sonic in Tokyo

2012-01-11T02:31:00.001-08:00

Playing cards are also known as the Soldier's Bible or "The Soldier's Almanack, Bible And Prayer Book." During the North African Campaign, a bunch of soldier boys had been on a long hike. They arrived in a little town called Casino. The next morning being Sunday, several of the boys went to church. A sergeant commanded the boys in church.After the Chaplain read the prayer, the text was taken up

2011-10-03T04:59:00.000-07:00

Although I've been back every year for holidays, I'm now living in Tokyo again and have been for the last 4 months. I've got everything I thought I wanted, and more. But am I happy?I spent a good portion of my life getting to this point, but as we close in on a visa application, a new apartment, new work opportunities... what does it all mean? I'm so busy I've stopped telling my own story. You

2011-07-17T08:13:00.001-07:00

A new friend set me on a massive nostalgia trip through my archives...I found this little nugget from an old blog I used to read before I could read Japanese called Masamania"We are in advanced tragedy.Before time, Japanese samurai commit hara-kiri that is suicidal belly cutting. The reason of hara-kiri is to show brave mind to irresponsible chicken people. This spirit is taken over by the

2011-06-29T21:43:00.000-07:00

I use Rikaichan (actually I use Rikaikun on chrome, but it's the same thing).And I used to use the popjisho textbox, but I figured I might be able to just dump text into the HTML and use Rikaichan in the same way... well... it works!It's a lightweight implementation, much faster than popjisho: http://jibjub.com/r/

2011-05-26T17:12:00.000-07:00

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2010-10-05T05:08:00.000-07:00

I'm now back in Melbourne. I miss Japan though, I want to go back.I don't think I'll ever feel truly at home until I can somehow combine Australia and Japan.It's amazing how tradition shapes almost everything, from the automatic bathing capsules to the fresh towels before meals. Some of those traditions you want to adopt, because they make sense, are more comfortable or are simply a better way of

2010-10-03T08:20:00.000-07:00

Seiji and I visit Arashiyama...

2010-09-27T00:43:00.000-07:00

Another photo from the castle...

2010-09-26T19:46:00.001-07:00

Both are broccoli, one just does a better job of hiding the truth.More from Kyoto!It's a castle, Nijō Castle.Black pepper parfait.I met up with some old school mates and we had more cheese croquets.I even got to go life drawing last night, the model was of course amazing. It was very different to the casual classes back home. They turn off all the lights and have a single spot light on the model.

2010-09-22T01:51:00.000-07:00

It's been a long time since I was in Kyoto last.京都はすごい久しぶりだよ。In retrospect, I don't think I found my "zen".実は私の「禅」の事を見付けませんでした。Never the less, we found lots of gardens.すかし、自然の「ぜん」いっぱいすぎる！良かった。But then, maybe that's the same thing?でも、自然と禅は同じ事だべさ？I thought I forgot my camera charger, but it was in my bag the whole time. I didn't get to take many photos.少ない写真を取ったらヂジカメのチャージャを忘れと思ったんだ！でも東京帰る時に鞄の中に見付けた

2010-09-21T06:54:00.000-07:00

There is a warning on this vid, that it's a bit of a head fuck, but it's you're own trip so be my guest but other than that, without further ado...Umbra (HD - 2010) from Malcolm Sutherland on Vimeo.Found on motionographer.

2010-09-19T09:10:00.000-07:00

2010-09-17T09:59:00.000-07:00

I'm in Kyoto now.今京都。I took the train.新幹線のぞみ上ったぞ。It was so romantic I got married to myself. Australian immigrtion were not amused when I tried to register an Australian-Australian dual passport.それあとで一人の結婚された、戦車はめちゃめちゃロマンチックなんだ、The first building I exit from is facinating!さきのビルはおもしろい！To celebrate my marriage to myself, I had a shoyu parfait. That's SOY SAUCE ICE CREAM BABY. Not as disgusting as I

2010-09-16T02:42:00.000-07:00

An oldie but a goodie.古いけどめちゃかっこいい。

2010-09-14T13:20:00.000-07:00

One of my memory sticks has died, I lost a lot of footage!! :(一個のメモリカードがしんでる〜（X＿X）、たくさんビデオが無くなった！But here's some... a trailer, of sorts...だが、このやつでは、映画のトレーラー？And now the original song, so you can cleanse your ears after my abomination...さいごには元の歌でいただき、私のわれ物にあとであなたたちの耳をおさめて下さい！

