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Tana

bass player, backup vocalist and captain america for ETERNAL ELYSIUM

About Me

I LOVE TO ROCK! In November 2003 I moved to Nagoya to play bass for one of the original Japanese stoner/doom bands, Eternal Elysium. Crazy gigs, unbelievable antics and things that catch my gaigin eye will probably find their way into my blogs. And there may be occasional outbursts about sashimi, tsukemono, misonikomi or nihonshu. ETERNAL ELYSIUM check out the band's website! Extensive history, gigs and Okazaki's photo album from US Tour 2006.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

listening to and making music, watching and making films, eating and cooking tasty chow, reading, rocking out, life in Japan, things made by hand, languages and all of their particular quirks, a good laugh, tattoos, trips to the museum, trips to the flea market, trips to the fish market, trips in general...

I'd like to meet:

ETERNAL ELYSIUM's NEXT GIGS!!!!14 July, Osaka@Brand New~~~~~~ 29 July, Nagoya@Huck Finn, MOTOFEST 5th anniversary~~~~~~~~~~ Hope to see you there!!!

Music:

all sorts of fuzzed out, heavy, groovy, freaky music, especially from the late 60's and early 70's, but that's not all! Bang, Blues Creation, Captain Beyond, Black Sabbath, James Gang, Shinki Chen, Speed Glue & Shinki, Carol, Flower Travellin' Band, Can, Einsturzende Neubauten, Groundhogs, Tucky Buzzard, Grand Funk, Chrome, Helios Creed, Hawkwind, Jacks, Apryl Fool, Stooges, Bob Hocko and the Swamp Rats, Pentagram, very early Scorpions, ZZTop, Drunk Horse, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, Holly Golightly, Garadama, Birthday Party, Brant Bjork, Cows, Greenmachine, Easybeats, Fu Manchu, Spacemen3, Comets on Fire, the Mermen, Masters of Reality, Middian, Queens of the Stone Age, Acid King, Gorilla, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Jesus Lizard, Black Cobra, Of the Spacistor, Dixie Witch, Goatsnake, Church of Misery, the Dead Pan Speakers, Stinking Lizaveta, Hidden Hand, AmonDuul, Sonic Youth, Loop, Leafhound, Zebulon Pike, Ennio Morricone, John Zorn, Marc Ribot, the Congos, Happy Apple, FKG, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Miles Davis...

Movies:

Dead Man, Sharkskin Man & Peachhip Girl, Survive Style 5, Party 7, High Fidelity, Godfather I, II, Bladerunner, Fallen Angels, Chungking Express, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Lost in Translation, Vertigo, Touch of Evil, Time&Tide, Fist of Legend, Once Upon a Time in China I, II,III, Spirited Away, Kikujiro, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Tai Chi Master, Paris Texas, Groundhog Day, Ghostworld, Princess Mononoke...

Television:

japanese educational tv for kids, 70's samurai dramas, Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, Twilight Zone, Pat & Mat, Caprito, Star Trek, Dr.Katz

Books:

Writers: Haruki Murakami, JG Ballard, David Mitchell, Kurt Vonnegut, Ryu Murakami, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Raymond Carver, Franz Kafka, Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, David Sedaris, Jim DeRogatis, Henry Rollins...