Hey now it's the sun.

Good things happen when the sun comes out. Today, my modem came in the mail. That doesn't mean I have internet in my apartment, but it means that at least I now have things associated with the internet in my apartment. It's a step in the right direction. And then I went to school and after somehow finding the room orientation was being held in (they didn't give us a map or tell us that the room had been changed), I received plenty of information vital to my life at school. It looks like I'll actually be doing something related to my research topic at this school after all! And then I came downtown and picked up a couple of wonderful new albums: Interpol's long-awaited Antics (which, while not as incredible as Turn on the Bright Lights, sounds pretty good), and this double album by Shiina Ringo I meant to buy 2 years ago. Interestingly, the best song on the Interpol album is the Japan-only bonus remix of 'Slow Hands' by Spoon's frontman Brit Daniel. He manages to make Slow Hands, which is a　decent track anyway, sound more like a Spoon song and Interpol song of yesteryear at the same time by bringing Sam Fogarino's heavy drum attack and Carlos D's disco-funk bass pulse back to the front and dropping the vocals and guitars down low. The rhthym section is what Interpol is all about. Listen to it and tell me the chorus doesn't make you want to get on the dance floor. Or at least make you want to pose like a hipster.

Oh, and yesterday I bought this decently priced (5700 yen) desktop speaker set for my computer. I lugged it all the way back in the rain from the train station so as to avoid paying for bus/cab fare. It sounds really great and I'm sure my powerbook's speakers are happy to have a rest. However, I think I have to be careful how loud I play it. While listening to some music last night (pretty quietly mind you), my neighbor either dropped something really heavy or he punched the wall to tell me to turn the music off already. I'm not sure, but I'm going to be cautious. They should build thicker walls in this country.

Now I'm going to go look for a new pair of pants and go home and cook some dinner for meself. I'm starving; all I've had to eat today were a few wafers of sembei!

More on it all tomorrow after I meet my professor.