Hehe... Mikikins ain't here! It's Keiko! Mikihisa had to go to the loo! To do a number 2! Haha! I am a way better rapper than Sliva. Though I don't like rapping I like rock and pop music. My favourites include: Greenday, INXS, Nirvana, Micheal Bolten and Jason Donovan. Well, everybody likes Jason Donovan apart from my Miki-kins!
Anyway, I am gonna tell you about last year's Bon Festival. The Asakura's Bon Festival are always the best. You wanna know how? B'coz Yohmei always finds a great live act. Well, except for one year which was 1989, he hired Milli Vanilli. Other than that, they are always great. Last year, we got Greenday! And they sang American Idoit before it even came out here. I always liked the song 'When I come around'. That song just rocks! I also got pictures taken with them. Look!
This is me with Billie Joe (Armstrong - Not Ryu's Billy) and Billie Joe is eating a plate of my fishsticks. Which was meant to be for the spirits. But he is Billie Joe Armstrong! Of course I was gonna let him eat my fish sticks! Yohmei wasn't happy that Billie helped himself to the spirits' food but hey! Who actually cared?
Oh! Oh! This is me with Mike Dirnt. Nothing special here. He is just cuddling me and I am smiling away. Miki-kins hates this picture. Even though Mike Dirnt has girlfriends younger than me. Well, I am guessing that.
This is sexy looking me on the drums and I don't know how to play the drums and guess who was teaching me? Tre Cool. Yep, I have real drum sticks and Tre Cool has chicken drum sticks and when this picture was being taken he kept hiting his drums with the chicken drum stick. He also stole those chicken drum sticks from the spirits' food table like Billie Joe did with my fish sticks.
Anyway, you are probably asking yourself why are we not allowed to eat food from the spirits' food table. Well, it's important that food is prepared for the nourishment of the souls and is placed on special trays which are kept for this purpose. The food is made for the dead alone, no living soul shall eat it. Even if, after the soul's departure, it appears undiminished, it is still believed that - invisibly and unnoticed - the dead have partaken of it. In conclusion of the feast, the food, untouched by the living, will be tossed into the river or sea. Or given to Greenday like Last year!
So, I hope you will come and stop by this year's Bon Festival. One of my sons will be stopping by. Which one? You have to read on. Mikihisa will come back and tell more of the story. I was just random...