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james

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

i like to identify the cameras in peoples' MySpace mirror shots (sad but true).

.. my yahoo LAUNCHcast radio station profile (give it a listen!) ^^
@ MSN Spaces (Japanese blog)
@ Yahoo 360

My Interests

• electronic dance music
• underground (positive) hip hop
• digital photography
• graphic design-ey stuff
• close friends
• clubbing for the music
• energy drinks
• trying to get people to type in their xanga again
• tea
• macro mode
• an unhealthy obsession with portable electronics
• really strong mints
• being half japanese and african-american
• JAPAN
• the minceyFreshest station at pandora.com
• that's what it's all about.

v(^o^)v

I'd like to meet:

cool + nice people.

old friends from MPC and Obirin, too.

oh, and about my top friends list ...

Music:



Movies:

Mostly mindless (but well-choreographed) action movies, and some comedies: Appleseed, The Matrix series, Blade II, Go, Groove, The Big Hit, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Skyline Cruisers, Swordfish, The Incredibles, Lost in Translation, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Batman Begins, Unbreakable (Thank you Joe & Rik!), The Others, Fearless

Books:

Mixmag, Blade of the Immortal, graphic design magazines & books

Heroes:

Martin Luther King, Jr, all Black electronic DJs (Frankie Knuckles, DJ Mehdi, Tony Humphries, Jeff Mills, Tayo, Todd Terry, Felix Da Housecat, Derrick Carter, Donald Glaude, Charles Feelgood, Carl Cox, DJ Heather, LTJ Bukem, Fabio & Grooverider, Smokin Jo, etc, etc), Shepard Fairey, James Lavelle, Mike & Chris Hybrid, Tetsuya Mizuguchi , BT, The Designers' Republic

My Blog

Ill be guest DJing on Tyler & Mikes radio shows!

You can listen (and watch, haha) at:http://tat.csumb.edu/radiothen click on "Listen Live!"I should be on around 9:30 pm... I think. ...
Posted by james on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:40:00 PST

mixset 2: eBreaks!

I just finished my second mixset (though I'll consider this my first official demo mix), which I'll call eBreaks, as it's comprised mostly of breaks with a bit of electro house (though the two genres ...
Posted by james on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:52:00 PST

thanksgiving... in english

(note: I started writing this last night, but fell asleep. I suppose that's what happens when you type on your bed after a BIG dinner...)Apparently, if one were to google "how to say happy thanksgivin...
Posted by james on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:43:00 PST

my first mix! \(^o^)/

I finally came up with my first mix on Monday evening... It started as just being those three tracks I was talking about in my last post, but I just kinda decided to keep it going for a few more track...
Posted by james on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:38:00 PST

waking up with ideas for a mix

Hi. I just woke up. I always sleep with my iPod playing at a low, ambient volume, and while I was in bed just now, Paul van Dyk's "In Between" album was playing. The track "Let Go" featuring Rea Garve...
Posted by james on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:45:00 PST

photos from the bt show (will update more later)

Here are the photos from the BT show at Temple this past Friday. I really need to go to sleep, so I'll write a description of the night (and possibly post some videos if I ever get around to...
Posted by james on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:28:00 PST

aki

Well, now I know that typing in Japanese doesn't work on my MySpace blog...The entry was supposed to look like this.??????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????? ??????se...
Posted by james on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:27:00 PST

bt @ temple sf 11/9 || stoneface & terminal @ 1015 11/23

A couple of upcoming shows:BT will have a Laptop Symphony set at a club called Temple in San Francisco this Friday, the 9th of November. I've never been to this venue before, but I hope that the place...
Posted by james on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:49:00 PST

macbook & xponent || dj krush @ mighty || house of the rising dead (halloween rave) @ csumb

My Macbook arrived!I ordered the Macbook last Monday, and I found out that Leopard (the Mac OS update) would be shipping with all Macs that were ordered anytime after the OS hit stores (which was the ...
Posted by james on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:21:00 PST

earthquake in cali || dj mag top 100 07 || gotta learn how to properly use the flash on a dslr

I hate earthquakes. Always have, always will. The only time I'd ever gotten accustomed to them was when I lived in Tokyo for a year, where they were pretty frequent. You'd assume being a northern Cali...
Posted by james on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:30:00 PST