I'm unlucky ( Read more... )

that all these bands actually exist, or have existed.

( Behold. )

Here's a story that I was supposed to tell a long time ago but never got around to it ( Read more... )

On Porn Movie Titles ( Read more... )

The Japanese borrow a lot of words from other languages. The Japanese language, however, has what may be the world's most limited syllabic flexibility, so when the Japanese borrow the word ice cream, it has to be maimed and reassembled into something like aisukuriimu before it gets to join the Jinglish club. However, the Japanese DO have a ( Read more... )

This week's How To is entitled "How To Name Your Indie Rock Band or LP ( Read more... )

Played a bunch of Halo last night with Ryan, Harley, and Jeff. It was a veritable Olympic Games of various contests, including CTF, King of the Hill, Deathmatch, and a special gametype that we put together (everyone is invisible and has one life and a sniper rifle). Jeff and I began by pulling an unlikely upset over Ryan and Harley in CTF, though ( Read more... )

This week's How To is entitled "How to have a moderately palatable cup of coffee-esque beverage in Beijing when you're living on a part-time teacher's salary". I know for a fact that there are many of you out there, and this applies to roughly... me. But LJ's are by nature narcissistic ( Read more... )

Some of you know I planned to begin my Jim Quits Smoking Odyssey (JQSO) on my birthday. Those of you who would like to see Jim live past 50 will be glad to know that I've experienced a bit of success to that end. Here's the breakdown ( Read more... )

The Useless Limb played their first (and second-to-last) gig tonight. All went pretty well, if you count the fact that the population of the floor at least tripled during our set compared to the other two bands at the venue. Much respect to them, though, who were really cool and entirely Japanese ( Read more... )