sinned
July 30, 2004
Well this truly was a great day. After a pretty busy day at work I met up with one of the few people (unused for sexual purposes) that I’d bring with me to a deserted island: Dennis.
As many of you know, he’s touring Japan with his band sinned and his band Abuse and another band. Even though I won’t be seeing him much during his short stay in Japan (Osaka and Tokyo), I saw him much of the afternoon and evening and it was truly awesome.
It all started with a big giant walk from Tower Records in Namba to Tower Records in Amemura because Dennis conned me into thinking he was there. Then we walked around Shinsaibashi and headed over to Den Den Town for a bit. We then went back to my place for a pit stop and had some cheap sushi at the place near my apartment. The night was still young so we went to Umeda but realized there’s nothing to see but people (… pretty pretty people some of them) so we went back to his hotel.
I got to meet a few of his bandmates and let me say they’re weird in a party dude way. Dennis put it best after the meeting – the whole 10 minutes was basically, “Nice to meet you Jerry, here’s a picture of drunk dude #1′s naked naked body.” I wish I was exaggerating. I appreciated the no frills, direct honesty with people but I’d hate to bunk with them for more than 15 minutes. (Enjoy your trip, Dennis).
We’d end our night in a local bar in the area. I’d had half a beer and Dennis finished his and mine. I hate beer. It was really good seeing a good friend again even though I’d only seen him a couple weeks ago.
The biggest treat of all: Dennis gave me a sinned T-shirt and a sinned CD! Actually no… the biggest treat was that I am thanked with my full, legal name in the CD booklet. Never in my little dreams had I imagined my name being printed on a CD booklet. Truly I was honored and will show this to every person in the world. Although I’m not a huge fan of Grind Metal (or is it Death Metal??), I believe people should do what they love and follow dreams. I’ll throw down my support for Dennis forever and with respect very few have earned.
Tomorrow I’ll be finally seeing him play live. I’m going to think in a little corner of my mind that in my very young days, had I stuck to the whole music thing and somehow ended up liking this genre of music more, it might have been me thanking someone else! Nah, I’ll leave the whole rockstarring to Dennis.
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