A day in the life.....

Go listen to this song!

2007-12-04T09:07:20Z

GO out and listen to Senkou Shojo and its english counter part put your camera down. The music is beautiful, and the lyrics get me for some reason

LYRICS BY SHIINA RINGO copyright holder
MUSIC BY TOKYO JIHEN

Put Your Camera Down

I am content with taking in this moment caught in time

I'll forget about it soon enough but I don't mind
When thoughts belong to yesterday, the saturation fades
I always am where I'm found

Today this moment derserves the ultimate intensity

I see no need to recharge for tomorrow's happenings
Mistakes we made yesterday, they blur what should be clear
Refocus close on where you are

I am shinning in this moment, frame your shot
With your senses open wide
Leave that camera at your side
The only moment that we know is ever true

This very time outshines the bygone moments of my life
I don't care if when tomorrow comes I change my mind
My pulse it pounds. My breath is near, the clarity is clear
While life is certain, why won't you...

Let my shining light illuminate your shot
When it goes out it will be lost
We use up everything we've got
Let me sparkle in this moment here with you
The only moment that we know is ever true

Even if we've met the end I'mm shine with you

johnfaciane @ 2007-11-15T23:14:00

2007-11-15T14:15:49Z

today was really fun.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=u4ie-JTRNC0
i went on this roller coaster. if youre ever in tokyo DO IT

johnfaciane @ 2007-11-12T21:07:00

2007-11-12T12:13:15Z

日本が大好きだけど、専修大学では宿題が多い。大変ですね。。

i love it here.

i miss everyone soo much though. im looking into options for where to live when i get back, but since my tribe pays my rent i could run into difficulties...

i dont want to end up living by my self, but that just might have to be what happens.

oh and i am in desparate need of a massage right now, takuya (one of the ra's) said he would for a place to get one in shimokitazawa so hopefully soon i will be able to get one.

johnfaciane @ 2007-10-30T00:01:00

2007-10-29T15:05:52Z

tomorrow i leave for osaka.
sorry to all for not writing in a while, ive been going through sort of a crisis, but im getting better so no one needs to worry.
ive just uploaded a bunch of photos to my computer and will be putting them on facebook shortly.

so ill try and update from osaka and kyoto so until then!

-john

johnfaciane @ 2007-10-25T22:22:00

2007-10-25T13:46:03Z

ive been hit with culture shock BAD.
i wanted to go home so bad this weekend.
had another panic attack.
...
better now, but still missing home and my friends in oregon.

so hope it gets better.

char, danny, (eventhough you guys dont have lj) hannah, dana, devika, hoagie, everyone i miss you all sooooooooooooooo much right now

johnfaciane @ 2007-10-10T14:31:00

2007-10-10T05:49:45Z

expensive
i have gone through about 650\700 dollars in 3 weeks.

aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh

expensive

johnfaciane @ 2007-10-06T23:28:00

2007-10-06T14:43:49Z

Nomihoudai last night was really fun, but it was insane!. when i eventually get a camera charger that works (mine broke) i will be posting the photos. After nomihoudai we went to karaoke and i stayed there until about 4am and came back to the dorm and went to bed.

today i met up with my friend Toshiki, he studied at U of O last year on exchange from Waseda University here in Japan. We went to Kamakura and went to a few Jinjas (japanese shrines) and saw the second largest buddha(sp?) in Japan at a jinja. it was amazing i love the culture and life here. Kamakura is about an hour by train from tokyo and it is just so amazing that there is an area that beautiful and green so close to the world's largest city.

after toshi and i hung out i went and got lost in Shibuya by myself for about an hour. I did this on purpose because i really have not any absolutely alone time since i have came to japan. so that is all for today.

heres a photo for you guys.

金曜日の夜

2007-10-05T09:45:20Z

So its friday night in tokyo japan. its a 3 day weekend. we have just had two weeks of very intese classes. So what better idea than to go to nomihodai, because our RAs are taking about 50 of us to this. what is nomihodai you ask? well nomihodai or　飲み放題 written in japanese literally means Nomi= drink hodai= all you can. No this is a very foreign concept to the average american, because most if not all states have laws forbidding such an event (at least both of the states i have lived in do). we basically pay 2,000 yen each and we get anything we want for 2 hours straight. think about that... about 50 exchange students from all over the world (mostly from the us however) drinking non stop for two hours straight. Either this is going to be a glorious event or it could be disastorous. we shall see what the night holds. losts of pictures to come on facebook and some good ones will be featured here on live journal.

sayonara for now!

