it should be listed as a requirement on the CD jacket “best listened to slightly drunk, preferably on two or three glasses of wine, alone and without distraction”.

“From her place on the stairs

or sat on the back seat

Sometimes you’re only a passenger

in the time of your life”

“and the adrenalin rush

had left her exausted

when under the blue sky

nothing need be explained”

blows chilly and cold

when you stumble upon something so pretty, so unexpected.

you assume it’ll be there next year

forever.

in the grand scheme of things I don’t suppose

it was particularly important

and there are others

but like a stray cat that wanders by

or the surprising colour of the last light in the sky

life was just a little bit better

I could have lived in the city

a well paid job, a BMW, a skinny wife.

but then I would have to have paid to see this….

but I get it for free.

some people are uncomfortable when everything is not in order

it’s that time of year again…

slap a bit of colour on it

it’s just smoke and mirrors

without the mirrors

Unlike the inferior systems practised in other lesser countries the Japanese judicial system is uniquely simple and is best described by two defining rules.

1: If you are poor, ordinary or otherwise of no consequence you are guilty and will be fucked.

2: If you are any of the following: A bureaucrat, a politician, a member of an “erai” profession or just plain rich you are either innocent or couldn’t help it.

If you belong to group 2 you may rape and murder hostesses in Roppongi quite freely.

You may be responsible for the deaths of others – as long as those “others” belong to group 1 and not group 2.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/2782802/Former-Mitsubishi-chiefs-convicted.html

You’ll only get a suspended sentence for that.

Stalking? No problem if you’re a bureaucrat or she’s a foreigner or otherwise of no consequence..

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080809a2.html

Another suspended sentence? What a surprise!

If the members of group 1 are dirty, homeless, sick or otherwise useless a member of group 2 may kill upwards of 500 and still only receive 2 years in jail….suspended.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV-tainted_blood_scandal_(Japan)

This is as equally serious as a member of group 1 stealing a ¥98 eraser.

In simple math:

Failure to pay a traffic violation fine may result in a prison term calculated at one day per ¥5,000 of penalty.

Eg. a ¥60,000 fine would result in a 12 day stay in a detention centre. A prison.

If one day = ¥5,000 then two years = ¥3,650,000 (5000 x 730)

Therefore a prison sentence of two years for the causing the deaths of 500 people in the HIV scandal works out at…..a ¥7,300 fine per death (3.650,000÷500).

Things are much clearer in simple math.

chasing waterfalls…