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Gaijin Go Home

that darn dude

About Me

"[Emperor] Meiji was proud of the progress Japan achieved during his reign. A chamberlain recalled that when Meiji was approaching Osaka by train, he would excitedly yell out, 'We're getting close to the smoke capital!'" ************************************************ "From the moment of his landing, Aldous Huxley disliked Japan. Arriving with his wife Maria in the early spring of 1926 he found that "the air was cold and smelt of smoot," and that "we might have been landing in Leith in the height of a Scotch November." This was in Kobe. An afternoon train ride confirmed suspicions. All he could see from the window was "a sprawling collection of wooden shanties: a Japanese town. The largest of these fungus beds was Osaka."

My Interests

nanpa, happoshu, mammetspeak, famicom, minna no golf, pachislo, cassette mixtapes, nabeques, philadelphia sports, tachinomiya, fireworks, mamachari, izakaya, luddism, misanthropy, history, O.O.P., SkyGarden (R.I.P.), the cold war, bowling, pita pa, air-rage, the AK-47

I'd like to meet:

my family, the goons, john millius, that girl on that bridge during the tenjin matsuri a few years back

Music:

the world famous beatnuts, thomas dolby, scarface, eddie hazel, tuff crew, n.o.r.e., "cannibal" adderly, real live, d.i.t.c., tangerine dream soundtracks, biggie, boards of canada, marvin gaye, beanie sigel, freeway, mashed out posse, new trolls, warren zevon, david banner, likwit crew, kurupt, jay-z, giorgio moroder soundtracks, clipse, funkadelic, black sabbath, tv on the radio, steely dan, leonard cohen, ween, glenn gould, air french band, carter burwell, any heron doowop, crack rap or wizard rock, crystal king, stevie wonder, young jeezy

Movies:

five easy pieces, pickpocket, the wild bunch, point blank, i was born but..., trading places, pumpkinhead, glengary glenross, le samourai, space is the place, saint jack, above the law, the last detail, mcvicar, goodfellas, high and low, bad santa, kids return, commando, red dawn, scrooged, school on fire, island on fire, evil dead 2, the iceman cometh (eugene o'neil version with lee marvin or HK version with yuen biao), miami blues, blue collar, eastern condors, where eagles dare, baby cart assassin (part 2), hickey and boggs, chi to hone, kokkurisan, straight time, force of evil, miller's crossing, barton fink, the big lebowski, general idi amin: a self-portrait, antarctica, the fortune, the fog of war, ikiru, punch drunk love, carlito's way, otoko ha tsurai yo, robocop, hardcore, they live, sans soleil, the third man, the aviator, anything with john cazale

Television:

the prisoner, curb your enthusiasm, tom and jerry, miami vice, chappelle's show, courageous cat and minute mouse, animal planet, youkai ningen bemu, hokuto no ken, tales of the gun, major league baseball, nippon professional baseball, the NBA, sumo, the wire

Books:

a fan's notes, the burglar, notes from underground, no longer human, how to talk dirty and influence people, essays in idleness, the magic christian, red harvest, the historical fiction of mori ogai, embracing defeat, big sur and the oranges of hieronymus, the quiet american, after the plague, tooth and claw, botchan, the long goodbye, japan at the dawn of the modern age: woodblock prints from the meiji era, the spy who came in from the cold, kokoro, the fall, a boy and his dog, bill james' win shares, the forever war, silence, split images, no country for old men, the killer inside me, pop. 1280, the rise of theodore roosevelt, theodore rex, wiseguy, the blind pig, lew archer detective novels, for men with yen: a guide to the japanese hostess system, killing pablo, emperor of japan: meiji and his world, a long day's journey into night, in praise of shadows, hitchcock/truffaut, the things they carried, sergio argones' a mad look at...

Heroes:

richard sorge, the invincible ironman, orson welles, katsu shintaro, the ishihara bros.-yujiro and shintaro, kubrick, richard pryor, general nogi, lenny bruce, ultraman, brad jordan, george c. scott, louis winthorpe the third