K “Hello, hello. Hello. Test, test.”
2 “Check. Check. One two.”
K “No fucking checks. This is live broadcasting.”
2 “Oh! Pressing this button to start live broadcasting. Oh, yes. That’s right.”
K “Hello to the world.”
2 “I am Haruo Minami.”
K “What’s that?”
2 “Well, I am 21LO, a Zakuian. Listen to this voice.”
K “I am K. My voice is like this. It’s a very attractive voice with a heavy bass sound.”
2 “Hahaha.”
K “Let’s see… Well, this is radio, you know. I will tell you what this radio program is about.”
2 “Yes.”
K “We, 21LO and me K made a book. It’s called GEMPEG.”
2 “Yes. Well, we printed the limited edition of 2,000 copies of the book. And to advertise it, we are speaking like something funny and would like you to know the uniqueness of GEMPEG.”
K “That’s right. You’re good.”
2 “Danke schön (German). And speaking about advertisement, well, the book we made, well, it’s quite hard to say. It’s actually illegal. We can’t actually make books now.”
K “Yes. As you the listeners already know, it’s been almost a decade since the end of paper media. And we are not sure about the abolishment. Well…”
2 “Well, we can’t talk about the deep part of it. But anyway it’s about why Kleenex is ok, but magazines, newspapers, and self-published books are not.”
K “Yeah. First of all, I think you, ladies and gentlemen can probably understand it. Oh god. Who is listening to this program.”
2 “No. Don’t speak the negative words.”
K “Oh, yeah right. This program is delivered to you all to the world.”
2 “Yeah right. Be positive. And be an upper. We proudly would like to talk about it.”
K “Yeah. Let’s see. Let’s talk about the contents of the book.”
2 “Yes. Well, where should we start? Let’s start from this. We’ve been saying GEMPEG, GEMPEG. Do you like to know what kind of book GEMPEG is?”
K “Yes, yes.”
2 “First, GEM out of GEMPEG means a piece of GEM.”
K “Is it English?”
2 “Yes. PEG is a computer term used before, you know. It’s about light image format.”
K “You know Steely Dan, a rock band of the 70’s? Isn’t there a track, PEG?”
2 “I know it! It’s their masterpiece. Yeah. So there is a meaning piling up of treasures.”
K “It’s something about whether you can find treasures in something like trash.”
2 “There are treasures in trash.”
K “Absolutely.”
2 “So we’ll tell you how we collected the trash. It was tough.”
K “Yes. I’ll tell you. We collected trashes = treasures around town.”
2 “Yeah. We staked out for a couple of days in front of the house of Umitaro Nikaido, the wizard of the porn novel.”
K “Yeah, we were in the cold outside for hours.”
2 “So then, we found scripts out of the trash that were put out in front of the entrance.”
K “Yes.”
2 “And we completed it as a book. Oh, I spoke well. Well we’ve been to many places. You know, well, there were many things going on with trash. There was nasty trash like puke.”
K “Yeah, right. Condoms too. But basically the most trash is papers. Oh I remember there was a hard disc. The one that was from a design firm.”
2 “Oh! It contained big things in it.”
K “Various images and graphical diagrams.”
2 “Yeah. There were many parts that were best for T-shirts.”
K “Oh yeah, the wrist cutting one with that i-D card.”
2 “That one is cool.”
K “Yeah they were full of things. Most of all, how should I put, it was like a stakeout. We were wandering around the high residential area late at night.”
2 “Yeah.”
K “That was impressive.”
2 “Yes. Everybody would better to do it. Well, but I don’t recommend so much, ‘cause it’s nasty. I never imagined gloves were so important.”
K “Oh, I knew how to use them for the first time in my life.”
2 “Hahaha.”
K “Looking into trashes, I feel like tripped out.”
2 “Oh I know. Did you feel that too?”
K “Sure, I did.”
2 “Yeah right. You know, well, the ball.”
K “Oh what?”
2 “You know ball. Looking closely it moves you know.”
K “Oh it moves slowly like mollusks. Same as Zakuians?”
2 “ Yeah it’s the same.”
K “Right. And then?”
2 “Yeah. Looking into the ball moving limply, it’s like looking down at it, like looking down myself from space.”
K “Huh.”
2 “Well, I thought I just looked like a ball. The example is like we go to work, have sex, and hang out to clubs, right? Everyday.”
K “Hmmm.”
2 “I think it’s like all those acts are something similar to limp balls when looking from the sky above.”
K “What? How does it anything to do with collecting trash?”
2 “Oh, right. And what should I say. Well, it was kind of natural act as it is like a ball.”
K “Oh, you mean it’s like unintentional?”
2 “Yeah right. Sorry talking in circles…”
K “Couldn’t get what you were talking about! You said balls too much at the beginning.”
2 “Well sorry. I should have said like ‘as if an artist draws an abstract’.”
K “You make me laugh. But I guess it might be so really, apart from balls (laughs).”
2 “Oh, but we have 2 parts of the ball right? And we have 2 parts of our brain. It definitely has something to do with a ying and yang thing.”
K “Crap. But I understand it.”
2 “The world is divided into two regardless of whether you like it or not.”
K “Wow you’re quite philosophical in a way.”
2 “May be. Well getting back to the book… Well we got a nice drawing of the Mona Lisa. It was found in a garbage bag in front of the Yamano Hospital.”
K “How can you remember all that?”
2 “You know Mona Lisa is drawn as if she looks at you from many angles.”
K “You cannot get away from her eyes.”
2 “Yeah. It’s scary.”
K “It’s like Somebody’s Watching You, you know.”
2 “Scary. Well… We’ll deliver this song next.”
K “Obviously we are illegal. Please forgive us, Mark.”
2 “DEVO’s Timing X.”
K “The song is the best!”