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2005年06月26日

I missed the last train, but・・・

On the 21th, I did some recording for an FM radio program, "good unknown music", at my friend Yoshihiro's house.
I threw the CDs I had chosen in my bag, and while I was thinking how I would explain about them, writing some memos in a note book , the train arrived at his station.
I did a voice-over sitting beside his dog, Maru, sleepig streched out at full length.
We finished the recording after 2hours, and I found that speaking had made me hungry.
In the evening, I went to a concert at Uplink Factory.
Awerican Chery, Kiiiii, Toshiaki Chiku+John, Dragibus, Juicy Panic were on the bill.
It was the first time I had seen "Kiiiii". They were really exciting, and I enjoyed their performance.
It was also the first time I had heard John the dog's voice, it sounded pure and mysterious, and I wanted to listen to it for ages.
The singer from Juicy Panic, Mami-chan's performance felt free, and made me feel relaxed.
I missed the last train, but I enjoyed the whole day very much !

投稿者 yokomiura : 23:42 | コメント (0)

2005年06月19日

My mother and the piano

On the 15th, I came back to Tokyo from visiting Fukuoka, where my mother lives.
I've been giving her piano lessons for 10 years.
At first, I sent tapes of me playing the music which she wanted to play with a large copy of the sheet music.
She had never leaned the piano before, so I was often bowled over with surprise when I went to Fukuoka and listened to her piano a few months later, but recently, she has a steady touch and has been enjoying her favorite music.
I think she really likes the piano, but the problem is that the music she wants to play is not related to the degree of difficulty. Even for "Dream of love 3rd "by Liszt, the theme music of the TV program"Winter Sonata", she handed the pieces and asked me to play, listening hard to every note with a happy twinkle in her eyes by the side of the piano.
I sometimes wonder which of us is taking the lessons...

This time, the music she was interested in was Chopin.Now that she can play "Winter Sonata", she wants to play the nocturne, the theme music of " The Pianist"

Recently, she finds it difficult to see, but she's still positive about life, playing the piano, studying the calligraphy, listening to radio programes, and enjoying cooking and fashion.

投稿者 yokomiura : 17:55 | コメント (5)

2005年06月05日

Jeffery Deaver

I've been reading Mysteries.
At the beginning of May, I started reading "Coffin Dancer", and then "Bule Nowhere", "The Devil's Teadrop", "Kaleidscope", and I finished reading "A Maiden's Grave"the day before yesterday.
Since then I've been reading "Hell's Kitchen"which I found at a second-hand bookshop.
They were all written by Jeffery Deaver except "Kaleidoscope".
The writer described the inner world of the characters, including a magician, a handwriting analyst, and an airplane pilot, vividly, which slowly drew me in.
In "Blue Nowhere", which is about a computer crime, there were so many technical words flying about that it was tough for me to read at first, because I'm a computer dunce, but as I finished reading it, I got an attachment for the world of technology.
Of course all the stories were fantastic !!!
It looks like late nights are going to continue for a while.

投稿者 yokomiura : 20:55 | コメント (0)

Fujiya

I went to to Koenji after a long break to do a gig at Penguin House.
What do you know !! "Fujiya ", which should have been the front of arcade, had disappeared.
I've known Fujiya since my childhood, so I often went to the Koenji store when I had a gig in Koenji, but the menu was a problem, because the course menu with a cake was cheaper than ordering food and drink separately.
" I don't want a cake・・・" I thought, but one day I tried the course menu.
The result was that I got sleepy when I played in the concert because I was completely full after eating the last piece of the cake.
I learned the lesson from the experience that maybe I shouldn't eat cakes before playing, now I don't eat cakes before concerts.
Anyway, is Fujiya closed, or is it going to be remodeled ? I wonder・・・

投稿者 yokomiura : 19:55 | コメント (0)