Oh wow, I don't even know when I updated my blog last time... Sorry, I've been lazy and super busy at the same time. When I am tired, I just don't want to look at computer anymore. I want to get out, and get some fresh air, you know! ;)
Anyways, lately the several blazes are just non stop... because of that, we got heat and bad air... In the day time, I think it gets up to 103 °F or something. I am not sure but I know it's really hot for end of August. My cats they don't have an appetite. Poor things...
I put 3 fans basically for cats. Both of them like to laying down in front of them. So cute... :) I hope Fall will come soon...
新鮮な空気なんて今結構ありえないぐらい、ロサンゼルスのAngeles National Forest燃えてます。この間なんて空気が本当に火事の臭いしててそれで朝起きたぐらいひどい時もありました。まだまだ燃えてるみたいです。夜になると北の方向を見ると空が赤いですから。。。 早く火が消える日が近づくといいな。これは放火なのか、それとも乾燥しすぎて摩擦等で起きた火事なのか。。。ちょっと考えたくもないですけど、放火だったら絶対に許せん!でも犯罪者の中ではそういうのを見て興奮する人がいるっていうから、信じられないですよね。。。
I've been super busy lately at my work and private time... I just don't have enough time to write about my trip in Europe... But I know some people are waiting for me to write. So I just decided to write one by one. I was trying to write whole thing, that's why I gave a pressure to myself. No good.
Anyway, back to Europe trip. One of events I really wanted to do during the stay in London was to see Banksy's street art. I love his concept, his sarcasm (not in all of them though), humor and twisted mind. I don't see much street art which impresses me but his art is different.
His art exhibition in Bristol (It takes about 2 hours to North West from London by train) was free to enter, and he provided a LOT of art pieces. At the Bristol Museum, they had his art on 1st floor. And we thought it was it and on 2nd and 3rd floor, they had something else. However, as we forwarded ourselves to another floor, we started to notice something different, something that they seem like they don't belong there and it says "Local Artist" on tags. Hmm... Something doesn't look right... And later on we figured out the "Local Artist" WAS Banksy. The reason why it says "Local Artist" was that's where he is from! :D
This exhibition will last til August 31st. If any of you are planning to go to London, please take extra trip to go to Bristol, and see his exhibition. You won't regret it!
BTW, this city, Bristol was really cute little cozy town. We thought it was like San Fransisco.
My buddy, Meg and I finally took a Europe trip for 2 weeks. The main reason to be in Europe, especially in London was Blur concert. Since they were reunited and we got to know they were having some shows in London, we finally made a decision to go there. It was unusual but great trip that we decided to see a band first and got air plain tickets next...
We stayed in London for 5 days. We did a general sight seeing such as Big Ben, the Parliament, London Bridge, Baker Street, Harrods, the Buckingham Palace, Fish n' Chips, Stonehenge, Windsor Castle, blah blah blah. You will see some pics below... But the most memorable thing we did was of course Blur in Hyde Park and the street artist, Banksy exhibition in Bristol. We love Banksy's art that we even walked in London and looked for the art. We thought we would find 2 of them, but we couldn't find what we were looking for. However we found some another art from him. We were so happy to find it!
In front of Buckingham Palace with English Police men. バッキンガム宮殿で警察官とw。
At Hyde Park. We saw Black Swans. Beautiful garden... ハイドパークで。黒い白鳥を見かけました。
We were so lucky to have this nice sunshine in London. While we were there, we didn't get rained at all. ロンドンで全く霧も雨も降らず、めちゃくちゃラッキーだなーと思った。パリに行くまでずっと晴れだったよ。
Guinness and Shepherd Pie. Guinness Beer was so sweet and easy to drink. The food was just ok.... ギネスビールとシェパードパイ。ギネスが甘くて飲みやすかった!パイはまずまず。。。
We thought the telephone booth was sooo cute! So I opened the door and took one shot... but... smelled like pee inside! Ewwww! かわいーーーと思って写真を1枚ぱちり。。。でもドアを開けた途端、おしっこの臭い。。。皆さん、もし見かけても入らないほうがいいですよ。。。
Pretty sunset.. We were about to go jogging. サンセットがきれい。この後ホテルの周辺でジョギングをしました。
At Windsor Castle. Cute brass band was playing in front of castle. ウィンドサー城で。かわいい吹奏楽隊が城前で演奏してました。.
