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Aka O Miru

Back From Hell

About Me

Scottish graphic designer living in Toronto. You can take a look at my website here .
In case yiz wundrin', the name means "I See Red" in Japanese. Vaguely.
Muchos thanks to Mr DC Cardwell for tipping me off about this fine playlist application - Finetune . Here's one I made earlier...

My Interests

Music:


Split Enz; Phil Judd - Mr. Phudd hizzelf; ..
The Milk & Honey Band are a new favourite:
Lots of Japanese stuff - Shiina Ringo; Utada Hikaru; Quruli; Brilliant Green; Love Psychedelico; Hitomi Yaida; Soul Flower Union; Dragon Ash; Cymbals; Buffalo Daughter; Imani Coppola rocks my world (and now Little Jackie). Lauren Hoffman. Camper Van Beethoven; Cracker. Cindy Lee Berryhill. The Mutton Birds/Front Lawn/Don McGlashan. XTC. A lot of Canadian shtuff's not bad either - Weakerthans; Sarah Harmer; Arcade Fire; Metric; New Pornographers. Bis; Proclaimers. I could go on. But I won't.
Here's another Finetune playlist - showing my age with a bunch of New Wave-80's things... makes me happy.
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Movies:

Seven Samurai; Buster Keaton's 'The General'; Hitchcock; Singing In the Rain; Incredibles; Wallace & Gromit; Rushmore; When Harry Met Sally; Clue; Young Frankenstein; The Haunting (the original); Evil Dead 2.And Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Totoro) gets my God-like genius award.

Television:

Lost; The Avengers; Buffy; Black Books; Green Wing; Whatever decent British TV I can get here; Daily Show

Books:

George MacDonald Fraser; Alexandre Dumas; Dashiell Hammett; Ian Rankin; Peter F. Hamilton; Tintin; Krazy Kat; Anything with a good story basically.

My Blog

Why can't we all just get along guys???

OK, not going to come over all whole-bran, sandal-wearing beardy peace and love in this, but yoy! I hate politics over here. Mainly 'cos it's so bloody hard to get to the actual politics through the...
Posted by Aka O Miru on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:27:00 PST

Voices

Something that's been on my mind for a while, but inconsequential enough that I've not bothered to blog about it (then again, why blog at all? In this case... I'm doing my usual ADHD act at work, bopp...
Posted by Aka O Miru on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:05:00 PST

y ur head jus assplode?

I realized recently that a lot people (including a lot of people I thought were way geekier than me) don't know what a lolcat is - which led to me googling I Can Has Cheezburger. Which led in turn to ...
Posted by Aka O Miru on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:58:00 PST

The Cutting Edge of Archaeology

This morning I was reading on the BBC about the first archeological dig to take place within Stonehenge in 40 years. As far as these things go, I guess it’s a bit of a big deal. I remember the o...
Posted by Aka O Miru on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:46:00 PST

Another reason to hate Microsoft

Sorry if this one is a bit too techy, but I needed to vent... My recent move to a work laptop has forcibly stuck me back in Internet Explorer hell, thanks to a locked down system and proxy controls at...
Posted by Aka O Miru on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:15:00 PST

Flock of Seagulls Hair Ramblings

Just to scare the hell outta yez all, here's something that's always bugged me: if Flock of Seagulls had their hit or two around '83-'84, how old was Chandler when he was in college?  (yup, it's ...
Posted by Aka O Miru on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:51:00 PST

Music For Old Farts

Wow - two blog posts in one day! This is more liek a bulletin really, but I can't be bothered spamming everyone with my increasingly sad old fart music tastes... :)Once upon a time this site might hav...
Posted by Aka O Miru on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:05:00 PST

Sick, Sick, Sick

Right now, I'm really regretting reading an article about a game that's been generating some controversy lately - Manhunt 2. Don't know if you've heard of it, but it was submitted as an "Adults Only" ...
Posted by Aka O Miru on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:08:00 PST

A couple of random things today

So, still reading Kenneth Williams' Diaries - got up to 1981 and found this interesting entry:Monday, 27 July, 1981"Watched the 'Panorama' programme about Iraq and it was the usual pious rubbish about...
Posted by Aka O Miru on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:59:00 PST

One of us... One of us...

So, over on the Frenz forum (yup, still check in there fairly regularly.. mostly out of habit...) Peter Green just posted the news about the release of Luton - maybe the Enz equivalent of the Smile se...
Posted by Aka O Miru on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:52:00 PST