Kagaya - Puppets!

It's been a while since I updated this. I guess I've just fallen into a daily routine that isn't terribly interesting unless you're me. I'm still having a lot of fun though, and funny/weird shit happens constantly, I wish I could document it all, but alas...

Anyway, here is something I thought was note-worthy.
I went with some friends to Shinbashi, where we had some coffee at McDonalds (for free!) and then headed to a restaurant for dinner. Getting there was a challenge in itself. I printed directions off of the website (which was basically the owner’s drawing on a white-board, and of which he took a photo of).It was the fucking weeeeeirdest place I’ve ever been. Basically, it was in this basement, and when we got there it was completely deserted except for the guy who runs it and one cook who’s right there. So it was INCREDIBLY awkward at first, because it was dead silent, so we didn’t really talk for a while, just kind of laughed awkwardly. The owner then went to his little closet, and brought out this robot animal, and put our napkins on it, and remote-controlled it to walk to us and bring us our napkins. And he was basically screaming weird shit the whole time. He proceeded to put it in my friend’s face. Then, he brought us the drink menu, which was a little play book with crayon-writing and prices next to it, and he sang the whole menu to us in English. We chose apple sake (which was delicious, but strong at the same time). Then we had to choose a “country style.” We went with America. Which basically entailed him singing the national anthem while using a puppet to carry our food to us. Our drinks were pretty hilarious, too. Karyn got a regular glass, but her refill was this statue of a little boy with a tube-dick, so whenever she pushed down on it, it shot out his dick. Then my friend Liz got this mug that burped incredibly loudly when she put it down. Mine was the best though, because whenever I picked it up, it started violently vibrating, making it VERY difficult to drink. I basically got it all over my face. That never got old.
Then the owner gave us our own little puppet show. He asked all of our names, and somehow managed to get every single one wrong (I was “Uriya,” Karyn was “Karulina,” Liz was “Bez” (I don’t know how, but I thought it was hilarious). He would often just take his puppets and be like “OHHH KARULINAAA, SEXUAL FEELINGS” and then start screaming sex noises and rubbing her with toys. He also demonstrated the doggy position for us.
At one point during his puppet show, he was behind this board and was using a frog puppet above it, so we couldn’t see him at all. As the puppet, Jack, he was like, “You want to see my brother, Dick?” We weren’t sure if we were supposed to interact or not, so we were quiet. The puppet screamed “HEY! BEZ! You want to see Dick!? Or no!?” Then she was like “Yes, I want to see dick!” And the puppet was like “Okay, one second, I’ll go get him, everyone wants to see –“ And then the owner burst out from behind the board in this ridiculous frog suit and climbed on our table. We didn’t even make noise, we were just kind of in shock. It was pretty hilarious, though. He also made me scream my main course order, and take the check with my teeth from a barbie’s boobs. SUCH A WEIRD EXPERIENCE.

Not sure what else to say here. New semester has begun, classes are going well. Not really culturally related, though, so I won't go into it...

For my next post, expect Taiwan! I'm going next week.

The photo here was taken at the restaurant, he just handed us the glasses and it made us hideous. Especially me.

Here are some videos, I don't know if just my description can do it justice.