CURRENT MISSION

I really don't think I can see enough torii arches or buddah statues.

ABOUT ME

Currently, I'm an English teacher in Japan. Wanting to get the hell out of the States at some point in my life, I came here. I try to get out of my own town on a pretty frequent basis.

Interests

Interests? You mean, besides "everything?"
Well, I study Japanese fairly often and I've been trying to read up on Japanese history and culture while I've been here. More generally, I'm a big social-science nerd. In university I studied Political Science and Philosophy, so I can go on all about stuff of that nature.
But I like to think that I'm interested in everything. My brain is a hungry, hungry thing.

• culture
• teaching
• history
• political science
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Some favorite writers:
Umberto Eco, Ursula K. LeGuin, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Philip K. Dick, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, H.P. Lovecraft, Haruki Murakami, Franz Kafka, J.R.R. Tolkien, Albert Camus, Isaac Asimov, T.S. Eliot, Neil Gaiman, Virginia Woolf, John Gardner, Pablo Neruda, Homer

Some favorite musicians:
The Pixies, Sleater-Kinney, The Clash, The Decemberists, Rasputina, Le Tigre, Husker Du, The Capricorns, Joy Division, etc. You get the idea.

As for movies- Show me something with robots, superheroes, spaceships, zombies, or whatever, and I'm pretty well entertained.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, South Korea

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, United States