17 posts tagged “qotd”

What's your favorite Michael Jackson song? Bonus points if you share the video.

BEAT IT!

He looks a little stiffer and slower here, but even so, nobody could move like him. When they break into the famous Beat It line dance, it was 1983 again.

One hour to live. What do you do?
Submitted by Jeff Zie.

This is kind of like the question of what do you do ten minutes before taking a big huge exam. There isn't really much you can do to change your outcome, it's the decisions you made leading up to ten minutes before the exam that are going to make a difference.

But I'll probably tell everybody I love in the world that I love them very much. If they're near enough to hug, I'll go hug them.

That should take about an hour.

Then I'll see you in the next life. If we have a strong connection in this one, I know I'll see you in the next one, just as we've probably seen each other in countless lives past.

*****

I called in sick again today, even though I get a 1,500yen penalty fee taken out of my paycheck. I just have too many things I have to do that need to get done.

Of course a customer just called me. I told him I took the day off. There goes those sales. Oh well. I don't like him anyway, he's a super cheap ass. Why does he want to go to a hostess club on a Monday anyway? He's one of the customers from the old ghetto club. I pretty much can't stand any of them and have been trying to get a whole new set of customers, which is kind of working, but it's hard work. But I definitely like the customers at this new club much more though.

I was talking to my good friend, who remembers how I was years ago at the old club we worked at together. I had a serious attitude problem and I hated every customer who walked through the door. I really am not like that anymore, I am much more professional and much more appreciative of everything. Appreciative of the job, of the customers, of my bosses (kind of), I just have more respect for the work.

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My interpretation class starts tomorrow. I am so nervous. I have to go to work after the class ends, which means I'll show up at the club around 9:30 sweating bullets from the high pressure class, and from the humidity and the heat I'll have to walk through. Oh god, I'm so nervous already.

What's your favorite TV commercial?
Submitted by MexicanRobot.

Good one, Mexibot!

Whenever this one comes on I laugh my ass off. It's that pretty boy Hiroshi Tamaki getting bitch-slapped by the spirit of his clorets gum. The clorets spirit is played by pro-wrestling legend Antonio Inoki, who I saw at the airport once! He's famous for slapping his fans, and they love it too. They'll usually say "thank you!" Thank goodness he was only shaking people's hands, and I got caught in the crossfire and he shook my hand, even though I didn't really want him to.

edit: I just found out that the guy playing the gum spirit is in fact Antoki-no Inoki [which means "Inoki from back then"] who's a comedian that impersonates Antonio.

You have to click on the link because I couldn't find it on youtube, so I couldn't embed it.

CLICK!

If you had to be on a reality television show, which one would you pick?

Excuse me, which ones WOULDN'T I be on? I love reality television. I love all those crazy reality stars.

Celebrity Rehab. I'm not a celebrity, or an addict, but I love Dr. Drew. LOVE the man. I saw him when I was a teenager. He was walking around Pasadena Old Town with his body guard. I pointed at him and said to his face "that's Dr. Drew!" He smiled and said "Hi!"

Dancing with the Stars. I'm not a star, but how awesome would it be to be on that show? I always wanted to try ballroom, and partner dancing.

Celebrity Championship Wrestling. Again (this is getting repetitive), I'm not a celebrity, but I love sports entertainment wrestling, and that would kick ass to learn the moves and perform some matches. You know my little sister trained in an amateur pro wrestling league, but gave up after she realized her education was more important.

Charm School. I don't even care which one. Although I think I need to get a boob job before I go on the Rock of Love Charm School, and I really might get my ass seriously kicked all over the place if I was around the Flavor of Love chicks. Okay, maybe I shouldn't be on this show. Especially since I'd have to be on one of the "...Of Love" shows first, and I don't want to make out with a gross old has been. I'd be one of the girls who gets kicked out because "She's not here for you, Bret/Flav."

The Amazing Race. I can go on it with my twin sister and we can kill each other and get eliminated because of our lack of teamwork.

That's just off the top of my head. I should be auditioning for a show right now.

What do you see yourself doing on this day next year?
Submitted by Beautifully Broken.

