🍱 Delicacy of the Day
Apashe - Lost in Mumbai
Belgian Beast Apashe is one of those hit-or-miss artists for me.
He either makes the best songs you’ve ever heard…
Or something that has insane production but misses the mark.
This song is an absolute HIT.
The composition is beautiful. There are so many details hidden in the back that you can spend a good hour analyzing the song and still find something new on the 10th listen.
The sounds are squeaky clean. The vocals add a depth that complements the song perfectly.
This feels like 3 songs in one. One of the most fun experiences this genre can offer.
Njoy.
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💭 Quick Drivel
— For the next 44 days I’ll be exploring the extremely ridiculous trip from last year
I didn’t have time to write it when it happened. So why not take advantage of Nostalgia Year to re-live some memories, eh?
if you don’t mind or care (no blame there) feel free to enjoy hand-picked songs that made up this trip a lot more special, they’re even better than the amazing stuff we regularly send —
The best part of making playlists is putting them together. Playing around with how the starts and endings interact and complement each other to create the smoothest experience.
It’s even better when you have to SIT IN A PLANE FOR 15 HOURS.
I pretty much perfected the travel playlist within the first hour and had nothing to do for the remaining 14 hours but enjoy the tracks.
Now this would be day 1. To keep things “short” I’m going to bullet point it to give you an idea of how horrible amazing my planning is:
Get off the plane. Rush to the station to catch a train 5 minutes before it left.
Get lost for a good 10 minutes finding the Airbnb.
Drop everything off at the Airbnb and immediately rush to the Tokyo Skytree to watch the sunset. Made it after the sun was gone (still a beautiful sight)
Leave shortly after to make an hour train trip to Shibuya (at the other end of Tokyo) to make it in time for a reservation. Almost fell asleep on the train.
Lost the reservation by 20 minutes.
Did the Shibuya crossing thing since I was already there.
After getting rejected from 10 restaurants (it was nearly 10pm and everyone was closing), I ended up at a ramen place.
After the ramen place, I make my way back home, rushing as my phone is about to die.
And this is where the REAL fun begins.
It’s 12:00am.
Phone is dead.
No biggie. I’m on the right train line, and I remember the station name from a couple hours ago.
As the train stops, I get off at Sugamo Station, self-praising my amazing memory.
And so I make my way up the stairs…
Exit the station…
Look around thinking “ah yeah, my Airbnb should be right around this cor-”
My stomach drops.
I go down the road a bit further to get my bearings.
But it quickly becomes clear.
Yup. This ain’t my station.
Surely I went out the wrong exit! These places are huge.
So I pay the fee to go back in and waddle over to the other end.
… Except this one looks LESS like my station and leads to a dark alley.
Crap.
I see a train approaching on the south-bound track.
“Okay, no worries, I’m sure this one will take me to my station!”
So I get on… Wait for the next station…
And get off at Otsukaekimae Station!
“This surely is the ri-”
I look around and notice I’m more lost than I was 10 minutes ago.
Then I look at the timetable.
There are 2 trains left for the rest of the night.
Okay, no biggie, I’ll take the second northbound train back up to Sugamo. From there I have to figure out how to find the right train.
And so another shameful train ride later, I’m back at Sugamo station.
I play songs in my head to calm down…
And then it hits.
There’s a second phone.
The music phone.
But did I bring it? I thought I had left it charging.
So I desperately dig in my bag…
And find it.
It has 20% battery, no signal, and the lifespan of a cicada.
The next train is in 10 minutes. I have to find wifi and the address to the Airbnb in that time.
And so I run all across the station like a madman looking for free wifi.
But there’s nothing.
The phone is already at 10% and I’m starting to realize my situation.
So I lean against the wall of a closed coffee shop outside of the station. and start planning my future as a homeless man.
(Day 1 and I’m already lost in one of the biggest cities in the world.)
Then, the phone finds a free wifi connection.
It’s the coffee shops.
The catch? The connection is lost the second I move off the wall,
The last trains arrive in 5 minutes.
I frantically log in to airbnb, pull the address, and load Google Maps.
The right station?
IT’S THE NEXT [REDACTED] STOP ON THE NORTH LINE.
There’s 2 minutes left.
The train approaches the station. This is it.
So I start running…
Practically smashing the card against the reader so the checkpoint gates don’t close as I sprint…
I almost trip running down the stairs…
And make it into the train just in time.
One stop later I’m in the right place.
To this day the station name is engraved in my mind.
Komagome Station.
And thus concluded the first day.
📡 Signal
The “isn’t this common knowledge?” signal today is:
PACK A PORTABLE BATTERY.
In my defense, the phone was a couple of months old. I did not expect it to start dying after a couple hours of use.
I don’t know what it is about phones the moment you step outside of your city. It’s like the battery decides to also go on vacation and die 3 after 3 hours of use.
In any case. lesson learned.
Always getting lost Forward
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