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chaori

silent corner and the empty stage

About Me

born and brought up in Tokyo, I feel sometimes it's a gift for my life, on the other hand I truly hate this country. due to national isolation, our country's culture couldn't mix up with the others, so it developed in haste...
i'll give you an example:
gothic culture is a minor one here, although we have some gothic clubs I can attend. most of the music or stuff i like is just for some geeks, not for sophisticated people who have fooking pompous gentrified drinks in some cafe in aoyama or azabu area... however, i must say my taste for music is different from my clothing style. sometimes i'm into cyber, gothic fashion, although i know just a little about that kind of music. maybe i'm not a person who is easy to categorize.
anyway, to avoid wasting time, I will put up some of my background and interests...
background
Schools: grew up in strict a "catholic" school...at least I can read and write.
Occupation: creative service for art work
Companies: just an employee of some company in the music industry
Affiliations: freemason (under the table)
interests besides the list on the left:
art/ witkin, Arbus, bosch, sawako goda, Gustave Dore, Edward Gorey, Paul Whitehead, Pre-Raphaelite, quey brothers, etc... the list goes on.
i'm INTO: black and very dark sense of humor, nice clothing, hair extentions, existentialisms, tarot, cabballah, well-done documentaries, and the kind of music listed on this profile.
NO thanks: disney, hello-kitty and other such "fancy" stuff, any religious exploitation, japanese pop, visual-kei.
i don't mind becoming friends with people who are into such stuff though. As a matter of fact, sometimes i myself send requests to cute girls who are into visual-kei, just because their looks are fascinating to me (just looking at their pages, i'm totally harmless). But don't expect me to "supply exclusive information" about any of those things just because i'm a japanese person who looks "goth-like" and lives in japan.

My Interests

observation, watching, peeping....


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I'd like to meet:

anyone who has the ability to communicate,
except people who are arrogant, because you know, I'm Japanese. i'm not good at replying to personal e-mails unless i know you in my real life, because my hidden personality tells me "you are NOT that friendly a person!"
then again, i've had several bad experiences in my internet history. well, it happens. because it's THE "internet"....
but comments are always welcome. i'll try to comment you back as soon as i can.
and if you are new in tokyo, and looking for cool industrial, gothic, and/or 80's clubs or something, i think i might be able to help you a little.

Music:

king crimson, rammstein, tool, peter hammill, van der graaf generator, robert fripp, peter gabriel, genesis and their solo works except phill collins' for disney movie, renessance(Annie Haslam era), camel, caravan, pink floyd, Roger Waters, porcupine tree, isis, anekdoten, depeche mode, air, ultravox(john foxx era), stranglers, 10cc, korn, ministry, PFM, gentle giant, pete sinfield, gordon haskell, i pooh, area, alti e mestieli, trevor horn(as a producer), tracy thorn, annie lennox, slapp happy, focus, nin, pig, orgy, metro, roxy music, brian eno, tubes, sparks, steve harley, the cockney label, tears for fears, under world, red snapper, early works of death in vegas+Filla Brazillia, prodigy, chemical brothers, propellerheads, the polyphonic spree, pulp, the charlatans, deus, imperial drug, three mile plot, space, nancy boy, strangelove, portishead, headrillas, lunatic calm, leftfield, tricky, orbital, kinky machine~realto, marion, atomic swing, (most band of crazy 90's brit), steely dan, todd rundgren (includes utopia), phillip glass, marler, bowie, apc, most of 70's progressive rock especially into unstablte mellotron sound, black, funk music, pat metheny group, manticore label, ,..too many to mention..

