Links
- Plastic
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- Snow Japan
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- The Onion
- NHL.com
- Nervy Girl
- NOVA
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- Metropolis Magazine
- Japan Earthquake Map
Archives
- 12/01/2003 - 12/31/2003
- 01/01/2004 - 01/31/2004
- 02/01/2004 - 02/29/2004
- 03/01/2004 - 03/31/2004
- 04/01/2004 - 04/30/2004
- 05/01/2004 - 05/31/2004
Current Readings
- "Me Talk Pretty One Day" - David Sedaris
- "Freedom's Landing" - Anne McCaffrey
- "A Whale For The Killing" - Farley Mowat
- "Nation of Fear" - Hunter S. Thompson
- "Wizard & Glass (The Dark Tower IV)" - Stephen King
- "Archform: Beauty" - L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
Current Tunes
- The Locust - The Locust
- The White Stripes - Elephant
- Lolita No. 18 - Best Of Lolita No. 18
- Razors Edge - Razors Rising!!!!
- Bad Religion - 80 - 85 Anthology
- 20 Years Of Dischord - Dischord Records Anthology
- Indian Hi - Okinawa Core
Since we're living in Oyama, Japan these days, we're going to try and keep the peeps updated with this blog. Please let us know if you actually read it, and if it provides you with any sort of information/entertainment at all.
Monday, May 03, 2004
Testing Comments
Why I try this before work I don't know, but I'm testing out a little comment script here. Does it work? Only time will tell. Rainy day today, wahooo!
Sunday, May 02, 2004
Pottery Town, Japan
We spent last Friday up in Mashiko, one of the famous pottery towns of Japan. It's well known for it's Mashiko-Yaki, a rough and utilitarian type of pottery. According to this site, there are nearly 400 pottery studios and kilns in Mashiko. There are two festivals a year where all the artists in town set out tables and sell all kinds of pottery, and Friday was the first day of the festival this year. Now I like pottery, but there was far too much to see, and I don't like it enough to spend endless hours browsing thousands of sake cups. It was pretty impressive though, and we picked up numerous items such as a fine sushi platter, some flower vases, and a cat lamp which Stephanie had second thoughts about as soon as we got home. It's pretty 'neat' though. They also make claims about some indigo products, but I didn't see any. We did, however, eat some fine chili dogs.
Aside from that we've just been working away. Stephanie took some time on Thursday to head to an onsen in town with some folks from Tochigi-city, and that seemed to treat her well. Yesterday I attacked our tatami room to try and remove some of the empty boxes in there, so that's looking a tad better. The balcony garden is growing, and we look forward to having many tomatoes in the near future. Looking mighty forward to some vacation in July!
It's actually Golden Week right now, so all the locals are off work and slackin' around. While I was at work today there were some bands playing outside the mall, and I had the pleasure of listening to a Japanese metal band. It was a huge improvement over the pseudo-jazz band playing endless versions of "The Girl From Ipanema" yesterday. The music selection here can be odd at times - we've heard "Country Roads" done so many times and in so many ways (often with Japanese lyrics) the song is slightly disturbing now. Stephanie said she heard a guy driving by and singing it to himself in his car the other day.
OK, that's all for now, the original "Planet of the Apes" is on now. Sweet...
