It took me a long time to get back on the train. Forgive me, but I gotta get back to some roots here. Making videos of record-loving life became a big distraction and kept me from my first love, which is meeting people with recently purchased records on the streets of Tokyo, chatting them up, and making their photos. The last handful of posts happened so many months ago that I had to gloss over some of the details of our encounters simply for the memories of meeting becoming a bit fuzzy! Still, I did my best, and I’ll continue […]
Tokyo Record Style
Azim and Family
Do you remember the scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail when King Arthur and his Knights reach the mysterious and feared “Bridge of Death”? Some of the knights make safe passage by correctly answering the scary and mean bridgekeeper’s riddles of various difficulty (What is your favorite color?) while some don’t (What is the capital of Assyria?) and are magically thrown into “Gorge of Eternal Peril” When it’s King Athur’s turn to answer the riddle “What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?” King Arthur stumps the bridgekeeper himself by inquiring “Which kind of swallow: African or […]