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Jun. 29th, 2009 @ 10:38 pm AUSTRALIA! FUCK YEAH!
Current Location: Cairns, Australia
Current Mood: jubilant

This country is fucking AWESOME. Words cannot even begin. This is what America COULD have been, SHOULD have been! I swear if I ever get the chance I am fucking immigrating to this fine nation! I am in love with Australia, and by God I've only been here two days so far! The people are friendly as hell, the weather is fan-fucking-tastic (love that northerly Queensland weather!), and best of all...everyone speaks ENGLISH FIRST! Oh sweet Jesus, all I need now is a Waffle House and perhaps a Krispy Kreme and I'll be set!

So. What's been going on. Well, due to work I had to change a tour date but I'm still going on the MaMu Walkway and to see some of the lovely rainforests of Upper Queensland, and on the 5th I'm going snorkelling at Green Island (it's in the Solomon Islands) near the Great Barrier Reef. Also going to check out the Cairns Zoo, Kuranda, and take a look at everything else nearby. Oh my GOD this place is so incredibly wonderful I can't even BEGIN! Thailand and Singapore have NOTHING on this place! And the exchange rate is actually better than I thought it was going to be.

Got dragged into a strip joint tonight...my dancer turned out to be from Northern Ireland! I mentioned she looked like a pixy and lo and behold, she changed her stage name to Pixy! The thing I like the most is, she wanted to hang out and talk, be friends and all that. You just don't GET that in American strip joints. That's the thing I love the most about Australia; everyone I meet is ready and willing to start being a friend to me, get to know me and whatnot.

I love this place. If it weren't for the fact I've got so many friends back in the states I'd STAY here.
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Jun. 24th, 2009 @ 09:48 pm Papua New Guinea!
Current Location: Solomon Islands
Current Mood: busy
Current Music: GET IT BY YOUR HANDS - Hiroshi Watanabe, Eureka 7 OST
How many people you know can say they've sailed past Papua New Guinea!

Well, actually it's the Green Islands, which are technically part of the Solomon Islands Chain...but it's still Papua New Guinea area! WHOO-HA!

Going to have me a time in Cairns, lemme tell ya! ^_^

In other news, still putting together ideas for future stories and piecing together lyrics for my future musical endevours, still putting up with the bullshit (and boy is there a lot of it)...getting by somehow, hoping to cross rate out of this hell around this time next year.

Any aussies out there lurking I dunno about? *looks around with interest*
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Jun. 10th, 2009 @ 08:28 pm Holy crap PROGRESS ON BOOK!
Current Mood: creative
So...I wrote up a little short story a while back as a sort of escape, and somehow it turned into something more. Now I'm zooming through chapters, introducing characters I hadn't even thought of who just somehow manage to get into the story as though they were already there and I just hadn't written them in yet...it's really taking on a life of it's own!
I might actually FINISH this one! ^_^

THE STORY THUS FAR: A SYNOPSIS....

A young man working in a futuristic dystopian city one day finally affords a trip up a lift to his building's observation platform, where he finds a single potted plant still living. Bringing back with him, it becomes a companion of sorts, with his interactions with the plant (he talks to it alot) causing him to become more and more independant in thought and awake in his heart and spirit.
After an incident involving a fire, the plant transforms into a dryad that, after a hasty escapade back up to the observation platform, opens a portal to it's native world and takes the young man with it. Once within a dark unknown space the dryad splits into two seperate dryads and explains everything.
Elsewhere, an airship flies through stormy skies; pursued by almost an entire fleet of similar airships. The captain, a strong-willed and independant female freebooter, attempts to escape her pursuers by steering close to a Void; a gash in the fabric of reality. While doing so she and her crew notice the two dryads and the young man, who are standing in the Void and motioning for her to pick them up...which she does.

And that's as far as I've gotten so far. I wasn't even planning on putting in the part about the airships and whatnot, but after touching up the current story's details the tale just poured out of my mind. I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next! 
Any opinions on the general plot so far? 
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Jun. 10th, 2009 @ 07:48 pm Dammit I need moar animu!
Current Location: Sasebo, Japan
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: BRAVE YOUR TRUTH - Chrome Shelled Regios OST
Chrome Shelled Regios and Linebarrels of Iron.
Chrome Shelled Regios and Linebarrels of Iron!
CHROME SHELLED REGIOS AND LINEBARRELS OF IRON!!

