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jin

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About Me

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My Interests

modern alienation, life, everything, nothing, musica, losing blood, ethiopian food, accupuncture, cupping, manipulating, scroll saws, casting bronze, working steel, being accident prone, stencils with aerosol pigment through them, suburban lonliness, throat singing, love making, breaking things, fixing things, living, dying, laughing...

I'd like to meet:

cross country drivers. rail riders. truckers. canadians. insomniacs. ice shavers. time travelers. tea brewers. stencilists. herbalists. elixerists. alchemists. bodhisattvas. you. me.

Music:

leonard cohen, kitajima saburo, tom waits, tv on the radio, enka, trott...

Movies:

tampopo, the gleaners and i, party 7, zatoichi, 12 monkeys, kikujiro, amelie, casino, leon, brother, ghost dog, fight club, awakenings, lost in translation, goonies, genghis blues...

Television:

youtube.
radio: this american life. radiolab

Books:

my sketchbook.
magazines: esopus, sculpture, cabinet, paste, national geographic...

Heroes:

mum and dad, sis. my friends.

My Blog

the hardest

comfortable places. luxuries. devices. resistance. mutabilities.are we doing here? stomach pains. migraines. controlled substances. thirty needles. austerity programs. lone. bars. roads. meals. surviv...
Posted by jin on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:56:00 PST

home.

after seven weeks on the road i have returned home. new perspectives. less fears. more hair. less weight. more friends. more enemies? over 6,000 miles. anonyminity. new identities? western wear. one d...
Posted by jin on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:23:00 PST

dispatch: it’s been so long

i've been away from home(?) so long that i've lost its definition. the trip was never intended as a "vacation"; rather as something more as an extended exercise. the lives have taken on their own. th...
Posted by jin on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:20:00 PST

dispatch: the bay

i finally made it out completely west. i can finally appreciate the splendor of it after travelling 3000 miles from the east coast to the wide open west.
Posted by jin on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:54:00 PST

dispatch

in some hours, i board a bus that will take me to a train station in another state. then i board a train that will take me across some land and down the coast for 30 hours. i've been away from home f...
Posted by jin on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:01:00 PST

montania

cold. cowboys. fall. mountains. big sky. hippies. i was at a bar last night. i had some scotch. i don't recall the name of scotch, but i had never heard it before. their top shelf was cutty sark and j...
Posted by jin on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:46:00 PST

new dilemma

going across the continent via autobus and train requires strict schedules. motoring is everything american. time to embrace the dream.
Posted by jin on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:53:00 PST

if

i had more hair on my head, asphalt wouldn't leave such marks.
Posted by jin on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:00:00 PST

another.

fast begins. again.cleanse. rejuvinate. heal. detox.
Posted by jin on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:27:00 PST

the past 24

my skin has been itchy. i think it's hives. maybe all the poisons and bad in my is trying to get out. maybe my body has had enough. i can't sleep.
Posted by jin on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:26:00 PST