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Vanessa

I am here for Friends

About Me

Caught my eye

"Are you seriously telling me we could wind up staying here till we're babies? I can't do that. It's impossible to be cool and be a baby." The Cat

"A tumbleweed clichéd across the street." Rob Grant

Karenni Rainbow Foundation

My Interests

Free Burma
Japanese language
Wong Kar-Wai
David Lynch
Tran Anh Hung
Christopher Doyle
Cindy Sherman
Wing Shya
James Nachtwey
Haruki Murakami
NPR/PRI/This American Life

I'd like to meet:

People who want an arm wrestling challenge.
Or a Boggle challenge.
Milky Joe
The Midnight Barber

Music:



Movies:

In the Mood for Love
Fallen Angels
Chungking Express
Vertical Ray of the Sun
Solaris
Schizopolis
The House of Yes
Amelie
Lost Highway
The Pillow Book
Happy Accidents
Amores Perros
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Run Lola Run
Melvin Goes to Dinner
Rashomon
Fog of War
War Photographer

Television:

The new season...haven't figured out what is good yet but definitely Heroes, Ugly Betty, and The Office.

Books:

Anything Chanaw lends me or anything I can find that's in English and cheap.

Recently:
The Shadow of the Wind; The Nanny Diaries, The Kitchen God's Wife, Girl From the South; Brother & Sister; All Tomorrow's Parties; Freakonomics; Miss Wyoming; Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas; Independence Day [Richard Ford]; Lipstick Jungle; Backwards; Holes; About a Boy; The Sportswriter; The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Right now:
The Group: Pictures from Previous Lives [Granta]; The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

Heroes:

Aung San Suu Kyi
Ira Glass

My Blog

Stink Palm

Evan was able to make it back to Osaka before he left. We headed out to Shinsaibashi/Namba again and got a late dinner at Kichiri. After that we wandered around and Evan shot some pictures of me. We a...
Posted by Vanessa on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:23:00 PST

Five Years Later

I finally got to meet Evan in real life! I've been really busy this week so we only got to hang out for a few hours last night in Namba. And of course we did purikura!!    My shirt wa...
Posted by Vanessa on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:08:00 PST

No shrimp please

On Saturday Taka and I went to Shijo to see Yamamoto Seiichi...but it turned out to be a talk and not a show. Yeah...don't know how he missed that part but we didn't go. Taka's playing with him in Nov...
Posted by Vanessa on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:16:00 PST

Tags

MySpace trying to catch up with facebook: photo tags. I tagged most of my pictures--I don't work all week so I had a lot of free time (^-^)But it's not as easy to use as facebook's tagging. The doc...
Posted by Vanessa on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:04:00 PST

Nagoya

Last Sunday Taka, Daigo, Naomi, and I went to a show at Taka's university. I mainly went to see La Quiete but Ampere played a really good show. I finally saw Killie but I wasn't impressed. Before the ...
Posted by Vanessa on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:31:00 PST

Whats your vocabulary level?

Bored?  Want to test and improve your vocabulary? FreeRice.comIt's a sister site of  Poverty.com For every word you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice.  I like how the first ...
Posted by Vanessa on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:27:00 PST

Noise, Ice Cream, Alive

On Friday I went to Kyoto again. Taking full advantage of my new bike there. After Taka's class was over, we biked to Sanjo to Cafe Independants for a noise show. On the way we stopped to buy earplugs...
Posted by Vanessa on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:59:00 PST

Burma

I'm sure most of you have seen the news reports on the protests in Burma.  Uchida-san and I joined a campaign for Burma as representatives of our group, The Karenni Rainbow Foundation.&...
Posted by Vanessa on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:20:00 PST

Phone, Watch, Soda

I had a fantastic day on Sunday.  From the moment I woke up I knew it was going to be great!Met up with Taka in Shinsaibashi and we got Thai food at the no-outside-urination-place.  After that, I went...
Posted by Vanessa on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:49:00 PST

Ume no Hana

On Saturday, I met up with Taka's mother, sister [she's visiting from Australia], and brother [+ his wife and kid]. We went to a fancy Japanese style tofu restaurant. His mother had called ahead to ma...
Posted by Vanessa on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:19:00 PST