deb saw this guy in kobe. he rules. check it out!

Osaka Rocks! Having a great time. Here’s a video of the best festival I’ve ever been to. Bakuto Osucka - Osaka Underground Music Festival. Amazing bands, amazing place. Check it!

Deb nearly gets stuck in Buddha’s nostril, plus i had to eat this filth called nattou. Enjoy!

Deb’s found another crazy love hotel room, you’ve gotta check it out!

deb and karen visit a very stylish op shop change room. fashion parade ensues.

yes, we went. deb made a movie about it too!

our friend kylie came to visit. she’s shonen knife’s number one fan.
this is what happened when we followed her as she went to find them…

well, it’s official.
the coolest place in osaka is bears.

its a tiny little basement venue, dirty, scungy and underground in every sense of the word. its been around for 21 years, and they host all manner of musical nastiness. we went to noise may day, a yearly gathering of ‘musical’ weirdos. i’m pretty sure there were more distortion pedals than people in the crowd (and the place was full!). check the video, masonna is a madman, solmania have the coolest modified guitars ever (even better than simmo’s egg guitar) and jojo hiroshige bought out some born-again-christian-looking lady that proceded to produce the most ear piercing shreiks i’ve ever heard. ouch!