There’s a good Japanese word to know: futsukayoi. The literal meaning is something like “two day queasiness”, but the translation is hangover.
I only bring this up because of the Jagermeister at 7th Heaven last night, and then only as a purely academic note. I’ve never had call to actually use this word myself, […]

As always, it’s up on the schedule page, but I want to pimp out our next live here for maximum exposure on this widely-read and disturbingly influentail blog of mine.
We are live at 7th Heaven in Koza this Sunday, a very nice club just off of Gate 2 Street. This is some sort of big […]

Last night at practice, we got into a discussion/argument over what the strongest animal in the world is. I don’t know why, but I think it was on a TV show that some of the guys had seen the night before or something.
Anyway, the point is I think it is the rhinoceros beetle, which […]

I watched the first season of Chappelle’s Show over this weekend.
I had heard a lot of good things about the show, but had never seen it, except for a couple of clips on the various internets. I finally broke down and picked it up last week.
I’m glad I did, because it is a very funny […]

I watched House of Flying Daggers today.
I like this genre of movies, mainly because of the scenery and the flying-around-fake-martial-arts. They just look cool. I like the heavy tragic drama too; the over-serious romances combined with the imagery makes a nice escape, but it’s not depressing because the whole thing seems so […]

Just in case you missed the schedule page, we are live down in Junk Takasago in Naha tommorrow night for the Big Wave event.
There are some cool bands playing (maybe we are one of them?), so come out and check it out.
BTW, Ryukusoul events are the result of lots of hard work by lots of […]

I just got done reading Word Freak, which covers the author’s journey into the word of competitive Scrabble play.
Along the way, he runs into strange and colorful characters, the kind of slightly-mad people you might expect - if you thought about what a competitive Scrabble player would be like. The author’s growing fascination with the […]

There is a small Abiroji web site up. It’s really for mobile phones, and it’s just about 100% in Japanese, but that will change over time.
Our drummer, Manabu, is the webmaster. Each one of us is supposed to post a diary entry on a particular day of the week. My day is […]

I didn’t want to go another day without some sort of entry, even though I’m too tired to write anything interesting. (Not that there is such a criteria or level of expectation here.)
The band proceeds onward. The release live event went very well and I thought all the bands put on a great […]

This weekend is the release event for Total Steel Okinawa 2005, the compilation CD our song “Air Raid” is on. It’s actually a 2 day event, on Sat. and Sun., with half the bands on either day - we are playing on Sun.
Most of the details (that I have, at least) are up on […]

I posted an updated version of my Japanese for Busy People II wordlist for Stackz up for download.
It now covers lessons 1-13, which is up to UMUC JAPN 115 (final is next week!) I’m not sure at this point if I will continue on with the book, because it looks like UMUC is no […]

I put up a page for Learning Japanese References. I’ll try to add to it and flesh it out as time goes on. I didn’t have all my books in front of me when making the page, so there’s some more stuff to add later as well.
I figure if I do this […]

After some practicing and writing, we go back into the studio tonight to record. We haven’t recorded for about 3 weeks, instead we’ve been practicing and working on the arrangements and whatnot.
I’m not really sure what percentage we are into this thing, because on one hand it seems we’ve got everything demo-ed up and […]

The wife and I went to see the new Amityville Horror flick last night. I thought it was good, the best “scary” movie I have seen in a while. (And that’s quite a few, because TamiTam loves the scary movies and that’s just about all we go see.)
Anyway, afterwards I was trying to […]

I guess the America, We Stand As One video is for real, it’s certainly making the rounds. The cheese factor is way beyond even the mid-80s, so be forewarned.
The spoof is better.
Anyway, David Hooper asks the question I want answered:
“Do you ever wonder what these folks are thinking when they walk out of […]

Tendrils: The Role-playing remix is a super-cool game. It’s like an old-school dungeon creed RPG (Bards Tale) plus Dance Dance Revolution as the combat system, with lots of cool mini-games and puzzles.
It’s also a “remix game made of 90% recycled material”, which means just about every graphic, sound, and song is from another game. […]