My friend had shown up late that evening (he was pretty habitually late, come to think of it), and then we ended up staying past the last train, so we walked over to his place (he lived nearby, fortunately) and I slept there for a few hours and then I took the first train (5:00 a.m.) towards home in the morning.

How can I remember those details after seventeen years?  I can't!  Or more precisely, I couldn't, until I saw those parts again - in the video.  There is a scene looking across a train station platform.  My arm appears in the frame as I and the camera look at the time on my wristwatch as my friend walks up late & apologizing.  Later on, there are video clips of going to a convenience store on the way to my friend's place; me looking very tired there before catching a few hours of sleep on the tatami; me half-asleep in the morning when I got up (I actually went to the trouble in the morning of setting the camera on a bookshelf, aiming it at myself, and videotaping myself sitting sitting on the tatami, half-nodding off to sleep for a minute before finally getting up); the early morning streets; the trains back... I used to videotape everything.  While watching the tapes, the memories are roused.

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~LLLtrs/