Two shows I MUST HAVE! But I can't seem to find a way to get ahold of them over here in the format I usually prefer (fansubbed) so I have only the anime I brought over here with me to watch...and now that my old laptop's hard drive has crashed almost HALF of my anime is now untouchable! Thankfully I brought most of my collection onto the external hard drive...otherwise I would REALLY be flipping out right now.

In other news, pretty sure I passed the physical fitness exam today; also found out I'm in better shape than I thought! Always a good thing. Posted some stuff on my Facebook, profile picture now has me holding a blue martini.

When I come home for Christmas I'll probably be just as busy as I was when I was here! Have to go visit all my friends, have to restore my anime collection, have to transfer more photos to Facebook, have to see about getting the information off my old hard drive....yeesh!

And here I thought I was going to be on vacation!
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Jun. 7th, 2009 @ 10:17 pm A detailed treatise upon the nature and definition of Japanese Culture
Current Location: Sasebo, Japan
Current Mood: crazy
Current Music: GONG - JAM PROJECT

GIANT ROBOTS ARE FUCKING RAD.

Thank you, and good day.
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Jun. 7th, 2009 @ 09:30 pm *deep breath* Here we go again...
Current Location: Sasebo, Japan
Current Mood: complacent
Current Music: Creeper - Schwarz Stein

Well, weigh-ins for the PRT (Physical Readiness Test) go down tomorrow, then the next two days is the "Let's see if you're physically able to serve in the military!" test. Shouldn't have much of a problem.
The long weekend of liberty is coming to an end tonight. The situation on the ship is the same as it ever was - bad. We've actually got contractors riding down to Australia with us. Yeah, it's that bad. But I ain't worried. So long as I do my job and keep my head down I shouldn't have any problems...well, then again it IS Tortuga...

Decided that maybe I could do a better job with the band name than just "JUNKION"....was thinking of Behemoth, but there's already a band named that. Not too many good names left for bands these days it seems. I'm wanting something to define everything's this band is going to strive for; massive beyond massive, a juggernaut of sonic assault force that can and will crush any other band with arrogant impunity, yet still make the kids dance like crazy and lose their damn minds. I want choruses that people will be singing along with and humming for days after hearing, I want melodies and harmonies that will get stuck in the back of people's minds like the theme to Bewitched or The Song That Never Ends! I want a lot from this, and I'm more than willing to put in as much effort as it takes to accomplish this. Compared to being a naval engineer how hard could it be?!
In other news, got myself a UK-made sound program for my computer called SOUNDPOOL. Going to be getting into that on the way down to Australia if I can get the time. Mainly going to be putting beats together and trying to create a truly unique sound.

Anyways...yeah. Other than that, not much going on. I have one more year in this command to go before I can crossrate out of engineering (I'm thinking RP or MC if it's still not shut to crossrating). One more year! Wish me luck, ne?

Always remember, nothing lasts forever. This to shall pass. All things are in transience; there is no permanence in the misery and despair that confronts us in this world. I will face my challenges, and I will overcome them effortlessly; because mine is the voice that will shake the heavens!
So long as my friends believe in me, I can believe in me.  
So long as I can believe in me, I can believe in my friends.
This upcoming summer and fall is going to be a doozy, but if I can get through it I will be able to get through anything.


I am so, so very thankful for all the friends I have made, for all of you. I do not take any single one of you for granted; you are all part of my great, expansive extended family. You are my brothers, my sisters. Each and every one of you is an integeral part of my life in some way or another; I would not be the person I am today without some of your influences, for a man is the company he keeps as well as who he truly is.
I wish you all nothing but the best, and pray that I can see you when I return. I miss you all so very much.
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Jun. 3rd, 2009 @ 02:33 am That is all that can really be said
Current Location: Sasebo, Japan
Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: NEVER SAY NEVER - KMFDM
FUCK. YEAH.

So, we PASSED INSPECTION! We get today, tomorrow, and the whole damn weekend off! FUCKING WHEE!

Only thing I can really complain about right now is a runny nose and that`s about it!

In other news, might be taking the ride up to Fukuoka tomorrow to see the new Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan movie! Got some stuff to do on base, but after that? It`s really tempting!
This time I`ll try not to spend as much as I did last time, especially since I don`t have nearly as much money as I did then.

