these NPR concerts are gonna keep me occupied for a while at least.

i highly recommend the Iron and Wine show, particularly for the performance of "Jezebel".

random breakdowns are gonna take a little while to abate, it's clear.

my gums broke on the lower right jaw today as a tooth pushed further up. am i so pretentious that my own body wants to try and remind me there's wisdom to be gained in painful circumstances? i wouldn't put it past teeth to do so. they get all philip k. dick on you sometimes.

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more milk = afternoonish

Somebody's having fun on Wikipedia, because the picture they have on their main page of "Shinzo Abe" in news about his resignation is definitely NOT Abe. I'm pretty sure, in fact, that it's Pat Morita's picture. hehe. i probably would miss him more if he WAS Pat Morita though. I'm amazed he stayed in office as long as he did ( Read more... )

After a voracious read (about a hundred pages a day for 6 days), i have finished Kafka on the Shore ( Read more... )

last night i had a wonderful dream. nothing about it was particularly remarkable, in actuality, but having it definitely affected me in a way i can't really pinpoint. but i feel overall much better than i did upon going to sleep ( Read more... )

let me say, few things are funnier than one of your Japanese coworkers (especially the dainty female ones) asking you why "fucking motherfucker" is a bad thing to say.

having the latest iron and wine cd and no lover simply seems unfair.

The smell of summer-heated tatami makes me feel like I've been away longer that I actually have. The way the scent envelopes me the moment I open the door, the particular fragrance of the rooms I inhabit. I've missed the smell of my home. It doesn't seem like it could possibly be so far away from my friends and family in my other home, the home ( Read more... )