Hidoi!!

I knew I was doing something right when my student, Tomoya called me this.

酷い(P); 非道い 【ひどい】 (adj-i) (uk) cruel; awful; severe; very bad; serious; terrible; heavy; violent;

I like the ring of it.

Gordon

English School/ After School programme

So our English School is now also running an after school program for two half brazillian/ half Japanese cuties called James and Elizabeth.

James looks like a tiny man. He's only seven but I swear he has a mustache. He just has teh manliest features of any eight year old around. He could take you.

Elizabeth is just cutedoarble. So because of this new development it means that the half of teh day I spend surfing teh internet reaading perez hilton is now spent hanging out with kiddoes.

plus we now have a tv so we can watch tv at work.

I loves it.

Gordon

Snakes in a Biwa Tree

There is a Snake Center in Ota. I've never been but I've heard of it. I've heard of that it sort of sucks but is cool in that sort of oddity side show sort of way. They have also sort of snakes. A statue of a large boddhisatva and a cave filled with statues of dinosaurs (that you have to jump the fence to get to.)





So I knew there were snakes in the vicinity of Ota. I knew there were snakes on Kanayama, teh large mountain overlooking Ota, not 5 minutes from my house. I go hiking there all the time and I mean like all the time. Whenever I feel like it. The mountain has two large temples at its base that are beautiful adn are central to the Ota Community. lots of trails, well travelled and not so well travelled that lead all over the mounatins sometimes ending randomly in someone's back yard. But I know there are snakes (and monkeys and big big wasps) I've seen many a warning for snakes with cartoon snakes with defined heads and big fangs.





I also know there are snakes on Kanayama because I've seen them myself, Twice. In of all places in the kids Park. In Gunma's Kid Country. A large park devoted only to kids with the most Dr, SOusian playground. Slides and forts on teh mountain, ponds, plants, weird bicycles and automobiles. A great place for kids to learn and discover that would be considered too dangerous by American Standards but is extremely popular with the families of Ota. And twice while jogging I7ve seen a long slithery snake nmaybe two meters long witha a silver back and a green stomach just slithering across the path like its somethign to do. Thank God both times there were no kids in teh vicinity at teh time.

So I shouldn't have been surprised when I saw this one in the Biwa tree in my yard. For you if you don't know, Biwa is teh Japanese name for Louquat. It's like a kumquat which I hate,only better,much more delectable, like a zesty citrusy pear. So Kyle is reaching for a Biwa and he's like look and right there, looking at me is a snake.

For real a snake. it was a rea Old Testament Genesis moment. The snake told me to eat of the Biwa fruit and then slithered away liek real sexy like. The fruit was good and now I wear clothes.

Blogger sucks

Bah so Blogger being the shit that it is deleted my previous post.

So you missed a relly good entry.

gordon

My house!

I love my house, I really do.

Daniel Johnston

Its my day off and I just watched the Devil and Daniel Johnston for the first time. Daniel Jonston is one of the best song writers of our generation.



There is an innocence and a beauty to his music that I think thats universally appealing.His lyrics are deceptively simple, and talks about the truths and desires in our own lives. In the song there is a longing and a naive optimism. The emotions are raw the music is simple, and plesant that it forces to listen to him. Its like a sing along or a campfire song in terms of beauty. This was the song that turned me on to Danny j and caused me to download 2gigs of his music.

True love will find you in the end
You're gonna find out that love�s your friend
Don't be sad, I know you will
Don't give up until
True love will find you in the end

This is a promise with a catch
Only if you�re looking can it find you
Cause true love is searching too
How can it recognize you
Unless you step out into the light, the light?

Don't be sad, I know you will
Don't give up until
True love will find you in the end

Don't be sad, I know you will
Don't give up until
True love will find you in the end

True love will find you in the end
True love will find you in the end
True love will find you in the end


However Daniel Johnston like every genious, lived totally outside of our world. He was an amazing artist and he was never ignorant of his genius. he knew he had an interesting point of view, that he had something special to say and was never unwilling to say. Eventually his genius caught up with him. He went crazy. He would disappear for days on end. He thought the devil was after him. In a manic fit he broke into a womans apartment, broke down her door, and his mania was more than enough to cause this old woman to jump out of a second story window breaking both her ankles.

Its sort of sad, it makes me think of people I met who were undoubtedly special. My friend Paul who is a characters, personality, someone all of his own. Who speaks and writes like no one else, but no one but his girlfriend can't seem to get in contact with him. Or Hans Braun, a brilliant artist/ musician who can seem to cope with every day life.


It make me wonder if there is something that I think attracts us to these people. With Paul, whenever I hung out with him, that he really cared about hat I had to say and really wanted to make sure whoever, he was with new that he cared about them. I know Paul has tendencies that are worrisome, he is irreversibly attached to his girlfriend. Even though she treats and his friends like poo.

Is it love that we are all true looking for in life and when we can't find it, or don't know how to approach it we give more of ourselves than the usual. Daniel Johnston couldn't reconcile his first unrequited love and to this day every song he writes is based on him believing that eventually this girl will love him. The fact that he is incapable of real love made him create the most raw honest music possible. So is it that if we're not capable of giving ourselves to someone through love, we just give it away to everyone. If we don't have someone to share our innermost feelings and desire we find another outlet for it?