A quick tour of the laundromat near my apartment in Iwate prefecture, yields some insight into the differences between the culture of Japan and the culture of the United States. Overgeneralizations ahoy!
What the hell is going on?
Brilliant!
- Consumable media! (14)
- Damn Tourists (9)
- Ennui (1)
- Epic-ness (3)
- Everyone Else Is Crazy (6)
- Japan! (20)
- Precocious Younglings (5)
- Stories from the Edge (7)
- Teaching in Japan (7)
- The Day to Day (11)
Podcasts
Thank you, Best Buy, for increasing alienation by driving people to digital distribution and online retailers.
However, no stores here have the new Pavement re-release, so really that's on them for not selling the stuff I actually want to buy.
So the advent of digital distribution fosters alienation and the dissolution of community, according to experts.
Re-read all the Scott Pilgrim books in anticipation of getting the sixth one in the next couple of days. I always forget how good they are.
Just finished watching Avatar: The Last Airbender (the TV series, not the movie). It was incredible. That's how you do storytelling right.
I guess The New Pornographers released a new CD and I didn't know about it. But I know now. I just hope it's good.
"In 1867 Adolf Hitler's Nazi party created concentration camps to exterminate some millions of Jewish people."
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