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| Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 | | 4:33 pm |
"What's that? A piece of paper? I don't wanna see another piece of paper."
I've been subbing as an office assistant upstairs the last couple weeks. Lots of looking at and filling in spreadsheets and following up on stuff. It's a nice change of pace from my usual work and I'm getting valuable experience in a different field. I don't know when my assignment will end, but I'll be up there at least until the end of the year. It's an extra 7 to 12 hours every week on top of my usual shifts downstairs. I like it and it's not as much of a grind. The downside is that I have to wear a "grown up costume" 3 days a week. The collared shirt thing isn't that big of a deal, but the whole slacks and dress shoes thing is different. I get around this by wearing Dickies to the office. Still, I found myself at Old Navy last night to buy more shirts so I wouldn't be wearing the same ones week in and week out. Also, 12 day "work weeks" start to wear on me eventually. A few weeks ago I had a dream that our teacher was doing a presentation on Ran Itou (the one on the bottom) and that she would be a guest speaker later in class. Alas, it didn't happen and I was quite disappointed when I woke up.  Final review tonight. Final exam on thursday. I drink tons of tea these days. | | Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 | | 10:21 pm |
Thank You
Yoinked from Boboso (even the subject heading). Unfortunately, the bill was rejected. Current Mood:  disappointed | | Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 | | 3:02 pm |
| | Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 | | 7:36 am |
Wedding
Nathan and my sister are getting married today. It'll be awesome. Current Mood:  excited | | Thursday, October 1st, 2009 | | 10:24 pm |
"You look really familiar..."
The cat is out of the bag. Otsuka-sensei figured out who I was after she looked at the take home quiz I turned in during class (I'll probably be out of town next week, so I asked if I could get it out of the way early) and saw that I answered a couple questions with kanji. Current Mood: amused | | Thursday, September 24th, 2009 | | 9:56 pm |
o_O
I don't know what was more weird to hear: a. Yumico telling me that she plays our songs on her radio show or b. Denise telling me that we were in the San Jose Metro last week (we played at Yumico's Zine Party) ------------- In other news, I had a dream last week in which I was trying to hit on an asian girl with short hair and glasses but she wasn't having it. Last night, I had a dream that the same girl was now working as a Loss Prevention Officer (security guard) at the now dead Sunnyvale Town Center. I figured that out because I saw her sitting near the pretzel place down stairs and talked to her about how much she didn't like her job. She was off duty, so she was wearing a white t-shirt and black Dickies instead of the full uniform. Megyn, Evie and Allison (and others who went to either venue), if you remember Mele from the Fishbowl and Outhouse, she looked alot like her. It also could have been this girl Thao that comes into the library sometimes. Or, it could have been this girl that worked at the Officina di Cesari in Oosu. They all look really similar. Current Mood:  weird | | Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 | | 3:50 pm |
Technical difficulties
I found my tuner this week, so my guitars are finally in tune again. However, funny noises are coming out of my amp and I'm not sure if it's the amp, the cable or the guitar that's causing it. I got a bunch of ska cds from Asian Man Records last week as part of their Ska Deal Numbero Tres. I also got some stuff from them that wasn't part of the deal, but cheap nonetheless. Meanwhile, I've been listening to alot of Pink Lady and Candies, but I can't decide which group I like better. I think I know more Pink Lady songs thanks to a couple covers by Go! Go! 7188 and Yukino's preoccupation with one of their songs. As for Candies, I first heard one of their songs while watching "Kekkon Shiyou Yo" on the plane, as it was covered by by one of the characters' band (played by the Nakanomori Band), but didn't know it was them until months later. Since then, I've been finding more of their music and liking it. Here's a video I found of the two groups doing a medley of their songs (Candies is up first). There's a weird edit during the first transition that might not bother you, but if you know the song "Pepper Keibu" you'll know exactly which part is missing. Only one version of this video on youtube has the unedited part and it can be seen below. However, it is missing the second half of the medley, which is also annoying. Anyway... ( Read more... ) | | Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 | | 10:07 pm |
PSA
I don't know why, but I've been really into drinking milk the last couple weeks. ------------- In other news, Alex and company are working on another movie entitled Dumbest Gods. The trailer can be seen below. The last film project they worked on, None Shall Pass, ended up being, as I put it, "a series of trailers for a movie that's actually just a series of trailers" was actually pretty entertaining, albeit confusing (do a youtube search for "none shall pass trailer" and the numerous trailers will come up). Alex swears that there's an actual movie, more than an hour in length, behind the Dumbest Gods trailer... Current Mood: amused | | Monday, August 10th, 2009 | | 1:22 am |
Dreams from the morning of August 6th
I'm on the light rail and the driver is this totally insane, paranoid guy named Bob who would yell at passengers for talking, even though there was no rule prohibiting it. In the continuity of the dream, my friends Bob and Adam had told me of a certain awesome adventure (akin to Bill and Ted's, I imagine) they had riding the train with a crazed driver named Bob (no relation) so instead of being slightly frightened, I was actually happy to be on the train with the quirky dude. The entire time he's driving, he's yelling at the passengers and telling us that he's been working for a few weeks without a break. At the stop near the San Jose Arena, he kicks some kid off but doesn't bother coming to a full stop. Max gets on the train at this point, mentioning that he got a text from someone that "Crazy Bob" was at the helm and wanted to see what it was like. Eventually, Bob said he was taking us to Alviso but we actually ended up in a wooded area. Some time later, Max taps me on the arm and tells me that we’re probably going to die because the train is headed for the bay and Bob is increasing the speed. I woke up before we head into the water and then after spending about 5 minutes to check my e-mail, went back to sleep. Soon thereafter, I had another dream, this time in a little shop that sold clothes and records. Csilla was there, looking through San Jose Stealth stuff but was also really interested in the massive and inexpensive record bins. We went through the entire collection before realizing that everything was in a foreign language that neither of us could understand, so we ended up picking whatever had the most interesting covers. Bob and some of his Japanese friends came in later and added a stack of “essentials” to both of our piles. Again, I woke up long enough to check my e-mail and went back to sleep and started dreaming about being back in middle school. There was a big test on a book that I of course didn’t read so I had to fake my way through it. I then went to my history class, where I promptly got in a shouting match with the teacher. After that, I went to another literature class and took another test on a book that I didn’t read. Other dreams that night include a fist fight with two guys in an airport bathroom and going out on a rubber raft to fish but having to turn back because I forgot my gear. | | Sunday, August 9th, 2009 | | 12:09 pm |
Sugar free
A can of Red Bull opened up somehow and spilled it's contents onto a box of papers I had I in my room (I don't drink Red Bull. The can had sentimental value when it was sealed). Since it was the sugar free variety, no ants or anything showed up to to eat, but since that didn't happen and since it occurred inside a box in the corner of my room, I have no idea how long it's been like that. The papers weren't all that important, except a composition book that I kept with me all through college. It was in this comp book that I wrote down the majority of the second collection of Face of Yay stories instead of paying attention in lecture classes (the first collection was written on at least 60 pages of college ruled binder paper in high school and has since been lost). Most of my chicken scratch is still legible, but since the pages are wet and somewhat sticky, I don't know how long they'll hold up. My project for the next week or two will be to type all that stuff out. ------------ In other news, seeing Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings on friday night has relit my inner fire to play music. Best use of $10 in a long, long time. Also, it seems as if our show has been pushed back to the middle of October. I guess that's cool. We could use the practice. And maybe that will give us enough time to hammer out some new stuff. | | Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 | | 9:43 am |
Books and such (the last 3 months)
Finished: - The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa - The Rashomon Gate by I.J. Parker - Moneyball by Michael Lewis (2nd time) - Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson Currently reading: - The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli - Palm of the Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata - French Milk by Lucy Knisley - The Crusades, Christianity and Islam by Jonathan Riley-Smith - We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers by Marcus Brotherton ------------- There's a closed promotional opening in the Community Services department. I don't know what my chances are, but I'd figure I'd submit my application, just in case. Saw one of the T. families (there are at least 5 different families with the same last name that I help on a regular basis) for the first time since January. The kids were at home, but husband and wife were funny, as usual. ------------- Dreams in the last couple weeks include a boulder falling and killing Albert, a murder at a resort hotel that involved the cast of Saved by the Bell and some high school friends getting shows at KSCU yet somehow not knowing when their time slot was or where the station was. Current Mood: hungry | | Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 | | 1:40 pm |
Sound of Shimokitazawa!
I had no idea that there was a video for this song, though I'm not sure how "official" it is. Whenever I hear Chin's verse (the third one), I can't help but have a big smile on my face. Nice! However, I can't find my cd of the song and I never ripped it to my computer. NOT NICE! Current Mood: pleased | | Sunday, July 12th, 2009 | | 10:26 pm |
"San Francisco group, please have your team ready to go!"