Movies:

B-grade movies, fellini's satyricon, all the movies related with monty python, the damed, death in venice by visconti, time bandits, Brazil, the night porter, withnail & I, bonfire of vanities, Rosemary's Baby, the wicker man, The Limey, Teorema, Track 29, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Henry & June, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Impromptu, Warlock, team america, some of james ivory's films, My Beautiful Laundrette, The Man Who Wasn't There, Summer of Sam, Eversmile, New Jersey, baxter!, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, turn on tune in drop out, million doller baby, palindrome, dead man, ciderhouse rules, gilbert grape, midnight movies, headbanger's journey, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, some of tim burton's films, as a director: seijun suzuki, ken russel, peter greenaway, Michael Haneke, the quay brothers, john waters, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Jan svankmajer, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Aki Kaurismaki, shohei imamura, Juzo Itami, todd solonds, and any of fellini and jodorowski's works.

Television:

black books, father ted, brass eye, the mighty boosh, a bit of fry and laurie, the it crowd, the league of gentlemen, monty python, kids in the hall, little britain, red dwarf, south park, family guy, Seinfeld, jeeves and wooster, the practice, house, twin peaks, x-files, 70's show, Brideshead Revisited, animal documentaries by BBC bristol, ridiculous comedy in comedy central, rescue me, 30 days, some of HBO drama: six feet under, curb your enthusiasm, etc...

Books:

kafka, p. suskind, bill bryson, books of blood by clive barker, Elias Canetti, terry pratchett, neil gaiman, p.g. wodehouse, red dwarf series, douglas adams, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, crack pot by john waters, bonfire of vanities, american psycho, the silent twins, the battle of brazil, sandman by hoffman, early works of stephen king, h.p.lovecraft, in cold blood, ray bradbury, satylicon by petronius, chamisso, some of e.m. forster, paul gallico, gunter grass, osamu ikeuchi, jakucho setouchi, and most of german and east europe litertures for their weired tales. comic: preacher, monster, koroshiya-ichi, noriko sasaki, nancy seki, Robert Crumb, edward gorey, american splender, rieko saibara, original moomin, hard to remember since i'm book worm...lots more, anyway.

Heroes:

jarvis cocker, christopher morris, David Attenborough, fellini, jodorowski, kafka, robert moog, leon theremin, timothy leary, john cleese, bill hicks, jeremy irons, richard e.grant, and mike pinder as a pioneer of mellotrons.

My Blog

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR "FIRST" LIVE IN TOKYO

please allow me to write in japanese this time,i can't describe this feeling in english...coz i'm not native english.nK‰ÝWfD__OWn ^ van der graaf generatorLPtkWfj“heåhDFËåü¹’åc_n‚l+`hDFn...
Posted by chaori on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:10:00 PST

if you love britsh comedy and living in japan...

"HOT FUZZ" will be finally runnig in tokyo.thanks for huge fan's enthusiastic movement,"HOT FUZZ" (directed by edger wright, starring simon pegg, nick frost / team of "shawn of the dead") will be on t...
Posted by chaori on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:25:00 PST

club walpurgis

for those who live near by tokyo,why don't you come to club walpurgis tomorrow night?this would be last time that they do this club monthly. i have to blame myself since i haven't been there so often....
Posted by chaori on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:35:00 PST

thanks for people coming by "welcome party for voltaire"

my mission had completed! those who coming by party for voltaire,thank you very much, and hope you enjoyed that night!thanks to naoto for co-organizinig. and all our thanks should go to maya who helpe...
Posted by chaori on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:15:00 PST

welcome party for Voltaire

For those who love Voltaire in Tokyo, or the nearby areas included, There will be a party for Voltaire at Urga in Shinjuku on Monday, November 26th.  It will be "open bar," and some snacks will p...
Posted by chaori on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:41:00 PST

my first survey

TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey Name: kaori Birthday: Friday, 13th (it's true!)Birthplace: Tokyo Current Location: Tokyo Eye Color: dark brown Hair Color: black Height: 160cm Right Handed or Left...
Posted by chaori on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:40:00 PST

What Tarot Card are You?

  You are The Empress Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation. The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents, beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and ...
Posted by chaori on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:15:00 PST

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Posted by chaori on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 04:27:00 PST