Recently I like to listen to Tei Towa, his light and happy mood sound is good for sunny day afternoons when I read books or cook. Check this "Technova", "Milky Way". This one is cute! "Let Me Know" with a great animation video. Tei collaborated with CHARA, who is the wife of actor Tadanobu Asano and has a wonderful voice.
This is a very interesting post "Extinction Timeline: what will disappear from our lives before 2050". I did stop writing letters, sooner or later I may stop sending new year cards. I will agree to "Retirement", "Keys", "newspaper". But I can't agree with "Mending things", because I wonder if I started to hook into something very old and analogue these days. Actually I will mend an old table with varnish later today. Do you know mending (and cleaning) has healing power, I can be calm and relax while I am doing very much. Also I hope we won't lose "Mottainai idea". I love to take care of everything.
Princess Tenko is a well known female magician, she is super rich, she never grows old (this is 10 years ago, this is now, she said she is 23 years old forever, but I guess she is 48 years old now), Kim Jong-il likes her very much and she was invited to NK by him, she was said to be engaged with a king of somewhere in the world and he has a big oil well, and also I read she had been engaged with Jean-Claude van Damme before. I read she is well known in foreign countries more than Japan. Actually I found this strange: TENKO dolls that I have never seen in Japan. By the way, the general image for her is "fushigi (wonder) chan", it means she is spooky mysterious, she has wired wonderful charm. You could sense it in her colorful blog. On her blog, I found this post; she visited the Sanrio Head office and she met the President of Sanrio and a designer of the original Kitty (yes, that strawberry lady). ....hmmm scary...
Ha ha ha, Silly topic. I wrote about KOHAKU UTA GASSEN a long time ago. It's is an annual music show on New Year's Eve produced by NHK, and in the show two singers wear gigantic shiny dresses like a building and it escalates every year. By the way, in English what do you call the biggest and strongest monster you have to beat in the last stage of games? We say "ラスボス", it stands for "last boss". IT media has an article that when you search "ラスボス" Sachiko Kobayashi appears on top. Hmm funny, but is it such a big topic?
oh really it's last boss too. I got it, thank !!
Posted by: mari | Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 01:13 PM
Thanks for the video link. I have loved Chara's voice since I first heard it in 1995 and then in Iwai Shunji's _Swallowtail Butterfly_. Iwai Shunji is one of my favorite directors. Have a nice day.
Posted by: douglas | Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 04:04 AM
According to the Extinction Timeline chart Innocence and Hope just became extinct in the past 5 years. I think and I hope that this chart is wrong...
In English the biggest and strongest monster you have to beat in the last stage of a game is also referred to as the "last boss"!
Posted by: iang | Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 02:02 AM