tales of a random friday night in shib

this story (stolen directly from tam's blog - i'm lazy this morning) describes some random friday night craziness in my little city. tam and laura came over on the ferry and headed to shib. i met them at an izakaya after my school nomikai. we were heading home, when...

"...we stumbled upon a little basement party filled with zombified hippies. As soon as we walked into the bar however, everyone seemed to perk up in curiosity and we were greeted with a chorus of "harro!"s. We hit the tiny dance floor and nearly screamed with joy when we heard the opening riffs of a familiar song (New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle). We sang at the top of our lungs and gave all the patrons of the bar an enthusiastic show. Our piece de resistance, however, was when the Super Mario Theme song came onto the loud speakers, flooding us with nostalgic memories of childhood past. We gave this song everything that we had, roboting at the "under the pipes" section, miming a growing mushroom and doing the fast running man in the sped-up section. The whole bar stopped to stare at this bizarre spectacle... you have to understand that as a foreigner in Japan, breathing is conspicuous. Three foreigners pretending to be Mario and Luigi in the middle of a private Japanese dance floor is something along the lines of setting your hair on fire in a normal bar... We left the basement bar amid the appreciative clapping of our "audience" and disappointed sounding sayonaras..."