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light with Pushpa

10:27am JST Saturday 30 January 2010 (day 14556)

Last night Pushpa and I met at the moai in Shibuya, then Yamanote Line + Chuo Line to Koenji where we watched a dance/performance called "LIGHT, Part 32" with supertitle _Kei Takei's Moving Earth Orient Sphere_, as part of the ongoing project _Kei Takei LIGHT Series 1969 - 2009_.

Overall, I enjoyed it, but at most points in the show, when trying to summarize it to anyone who might ask, "how was the show?" I thought, "I hated it." Slow, agonizingly slow, dark, pitch black, weird lighting, weird sounds, boring, itchy, pointless and cool are all words that come to mind. Thoughout the whole show it was either "nothing's happening" or "what's the point of that?" but at the end, well, something had apparently happened, though neither Pushpa nor I could say what. Neither could Petya who happened to be there as well.

There were two old guys in the audience who were applauded after the show, so we went to greet the one seated near us. We chatted a bit, and then he invited us to join him for a tasty beverage in the restaurant upstairs. Though we were sorta at the end of the conversation, we accepted and went upstairs. He's Akio Hayashi, and his name is in the program (with a lot of Japanese text after it) though I don't know in exactly what he did for this show. He intends to attend all the performances (four total: two today (Saturday) and one tomorrow), and told us a bit about the collaboration between him and another director type, with different artist background. I'm not sure if that was part of this project, or *is* this project, but if it *is*, then why is his name in the *middle* of other names and not at one end, or at least offset somehow?

Drinks ordered: beer for Akio, chai for me, and carbonated mineral water for Pushpa.

On the way out, we saw Laz, our connection to the performance. Pushpa had emailed to congratulate him, but he replied that he was awful. Well, *I* thought it was awful too, but didn't *notice anything Laz could have done to fix it.

On our way home, Pushpa and I agreed that it may be interesting to see some of the other performances in the series. Maybe. On the back of the program I see our chances will be in May, (LIGHT Part 7) and August (LIGHT Part 27).

soness and CSers

11:10am JST Saturday 30 January 2010 (day 14556)

Though Soness had said she had a lot to do last night, she also had three couchsurfers over, and was chatting with them when she got home. They were Bronwyn from SA/NZ and Steph/ven from NZ(?), and Thomas from somewhere.