I realized that I talked a lot in SLSK about our dinner convo but havent posted it here. I posted this on another board as well, and have to share!
Well, we talked for awhile, a lot of which im still remembering. I remember Sawao talking about a t-shirt he saw downtown.
Sawao: Faaku yaaru, aimu furamu tekusasu! (Fuck Y'all I'm From Texas!)
At which point we all laughed. We started to explain the meaning of "y'all" to him and Manabe, and Manabe became very interested in "texas-ben" (texas dialect) so we taught him "Howdy Y'all." Ciid made my day today when he told me that Manabe was saying "Howdy" for his mic check in New York!
Manabe (as he was entering this into his cell phone for later recall, whist sawao filmed with his digi cam): Haa, haadee yaa! Haadee yaer? Howdee yarr! *he smiled*
We talked about our favorite bands. Sawao LOVES the breeders and Kim Deal, as well as The Cure. Manabe loves Pantera.
Sato was pretty silent, he looked tired/scared/stoned/drunk/any combination of these. And Jun was too busy flirting with Yoko and Ayumi from noodles to bother with us xD.
Sawao said his English "not very good, but my brother, my brother english good" and I said "aa, Hidetoshi-san?" and his face lit up. I quickly followed with "Spiky Brothers!" And I swear, Sawao nearly squealed when I said that, he was happy that I knew about that. I also mentioned Coinlocker Babies, and Manabe was impressed. Sadly, the rest of my pillows knowledge went FFFSSSSZZZT out of my brain, because, you know, i was sitting across from Manabe and next to Sawao of the GODDAMN PILLOWS AAAAAAAAAH!
Lesse, random recollections:
Sawao doesnt own a computer, nor does he have a cell phone.
Manabe gave out his personal email address (no you can't have it

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When mentioning pot to sawao "no no, not me. Maybe other member *eyes manabe* but not me."
When the check came for the meal, all us gaijin were pooling our money together to pay, but sawao refused to let us, "i very rich rock star!" he said XD And he paid, something close to $200 for us fans, total bill was $610!
many many MANY MANY "domo arigato gozaimashita"s from us fans and lots of deep bowing.
I turned the Carnival mp3 i have into a ringtone for my cell phone. And my mom called me during dinner. It was awesome, the whole table looked at me, and i got grins
And totally unrelated to the pillows: On the way back to the car, I ran into Dennis Quaid. He lives in Austin now and was enjoying SXSW.