Well, it`s been exactly ONE YEAR since I arrived here on this command, on this ship. Only two more years to go and I`ll be FREE of this tin shitcan and on my way to another command that can only be better than where I am now...but who knows what might happen in two more years`s time? Maybe, just maybe, Tortuga won`t be such a terrible place by then....?
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HA! Yeah right!

God willing I will see you all this holiday season when I return for a brief respite. I will of course be staying at my parents` house as I have not yet begun searching for my own just yet...that time will come soon enough, however. I WILL HAVE MY HOUSE!
If I can get through this, I can do ANYTHING.
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God help us all! ^_^
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May. 26th, 2009 @ 09:23 pm Computer Life
Current Location: Sasebo, Japan
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Voyager - Daft Punk
Soooo....my old laptop Fujichan finally gave out after five or six years of noble dutiful service towards my entertainment. Her hard drive was extracted and her tired old frame was laid to rest. Sadly all of the important things I have saved within her hard drive are rather hard to get to at the  moment because it seems something broke inside of it so now I cannot access the driver. I'll have to send it back to the states to get the info taken off and put onto a disc or something by professionals with access to a disc reader I've been told.

Now there is my NEW laptop, which only cost me $250. It's a little blue Acer Aspire notebook; tiny little thing I named Aoikotori. It's actually got TWICE the storage capacity as Fujichan, and is half Fujichan's size. Needless to say, this makes storing it a lot easier. Although it doesn't have an onboard DVD-R/W like Fujichan did, I was able to go out and buy one anyways so it's just the same as before. I still have my little 350 gig external hard drive as well, which is where I placed most of the anime I had that I was in the process of watching actively; I had left some on Fujichan's hard drive until I was ready to start watching them...sadly now I might never get that chance. But still gotta have hope! Won't know until I try!

I'm saving up to buy a new terabyte hard drive, a 210 gig ZUNE, and the inevitable Mac Computer, which will be used primarily for musical composition in preperation for my return and the formation of my musical endevour. I've also got a metric shit-ton of writing material I have to go through, finish, and try to get off to a publisher. Then there's the house I'm going to buy (not an apartment, but a HOUSE), my new car, and to finish it off I probably should use that G.I. Bill and go back to college for something to fall back on in case the writing and music don't end up paying off...not saying they won't, but it's always good to have a backup plan, y'know?
I was thinking X-Ray Technician.

Listening to Daft Punk's "Discovery" right now...makes me kind of homesick in a  way, especially "Voyager"...that track has some good memories to it. I hope these next two years pass by quick and this Christmas sees me back in Georgia if only for a short time.
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May. 26th, 2009 @ 11:21 am MAH MONEYS WHAR HAS THEY ALL GONE!?
Current Location: Sasebo, Japan
Current Music: POSE - hide
Damn you, Fukuoka City. Damn you to HELL.

So I went there last weekend...and I found Mandarake, a six-story building filled to overflowing with nothing but anime and videogame stuff. Then went to the Tenjin Underground shopping arcade (which is actually alot like Underground Atlanta but not as scary at night), and in total probably spent about $700 or $800 on CDs, anime film cels, an external DVD R/W drive, the bus ride up there and back, and of course dinner.
Right now I am SKINT. BROKE. But thankfully I'm getting paid in a week so it's all good! ^_^

I love having a job where no matter how much I spend there's always more, but I seriously think I need to put a curb on my spending. This is getting rediculous. Where in the world am I going to KEEP all this shit?
As a federal employee of the military, guess how I spent Memorial Day? That's right, WORKING MY ASS OFF. Just another part of 'serving my country'. But on a positive note, things aren't nearly as bad as they were last winter. I think the Australia trip we have coming up might not be so bad after all...but then again, expect the worst be suprised when it isn't.
Listening to a few tracks from KMFDM's new BLITZ album...always impressed by those guys, really hope they'll come through for JUNKEON when we get our album together. If not then well by God we'll make it on our own somehow! SEMPER VIA EST!
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May. 15th, 2009 @ 12:41 pm ONE MORE THING!
I'm getting a cell phone tomorrow, so get ready for some late-night calls!
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May. 15th, 2009 @ 12:26 pm LIBERTAH!
Current Location: Sasebo, Japan
Current Mood: complacent
Current Music: Anime High-Speed Remix 5


So we're back in Sasebo and can you believe it, THEY LET US OFF ALMOST AS SOON AS WE PULLED IN! I've got today and tomorrow COMPLETELY OFF! Holy crap this is AWESOME!

