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Ken

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Please!

About Me

. .I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 ..I'm a 45 year-old male living in Japan. I love foreign cultures, I speak English and German (although it gets worse every day without any practice), but barely a word of Japanese (which shames me), although I am trying to learn. All the while, the translation dictionary people are getting rich off me................... Now, just recently, I have started teaching English to nice people in Fussa @ Curry Gon. http://curry-gon.seesaa.net Please join us Wednesdays @ 7:00pm...............I am an Anglophile at heart. I left the USA at age 6, and living in London from 1968 to 1972 was the most liberating time of my life. Then, I was fortunate to live in Munich for the next 11 years (until 1983)....................I returned to California for most of the next two decades until I was lucky enough to return to Germany from 2003-2006...................Now, since August 2006, I live just west of Tokyo (40+km), in Yokota (Fussa). We will be here for the next 1+ years...I really enjoy the friends I've met here. I do want to explore Japan................... London and Berlin are my favorite big cities - and I've already decided to add Tokyo to that short list!!!The Jam - Going Underground......Note Bruce Foxton's shoes. I wore those back then too! I even had a pair that were Red and Blue Suede with the White leather stripes!The Specials - Ghost Town......Sorry I couldn't find the full length vid!Two of my favs! Billy and Billy!!!. The Clash -- This is Radio Clash
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My Interests

Food, travel, music, culture, beer, football (i.e. soccer), baseball, Pugs . .. . .. .. ...

I'd like to meet:

I'd really like to meet someone here in Japan who can help me buy concert, baseball and soccer/football tickets...someone who'd might like to be friends...for more than just convenience! I'd like to learn from them, and perhaps, I could show them something about us.I'd like to have them over for a BBQ, maybe go to a football match or a baseball (yakyu) game! If a concert sounds good, I'd love to go with a friend! Adelver and I both love Japanese food and culture.I'd also like to meet all those in my "Heroes" "Music" and "Friends" lists that I haven't already met..

Music:

Elvis Costello, The Clash, The Jam, Madness, The Specials, The Beat, The Selecter, The Enemy, The Rifles, The Dead '60's, The Beatles, XTC, Joe Jackson, The Cure, They Might Be Giants, Green Day, Rancid, The Lost Weekend UK, Milburn, The Ordinary Boys, The Kinks, The Who, Billy Bragg, Weird Al Yankovich, Black Uhuru, Sly and Robbie, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Toots and the Maytals, Augustus Pablo, John Cooper Clarke, The Bad Spellers, Stiff Little Fingers, Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols, Ben Folds, Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, Less Than Jake, Kemuri, DVDA, Fingerbang, Talking Heads, Squeeze, Secret Affair, Mike Oldfield, Todd Rundgren, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Daryl Hall, John Oates, Gary Numan .....................Get this player (because if you're using Flash 9, MySpace will have disabled the link in the player itself)
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Movies:

The Great Escape, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Blazing Saddles, Team America (World Police), Life of Brian, Holy Grail, Hope and Glory, A League of Their Own, Airplane, Young Frankenstein, Gandhi, The Filth and the Fury, Tampopo, The Pink Panther, Star Trek IV (the Voyage Home), The Thunderbirds, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Das Wunder von Bern, Goodbye Lenin!, Fahrenheit 911, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Rutles, This is Spinal Tap, Eat Drink Man Woman, Take it or Leave it (Madness), Quadrophenia, Chariots of Fire, Love Actually, Milo and Otis, The Aristocrats, History of the World (Part 1), A Hard Day's Night, Goal'66, Rude Boy (The Clash), A Clockwork Orange ..

Television:

South Park, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Desperate Housewives, The Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, Family Guy, The Simpsons, The Office, Extras, Ali G, Bill Maher, Dave Chappelle, Mind of Mencia, Red Dwarf, Alan Partridge, The Mighty Boosh, Soap, The Critic, Pinky and the Brain, Animaniacs, Doctor Who, Iron Chef, the news (any news, doesn't matter to me...just something to shout at from time-to-time)

Books:

All Quiet on the Western Front, music bios, sports, history, political humour/satire, travel and food. Ooh, and, of course, every History Major's fav...The Communist Manifesto (1849). .

