Feb 16 2009
Mirrorballism 3 - New Generation Dance Classics (2000)
For those of you unfamiliar, this is an album of Japanese disco tunes. And it’s fantastic.
When I showed up for the WDW College Program, I was put in an apartment with five other guys. Apparently the only rule is that you have to be enrolled in college, and so there is no age limit. We are all in our early 20s except for a Japanese gentleman named Moto. We couldn’t figure out his story and he didn’t say much in the beginning, but soon he became intoxicated and showed us his drivers license, which, I believe, showed him to be 36.
After that secret emerged, the man became more talkative, but it didn’t necessarily make any sense. Personally, I bonded with him over Journey, Sinatra, and this record. I don’t know if this was a series of releases, but I hope so. Whenever I’m down, all I have to do is listen to some Japanese disco and it brings back wonderfully ridiculous memories of Moto.
He was fond of making fun of me for various things, most notably for being a vegetarian. When this would come up he would take out his clever and chase the ducks outside, laughing maniacally as he threatened to kill them. He never did (that I know of) but he certainly liked the reaction it got from me. He is one of the strangest and most fascinating people I have ever met.
Moto - “Don’t think too much…drink too much!”
Please share your stories connected to this record. In lieu of that, stories related to crazy men named Moto would be good too.
