User:Eishagishi

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Paul here in Las Vegas, NV a.k.a. Sin City a.k.a. the Neon National Forest, USA. I'm a middle-aged haafu Sansei/Euromutt that loves all of the Studio Ghibli films, but Porco Rosso is my sentimental favorite. I am a former professional pilot - Marco's character resonates quite strongly with me.

Other previous lives - aircraft maintenance planner at a Las Vegas-based airline, part-time college 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 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'm unemployed but I freelance once in a great while as a movie theater technician, installing and servicing film and digital projection and sound stuff. Want to earn a graduate degree in some kind of Japanese studies some day, then try my hand at living and working in Japan for a while.

Hobbies - collect Japanese movies (200+ on film and video so far), movie theater posters (40 Ghibli-related ones out of 115 total so far), soundtracks, sheet music, art books, and roadshow pamphlets as curator for the Kinema Kawasumi Collection. Also swim to lose weight and study music (piano) to relax. Not active with the small JA community here but would like to be - was a member of the local JACL but didn't fit in very well there. Will try JASN next if I ever get back to full time work. Recently joined the Las Vegas Everything Japanese Meetup group.

Oops! Gomen. TMI. Eishagishi (映写技師) = projectionist. Yoroshiku ne!