Apr 26 2008
His cover of the Rolling Stone's Brown Sugar is pretty good too.
An excerpt from his blog:
Even though I'm a ukulele player I don't own a Hawaiian shirt. It's not like anybody made a rule that if you play the ukulele you have to wear one. I never wanted one so I've never bought one.
But this year I think I'll buy one because I started to want one.
Sep 15 2007
Name: Maria
Sex: Who knows? (lol)
Birthday: May 24
Occupation: Dream chaser
E-mail: beautymaria@ezweb.ne.jp
Height: 178cm
Weight: I've recently gained weight 
Hobbies: singing, cosmetics
Special skill: vocal range
Hairstyle: rainbow
Favorite words: beautiful, Maria
Personality: extremely narcissistic, extremely selfish
Favorite Food: thick, juicy steak
Least Favorite Foods: shrimp, squid, octopus, crab, all shellfish
Favorite Drink: melon soda
Least Favorite Drinks: sake, shochu
Favorite Book: I hate reading (lol)
Favorite Perfume: One I have at home, I forget what it's called (lol)
Favorite Sport: practicing vocals
Favorite Animal: Hamu Taro
Favorite Pastime: street performing
Favorite Karaoke Song: I sing my own songs (lol)
Dream for the future: to mobilize 1000 people without ever having to set foot in an office. That and to sing at the Budokan
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Aug 23 2007
We stated off in Shibuya, took a little stroll through the Chocolate Rain, and ended up outside my house having a late night chat in lawn chairs.
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Aug 13 2007
This week is Obon, the yearly holiday season similar to Dia de los muertos in Mexico, when people go back to their hometowns to visit living relatives and spruce up the graves of dead ones. It's believed that the spirits of your dead relatives come back to visit, which is a nice thing to believe–you never feel too distant from the ones you've lost. There are many local "bon odori" festivals that involve dancing, taiko drumming, eating, drinking, etc. People take off work en masse, and many banks, city halls, supermarkets and small stores are closed. This is also the time of year when traffic jams miles and miles long make the news.
I don't have off today, but my wife does, and she's is taking our kids to see the new Harry Potter movie, which means I'll have to download watch it by myself later.
Last Friday Oliver dragged took me to a live house to listen to a singer/songwriter he met during his travels. Let me say this–although I do like some music loud, to which my father will attest, there's a point where "loud" becomes "way too loud." When the venue is in the basement of a building behind two sets of vacuum-sealed soundproof doors, it's a good sign that your eardrums are in for some serious punishment. I used my sound isolating earbuds for earplugs and it was still too loud. It was sparking my "fight or flight" response, and I spent half the time in retreat on the opposite, quiet side of the double doors and the other half wanting to pick a fight with an innocent bystander. On the bright side, I took full advantage of the "all you can drink" deal that was included in the entrance fee and spend the night curled up in a dumpster outside Koga station. (I nicknamed one rat "Fifi" and the other one "Cuddles.")
So here I am at work today, having no luck finding a function in JavaScript for converting HTML entities like & and " back into their proper characters. It looks like you have to roll your own. Stupid language.
Oliver and I almost recorded a podcast, but I was too inebriated and in a pretty foul mood. We started one before the gig, but it wasn't turning out all that well so I'll throw it in the chumbucket later.
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Apr 01 2007
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