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Name: Eric
Country: Japan
Metro: Nagasaki
Birthday: 1/19/1981
Gender: Male


Interests: International relations, philosophy, asian culture, Russian literature, music, guitar, reading, anime, RPGs, hot sauces, hot peppers, awful awful movies, aviator style sunglasses, Adobe Photoshop
Expertise: Stealing land from the propertied and giving said property to the propertiless.
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Real Estate


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MSN: victor.surge@gmail.com


Member Since: 10/13/2004

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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Just doing a little blog maintenance. I may not make too many entries, but it's one of my only testaments of not being a lazy ass. A lot of the pictures on old entries have disappeared, and that needs to be fixed.

My five years in Japan are up. What did I learn the most? Portion control. Not just for food, for everything.

If anyone wants to hit me up on Facebbook, they should.


Saturday, June 28, 2008

One Way to be Cruel

Back in February we had a band. That band was Beijing Cocktail. We weren't the greatest band to grace the stage that night...we were the greatest pianica and cowbell wielding band of all time.

We only practised for a few weeks. It was my first time on stage and second month using a bass guitar.




 




Set List:
Ice Cream - The New Young Pony Club
I Wanna Know what love is - Foreigner (which is why Tim is sporting the wig)
A Million Ways to be Cruel - OK GO!
The Devil Says Dance - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
A Thing Called Love - The Darkness

Band Members:
Kara Adams: Drums / Secretary / Warden
Lizzie Moore: Vocals / Cow Bell Player
Paul Hebert: Cow Bell Holder / Guitar
Chris Moyer: Guitar / Guitar Strap Breaker / Amp Blower Outer / Vocals
Eric Knudsen: Bass / Toe Breaker
Tim Johnston: Vocals / Pianica / Mulleteer
                                               


Friday, June 20, 2008

Oh god, I might just start this up again. I have scads of new Xanga features to look into and it'll cut deep into the napping, but, I'm going to start my fifth and final year in JET, and maybe it needs to be chronicled like the first.

Stand by and check in. It's blog startup Russian Roulette. I pray it's not fatal *goes and posts nothing but pictures and calls it a blog*


Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Long time, hey. I've had billion of things I could have been writing about. And I still might. But until then, here's the link to my brand new Deviant Art page.

http://victor-surge.deviantart.com/

click the download button on the left side for the full-size view.


I'm also an MMO junkie now.

EVE Online

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Monday, November 13, 2006

The rules have changed; JET now has an upper limit of five years. Does that mean I'm going to stay on the program for five whole years? Probably not, but...BUT a fourth year is possible and as such I'm coming home again this Christmas just in case I stay in Japan longer. The gods of travel are merciless, fickle, and rather good knitters, so I'm purchasing a round-trip ticket this time. So December 18th to January 5th, e-mail for appointments soon. ha ha.  ha...nobody loves me...

I was the semiofficial Kitaarima Junior High Bunkasai (Culture Festival) this year. I took numerous (mostly crap pictures) but these are a few of my favorites.









First up was the band, playing such classical pieces as The Theme of Sazae-san, and The Ending Theme of Sazae-san, and The Opening of Chibi Maruko-chan, and superb rendition of Cutey Honey: Trasformazione nuda delle donne potenti, in C major for sax and clarinet.

Intermission: Student gallery


"I knew we couldn't go wrong with this year's theme of Freud presents: Jenga and Lemons, An Exploration!."




Who DOESN'T love garlic and it's near LIMITLESS applications in our glorious well-flavored future!? Added bonus, last two pages were full-sized drawing of characters from The Prince of Tennis.



Class 2-2 tries to show us the magical worlds of Hayao Miyazaki. Wanted: new 2-2 class to try to feed spirit for gold. All I got from this one was plastic bottles and newspaper.

Next was my favorite part of Culture Fest, the plays. This year was no different from any other year, crossdressing, crossdressing, and more crossdressing, the boys just can't get enough of skirtsuits and frilly lace.





One inevitability of Culture Fest, other then boys dressing up as girls, is a play were all the characters stand around a lot and reflect on past mistakes and current/future problems in their lives (they're usually freshly dead or not born yet or some such). It's lots of talking, sitting in semicircles, and not choosing oblivion.







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