Took me a bit, but here they are.. shots from the Daft Punk concert at Makuhari (12/8/07):

A clean shot of the duo off of my friend Blake’s camera.

Pic taken by my shorter self amidst the crowd.

Blake’s again.

Overall, it was a pretty sweet set that, yes, brought back a bunch of the hits from the two albums that made ‘em cool in the 90’s (nothing seemed to get the Japanese crowd more excited than belting out One More Time!), but spliced up and thrown it into some new stuff. The venue was a huge concert hall that fit plenty thousands of people, in this case mostly Japanese, of course, with every tenth person being an obvious non-Asian foreigner. It actually felt a lot like hanging out at UCLA. heh

My travel pal and I also took in some of the Tokyo cityscape during the rest of the weekend. We both realized how much we missed tall buildings, neon lights, and way too many fashion freaks on the street. I even felt a wave of what I could describe sheepishly as “longing” while riding through the subway. Oh, grimy smelly CTA with your breaking down engines and doors and weirdos on board, deep down secretly I still have feelings for you.

Sigh.

A Bic bit:

This is courtesy of my friend Doug (and from Mark before him). Could be the ink, could be the reviewers are all in cahoots. Either way, online pen strokes of brilliance.