Yumi and I go in to the office; over to Ted’s to study; after Don leaves, Ted and I get back on the topic of “god-in-a-box”; spend hours conceptualizing miniaturized worlds; Yumi upset to lose our Sunday evening together.
Music: UA “プライベート サーファー (puff fishy mix)”
(Length: 3:04 / Size: 2.9 MB / Format: mp3 128 kbps)
Kids show at Kuumbwa; Miki comes down from San Francisco with her boyfriend; study kanji at the library; dinner over at Eisuke’s apartment; Yumi and I watch Juzo Itami’s The Funeral; Miki’s car breaks down in San Jose; they phone at 2 a.m., but the connection is lost; nothing we can to do help them.
Music: Pizzicato Five “Week-End”
(Length: 4:19 / Size: 4.1 MB / Format: mp3 128 kbps)
Clean out old files from computer; PCS wants $120 from Yumi for breaking the lease; the What-Nots (Kevin Northcutt’s band) playing down at Whole Earth; call Case but we don’t have much to talk about; we’re both changing; stop by Kuumbwa; Yumi out playing poker with friends.
Music: Parliament “Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Give Up The Funk)”
(Length: 2:37 / Size: 2.5 MB / Format: mp3 128 kbps)
Yumi and I take bus up to campus to eat breakfast; Lisa getting an HIV test, in a funk over finishing her dissertation; have one of Grandpa’s navy pictures on my computer desktop; receive an email asking for The Last Vaudevillain review a.s.a.p.; see Yumi at Cabrillo.
Music: Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra “Caravan”
(Length: 2:25 / Size: 2.3 MB / Format: mp3 128 kbps)
Scan family photos at Amy’s desk; in the market for a DV camcorder; Yumi and I go to classical guitar concert on campus; Joseph is the stage director; I am “monkey hand”; talk of Marcel contributing rent; Yumi resorts to “American” medicine.
(Canon ‘Optura’, not Elantra…)
Music: MURO “ルパン三世 愛のテーマ (MURO’S LOVE BANK MIX)”
(Length: 4:52 / Size: 4.6 MB / Format: mp3 128 kbps)
Amy furious at Baytree for tracking her down while on vacation; Japanese class is a real train wreck; Tajima sensei is great, but totally disorganized; Ted, Don, and I are ready to take out some of the younger punks; Muria has already promised the garage as a practice space for some friends of hers in a band.
Music: Isaac Hayes “Run Fay Run”
(Length: 3:05 / Size: 2.9 MB / Format: mp3 128 kbps)
Yumi and I have breakfast at Cowell; B.J. spots us and comes inside; he needs help with some translation and tells us about an international job fair he attended; he says I have the right “look” for Japan and says JET is a waste of my time; work in the office a bit; Virginia and Cheyenne drop by and Virginia is pleased that her daughter and Yumi can finally meet; Mose Allison show at Kuumbwa; tell Nina and Shinya of my plans to move into the garage.
Music: Mose Allison “Ever Since the World Ended”
(Length: 3:49 / Size: 3.6 MB / Format: mp3 128 kbps)
Spend day with Ted, watching movies; see American Beauty first at Cinema 9, then Totoro at his place; Ted has redecorated his apartment; he tells me of his idea to hawk desktop shrines; raining all day; WWII propaganda film; Ted relates his fated meeting of Masako in Tokyo.
Music: Bobby Darin “Don’t Rain On My Parade”; “Totoro Theme”
(Length: 4:18 / Size: 4 MB / Format: mp3 128 kbps)
Yumi goes to San Francisco with Ted to watch Chinese New Year celebrations; have brunch with Chad, Denise, and Chel; Chad and I play soccer up on East Field; Samba Ngo at Kuumbwa; nice coming home to a quiet house.
Music: Los Super Seven “El Ausente”; Samba Ngo “Midid Passe”
(Length: 5:08 / Size: 4.8 MB / Format: mp3 128 kbps)
Harvey Wainapel show at Kuumbwa; Yumi comes to hang out with me; Chad and Denise drop by and we go throw darts at The Poet with Chel; I sink a double-bull to win the game.
Music: Harvey Wainapel & Paulo Bellinati “O Cabo Pitanga”
(Length: 1:11 / Size: 1.2 MB / Format: mp3 128 kbps)
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