Hokkaido Popsicle

I just read this book by Isaac Adamson called "Hokkaido Popsicle" which is really funny. He goes on wierd little tangents in the middle of the book which have nothing to do with the story. I just have to excerpt one bit for you here- don't worry, it will not give you any clue about the story, but will give you a great example of Adamson's writing style:

" Every time I got a song stuck in my head I thought of Yunbo Umezawa, the lead singer of Autumn Wind. During a free show in Yoyogi park back in the eighties he was leaping around stage and cracked his head on the mic stand. He tried to soldier on, but they had to stop the show because the only song he could remember was "Postcards from Fuji." The condition didn't improve. He ended up visiting neurologists, Zen masters, Shinto priests, African witch doctors, Mongolian shamans, Malibu astrologers and when all else failed even a licensed psychiatrist. But it never got better. He could talk just fine, and even managed to write new song lyrics, but every time he opened his mouth to sing, out came "Postcards from Fuji." His loyal bandmates tried to make the best of it. They went into the studio and recorded the fifteen different versions of "Postcards from Fuji"- including a spoken-word version dubbed "Phone Call from Fuji" and a techno remix called "E-Mail from Fuji." Of course, Umezawa still sang the word "postcard" rather than "phone call" or "e-mail" in all the choruses. The album "Messages from Fuji" managed to chart, thanks to an ingenious marketing tie-in campaign featuring a booklet of actual postcards of Mt Fuji designed by famous artists, but it was a trick you could only pull once. The band split. Yunbo, last I heard, was working at Mt Fuji as a tour guide. "