john

johnfaciane @ 2007-10-04T08:10:00

2007-10-03T23:40:59Z

second week is almost over. i now have a prepaid cell phone if anyone wants to stay in contact with me, the easiest way is through email,　because is goes straight to my cell. jfaciane@softbank.ne.jp
other than that things are going great! ive been to harajuku, and wow there is a lot of shopping and fashion there, its insane.

one of the big things ive noticed since ive been here is that most of the college going generation is very well dressed and stylish. it seems as if they have a never ending supply of money to buy stylish haute couture clothing that they wear everyday. (sorry guys and girls no attending class in your PJs here.) i almost like it better that way, because people actually care about thier every day appearence (i know that sounds shallow, but its the truth. i may dress sloppily sometimes but i really do not like it)

Incorrect english is EVERYWHERE here. one of the signs in the bathroom here at the dorm says please do not blush your teeth here. Also when i opened my cell phone manual to the english section, written in english TWICE, not just once, it said press 2 3 for ENGRISH. i was on the train when i first saw this and i immediately started laughing, and showed my japanese friends from senshu they thought it was funny too. (picture of manual to come later)

my classes are going great, but they are difficult as hell, because of the one year gap between my classmates and i. I love it though, because if I had gone down a level i know i would be bored as hell, because it is all stuff i have already learned.

anyway class is about to start here so i must be going. more to come in another post!

\John

johnfaciane @ 2007-09-30T21:59:00

2007-09-30T13:00:23Z

johnfaciane @ 2007-09-25T21:06:00

2007-09-25T12:08:24Z

minna-san konnichi wa!
Nihon (japan) is amazing. i ve only been here for a few days yet i have already done many things. i went to an izakaya the othernight with about 14 other kids from the group. an izakaya is a japanese style bar. it was amazing because it cost about 2,300 yen for two hours ALL YOU CAN DRINK!!!!!!!!! now thats about 20 dollars american. i didnt get too drunk just a little tipsy i was very composed but some of the group was a little rowdy. it was really fun and we were lucky we didnt get kicked off the train.

One of the things i have noticed is the hospitality and customer service. it is the best i have ever had, everyone is so welcoming here especially when they learn that i am studying japanese language and culture.

Sunday a group of friends and i went to the tokyo game show. it was amazing seeing all of the lights and people everywhere. the train took for ever it was about two hours away from kanagawa, in chiba prefecture. which is on the oposite side of tokyo bay from where we are. everyone else elected me the guy to talk to all of the JR workers once we got lost and i did suprisingly well.

yesterday we took the placement test and i placed into the class with people who have all taken second year, ive only taken one so im a little nervous but pleased because this means i will be in 302 when i comeback to oregon.

and yes jen, there has been a lot of funny english sayings especially when the police officers from tama-ku came to talk to our group about the snatch. we even got a paper warning us about this menace that plagues japan's vistors. (its actually bag snatching, but the paper says this and the officer even began with, today i am going to talk to you about snatch today.) it was all i could do to keep myself from laughing audibly. i will post a picture later when i am able to buy a usb cable, because i forgot mine.
anyway that is all for now, more posts and hopefully pictures to come!

-jaa ne!

日本に住んでいます

2007-09-22T06:29:14Z

well i have made it to japan! that was the longest most boring flight EVER.
ive taken some photos but i forgot my camera cable so itll be a couple of days befor i can post any pictures anyway im kind of busy now i will try and write more later tonight

johnfaciane @ 2007-08-14T01:03:00

2007-08-14T09:04:14Z

i love it when its 82 degrees in anchorage alaska
that is all

im really not good at this whole writing in journal thingy :(

2007-08-06T01:30:59Z

so i promised i would update a lot this summer, however life has happened. im working way tooo much just so i can be able to go on this excursion to japan!
so ive set up my youtube account for blogging but havent had the time to video a tour of anchorage, but its going to happen before i leave come hell or high water.

Family has come and gone for the summer and it was fun. i got to see my niece again, shes getting so big,l it's weird. I feel like i am getting very old very quickly, even though i am not. I like to think im still acting youthful, but i just find myself getting tired earlier and feeling like i am constantly judging my generation and their ability to become completely apathetic about everything. Maybe im just ready for Summer to be over, which i think i am.

On the lighter side my online course is going very well. I got a B on my midterm so i dont have to take the final, however ill probably only get an A- or B+ which is good i guess considering the amount of time and effort i have exerted while working a full time and a part time job simultaneously.

Im lucky still have my full time job at wildberry by the way. On friday a customer who just so happened to be from Japan asked me to take his photo while he was holding a 10 pound brick of chocolate. While we were exchanging chocolate and camera, his cannon digital camera slipped out of my hand and shattered on the rock floor. i was very upset and felt like crap about what had happened. i originally thought i would have to pay out of pocket for the camera which would have sucked because im saving for the trip. Peter, the owner of wildberry, screamed at me and made me feel even worse, then i discovered that it is illegal for him to require me to pay out of my own pocket. Thats why he has insurance on the business. so he ended up paying, and i still have a job, but i never want to repeat that incident again.

