honor, family, work and the yakuza

[amw]

I would like to write about the party i went to this weekend. I have a bunch of notes in my phone and maybe a couple photos to share too, but today i was home and had the day off to decompress. I idly enjoyed catching up on some TV and now i want to write about something different

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[newwaytowrite]

My story is less worldly. I have a hometown and it was my birthplace. Of course I left that town at 18 and ventured a few places and never considered my home town was where I was from. I am from whatever my DL states at any given point. When I moved in 2006 to where I am still people want to know where I was from (also wanted to know what I did professionally which another thing I have thoughts about). I mean does it even fucking matter as I live here now? I have a friend who has been on the west coast since probably the 70's. She still says she is from the place where she was born 74 years ago.

[amw]

Yes, this is the strangest thing, even if you never leave the country, people can sometimes get this way about states/provinces or cities. I guess for some people it's an easy, throwaway question, a way to start a conversation with someone you never met before, but maybe they don't realize that while it might be a simple answer for them, for other people it might not be, and it in fact has the opposite effect of shutting down the conversation or making it awkward.

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[siglinde99]

Congrats on the raise. I hope it does help with the immigration status.

[sweetmeow]

I don't know if what I'm about to explain applies to this, but it's what came to mind

[amw]

I often think about your entries talking about "island life", and even more now that i live on an island

[picosgemeos]

An aunt of mine recommended "Expats" as a show to watch with my mom (she has Alzheimer's so I'm always looking for easy going things to watch with her at night.) We lived in HK in the 90s, for 5 years, and I think the bubble would conjure up nostalgia (it really was such a bubble...)

"Shogun" is on my to-watch list, and I might give "Tokyo Vice" a try (I have a whole list of shows I watch after mom goes to bed.) Have you seen "Blue Eye Samurai" yet? I'd be keen on your thoughts on it!

[amw]

I haven't seen Blue Eye Samurai, but to be honest i don't watch much animation, and looking at the blurb it doesn't appeal because i dislike stories that hinge on violence and revenge. To me violence is only justified in the context of politics, i find personal vendettas gross. But, who knows, someone on ONTD recommended i watch Alice in Borderland, which when i saw the blurb referencing the sci-fi movie Cube made me want to watch it, even though it does look like a bunch of gratuitous ultraviolence, so perhaps if that appeals i'll be prepared?

[picosgemeos]

That's fair enough AMW! Yes, it's quite violent - it made me think of a cross between Tarantino and Game of Thrones - but also very poetic.
I'm not at all into animation and would have never watched it, had it not been recommended by a podcast I like ("Imaginary Worlds" - actually, this podcast you might also enjoy! ;-)) They said it had a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes, and so I was curious and watched the first episode... then the second... etc.

[amw]

Ha! I don't think i've ever made it through a Tarantino movie (although mostly due to boredom rather than revulsion) and i didn't even attempt to watch GoT because from what i understand it's just beheadings and rape in a fantasy setting, which does not appeal to me at all. Perhaps i am not the target audience? I don't watch horror either, unless it's hidden in sci-fi.

Although, i did just marathon Alice in Borderland over the weekend and while that started out as a Cube-like sci-fi with more emphasis on the puzzles than the gore, it definitely got more gratuitous and less intriguing as the show went on. Still, i stuck it out because despite the ludicrous violence punctuated by overwrought anime-style monologs, it had fantastic cliffhangers and a small hook of a mystery running all the way through to its uncharacteristically satisfying conclusion. Plus, you know, sci-fi. I think i can put up with a lot as long as there is spaceships or parallel universes or virtual reality or something.