an interview [12 Aug 2003|05:27pm] This is one of those interview things. The questions are from ferozan. 1) will you move to japan permanently someday? No. 2) why are women better companions than men? Because they're smarter. And for the most part, they don't treat everything like it was some kind of football game. I was watching this dating show last night, where a group of men is trying to win this one woman. The thing is, if and when the woman chooses them, the guy can then choose to dump the woman for a million dollars. This one thick, large guy was standing before the woman during the elimination phase, and sweating. We heard a voice-over of his strategy, as related to the camera earlier that day: "Times like this, you just got to keep your feet planted, keep breathing, think of the game plan, keep your eyes on the prize." What the fuck? If there had ever been an argument that men thought less than women, and if that argument had been meant to cast men in a negative light, I both hate and like to inform the world that men think more than women, and that's what makes them worse. You think I got where I am by thinking? . . . Well, then again, where am I? That's a good question. I always recount the story of my high school experience. How I, as a child, never went through a "girls are icky" phase, while all the other boys grew up hating girls. The girls, though -- they didn't hate the boys. They were picking which boys they wanted to marry, back when they were five. Does this make them more thoughtful, or more instinctive? Suddenly, at age fourteen, the guys were throwing around profane terms for female anatomy and sneaking pornographic magazines out of chain bookstores. I held the same opinion as ever, from long before. I disliked that kind of ambivalence, and not because it wasn't mine. Just -- in general. 3) what is your favourite (and least favourite) country out of all the ones you've seen so far? I like Japan the most. Germany appealed to me the least; however, that was more of a "bad experience" thing than anything else. Then again, I had some bad experiences in Japan, too. Far worse experiences, if you count them all up. Maybe I just like being surrounded by a foreign language that looks nothing like the language I grew up surrounded by. 4) what the hell happened to drunken tiger? They're still around, you know. They released a new CD back in February. I listened to it at a record store in Shibuya one morning. I didn't buy it, because . . . it sounds too much like American hip-hop now. I guess you could say they done sold out. 5) if you were made to choose: movies or music? I guess music. Because I could always do something else while listening to music. And I could always make music more easily than making movies. . . . The rules say that I'm supposed to ask you people if you want to be interviewed by me. And then you post a comment here or some shit. So do it. 14 comments|post comment

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