TATSUYA FUJIWARA

[partypaprika]

bitofpixiedust :
what was the play about??
partypaprika :
oh i didn't tell you?
partypaprika :
so it was in japanese, had nudity
partypaprika :
AND MY FAVORITE PLOT DEVICE!
bitofpixiedust :
oooh what's that?
partypaprika :
*prods*
bitofpixiedust :
ummm
bitofpixiedust :
rainbows! arashi!
bitofpixiedust :
i give up!
partypaprika :
CLOSE
partypaprika :
VERY CLOSE
partypaprika :
INCEST
partypaprika :
: D : D

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School has finally gotten into it's full swing. And with the full swing comes a bat in my face. Physics lab is totally going to kick my butt semester. I'm not looking forward to those lab reports at all.

But! on the bright side, the last three days have been really fun. My weekend kind of started Thursday night on the shuttle ride back from where I go to study. I was in the middle of responding to a text message from bitofpixiedust  when I realized that the two girls next to me were speaking Japanese. I immediately stopped writing my text message and started shamelessly eavesdropping on these girls. As they keep talking, I send a text message to Lindsay and ask her if it would be appropriate to lean over and say "sumimasen, arashi?" to the girls.

Lindsay, always one to encourage my irrationality, sends back YES OF COURSE DO IT DO IT. So I lean over and excuse myself to the girls and ask if they're speaking Japanese. They both respond that they are, so I bite the bullet and ask what kind of music they like. The first girl looks at me uncertainly and says "Well....I don't listen to that much American music." I kind of got all flustered and was like, "Oh, I listen to a bit of Japanese music, what kinds of Japanese music do you like?"

When she said J-pop....I knew I was as good as gold. Apparently she likes Utada Hikaru and then she asks me who I liked. I didn't want to appear crazy right away, so I told them I liked Ken Hirai. They both nodded and approved so then I went in for the kill and said Arashi. Immediately the first girl is like "OH REALLY? SHE LOVES ARASHI!" and motioned to the girl sitting next to her.

We then proceeded to talk about music and Japanese at school and all this fun stuff. They also live right near me, so maybe we'll meet up later, which makes me incredibly excited.

Friday was also pretty amazing. I did a quick alcohol run with my friend and got some wine and vodka. (I'm totally a vodka girl.) I'd apparently decided that I was going to get all of my social obligations for the semester done in one evening so I saw Brighton Beach Memoirs with two friends. Then went to a party for my peer mentoring group and then went from being half way smashed to all the way there at the apartment of my two good friends.

For the peer mentoring party---I completely expected it to be lame. I mean, how much can peer mentors really party? Trust me, they party extremely well. By the time I left, they'd gotten me to dance and do three shots. I even stayed an hour later than I'd planned to, just because I was having such a great time. Although there was a kind of weird coincidence. So one of the new peer mentors and I were talking about dating socially awkward people and I mentioned this one guy I had dated freshman year.

I was telling her how I thought that he was quiet and mysterious, but it ended up just meaning he was socially awkward and liked talking about his ex-girlfriend. No sooner had I said this than the new peer mentor asked me what was this guy's name. I was reluctant to say his name because he was a pretty nice guy and I was fairly certain that two of the people listening to the conversation might have known him. A shot later she finally gets it out of me and as soon as I say his first name, the girl is like "I DATED HIM TOO. HE ALSO TALKED ABOUT HIS EX!" And the two people who do kind of know him are laughing hysterically. Small world.

Then I was off to my friends' apartment with my bottle of vodka to hang with them. I thought they were in apartment 304, so I started knocking on the door. After about three minutes of knocking, I start calling the first friend, who doesn't pick up. Then I try my other friend. He picks up and I tell him that I've been knocking for ages--can he please open the door. Then I hear a door opening up on the other side of the hall. Apparently my friends live in 307.

After I get my friends pretty inebriated and start trying to sleep in their beds, they decide to walk me home. As soon as I get into my apartment, I make a beeline for the kitchen to get some water and toast. I stick the bread in the oven and promptly pass out on the couch.

Imagine my surprise this morning when I was in the kitchen searching for my keys and id card to find the oven on. I opened up the door to find a completely burnt piece of toast. Completely charred. : D I'm sure there's a moral in here somewhere.

Now today was the icing on the cake....I went to the Kennedy center for the Japan Culture Festival to see Shintoku-Maru with Tatsuya Fujiwara! IT WAS SO EXCITING!

The play itself was actually amazing, despite my misgivings about a play centered around incest. I also happened to notice that there was a warning for nudity about an hour prior to the play starting. My friend and I made this pact that we wouldn't laugh during the play, even though we knew there was pretty much no chance of us acting like mature adults. Right in the beginning of the play, there was some semi-nudity of a woman, which we both hoped was the only nudity. However, twenty minutes into the play, Tatsuya Fujiwara pulls out a basin for taking a bath and we both turned to each other. After both the shirt and the pants came off, we were both hoping that he'd take a bath wearing his boxers. This was not the case and so I spent the next five minutes laughing into my program while my friend made snorting noises into my shoulder.

Aside from that, we really enjoyed the play. The premise was a little bit weird--a son both loves and hates his stepmother, she curses him, then they are reunited after he beats her son, and he asks her to consummate their love so she can give birth to him. But, the acting was phenomenal and Tatsuya Fujiwara was adorable. My friend, who's never seen anything Japanese entertainment related in her life, was gushing about how cute he was during the bows. The visual aspects of the show--the set and costume design--were fabulous. I don't think I've ever been so impressed with a set before.

The day didn't end quite so perfectly because the idiotic glenmont red line made me miss my train so I had to take a cab back to Baltimore. And my phone had died in the morning X D But, it was totally worth it. And I got the cutest shirt at the exhibit! So all in all--success.

Ugh. This is so long DDD : Sorry for inflicting my boring upon you! And I'm so sorry that i've been the worst person on your flist. I will be checking entries tomorrow and trying to catch up. I LOVE YOU ALL!

note: I in no way condone incest. I am actually, sadly not a fan of the incest drama. Autumn in my heart? No thank you.