In other news, we're gearing up for our long trip down to Down Under. The inspectors are supposed to be leaving before then (God willing) so maybe things will finally go back to normal..or at least as normal as they get on Tortuga. We've got some new people in, no engineers of course.
Well...that's about it. I'm currently watching Claymore and Utawarerumono, trying to get shit off my old hard drive (which hates me), and about to beat Suikoden for DS.

For those of you who didn't get it the first time, my shipboard email is

stevensona@lsd46.navy.mil

Drop me a line, as that's the only email I ever check anymore!
 

ALL OTHER EVENTS ARE PENDING!

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May. 5th, 2009 @ 10:55 pm Piercing them thar heavens!
Current Location: Kadena, Okinawa
Current Mood: lonely
Current Music: Viva la Vida - Coldplay
So we're back in Okinawa. FINALLY.
I finally managed to transfer myself out of M-Division and am now in A-Division; I actually get treated like a human being and can honestly TALK to the people I work with now! It's such a wonderful change in atmosphere...even if my Chief is a complete idiot.

To answer a prior question, nope. I ain't gonna be able to come back to the states until Christmas...if even I'm THAT lucky and my request for leave is approved. This tin shitcan is FORWARD DEPLOYED. If I see more than a week in home port I consider that a damn good week...or a damn terrible one because the ship must TRULY be screwed up if it's taking us THAT long to get back underway.
Out of the 365 days in the year, I'm out on the open seas for about 362 of them. 18-hour workdays. Going on five or less hours of sleep. Putting up with bullshit that would drive any normal person suicidal or insane. Constantly getting screwed out of liberty. On a ship everyone I ask agrees is the WORST SHIP IN THE FUCKING NAVY.
I've been through a lot of shit beforehand, but THIS?! This is above and beyond ANYTHING I've ever had to deal with before. There is a REASON nobody wants to be a naval engineer - it's quite possibly the most dehumanizing task ever created. While people who work up 'topside' with the computers and guns and shit are already walking off to go enjoy an evening off, I'm still up to my elbows in grease and oil and motherfucking khaki screaming "WHY ISN'T THIS DONE YET?!" when they asked me to do it FIVE MINUTES AGO!

I don't hate the Navy...just this fucking ship.


In other news, finally started playing Suikoden Tierkreis for my new DS Lite. This game has pretty much been the salvation of my sanity. This game has kept me smiling and upbeat for WEEKS; I love this game almost as much as my Legacy of Ys. As for my DS, it is pink and I have named it MYAAH-MYAAH. ^_^

It's May right now...we've got maybe a few days in Sasebo and then we're BACK in Okinawa to pick up the Marines (DAMMIT AGAIN WHY GOD!?) and head to Austrailia...which I pray will be a damn sight better than the Philippines, a.k.a. THE ARMPIT OF ASIA. Only good thing that came out of that trip was making friends with a lot of fellow Catholics since nearly the entire country is Catholic! Cute girls, but nowhere close to Indonesian and CERTAINLY nowhere near Japanese or Chinese in attractiveness.

Currently just making plans for my eventual return to civilian life, really. Getting a HOUSE (not a damn apartment, a HOUSE), getting a new car/motorcycle (maybe with a sidecar!), and the completion of several projects -

1. Kickstarting my musical career so I can finally get that demo album to KMFDM (I have their word if they like it they'll bring me on tour with them! GO, JUNKION!)
2. The finishing and publication of all the stuff I've been writing since I was in my early teens. I'm positive I've got some good stuff that's print-worthy...I just have to finish writing it!
3. The creation of Teh Art Room in my future house, which will focus entirely upon my artistic pursuits (painting, sculpture, photography, welding, ect. ect. ect.)

And then of course there's the question of college (why thank you GI Bill yes I would LOVE sum free collegez), getting a really well-paying job until my projects begin paying off, and finally there's my long-time dream...The Dancing Dragon Teahouse. Stone floors, a little koi pond, waitresses in yukata kimono, flatscreen TVs, a manga library...it's all there in my head. All I need is a small business education and a place to bring it all together. But like I said, it's just a dream right now.



