self-pity and bitching

obviously, my landlady has cleverly thought of a new way to torment me. she still hasn't started liking me, and she's still rather creative, after all these 4.5 years i've paid her rent. so the new trick is showing up at the door with no notice at all. just like that. and today she also brought a real estate agent along. he was walking around the house taking notes in his little clipboard thing. i had no choice but to get up, and scramble to the kitchen to make myself some coffee. it made me snicker, though, that the house was a mess. i rather enjoyed the mildly shocked look on his face. and not that i'm craving for my wench of a landlady's attention, but they acted as if i wasn't there. WHAT THE HELL? i'm still living here damn it. my contract has about a year to go and i will stay until the very end, if i want to! but now i have to fear what she's plotting.
minutes later, forcing myself to enjoy my cup of coffee and a cigarette, i seriously thought about researching voodoo practices. if you can give me any advice, please contact me immediately. i will love you forever.

it's a beautiful autumn day outside and i have to stay at home waiting for the oil delivery guy. ugh. god knows if he'll find my house. it's not even on the map! one more reason to hate my landlady. with a passion.

here's something that made me feel a little less invisible today. it's a text message i got from a student of mine while we were discussing the time of our lesson today. sometimes i love bad english.

"I'm looking foward to you☆ "

rachael yamagata -- be be your love

p.s. sara was right. death cab for cutie's new album is pretty good. in fact, i think i like it better than transatlanticism. but then again, that could be because i listened to it until my ears bled. i have a secret to share, however. no matter how much i like their music, the singer's voice still annoys me sometimes. does that make me a horrible person?

p.p.s. i just came across this blog, and i find it highly entertaining.

"colors...they always get away with attitude..."

this has been my song of today, and i suspect, is going to be my song of december.

feist is incredible.


feist -- when the month changes numbers

through a fish's eye

*drumroll* tada! these are the only half-decent photos that came out of my first fisheye lomo experiment which was spread over two rolls of very good film. fuji natura 1600, and agfa ultra color 100. what a waste!
3 of these 4 photos are from the fuji film, because i am an idiot and insist on trying to see what'll happen if i use 100 asa film in the absence of light. i think i'll go do some lines now -- "use 100 film only in bright weather! use 100 film only in bright weather!..."

done. maybe i should write some captions if only i could figure out how not to delete the photos when attempting to arrange them here. i'll do it the foolproof way yet again, just in case.

1. a trashcan at a train station decided to pose cutely for me.

2. dorky portrait of self. i wonder where my glasses are.

3. a cute couple in "subway", osaka.they were kind enough to let me photograph them. i could have done better...anyway. "subway", the only decent fast-food available in japan, i heart you.

4. a back street in kyoto. i took the photo in a hurry, to finish the film before getting it developed, and it turned out to be my favorite in the whole roll.

on another note, i think i'm developing a fondness for scandinavian music. did you know jose gonzalez was swedish?

jose gonzalez -- crosses

boring blogs, digital cameras, lomos, and funk

so i've been missing again. yeah. i've abandoned my dear diary one more time. the truth is that much to my regret i'm not the writer i'd like to be and inspiration for this kind of thing hits me extremely rarely. like, for example, on a tuesday afternoon when my room is clean, bills are paid, and there's nothing urgent to do. tuesday's sort of my day off, i only have one hour of work.

someone left a comment saying that girl's blogs are boring. now, i suspect he was referring to mine, in which case i would nobly accept his comment. i don't find my blog fascinating either. but i don't think it's safe to conclude all girl blogs are boring. so watch your mouth, mister! mhm.

being the retro geek that i am, i decided i do not want a digital camera. a lot of the feeling gets lost in deleting, it's so much sweeter to have the prints to remind you of how you fucked up. also, i like to tell myself that the fact that i have limited resources (that'd be film and money), will make me actually think of what i'm doing with my camera. hopefully, that will make me improve my skills.
so all my savings for a digital camera will go to buy me a better and bigger lens for my sweet old pentax slr.
and for extra fun, i'll be shooting with my two sweet lomos. i got a supersampler for my birthday this summer, and just the other day i got a fisheye. hurrah! these things are hella fun, i tell you. i 've been playing with the fisheye non-stop since i got it, so expect some photos soon. really. i've sworn to myself i'll get them developed by the end of the week.

by the way, that thing on top is a photo taken with the supersampler in late august, or something, at lake biwa. i'm still struggling with arranging the photos properly in this blog.

p.s. on sunday night i went to see jamiroquai in osaka. it was a shame no cameras were allowed, but that allowed me to dance and jump freely all i want. the man is a beast! he's so tiny, but so full of energy...it's mind blowing. apart from being freakishly talented, he's also damn charming. and the way he moves...mmm...

jamiroquai -- love foolosophy