2010-09-14T12:26:00.000-07:00

24th century ghost town...２４世紀廃村We are cats on the roof, literally right above the famous "cat street" of Harajyuku, which is very close to Clem's place where I'm currently house sitting.私たちは屋上に猫だ！この芭蕉には原宿の「cat street」の上だよ。友達Clemの家は近い、今、私は留守番されています。ちょ良い所ですんでるよな！Two cool cats enjoying a very hot sunrise, believe it or not (makes me tired just thinking about it :)暑いの日出の間に二人猫は楽しみ。And down on cat

2010-09-13T23:21:00.000-07:00

2010-09-11T20:30:00.000-07:00

massive update! the おアップデートだいよう。Clem and I went to MORI TOWER in Roppongi Hills.友達Clemといしょで六本木のMORI TOWERに行った。The new skydeck is open!新しの「skydeck」は開きました！We stayed till dark... (click for a massive versions)夜に待っていました。（大写真見せるはクリックして下さい）It's hard to make a panorama without a tripod!!!トライポッドがないでパノラマ写真をするには難しい！Now Seiji and I are fucking around... buying lots of cheap clothes for the year ahead back

2010-09-07T07:36:00.000-07:00

まず始め私は客体について話してません、客体は感じる物である。次に結合の記号型の感想は避けるために、私はイメジについても話してません。最後に私は視聴と見る物についても話してません。イメジなしと見る物なしと視聴もなしでは、何を見ているんですか？君は君自身の見ている姿を見ている。"First, I am not dealing with the object. Perception is the object. Secondly, I am dealing with no image, because I want to avoid associative, symbolic thought. Thirdly, I am dealing with no focus or particular place to look. With no object, no image and no

2010-09-06T07:19:00.000-07:00

On the weekend Clem, Seiji and myself went to metamorphose 2010, and spun off into the beyond...It was the 10th anniversary of this spectacular event. With no expense spared, the line up included Jeff Mills and Grandmaster Flash, but one of the highlights of the event for me was the unexpected Mogwai, a scottish ambient band who just all came together in the moment. I have some limited footage of

2009-09-18T15:05:00.000-07:00

Dan is here with me this trip.Dan does not like to try new food.Dan does not like to go to new places.Just give me a pain that I am used to [remix]Just give me a pain that I am used to [remix]Just give me a pain that I am used to [remix]

2009-09-16T21:09:00.000-07:00

fried calamari, my favourite!

2009-09-16T10:54:00.000-07:00

さ。はやくおわらせてなんかたべにいこう！そだね。

2009-09-09T06:43:00.001-07:00

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2009-09-03T07:43:00.000-07:00

this is where we are staying... have a cruise around!View Larger Map

2009-09-02T19:40:00.000-07:00

Found an apartment in 御茶ノ水, it's near a nice park 上野公園 and on a good line.Today I'm going to try and get a haircut, a towel, a shower seat and a gun.

2007-04-20T01:32:00.000-07:00

2007-02-16T22:49:00.000-08:00

where is home?I bought some sony noise canceling ear buds: MDR-NC22 [gizmodo] from Narita airport.. oh baby, these things are worth buying at twice the price (which they will be anywhere else but Japan SUCKAS!). but seriously, these are the new model and the remote is TINY (they used to have quite a large inline remote which turned me off, that and really bulky ear buds) they make light work

2007-02-12T07:00:00.000-08:00

today, I found this under the bridge in yoyogi park.there used to be a big mess of tags, looks like someone got organised, it stands over 4 meters tall.yoyogi park is organised in general. the buskers have white board placards from the parks commission and there was a flea market happening on the other side of this bridge. I remember the weekly free partys put on by "toGETher" used to be awesome,

2007-02-11T18:43:00.000-08:00

-1104and I am BACK BABY.after a long hiatus, I am back in Tokyo.for 2 days :P　懐かしいねon the airport shuttle bus to Shinjuku I realised that this is not going to be long enough. Alot has remained unchanged, and it still smells like Japan. everyone still looks at me! (it makes you keep checking your fly and your face in the mirror) but something unseen is very different this time. it could be me...I

2004-02-02T05:18:00.000-08:00

-46 NEW BLOG UP! after a long hiatus, I am back online with a new site theme, new city and a new blog.. and to kick things off in Australia, I made a new photo section and have put up a compilation of all the Tokyo timelapse clips and set it to music (music chosen and provided by mister wrigley)

2003-12-19T04:01:00.000-08:00

0 If the shore is steep enough, waves roll back out on the surface and colide with the incoming ones. They throw themselves upward together several meters above sea level.