They used to use this for attacking enemy with bows. ここから弓で敵と戦ったそうです。
At Bath. This is the origin of Bath! バースで。ここがお風呂の源だとか。。。
At Stonehenge. We expected it was much bigger than the reality. But we are lucky to see it anyway! :D ストーヘンジで。超見たかったストーンヘンジでしたが、思ったよりも小さくて。。。あれ??こんなものなんだ。。。とちょっとショックでした。でも見れただけでもラッキー。
After the Windsor Castle - Bath - Stonehenge tour, we stopped by Indian restaurant. This place was gooooood! ツアーの後でインド料理。これは超おいしかったー。
Found it!! Banksy!! After we walked like an hour and looked for one, here it is! やーっと見つけた、Banksyのアート!これこれーー。でも他のを歩き探して1時間ほど。。。やーっと1個発見って感じだった。他のはどこにあったんだろう。。。消されてしまったんだろうか。。。
At Buckingham Palace. Changing guards. バッキンガム宮殿で。兵隊の行進。かわいー。
07/02/09 Blur at the Hyde Park. We were so close to the stage that we were separated as soon as Blur came out. And I was pushed and pushed by so many people that I couldn't even breathe... I found out someone was trying to steal something from my bag. I prevented before he got it so it was ok. I had to leave from the crowd immediately... The opening band: Hypnotics, Crystal Castle, Foals. ハイドパークでBlurのコンサート。ステージに近かったせいでBlurが出てきた途端ものすごい人にもみくちゃにされました。息ができなかった。。もみくちゃのついでに誰かが私のバッグから何か取ろうとするところを発見。肘鉄砲食わせてやりました。。。ふー危ない!そこから速攻抜け出し。。。
Damon!!!
There were more than 50,000 people were at Hyde Park to see Blur. It was insane. 5万以上の人がハイドパークでBlurを観に来たそうです。
The Parklife guy came out! We were all excited to see him! 「Parklife」の人が登場!大興奮です!
Encore, Encore!!
It was sad that they had to end their show... I wanted them to keep going and going... 終わっちゃうのが超悲しかったー。もっともっとやって欲しかったー。
Ok... now I have to look for Megumi... Where the h*** is she?? Can't see a thing... ショーが始まった途端はぐれためぐっぺを探しに打ち合わせした場所へ。。。でも暗くて見えない!めぐっぺはいずこへ。。。
Ok... Seriously where is she? んーどこかねー。
Finally I found her... and we are walking toward to a metro station... People are still excited about the show and singing "Parklife". やーっとめぐっぺ発見。駅へ向かう途中、ファンは皆まだ興奮して「Parklife」を歌ってました。
Blur: Parklife
To be continued to London Part 2... ロンドン Part2 に続く...
I just watched this Academy Best Foreign Film Award Winner "Departures" last night. I didn't know too much about this film but some friends of mine recommended me so my date (hehe) and I went to see it. It was amazing, magnificent film.
Just in case if you don't know what the film is about (from IMDB): "Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki) is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and now finds himself without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled "Departures" thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a "Nokanshi" or "encoffineer," a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of "Nokanshi," acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living."
This film had funny parts here and there although it made me cry so much as well. Because of the death, because of the family bond, because of the love, because of the comprehension... I can't really describe in one word about this film...
As I discussed about this film with my date, since he was an American, he saw this film in different direction a bit. He didn't understand why Daigo's wife and his friend treated Daigo's job as unclean and improper and wanted him to quit his job.
