saturday: went to watch Life Aquatic with purpleman. it was so much funnier than i'd expected, maybe even better than the royal tenenbaums. it's been a good film week.
at night we went to altoto in shimokitazawa, where "dj jona" was spinning. a mix of breakbeats, jazz, and cutsey bossa playing in a comfy little bar... what a cool event! and we saw one very energetic girl jumping on a dance floor. purpleman said "yeh, there's always one jumping girl on any dance floor" but she was extraordinary --it looked like she was on a trampoline and it went on for the whole 3 hours that we were there! our friend double-D was totally entranced, and i decided we should leave before purpleman fell under her spell too.
sunday: great food stalls at the annual thai festival at yoyogi park, but the crowd was a bit too much, so we left after getting some green curry and basil-chicken from one of the food stalls.
we couldn't get into cafe apres-midi, which was once my favorite cafe in all of tokyo. it was always quite popular, so i wasn't surprised that it was full, but when i took a look inside it felt very different from the way it did a few years back. more lively, less saudade. i commented that the customers were now much younger than the old crowd, and purpleman replied: "isn't it just that you've grown older?" ahhh, hadn't thought of that!
i don't mind doing different things and hanging out at different places now that i'm older. but i want to think that it means we have more options, more places to go and things to enjoy, not less.