2003-12-16T13:39:00.000-08:00

2, 1..

2003-12-15T09:01:00.000-08:00

3 Japan National Yo-Yo Contest 2003

2003-12-14T01:06:00.000-08:00

6, 5, 4.. Had a going away party on Friday night and got very drunk, also caught up with friends from australia who were here on holidays which was good. Went to WOMB in shibuya last night with the hope of seeing ken ishii but my friend forgot her ID so we couldn't get in! not to be discouraged that easily we walked across yoyogi park and caught a taxi to kabuki cho.. unfortunately LIQUID ROOM

2003-12-10T19:54:00.000-08:00

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2003-12-08T01:57:00.000-08:00

cool linus quote - "If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution"

2003-12-08T01:12:00.000-08:00

got some new the other day and they are cool! I wore them to work today and the sound quality is excellent, the only problem is my ears got cold because I am used to wearing guess I'll savem for the australian summer. speaking of which there are, 10 days left untill I leave Tokyo.

2003-12-06T15:36:00.000-08:00

decriminalize.

2003-12-05T13:43:00.000-08:00

the movie I watched was gummo and it had its moments. director of kids, thats why I rented it.. yep.. I wonder what japanese audiences make of stuff like this, I wonder why it was in a japanese video library at all, there is nothing like that here.. seriously..

2003-12-05T12:04:00.000-08:00

samehada-otoko&momojiri-onna! ..is a great Japanese movie that I saw a year ago on SBS but never knew the name! I just saw it in the trailers of a video from the video store (thus I now know the name), it might be hard to find but its definatly worth the hunt! one of my favorite jap films ever. "suki." ROFLMAO!

2003-12-05T04:57:00.000-08:00

someone wrote this about traveling, I reckon its worth posting here seeing as I am getting close to leaving Tokyo. "Don't just wish you could stay longer, dammit! stay longer! Stay until the very sight of the place makes you want to leave! But don't go away thinking that it is so wonderful that you would like to spend the rest of your life here! Just stay on a few more days, and you will

2003-12-01T03:25:00.000-08:00

alot of young japanese treat friendship, more to reality the appearance of friendship, as a commodity. not only that but emotions, favors and especially girls and sex are all assets to be carefully planned about and bartered/traded to elevate ones own happiness, more to the point the appearance of happyness. I had been unable to finger the cause of the suck here, but if you extend the commercial

2003-11-29T04:03:00.001-08:00

underworld. I think that was the single biggest party I have been too, this huge mass of people.. when underworld came out on stage there was a big push to the front and kaori got knocked about alot but it was all ok after everyone had filled up their mobile phone cameras memory and moved back a bit.. it was just a massive space full of sound with a giant stage in the middle and a DJ hidey

2003-11-24T22:54:00.000-08:00

I just had a great idea to end spam... using a large database like friendster you can send and receive email only to friends in your network (friends of friends etc..) and because spammers have no friends (exept other spammers) you wont receive any mail from them! :P I went to a LOCKUP style restaraunt last night, you get escorted to your cell in handcuffs by a girl in a latex mini-skirt police

2003-11-24T06:52:00.000-08:00

2003-11-22T12:32:00.000-08:00

well I'm kinda doing things in reverse.. on thursday I saw an article on slashdot about a flying robot madde by EPSON well that was interesting but it said that the robot was being shown at the interational robotics show in Tokyo and hell, I LIVE IN TOKYO, so I spontaniously went on friday with the girl.. it turned out to be a business day and there were so many suits! but we were not put off so

2003-11-22T10:22:00.000-08:00

went to the MORI art gallery and tokyo city view at the top of the mori tower thing in roppongi hills (before going down to work at asahi TV) its very cool! the exhibition was a great mix of old/new, straight/strange.. I couldn't take any photos in the gallery, being a gallery, but thats OK cause I LEFT MY CAMERA AT HOME.. ahh, bit of a shame because the view from the 56th floor would have made

2003-11-20T04:06:00.000-08:00

at the kinder today and I must say, in this region, games that focus on the individual are not very popular.. I had to make up several games to play and they were somehow converted from games about individuals (like the detective and the murderer) into games about groups.. (the detectives and the everyone-else-group) I also had written down a group game which was a huge hit with both students and

2003-11-18T10:44:00.000-08:00

I'm currently doing a... study on various flavours of pop culture and I came across 2 conflicting video clips, so I'd thought I'd glue them together and share with my beautiful readers.. the first clip is a kid getting seriously hurt on a news report about copycats, now pay attention to what the news reader says because, the second is straight from MTVs show "jackass" click to view the video (

2003-11-17T10:54:00.000-08:00

When to Stone The Kids (Deuteronomy) 21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: 21:19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 21:20 And they shall say unto

2003-11-17T01:37:00.000-08:00

no its not compression, yes its a filter.. he was doing a Jacob's ladder impression and very effectively I might add :)

2003-11-15T08:33:00.000-08:00

asahi TEREBI clapping/cheering job today again hehehe, its cool watching the shows set slowly develop chips, cracks and gradually peeling wallpaper as I assume its disassembled and re-assembled every saturday.. my usual partner in crime wasn't there this week so I had a ride home in the taxi alone talking in broken japanese to the driver ehehe /(^_^)#! well we discussed electronics and australian

2003-11-14T01:58:00.000-08:00

the doctor returns but was he always that grumpy?? the doctor with fuzzy red hair 4 eva!!

2003-11-12T22:54:00.000-08:00

super duper photo update :) Scattered thougout online articles of late is that little pearler "homeland security" for example: "..controlling rogue hazardous waste vehicles that could pose a threat to homeland security." well whose homeland are we talking about here? its certainly not mine and I dont even think its THEIRS either! wtf is going on?! LETS CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF!!! ther'll be

2003-11-12T01:53:00.000-08:00

PILLOWS WERE TEH COOL!! the other bands that played were the bonobos, nine days wonder and a special guest in kanji but the pillows were headlining for a reason. The lead singer (jyun san) knocks out the vocals like a rabbit stuck in headlights of a semi-trailer, you dont know where hes gonna jump next, then he opens his white eyes and stares into space occasionally I can only say ala: the vines

2003-11-11T00:19:00.000-08:00

oh and before I head out the door, check this out

2003-11-10T22:59:00.000-08:00

going to see the pillows in a few hours!

2003-11-10T04:34:00.000-08:00

so uhh, yeah, listen to iggy pop - I wanna be your dog.. like, RIGHT NOW before I start kicking.. and if your on a mac, there is a really cool app that uses the limewire source called Acquisition and I seriously think you need to download it right now.

2003-11-09T13:56:00.000-08:00

blue pill - red pill sorry in advance for the matrix ref :) why am I drinking so much liquor? where is the line between use and abuse? why does shibuya smell like vomit? all these answers and more, stay tuned! same sonic packet, same sonic flavor, same sonic poo.

2003-11-08T09:29:00.000-08:00

I am streaming 128kbps MP3 on my laptop WIRELESSLY in the toilet, how cool? ever since I plugged in to this network, I wanted to unplug (but maintain connection of course) this is a sweet lull in which I dont feel any need to upgrade my current devices.. well I want more devices of course, but thats NOT THE POINT! ..the point is I have broadband access in the toilet and I would like to take a

2003-11-07T10:31:00.000-08:00

I love you.

2003-11-06T00:48:00.000-08:00

I can read japanese when I really want to.. ..like when entering a competition to win a plasma display :P seeing matrix tonight, SHUTUP YOU EARLY BIRDS, I STILL HAVE HOPE!! "free my mind, free my mind, free my mind..."

2003-11-05T03:57:00.000-08:00

for once I have nothing in my head that I want to post. ok maybe just this..

2003-11-04T04:11:00.000-08:00

guess who I saw at near tokyo dome with a friend.. hail! (@=@)/

2003-11-03T04:48:00.000-08:00

someone said you cant study something without influencing it, what about studying yourself?

2003-11-01T08:44:00.000-08:00

its been a loooooong couple of days, started on thursday morning with the kinder.. then I stopped by an anime plaza thing in Nakano before getting a call at 4:30 for a job at 5:00 so I rushed home, picked up a shirt and went to asahi TV for the shoot which lasted till about 7.. then we watched some movies.. (8mile and donnie darko) then on friday I had a friends halloween party and I managed to

2003-10-29T01:57:00.000-08:00

logic is defined by region. region was born by chance. man accepts chance by nature. why does man have such a hard time accepting regional based logic?

