It was 88 degrees at 9am. That’s what I get for moving from San Francisco to Tokyo. Still, the dream has come true. I’m now living in Tokyo, and staying here for a while. My first kid will be born in Tokyo, and that’s pretty awesome. If he/she wasn’t going to be born here, it would have had to have been in New York City. I spent a long-ass month since my last post organizing, packing, and preparing for all of the many things I’d have to do in order to live here. I landed at Narita last Thursday, and it’s been non-stop ever since. Bank accounts, alien registration forms, cell phones, apartment hunting for two days straight, etc. Lot of stuff to do, and even more ahead of me.
Anyway, back to work. Just wanted to commemorate the event. Day before my birthday, too. Internal clock is still adjusting. *Zzzzzz.*
It’s official. My work visa was approved by the Japanese Consulate, so the final preparations are being made to move my world to Tokyo, where I will hop into a giant Gundam and punch North Korean nukes out of the sky. Wish me luck.
I’m going to start archiving some of the video interviews I’ve done over the years that I really enjoyed doing, starting with this one, in which I stepped outside of the normal gaming journalist routine, and talked with some of the musicians responsible for Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s most notable games, like Rez and Lumines.
While I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with plenty of gaming luminaries over the years, being able to talk with some of my favorite musicians, like Ken Ishii and Mondo Grosso –both of whom had never been interviewed by a gaming journalist before– was super cool. This was a great way to talk to them about the music they make, the trends of techno and house music, and their creative inspiration. I think in hindsight, in the realm of game coverage, that this week-long feature we did with Q Entertainment was pretty unique. Then again, this stealth-video (officially) taken inside some of Tokyo’s most popular night clubs was very awesome too. No doubt, that was a very fun, very hot (summertime), very awesome week in Japan.
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