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Robert
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Tokyo-based amateur pinguinologist & black belt in Mudita. Literary translator・Japanese, English & German.
dreamt that i played my saxophone differently, like a flute, and that it worked
October 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Couldn't recall why I'd saved this picture, Image search reminds me it's a photograph taken by Tokugawa Yoshinobu (the last Tokugawa shogun) of his cat, Han. It is perhaps Japan's oldest pet cat photo.
October 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
i just remembered last night i dreamed about decimal letters in between the alphabet that could be used to describe the world in more detail
October 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Ah hey, Arte uploaded a 2020 concert by Sebastien Tellier to youtube

Link timestamped directly to L'Amour et la Violence:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=470X...
Sébastien Tellier - ARTE Concert Festival 2020
YouTube video by ARTE Concert
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:59 AM
hey if you have a chance to see Weathering by Faye Driscoll, by all means go see it. apparently theyre touring to Paris next. one of the best works of art ive seen in a while.
October 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
i translated two of five* texts included in this Thames & Hudson book featuring the photos from Daido Moriyama's first four photobooks

www.thamesandhudson.com/products/mor...

*(pretty sure it's 5 texts, but not 100% sure // i did the translations ca 2018 & 2019, originally for different editions)
Moriyama: Quartet
Quartet explores Daido Moriyama’s early career through four foundational photobooks that highlight his place as one of Japan’s most radical photographers: Japan: A Photo Theater; A Hunter; Farewell Ph...
www.thamesandhudson.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
what is scrivener using 'significant energy' for. don't dream too big, little scrivener, we're only doing words today, as always.
September 27, 2025 at 1:25 AM
made this cute lil loaf of bread just now
September 18, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Robert Redford, one of two Roberts I was named after.
September 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Nile Koetting's new piece Blossoms – Fulfilment: v good. see it if you're in tokyo.

www.terrada.co.jp/en/news/8426/
Premiere of Nile Koetting’s New Work Blossoms – fulfilment at Warehouse TERRADA from September 11th (Thu), 2025 | NEWS | Warehouse TERRADA
Premiere of Nile Koetting's New Work Blossoms – fulfilment at Warehouse TERRADA from September 11th (Thu), 2025
www.terrada.co.jp
September 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Oh yeah things are falling apart. You've got paranoid guys on Blind freaking out now
August 21, 2025 at 5:56 AM
i need tony morris to perform in tokyo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZCg...
Bored in the Rain.
YouTube video by Tony M
www.youtube.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:25 AM
been in japan for precisely 13 years right about now / a little more than a third of my life
August 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
not that i'd claim any kind of authority on the matter, but having performed on theatre stages for a little over two years now i feel like i've found a good way to balance acting (what goes on inside) and performing (what i show outside), as well as own ideas + taking directions. fun thing to learn.
August 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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This is such a funny paragraph of a BlueSky-style "well actually" in real life.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
August 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Ah, Larkin - yes, he’s glum and moody, but also comic, sweet, and sincere; alive to life’s humiliations and redemptions, neither of which are experienced on any grand scale. there is just the fleeting view from a train; the light of dawn around the curtains; the hedgehog dead in the mower
August 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Ach
Ach
July 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
drop nineteens kinda day

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4oC...
Drop Nineteens - Winona
YouTube video by crelp074
www.youtube.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Always trust John Self's book recommendations.
July 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Reminder that Randall is a very good novel which deserves many readers.
July 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM