Monthly Archive for January, 2006

No, I don’t have recurring dreams so often anymore, but throughout my childhood, I would have a dream about my family having a blondish dog but it then turning into a furry halo and flying away, somewhere in the kitchen. It was always a sad dream. My family recently having gotten a dog for the first time in almost two decades, the smell of dog brought back memories… Anyway, as a child, I didn’t think that the yellow dog every existed; I assumed it to just be my dream until I told one of my parents about it and they told me that we had a dog named Suva*. As a younger kid, around 7-ish, I think I even saw something on the ground that I thought to be the halo, though I’m fuzzy on the order of things and how big that thing on the ground was. It could’ve been a discarded condom or even a largish o-ring; I may remember things wrong and it might even be that something I saw on the ground triggered the dream. In any event,

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* My father named Suva after the capital of Fiji, since he liked The Blue Lagoon, since he was/is obsessed with Brooke Shields.

子供の時、よく寂しい夢を考えていた。家族の黄色い犬は毛深い円光にかわって、風になびいた。子供の時、その犬は夢だけだと思った。でも、信じられなくて本当にその犬が言った。両親は僕がとっても小さい時、友達にあげた。最近、家族は犬を続いて勝ってる。犬の匂いは覚えさせる。

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Here are my New Years resolutions. I take these things seriously. Last year, I made good on at least 6 of my 9 resolutions. They must be difficult so that there is a possibility of not meeting them if I lose track of myself but realistic, too (hence the absence of “own island in Mediterranean” and “gain ability to shapeshift”… someday, someday). Yes, I will do everything to meet these or die trying try afuckinggain.

1. Become as fluent as humanly possible in Japanese, reasonably fluent in German and conversational in Farsi
2. Start and maintain a successful enterprise. (NO INVESTORS!)
3. Have a successful romance / get a girlfriend.
4. Record first (and maybe last) The Happy Buttons album. This includes honing my performing, producing and recording skills.
5. Make enough money so that I can live where I want and still have plenty of money left to buy stupid shit.
6. Follow up to #5: Move to San Luis Obispo!

コレは新年の誓いだよ。毎年新年の誓いを立てる。去年、六つの九つはよくなった。いい誓いは出来るけどちょっとむずかしいと思う。

1. 日本語でぺらぺらになって、ドイツ語に上手くなって、ペルシア語をちょっと習う。
2. いいビジネスを始める。
3. ガールフレンドを作る。
4. 僕のバンドの一曲目を録音する。
5. お金をたくさん作る。
6. サンルイと言う町に引っ越す

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