Apparently #introductions are in order.
I'm one of the #metafilter users who decided to finally give Mastodon a try after taking a break from that other site because it stinks.
Back in the Usenet days I used to have a whole "funny" #CyranodeBergerac list of descriptions of myself in my sig file, but I'm not that guy anymore. #The World'sLamest brand dates back to that time. I maybe even had the URL to match years ago. But like I said I'm not that guy anymore.
So what am I now?
I'm still an old-fashioned #ProgrammerAnaylst I suppose. I'm a pretty good #databasedesigner if I do say so myself. My business partner and I are still a world-class #dataanalysis team and #financialsystemconsultants if you're in the market for that.
Not enough people are though, so most days I do dishes, wash laundry, and mow grass here on the #farm. We have all kinds of plans, but the days just kind of come and go here.
I guess that's quite enough to start.
Suffice it to say, I have no idea who I really am or where I'm supposed to be anymore. Most days I just #keeponkeepingon and that's going to have to be good enough.
I thought of one more thing to add to my #introduction. I'm a student of #post-warJapan, especially its #cinema.
It started simply enough. I wanted to understand how Ridley Scott made the first '90s movie — _Black Rain_ — in 1989. My hypothesis was that the secret must lie in the Japanese response to defeat in the war.
So I bought a couple of books about the subject and got to studying. It wasn't long before I realized that I needed to see how Japanese people saw themselves.
I started to try and teach myself to read Japanese. That was going to take a while though, so my other thought was to try and find movies that showed something of the times. Before events overtook and I had to stop, between 2015 and 2016 I watched 87 movies set in #postwarjapan.
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls013615609/
I do hope to continue at some point and reach my goal of watching everything between the end of the war and the opening of the Olympic games in 1964.
Point being, if you want to talk about the #cinema of #postwarjapan, hit me up because I've got opinions.
@ob1quixote I wrote a paper in college about the economic construction of social identity in Japanese postwar cinema, inspired by the coincidence of Tatsuya Nakadai playing the lead in both The Face of Another and Kagemusha
@ob1quixote somehow I tied that in to Cham and Mima in Perfect Blue
Heh. I set my cut-off as the Tokyo Olympics in '64, so _Perfect Blue_ is a little outside the scope of my project. 😆
Nakadai played in several of the pictures I screened. He was really good as the street tough Jo in _Black River_. I guess his biggest early star-turn was _The Human Condition_, but I out-scoped that one for being set during the war.
I used to play #games. #Computergames, #boardgames, #roleplayinggames. All kinds of games, but I never seem to have time for it anymore. Ages ago I was even instrumental at a #LARP that shall remain nameless.
I #sing and play the #guitar. I used to be pretty good, but I don't practice as often as I should so now I'm only not bad.
I take a lot of pictures of the farm, but I wouldn't call myself a #photographer. It's easy to take good photographs when your subject is a beautiful landscape.