Tattoos, writing, daydreaming, rock and roll, classical music, blues, traveling, coffee, green tea, Thai food, Thailand, Japan, Kyoto, Japanese food, Indian food, rainy days, autumn, Jameson's Irish Whiskey, sake, Singha, Asahi, listening to music on my iPod Nano, reading, Buddhism, Buddhist Temples, French Impressionism, Monet, Edward Hopper
Just looking to connect with people who share the same passion I have for life. My 15 Minutes of Fame: Winning the "Best Japanese-style" Tattoo Contest at Jimmy Wong's 1st World Tattoo Arts Festival and Exhibition in Bangkok, February 2006. Traditional Japanese-style tattoo by Horisei New ink by Yuuki (a.k.a. Betty from Yokohama) My very good friend and brother Kenny Shangrila Meeting Mayumi, the wife of Hiroyoshi III at the Yokohama Tattoo Museum
Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, Fastball, The Beatles, Buckacre, Johnny Thunders, Ramones, Stiv Bators, Stray Cats, New York Dolls, Pixies, Green Day, Neil Young, She Wants Revenge, Eagles of Death Metal, Queens of the Stone Age, Fall Out Boy, Raconteurs, Devo, Ultravox, Iggy Pop, MC5, Elvis Costello, Velvet Underground, The Pretenders, The Clash, Stiff Little Fingers, The Damned, Bauhaus, The Cure, Lene Lovich, The Cramps, Talking Heads, The Jam, XTC, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Depeche Mode, Gang of Four, Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, The Who, Led Zepplin, The Eagles, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd
Lost in Translation, Broken Flowers, Scoop, Reign Over Me, Hoax, The Big Lebowski, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Seven Samurai, Ran, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Taboo, Seventh Seal, Jules and Jim, Almost Famous, High Fidelity, Pirates of the Carribean, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Mars Attack, Syriana, Vanilla Sky, The Godfather, Pulp Fiction, Scoop, Die Hard, The Blues Brothers, Star Wars, Metropolis, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Easy Rider,
My Name is Earl, CSI, The Office, 30 Rock, NCIS, Shark, CSI NY, CSI Miami, Cheers, Seinfeld, Barney Miller, Taxi, SCTV, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, The History Channel,
Ray Bradbury, Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Thomas Pynchon, Don Delillo, John Barth, Hunter S. Thompson, Cormac McCarthy; On The Road, Gravity's Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49, White Noise, Libra, Underworld, Mao II, Falling Man, Bob Dylan Chronicles, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Stranger in a Strange Land, Fahrenheit 451
My Mom, Jesus, The Buddha