but here i have your painting. it's not hung. i never put holes in the wall. i tried hanging it from the ceiling, there's a wooden piece along the top where the wall and the ceiling intersect, but i couldn't get the nail in at the right angle. now it's resting, stable against the wall.
i love it very much. no one has ever given me an artwork they made.
a couple weeks ago i met this guy in his late 30s in nakameguro. he was on his bike and looking for a restaurant. i was on my way to meet a friend, and told him i didn't know, but he wasn't really looking for that restaurant in particular, he was looking for any good restaurant in the neighborhood, turns out hes writing a nakameguro restaurant guide book and ranking them based on flavor and price. he came with me and we started talking. he knows a lot about marketing and advertising in japan and said that there is a very simple formula to it all. you have to have an interesting story and sell that story. he is very willing to help me start a brand here in japan. then i met up with him the other day with naoko, and we talked a lot more. naoko has no job now, and might start working for him, trying to sell the book because it's marketed towards young women who want their money's worth, and image-wise it would be wrong for a man to try selling it. so we had dinner and he's maybe the most interesting japanese guy i've met. he's saving money now, writing this restaurant guide book, and living in nakameguro in exchange for lessons. he's teaching this guy how to make money on the stock market, and whatever profit, he gets a certain percentage. so he's saving and saving until 2012 when he'll have enough money to do what he ultimately wants to do. which is write childrens books. which he will call something like, the mysterious world of adults. it'll be stories about the religious war between palestine and israel, stories about all the waste huge companies like starbucks and mcdonalds make, about how smoking cigarettes will kill you. he wants to make these stories to make kids feel embarrassed about the world they live in and what their parents do and are a part of. it makes no difference to write stories for the government or the companies, it must start when you are young. many kids stories in japan have no morals, teach no ethics, like aesops or grimms. then when i told him, i'm going back to ny and going back to school, he said school is for people who are afraid to go into the real world. the economy is terrible now, and the majority of people think that it's a bad time to start a new company, but it's exactly the opposite. it is exactly the time to start something and make a huge profit, because no one else will take the chance. okay, so to start a brand, do you know what you need? money. start a website where you sell things from america you cannot get in japan. and vica versa. once you make tons of money with that, start your own brand and sell that. he is all action. in a japanese man that is very refreshing, and makes me wonder if i should stay in japan. or go back to ny. there is also a wonderful school in belgium i want to go to.
i got your postcard. arigato
dubrovnik was where miyazaki imagined when he wrote porco rosso. did you tell me that?
i might come visit in the summer.
i have no uncle with a restaurant. gommen.
it's almost 3am. i can hear the guy in the room next to me snoring!!!!!!!!!
xx
mitsue
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