Takeru!
lol I suck, I just got your message on my wall like months later. =( I do have a facebook and I try to keep up with that so we could chat more! I Think I found you on there so you (hopefully should have a friend request. Did you move out already? how has it been? are you still writing? I hope life is good for you!! =D
ERIN!! Thanks for stopping by. Any chance u're on facebook? things are going well now. i'm finally moving out with my best friend and i'm getting a film made within the next few months =) I hope u're doing well too. KIT!
Hi Takeru!
I'm always so so terrible about logging on here but I just wanted to say hi and see how you are =) I hope everything is going well for you!! =)
haha ! i've never read that book or seen the movie. i was sorta thinking of 100 years of solitude but JLC is a pretty good comparison too lol.
nice! thank you so much! there's so many to choose from lol i'm gonna have to sit down and think very hard about this. can't believe u made ur own version of pocky! ! how'd u get that done?
LOL sounded a bit cheesy but hey, that just shows u mean it. =) u totally seem like someone who likes to create. that's pretty awesome. do u do anything in the arts? paint or draw?
Thats cool Takeru! Form the start your story sound a bit like a male version of the Joy Luck Club which I think is really cool, Is still havent finished the book but it is one of my favorite movies and my fiance actually said it was one of the best books he has ever read. And no seriously I would be happy to make you something whenever you want let me know =) So the things I can make are Dorayaki, Taiyaki but mine tend to turn out more pankakey, yokan, Kasutera and I created my own version of pocky! lol As for intrests I just like creating. My whole goal in life is to be a bohemian and just create music and pretty things and just try create beauty in the world. Lol that was the lamest answer ever but I guess how I feel! =D
thanks! i haven't gotten the gist of the story yet, but i want it to have a man who spends a moment with his ancestral fathers in a game of cards. Just gotta figure out how the story unfolds and what the themes are. oh wow that would be awesome! but i don't wanna put u outta ur way to do that for me. maybe i'll take ya up on the offer someday. =D i know what u mean. the job i'm doing isn't exactly what i want to be doing but it's something, and i'm trying to figure things out whilst i'm there. what r some of your interests?
Thats so cool you are writing a script! What is it about? and I totally understand not finding the time to do stuff but I am sure youll get it done =). Eh its ok about the buisness I was sad at first but I learned things from it. Oh but if there is anything you want me to make you I would still be more then happy to do it for you, just let me know! Ugh right now Im answering phones for Disney and just trying to figure out what to do with my life, just some soul searching you know?
things are goin well. i'm still going strong, writing for the website but that's my moonlighting job at the moment lol. I'm an assistant video editor in a small firm right now. =D But I'm also writing on a short script for a short i wanna shoot in the fall. kinda hard though, to find time to write on it. i need to try a bit harder to do so and not go out as much. =/
aw sorry to hear about your business closing. =( i was hoping to make an order sometime. what r u looking into right now??
Ive been good! How about you? How the writing gig going? Eh I had to give up my pastry buisness I got a ton of orders but I just couldnt make money after all was done and paid for. now Im just trying to figure out how to survive =( I hope you are doing better though! Are you offically writing now?
Erina!! aw that's cool.made me feel all cozzy. haha i've been good. doin' well at work. turned 23 but not feelin' it yet lol. how've u been??? still goin' strong with ur business?
yep. i'm gonna actually call up the guy this week and he's gonna introduce me to the crew and talk about contract particulars and what i've been interested in writing on. Haven't wrote anything yet, but i've been researching a lot over the net, looking for things to write about. I'm gonna try to give an angle on ethnically mixed artists if i can find them. Stand up performers, singers, artists, actors, etc. Then also write about social themes and how we coexist. It can kind of get philosophical there if it has to lol. but i'm excited!
I saw your site! it's very nice. Are you planning on adding more items to the site? And are you making these delicious treats??? okay, nm, i just saw your blog. very cool, Erina. Keep it up. Love the "christmas" ornaments. How did you make em?
ugh Takeru you're so popular it takes like 15 minutes just load your page! lol Youre going to be writing for an online magazine!?!? thats awesome! have you started already? Does that mean youll get to work from home? lol thanks for thinking my business is cool! the site is http://www.teahouseconfections.etsy.com if you want to check it out Im still starting out but people seem pretty responsive so far which is pretty cool to get to represent my culture like that =) man you really must be the most popular member on this whole site!
