2008年4月27日日曜日

Those Dancing Days have passed.....


The Swedish girls band"Those Dancing Days"could have been heard often these days. The song of the same name as their band has been played many times in clubs and events. Though they are still very young,their name"Those Dancing Days"sounds nostalgic and makes me feel sometimes melancholy. I feel that their songs have wide range of backgrounds from 60's pops to garage,northern soul...and has the atmosphere of 80's dance culture. They don't look like the youth of today.

I wrote about it because I heard their song last night as well.....and in the next morning after clubing I always remind of their song, I feel empty feeling in the tiring morning..in a train going home....thinking of lovely friends dancing and chilling together in the night before.

Yesterday in the evening, I came to check my friends band's gig at Koenji-High. I found many event friends in that venue. At the bar counter when I was going to get some drink, I found 3 boys I've seen-2 Americans and 1 British. I met them at an event before and I asked them to come to my event at that time, after that I sometimes hung out with them. I enjoy talking with them in both English and Japanese,they speak Japanese though each of their levels are different. But I can't sometimes make out what they're talking in English only among them. They talk to me more slowly and easy way of saying,but they speak too fast while talking only among the guys.I sometimes hardly understand pronouns talking in English.....oh I've no idea what they're saying about?One of them say to me that Japanese is very hard to study for him.But I think English is also very hard for me though I have studied for about 9~10 years.....Im still not sure I can speak it properly. Both two languages are very different, so I have to think differently making sentences to say something. I think I'll never be able to get perfect sense of speaking English as native speakers whatever I may do....

Im learning two foreign languages other than English but I always get to think that way while studying any foreign languages....

There're 4 bands playing I saw and after the gig I drank with the audiences and band members at the venue. And then move to another event in Shinjyuku saying goodbye to them.
Clubing was also very fun,meeting and talking with many friends listening to good music.I saw two bands gigs there as well. They were very good and I was always impressed when I saw good gigs and I feel I'd like to play soon on a stage like them! Actually I love watching gigs better than just clubing as a audience(it's different when I dj...)...I love to see a band playing in my sight.Im getting excited by seeing performance and musical instruments and equipments...guitar,bass,amp....etc..
The first band was crazy and so cool,I love that feedback noise of the two guitars...!!
They never saw the audiences' face they looked down on the floors. Yeah they're influenced by shoegazery so they look down on their effector all the time. I think that's the cool way..haha.

2008年4月25日金曜日

D is for dangerous



When I was in a class in my University,I got a mail from my friend who I was hanging out with for a club last night.He is one of my Mixi(Japanese SNS)friends and we met first time at the event I usually play as a DJ. Last night I was not djing but I asked him to come&catch up there. We had a really fun chat as if we had been friends for ages though it was first time..
Then it's the next day before too long.

He said in the mail,

"I just had lunch with two of my classmates.I told them I went out to a club last night with a mixi friend.My Swedish classmate asked me what my friend's mixi name was."

Then he said my mixi name....

"He was surprised and said he knows you-you're also one of his mixi friends too!"

Then he said my actual name...

"My other classmate suddenly said,"oh,I know her-I met her at an event!"She said she'd also been to Strange Boutique(That's my event name!)....apparently  You know everyone!"

Yeah,apparently I know all these people he mentioned..

Can you believe that??
People having lunch together in the same classroom in a language school in Tokyo are all my friends separately I know each of them.....
What the crazy coincidence it is!!

I'd really love to hear that crazy conversation they had during the usual lunch time...:p

That's the event I told you on this blog:)
http://www.bluestarsnight.com/sb/

You should also check it out and come to this event!!
You also will be my friend soon....:p

2008年4月19日土曜日

Sunny Day In Glasgow....


It has been rainy gloomy weather these days.....rainy days really suck..
But when I got on a bus from the station to my University,this rainy sight from the windowpane reminded me of the overcast sky in Liverpool and Glasgow..so it made me  feel a little bit happy.
Last summer,I went to the UK, stayed in London for 2 weeks, in Liverpool for 3 days, in Wigan for 4 days and in Glasgow for 1 week and unplanned extra 3 days in London again.
That was amazing trip! But it's too long story to tell in short on this blog.
Oh I noticed that this time is the first time to write on this blog...
Last night,I tried to write...but they disappeared 2 times before I publish...that made me too irritated..

So this time I cordially hope it could be published safely,,,please don't be deleted..!!

Today,I took 3 classes in my Uni...first class is about learning historical,social and cultural background in South Asia,because I'm majoring in Hindi in this University so I have to take this lecture. I will tell you why I decided to study Hindi later,maybe the other time.
This class is so hard....every week,we should write a lecture report and we should attend every class in this year....no late attendance could be allowed.
And the second class,this class is for kind of foreign exchange students in this University.
My University specializes in foreign studies and familiar to Asian countries and Middle East and other minor countries studies. So lots of foreign students come to my University every year from many various countries. It's quite interesting point in my Uni...
This class is about Japanese Media and Politics. Don't you think it's quite interesting title of the lecture? I do,Im really interested in Media and its relationship with its society......and the most stunning point of this lecture is that it's done in English by a teacher from Bangladesh,he used to be a journalist in Bangladesh....amazingly he has a wide rage of knowledge about Japanese Media and politics not only this but also he knows well about real circumstances of media in many countries.

Third class is a language class.
I take basic Spanish course,this class deals with mainly grammar.
Spanish is quite interesting for me,I only know English out of european languages...
So I found lots of common points....however pronunciation is quite different from English.

Im getting to be tired, so it's about time to quit writing blog and have to go to bed for early tomorrow morning.......

See you later,good night.
and Thanks for reading.....love you all..