tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post2180103286103026346..comments2024-03-14T07:32:30.141+09:00Comments on Marketing Japan: How Disco Music and Van McCoy and "The Hustle" Saved My Lifemike in tokyo rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977446676243085409noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-11435197905062405042012-05-01T04:56:18.111+09:002012-05-01T04:56:18.111+09:00Like a crazy stalker girlfriend, disco was everywh...Like a crazy stalker girlfriend, disco was everywhere you went. Maybe that's why I hated it so much; it was everywhere all the time. <br />I hate disco and also had a crazy stalker girlfriend... <br />Wait... it get's more interesting, too. I never felt like I fit in - I still feel that way. You can tell from my blog how I seem to hate the other AETs except for a few close ones like Matthew, and I hated Ashley for always trying to get me to be part of a crowd - trapped in a world I never made... i know you know Howard The Duck, Mike!<br />Those 2 paragraphs you wrote (below) really hit home:<br /><br />"I hate big parties; I hate crowded department stores. I hate tourist places; I like nature and I like quiet places and, perhaps, dinner and drinking with one or two friends... I don't like crowds and crowded places!<br /><br />From that day and that moment, I didn't want to be a popular person anymore. I didn't want to be fashionable (not that I could be)."<br /><br />Man... do I know what you mean. I told you you and I would have been friends.<br /><br />Even now... everybody loves Andrew, but Andrew doesn't want to be friends with everyone.<br />Everyone assumes I am so charged and outgoing, when really, I prefer being alone. <br /><br />I'm unsure if that's sad or not. I like who I am. I wish I was richer and a better writer, and one led to the other... but... I grew up in Etobicoke... white, middle-class Etobicoke where I was pretty much the ONLY minority in the neighourhood... and if you looked around 409 years later (as I am right back in the same house with MY family), I still am the only effin' minority. <br />I feel white, but every once in a while I get a reminder that I am not. <br />It's why I made it my lifeswork as a kid to know more about hockey than anyone else. Sports too. Sceince. History... I want to know as much about everything just in case I meet someone who thinks that all brown guys only know brown guy stuff.... I purposely never hung out with any Indian kids for fear of being typecase. I refused to eat Indian food for fear of being ostracized. I never learned the language, and you'll love this, I stopped trying in school after someone in Grade 5 (my new school) noted that of course I got perfect on a test - all those brown guys are smart! <br />I never wanted to be a brown guy... I just wanted to be Andrew.<br />Mike... I only crapped my pants once in Japan after some nasty drinking, but - despite not moving around as much as you, I know where you are coming from. I hate Disco because it's not rebellious like Rock and or roll is. <br />Cheer!Andrew Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15063234777548462157noreply@blogger.com