Panda, No Panda; real friends; kushikatsu and beer; live house; my own house (sorosoro); cool cheap clothes; kids (but I'm no longer into teaching them); acting like kids; my cat; any animal besides ferret (but I'm starting to like them because my neighborhood actually has WILD FERRETS--that's cool!); making things in big pots (jambalaya, chili, adobo, etc); tedsukuri; Kansai-ben; dumb hats; Adidas; Munsingwear; my boss' daughter; konbini girls; dangerous girls; wacked-out girls; perfectly normal girls; used stuff; and bullshitting with my high school students makes me smile
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Music
I like many things. Here are some oft-repeated things of late:
Little Joy
Iron Maiden
Moha!
Reefer (Daddy Kev/Unicorns guy project)
Themselves
this huge collection of old 78s I found downloadable online (from old jazz to Japanese children songs to Greek exotica)
Nagisa Ni Te
The Bananas
Venom - Welcome to Hell
new Q-Tip record
The motherfuckin' Death Set
TV on the Radio rocks
the last Byrne and Eno album... so nice!
The Magnetic Fields gets my select in any mood
Van Hagar (only because that's me and I'm always trying to improve my own songs and recording techniques)
Why?
Max Tundra
Deeskee
The last couple Sunspot Jonz albums are superb
hmm... that's enough for now... there's more but wait...
I forgot about Reggaeman With The Oversized Tam!
Movies
Hausu; Kawaita Hana; Challenge of the Tiger; Survive Style 5+; VHS Kahloucha; The Wrestler; For Your Height Only; Twin Peaks; Cha no Aji; Tokyo Story; Fitzcarraldo; Dare Mo Shiranai; Rubin and Ed; Mister Lonely; Happiness of the Katakuris; Incident at Loch Ness; Gummo; The Isle; Samaria; Mr. Baseball; Ikiru; D'Wild Wild Weng; Down By Law; Audition; Ugetsu; Onibaba; 28 Days/Weeks Later
Television
anything resembling a documentary, but my TV's rusting in the dumpster downstairs
Books
Murakami, Dave Eggers, D Coupland, Knut Hamsun, Bukowski, Joy of Cooking, Japanese study books and whatever else is in here:
Dude, I saw BUTTHOLE SURFERS last night in Seattle on three hits of acid--fuckin' amazing,brilliant,rippingly beautiful shit--they shredded!!! It's was nice to see a real punk band-I wish I could follow them around like the punk rock grateful dead.
WEBB
p.s. I've been listening to that HVY DRT album alot lately.I was surprised to see it on your page--nobody has that shit.
Why do you torment me so. hey, do they not have Facebook in Japan??? Every freakin person we know is on that thing and it is a lot easier to communicate tron. If you have access to it, hook it up fooooooo.
You know, I can't remember what that was. I know that was "very special" for me that time. The chef wanted me to try it. I found that pic on a card from the cell before my current one.
Gawd I need a proper Philly cheese steak...