So yeah, that's all I've got for you all now. Probably post some stuff again soon if I can.
REMEMBER! I still remember my friends. Now more than ever I'm so thankful I have people I can call my friends, because there's not really anyone here that I can. Seriously. I have no friends here AT ALL. I'm counting the days until I can finally be home again amongst people who truly care about me.

Until then, remember me?
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Apr. 29th, 2009 @ 12:24 am The Philippines: A brief summary ('cause that's all that's really necessary)
Current Location: Subic Bay, Philippines
Current Mood: depressed
It was hot as FUCK. I sweated every damn DAY. People came up to me on the street and kept trying to sell me shit I didn't want AND THEY WOULDN'T STOP. We are barely getting any time off, the XO is a JERK, and every time I went into a bar to try and have a drink to take my mind of things, I got some floozy trying to get me to pay to take her to a back room to screw her little prostitute ass.

But I DID manage to buy a lot of stuff at the Mall of Asia in Manila (which wasn't so bad), and had filet mignon for only a little over $20. It was good. Found a Krispy Kreme of all things, and THAT made me happy. But in the end I always end up coming back to this floating jail that I had the ultimate misfortune to be assigned to.


I'm tired as hell, lonely, and could really use a hug right now.






Christmas can't come soon enough. I count the days until I can see my friends again.
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Mar. 28th, 2009 @ 12:16 am OMGWTFDECOMISSIONED!?
Current Location: Sasebo, Japan
Current Music: CHROME SHELLED REGIOS OST
Well. The big rumor running rampant now is that due to seawater in teh MRG (that'd be the Main Reduction Gear there, boys and girls! More on that later!) and the fact that TORTUGA is an obsolete piece of crap (as are most of the LSD type ships) there's not only a possible decomissioning in the near future (a year perhaps) but ANOTHER hull swap!
So the ship that went to the USA when TORTUGA came over here to take it's place? Yeah, it's gonna have to come back here. Bet that crew isn't very pleased about it, especially since they fucked this one up to the point of us having to redo the hull swap we did with them TWO YEARS AGO!

It's fucking insane. I mean really out-to-lunch bonkers. What in the HELL did I get myself INTO!?

As for what the MRG is, it's the most expensive piece of equipment on my ship. The Navy doesn't even OWN this thing; it's on lease. It's that fucking expensive. And if it goes down, the whole ship gets decommed as if they want to work on it, they have to cut the ship open to get to the thing.
So yeah. Good times there.
In other news, enough about my troubles, more about me!
I'm currently sitting pretty in DCPO (Damage Control Petty Officer) and eagerly awaiting the time when I can finally cross-rate out of this nightmare of a job. I'm in the process of trying to get out of M-Division and into A-Gang - no longer dealing with the engine-rooms, just everything mechanical that isn't involved with ship propulsion.
Which means, oh lawd, I'll actually be worth a damn at my next command.


I miss all my friends. I miss driving wherever I wanted whenever I felt like it. I miss the late-night conversations and the UGAnime club meetings every Monday, doing B-Tards On Patrol with Squid, the feeling that there was no telling what tomorrow was going to bring me. It wasn't the best life, but it was a life that was being lived to the fullest possible.
Yes, I'm finally in Japan. Yes, I'm getting to see more of the world than anyone else I know, do things not many people get to do, ect. ect. ect.

But sometimes you come to the realization that where you really want to be is with the people you care about.
I'm going to do my best to come home for Christmas this year. I really want to. If I do it'll probably only be for a week at the best, two if I'm lucky. But at least I'll have come home.
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And then of course I'm going straight back to JAAAAAAAAAAAPAAAAAAAAAAN! ^_^
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Mar. 21st, 2009 @ 07:17 am I WATCHED THE WATCHMEN
Current Location: Sasebo, Japan
Current Mood: aggravated
And believe it or not, I was highly disappointed.

Yes, it remained rather true to the graphic novel. Yes, Frank Miller was up to his usual ultraviolence and deep storytelling. Good so far.
But there were just so many SCENES that felt like nothing but FILLER! Much as it may suprise you to hear from yours truly, I think the sex scene in the flying owl-thingy was unnecessary. What the hell purpose did it serve!? "Oh hai joo gaiz lulz let's haev a sex scene here hurrhurrhurr!" I'm not saying the actress wasn't hot. She was steaming. But I didn't pay good money for something that felt as though I could have watched it on Cinemax or one of the other flesh-flick channels!

