day 1 (afternoon〜night)
After check-in the hotel,(actually after taking a nap) we headed to a bookstore called POWELL'S BOOKS which is located in downtown. They had so many rooms to distinguish books genres that I couldn't go through all. You can see the marks such as BLUE ROOM, ORANGE ROOM, COFFEE ROOM in the below photos. Also staff recommendation papers were impressive, even though I didn't buy them, I felt how stories in there and how good they were.
The book I baught is called CRYING IN H MART written by Michelle Zauner, the vocalist of JAPANESE BREAKFAST. I had been interesting in this book for a long time as I booked it at a library 2 months ago, but I'm still waiting for more than 40 reservations. "...during traveling, that book was on the shelf named as BEST SELLER non fiction (as 3rd biggest seller)" There was no reason not to buy it.
Downtown was as small as we can walk through in a hour, but again, every places were absolutely attractive. I said many times that...
"Why is here so many fashionable cafe? Bookstore? Bakery? Clothing store? Why so sophisticated? I feel they tolerate art!" My friend may have been annoying, Sorry about thatㅠ
One of the most impressive thing was that machine↑ It made my ice americano automatically as being done all processes by itself with saying "Taka, I'll make your americano right away. Good choice. I like americano~brabrabra" Although it was Japanese shop MUJI, I saw such a machine for the first.
Accidently, some vibes brought us to the restaurant called GRASSA which serves hand crafted pasta. That Carbonara included bacon, cheese, creeeeamyyyyy sauce. I nearly swallowed it.
A day before this day, in Vancouver, the moon was conspicuous that made me take pic. When I saw the beautiful moon in Portland, in addition watched an instagram story which showed the moon taken by one of my favorite comedian in Japan, I was moved at how the moon affect us from different regions such including 16 hours time lag.
Then, I just wondered if my family was seeing the same one? How about my friends?
to be continued to...③
p.s.夜はKOCを観た。(こんなこと英語で書いても仕方がないので日本語で書く、日本盤限定ボーナストラック！) 僕が好きやったロングコートダディのネタについて書かせてください。
まずはご覧あそばせ
まずもって兎の顔、ほんで「ちょちゃ、ちが、違うんです」と言わせたら堂前の右に出る者はいない感、中国料理屋のシェフという設定で、中国人なら話が通じないのも理解できるのに、バリバリ日本人の名前(塚本雄一郎)で、流暢なイントネーションの日本語を話しつつ("全然")ここまで話が通じないというチグハグさ。堂前ワールド炸裂の最高のネタやった。高熱の時の夢を見てるような、堂々巡りとチグハグさ。おもしろいポイントを強調し過ぎたり、「ここで笑わなあかん！」という気分にさせない天性のゆるさと底知れないテクニックがある。。。
