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Jesse

Girl, I'm just tryin' to ship a rib.

About Me

If stores employed cute animals as salespeople, I would be in ridiculous amounts of credit card debt.

An unfinished website

aim = xjcrx

My Interests

Japan
playing music
learning how to speak Japanese
sci-fi
animals
cooking + eating
record collecting
sneezing
riding my bike/lifting weights

I'd like to meet:

People who know what they want.
Rose McGowan.
Fellow hot dog fans.
Somebody with a good muscle toning regimen for me to try.
Your cat or dog.
Somebody looking to do some Japanese-English language exchange.

Music:

Discharge
They Might Be Giants
Oingo Boingo
Gauze
Reatards

Movies:

Some of my favorite directors:
Terry Gilliam
Peter Jackson
Sam Raimi
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Miike
Takeshi Kitano
Luc Besson
Lucio Fulci
Dario Argento
genres: horror, sci-fi, fantasy, adventure

Television:

Futurama
Arrested Development
X-Files
Scrubs
Lost, if it ever gets good again.

Books:

Edward Gorey
Roald Dahl

Heroes:

Robin Bougie

My Blog

Osaka Report vol. 7

Osaka Report vol. 7Long time no see!  I've been busy over the summer, so hopefully there will be something of interest to everyone in this report.Summertime in Japan is a little like summer in Wa...
Posted by Jesse on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:35:00 PST

Summer vacation plans

Not that it's a proper summer vacation, as it's only two weeks long, but I'm saying goodbye to Japan in August and coming back home.  Sort of.August 14 I will arrive in DC and then fly to Palm Be...
Posted by Jesse on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:32:00 PST

A series of good events

Wednesday - got a package from Tony with the new GOVERNMENT WARNING, TIME TO ESCAPE and WASTED TIME 7"s.  Enjoyed listening to those and recalling old shows.Thursday - got my internet working at ...
Posted by Jesse on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:48:00 PST

Osaka Report vol. 6

Osaka Report vol. 6Vacation in Kyushu!!I had lived in Japan for close to nine months and had yet to take a proper vacation.  I had a couple of days off in a row thanks to some friends, so I decid...
Posted by Jesse on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:38:00 PST

Pictures from Ben's visit to Osaka

My friend that I met in Japanese class, Ben, came to visit Japan over the past week and I was lucky enough to get to show him around a few days during his visit.  I was also lucky enough to have ...
Posted by Jesse on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 05:47:00 PST

Osaka Report vol. 5

Osaka Report vol. 5There is no good way to start this report.  I haven't written one of these in a while simply because I feel like nothing terribly exciting has been happening.  Up until tw...
Posted by Jesse on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:24:00 PST

Osaka Report vol. 4

Osaka Report vol. 4This report comes a little more than a month after its predecessor and I can't pinpoint the reason for that; it's not that I've been really busy or bereft of conversation topics, ju...
Posted by Jesse on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:23:00 PST

26!

Well, I've turned 26 here in Japan, but I suppose I'd still be 25 back home.  Either way, it doesn't feel too different.  Waking up this morning after being out at the bar, I was full of ene...
Posted by Jesse on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:19:00 PST

Bad news everybody

The Nike store here takes credit cards.  Guess what I'm going to be this Halloween!...
Posted by Jesse on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:25:00 PST

Osaka Report vol. 3

Osaka Report vol. 3It has been a month since my last Osaka Report - I can't honestly say that that much has happened, but maybe once I start typing things will appear differently.  The biggest ne...
Posted by Jesse on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:35:00 PST