Joe昔

Connecting past, present and future. Side blog.

[joemukasi]

On Thursday nights

We'd go to ○○'s house

and watch Highlander

And eat vanilla bean

Ice cream with Habenero

Apricot jelly

And chill and smoke weed

It was nineteen ninety batsu

Maru for the censored name. . .

[joemukasi]

A piece of concrete, a piece of history sold, in a small game shop.

[joemukasi]

The past is fixed. The future is open. The present is always happening.

Learn from the past. Let go of the past. Understand the past. Remember the past. Forget the past.

Live in the present. Live for the future. Live for today. Roll the dice. Play the game. Dance the dance. Sit down and enjoy the show. Stand up and enjoy the show. Bob your head. Tap your toes. Feel the beat.

Live in the present, but don't forget to work for a brighter future. Learn from the past, but do not live there.

Discipline builds character. Practice builds skill. Repeated interaction builds closeness. Planning leads to success. Perseverance leads to completion.

Smoking leads to disease. Colonization leads to genocide. Capitalism breeds inequality.

The flow of time connects the past to the present, and the present to the future. Change is the only constant.

Our current condition comes as the result of innumerable choices made by innumerable people.

The future is in front of you.

Only time will tell how it unfolds.

[joemukasi]

I am overwhelmed by the tasks I have set out for myself today. Lacking discipline I know how much discomfort awaits.

[joemukasi]

199x tv

Mini tv

No channels

Coaxial

Cables

Connect the

Nintendo

And the signal's

Stable

I got the

Antenna

For my Zach

Morris

Chilling in

My room

With a plastic

Stegosaurus

I'm in the

Living room

Watching

VHS

On a

CRT

Eating ramen

Feeling blessed

Staring at

A screen

An animated

Scene

Staring at

A screen

An animated

Dream

[joemukasi]

I need to

a) chill, and

b) maintain,

c) get up, and

d) get back in the game.

That's when I

e) start wrecking shit and going insane

'Cause I got nothing to lose

And the world to gain

[joemukasi]

I'm old school like scan lines.

[joemukasi]

Fuck it

Get it done

No hesitation

That's the only way

To fix the situation

[joemukasi]

Anger inside me can only be addressed through action. Forget thought.

[joemukasi]

Mr. Miyagi said "always look eye."

Mr. Matsuda said that in spite of what people learned from Karate Kid, you should never look someone in the eye before a match because it's really disrespectful.

I watched Karate Kid last night. It made me miss arcades.

My mom wouldn't let me take karate in the eighties.

And that's why I have no discipline. Well. . . That and the fact that I was never taught it.

I watched Karate Kid last night. It made me miss arcades.

Mr. Miyagi said karate should never come the hara.

Well he didn't say hara, but he pointed to his stomach or whatever. I don't really know what that means. I don't really understand the meaning of the word hara, I just know it's a lot different then the word gut.

I watched Karate Kid last night. It made me miss arcades.

So I played Streets of Rage 4 in arcade mode. Shit's hard. I still can't even beat it on normal. It was fun though.

Mr. Miyagi said that balance is key.

I watched Karate Kid last night, and it made me ask myself. . .

How did my life get so out of balance?