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Great day

12:40am JST Thursday 23 April 2009 (day 14274)

On the train headed home, but just read emails via my phone so we're already leaving Jiyugaoka.

Great day and evening and night tonight. Worked briefly on wristbands this morning, and sent several emails with a guy named Shaun who is developing and distributing Japanese translations of Zen-Cart. I paid him $15 via PayPal. Turns out he lives in Japan and is interested in buying a poken as well!

Before getting wristbands designed, it was time to leave to meet Bob in Shibuya, where we got some pictures with his friend's Flat Stanley, and then some pictures with U-Cow (but I don't think we got them photographed together).. We met in Motoya and came to the conclusion that we shouldn't be designing wristbands yet; we need more discussion and planning for how to allow the different things we want to allow, and still keep the number of wristbands printed to a reasonable number.

Said bye to him and headed to Daiso to buy some clipboards and A4 plastic covers for Japan Music Week's Pre-Launch Party tonight!

Walked to the location, Le Baron de Paris (or something), on B1F of a building in Minami-Aoyama. Helped with setup by making copies of materials to hand out to peeps and handed them out as peeps arrived, and then chatted with peeps inside and generally had a lovely time.

Took video of Kiko with her video camera; she sang three songs, including my favorite, "Lion Rrroar" which is on _Opening_, the first album I bought from her.

Soness and Bob supported poken sales in the later part of the evening; I'm so so thankful for their help! Soness refused any renumeration before I pay my rent, and I didn't try to give any to Bob, but will when I chill with him this Saturday night.

Met tons of peeps, got tons of cards, got photographed with Tomoko and U-Cow, and then with Tomoko's friend and U-Cow

Met Sublime, a French jazz singer.

Met Laurier who said I looked like a cross between Tom Cruise and some other movie star, and almost bought a poken.

Met Felicia, a promoter-superstar who I had previously met on Facebook. She asked lotsa lotsa questions about what Japan Music Week will do for the promoters, venues and performers. I tried my best to answer the Qs, and we laughed about the way she and two others were sorta surrounding me against the wall, which featured an old-timey picture of a woman being spanked by a bare breasted woman. Felicia took several pictures of me at that picture, for funniness' sake.

Met Jonah, the president of Tokyo International Players, who said he studied shiatsu for 3 years, and did a quick test and told me exactly where in my back I had an issue, and then adjusted my back there. Wow.

Met reggae performer Blackkey and Sidney, his manager, who bought two poken. They were dressed well in pin striped suits and nice ties.