EPISODE 39: THE RADIO GEMPEG SHOW 2

2027Text: Kurando Furuya, Hitoshi Odajima, Tomoki Kurokawa

2027 - The Radio GEMPEG Show

K “Well well, everybody. Thank you for your feedback” 2 “Getting carried away, here is Vol. 2” K “Yeah we are excited” 2 “What the hell did they like our talk about?” K “Basically books and radio programs are censored strictly. And we got brought into the world” 2 “It’d be even better if we were under age, but actually we can face criminal punishment” K “It’s because the censorship is strict, we want to go over it! There is this kind of energy” 2 “Just like love” K “More troubles, more excitement” 2”That’s right” K ”Ahhhh!!!” 2 “Wow!!!! Spilled tea!!!” K “Whoa….” 2 “Here you go. Wipe it off” K “Well, sorry for this interruption in the middle of the program” 2 “I wiped it off” K “Yeah” 2 “Oh, it’s wet under here” K “Oh, here” 2 “Right” K “Well, we’re sorry. Let’s put juice over there” 2 “Good thing is that the equipment didn’t get wet” K “Nomura-san will punch you again. Really…” 2 “You never thought about returning it, did you?” K “Well, we are getting back to the show” 2 “Yes, we are all set. OK” K “Yes. Brilliant. There is nothing on the table” 2 “What? Where are we?” K “Speaking of getting wet, the whole Odaiba went under the water” 2 “Finally” K “It might be a good idea to create a city on water like Venice” 2 “I should have visited the city before it submerged” K “Hong Kong?” 2 “Speaking of Hong Kong, Jackie, Sammo Hung, Yuan Biao” K “Classic” 2 “Say it old school” K “Oh, I read that one “Love me Pao Pao”” 2 “What’s that?” K “Jackie’s autobiography” 2 “Are you really a Zakuian?” K “I also saw a documentary. It’s about Jackie’s father who worked for the military in Mao’s days and then turned out to be in the mafia! His mother used to be a gambler & pusher” K “Yeah. Not interested……” 2 “Hey!” K “Wanted to go visited the old days of Hong Kong. I heard it was stinky in the whole city” 2 “It’s like your room” K “Hey!” 2 “Probably the same smell” K “Hey, do you remember who ate that one at your house? The most stink food in the universe. What was that Zakuian food?” 2 “Gunmo?” K “Yeah, that one! Stinks so much!!! What is that?” 2 “Oh, yeah? It’s good. Stinky though……” K “Yeah right. It’s stinky but tastes good” 2 “Right. But is it true it’s the most stinky thing in the universe?” K “There are more stinky things in the universe, aren’t there?” 2 “Yeah. I guess. The universe is vast” K “But, Gunmo is stinky” 2 “Isn’t there a place sounds like it?” K “You mean Gunma?” 2 “Yeah yeah! Is that place stinky?” K “It’s not stinky. You know Takasaki, and Maebashi? 2 “Don’t know” K “Those cities are quite nice. I think TSTAR NOODER is a band from Gunma” 2 “TSTAR NOODER is cool. They’ve been reappraised” K “In a solid” 2 “Something like The Damned too.” K “Really. They are deep” 2 “Shigeru Izumiya, you mentioned lately is also quite nice” K “Oh, I totally like him. Howl and Other Ballads” 2 “Ponta Murakami’s drum is awesome. It’s like attacking” K “Hey, where are we?” 2 “ It’s still wet around here on the desk” K “Drying up with a dryer?” 2 “Let’s change the subject” K “Yes, anything” 2 “Let’s talk about Suzy Amakane” K “I love him” 2 “He is awesome. I love everything. But his books are rare. You can never find one, the Suzy Amakane’s book” K “You have one, don’t you? Lucky you” 2 “YUBIN-POST MODERN. It’s a masterpiece” K “One of your treasures in your life” 2 “Yeah” K “I think Suzy Amakane played a major role in his first achievement of ridiculous manga drawing on the campus in Japan” 2 “Yeah. I love him. I want to talk about a new painting but it will be too professional” K “Oh, yeah. I had a row fish yesterday! For the first time!” 2 “Really!? Why? How? How much?” K “A friend of mine gave me some left over sushi at the sushi restaurant” 2 “Shabby” K “The row fish is disgusting. It’s disgusting like gunmo” 2 “Hey!” K “It’s a gunmo horror. Let’s ask George Andrew Romero for shooting one” 2 “Don’t insult the Zakuian culture!” K “Just kidding. But eating row fish is a valuable experience, right? It’s impossible for the ’00’s people” 2 “It’s even more impossible for the Zakuians” K “Did you have your front hair cut?” 2 “No, I didn’t” K “Oh, ok” 2 “Well, I watched George Andrew Romero’s Day of the Dead the other day and my mom was angry with me” K “Day of the Dead. That’s a killer” 2 “She came into my room when the zombies were chopped up” K “Haha. I got in trouble for my Judas Priest T-shirt which I wore at the work” 2 “By your boss?” K “Yeah, he said the picture was too brutal” 2 “What picture was it?” K “The one they hold razors” 2 “Heh, just for it” K “Since it’s a moral society” 2 “Oh yeah. I had a bad day, too. A crowd of elementary kids was whistling Another Brick in the Wall (Pink Floyd) on their way home. They were like we don’t need no education” K “You kidding!” 2 “Really! Or there is something similar one” K “I’ve never heard any of that” 2 “Anyway I thought they were cute so I smiled at them. Then they were totally like looking at me like a pervert” K “Ahahaha! Pervert!” 2 “So I went away straightaway. Got exhausted. What are they going to do with my humanism” K “They might be said like that by their parents” 2 “It’s impossible to act like a pervert at this age” K “Even kids should understand that” 2 “At the age having careful protection for even animals, how can you attack kids!” K “It’s a trace of the previous age” 2 “Nomura-san is remaining to be a Loli-con at this age. He is, in a way, respectable” K “You don’t need to praise him that much, I think” 2 “Let’s give him the first Loli-con award to Nomura-san, the faithful man” K “A silver prize” 2 “Should be an honorary award” K “He doesn’t want it” 2 “May be punched again. Blacked out” K “Well, I was punched by Nomura the other day and had an experience blacking out for the first time in my life. And I got a revelation from Kami-sama. Really. Kami-sama, the paper. 2 “He is kidding” K “No, it’s true” 2 “Then what Kami-sama said?” K “You know there was a club The Haçienda in Manchester?” 2 “The one of the second summer of love!?” K “Right. At there Genpei Akasegawa appeared and he gave me a thousand yen. A bill” 2 “Can’t even buy alchohol” K “Right. And then he told me to ‘speak out’” 2 “Who? Genpei Akasegawa?” K “Yeah. Well, it’s really a discursive conversation”

Whew! There is no end to the talking. The recording time went over one hour. Let’s press the send button now.

Text: Kurando Furuya, Hitoshi Odajima, Tomoki Kurokawa
Translation: Mariko Takei
Photos: Kurando Furuya, Hitoshi Odajima, Tomoki Kurokawa

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