User:Eishagishi

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Paul here in Las Vegas, NV aka Sin City aka the Neon National Forest, USA. I am a half Sansei/Euromutt JA that loves all of the Studio Ghibli films, but Porco Rosso is my sentimental favorite. I am a former professional pilot and still work in the airline industry - Marco's character resonates quite strongly with me.

Other previous lives - part-time college 1st-year Japanese language teacher and tutor, and later at the same school part-time aviation technology instructor (and faculty adviser for the school's anime club). Also a former spacecraft controller and software engineer (geosynchronous spacecraft operations) in El Segundo and Long Beach, CA. Worked my way through college and flight training as a Las Vegas stagehand, TV/movie production technician, and studio/IMAX projectionist.

Nowadays I am the aircraft maintenance planner for the 38 MD-80s of Allegiant Air. I also freelance as a movie theater technician, installing and repairing film and digital projection and sound stuff. Want to earn a masters degree in Japanese linguistics some day, then try my hand at living and working in Japan for a while.

Hobbies - collect Japanese movies (on film and video), movie theater posters (40 Ghibli-related ones out of 115 total so far), soundtracks, sheet music, and roadshow pamphlets as curator for the Kinema Kawasumi Collection. Also swim to lose weight and study music (piano) to relax. Not very active with JA community here but would like to be. Someday...

I'll shut up now. Eishagishi (映写技師) = projectionist. Yoroshiku ne!