This is America, speak English or go back to your own country!! How many Karens and Chads have you seen on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, all harassing some poor bloke they overheard speaking Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, Farsi, Arabic, Swahili, or Japanese at a Starbucks, a grocery store checkout line, a bank, or a McDonald’s restaurant as if the first language to reach the shores of the United States
Being that the world seems to finally be coming back to its senses (is it?) on this whole Coronamania. Japan appears to be taking baby-steps towards opening up its borders to allow tourists and potential new expats back in. Students have already begun their arrival, so we’re all hoping that things will take a turn back towards the normal. Given the dollar’s strength these days, the exchange rate has never
Of all the numerous rules that you’re going to find yourself be expected to follow. It’s not as hard as you might suspect it to be, and you might also find yourself being smiled and nodded at for simply doing them without anyone telling you to. Even if you notice that so many people around you don’t follow the rules around here, follow them and you’ll look like a champ
I hadn’t actually planned on moving to Japan. It was always a faraway dream or happy fantasy to be able to live in another country. I was committed to life in Los Angeles, having lived there, for the second time, since 1996. After years of working hard at finding my way through the maze that is Hollywood, I’d finally gotten an agent, was going out on lots of auditions, getting
If you haven’t been paying attention to what’s been happening around you, perhaps you should start paying closer attention, because it’s happening. It happening, your country is being overthrown and it isn’t going to stop happening until you’ve been completely overrun by a brutal and unaccountable corporatocracy without a face and a regenerative head. As I stated before in a couple other posts, I grew up enjoying standup comedy with
I flew straight to Los Angeles, California after I got out the Navy, Redondo Beach actually. When I got there, I was staying with my brother and two other guys from my hometown. It was a day I’ll never forget because less than 2 hours after my friend, Django picked me up from LAX, we went to visit a girl I’d known since middle school who put 2 hits of
One of my favorite things as a kid was watching standup comedy laser discs with my father when laser disc preceded the Betamax. I’m sure plenty of you are aware of the laser disc players that came out after VHS some years before DVD, Blu-Ray and streaming came along and put Laser Blazer in West L.A. out of business (before Jay and Silent Bob relocated their Secret Stash), but I’m
Interesting little factoid about yours truly, I’ve purchased more than a few soundtracks before I’d even seen the movie. As I stated already in the previous post, I’m a big fan of dramatic music. Which is why I have so many motion picture soundtracks in my CD collection. Before I joined the Navy, I was into a lot of punk rock bands like Black Flag, The Circle Jerks, and Naked
In my extensive CD collection, I have numerous motion picture soundtracks because I happen to enjoy dramatic music. I’ll be sharing several different motion picture soundtracks for you to get your hands on in the upcoming posts on this category. John Barry (Dances With Wolves, Out of Africa), Maurice Jarre (Jacob’s Ladder, Witness), Trevor Jones (Last of the Mohicans, with Randy Edelman), Philip Glass (Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (The
Since picking up and moving to Japan to help Mrs S take care of a dying mother with ALS, numerous people keep asking me about life in Japan. It’s remarkably different in a lot of ways, but one thing that isn’t different is that good music can be found anywhere in the world. I’ve been with my wife for over 16 years, and let me tell you something. For most
