Japan Countdown Checklist

June 18th, 2009 omo

Primary objectives

• Plane Ticket – done
• Hotel – booked
• Concert ticket #1 – Completed
• Concert ticket #2 – Scalp!
• Local contact info – Two sets secured
• Travel buddy – secured
• Days taken off work – secured

Secondary objectives

• Obtain spending money – complete!
• Have enough money left for Otakon – Probably
• Research travel info in Japan – in progress
  • Narita to Tokyo station – check
  • Tokyo station to hotel – check
    • and possibly on the way back – check
  • Hotel to saitama super arena – check
  • Hotel to Ginza (at … 5am) – check (see tsukiji)
  • Hotel to Seibu Dome – check- Ikebukuro or shinjuku, Tokorozawa (special train!)
• Find local things to do – in progress
  • Akiba – check
  • Tsukiji fish market – check (more info)
  • jangara ramen – check
• Plan to find locals (and others)
  • Yag – check
  • WAH – check
  • danie – maybe
  • Ryo – ?
• Create to-buy list – barely started
  • Artbooks – Reighborhood? Matsubara’s book.
  • List of CDs – ?
  • Scotch tape – done
  • Rain equipment – complete
  • flipflop – complete

Hopefully this will update over time.

Tags: japan

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Passion

June 11th, 2009 omo

Give me one pure and holy passion
Give me one magnificent obsession
Give me one glorious ambition for my life
To know and follow hard after You

To know and follow hard after you
To grow as your dicsiple in your truth
This world is empty, pale, and poor
Compared to knowing you, my Lord
Lead me on and I will run after you
Lead me on and I will run after you

And I do run, all right. I think one thing I learned well as a follow of Christ is the various ways and modes that people have pursued after Him. But why am I chasing after Yoko Kanno’s masterpiece recital? It is good, passionate, and perhaps even magnificent. Yet until I know what is empty, pale and poor by the best of the world’s standards, I probably won’t have a clue just how much more it is to run after somebody like Jesus.

Indeed, for One who so love the world to give His Son’s life, there is so much good left that I can’t help but to love it as He does. But I’m far and away in terms of doing it in the right way, with style, see. And despite the gibberish I’m sure Kanno is blessed by the same Creator as the One, being a creator herself.

If there’s a point to this post, it’s about giving thanks. That He has blessed so many with so much through each one of us. It’s easy to look at God and point to the bad stuff that’s happening, but that seems like an unfair thing to do when we live on this good o’ watery dustball, taking all that for granted.

Tags: lyrics

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A Good /a/ Thread –

May 28th, 2009 omo

This is just an excerpt:

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Anonymous 05/28/09(Thu)14:17 No.21653850

SO THERE I WAS BEING UME AOKI

WHEN MY EDITORS CAME IN AND WERE LIKE

“WE WANT TO SEE YOUR WORK ON HIDAMARI SKETCH”

AND I WAS LIKE

“HERE YOU GO”

SO THEY WERE LIKE

“HNNNNNNGGGG”

AND I MADE LOTS AND LOTS OF NUTBLADDERS EXPLODE

I LOVE MY LIFE

Tags: 4chan

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Anime Boston 2009 Scraps

May 25th, 2009 omo

Part one: bullet list:

This is just a continuation of this post’s last segment.

• Good Witch of the West was on my way down. I like the anime version, even if it’s more like the manga version than the novels. Will continue. Only got 4 eps in.
• Bolt is awesome. It bears repeating. I might be paying more for internet but w/e.
• Jabel is very good to be with, being a good complement to my too-shy shy-boy attitude
• hotels. It’s all about the Newbury Guest House. This also is worth documenting again.
  
• Summer Shack and this other restaurant that sells a lot of beer–both pretty good. Would do business again. They are also right next to each other, near the con center.
• I spent about 3 times more in eats than in dealer’s room goods. At least.
• Charity auction is awesome if you got a small group of people team up to bid on crap that you later split for stuff.
• Hi Steve! Thank you for hanging out with me and my goofy friends.
• An-Ni-Plex. /flip boxes
• dm showed me Simoun reference sketches that were photocopied. It is…very moe? And his cel collection. And some of the other junk he got off yahoo japan auction.
• I saw a Sega 1/6 Ruri Hoshino doll in original box, unopened, for $110. LOLLLLLLLLLLLL.
• I some of the people Jabel befriended over the weekend (people we lined up with) actually read my blog over at omonomono. A Kenny and a Kevin. And maybe some others. They look like youthful Asian specimen that reminded me of my own youthful days. Except they look like they put money and time into looking elite! Ok, I’m not that old but they’re not even half way into the 20s. And my icon is the cat from Azumanga Daioh, Maya…not a weasel. LOL. I don’t know why I felt the need to correct this point. They found my blog via animenano.
• Yeah, I am old. I felt it. But that might also just be that I’m more out of shape today than I ever was. Ever.
• [Probably more to come]

Part two: The Attack of Alexes:

Alex D. – the elder, runs an anime store out of his house. Goes the distance using my value matrices. I get what he gets at.