After that on friday, one of my closest friends, Cailin, got married. the wedding was really fun and free wine is always a plus. It is really weird that a lot of friends are starting to get married or engaged. I sort of feel like the ones who aren't myself included are behind. oh well, i guess thats what happenes as everyone gets older. It just seems to me that we're all still too young to be settling down. Someone told me one of my favorite sayings about marriage and youth. "Your twenties are for you, your thrities are for someone else."

anyway, that is all for now.

-JF

sad, bittersweet day.

2007-06-14T01:50:33Z

My room is almost packed up, my life is almost packed up. I feel empty inside. the last few weeks here in eugene i feel have been the best of my entire time in oregon. I am not ready to leave, because i will be gone for a long time. Alaska for the summer then tokyo from september until december. Im so scared... i shouldnt be but i am. i feel like im going to be missing out on a lot of things here, but this is an experience that i need. i need to see the world especially Japan, since one of my majors is Japanese. It never fails that when you are moving somewhere, or going away for a long time you meet people that you want to get to know better right before you fucking leave. This is my situation now. I have so many regrets and i dont want this trip to be one of them. im pretty sure this is just normal pre-trip anxiety though. I feel as if i have so many things i wanted to accomplish this year, but i didnt.
the list...
get back to my graduation weight... not accomplished
heal my fucking foot... almost accomplished
be more outgoing and meet new people... accomplished, but way too late in the year
the list goes on but those are way too personal for here.

i am very happy to be going, just the timing seems kind of weird, especially because i have no where to live when i come back to eugene in january which is kind of scary. no scratch that, really fucking frightening.
home should be good this summer, hopefully i will (i know i say this every summer) get my ass back in shape, because i need to especially before i go abroad. Most importantly i will hopefully meet new people and try new things.

im probably going to start a video portion of my livejournal via and embedded video from youtube when i get back to anchorage, because i've realized that most of my friends from school dont really know what my hometown is like, so im all about teching people. i will also be trying to do a video blog thingy while im in Japan, but you bet your ass that i will be updating on this more. So i gues thats enough of being EMO right now. I need to finish packing, to all of my old close friends, I love you all and will miss you guys a lot. To my new friends i am so glad that i had the chace to meet you all this term, and i hope that you keep in touch either through here, facebook, or adding me on aim. When i return in January i will hopefully be able to get to know you all more.

-Johnny

fuck fuck fuck

2007-04-02T19:23:59Z

i went to my check up appointment for my foot today. and they put me in a new cast for 4 to 5 more weeks. i really hate my life right now. i just want to be out of this goddamn cast, they also informed me that if it doesnt show signs of improvement from today onward i will have to get a plate in my foot, which would mean there is no way in hell i could go to japan this summer. please somebody shoot me now. there is a little bit of good in this though, i will be able to stop using the crutches in two more weeks. but still the bad outweighs the good way too much right now.

johnfaciane @ 2007-03-13T01:21:00

2007-03-13T08:22:37Z

ow,
the rash underneath my cast is getting worse and it is driving me fucking bonkers i just want to rip off all of my skin, and i have no way to scratch it

johnfaciane @ 2007-03-08T14:24:00

2007-03-08T22:29:23Z

This term has been great so far. its almost over now. let's see ive been sick since big knife ended and now im finally getting better, but low and behold i landed on my foot wrong and fractured my 5th metatarcel in two places so now im going to be a little gimpy for a bit. ill find out if they are going to put it in a cast on friday hooooooray! oh well i got a parking pass and they might give me one close to the buildings until im better, i didnt want to have to do that, but there really is no other convenient way for me to get around because of the crutches. my family is being awesome though, my dad is sending me some stuff in the mail and my aunt said she would drive to eugene if i needed anything which is really cool. any way ill update later with progress, and thank you to everyone for being so helpful to me lately it is greatly appreciated.

johnfaciane @ 2007-03-04T23:13:00

2007-03-05T07:17:42Z

ive been sick for over two weeks now. this shit is getting really old.
on top of that im starting to worry about being accepted by the japanese host university because of the placement test, it is soooo hard and in big bold letters on the front it says please keep in mind that the final decision will be based upon this placement test. fucking great! im approved through u of o, and it stated that you only needed at least one term of japanese but this test is making a little paranoid, because i dont know what i would do if i cant go, im banking on this so i need it to happen.