Heroes:

Joe Strummer, Elvis Costello, Mel Brooks, Vin Scully, Tommy Lasorda, Karl Marx, Peter Sellers, Bill Maher, Sasha Baron Cohen, George Carlin, Billy Bragg, Bill Hicks, Bill Bailey, Ade Bailey, Walter Alston, Rosa Luxembourg, George Harrison, all the Pythons, Jackie Robinson, Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Tilly, Bruce Thomas, Orel Hershiser, Matt Freeman, Mike Dirnt, Bruce Foxton, Billie Jo Armstrong, Branch Rickey, Karl Liebknecht, Paul Simonon, Mark Freeman, Arthur Ashe, Tre Cool, Gerry Anderson, Jesse Owens, Billy Bremner, Alan Clarke, Robbie Shakespeare, Sly Dunbar, Mickey Hatcher, Rhoda Dakar, Ervin 'Magic' Johnson, Eddie Izzard, Mia Hamm, Andres Escobar, Steve Garvey, Nolan Ryan, Tony Gwynn, Sylvia Thompson, Blake Edwards, H. Ross Perot, Rosa Parks, Evans K., Geoff Hurst, Bobby Moore, Gordon Banks, Marshall Faulk, Johnny Carson, Mark Spitz, Pauline Black, Koozie Johns, Mike Scioscia, Todd Rundgren, Leo Fender, Les Paul, Dave Williams, Bob Newhart, Weird Al Yankovich, Wayne Gretzky, Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Kirk Gibson, Fernando Valenzuela, Sir Paul & John, Ringo too. Mick Jones and Topper, and, of course, Adelver, my wife and Max..our Pug. . .
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My Blog

HK & China Trip Cancelled

Sorry for another short blog, but due to a tweaked neck and back @ Punkspring 08, I will have to cancel my 3 week tour of China.  I should have avoided the crowd surfers!Keep in contact,Cheers,Ke...
Posted by Ken on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:29:00 PST

A Stop-gap Blog

Dear Friends,I’ve got lots of stuff to share and pics as well, but, I’m off to Kyoto this weekend.  So, I’ll try to get myspace going after this weekend!Thanks and Cheers,Ken...
Posted by Ken on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:29:00 PST

Happy Pi Day

I know, it’s really geeky...but, today it 3.14!  Pi Day!Cheers & LoveKen
Posted by Ken on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:52:00 PST

March Madness!

It’s March again!NCAA Basketball, Spring Training for MLB, the last couple of months in the European Football season...what a great time!This weekend we head-off to Nagoya for the Fertility Fest...
Posted by Ken on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:14:00 PST

A Complete Shock!

Wow!  What a break!!!  There were enough cancellations that I was able to grab two ducats to MLB's Opening Day @ Tokyo Dome between the defending World Series Champions Boston Red Sox and th...
Posted by Ken on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:26:00 PST

Just an opinion!

I am quoting a letter to the editor of the Japan Times from Bob L. Plunkett."Martin Luther King Jr. expressed this idea very pointedly when he made the following statement: "Cowardice asks the questio...
Posted by Ken on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:44:00 PST

None the "Wise" -r

Did LUFC lose Dennis Wise, or did he lose us?I want to thank Mr. Wise for helping Leeds to become a better football club.  Maybe this was as far as he could lead this club.  But, I expect De...
Posted by Ken on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:44:00 PST

935 False Statements!!!

Indeed, Stars And Stripes buried this story in the gutter of page 10, but this is an indictment of the entire Bush administration!I am now going to directly quote portions of the AP article for you:"A...
Posted by Ken on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:09:00 PST

Oh Wow!

San Diego Super Chargers!!!!Who would have thought that the post-Shottenheimer Chargers had a chance?Ok, next week we'll have our asses handed to us by the Patroits!  But...so what?We won as far ...
Posted by Ken on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:50:00 PST

China Trip 2008

Dear Friends,Yes, I will be making my first overseas trip in almost two years from April 17th to May 8th.  My destinations are Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing.If anyone has advice on travel in Ch...
Posted by Ken on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:26:00 PST