Last Friday, Ted Taylor and I met up at Sarasa Kayuukoji for some old timey jazz and oishii beers. That’s a nice cafe with some very tasty nibbles of which we ordered …way too much.

We were there to see Sweet Strings… which turns out to be not one band but a label for a mixed co-operative of players who combine and recombine in many different formats under separate band names. It turned out to be a very nice mellow start to our Golden Week. Here’s comrade Ted toasting May Day:

My first month at my new job being over, I needed a break. Though I’m enjoying the job, I’m crazy busy every day, so knowing I had the next few days off meant the beers were going down very well – maybe too well (hints of sheepish ruefulness). Anyway, here’s one of many videos I took that night: Tiny Mookie and Hot Society.

I won’t be able to post anything on Deep Kyoto for a while as someone (or something) has hacked it and inserted something nasty that prevents me from logging in. Actually, I’m thinking about making some big changes to the site once I wrest back control so…stay tuned.