Tokyo Day 21 June 9 2008

Day 21 began with a morning trip to tsukiji, the famed old School Tokyo Fish Market for fresh sushi 9:30 am. After all the traffic to get to the far east side of tokyo, we arrived at what looked to me like a fish harbor port from films of yesteryor and deep asia. It was vendors and stores all right next to each other all bunched up with sushi restaurants and some noodle shops. It's flavor was a working port, local fish mongers, tourist commodities, dried market goods, stuffed animals, jars and platewear and hardware. The streets were all alley like and some streets were in between building through ways. It felt old and familiar and ancient and medievel. Maybe too many similes but really felt just like that. We went into a throughway within a through way to a sushi counter inside a fish market alleyway. There was a live upside down sea snail that looked like ... a puckered up snail sucker moving and looking like trying to escape. The fish dish was tasty and the snail was actually quite hypnotically inviting, grotesque and brilliant like an orchid. I had the opportunity to eat a giant oyster that took about four bites, not dainty bites, mind you. Big chompers. It was thick and bursting with sea water and gritty like sand and felt sweaty and really really wet. ~WET. Do you know what I mean?
After breakfast, it was time to clean up and pack up to get ready for my flight the next day. Packed up the things I needed and put away the things that were fragile deep in my clothes and all the books and such to surround the fragile. After some time, I coordinated with Hitotzuki Clan and paid my visit to see the new hitotzuki. A beautiful three month looking one month boy named Kai Sei. Beautiful. Of course he is going to be amazing like mom and dad. Much Blessings! The plan for the evening was a skate session at the secret Burton Bowl in deep Shibuya Tokyo. Before that, the digital photo documenting of the art show, '!!NEXT!!'. The bowl riders represented some sick line up of ill tokyo Skaters, Royal Hawaiian and Legendary Illuminaries and current Rippers. I was thoroughly getting a lesson in bowl riding. There couldn't be a more ill session before leaving Japan back to Brooklyn, inspired. Big Up to Ishihara, the legendary, Wataru, the Royal Hawaiian, RIP, the tokyo KiLLER, Kami, Hitotzuki, Takashi, Burton, Billy, Lui Araki, Tokyo and all the ill skaters who sessioned, DJ KOGEE, Kumetani Satoshi, BIG UP!!!! Of course, in classic tokyo send off style, the party rolled over to shibuya curry and Aoyama Dance night Classics a la, Le Baron. There before me on the one and twos is the time zone traveled dj , DJ ALEX from Tokyo, who I just ran into in Rivington Hotel in New York, a week before arriving in Tokyo! As well as DJ SHINSKATETHING! WHAaaatttT?! He has always looked out for me since day one, 1991. Thank YOu SHIN!!! ALWAYS!!!! What the hell?! Day 21 looks like a wrap.