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I’m still here!

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It’s been more than a half year since I posted the previous blog entry… I don’t know how I let the time get away like this. I still have much to say, and I still love to write when I have the time that I can somehow justify spending for blogging. One big reason I didn’t write during this past summer and in the fall this year (2013) was definitely my exhaustion at Marlboro Music Festival— it was the busiest summer I ever had. Having no true days off for 8+ weeks, and getting no fishing (to me a real therapeutic activity) during the festival season for 7 weeks, seriously […]

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Looking back at Marlboro Music 2012

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She is here. She is here, just sitting right next to me. Next to me, in the cozy flowing air. We exchange neither words nor glances— we are just sharing the moment without being a party of two. Physical proximity is the only thing that seems relevant, and yet, the proximity can’t be more irrelevant. It does not matter to me what she is doing here; transcendence and timelessness of the idea of “us” occupy my being. I do not seek nor do I invoke her attention towards me. Her being here is what satisfies me. She does not expect nor does she invite my words towards her. My contentment

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I’m back.

About myself, Random / Koji Otsuki

Writing blogs is, for me, like yapping away with someone. It is storytelling. It is sometimes recording of my own critical thinking, but more often than not, it is a good distraction from unwanted thoughts. It had been procrastination. I just went through a phase where I needed to face those unwanted thoughts and do something about it. I needed to prioritize the process of crawling through this phase and be done with it. I had put off so many things in order to focus on the process, and I missed out a lot during that time… That is why I didn’t blog for almost 14 months. But that phase

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I’m opinionated

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The people in my circle think that I’m opinionated. Well, my circle is very small— it really means something when someone tells you in your face that you are opinionated. Not good. I may seem like a dogmatic, inflexible, arrogant, pompous, stubborn and perhaps even prejudiced son of a gun. And I shouldn’t even deny that— trying to deny that is by itself a pompous act. But… I rarely provide my opinions on anything. I’m just too ignorant to be with those people around me in Philadelphia who all belong in the higher socio-economic class than I. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t the self-deprecation for which I’m wrongly known.

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Moving complete

About myself, Blog, Random / Koji Otsuki

So, finally I made the move from the MobileMe website to this blog-oriented content management system. Not that I’ll be blogging more often or anything, but I like the idea of being mobile and able to post a blog from anywhere, on any Internet-connected devices. And finally I’ve made my old domain name bachpeople.com more than just an e-mail address— it’s nice to be able to use it as a URL. Since my last blog entry to my old site at MobileMe, I’ve moved from Bloomington to Philadelphia. Another big thing that happened to me since then is that I was given the opportunity to direct St. John Passion in

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