Hmmm, bow down... yes, that sounds about right! =P haha i can't imagine what it would be like to go day after day of people bowing down to you, in respect to royalty or something. being who i am, raised how i was, it's kind of strange to think about it. but there are peeps who grew up with people much older than them bowing down to them. crazy to think, no? i think my mother wouldn't mind it, though, if it meant having some 5 star chef make her meals everyday for the rest of her life haha. i've been keeping myself busy writing. i think i may write freelance for a multicultural website. i just got approved earlier this afternoon via eMail. so i'm gonna back to them tonight and let them know i'm very much interested. That sounds very cool, Erina! i'd like to check it out sometime. pass me the link when you have the chance. the shop's only an online gig? ever thinkin of opening up your own walk-in shop? u're no dork, just a geek lol i kid i kid!
Ok so I must virtually bow down everytime you enter my profile space now right? lol You were stealing bandwidth?!?!? tsk tsk lol I do that to sometimes! yes my comp now os still awful but at least i have one! Its weird though Ive had so many issues the last couple days on this site where everything I did came up an error and today I have no problems at all! I wonder if they updated something on here! What else have you been up to Takeru? beyoond being ultra popular! geesh everyone on the site must leave comments for you! Not too much here just working and lol I started a Japanese Sweets shop online, surprsingly its doing really well! Im a dork i know...
heya!! =D it's been so long! yep. I'm a Site Leader now, which means u do as I say. haha jk. i'm well. livin. survivin. what's new with you? what happened to your computer? it's funny cuz in the last week, our cable was cut because my mother failed to make a payment. but i've been stealing signals from my neighbors and it helped me get around haha. but now our cable's back so no more stealing signals. what have you been up to?
Takeru! Im so sorry I havent written back in so long I havent had a computer for the last month =( how are you? wow youre a site leader now? awesome =)
haha hooraay!! I'll post it up on the site or send you the link. i studied film/video. I graduated a few months back. What i really like about Cormac McCarthy is that he's very visual and he can easily make you imagine what's described on the page. He writes action very well too--not like gun shooting and stuff. He also doesn't write in chapters nor does he add quotes to the dialogue, which is weird. But when you read the lines you know who's saying it. He almost has that way of describing things like Camus did in the Stranger. Simple yet effective. The only Philip Roth book i've ever read was Pourtney's Complaint. But i remember how much fun it was to read, so I want to grab another book of his. American Pastoral? thanks for the rec. Are you a fan of short stories? Or Shakespeare? well it's good that they turned around and felt differently about your parents. Have you ever met your grandparents? I've met only my grandfather. I felt a little bad that my grandmother had died just a year before becuz i never had the chance to meet her. As a kid they would always send us a big box of goodies from their department store they used to own and we'd always send them tons of pictures and drawings and cards. My grandfather's like 98 now but he's still moving around like he's 50. He wants to go here, wants to go there. My dad told me it's driving his sister nuts sometimes (my aunt lives in Sapporo near my grandfather while my dad and his two brothers live in Asahikawa). i got to check out Yumiko Kayukawa, very very unique. I wish i knew how to read those characters. DId she start out doing fashion sketches or something? Hmm, my top favorite is an oldie--Caravaggio. I just love the way he plays with light with his subjects. I like him, Salvador Dali, Van Gogh, Jim Lee lol, and Alex Ross. I don't know that many modern artists, sadly. I recently looked through a book of a series by a guy named Zhang Huan. Very very cool stuff. Look up his series "Blessings". Very deep. Thanks, and you have yourself a good day as well!
