uh oh

Well, it's happened. I've finally started to get obsessed with Japanese bands. Crap.

I held out for as long as I could because I didn't want to be the loser to goes to Japan and gets all ga-ga over anything Japanese and spends all her free time trolling the 'nets and record stores looking for more stuff to get infatuated over. Dang it. If I lived in America, this wouldn't be happening. Damn yous, Japan! Damn yous!

Well, here's my #1 love for the moment, a group called Boøwy:

i bless the rains down in africa

My freshman year college roommate came to Fukuoka and stayed with me for two and half weeks. That she had just gotten back stateside (yes, I'm cool enough to use that term) in July from two years of Peace Corpsing in The Gambia could only mean one thing: I had Toto's "Africa" in my head the entire duration of her visit.

Seriously, seconds 1:11 - 1:33, looped, in my head, the whole time. It was amazing.