I will be a few months into my master's degree at a good university, they've given me lots of good scholarships, and my professors and classmates will be inspiring and wonderful. And I'll be getting ready to visit family for the holidays.

Found this old photo. My twin sister (in blue) and I (in red) wearing our yukata at a summer festival around 2002 I think. It's a picture of a picture, so it's kind of blurry.

Are you voting for the party that you're registered for?

The first election I was able to vote in was the Bush-Gore one. My vote didn't end up really counting in the end, because of some hanging chads in Florida or something. Well I guess it did count because California went blue, but in the end it wasn't enough.

Four years later, I became a registered democrat and I sent in my absentee ballot for Kerry from Japan. Even as I did so, I felt like some technicalities would stop my vote from counting. California again went blue, but again, it wasn't enough.

This year, I didn't do the proper paperwork, plus I didn't know what city or even what country I would be in on voting day. So I'm not voting on a technicality.

Which means I have nobody to blame if the worst happens.

It also means that I can only pray, instead of actually doing something. I am a bad American.

So please California, go blue again.

And please, please, PLEASE let every vote really count.

So that the day after tomorrow, we'll be hearing about our new leader, President Obama.

It's Vox's 2nd anniversary today! What's your all time favorite post?

Wow, Happy Birthday Vox! And happy birthday to me the day after tomorrow. I will be 27 years older than vox. Oh jesus christ.

So I had a look back at what I was doing last year. It's not exactly my favorite post, but according to me last year, I seemed to have a temporary day time job as a Halloween witch at a department store costume display during the day, and of course I was still a bar hostess at the ghetto club at night. And we had to dress up for Halloween. I wore some cheap devil dress. I think I got excited over some weird gifts I got from my co-workers and from customers. I was really happy about these nail jewels that I got from Songbird:

I was living in a girl's dorm in Shinjuku and I used to walk home from Roppongi in the middle of the night. It took me over an hour, but it gave me a lot of time to think. That is, in between being scared shitless of every shadow. Walking alone at night like that was definitely extremely stupid. I used to rollerblade home but after I fell down pretty badly I stopped that.

So I've moved on in my life then.

What have you lost that you wish you could get back?
Submitted by, Witch Hazel

Hard question! I must have had something in mind when I submitted this question (thanks Dating LA for reminding me that I did).

Remember when jelly shoes were big? Like 20 years ago? After we begged and whined and begged some more, my parents finally bought me and my twin sister a pair each from Costco. We were so happy, it was ridiculous.

This was when we lived in America and we didn't have a Japanese entrance, so we took our shoes off and left them outside the door usually. One day, our precious jelly shoes were gone. I was devastated.

A few days later, I came home from the supermarket with my dad, and I saw Yayna (whose yonger sister Rona dressed like boy and said she was a boy and played with the boys, even though she was a girl -- I wonder what happened to them?), the Korean girl who lived in the apartment diagonally below us, running for her life with a very familiar pair of shoes on her feet. Damn bitch stole my jelly shoes!

Call me naive, but I was six years old and I thought only villains in Disney movies did bad things. That was when I first realized people just like me who weren't "evil" could do "bad" things too.

I was going to say that I wish I could get that innocence back. But actually, I don't. I protect my shit now.

In this economic climate, not all employers are able to give raises. What perks would make you happy in lieu of a raise?
Sponsored by Microsoft Small Business.

Healthcare! If I could get my teeth fixed, get my eyes checked and if I could go to the hospital every time I got sick, I would stick with a job, even if I had to compromise on my salary.

Would you ever consider having your life taped for a reality show?

No! My life's boring and there's nothing to see.

I would consider being a contestant on a reality show though. Like one of those over-the-top ones on vh1. Where you have to drop the sponsor's name every three seconds and talk about how awesome you think the stupid "prize" is. I'm serious! I'd go on one tomorrow if I could. I'd have to get my teeth bleached and hit the gym for a few weeks first, so I can look FIERCE while I lose my dignity!

I'm actually not joking. I really love reality tv.

On a side note, this documentary looks cool. It's about a photographer who took pictures of naked people in Las Vegas for his book "Naked Las Vegas," seemingly having a nervous breakdown in the process. Couldn't embed the trailer but the book is below.

Naked Las Vegas

Greg Friedler