Woody Allen with an all-time joke
“I was thrown out of college for cheating on my metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.”
The world spent 30 years calling Japan 'behind.'
Still uses cash.
Still uses fax.
Still has tiny shops run by one old couple.
Then the world got 'ahead' —
and ended up lonely, rushed,
and scrolling at 2 AM.
Now the same people are flying to Japan
just to feel something they can't name.
A meal made by hand.
A street that's quiet.
A stranger who's kind for no reason.
Turns out Japan wasn't behind.
It just refused to trade away
the things that actually make a life.
For the first 4 years of our existence this is how Camper Van Beethoven toured the US. Perhaps you remember us pulling up to the local club in Kalamazoo MI, spilling from this van wearing our ironic Mexican blanket ponchos and accompanied by our ironic hippie girlfriends/boyfriends?