Monthly Archive for August, 2008

Status Updates for 2008-08-31

Published on August 31, 2008 in Status Updates. Comments
  • My car is still in the shop. They had to take the dash out to get to the gearshift cable that broke. #

Status Updates for 2008-08-28

Published on August 28, 2008 in Status Updates. Comments
  • AWESOME! My favorite sushi place has RICK ROLLS! #
  • “I go through all this before you wake up, so I can feel happier to be safe up here with you.” http://tinyurl.com/6owf6d #

Status Updates for 2008-08-24

Published on August 24, 2008 in Status Updates. Comments
  • Kind of weird to hear a sorority listening to MIA. #

Daily Journal Entry #11860 06/19/08 Thu

Published on August 24, 2008 in Journal. Comments



Ni-chome

Hung out with some people I’d met the week before. Started off at Advocate’s, tried GB but it was too empty, then ended up at Dragon.

This really drunk woman at Dragon kept on trying to get my attention. When I first got there she said, “I love you!”, and gave me a hug. Later she was arguing that we had the same nose. Much later she passed out on the street outside after she left.

The guys I was hanging out with at Dragon said I should try to do some voice-over work, so maybe that’s something I will look into at some point.

At one point the bartender at Dragon changed the subtitles on the television they had there showing the Simpsons from Japanese to English so that I could read it. It was a very odd experience. (But not so much later when I figured out that Dragon is a popular bar with gaijin.)

Jonathan’s

I read at Jonathan’s from about 2:30 a.m. until 7 a.m.

Shinjuku

I tried to go over to some shops in Shinjuku, but most didn’t open until 10 a.m.!

Groceries

Even Oozeki didn’t open until 11 a.m.! So, I ended up going to the “dollar” store (99 yen), which actually turned out to be better.

Daily Journal Entry #11859 06/18/08 Wed

Published on August 24, 2008 in Journal. Comments

Minutiae

  • Went to visit Josh at his new place in Nippori.

Links

  • The final words of Pequena Hillary Clinton.
  • Great post about bosozoku bike gangs in Japan.
  • Great video of David Harvey (part 1 and part 2) talking about “The Right to the City.” Harvey says, “I think Lefebvre was right — the revolution has to be urban or it’s not going to be anything at all.”

Daily Journal Entry #11858 06/17/08 Tue

Published on August 24, 2008 in Journal. Comments Tags: , , , .

Minutiae

  • Saw a program on Japanese TV where someone would come up and other people would guess if they had plastic surgery.
  • I downloaded Firefox for download day and watched R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet (because I was journaling about 5/23 when I listened to a 5/9 NPR show that mentioned it).
  • I told Jeremiah, “This Mr. Oizo album is one of my favorite albums of all time.” (Analog Worms Attack, that is.)
  • Started using BrightKite and Ping.FM.
  • Shot a video about the place I am staying at.

Status Updates for 2008-08-21

Published on August 21, 2008 in Photos. Comments
  • I had to quickly park my car when it decided it would only go in reverse, and now I can’t get it to start. #

Status Updates for 2008-08-20

Published on August 20, 2008 in Status Updates. Comments
  • Taco Bell and gas in Lonoke, AR. Little bit scary. #
  • Now I am in Benton, IL. Should be my last stop until Champaign. #
  • I’m here. It took about fourteen hours. It’s weird to be back. And a little exciting. #

Status Updates for 2008-08-19

Published on August 19, 2008 in Status Updates. Comments
  • A guy on NPR says the Wire “may just be the finest show US TV has ever produced.” FINE! I’LL WATCH IT! JUST STOP HITTING ME! #
  • Had lunch with my sister at Jason’s Deli, said goodbye and we each had watery eyes, and now I am on my way back to Illinois. #
  • I am at a gas station in Mt. Pleasant, TX, I think, waiting forever for my iPod to sync before I take off again. #
  • At a rest stop. Didn’t make it very far before having to stop again. Trying a Zero candy bar for the first time. It’s alright. #
  • Another stop just inside Arkansas. Too much pop and coffee. Rocking out to Nine Inch Nails. #

Daily Journal Entry #11857 06/16/08 Mon

Published on August 18, 2008 in Journal. Comments Tags: .


Meeting with Karen

I met Karen in Ueno Park and we spent some time looking for a place to chat. We tried a Doutours coffee shop, but it was too smoky. Eventually, we ended up at the Starbucks near Okachimachi that I had gone to to read at on Wednesday.

A large portion of my conversation with Karen was about pleasure theory, and I was glad to find that she was into it. At one point, after I had scoffed at Lacan, she said, “You’re very compatible with Lacan,” in response to my diagrams.

Minutiae

  • Woke up at 6:30 p.m.
  • I rushed to Akihabara after my meeting with Karen to get the KanKen DS 2 game.
  • I was sad to find that the sauce I used for my spaghetti was clam flavored rather than olive oil.

Links

  • I think this website might be the best website I have ever seen. Now if only I could always have it loaded and carry it around with me…
  • Yeah, yeah, so some guy got branded because he never called some girl back after they had sex — BUT WHAT DOES THE “R” STAND FOR!?
  • I don’t think this neurosis site is confessional in a pastoral sense. But, then, like PostSecret, what is pleasurable about sharing these things, and why is it pleasurable?