Keith Watanabe

Narbonne High, UC Irvine

University of California - Irvine, Attended 1993 - 1998, Class of 1998, Bachelor's Degree, English

System Engineer

TLUG

Writing, Computers, Reading, Movies, Guitar, Music, Lego, Giraffes, Japan, Japanese Girls, Kung Fu Movies, Geinojin, Pro-Wrestling

Alien, Aliens, Terminator, Terminator 2, Star Wars (4, 5, 6), Purple Rose of Cairo, Office Space

Heavy Metal, Jpop, MAX, 80's, 90's, alternative, classic rock, electronica/techno

South Park, Beavis & Butthead, Married with Children, Oyaji, Pro-Wrestling

Perpetually misunderstood. An outcast among outcasts.

Yet I strive to be understood through my writing. These days, I've been working on TV drama scripts with the target of Japan, since my love and soul are there. Most of my dramas involve myself as a Japanese-American and a foreigner, attempting to fit in. Here in America, I never really felt like I fit in. In Japan, I felt the same way. Yet somehow in not fitting, I felt more comfortable than in any environment. When i was attending UC Berkeley for a short period, I thought that my life would change because of its reputation as a non-conformist zone. Despite that, I had a larger urge to conform. Perhaps, my feelings of insecurity arose as a result of the need not to fit in.

So why Japan? maybe because it's reputed to be so closed at times that you want to be the icepick that shatters the glacier. Whenever I'm there i feel as though there's a loaded brick on my shoulder, ready to go off like a firecracker, except rather than in exploding in my face, it's going to nail everyone else around me and force people to take notice of who I am.

strangely enough though, i feel more alienated and reticent in that society than any others, at the same time an inner strength as i watch the millions of drones bypass me with eyes of conformity and self-absorbed thought. those feelings though give rise to such a passion in my writing that inspires me like no other place in the world. perhaps a lot of that inspiration is my hormones lighting up like a solar flare with all the cute girls bypassing me. or perhaps it's the excitement of the attractions of the city. yet there is a mystique that i can't explain through regular expository which draws me there like a child to a box of donuts. however, i can explain it through my viewpoint as a storyteller.

hopefully one day when i finish my writing, many of you will look upon it and find something profound in what i see.

BTW, I'm back in Tokyo.

1) Reina Miyauchi; 2) Norika Fujiwara; 3) Misaki Itoh; 4)
Yasuko Matsuyuki; 5) Asaka Seto; 6) Ryoko Yonekura; 7)
Yukka; 8) Izumi Inamori; 9) Hikaru Utada; 10) Aya Matsuura

Or any cute girls from or living in Tokyo