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justin

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About Me

i run a record label . all japanese bands/singers. psychedelic music? one of them, yura yura teikoku, has a myspace page here , but to be honest it's me pretending to be them. i also teach japanese to beginners in nyc and translate stuff. exciting news: the first issue of 'A Public Space' has a short story i translated - 'bloody self-portrait of a beast' by nakahara masaya (violent onsen geisha, hair stylistics). it just hit the stands, please take a gander. i also play music and have been in tens of bands , the majority of which were failures on both interpersonal and musical levels. the next one will be perfect though. the end

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

new yorkers interested in taking japanese language lessons from me.

Music:

spanish guitar. can. the jacks. les rallizes desnudes. alice coltrane. yura yura teikoku. 13th flr elvtrs. bvoredoms. harmonia. voidoids. phew. f.hardy. seeds. born against. inu. mulatu astatqe. zombies. v.u. dylan. tomokawa kazuki. fela. sun ra. various 'world' musics. german kraut classics techno house dance musics eeeeeetocetora.

Movies:

cats of mirikitani (www.thecatsofmirikitani.com), fela - music is the weapon, paris is burning, kuro tokage, jigoku, battle of algiers, blahblahblah