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Rodger

rodgerswan

About Me

I am a student of western michigan university currently studying at Keio University in Tokyo Japan. I am pursing a major in English, with a minor in Japanese. I upload videos about japan on my youtube channel: youtube.com/rodgerswan.

My Interests

Music, Movies, Sega, Walks, Dreams, Talks, Japanese Horror, dancing, and bits and pieces of acting, writing, singing, and drawing.

I'd like to meet:

This week's Tokyo Swan:

Music:

Depeche Mode, The Cure, David Bowie, Elton John, George Michael, Bee Gees, Daft Punk,ryuichi sakamoto, coldplay, rei harakami, saturn, kenji eno,strange change,the killers

Movies:

Crimes and Misdemeanors, Annie Hall, Bananas

Television:

the office

Books:

Sputnik Sweetheart, south of the border west of the sun, Ring, The wind-up bird chronicle, Hard Boiled Wonderland and the end of the world, a personal matter, Battle Royale, 1984, Botchan, The scarlet gang of asakusa, all she was worth, The River Ki, Snow country, Dance Dance Dance, Boogiepop and Others, the elephant vanishes, gravitation the novel, the ruined map, Boogiepop Returns, norweigan wood, confessions of a mask

Heroes:

Depeche Mode, Robert Smith, Elton, George Michael, Bowie, takashi miike, murakami haruki, sonic the hedgehog, the bee gees (r.i.p. maurice)

My Blog

Blue Moves

Hey everybody, well I'm going back to Japan again tomorrow for the last stretch of this study abroad program. It's been an incredible experience and one that's really allowed me to look closer at wha...
Posted by Rodger on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:58:00 PST

Come Undone

Hey everybody, Swan here. It's finals week here in Japan, but let's take some time to discuss some ongoing projects of mine, shall we? As time has gone by, I've watched my youtube videos slowly build ...
Posted by Rodger on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:29:00 PST

Saw Something

Hey everybody, swan here. Well, I've been back in the creek for a week, but going back to Japan again soon. To say that the last 3 and half months have been amazing would be an understatement& it rea...
Posted by Rodger on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:53:00 PST

Darkest Dreaming

Wow, it's been a long time since i've written in this thing. The last blog entry was on my first day of school here, and already i'm in the 10th week of school. In about 3 weeks now, i'll be back in B...
Posted by Rodger on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:04:00 PST

Dawn

Hey gang, I haven't properly posted a real update on here since the big move. As most of you surely know by now, I'm in Japan as an international student with Keio University. I'll just try and conden...
Posted by Rodger on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:01:00 PST

Postcards From The Tower of Babel.

Well, the time has finally come. Yup, in just a few short hours I'm about to fly to Japan (well, first I fly from Detroit to Dallas and then to Tokyo heh). It seems quite unreal to me, but I'm sure t...
Posted by Rodger on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:55:00 PST

Some Great Reward.

Hey gang. Wow, so much is happening, and loads more is set to happen very soon, but I am now officially done with working at GKC/Carmike Cinemas. Crazy! Imagine that, I started working there a crazy y...
Posted by Rodger on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:34:00 PST

Chasm.

"It's just a question of time..." Hey gang, Swan here with another update. Can you believe tomorrow is August? Furthermore, time is drawing nearer and nearer to my exit to Japan. I'll be on a plane ov...
Posted by Rodger on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:11:00 PST

Teaser

Now for something totally different. Normally I write long and detailed observations in here, but more often then not it's the simple things in life that bring joy to this boy's life. Anyways, I boug...
Posted by Rodger on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:29:00 PST

The Return of the Thin White Duke.

Greetings to everyone in myspace land! I felt it was a good time to jump on the soapbox here and just make some idle chit chat for a bit. Why's that? Because it seems I've fallen off the face of the ...
Posted by Rodger on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:54:00 PST