Tuesday, February 24, 2015
#418. Tune In Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries
Tune In Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries (8 hrs.): Tim Anderson was pushing 30 and working a string of dead-end jobs when
he made the spontaneous decision to pack his bags and move to Japan. It
was a gutsy move, especially for a tall, white, gay Southerner who
didn’t speak a lick of Japanese. But his life desperately needed a shot
of adrenaline, and what better way to get one than to leave behind his
boyfriend, his cat, and his Siouxsie and the Banshees box set to move to
“a tiny, overcrowded island heaving with clever, sensibly proportioned
people who make him look fat”?