Day Thirty Four: Leah and the Gorilla Man

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Niske and I squeezed through the crowds and searched in vain for Sanae, Manabu, Yumiko or Manabus friend whose name has escaped me so I will call Yoshiro. It was an exercise in futility, there were hundereds of brunettes milling about, the only way to be found would be to wander about aimlessly being a bright yellowish blonde and hope that they would see us. I was rewarded five minutes later when Sanae came bundling up to me brimming over with excitement.
"Leah san!" she gasped "You're never going to believe my good news!" she paused a moment -
"Gori san will be here this afternoon!"
A loud crash sounded as my bottle of water slipped though my fingers and crashed to the floor.
"Gori san?" I whispered. Sanae nodded happily
"MY Gori san?" I repeated, still slightly dazed by this new information.
Sanae nodded once more and then grabbed my hands as we proceeded to bounce around squealing.

Gori san is my favourite Japanese celebrity. I have no idea what his real name is, but he's nicknamed Gori because he looks like a gorilla. And I just think he is super, super sexy.
He's also a comedian, and apparently he's quite funny, but I just tend to take peoples word for that as I can't understand anything he says.
Which brings me back to the present. Yumiko had been able to score some free tickets to the last day of a three day comedy festival. I'd never really seen anything like it, it reminded me of big day out, but instead of bands they have comedians. I had just tagged along because a lot of Japanese comedy involves two men hitting each other over the head a lot so i figured the language barrier wouldn't be such a problem. But it turned out to be so much better than two men hitting each other over the head because it turns out that he was going to be there. Gori. The sexiest japanese gorilla-man known to mankind. Wow.

Time passed slowly. I drank vitamin water and ate takoyaki. I watched the clock and counted the minutes. I talked incessently of Gori for the next 4 hours and pretended to laugh at comedians jokes so people would think I spoke Japanese and not wonder why I was at a japanese comedy event when I couldn't speak the language.

And then he was there.

Now I would love to tell you that I somehow magically understood what he was saying, that he spotted me in the crowd and pulled me on the stage, that he saw me afterwards and invited me backstage for a drink in impeccable english.

But sadly that didn't happen.

I have no idea what he said, he didnt speak to me personally (Japanese, English or any other language for that matter) and I didn't even see where the door was for the backstage, let alone be invited behind for green tea.
But when I shouted "Gori Ai shte Rue!" at the stage he did look in　my general direction and smile. And since I was the only big blonde gaijin in the crowd and I was jumping up and down waving my hands screaming, I do like to think that the smile was directed at me.

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Comments

[Karen]

Gori San
Gori San is kinda cute! hee hee