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natto beaner

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About Me

.construct. .deconstruct. .reconstruct.
I promise I will put some art up...someday...REALLY I will.

My Interests

pink yellow blue. color. texture. making stuffs, anything. learning something new everyday. admiring beauty in whatever form nature or man places before me. beautiful architecture. eating at new places. rumagging at thrift stores. finding new music. amassing more and more copic pens, until I have them all. painting. making lil books. doodling. randomly picking out books at the library. sitting under the shade during a hot day and listening to the rustle of leaves. conversing with the litho stones and etching plates. inking up a stone or plate. printing from a pressbed. tasting different kinds of coffee and teas. buying bread and pastries at Fujipan or the Patisserie. running up down in and around here and there. when the opportunity presents itself, hiking some trail. riding my bicycle. cooking and baking. perfecting my shazam at the bowling alleys. improvising on the piano. attempting to sew better and faster. knitting. trying to be a true uchinanchu. kicking it outside. achieving the method of getting the sufficient kind of sleep to where I can wake up feeling chipper and ready for the world rather than exhausted. taking out my fustrations in life by causing mayhem at rock shows. belting out at various karaoke joints. dancing. learning history and cultural historical stuffs. achieving the perfect harmony of continual change within the balance of constance.

I'd like to meet:

01. rabbits toting knives
02. humans
03. robots
04. humans posing as robots
05. robots posing as humans
06. people who do more than just take up space
07. other artists
08. people intereseted in art

Music:

AC/DC, Album Leaf, Alice In Chains, Aya, Bebel Gilberto, Björk, Cardigans, Fredric Chopin, Claude Debussy, Clever, Deerhoof, Depeche Mode, Dieselboy, DJ Harry, DJ Shadow, Earth Wind and Fire, Enon, Esthero, Etro Anime, Everything But the Girl, Exposé, Frost, GORILLAZ, Greenskeeper Pleetch, The Incredible Moses Leroy, Jamiroquai, Jun Yamamoto, Junior Boys, Kalapana, Kaskade, Klute, Kool & The Gang, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Late Night Alumni, Led Zeppelin, London Elektricity, Mae, MF Doom, Marisa Monte, Mozart, Mu-ziq, My Ex Is Dead, Naomi Pappelallee, Nine Inch Nails, Nobukazu Takemura, Pieter K, Portishead, Queen, The Radio Department, Radiohead, Ranier Maria, Ratattat, Rithma, The Russian Futurists, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sade, Santana, Sneaker Pimps, Solvent, Soulstice, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, TOOL, Tori Amos, Trio Electrico, Vince Guaraldi, Weekend Players, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Yasu exe, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 7-Hurtz...to name a few

Movies:

Amadeus, Blade Runner, Breakfast At Tiffanys, Bullitt, Coming to America, Elf, Farenheit 451, Forrest Gump, Giant, Gone With The Wind, Grave of the Fireflies, Howl's Castle, Jane Eyre, Kiki's Delivery Service, Lost In Translation, Mad Max, Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail, Oscar and Lucinda, The Pianist, Pulp Fiction, Roman Holiday, The Royal Tannenbaums, Sabrina, The Science of Sleep, Snatch, Spirited Away, Way of the Gun, Zoolander

Television:

...I really wish I had one right now...if I did I’d probably be watching something on PBS, Commedy Channel, History Channel, The Dog Whisperer, Dog The Bounty Hunter, Samurai Champaloo, or some cheeseball low budget early 1990’s Lifetime show.DVD Absolutely Fabulous Band Of Brothers Charlie Brown Valentine’s Martha Stewart Shows (pre incarceration time) Project Runway Seasons 1 & 2 Sesame Street (if it was strictly clips of 1970’s drug induced animations and still motion bits) Simpsons Seasons 1-? Sponge Bob Squarepants Season 1 X-Files Seasons 1-(before the plots lost all intelligeble content)

Books:

...PINK, Moholy-Nagy Experiment in Totality, The Chrysanthemum Throne, My Life: Marc Chagall, LIVE, Beauty Design, The Meaning of the Nonesense of the Meaning, 1,000 Italian Words, Boyhood to War, Elizabeth & Mary, A History of Medieval Christianity, The Complete Book of Heraldry, Taisho Chic, Paul Klee His Life and Works...

Heroes:

100th/442nd, my grandma and deceased grandpapee RIP, and all my granduncles, and grandaunts who endured that depression-Anti Jap-shit era and still came out golden. And to all others who endured a great deal of crap, but persevered through it and still maintained their moral goodness.

My Blog

you you you you you you you

My eyes wanna fall out of its sockets. Who are all these people reading my blogs. Who are you? My blogs suck. It has nothing to do with art or anything relavent, because my brain has temporarily, or m...
Posted by natto beaner on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:58:00 PST

where

I just finished a bunch of mini illustrations, but now I just have to photograph them, and web em up... gar anyone know a good wholeseler of oil based pens?
Posted by natto beaner on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:14:00 PST

you you you

BS is for Kobe beef ranchers. I wish more people could be more fourthcoming and frank. And to those who are, thank you for being you.
Posted by natto beaner on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:19:00 PST

not forever

Have you heard the bacterical susceptivity and shelf life of most cosmetics are about 1-6 months? And then it's advised, that you dump it, especially and more so for the liquid based stuff. The m...
Posted by natto beaner on Thu, 31 May 2007 08:40:00 PST

Oh what to do?!?

While I was picking up my lunch today, the main like server/worker dropped the freaking bomb. Damn it! Govinda's is going to be temporarily on hiatus from UH...for seven weeks! NO HEALT...
Posted by natto beaner on Sat, 05 May 2007 04:02:00 PST

doppelganging

Peter Frampton, lead singer from the Darkness (Justin Hawkins?)...any connection? Like genetically? Just wondering.
Posted by natto beaner on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:44:00 PST

Satura and Ajitama

The best new Jappy food joints in Hawaii I swear! Ramen, cakes and coffee!
Posted by natto beaner on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:14:00 PST

Ethno-music anyone?

Kind of going through a musical shift right now. Can anyone recommend stimulating ethnic or alternative music to me, alternative so far as not the atypical 104.3 crap. And please no reggae or indie po...
Posted by natto beaner on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:39:00 PST

algae energy

Bioastin. Any one tried or heard about this product? Supoosedly it protects the skin form the sun while giving energy at the same time. Which would rock because my skin is already discolored and dying...
Posted by natto beaner on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:08:00 PST

generate me some energy

Does anyone know any secrets, or products that can boost my energy? It's almost 1pm and I feel like road kill. I almost wish I was, because at least I could be sleeping. It's been like this for weeks....
Posted by natto beaner on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:06:00 PST