Two dreams that I had last week that I remember: - Going to my old house at dusk and discovering the front door wide open, even though all the lights were off and no cars were in the driveway. I went inside and found Bob in the back bedroom playing DDR. Also, my dad was asleep on the couch. - A wooden house in Japan had collapsed and we were trying to find survivors. In my mind's eye, I could see what almost everyone in the house was doing at the moments before the collapse so I was able to figure out their general location in the rubble. Most people were in the living room or their respective bedrooms, but there was also a small boy hiding in the crawl space above the kitchen while a girl was hiding in a separate crawl space underneath the house. The girl's name was Rise (りせ） and we all thought she had died, but she had somehow gotten out unscathed. ------------- As of last sunday, Jeff and I have officially been with the library for ten years. I gave him on of the mouse pads that they made a few years ago. He gave me a golf pencil from one of the catalog computers. At the five year mark, he threatened to quit if he didn't get a watch or something. We're still waiting for our watches. | | Saturday, June 20th, 2009 | | 11:12 am |
Dan P and the Bricks
I finally got around to seeing Dan Potthast and the Bricks last week at Nickel City. They were a bit undermanned, but still ruled. I managed to stand still long enough to shoot video on two songs ("I've Set Sail" and "Foot Down"). ( Read more... )Also, I saw assorted PNP acts play acoustic at Caffe Trieste last night. It was nice to see everyone, since I hadn't seen most of them since before Classics of Love (Mike, Morgan, Max and Jesse Michaels) left for the UK tour last month. Finally gave Alex the rock from Japan. The W's are in Taiwan for the summer. My hand has felt better this week. I took the book shelf out of my room. I am two weeks away from 10 years at the library. Current Mood: hungry | | Saturday, June 6th, 2009 | | 9:34 am |
大須
 大須・仁王門通商店街 | | Friday, June 5th, 2009 | | 11:32 pm |
Swimming holes
The Sunnyvale Art and Wine Festival is this weekend, which means there will probably be no parking at the library when I go in to work. There are several employee parking spaces, but the public always ignore the signs and there's no real way to regulate it. Looks like I'll be leaving this house early. In last night's dream, I left the house (a relative's house in Hawaii, if I remembered correctly) and walked over a nearby hill and into a farmer's field (thing Of Mice and Men). The first thing I noticed was that there were wind turbines everywhere - more than I could count, stretching out to the horizon. The second thing I noticed was a wooden building with about a dozen mattresses and box springs stacked against it. I was confused until I looked out at the field and saw a guy going around talking to all of his kids, who he had planting stuff and telling them that they would finally have a decent place to sleep. Walking west about a mile down the long, straight dirt road that divided the field, I eventually end up at a bridge that had a ton of Japanese tourists taking pictures. The bridge wasn't that high above the water, so people started jumping in and I was afraid that I might have to jump in to rescue some fools, but that need never arose. It was later explained to me that the water was coming from a historically important natural spring and that's why people were taking pictures. Moreover, people were wading in the water because it supposedly had healing properties. I've also had several dreams over the past few weeks in which I was playing drums behind Joe Strummer, either with the Clash or the Mescaleros. Meanwhile, I've been listening to the newer songs on the Huxtables myspace and am annoyed that the album still isn't out yet. Granted, the newer stuff doesn't really match the bratty awesomeness of the early Huxtables, but I still like them. I've decided to start a letter writing campaign to Colt until the album comes out. Hopefully it'll light a fire under them. I mean, how long has "Heart" been around? At least 5 years. Gah. Current Mood:  tired | | Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 | | 1:24 am |
Chindon-ya
Last night involved a dream about another fictional PNP group. I don't remember the entire lineup, just that Jon was playing drums, with Bob and I playing trombone. We were prepping for a show and I had the jitters because we were on a bill with Asakusa Jinta, who I'm really into. In the dream, I was talking to some of them about how nervous I was and they said not to worry and that they're always nervous before playing but as soon as they walk on stage it all goes away. And speaking of Asakusa Jinta, they were on a show called PLAYLIST a while back. Their segment can be seen below. Alot of it is filmed in good old Asakusa. ------------- Meanwhile, I got a really weird pep talk last friday that actually left me feeling as if I had been scolded. There was a lot of information to process rather quickly and stuff that came up in the conversation actually had me on the defensive rather early on. The shell shock left me in a daze for a while as I tried to figure out what the hell had just happened. Current Mood: tired | | Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 | | 10:27 pm |
Bounty Hunters
