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I Heart Tokyo: Day 3

April 22nd, 2008

The front window at Free’s Shop.

Our tenets (this almost made me cry).

So did this. Flowers from the magazines.

This is Ali pretending to be a young Japanese girl (which isn’t a terribly rare occurrence).

I was interviewed and photographed for Nylon Japan. There are other photos but they made me wear a hot pink skirt so it is my sincere hope you are all too cheap to buy a foreign magazine.

Also interviewed by WWD Japan. No big deal. Notice that I am about four feet taller than the super cute journalist. I think the word that comes to mind is “hulking.”

For my last night, the wonderful Free’s crew took me to a restaurant called Ninja which I’m sure is a complete tourist spectacle that they would never be caught dead in otherwise. Thanks guys! This is our server, Ninja Linda.

This is breaded steak. Shaped like fish. I love Japanese people.

I’m not sure what we’re doing with our hands here.

We probably won’t Linda, but you are too adorable.

Then: Karaoke! Let it be known that I absolutely love karaoke. I think there is some inverse correlation between the quality of one’s singing voice and his or her appreciation of karaoke. In that vein, I sound something like a dying cat when I sing but that never stops me from ordering up Heart’s “These Dreams” and having a moment. What can I say? Every second of the night I live another life.