Pinball, Arcade Games, Trance Music, Computers, L2, MMORPGs, Reading, Tattoos
Well, all my Myspace friends of course -- Who else would I want to meet that I don't already know?
Actually, I'd really like to meet Oral Roberts before he dies.
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Hifana - Wamono
Wamono means "Something Japanese" and is an interesting combination of shamisen [link] (which I wish I knew how to play) and other traditional Japanese music styles set to a modern beat backing. I showed one of my Japanese coworkers and he was disturbed by the combination - I how, however, am intrigued and love it. Of course I love electronica & raves.
Thanks SIM one [link] for posting this song on your profile and introducing them to me.
I double dog dare you to press play - if your like me, you'll not only do it once.
Sugar Soul - Garden
When I was flying from Guam to Japan to begin my schollarship I watched the video directly above from SugarSoul on the airplane for the first time. I think more than perhaps the total quality (which I still think is great) it is the nostalgia I feel listening to this song that makes it very cool to me. It was one of those things that happens and is a marker of a time of change in my life.
I know that probably most of you can't understand the Japanese lyrics [link] , but you can see the translation here [link] . The rapper is "Dragon Ash" - and while i'm not a rap fan at all, he did go on to be pretty famous.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Empire Records, Office Space, Botherhood of the Wolf
Aynn Rand, Robert Jordan, C S Friedman, more later