Archive for March, 2004
grindcore hanami
ENGRISH OF THE DAY:
SOUNDTRACK: death metal
EVENT: hanami
Today marks the beginning of the 3 fuckin’ days a year when the cherry blossoms bloom, which means I have to go hanami.
Hanami is Japanese for ‘watching the cherry blossoms’. . . which is English for ‘getting totally hammered on cheap sake’.
Hanami is a sacred and profound Japanese tradition. [...]
conundrums and parties at school
So at my school it’s test time again, and that means a fresh round of ABSURD CONUNDRUMS.
CONUNDRUM ONE:
again they’re giving us test-prep material that’s like TEN TIMES as good as the material in the book. . . 3 days before the test. Instead of, say, when we were first learning the material and really needed [...]
Tokyo Walkers
engrish of the day:
soundtrack: lee perry ‘return of super ape ‘
anyone who still thinks the Japanese are conformist and efficient and loving order and routine . . . should try walking around shinjuku sometime. The Tokyo sidewalks are nuts. Chaotic. Just anarchy in slow motion. I ‘m sure they are not as nuts as, say, [...]
I’m rapping at the school speech contest again.
So at 10 this morning I was rapping about poop to 200 people. IN JAPANESE.
my school was having a speech contest. super slick — rented a big hall and everything. I knew I was in trouble when I saw the judges.. They were these totally random beauracrats, not a one under 60 years old. Huh?? [...]
What kind of shit are we putting on roofs nowadays?
ENGRISH OF THE DAY: (back by popular demand)
"multiculturalism in a nutshell"
WELL… normally i don’t like Roppongi but i wanted to see the KUSAMATRIX exhibit here. they had lots of amazing stuff, of which pictures are forbidden, so just go there, essentially.
the main thing is this: the museum is ON THE 55TH FLOOR. which means [...]