The Watchmen movie was like buying an extra-large bag of potato chips and then opening it to discover most of the chips have been smushed up and gathered at the bottom of the bag, revealing the fact THERE'S ONLY HALF A BAG IN THERE. You FAILED me, Miller!
300? It finally got me to join the military!
Sin City? Made me start becoming a better person.
The Watchmen?
...uhm...The Watchmen?
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Oh, I'm sorry, couldn't hear you over all the PRETENTIOUSNESS!

.....they could have at least thrown in a David Bowie song. It WAS the 80s after all, dammit. BAD FORM! ONI MAD!
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Mar. 20th, 2009 @ 07:16 pm I'M ON A BOAT MUTHAFUCKAS A MUTHAFUCKIN' BOAT
Current Location: Sasebo, Japan
Current Mood: content

My new favorite song. Lonely Island guys and T-Payne = LULZ! Kinda funny how it was me and ol' [info]stellabambino who found 'em and put some of their stuff in SON OF! (remember THAT thing? Oh, good times and LULZ were had by ALL!) back in the day.

Anyways. Today was a good day....for me. Not for the ship. Apparently Tortuga is without a doubt one of the worst ships in the fleet. Back when it was posted in the States, they lied about every piece of matinence they did on it and now it's coming back to bite THIS crew in the ass. Honestly, everyone from enlisted to officer has the same words on the tongue: "We couldn't of been posted to a worse ship than this".
I'm thankful this is only my first command - if I had been sent elsewhere and THEN made to report here I think it would have probably been worse for me. Instead they sent me straight into the number one reason people want to get out of the Navy. No matter where I get sent to next, there is no remote possibility whatsoever of it being any worse than it is now. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada. I've talked to guys who've been stationed from Bahrain to Bremerton to Yokosuka, and they have all told me the same thing: This is as bad as it gets.

So as I said, ANYWHERE they send me after this is going to be a damn vacation.

In other news, I'm still contemplating staying in for a (GASP!) second tour of duty. If I do, it'll mean I'll get Shore Duty; possibly in Sasebo (which I have come to believe is one of those made-for-shore-duty stations). However, the fact remains I want to return to the states to finalize putting together my novels, getting them published, and of course finally get around to starting JUNKION.

SPEAKING of JUNKION, I was recently reading an article about Frank Miller in a magazine today and it really touched a chord with me. I want JUNKION to be to the American music scene what Frank Miller's movies and stories are to comic books. I want to be the badass sonofabitch that gatecrashes the fancy dress party and leaves with a girl on each arm after slugging one or two effeminite emo kids in the mouth. I've also been reading a lot more of the Beat Generation literature, right now in the middle of Naked Lunch. It's really inspiring me musically as well (if such can be believed). Allen Ginsberg and Kerouac were always my favorites in high school, and now that I've got ahold of some Burroughs it's all starting to click. JUNKION, if it can be fully realized, is going to be something new. Something crazy.

If I can get up the money, get one or two people involved in the project with me, and get at least a full album out along with a few singles...I'll have something. All I've got right now is a dream and, more importantly, a plan. So long as I've got those two things, and the drive and motivation to see it through, JUNKION will rise.

THE SONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA
THE KINGS OF CROSSGENRE
THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE
THE SOUND OF THINGS TO COME
WITHOUT DOUBT OR COMPROMISE
SARCASM AND ATTITUDE TO SPARE
WE ARE JUNKION
AND WE DON'T CARE
 

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Mar. 19th, 2009 @ 11:59 pm I don't hate the Navy...just my job
Current Location: Sasebo, Japan
Current Mood: distressed
Soooo....

It's pretty much been decided that most of my division bears a strong dislike towards me; to the point where it's at times devolved into outright hostility and almost broken into violence. Honestly, I have never once so loathed the choice I made to be an Engineman. SCREW engineering department, I'm cross-rating into something that isn't so full of drama and bullshit I can't even wake up without worrying about who I'm going to have to talk to.

Thank GOD I'm still in the DCPO program...I'm hoping I can stay in until I can cross-rate and get out of this whole bloody mess I seem to have found myself in. No matter how hard I work, no matter what I try to do, nothing is right to these people. Heartless, ignorant, stereotype-reinforcing morons, nearly every last one with a few notable exceptions.
I don't care where I go or where they send me...just so long as it's not engineering. Not ever again.