2003-10-28T03:50:00.000-08:00

here is an cool interview with Takashi Murakami. I think he has something at roppongi hills at the moment, I recognised the flowers.. if it is his work there then he is totally cool cause that "happyness" campaign is awsome.. if it is what I think it is... I hope it is...

2003-10-27T22:00:00.000-08:00

I had a crazy dream last night but I cant tell it sorry. THE PILLOWS are playing in liquid room on the 11th! I really hope I can get the day off to go and see them live! I have never really been to a rock concert apart from micheal jackson and bjork at which I was seated so I am not sure exactly how I am supposed to behave.. will there be seats? will there be a mosh? will it be like japanese

2003-10-25T10:23:00.000-07:00

on TV again tonight (last night) its a fun gig now that I know some of the people a little more.. the only bad thing is its on saturday night so you face being fragged from friday night. WHICH I WAS>> On friday night we went to ageha to see ken ishii, tsuyoshi and satoshi play.. the music was good but the venue was so impersonal, I guess there are so many people they can risk letting them near

2003-10-23T00:07:00.000-07:00

found a link to that movie I mentioned a while back lost in translation.. looks interesting I think it will be a good hisashiburi flick for gai.. eeeetone~.. people-who-are-not-from-Tokyo, who have lived in Tokyo. (^o^)# speaking of T O K Y O , I love riding my bike as fast as I can through the side-streets of.. I was starting to get bored with the senery too so this futher verifys my theory

2003-10-20T05:03:00.000-07:00

cult: a small, unpopular religion. religion: a large, popular cult. big update today, photos and a new timelapse! the timelapse is a sunrise over the shijuku skyline, I was so annoyed with my previous attempt I tried it again! I just wish I left it longer, the sun kindof flares a bit much. you can see it was a foggy morning because of the sun beams shining through the metropolitan building.

2003-10-17T14:39:00.000-07:00

I had it all set, I had (for reasons I cant explain) stayed up all night rollerblading through tokyo and climbed to the top of a building with a crazy view of the shinjuku skyline.. it was still dark so I set up my UX to do a time lapse of the sun rising and lighting up the city.. 2 minute intervals.. then I set it off and stayed up there for a good 3 hours watching this amazing sunrise and

2003-10-16T06:32:00.000-07:00

reservoir dogs was crap

2003-10-15T04:16:00.000-07:00

saved by the don.. sorta.. I bought a cheap shirt at donkyhote but thankfully my agent bought a spare suit (which was a very nice mandarin style brown micro tartan...) so I was saved! so there we were.. myself, a white haired european girl, a young british father (DJ) and a very young american girl, who kept giggling during the takes.. the takes of what? of some restraunt scene in english with

2003-10-14T05:48:00.000-07:00

dammit, I got an acting job tomorrow morning but they want me to wear a suit.. I SENT MY SUIT BACK TO AUSTRALIA!!!!! and my other semi-formal clothes are in the cleaners!!! I hope that.. a: I can buy some cheap substitute clothes tomorrow morning before the shoot at 7:30AM!! and b: it doesn't cost more than I am going to get paid

2003-10-14T01:57:00.000-07:00

Well firstly it wasn't an ARMY base so there were no tanks.. but it was a NAVY base so there was an aircraft carrier called the Kittyhawk and a few guns on a few security peeps.. overall the security was pretty laid back. We went into the base and up to the bar, then to the money exchange cause they only accepted USD! came back with a 20 and got a very large jug of beer, went down stairs and got

2003-10-10T02:40:00.000-07:00

wow, now I know why the coffee machine was empty by 5:30 the other day.. the guy came to refill a few minutes ago and its developed a queue! I was lucky I got in first (its just outside my office) a guy saw me pressing buttons and asked "its working!?" followed by exitedly blurting to the room around the corner "hey guys! theres more coffee!!" I got a caffelatte and it is pretty average but

2003-10-08T01:17:00.000-07:00

My company installed a free coffee machine in the vending machine hall today. Its only 5:30 and its already EMPTY!! jeez, leave none for the night shift guys wow.. its a 24hr game company but I saw those NASA spider web tests.. the caffine web was the most messed up out of them all.. could I conclude that the future of caffene fed corporations = messed up hmmm, looking at this page, maybe they

2003-10-06T05:13:00.000-07:00

woah, dads gone back to oz and I am now living in Nakano-shimbashi which is 20minutes on foot from shinjuku station.. now that the 50minute train ride is removed from my daily grind I dont know what to do with myself. The smaSTATION job was pretty lame but I got to see Shingo from SMAP and I think that alot of people (screaming fan girls) out there who are not me and would have liked that so I

2003-10-02T18:01:00.000-07:00

"I wish you were queer, just for today.."

