Beer tasting with El Gringo and Stone River. Standby for links and details.

Posted by Rob.

Tags: NFTOS, Natural Lawson, Yona Yona, Ale, Beer, Ginga Kogen, Coedo, Sun Sun, tasting, sampling, Tokyo, Setagaya-ku

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Alex and Rob manage to fill 45 minutes of podcast with probably the worst French an Englishman and a Yank have ever produced.  Actually there was some English, Japanese and Spanish thrown in there as well.

Some may ask "Pourquoi?!"

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Tags:  NFTOS, En Français, Seppuku, Otaku, Setagaya-ku, Sangenjaya, Chiba, Tokyo, Japan

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Happy Thanksgiving from Tokyo, Japan. Here are some recordings from the past few days spliced together in into one podcast. There's a lot of misinformation contained within due to the lack of maps and general sense of my whereabouts at the time of the recordings. Please standby for clarification and links!

Posted by Rob.

Tags: NFTOS, Panic Living, High Horse, audio, enhanced, podcast, Setagaya-ku, Kuhonbutsu, Okusawa, Oimachi, Tamagawa, Tama River, cycling, Tokyo, Japan

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Looks like someone in Canada, kanarakuotoko, has created a playlist for our 8 Loop Line videos and called it Cycling in Osaka. Cool!

Posted by Rob.

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That's right folks, your host, Rob a.k.a. El Gringo is back in Tokyo for better or for worse, so please tune in semi-weekly for what's happing in my neighborhood. I've already been back for two weeks... (to be continued)

Photo of NFTOS Studios' Tokyo Tower by Stone River.

Tags: NFTOS, Panic Living, Rob a.k.a. El Gringo, Stone River, David Roy, Flo-Union, Mundo Popular, Taiyo Record, Institut Franco-Japonais, music, events, Kagurazaka, Shinjuku, Shibuya, Ryogoku, Popeye, Altgate, beer, Tokyo, Setagaya, Sangenjaya, Japan

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Patrick Widdess' latest headstand can now be heard at headstand.209radio.co.uk featuring top poets Jude Simpson, Luke Wright, Hugo Williams and J T Chameleon and all this:

The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
The Psychotic Reaction - Over-draft Blues
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
Ivor Cutler - Life in a Scotch Sitting Room Vol. 2 Episode 2
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Back From Hell
Syd Barrett - Baby Lemonade
Dan Jefferies and Tom Adams - Come Back
Martin Figura - I work in the Arts Now
J.A.L - Ice Climber
Salads in Space - Putting on The Moon Suits*
The Morning People - If Wishes were Horses
Half Man Half Biscuit - The Trumpton Riots
Hugo Williams - Words
Mr Scruff - Fish
Moth Conspiracy - Husband and Wife
Melt-Banana - Spathic!
Motorhead - The Ace of Spades
Norville - Clowns*
Sucia - I want my Records Back*
Cusp - Vinegar Pouch

*(Should sound familiar to regular members of the NFTOS audience)

Posted by Rob.

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Five of us met up for beers and real ales at Popeye on Wednesday. What transpired was recorded for posterity and edited to protect the guilty. This enhanced podcast may meet further censorship by the participants, so this version is special, as it might be replaced by one less offensive to interested parties. Or something like that.

Stand by for more detailed notes, which we all took, or at least attempted to, and which might appear over on Learn Japanese Pod, or on the forums.

The photo is of a poster in the bar.

We might do this again sometime. Please join us if you'd like!

Posted by Rob.

Tags: NFTOS, Alex Brooke, Learn Japanese Pod, coffeebot3000, Stone River, Rob a.k.a. El Gringo, real ale, forum, Popeye, beer, tasting, Yona Yona, Hitachino Nest Beer, Tokyo, Japan

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"Je ne suis pas comme une damme de la cour de Versailles, qui disait: c'est bien dommage que l'aventure de la tour de Babel ait produit la confusion des langues; sans cela tout le monde aurait toujours parlé français." Votaire, 1767

We learn how Alex sounds so intelligent in Japanese, why, it's by studying "How to Sound Intelligent in Japanese." We talked about having had gyudon at Yoshinoya for lunch, and about waiting for B-Chan, so we can go out to an izakaya in the evening, among other things. Recorded in Chiba. Standby for more links and stuff.

Posted by Rob.

Tags: NFTOS, Alex Brooke, Rob a.k.a. El Gringo, Coffeebot3000, makikomo, Chiba, Tokyo, Japan

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Poster by Norville. Notes coming soon!

Posted by Rob.

Tags: NFTOS, Hans, Rob, Kloden, Simeoni, Gerdemann, Simoni, Basso, Armstrong, cycling, ciclismo, cyclisme, Tokyo, Japan, Hagerstown, Maryland, NFL, Monday Night Football, J-League, Obama, Norville, forum, Tokyo Cycling Club, Learn Japanese Pod Forum

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What has he been taking? I have come back to Japan to find out.

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Pinch, punch, first of the month! Rabbit, rabbit!

Photo by Hans.

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Bicicleteiros are going to be out of town(s) for the weekend, but never fear! We recorded edpisode #45, which will be posted Saturday. and this is sort of a "p.s."

Photo: Source unknown. Forward of an e-mail forward of an e-mail forward...

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NFTOS, Hans, Rob, Halloween, Auckland, New Zealand, Hagerstown, Maryland, MD, NZ, Dexter, TV

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