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Tamori and Maywa Denki

Today we went for a bicycle ride with the first intent to eat pizza at La Piccola Tavola.

Often on Sundays we go check out a few flea-markets, and although today that wasn't on our mind at all we passed by Suginami Sanshinomori park (Higashi-Kōenji) where there happened to be one.
While usually we don't find much stuff of interest, today just while looking around quickly I found this old Tamori comedy record (Toshiba EMI ETP-72227, 1977/3/20) for ¥1000 and also a small Vestax 2-channel mixer for ¥3000 (still have to check whether it works well).
(Is it my destiny to collect Tamo-san stuff?!) (If he wrote good pop songs would that make him a Japanese Momus?)

We then made it to La Piccola Tavola (4-2-4 Eifuku-chō, Suginami-ku), but it was already about 2:30 and they had just ran out of pizza paste, so we had to give in and have pasta instead.
There were people next to us eating a pizza and it seemed so delicious. Still having to find decent pizza in Japan we'll definitely have to go back there again soon, maybe next weekend...!
Our pasta was fine though, and the tiramisu we had for dessert was large and tasty!

We then rode down to Tokyo Opera City to see the Maywa Denki exhibition at NTT ICC, after I had found out about it on Gregg's blog a few days ago.

The exhibition presents most of Maywa Denki's works, from their fish-inspired inventions hoping to unveil the meaning of life, to their large array of wacky electrically triggered acoustic musical instruments. The gallery presenting the musical instruments allowed playing with some of them, and even to change into Maywa Denki's outfits and take pictures! Holding a foot pedal lit up the picture area. :)

The main member of Maywa Denki was even there to do demonstrations and speak with fans.
We spent over 2 hours at the exhibition, it really was a lot of fun. We even got a 6 month membership to the gallery which allows us to go to this exhibition again (until December 26), and also to check out the next one, for only ¥1000 (instead of ¥800 for a one-time entry).

After getting back home, we finished our fun day by going to our favorite Thai restaurant, Ploy Thai House (4-28-7 Honchō Nakano-ku), which is celebrating its 2nd anniversary.

Posted on November 7, 2004 at 21:57 | Tweet |

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