Play It Again Sam...er um...I mean Charlotte!!!

[redleader74]

The early 2000's were a great time indeed....along a similar vein as LIT, I was and still am, a HUGE fan of Dave Attell's "Insomniac" which aired on Comedy Central. For those of you who don't remember it or never heard of it, the show featured comedian Dave Attell visiting a different city each episode to explore that city's late, late night life. He usually started in the evening and would end as the sun came up, visiting various late nite or 24hr establishments, from bars, restaurants, gas stations, clubs, factories, and various random business including pawn shops, farms, you name it. It was as entertaining as it was informative.

A few of the episodes were one-hour long and featured Dave visiting an international city and would you believe, one of them was Tokyo! That particular episode was dubbed "Sloshed In Translation'. Unfortunately I missed that episode and haven't been able to find it anywhere online.

[You Make it Easy]

Long time no see, Glad to see this forum still around. Just finished watching Lost in Translation after sometime and thought of this place. Hope everyone is doing well out there!

[Clint]

Long time no see everyone. This place is like a familiar old friend. And like a time capsule. My last post here may have been more than 10 years ago. Here I am, again. I am thankful this forum still exists, for one day our words and bonds may one day disappear.

I may be older, but I can still think about the younger me in Japan, and go back to those carefree days of sakura, food and drinks, friends, outings, and life lessons.

Like a deep night in the izakayas of Japan, the memories of the film never leave me. Oh, the nostalgia. I definitely don't think about LiT as much as I used to, and I probably haven't seen the film in more than a decade, but it's what the film represents to me. A time of growing up, of a blossoming interest in Japan that took me there many times, of uncertainty, of feeling trapped in a relationship, of finding myself.

I hope you are all doing okay. In the last few years, I have had a number of setbacks as I developed chronic anxiety. The struggle is up and down. I now find myself almost totally in the dark at night, with a cup of tea and relaxing music, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

I see that some users have deleted all of their posts and moved on. I find comfort in this place and I'm glad it's still here. Kanpai. Here's to you, wherever you may be and whatever may have happened in the last few years, I wish you all well.

[redleader74]

Welcome Back!

In looking over my history here, I see that I actually disovered/joined this group in 2016, so many, many years after the movie came out. And though I never lived in Japan and never travelled there until 2016 (hence joining this group), my history with the movie goes way back to when it first came out...when a trip to Japan felt incredibly distance and impossible. Yet, I watched the movie many dozens of times as a form of escape to the distant, far, and foreign. Both the backdrop/location and the stories of the characters. How I long for that phase in my life again. The movie and now the place, is like a dear, dear friend. So glad that this group has survived this long.