new porkers

17th of Nov, 2001ce* in: diary

Unsheduled trip to Sugar High in Shibuya bore some interesting results! Met many folk who I haven’t met for some time, and met some new folk from New York, highly amusing. Found out that a person I met called Dianna knows a guy called Kenzo who was in a project I worked on in June.

Swings and roundabouts, I tell ya!
To quote Hugh Riley who’s quoting Kurt Vonnegut: there are only 500 or so real people in the universe, the others are placeholder art
inevitably you run out of new people and start to see the old ones again.

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night out

15th of Nov, 2001ce* in: diary

Well, getting home on the train is a funny thing. Seems that certain train lines here in Tokyo close quite early, while others can stay open forever. I went to see my great mates Dave and Beth, who I never see hide nor hare of, mostly. We had some delicious egg and chips, guzzling fruity bar mixers and eating strange puds at a family resturant… But as I missed my last train I thought it might be nice, as I was there, to drink. And that drinking turned into meeting people, which turned into karaoke. Shit night really, compared, but got-me-through the night until I could get the first train.
I don’t think I’ll ever remember the names of people I meet, as Dave and Beth had long departed, the people I ended up with just choke my distant memories of what they may look like.

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help!

12th of Nov, 2001ce* in: diary

My god, its a year since I made Helpgame with Dan at Kleber. They are having some celebrations over there, so pop over and join in the fun!

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coldness

4th of Nov, 2001ce* in: diary

Damn its getting cold! brrr. Japans tempreture just drops without warning. The change from summer to autumn happened in a few days. The change from autumn to winter happened this sunday.
Well… I’ve been getting out and about these past few days. Things are going well, hopefully I can contact my sister to send me my winter jacket. That jacket cost me the best part of œ200… and now when I need it I ain’t got it.

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earthquake

17th of Oct, 2001ce* in: diary

keep real, be trim eat like a ninja fight like a bee.
Too right mr grigg!
Bit of an Earthquake this morning, 6:30 am. Shook me about for a few seconds, was longer than the other earthquakes I’ve felt but less violent. Waiting for the big one still.

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911

11th of Oct, 2001ce* in: diary

Not a nice bit of news to wake up to, really.
Surreal. Many Japanese people here were making airplane shapes with their hands and crashing them into their arms asking me did you see? hehehe. Well its not that fucking funny… I’ll blame it on an in-ability to grasp seriousness. But then, I don’t think japan is all _that_ fond of America, with good reason. Many countries are openly similar. Personally, and this is my personal website, I have mixed feelings. On one hand its a tragedy of our generation, to see landmarks hit and the unpreparedness of America to accept this, New York for christs sake! On the other hand, good old USA has done some horrific things, acts of terrorism, killing, fighting, oppression to smaller countries it can’t understand. I feel sorry for the innocent, and a lot of innocent people died today.

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tokyo games show

ce* in: diary

Now I was actually thinking of writing a nice big article about the Tokyo Games Show, but it was damn well shit.
X-Box was out in full effect but I think they has the worst games there. Sega had a lot of new titles in the pipeline for the Nintendo Game cube and the Gameboy Advance. But apart from that, the wasn’t much interest.

Girls! Yeah, there were just as many girls as the ones I showed in earlier reports of the Tokyo Arcade Machine Show, and the X-Box ladies were very nice! But, alas, there were too many people about to get some decent pictures. Not that I was just there to see the Game Girls, really!

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sick

3rd of Oct, 2001ce* in: diary

I feel sick.
On an un-related note, theres a baseball stadium about half a mile from where I work… are you meant to be able to hear them from here? Noisey buggers.

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nice big juicy ones

26th of Sep, 2001ce* in: diary

I saw the real japan.

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tams

20th of Sep, 2001ce* in: diary

Went to the Tokyo Arcade Machine Show, on an island made of rubbish.
I started the day out in Harajuku with Handsome and Klaus, we travelled quickly over to Ordaiba, got our passes and piled into the industry only show! Handsome fucked off somewhere after about 5 seconds and we didn’t find him again, which is what I half expected.

There are tons of arcade machines here, but the interesting thing was that most of them were by KONAMI! SEGA didn’t even get a look-in, which is odd, as they tend to rule the domain of the arcade.
Myself and Klaus played games and oggled show girls all day. I thought the BANPRESTO girls were best, well, check for yourself

After we got our fill of legs and bumpy bits (the girls are called companions, they are meant to help you play the games, yeah right! I was shooting the fuck out some game and the companion beside me was going nuts, she was SO HAPPY for me to KILL!), we headed off to play the less popular prize winning machines. Everything was free today, and so, the odd’s on winning something was 1/1, as we could just stand there and try and try and try. Needless to say we both came away with bags of stupid stuffed toys and sweets.
I felt some greed, which is something I havent felt since I was 8 years old, so I stopped. Anyway, my bag was full!

The day went quickly, time to go. Free entry, free games, free eye candy, all in the name of work. Great!

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