Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:02:14 -0400 From: Kurt Satoru Komoda Reply-To: Organization: Agony Int'l To: NYCgoth-L@necronomi.com Subject: here I am again for the first time Deadline for intros or else...eh? Oh, very well. Paragraph#1: My name is Kurt Satoru Komoda. I am 30 years old and I was born in Princeton, New Jersey. Both my parents are Japanese, but my mother was born in Seattle and grew up in an internment camp during WWII. I do not speak Japanese. Paragraph#2: My first exposure to the goth/industrial scene was through my friends in the U.S. Navy, where I served as an Aviation Anti-Submarine Warfare Operator- flying around in P-3C Orions hunting soviet submarines. Ah, the cold war. Anyway, there seems to be(at least, there was) a high content of "alternative" types in the military, and it wasn't long before they started dragging me out to various dance clubs in town(there was even a goth/industrial club in Misawa, Japan: "the Garage"). To make a long story short, I got hooked and I've been in it ever since. Following an honorable discharge from the Navy in 1992, I came back home to Jersey. Some friends and I started clubbing in Philly- the Warehouse and the Bank- then eventually graduated up to New York City, where we discovered the Limelight(Communion Tuesdays) and the Bank(Ward 6). To me, this was the heyday of the club scene- but to some of you real old-schoolers out there, I'm sure the actual heyday was a few years before that. In any case, it hasn't really been the same since about 1994-5. Paragraph#3: Now, I'm living by myself in an apartment in North Brunswick, New Jersey and I mostly only go out to Philly. I've practiced various martial arts since 1983, so I spend a lot of my time continuing that training. I believe in being a complete fighter, covering all ranges of combat(kicking, punching, trapping, grappling), though I make no claims at being a great fighter. I currently work as the senior flight coordinator for the Princeton Airport and I am a freelance artist. You may have seen some of my stuff on the NYCGoth site or on my site(link below, please visit and leave rude comments in the forum!). Paragraph#4(bonus paragraph): When I do come out, I can be seen sitting like a geek, hunched over my stupid sketchbook with my silly little booklight glaring away(but, I'm not the Japanese kid with the long hair and glasses- that would be my brother, Paul). Occasionally, I even dance. I don't drink, smoke, or do drugs, but I have a terrible weakness for videogames. So, come up and say hello while I'm still here, because when Playstation2 comes out, you may never see me again . Kurt out. -- Visit the one and only Agony a Go-Go website: Agony is coming...