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The Half-Way Point (VIDEO)

Jun 012005

First off, thanks so much to everyone who called me on my birthday. Unfortunately I was either asleep or away from home for all of them, but I almost like it better that way – now I have a whole bunch of messages to always remind me of who the awesome people in my life are. You all rule!

They ain’t no Megadeth, but they’ve got their charm…Don’t you think?

Also, everyone’s video feedback has been noted for future updates. However, at the moment I’m right in the midst of midterms, so it’ll probably be much longer than usual before another clip gets thrown together. But as promised here is a clip from last week’s shamisen performance (composed of several Kabuki scenes) that I put together before the crunch started. The old guy is our incredibly bad-ass teacher.
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Website Overhaul

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May 272005

Well, I finally got around to redesigning my website.

I’ve been planning to implement this type of indexed front page for quite awhile (which I admit I completely ripped from Sushicam.com), but my recent increase of videos has forced me to do so in order to reduce bandwidth usage. Continue reading »

立同戦!!! (VIDEO)

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May 252005

We love our Pee-wees. One of the many useful roles they play is to remind us stupid gaijin of our school’s name whenever we forget. It’s Rits! It’s spelled out right there, in romaji!

Hoorah for 立同戦! Kanji translation: Ritsumeikan vs. Doshisha WAR.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: I have no interest in baseball. But this game was awesome. Aside from the cheerleader parades and live music around campus promoting it over the last week or so, the game itself was so high-energy that I could barely keep up. For the entire game the band was playing and the crowd cheering at the top of their lungs. Literally, non-stop for the entire game. Perhaps it’s been so long since I’ve been to an American sporting event that I forgot what it was like, but I really don’t remember it being this intense.
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Unexpected Encounters (VIDEO)

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May 222005

Well, last night was a surprisingly randomly awesome night!

Traditional wafuku at the Aoi Matsuri

After finishing my kanji goal in March, I set my sights on vocabulary. Since I arrived here, I’ve been gradually accumulating piles and piles of vocab lists. Whenever I hear a useful word I write it down and stick it somewhere. This is not helping me speak Japanese. So I decided a couple of weeks ago that the time has come for me to go through and learn EVERY word I’ve written down. This one of the main reasons I’ve been spending so much time during my weekends at Starbuck’s lately.

Also, since next weekend is my 23rd birthday, I’d planned to push extra hard and get through as much as possible this weekend so that I can do nothing but party next weekend.

A time-out from the sakura craze for a quick snapshot

The day went pretty much as expected until around 7:00pm when my brain started to slowly ooze out of my left ear, so I decided that it was time to take a break. Stepping out of Starbuck’s and into the warm night air I instantly new that something was different. There were so many young people out and about, hanging out, talking, drinking, whatever, that I could scarcely make my way down to Kamogawa. I asked someone what was doing on, and they gave me a confused look – “What do you mean? It’s summer.”
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