From the monthly archives:

January 2010

January in Japan

January 30, 2010

Alliteration again! I can’t help it. Above pic is メロンパン: Melon flavored bread. It’s actually great for breakfast 3 times. After that, it tastes like it sounds.
January is usually my least favorite month of the year. I never could quite put my finger on why. If anyone has any ideas why Januaries usually suck, let [...]

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New Host Makes Site Faster, Better, And Other Hopeful Words

January 29, 2010

I recently moved the site over to Media Temple. The cheap hosting I was using simply wasn’t cutting it anymore.
If you’re reading this message, then that means everything is working and I didn’t screw it up too badly

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Interview with Legendary Leisure Suit Larry Designer, Al Lowe

January 27, 2010

I just had the amazing chance to interview an absolute legend in game design, story writing, humor, coding, music, audio… everything! Mr. Al Lowe.

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The Incredible Shrinking Studio: Complete

January 24, 2010

I promised some pics of the Incredible Shrinking Studio in it’s most recent carnation (in my tiny apartment in Tokyo) a while back. Since I’ve been working on a bunch of music for a super secret project recently, I was able to snap a few pics while I had it set up.
So that’s how it [...]

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Las Vegas Leftovers

January 22, 2010

That’s Penn Jillette and me. In the same room. True story. He’s shorter than I remembered
Sometimes I simply can’t fit all the information and pictures into a post. Either I couldn’t fit them into the story (yes, I try to stick with a narrative, and yes, sometimes I make stuff up to make [...]

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Japanese Jazz Cooking 101

January 20, 2010

Jazz Cooking is a term that a friend of mine named Julee coined back when I was in university. She was a big Jazz musician and wailed at flute and sax. I haven’t seen her in a few years, but last I heard she was teaching flute as a professor of some university. Anyway, she [...]

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New Site Design by Ryan Anspach, and Other Cool Stuff

January 19, 2010

Do not attempt to adjust your monitor! Everything is okay!
Just a quick note to say the site has a brand new look, thanks to the brilliant artist, Ryan Anspach. You may recognize the name, as he worked on the venerable Snails or the classic Travel Collection. He still doesn’t have his own site [...]

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Behind the Music: Arvale: Treasure of Memories Ep. 1

January 18, 2010

Many people are curious how the creative process goes when I write music. So I recorded a bunch of clips while I was writing the music for Arvale: Treasure of Memories.
It’s a short video at about 3 minutes and it it’ll show you pretty much how a song gets created from start to finish.

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12 DS Games Help You Learn Japanese

January 14, 2010

That’s right. Playing video games help you learn Japanese.
In my opinion, you learn a lot more by playing video games because they are more interactive than watching a movie, anime, drama, or reading a book. They have a lot of repetition of words so you will learn their meanings quite quickly. And to top it [...]

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The Incredible Shrinking Studio, Part 5: Mimo Mini Monitor

January 11, 2010

Continuing the Incredible Shrinking Studio series… I needed a little more screen real estate.
While I’m quite used to using Digital Performer on one monitor now, I really wish I could have just a small extra monitor where I could tweak plugins while composing and mixing.

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