I left home when I was seventeen

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My darlings, I have not dropped off the face of the planet—though it sort of feels like it—no, I am in California, and here I stay for the foreseeable future. Mind you, I can only deal with the future about two weeks in advance, so you see the problem with my life planning skills right here.

I have traveled by train and by car from one end of the country to the other, with lots of detouring in between and a brief stint where my friend M and I seriously considered becoming casino waitresses in Reno and then writing a trashy novel about it. mousapelli took me to a palace of wonders called Chocolate World and let me sleep on her couch and bond with Datte and watch all her con DVDs.

This has actually backfired, though, because now I’m in a KAT-TUN phase, and somebody needs to take all my music away from me, because I keep listening to 勇気の花 and then sobbing every time it gets to Hittori ja nai yo, nakama ga iru yo.

See, I'm crying again. No, stop. A road trip is more than what you leave behind. I have seen little harbor towns and shining cities and also elephants and a whole lot of sagebrush. I have participated in philosophical conversations about the human condition (lasting most of Kansas) and masqueraded as a German tourist (super useful for thwarting obnoxious panhandlers). I have visited the first coffee shop west of the Mississippi and driven past a mountain forest fire at night and seen the Milky Way.

Of many peoples—their cities he saw, and understood their minds;
Many perils his spirit suffered upon the sea.

Because a loose and selective translation of Homer is always relevant. Always.

More soon--I will try.

Comments

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

THAT IS MY FAVORITE KAT-TUN SONG. And lol when i listened to it for the first time I was on the NEX going back to Narita airport to leave and I totally ended up sobbing in public. OOPS.

Have you seen/heard the new single? I love it, both the pv and all the songs. KAT-TUN, I hope you can be like this from now on.

Glad you made it there safely! Your postcard came the other day. it looked like it had some adventures of its own, haha, but it was still pretty legible!

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

Aw man, I'm getting feels just because Japan, and travel in California, and Narita in the comments

I *will* listen to the song at some point!

for now, let me share an anecdote, which was that I misread your username (or really, I thought the icon was someone else's lbr) and they had suddenly discovered Kat-tun, and my mind bent for a moment, and then I scrolled back up and realized, no.

I haven't heard much of their music (I am not into j-rock, except on shows sometimes) but I have seen so many of their show episodes. SO MANY.
in fact, because of this it is weird to me ANYONE knows who they are.

And I'm sure there are parts that aren't awesome, but this roadtrip sounds so golden to me right now...

[a4yroldfaerie.livejournal.com]

<3

please write a trashy novel about being a casino waitress in reno?

[satakieli.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the best use to put a drive through Kansas, honestly. Better than looking out the window. Sorry, regional partisanship; I don't really mean the insult to Kansas, but I do mean the compliment to good road discussion.