March 28, 2008
Some of us are better than others.
In concealing what’s inside.
Some days I feel that I must be so good at it. I have this inpenetratable surface — hard and shiny, slick and never-changing — that clearly states to the world “I’m fine and dandy, the same as yesterday.”
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March 25, 2008
I just found out a couple of days ago that Aries9 is #5 in the Japanese Rock chart at CDbaby.com.
To celebrate this, and to encourage the upward motion, I’m knocking $1 off from both CD and mp3s for a limited time. I’ll knock another $1 off when it reaches the top 3.
Please help me [...]
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March 20, 2008
I know I shouldn’t have done it.
My 1-year-old son was about to take a bath, but I was caught up reading comic books in a different room. You see, giving kids bath has always been my job.
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March 15, 2008
Tonight I ran the sound for a talent show at a high school. My old buddy asked me to help out.
High school has always felt like an odd place to me. There are such huge gaps in development among kids. Some are practically adults — physically, and sometimes mentally. Others are [...]
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March 14, 2008
Everyone knows a good drama queen or two. Trouble always seems to follow them.
I knew a few people who stay stuck in jobs and situations they don’t want, bemoaning and complaining how terrible life is, all the while making no effort to change.
I was one of them.
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March 12, 2008
Unfortunately, it’s not a rare occurrence.
I read in Japanese news that they discovered bodies of 5 people, between ages of 21-37, in a car parked deep in the forest of Aomori, in northern Japan. They got together to self-produce a carbon monoxide poisoning.
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March 6, 2008
Here’s an example of how my own ambition can crush me.
I have a to-do list, and with it comes a preconceived notion of how much I can accomplish in a day.
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March 5, 2008
There was nothing big. Just a series of small things, little variations to the routine.
But somehow a wheel came off the vehicle I was driving.
And the car kept moving, the loose wheel kept spinning…. I make myself stop, and try to figure out where things are.
But now parts are scattered, and more are coming [...]
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