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crystal

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

About Me

I am a handful. I am forever engaging my piehole without thinking. I aspire for my life history to not be put down lightly....it should be flung across the room with great force. I talk a lot. I believe A is A. I believe that the cure for boredom is curiosity. I also believe that there is no cure for curiosity. I plan to soon form a cult for the curious.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

sidekicks.

Television:

I like M*A*S*H*...Alan Alda is great. What else...I don't watch to much TV...I like Japanese Commercials!

Books:

Haruki Murakami - amazing, William Gibson, Barry Gifford, Ian Banks - Loved his new one Dead Air, Clive Barker, De Bernieres - Latin American 3 are some of the most sensual prose I've read, let see, Bukowski, Jim Thompson, Rand, Raymond Carver, Dorothy Parker, Eudora Welty, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Updike, Dorothy Allison has a great raw twist on poor white trash, Jeanette Wells' book The Glass Castle was amazing, I liked James Frey's shotgun writing style, Wally Lamb, Peter Carey, Edward Albee, Mamet, Neal Cassidy, Ryu Murakami, Isabelle Allende and Sandra Cicerno, Early Ursula Le Guin, Love John Irving, David Sedaris - seriously almost wet my self reading him, all of Chuck Palahnuik's books - had to look up the spelling on him, Phillip K Dick, Katherine Dunn - Attic was a little wierd, some Tom Wolf, Loved Fast Food Nation, Loved Hubert Selby Jr, Harper Lee, Gregory Maguire, Augusten Burroughs, C.S. Lewis, wow, with Natalia coming into the Chronicles of Narnia I've gotten to reread some great ones! Just finished Anne Patchett's Bel Canto and Patron Saint of Liars...Patron saint was great...the bottom fell out at the end of Bel Canto, but it was a great read......just finished Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark and was pleasantly surprised. Shirley Hazzard - The Great Fire was amazing. Jack Black - You Can't Win, was as well.

My Blog

Bumper cars in Japan

My brother and I took Natalia to this amusement park one time to ride the rides. Six flags it was not, but Natalia loves it because the height requirement for the roller coasters is based on...
Posted by crystal on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:37:00 PST

Natalia’s Take on Diamonds

When Natalia was six years old she stood up and announced to her class that if you put a stick up you ass, in two weeks it will turn into a diamond. Dead serious.   This sounded f...
Posted by crystal on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:11:00 PST

Embarrasing Tokyo Moment

One thing that still strikes me about Japan after living here for 9 years is how polite the people are. Everyone. They bow hello and goodbye, and can been seen coming dangerously close to giving them...
Posted by crystal on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:09:00 PST

F*%$#@*$L

One of my favorite memories of Natalia puts us on a crowded bus, in Tokyo, heading back to our apartment in Ebisu after shopping all afternoon in Shibuya. She was about four and a half at the time, w...
Posted by crystal on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:13:00 PST

Dentist creeps

I took Tali into the dentist today...she has a tooth coming in and the baby tooth hadn't fallen out yet so I figured they'd pull it. I did not know what I was getting into. I sat there while this woma...
Posted by crystal on Thu, 17 May 2007 05:00:00 PST

I saw my grandma naked

I have always been competitive. I am the best of the best and the baddest of the bad. I will say, however, in my defense, that my ultimate goal was never winning, so much as having, or often times cre...
Posted by crystal on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:17:00 PST

bum thumb

A car door pinned my thumb into a guardrail and snapped it. I took a picture of it today while waiting for the RN to take out the stiches...how gross is that!!?! It looked a lot worse a week ago. Why ...
Posted by crystal on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 03:10:00 PST

free beer in Tokyo

It's funny, the rise in popularity for "diet" food in Tokyo has increased in tandem to the popularity of US fast food restaraunts. In 98 when I first came here, quite overweight, there were no diet fo...
Posted by crystal on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

V-day in Japan

I love Japan, and I love what it does with holidays....the Japanese have adopted many Western/European holidays, and made them their own. The is due, predominately, from the efforts of companies tryin...
Posted by crystal on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST