk a long time (you should see some of the single-person servings of sake I've come across). But whatever the reason, most place's beers are too small. :)

Rachael

"There will be time, there will be time / To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet." -- Eliot
[ Parent ]

Quick Suntory question by LinDze (2.00 / 0) #10 Tue Nov 15, 2005 at 02:55:46 PM EST
Is Suntorys Yamazaki (single malt whisky) available? Or is it mainly an export product? Id love to find some of their special editions or 18 year old, but havnt found it online/in the US.

-Lin Dze
Arbeit Macht Frei
[ Parent ]

I have no idea by R343L (2.00 / 0) #11 Wed Nov 16, 2005 at 01:39:53 AM EST
I know I bought some kind of Suntory for my husband last time I was here, but I would be hard-pressed to remember that right now. However, next time I'm in the sakaya, I'll look. ;)

Rachael

"There will be time, there will be time / To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet." -- Eliot
[ Parent ]

Drunken Diary Entry | 11 comments (11 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback