When you look inside yourself, what do you feel? What is the passion, motivation that keeps you going? What is your reason to be alive? I’ve been having a few problems answering these questions lately. I think I go by the fact that my work is the main thing that keeps me going, but then again, I look at other…

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When I look at the end of a year and the transition to a new one, I can’t avoid comparing the transition to the concept of a birth canal. Right before Christmas there’s the anxiety about what to do that night and how to get there while doing all the things one must do before the old year ends. Who…

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The 2010 edition of Kohaku Utagassen, famous NHK competition in which team white (men) and team red (women) compete with each other singing, was pretty uneventful. The competition was handed to the white team from the beginning with a poor performance from Ayumi Hamasaki that was immeditately beaten by Exile. From then on, the women were beaten on every single…

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