fujitv

got a gig as a narrator for a kids program through ecc. did 30 shows in 6 hours. my voice will apparently be on a cable station every weekday for the next couple months. I'm stoked.

went and saw cave in and they renewed my faith in them as a band. totally kicked ass. ben from converge was ripping it up, but he'd better not quit converge. the only not cool aspect was that the ticket to the show probably cost as much as all other cave in shows I've been to combined(and I've seen them more than a few times). tuned my guitar down and started writing songs again. band still in the works, but no major progress.

life has been otherwise pretty laid back. i went to see the sakura blossoms(this is the week) at yoyogi park and they really were beautiful. japanese is still coming slowly, although it's been helping me a lot that one of my business classes can't speak hardly any english at all, so I get a chance to practice my japanese.

been reading some baghwati recently. going to finish his book - it's a bit cursory and dry, but he provides a lot of information that a lot of people writing about the same subject have opted not to.

bedtime.

last night

last night went to a dance party with my roommates. drank a lot of tequila. the party was cool - lots of good music - they even spun welcome to the jungle at the end. i got so drunk i actually danced a little bit. pictures posted. more to come

before the dance party, we walked around shibuya and came upon a man completely decked out in black spandex. i think he was trying to present himself as some sort of superhero. we approached him and a lot of salary men came up and wanted to get pictures with us, so we did it.

i got in a fight with one of my roommate's friends over whether or not it's ok to "shelter" yourself from "disturbing" information if you're a journalist(which she claims to be). she seemed to think it was ok. i got pissed and pissed her off. she then proceeded to hit on me all night. i was confused and ran away.

we finally got home at around 5 and I worked some ot at ginza school today. the students were really friendly. i told one of them i liked imamura's films and he wanted to talk about that for about 20 minutes. didn't even feel like work.


might take a boat to shanghai for golden week. figuring that out now.

new photos are up. not many though. i still need to take some more around the neighborhood and downtown. i volunteered to be shot(photos) by this dude who's living with us. i'll post the pictures when i can. should be silly.

i'll write more later. tonight I'm going out with a few ex staff from shibuya school(tae and tomo"no worries") and vicente in shimokitazawa. they don't speak much english, and vice versa, but they're both nice people and we can all eat, so we shall.

new house

basically all moved in. i still need to buy sheets for my bed but I'm completely broke.
this weekend was alright. i watched videodrome with my roommate marguerite on saturday night and went to omotesando hills(the new ando tadeo building/mall in omotesando) and, although the interior was pretty cool, it was so crowded and expensive(the cheapest thing there is apparently 20 dollar ice cream) that I'm not in any hurry to return. Went to an emerging photographers show in a gallery nearby and, although I though some of it was interesting, I was more impressed with the show that was at the nc museum of art a few months back. then I went to a little cafe and had the korean version of okonomiyaki. very tasty.

my japanese is still getting better. I've decided to start on kanji. it's actually really cool, because if you learn the meaning of the kanji, you can figure what a lot of words mean even if you don't really know how to pronounce them.

my neighborhood is a lot cooler than chuorinkan. we have a part and lots of little narrow streets with old houses and families. tokyo is only a 10 minute local train ride, so it's nice to be a little closer. I'm yearning to explore, but I'm currently severely limited by the fact that I still haven't received the deposit from my last real estate company.

been listening to a lot of nevermind lately. as cliched as it is to repeat, it's a good fucking record.
i started listening to more metal, at the recommendation of skirko. at the gates and emporer. jury's still out on the former. i also downloaded remission. i think i might like it better than leviathan - the production is a little more raw. this is not to say that leviathan isn't a badass record. i also recently got into the fugazi record, "the argument", which I didn't really like upon first listen my senior year in college. dunno why now.

still working on the band. writing a lot more.

i'm going to finish the fiction I'm currently reading so I can start on a political economy binge. anyone wanna start a reading group?


gonzaimon