yay for long posts! =D First of all I would love to see your thesis! What do you study? and you know I have Cormac Mccarthy books but I have yet to read them but since you give a good recommendation, I will deifintly move them up in my reading queue! Have you ever read any Philip Roth? If you ever get a chance read American Pastoral, it sarts off a little slow but its a really good intense book.Im so glad to have someone to booktalk with! Well haveto keep giving each other recommendations ok? yay! You know I think after I was born my mothers family became ok with my dad, I think now they really like him =) Yeah low brow art is a little strange, but if you are looking up the art definitly check out TaraMcphersen, Yumiko Kayukawa, Junko Mizuno and Sas Christensen, they are some of my favorites! Who are some of your favorite artists? And that youtube video was awesome, what a creative and cool way to make trash into treasure! ok gotta go to work =( but have a good day and write back soon!
haha nah don't worry about it. I sometimes write books on other people's pages, so if You feel bad then I must feel even worse! lol That is a sweet story actually. Your dad acted so much on emotions and instinct. Very bold decision he made but a decision well worth it. I can't imagine what he'd have felt if she turned him down! What does your mothers family think of the marriage after all these years? did they accept it after a while? I love the Raven too. I even wrote and shot my thesis film based on the Raven, A Midnight Dreary. If you're interested i'll give you the link to see it. The raven's really good so I can understand a lot of people liking it the most. It's just so creepy and tormenting. DOn't think i've ever heard of the Roald Dahl Omnibus. I like creepy and strange though! The last book i read was No Surrender: My 30 Year War written by a Japanese WWII veteran. It's really good. Really good. It's a pretty average length read, no more than 300 pages, and is just all about the veteran's survival to uphold duty for 30 years not knowing WWII had ended. My friend and I were thinking of adapting it into a feature film. I finished Cormac McCarthy's The Road before that. That's pretty good too. R you into Cormac McCarthy? You know what, i haven't heard of lowbrow art either. i just looked it up and it seems very surreal. You have to check this out on youtube-----http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6xCT2aTSo-----what do you think of it? I can't believe I didn't run into this guy's work at all.
Yeah seriously everything about that movie is perfect! Lol my dad had to take and Japanese to English dictionary on all their dates. Its actually a way sweet story. My mom was just visting CO on a study abrod trip for the summer and met my dad through I guess a friend of her host family they went on a couple dates and fell in love even though they couldnt really comunicate. Two weeks later my mom left for Japan and my dad couldnt take it so he bought a ticket to Japan with all his savings found my mom and asked her to marry him after only two weeks! Of course my moms family was furious but she said yes and my dad said he would take care of evrything in America while my got ready to mover which took a year but my dad studied Japanese dilligently and wrote my mom everyday for that year they were apart and they have been married for 25 years now. Wow sorry that was a long story!! oh but I know that story, it is a really good one! mine is probably The Raven I know thats lame but I really just always loved it, If you like those kind of stories you should check out the Roald Dahl Omnibus, it these short stories Roald Dahl made but they are for adults they are way creepy and strange! Have you read any other good books lately? And hmm, I really like low brow art but I mean really I think all art is inspiring, how about you? Wow Im soo sorry this message is so long! I talk too much! lol
Nice@! That's about how i think of the movie as well. And the fact that there doesn't seem to be another movie quite like it. I loved Kevin Spacey and Thora Birch in that movie. I like that little story about your father learning Japanese from your mother. How did they communicate at all when they first met? lol Thanks! My favorite Poe story... hmmm, I think it would have to be the Tell Tale Heart. It's the most visual and packs so much atmosphere. I love his use of sound as well. i don't think i've ever read anything quite like it. What about you? And what kind of art r u into?
Nice to meet you too! Oh American Beauty is one of your favorites? Well that makes you automatically super cool in my books! =) You know I really just love evrything about that movie but I guess the biggest thing it just goes to show you really dont know anyone on the surface, until you really get to know someone youre judgement can just be totally wrong. Lol I must say I have gotten more used to takoyaki I wouldnt touch it at all when I was little my mom loves it though, I can tolertate it! how about you? You have AWESOME taste in authors, whats your favorite Poe story?
oh, Samar lol. hey Erina. nice to meetchya! your parents seem very unique. I love American Beauty!@ It's one of my favorite movies of all time! What did you like about it? I see you like gyoza--are you a fan of takoyaki??
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