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About Me

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My Interests

---useless Japanese grammar ---Economist articles ---third world travel ---plotting exhibitionist schemes in San Francisco. Realizing that everything I write here is in Sartrian bad faith, but freely choosing to do it anyway. ----------------------Miyazaki typhoon swells---------------------- (see below) ------------------------------------------------------------ -- WWW.NOSOLICITING.TV (independent IPTV) ..

Music:

Bowie, Eno, Velvet Undergound, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pixies, Joy Division, Eastern Youth, Number Girl, Sam Prekop, Komeda, Elliott Smith, Specials, Black Heart Procession, Roots, J5, Tribe, Aesop Rock, Ugly Duckling, Puss N Boots Cuts Loose Volume 4, Hella, Deerhoof, Kinks, Woodie Guthrie, Wire, Talking Heads, Sigur Ros, King Crimson, Konk, Os Mutantes, Prefuse 73, Dani Siciliano, Polysics... the Beatles

Movies:

Wes Anderson, Takashi Miike, Beat Takeshi, Dangerous Liaisons, American Psycho, Donnie Darko, Shimotsuma Monogatari, Star Wars, Perfume, Pieces of April, and anything with Bolo Yeung, Richard Kiel, or Warwick Davis...ideally all 3 together.

Television:

Six feet Under, the State, Kids in the Hall, Airwolf, the Land of Frooz, Family Guy, 24, Lost.

Books:

Huxley, Hesse, Henry Miller, Ursula K LeGuin - the Dispossessed, Oe Kenzaburo - the Silent Cry (mannengannen no futoboru). Dostoyevsky - Brothers Karamazov, Graham Greene - the Human Factor

Heroes:

Bashar Assad (Western educated dictator of Syria), John Agnew (the geographer), Oe Kenzaburo, Michael Thies (ambivalently), ficticiously Shevek from the Dispossessed

My Blog

NBA, GRE, LDP

Forgive the retarded title... I think living here somehow instills a penchant for acronyms, since Japanese shorten every standard English word or name that gets incorporated into their ...
Posted by Justin on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:27:00 PST

Tokyo, Peanut Butter Wolf, and Communism

Somewhere in the nameless sprawling periphery of Shibuya my friend and I searched for an overpriced club called 'Air' while he told me of his ghastly experience on the train only a week befo...
Posted by Justin on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:37:00 PST

Broken legs, Bacterial infections, and Basketball

Under the guise of philanthropy, and to what extent vanity played a role I do not know, (but for me it was perhaps the prospect of "Guinness World Record" holder" on my...
Posted by Justin on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:47:00 PST

I've decided it's finally time...

...to start posting some Engrish. It is, after all, the one solace I have while being the town fob, to laugh at the asinine and more often than not lude T-shirts my elementary students wear, or ...
Posted by Justin on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:31:00 PST

Typhoon Nabi anally penetrates Kyushu

... so last Saturday I wake up at my usual weekend hour of 2 pm and decide to head to the store, unsatiated by the bowl of frosted coln frakes. I pull into the parking lot somewhat di...
Posted by Justin on Fri, 16 Sep 2005 04:44:00 PST

Summer English Camp with 18 little prepubescent bastards.

highlights include: jintori geimu, takarasagashi, suika wari, and mizu teppo fights. ...
Posted by Justin on Sat, 10 Sep 2005 12:45:00 PST

Katrina shaves the Bush, the latter finally gets a licking from the Right

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/political_wrap/july-dec05/bop _9-2.html meanwhile......
Posted by Justin on Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:13:00 PST