johnfaciane @ 2007-02-21T23:42:00

2007-02-22T07:49:00Z

so wow i feel really sick. my throat hurts and im all stuffy. acting V was good today. i really opened up and the second she told me what to do for my second exercise with the monologue, and the second the words came out of my mouth i started bawling and eventhough the stuff i was reminiscing about was sad i felt like i got a load off my chest afterwords. any way actf tomorrow were leaving at 5 pm and getting into ellensbur around 10-11 ish so that should be fun anyway im a little loopy from the cold medicine right now so yeah tahts it for now

johnfaciane @ 2007-02-05T00:14:00

2007-02-05T08:26:50Z

soo much work and memorizing sooooooo little time.
This next two weeks begins the worst two weeks of my year so far!
but this will be good for me, because i think i do good work under pressure, although my mental state isnt very healthy under this much pressure but oh well.
i had an interesting weekend. it was really relaxed and amazing, but it was also kind of anti social for me. had a long chat with a friend on friday night, because we both have been in a rut lately, (must be the weather in the EUG) and i realized something. she was right. i just need to tell myself to walk away from the thing/ person thats been getting at me, and i might even find what im looking for in the process. Dev also talked to me for a little bit today and i really started thinking about finding peace. i really should, ive been way too stressed for far toooo long. it wears at your brain after a while, so i have decided that i should find peace in what ever it is i am doing at any given moment. just an experiment, but i wonder what will happen if i succeed in this feat.
my parents now have a web cam and insist on me using it when i talk to them now, FUn! (with a dash of sarcasm)

Dana got a kitty, and i really am warming to the little kitty. she is really awesome, and im really happy we have a pet now. i didnt think i was a cat person, but i can see me being more okay with them now because this one is awesome.

got an email from the study abroad office and ill be getting a call to set up an interview sometime soon. i told the parents about this, and theyre not to thrilled with the idea of me studying abroad, which they say is because id be paying for it in loans, but i think the real reason is because they don't want me leaving the country for some reason, which is weird because my sister is in Japan right now.

johnfaciane @ 2007-02-03T11:54:00

2007-02-03T20:00:13Z

rehearsal, cue to cue, Fun!
well as you can guess im sitting at rehearsal right now, putting off all of the homework and memorizing that i should do before monday. Like has been interesting this past week. i really contemplated dropping out at one point, i dont know why either, because these last few terms ive been doing amazingly well grades wise. Hung out with danny and char last sunday and stayed at their house, which i really needed. i feel better after that talk :) and on a side note i am supper excited about spring break. im planning on going to LA with danny and char. awesome!
I applied to study abroad this summer in japan, and it looks like it will actually happen :) now i just have to wait for my inter view and fill out some more paper work.
yay!

that is all for now
-John

FUCk

2007-01-24T07:41:11Z

im soo tired, its like i wont be able to sleep until after both of my shows are done. Im in the process of applying to study abroad, and i have been informed by my mother that if i got and use loans the ENTIRE family will be pissed at me, which is not valid because they ARE NOT PAYING FOR MY SCHOOL OR EVEN HELPING MUCH AT ALL. fuck that shit. im going even if that means i piss people off. then i finally worked up the courage to tell someone something, it took 2 and 1/2 years for me to say and i get the weirdest slash backhanded compliment answer out of it.
i feel myself slipping back in to the panic and anxiety that i have worked so hard to overcome. i know that it is just my mind playing tricks, but it still scares me sometimes. i dont want to end up where i was freshman year.
in other news, this weekend was fun and tahts about it.

johnfaciane @ 2007-01-06T23:21:00

2007-01-07T08:26:13Z

Today i heard one of the most sad and beautiful songs of my life, it made me think about my family in louisiana.
here are the lyrics

"louisiana 1927" Lyrics by randy newman, preformed by many different artists

What has happened down here is the wind have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain
Rained real hard and rained for a real long time
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

The river rose all day
The river rose all night
Some people got lost in the flood
Some people got away alright
The river have busted through cleard down to Plaquemines
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

CHORUS
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tyrin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away

President Coolidge came down in a railroad train
With a little fat man with a note-pad in his hand
The President say, "Little fat man isn't it a shame what the river has
done
To this poor crackers land."

CHORUS" source http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Louisiana-1927-lyrics-Randy-Newman/30756012B05C3E6348256A3700482638

Washington DC

2006-12-22T05:00:31Z

i love this area of the country soo much. its really cool out here. the family is doing good. my little niece is adorable (ill try and get some pictures at some point tomorrow or the next day.) so yeah the time change is killing me right now, because i know i should be sleeping seeing as how it is midnight here. anyway i should get to that.
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