Alex M. – the actual otaku, runs an anime figure store out of his house. Lives like one of my kind. A brother in more ways than one.

Alex K. – the striker, promising youngster with Momotato’s touch. Takes it seriously but also very yukkuri. Also friends with Alex S.

Alex L. – the pontiff, also an up-and-comer. Does the things I wish I could do.

Tags: anime boston, conventions

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Akibafest 2009 Travelog Factoid

April 5th, 2009 omo

These points of data float in my mind like sunspots on the surface of the sun, marking an otherwise uniform glowing mystery.

Total number of miles clocked on my car over the 24-hour period: 384

Average gas milage (as estimated by the one fill-up I had): 27.7 MPG

The way down: MADLAX OST2, Turn-A OST3, Haibane Renmei OST1

The way back: r.o.r/s – self titled album, Chiaki Ishikawa – Boku wa Mada Nanimo Shiranai, Masami Okui – Akasha

Alex Car of Hell: Yukarin Tamura – ??? (Bambino Bambina?), Utena – that remix CD that came with the collector OST re-release, Nana Mizuki – Shin Ai, Discothesqe, ZSZS image CD (1, 2, 4, 12), ave;new feat. Saori Sakura – Kiss My Lips, Niconico kumikyoku (orig.), IOSYS – Marisa wa Taihen na Mono wo Nusunde Ikimashita, FictionJunction Yuuka – cazador del amor, Chihara Minori – Paradise Lost, among others.

Total expenditure – just over $115?

$ spent on merchandise: 15

$ spent on food: a lot more

$ spent on Delaware tolls: 11

$ spent on NJ tolls: ~9

Hours spent in Delaware: ~1.2

Hours spent on NJ Turnpike:  ~3

# of really expensive cars spotted: 3

Hours slept in the last 24 hours: 3

# of shopping carts in Alex’s apartment: 0

Last tip: 18%

Decisions made on AZ or AB: 0

# of times Lost in Space played: once

# of tweets sent at the concert: 3

# of songs I still need to look up for Sister Mayo: 1

# of autograph posters obtained: 2

Boxes of tea obtained: 2

# of tastes of defeat to be had: 2

Tags: akibafest, anison, concert

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Guitar Hero

February 23rd, 2009 omo

Actually, I just spent about an hour listening to the music done by this guy. It’s just a guy doing covers of anime songs on youtube, alone with an electric-acoustic. But this guy is definitely above average.

You can see his youtube videos here.

If you just want a taste, I recommend these along with the one I put up there (Tune the Rainbow from RahXehpon movie) :

I do (Ghost in the Shell SAC1, I think this is like ep3 or ep4)

Dango Daikazoku (CLANNAD ED1)

Kinjirareta Asobi (Rozen Maiden OP1)

Tori no Uta (I hope you know where this is from)

And for double impact for people who’s seen Aria and Black Lagoon, watch these back to back:

Rainbow (Aria ED1)

A World of Midnight (From Black Lagoon, killer loli twin arc, has actual video!)

Tags: music

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Way too much to do

February 13th, 2009 omo

This Weeke’s To-Do list, no order:

1. Sleep

2. Talk about Seki Tomokazu’s scheduled appearance @ Animazement on a blog post

3. Set one post live–already wrote it just need top pic.

4. Finish transcribing an interview, and post it

5. Finish writing a post about multi-prong anime marketing and fictional character remixes

6. Do taxes

7. Karaoke @ NYC?

8. Clean my desk

9. Clean the rest of my bedroom

10. Upgrade wordpress

11. Post a lot of Nakiami pictures.

Tags: animazement, conventions

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LOL

January 16th, 2009 omo

It doesn’t surprise me but it is amusing nonetheless–

Maid cafe run by chubby girls.

Not so lol, but I laughed harder at this.

Takurazuka Review does Phoenix Wright.

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End-of-Year Random Notes

December 30th, 2008 omo

Unexpectedly saw Darren, Dean and Howie put together a set this past Sunday, which is always a treat.

Poor Paul.

Karaoke is somehow a lot of fun. I think it may be a while yet until I get it out of my system considering the kind of music I like to sing. And it’s not the kind of music I sing at a bar, no siree. See for yourself:

Shu-AKA- LOLOLOL.

I should integrate this blog to Facebook somehow. Ugh, the thought alone bothers me. I hate how Facebook looks for some reason. It isn’t even ugly. I just don’t like it.

Lastly, Cafe Zaiya is selling this baked treat–rice flour exterior with red bean paste-y interior. It’s like a larger baked manju? Except it’s not, because it’s larger and the way it comes off reminds me of a certain Taiwanese treat. Need to buy more!

That is if I can find time outside Fallout 3 to do so. Thanks to the sibs and their lovely gift.

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Writing For $

December 10th, 2008 omo

I am currently writing for Japanator as a newly on-board contributing freelance guy.

It is fun. But I am really trying to scale back and keep it conservative. Not too sure how I feel about the whole thing yet.

You can read my first post here, which is an introduction to Kannagi’s secondary cast.

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