Here is the part people needs to know a little bit of Japanese culture/history a bit. In our culture, we used to have the social lowest class who deal with dead body. I don't feel proper to say the particular word here since it sounds very discriminated however, the mind "to deal with dead body" = "unclean" still exists. But the time has been gone and our mind has been changed more liberal. I think this film shows this particular occupation from different point of view, and make us realize they are the one to help to relieve their death to another world in their best condition.
People thinks and treats the death different which depends on how they were related to the person who died. However, I think no matter who they were or how they were related, death is death. They deserve to have a love.
Over all, the actors in the film did a great job. I think every one of them got the perfect roll. I am satisfied with this film. (did you know the main guy, Masahiro Motoki used to be an idol? hehe)
FYI.. Masahiro Motoki was in a group it's called "Shibugaki-Tai" in 80's. He is in the red suits. hehe. (if you don't want to see this whole thing, watch around 1:24)
Lately, I am very into this band, Grizzly Bear. This indie rock band is based mostly on acoustic. Their melody coming from acoustic is so beautiful. I think I found them accidentally on my iTunes, and I was like "aw, I didn't know I had this song" and listened and fell in love. Luckly, they are coming to Los Angeles on this Friday at the Wiltern. It's sold-out show, and we got tickets kind of late so we got Mezzanine seats... :( I hate Mezzanine.. I feel like I am not included to the show being up there.. But I know we will definitely enjoy their live music. (After we got the mezzanine tickets, we found out they are also going to play at the Troubadour! Damn it!!)
I just had to put this up. As soon as I listened the music, and saw the video, my heart totally beats fast. hahaha
GS Boyz vs. Devo... Devo (I used to love them in 80's) but GS Boyz... who? I don't listen to HipHop much.. so didn't know who that was. But,listen it up, peeps! This is a GOOOOD mush up mix. Well done on the video, too. These DJ unit "A PLUS D" mushup 2 different type of music into 1. It's cool crazy. They got an once-a-month event, Bootie LA in Los Angeles, too.
Peacheeeeeeeees!! I knew you were gonna do some crazy show like every time! You did it again!! I told my concert buddy, Meg about my prediction and I was right.
We were at 2nd row from the stage to see the craziness. But the craziness didn't stay only on stage. It happened on us too!! After she showed up with a mask and funky pink jacket on, sang one song. And next song (sorry, I don't remember what song it was), she walked, dived and walked again on us. That was crazy. Not only walked us, she spurted out some gore on us too.. I got some bloody ink on my T-shirt... eeeeek! I hope it'll come off.
Because of the crazy start, it put some fire on the fans (excuse me... not literally). More people tried to come to front, people were dancing and pushing around... Meg and I were separated because of that. I stayed at the front row but I felt like I was in the train on rush hour in Tokyo. I felt bad to the girls in front me because people pushed me, my body had to push them... And on top of it, I had to be pushed to some guy's armpit... and he wasn't smell... that good... Did he put any deodrant?? I didn't think so... :( But.. I like this kind of craziness. haha!! Great songs, beat and good-crazy show, Peaches!
All of the members showed up with Wrestler masks and uniforms. 全メンバー、レスリングのマスクとユニフォームを着て登場。
This is Peaches aka Merill after she took her mask off. Peachesことメリル。マスク取った後ね。
She sang one song from the new album "I Feel Cream" . 新アルバム「I Feel Cream」から最初の1曲目。
Holy sh*@! She is coming!!! She is walking on uuuuuuuussss!! 来た来た〜〜。怖い〜〜。
You can see how many people are holding onto her! この手の数!ひ〜〜。
This was a cool projector action. She and herselves in her sleeves sang together as duet (mm.. what's the word for 3 people?). これは結構面白かった。自分とプロジェクターで 映されてるもう2人の自分とデュエット(一応3人だからデュエットじゃなくて。。何?)。
Look at her you know what down there... See, it's flashing right? LOL ほら、みてごらん。Peachesのアソコを。。ぴかぴか光ってるの!笑 あ〜あ〜、いつもやってくれちゃうね〜。
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