Tameshi shinohara and where stars come to die / mr sake and the belt, or: the unluckiest man in the whole world

Tam had parents that came from divergent places, 1 from the calm hokkaido and the other from inner city Tokyo. When he was 9 and started his first major music project he fused these styles. Marimbas and flutes made out of bamboo together with gritty guitars. Sweet tender singing with black metal growls. As time passed though he gravitated more towards folk, and with "when stars come to die" on his only vinyl release he tried to do the impossible - Realize Jimi hendrix vision of everyone from around Asia no matter who they were would be able to make a beautiful record together. He took with him a simple zoom mic and traveled just anywhere and had a simple instruction set for all collaborators, as thanks they got 1 of his limited edition cassettes.

You see, ever since his first record, no matter if he was signed with a major record company, he only released a thousand copies and always only on cassette, sometimes double 90 minute ones. The rules were, play for 15 mins, start quiet and slow, crescendo after half, where youll change from major to minor. Yes, he was heavily inspired by the progressive instrumental act MONO on this release. On the other side of the 130gram vinyl was a unique for the record download code. And here his cyberpunk charm came out. Instead like before hiding some noise which if played loud enough, would crash your stereo or computer, each download had a random part of the song with such crack mechanics. eventhough the record was mellow, a quarter of it at least before all instruments and harmonies build up or down, he had to sneak in some punk. So after a quarter of an hour had passed he did a punk riff and screamed out TAKE ME DOWN TO BAMBOO CITY. The booklet said more what it was about.

Tameshi was actually born in bamboo city, a secret research island and where all types of people from all over the world, come, to die. The name is slang and just like bamboo is strong but hallow on the inside, so are the people there. It doesnt show up on maps, but he had a cloth map included in the release of where stars come to die, which tells also of the ice wall, there is no Antarctica.

This is also the story of the unluckiest man in the world, or mr sake and the belt. He is called that to protect his identity. Tameshi was his uncle. His whole family tree during the happy 1970s degenerated into sex n drugs n rock n roll. Tameshi and mr sake had a short lived band called the dead pandas with many family members and its just what happened. They were the first goth band in Japan and only released 1 legendary 8 inch single before almost all of them "disappeared".

Tameshi disappeared as well after his last album, some say to bamboo city, some say he was assassinated. Mr sake didnt like tamtams rock n roll lifestyle, but he had no choice. He even went on a world tour with tam once, and he just felt out of place. Mr s did everything right, so nothing exciting ever happened in his life, and his friendship with his uncle just annoyed him. But he had no one else. Tam would often call sae on Saturdays and ask him his plans.

Sae always answered 1 wag the dog 2 read mangas about ordinary people 3 work out 4 eat out once a month 5 fall asleep to a pleasant anime at 9-10 o clock. Tae always tried to persuade him to hang with his Rockstar friends, and often, he didnt dare refusing.

But things happen, or rather not. Tam hadnt called for a month, sae had seen a small blurb on the noon news about "the best album ever made" but hadnt given it a proper thought through.

Sae liked that he was finally able to do things his own pace. Tam and he worked the same dull office job and Tae had been offered boss position a year before and had taken it. But whatever good or bad woman that got interested in him, he could never connect to them. But the more tam didnt call, the more his life felt emptier and emptier.

Then he met one of tams best friends when he tried a new fashionable restaurant. He told the truth. Tam was dead. At least never to return to Japan. Now sae thought of all their good memories, and he just couldnt stop crying. Besto followed him home and tried to cheer him up with:

"Do you need something?" Mr sake got a whole candybag of drugs. He knew he shouldnt and had never. He had won a few local competitions in taekwondo and hed swore so many times when mr shinohara was buzzed to never turn into him.

But no matter how much he despised his uncle he missed him too much. He had no own record collection. It always sounded better to listen to tams good music taste the often weekends he visited him.

He went in alone, his dog had another owner now. He opened the bag and it had everything you could imagine. Speed, mdma, cocaine, heroin, fentanyl absinth, even paint thinner.

He got disgusted and threw the bag in the trash. He had started watching TV more and also working out while doing it. It got after midnight and the animes had changed to gruesome ones. But he craved it. There was one particular he couldnt stand though but he was mostly busy on training his body to maybe get some nice pussy whenever.

He went to the trash can yet again, "wouldnt you?" A saying By William S burroughs echoed in his mind. He took out a small what looked like salt bag, but it had a rainbow coloured smiley face on it. Finally, there were ads to interupt that horrible anime.

He mixed the LSD with 85% alcohol surface sanitizer, waited 10 mins of ads, and then swallowed the content.

Being high and having the tv on is not to be recommended. This channel had huge amount of ads, sometimes they would show several episodes and then go crazy with the money bringer. This was unfortunately one of those times.

"Rape belt rape belt dont get raped rape belt". The author is now tired and will end part one in a cliffhanger. How could the story progress?