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Steve

How Yoo Dooin?

About Me

I worked with international students at UCR and envied their opportunity to travel and go to school, so I decided that's what I had to do. I finally decided to return to school fulltime and I have traveled to Japan, Korea and China for my study abroad program. I am also studying photography, Japanese, and classical guitar.

My Interests

Art, Music, Revolution, Ontology, Cultural Anthropology, Japanese Language, Photography, I am also creating an .. photo album here

I'd like to meet:

Robert Anton Wilson, he who lights the way for others will hopefully do so in the next life; godspeed and farewell.in this dimension January 18, 1932–January 11, 2007

Music:

Been listening to a lot of Immortal Technique, Tool, Sons and Daughters, From Monument to Masses, Grinderman, Condor44, Tom Waits, Utada Hikaru, Marvin Gaye, John Coltrane and Sonic Youth, oh yeah, Peeping Tom and Nine Inch Nails as well.

Movies:

True Romance, The Killer, Shiki Jitsu (Ritual), Edward Scissorhands, Fight Club, the first three Star Wars movies, the cinematic style of David Fincher, the storytelling of Kurosawa and Miyazaki films, the unbridled fun of Robert Rodriquez, The dialogue of Tarentino, if I don't stop now the list will get to long.

Television:

The new Battlestar Galactica Frakin' Rocks!!!

Books:

Cosmic Trigger, Guerilla Warfare, Farenheit 451, 1984, anything by Chomsky, stuff like that.

Heroes:

I don't believe in Heros, but there are people who's work I respect ; Noam Chomsky, Robert Anton Wilson, Les Claypool, George Orwell, Tom Morello, Bill Hicks, Robert Rodriguez, Triumph the insult comedian dog, to name a few.

My Blog

China to New York

I'm just getting situated here in New York and in the last part of my Friends World journey.Since it is the last leg, I am kind of forced to loo k back at the experience. The other day in class we were...
Posted by Steve on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 04:56:00 PST

Hiko Live!!

The other night I got to see Hiko and his band Akachochin play live. Here are some pics.His band plays blues and funk, they covered James Brown and Maceo Parker, Hiko did such a good job, it was like...
Posted by Steve on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 03:24:00 PST

Samui! (it's cold)

Right now it's about 34 degrees and snowing a little, how is it in California?/Today's weather in Kyoto: Showers High: 41° Low: 34°...
Posted by Steve on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:17:00 PST

Podcast!!

If anybody is interested, I just posted my first podcast , and its about Enka. check it out on  my Academic blog. yeay me....
Posted by Steve on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:05:00 PST

Academic Blog

Hey, sorry I havn't been blogging as much, but I had a few problems with the laptop and I have been working on my Academic blog. I am learning about the bloggisphere and posting things related to my s...
Posted by Steve on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 04:14:00 PST

Takoyaki

Last night Hiko and brother Futa and I went to Hiko's uncles house in Shiga, which is East of Kyoto. Hiko's uncle who, in my opinion is a Takoyaki Master, prepared a fine feast of the delicious Japan...
Posted by Steve on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 08:42:00 PST

Superbowl

What I learned watching the Superbowl in Japan; The Japanese announcers are way too exitable, they show it 10 hours after it actually occures, and Jerome Bettis weighs 116 Kilograms. It just wasn't th...
Posted by Steve on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 07:27:00 PST

We don't need no water, let the .............. burn

Friday I had the opportunity to go to the Setsubun festival in Kyoto, this festival represents the driving out of evil sprits. The festival is highlighted by the torching of old objects that demons ma...
Posted by Steve on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 02:55:00 PST

Adding to the Collection

One of the coolest things for music lovers in Japan is the fact that you can rent CD's at the local Video store. Not only can you rent CD's but they have some obscure CD's. So the latest additions to ...
Posted by Steve on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 06:55:00 PST

Ramen Diary

My wonderful friend Toshiko picked up a magazine which reviewed some of the top Ramen shops in Kyoto. Because we both love Ramen, we decided that it would be our civic duty to systematically try all t...
Posted by Steve on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:16:00 PST