Yeesh...and I thought Lake Lanier Islands was bad! Have I got some horror stories for you guys when I get home!
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Mar. 13th, 2009 @ 06:38 pm You know, this doesn't really come as any great suprise to me...
Current Location: Sasebo, Japan
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: TOMMY THE CAT - PRIMUS
You Are the Heart Chakra
You are loving, kind, and empathetic. You feel for the world, and you truly value peace.
You have many close relationships, and you work hard to make them harmonious.

You are accepting and understanding. You are tolerant of all sorts of viewpoints, even if you don't agree with them.
You are very forgiving. When you love someone, your love is unconditional.


Damn, nailed it. Thoughts, opinions?
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JUGGANAUT BIAATCH!
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Mar. 12th, 2009 @ 10:58 pm OUT, OUT! You demons of emo-ness!
Oh my oh my, there was a rather emo post here just a while ago...you must have missed it. Thank goodness it's gone!

Instead, here's some happy news: I just beat Legacy of Ys for the Gameboy DS! Well, the first part actually. About to start the second chapter! A buddy of mine sold me his old DS so I now finally have one! Also bought the Prince of Persia: Fallen King game and LotR: Conquest.

Sadly, there isn't much selection here in the Navy NEX. If I can get out on liberty I'm going to try and see about getting ahold of some japanese DS games.
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Mar. 12th, 2009 @ 08:34 pm EVER FORWARD
Current Location: Sasebo, Japan
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: BITCHES I HOPE YOU KNOW - HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD
Yay! ULTRA-C is almost done!
Boo! ULTRA-E is right around the corner!

But thanks to the budget-cuts of our new Overlord Obama, there's a high chance we won't be getting underway as much these next few years; or so rumors declare. On the one hand, this is a very bad thing; on the other, it is a good thing. Allow me to elaborate:

NEGATIVES: At the moment I am in the Damage Control Petty Officer program. Because of this, I do not have to stand normal underway watches. Key word there being 'UNDERWAY'.
It also means that I will have more and greater opportunities to spend my money, which is bad because I'm trying to save up as much as I possibly can so I'll have more to spend and enjoy when I finally manage to get back to the states.
Also, we get paid a little extra for every day we're underway (sea pay), and if we're in port that's money I'M NOT MAKING. DO NOT LIEK.
There's also the case that we might have been scheduled to go to a country that I've never been to (such as Austrailia this summer) but if we can't get underway then might as well forget about THAT port visit.

POSITIVES: I've really only got one in-port watch, and it's only four hours (but it's usually from midnight to four or four to eight in the morning).
I'm earning slightly a little more pay as I'm now finally getting my Third Class Petty Officer pay, and I've finally managed to learn how to control my spending. There is also the point that I only have so much space to store stuff and I'm pretty much all out of that so there' s really no point in my buying ANYTHING because quite frankly I have no room for it!
As for not getting sea pay, well...I'm stationed overseas, so my pay's still higher than somebody stationed in the continental U.S.A....so really I've got no reason to bitch.
And as for not visiting countries...that's the fleet's call, so I'm not too worried about that.


All in all I'm in rather high spirits at the moment. I'm probably going to be in the DCPO program for the better part if not the rest of this year, and this fall my Second Class Petty Officer exam comes up. I've only been in the Navy for a little under two years and I'm already going up for E-5, while most people are just making E-2 or E-3! That's not too damn shabby if I do say so myself...which of course I do! ^_^
Spring is slowly starting to come around here in Sasebo, and the sakura should be in full bloom by April. I'm hoping we'll be in port for that, because if we are I am SO going out and taking pictures. LOTS of pictures! I'm also in the process of shipping my beloved laptop back home to get fixed (yeah, still haven't gotten around to that yet...sigh...) so I can get to all my other pictures and stuff I need for the not going crazy.

On a closing note...got an email from my mom telling me about how some place north of the house was hiring a janitor, and over 400 people showed up to try and get it. When 400 people are all trying to get ONE JOB, and a janitor's at that...well, let's just say I really feel good about joining the Navy when I did.

I could of been person 401.

Not much else going on...next post I'll give you all a little play-by-play of Teh Oni's Work Day! Look forward to it!
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