Coming back to the computer this morning, I was a little worried about the effect of Lance’s posts on my readership, but I checked my stats: My unique visitors went up 25%! Apparently, you would all rather read musings from an American 16 year-old than whatever it is I usually write about. I should have known that this day was coming.

I was amused to find that some people doubted Lance’s existence, but surely, Lance exists whether in Charlottesville, Nashville, or Rockville. Reading his posts, I was reminded of why I don’t currently reside in the United States and refreshed on some of the weaker points of Kurt Cobain’s lyrics.

I’m back to essaying about Japan this week, so stay tuned if that’s your kind of thing. Lance fans can check “the Internet” for similar-type posts.

TGIF – And I don’t mean the restaurant! (Although the buffalo wings are tight. EXTRA HOT, y’all.)

I hate that skool is totally gettin’ in the way of the bloggin’ but whadda do? I’d love to skip German III and dative prepositions, but there’s no way Frau Hess would believe I’m editing a blog.. abotu Japan no less~!

I wanted to take Japanese, but my skool SUCKS and doesn’t have it. Only French, Spanish, and German. They don’t even have Latin, which puts me out of competition for like the BIG TIME Latin Competition in Richmond. (The winners all go to top 10 colleges. Totally laaaaaaame.)

But this summer I’m going to Japan for three weeks for this Lions Club homestay program. Not going to TOkyo, but hopefully Okayama will be kewl. That’ll be after Boys State, which kids from last year tell me is all baseball jocks. “Democracy doesn’t work” they tell me, and I’m like, yo, TELL me about it.

Marxy gets back sometime tonight (his morning, I guess), and I’ll be sittin’ back with the ladiez watching some STAR WARS, so this is my last post, suckas. I saw those rereleases when I was like 8 or something and was pretty blown away (although those haircuts make everyone look like tards), and Episode 1 and 2 were pretty kewl. Yoda KICKS ASS. Frank Oz RULEZ.

peace out, y’all. suckas…

When I was a freshman, I was pretty into Puddle of Mudd, and then earlier this year my friend Kaitlyn’s college boyfriend (is it really cool for a guy in college to be dating high school girls?!) was like, “if you like PofM, man, you gotta check out Nirvana.” Nirvana was one of those bands that older kids liked I never quite understood, seeing that they sound like every single band ever. But I went onto Soulseek and DL’d like all their stuff (accidentally DL’ed “Nirvana UK” some 60s band! LOL!) and you know what, and you may disagree, but Nirvana is SO much better than Puddle of Mudd.

I’ll tell you why: Kurt Kobain tells it LIKE IT IS. That guy is afraid to take on nothing.

For example, he talks about all the stuff you’re not SUPPOSED TO talk about like:

Insanity – “Tourette’s”, “Very Ape”,”Lithium”,”Dumb”

Sex – “In Utero”,”Come as You Are”,”In Bloom”,”Pennyroyal Tea” (you guys knwo what this is, right?), “Rape Me”,”Polly”

Hate – “Territorial Pissings”,”Stay Away”,”Frances Farmer will Get Her Revenge”,”Radio Friendly Unit Shifter”

Power – “Serve the Servants”

And check out this lyrics from the gorgeous “All Apologies”:

He NAILS it. That song like describes what it’s like to go to high school.

sorry for the late post, dudes. my mom has this weird rule about no ‘nettin’ until after supper.

So, there was supposedly a band called Japan in the 70s! and they were like totally unkown outside of Japan even though they were British. How ironical.

Here’s a link to their Wikipedia page.

Check out the TOTALLY AWESOME cover art above. you could not fake the funk on the awesomeness. (no, I did NOT photoshop them.)

So, Japanese stuff is like really really popular in my town right now. Like you go to to Blockbuster and it has like 100 anime tapes, and most of them are checked out.

Plus, there’s this girl at my school who was like, “I really like Puffy Amiyumi,” (the TV show) and so I stayed up all night DLing mp3s from Soulseek and made her this sweet mix cd with a bunch of Japan-only trakcs. (She listens to it all the time, and I don’t get one thank you!)

I’m totally seeing Star Wars tomorrow night. (Craig says its so “f*ckin’ awesome” and that’s a quote.) Lucas rips off Japanese stuff so hardcore. The word “jedi” comes from the Japanese word “jidai” (I forget what it means) and Han Solo was a samurai name.

Lance is in the muzafuzzin’ HIZ-HOUSE, y’all. Gonna pimp’ it up like itz hott.

totally syched that AP American History is behind me (i bet I got a 4, maybe even 5) and Marxy is letting me guest editor his blog. (Don’t erase my posts, Marxy!) Gonna keep it kewl, ya’ll.

gotta get to skool but before i forget:

TOP REASONZ WHY JAPAN KICKS AND THE US SUCKS

1) anime ALL THE TIME. even on baisc cable.
2) dudes ride the subway to school. (Here in Sh*tsville, Virginia, I gotta pick up like eight freshman in my 1996 Subaru while rich kids like Hunter drive around in tight SUVs with full iPod-integration.)
3) the wi-zeed is totally legal.
4) phat cellphones that play games and watch TV.
5) no O.C. – I hate those girls who all think their summer.
6) no AVRIL LATRINE or ASHLEE PIMPLESON
7) earlier PSP and game release dates (can you believe that sucker Brandon’s dad picked one up for him on a biz tripp to Tokyo before they even came out here? w.t.f.)
8) probably no lawns to mow.
9) no more years of BU$H.
10) GODZILLA, baby!

I have a presentation in Japanese tomorrow about institutional economics (制度派経済学) and a weekend trip out of town, so I won’t be able to post for the next couple of days. I hate to let this blogspace go fallow, so I’ve invited a guest editor — Lance — to take the helm until I get back to a computer sometime this weekend.

Lance is the best friend of my sixteen year-old American cousin, who reads my blog and is apparently “totally into Japanese culture.” Hopefully he won’t go too crazy, and if he does, I’ll just erase his posts when he gets back. (Just kidding, Lance.)