Last night we went out with the boys and tried to have a dangerous time in Kyoto. It wasn't so risquee given that all we did was drink. About 300,000 of the two million people in Kyoto were wearing their best Kimonos last night because of the festival. Pretty awesome sight actually. We ended up going out to a bar and then to the "C-Club" which we never figured out quite what it was because all that happened is that we sat at a table and local women sat next to us and chatted with us. But we don't speak Japanese and they didn't speak english. One of them taught me to count to ten which I promptly forgot.

Today is the festival so I need to run and watch it and then ride the bullet back to Tokyo to catch the baseball game.

The new Tom Robbins book is awesome. It is entirely topical to my life. It starts with an allegory of some Japanese mythical creatures and includes a guy in Bangkok who buys a guitar and plays Leonard Cohen music reminiscent of Robert's experience in Bangkok. Dickey also meets an Elvis impersonator who sings Blue Christmas - reminiscent of Robert and my Elvistmas adventure. It hit more relevant passages that relate to exploits that have happened in my life in the past year but I can't recall them at the moment. I'm in a parralell universe to Tom Robbins or the guy is following me around. There is a great passage about how Dickie decides to drop out of dream school - which basically is about how it sucks to be in school when you are dreaming because you always forgot to study for a test, need more requirements to graduate, etc. Dickie in one dream finally drops out of that school in his dreams so he can live a more free life.