I had lunch with Zhou yesterday in downtown Mountain View and did the whole catch up thing. Talked about work and family and China and Japan and the Philippines. Two hours later, Zhou decided to start keeping better tabs on me and act as some sort of "parole officer" for the time being. Last week I fell asleep on my glasses and they snapped in half at the bridge of the nose. I picked up my new pair this afternoon, as well as a couple boxes of contacts. Prescriptions for both were written up last week as they had both expired quite a while ago. The dude from Comcast came today to try and figure out why our cable has been so screwed up the last couple months. You name it, we've had it. Poor picture quality. Channels dropping out unexpectedly. Sound, but no picture. Frozen pictures. He eventually suggested that we get a signal amplifier and get all the outlets rewired. That should solve all our problems. If not, there will be hell to pay. James wrote back, explaining the "S.W.A.L.K." thing that appears at the end of "Letterhead" in the liner notes. Sealed With A Loving Kiss. Not too exciting, but at least the mystery is solved. And speaking of those guys, my sister and I went to see the Super Huxtables on friday and were joined about about a dozen other people. That's it! A tough night for the bands and for Eric, but they still put on a good show. Still no mention of when the new album will come out. I bought a cheap cruiser bicycle off of craiglist last week. It's a bit too small on the small side, but it'll take me to the store and back, which is all I really need it for. I'll need to get a basket, though. I'm still on the fence as to whether to keep it or not. It's the perfect size for a few of my nephews, so I just might pass it on to them. ------------- The video isn't embeddable, but I am completely dorking out to this version of 結婚しようよ ( kekkon shiyou yo) and, to a lesser extent, Kawai Naoko in general. Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: U Roy - Natty Rebel | | Thursday, May 14th, 2009 | | 7:40 am |
"He somehow got stuck between the sofa cushion and the arm"
I had a series of plane crash dreams a few nights ago. Nothing horrific. Sure, the planes would knock over walls and pillars and trees and things when they hit the ground, but no one died. After each crash, the survivors, myself included, fanned out to look for supplies. Sometimes the town we landed near was populated and we were able to buy whatever we needed from the appropriated shops. Other times, the towns were abandoned and we just took whatever we needed. It wasn't like the abandoned towns were in disrepair or anything, it just seemed like the citizens had suddenly disappeared when the planes crashed. I don't remember much beyond that. The next night I had a dream in which I I just gotten out of class and made my way to a street that was lined with markets and booths run by small vendors. I took and muffin out of my bag and started picking at it as I walked around, going into shops and looking over their wares. In one tiny, dimly lit shop, some dude kept absentmindedly bumping into me, even though there was plenty of room for both of us to maneuver freely. After the third or fourth time, I ended up yelling at the guy and throwing what was left of my muffin at him before walking out. However, I was still kinda hungry, so I trekked over to a pastry shop and bought more food. As I sat there eating, I looked out the window and saw Patty and all of her friends window shopping and invited them over to sit down. However, as they made their way over, I realized that I was late for yet another class, so I ended up buying them all something and left as soon as they got their food. ------------- Conversations with my aunt in Japan and my mom (who's currently in the Philippines, taking care of my grandparents) always include the same question and the answer is always the same. No. Changes are occurring at work that may postpone my hand from falling off. And speaking of work, I helped Ibarra last night, who I may have gone to middle and high school with, but honestly can't remember talking to since elementary school. She came to the desk and said, "Isn't your name Jeff?" and I told her that my name was Jason, but told her that I used to hang out with a dude named Jeff a whole ton. I then said, "I know you, you're ______, we went to Lakewood together" and she was amazed that I could remember that far back. She was with a friend that was renewing a card, so while I taking care of that, they started talking about elementary school things and her friend didn't believe her whens he said that we'd get in trouble if we didn't dot our "I's" and I confirmed it and said that Mrs. Tong, our third grade teacher really got on our cases about it. We then shared a laugh as we recalled how evil Mrs. Tong was and how Ibarra's mom actually yelled at her one time. Current Mood: awake | | Saturday, May 9th, 2009 | | 3:00 am |
"She's just trying to protect you."
A post-Dairy Belle cheeseburger nap has screwed up my sleep patterns again, so I'm a bit annoyed. Still, they gave me extra fries for free, so that was pretty cool. I think they were annoyed with the girls that ordered before me, shorted them a few fries each and get the extras to me. I also saw Grover and Ohara there. Neither recognized me, which doesn't surprise me. I haven't seen either of them in almost 10 years. Maybe more. And speaking of high school, Carolyn informed me that she got some info about the reunion. Up until now, I didn't realize there was gonna be one. Alas, I never changed my address with the alumni association, so I got no information. I see everyone that's still in Sunnyvale (or their parents, at least) anyway. It's been 10 years. ------------- While I totally sucked at making stock for ramen, I've decided that I'm gonna try to pull some soba some time in the future. I'll probably screw that up too, but whatever. If anything, it'll show me what not to do. ------------- Aside from martial arts, are there any individual sports that involve physical contact with an opponent? I've been trying to figure that out and have yet to come up with one. I'm got some pent up frustration that I'd like to unleash, but I don't really have an outlet. Ideally, it'd be via hockey or football or something like that, but my options are rather limited at this point. Basketball, maybe. Or soccer. Not quite collision sports, but contact for sure. Fighting for position and all. I don't know. Not to say that I'm angry or anything, just frustrated. Also, running or biking won't help because I'll just get annoyed that I'm not running into something or someone eventually. It would be like swinging at a baseball and missing. Maybe I should go chop down a tree or something. Current Mood:  blah |
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