Cleaning time ( Read more... )

Today my Hotmail inbox was graced with a message from "MRS MARIAM MOBUTU SESE SEKO." She wants my help ( Read more... )

This has been a good weekend. Friday was low-key with N. in Matsumoto. Saturday T. came from Tokyo and me and a lot of other people went with him to eat soba and go to a wasabi farm in Hotaka. N. had to work that day, so I didn't get to see much of her. I went back to Kiso for a party at a rented cabin, stayed up till four or so drinking and ( Read more... )

I hope I never have to look back on the days when I was young and insane. This flip-flopping of opinions, revolutions in teacups a hundred times a day, what a beautiful stasis. Nothing's ever changing. It's here, it's there, it's everywhere, and what I want to do is everything at once.

As this day wears on I am feeling increasingly optimistic. I will return home and I will be jobless. The source of my joy is that there is not a job I want to take. I want to be paid, and I'll find a way to do that, but I will return to America with nothing and I will not mistake that with a need to enslave myself. It's how they get you. You' ( Read more... )

C. has booked another gig for six days before I leave the country. July 14, if you're in the country, come on down to Pumpkinhead, where all the stone-faced t-shirt wearin' fashion junkie teens come to think they look tuff listen to their Japanese feaux-punk ala Millencolin or something else awful, tuneless, and with harmonized vocals. So why are ( Read more... )

I just read over that last message and the one before it and realized how schizophrenic they looked next to each other ( Read more... )

I leave Japan in forty-five days. I'm more than a little apprehensive about that ( Read more... )

I should mention www.pornolize.com. It's cool.

Hi. It's Sunday about noon here. I just got back from Matsumoto. I'm going to be so glad to be home. Yesterday I hung out all day by myself just because I didn't have anyone to call. The people I did call didn't bother to call me back. I was in town early to talk to the cops about my traffic ticket, and then I had to stick around for ( Read more... )