2003-10-02T02:55:00.000-07:00

I'm going to be part of some crowd for some live TV thing on some TV Asahi prog' called something like smaSTATION.. I dont know of course but I have the feeling I have perscribed myself some kind of hefty dose 'o' lameness... well I will be back to post about it I guess.. in hachiouji I saw 2 guys doing stand-up comedy and the other night I saw a band called Double Orange who carted all their

2003-10-01T22:31:00.000-07:00

staying in my dads hotel room, 24th floor 1 minute from shinjuku.. its very cool but its also pretty pretentious, but hey, I was told that my "..ethics can be bent.." (in a conversation about starbucks) I had a pizza in the blue (as in ao) glow from the skyscrapers all around.. I did a time lapse too errr lemme post it.. << lazy it was sports day at the kinder, lots of group activitys (not

2003-09-29T05:30:00.000-07:00

TOKYO GAME SHOW 2003 I thought I was gonna pass out after TOKYO GAME SHOW 2003. I put a couple of shots in the photos-jp section and I got as many photos WITH the girls as I can cause you bandwidth leaching punks need a bit of contrast in your diet.. sigh, for the amount of hits I get, the GUEST MAP is seriously lacking in minds... well it was a great to get the free tickets to the game show

2003-09-24T01:52:00.000-07:00

WHOOHOO!! My boss came through with 2 tickets to the tokyo game show!!! awsome, I hope to snap lots of photos with the game show girls and play lots of games and.. and.. AND!! should be fun. and infinatly more fun than living without internet, which I am at the moment. I'm at work now and apart from this all I have is manga kisa where I hack into the matrix (unplug the ethernet cable from the

2003-09-22T04:29:00.001-07:00

2003-09-21T03:32:00.000-07:00

"no, do not post it" hohoho \(~.\) (/.~)/ I am in manga kisa patched into the network. this period in time will be assosiated with data loss. Tokyo tastes like mushrooms.

2003-09-19T22:41:00.000-07:00

recently when buying stuff to remind me of japan I get close to tears. I guess this is mixed up with leaving my girlfriend but what in life is not mixed up..

2003-09-17T04:16:00.000-07:00

Izakaya is fun, especially when ordering meat it reminds me of the old days when we used to hunt and share the kills with the tribe.. only our spears and arrows have been replaced with cash and credit cards.. I've been staying in Nakano the last 2 nights and its really awsome walking home at night through shinjuku.. if I was to live here I would live there.. really wanna do a time lapse of the

2003-09-16T03:50:00.000-07:00

I forgot what I was going to post today and am too anoyed with my memory to post anything at all. BRB, conbini..

2003-09-13T09:02:00.000-07:00

The permagaij is a permanant gaijin. Self exiled into a cycle that spawns eccentric behavior leading to bizarre, home brew fashions and a denial of being average. I think that this behavior is somewhat patronizing to the japanese, as if they are expected to have never seen how normal caucasians look and act. Permagaij panic when they see another gaijin because they are instantly not as unique

2003-09-10T13:50:00.000-07:00

really good file sharing article.

2003-09-10T12:27:00.002-07:00

I am a creature of the night, no denying it. urrgh, why cant I sleep.. had a karaoke sesh with Kaori and her brother a few hours back.. he is in Tokyo for the first time since he was 5 and its really wierd showing a japanese guy around Tokyo.. he is still so wide eyed and cute about everything hehehe. He is pretty loud and rude tho, broadcasting his side of a thick hakata ben mobile phone convo'

2003-09-09T21:36:00.000-07:00

one of my little badges fell off my bag!!! TAHENDAaAaAa!!! I dont know how this happened or when, maybe on the train! damn, it was my favorite too, I have to go to harajuku right now and replace it :P

2003-09-09T04:09:00.000-07:00

ever since starting this blog I have recieved emails from all over the world.. I will answer some of the more common ones so I dont have to repeat myself... "dear oliver, I love your blog and... I LOVE YOU! I think you are the cats PJ's! will you marry me? if no, do you want to CYBER?" the answer is, sadly, no. but thanks for the email! "dear sonic, I think your blog is" yes me too, thanks