just another pale writer.

I have profound things to say, sometimes, though not often.

you may love me but it's far more likely you'll hate me.

(and there's no middle ground. one way or another you will have some feels)

you can follow me on twitter @toshanshuinLA if you like hockey and/or hate yourself.

(If you know what that's a reference from I will probably love you forever tbh)

I am aware this tells you absolutely nothing about me. Okay sure: I'm half-Canadian (on my mother's side), I enjoy skinny jeans but not vinyl, and I'm kind of a jerk. But you're kind of a jerk too. We're all kinda jerks, y'know?

right now going to school absurdly late. although my early 20s were pretty much a whirlwind of travel and assorted chaos so I can't say I really regret anything.

occasionally I get paid to write things, usually about hockey.

someday I will finish a novel and it will be rad.

(the fact that I finally finished one, not the novel itself. hopefully that will be rad too but I have no real way of knowing that right now)

winning the sperm lottery, growing my hair stupidly fast (facial & otherwise), remembering things that didn't actually happen, forgetting nearly everything that did, trolling, being trolled

My hair is probably in my eyes and it looks really ridiculous.

Movies: The Royal Tenenbaums, Reality Bites, Up in the Air, Cruel Intentions, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, Trainspotting, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

TV: Law & Order CI, Angel, Buffy, Sex & the City, Six Feet Under, the Rachel Maddow Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, Totally Biased, SNL, awkward.

Music: Separating this by language to make this easier, even though I doubt anyone on here will know Japanese indie rock bands (not saying that to sound even more pretentious, it's just probably true). But it means I can list twenty bands instead of ten. The only order they're in is alphabetical, I'm not one of those people who can fucking rank bands or anything.

English: The Arcade Fire, The Clash, CSS, Daft Punk, Death From Above 1979, Gang of Four, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem, New Order, The Pixies

Japanese: 8otto, Bloodthirsty Butchers, Mass of the Fermenting Dregs, Number Girl, Ogre You Asshole, Rin Toshite Shigure, Shiina Ringo, Shugo Tokumaru (imagine Sufjan Stevens except without the Christanity and the ridiculous overhype, and also imagine he's actually good, and that's Shugo), Supercar, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant

The OKC screename is a reference to this song, which is also the name of Masu Dore's second album. The second album is always the best album. Unless you're the fucking Stone Roses I guess.

(UPDATE: link to song no longer works. your loss. available on US ITunes though!)

What I'm listening to right now: Broken Social Scene, The Radio Dept., Amusement Parks on Fire, Crystal Castles. Basically getting caught up on what was cool in like 2004 2007? okay probably never.

I don't list books because I don't read much fiction and why would you give a fuck what nonfiction history & political shit I've read/am reading? Food, eh, whatever. I'm a pescetarian, which is a fancy term for someone who eats fish & shellfish but no meat whatsoever. And I could give a damn whether or not you eat meat by the way.

if I'm being honest with myself and with you this is probably just twitter x6

I know I know terrible. at least it's not facebook.

my brain is this incredible mix of:
A) absurdly complicated plots of things I will probably never actually write.
B) the names of like every hockey player ever
C) Japanese bands like three people have ever heard of (including people actually from Japan)
D) shame for being half-French-Canadian and yet speaking such awful French

so look forward to my one-man play about a poor French speaking hockey player with a wild imagination who travels to Japan and starts a terrible band, I guess.

Breathing, I would imagine. Hopefully drunk, but probably not.

pansexual

more likely to date girls because (reasons)

if you're really into yourself or just like a complete asshole I will be so into you, not gonna lie. which makes online dating a wonderful place to look! maybe this is too honest but whatever, I don't particularly care at this point. nice people are nice and stuff but not really that much fun to date.

no one puts themself out there like this unless they kind of think they're pretty amazing. and maybe you are. maybe I am. maybe none of us are. half the fun is finding out.

don't bother, ya missed yer shot