This love is like plastic September 7, 2008

This food, however, tasted anything but:

sing yeah, yeah yeah... yeah yeah.

So I am looking through some Japanese music, (I’m still convinced there has to be something half decent out there…) I found a song by an ElectroPop Girl band, ‘Perfume.’ The song is called ‘Polyrhythm’ I was like, OOOOOOOOOk there is NO way a Jpop song ACTUALLY has polyrhythms in it. American pop doesn’t even do that. But I popped it in for a quick listen anyways. Sure enough, they DO have a bridge centered around a polyrhythmic theme! *GASP*! The lyrics are a little like this:

Your most precious feeling will not be wasted; the world continues to move

my heart too, if only a little, will circle around

Chorus

We play this polyrhythm once more

the urge is almost like being in love, repeating many times like it used to be

the spectacle revives on our mind

this returning polyrhythm, the backlash feels like it isn’t true

This returning polyloop, ah this love is like plastic

And will be played once again

Polyrhythm/polyloop (sung straight while a drum comes in emphasizing a polyrhythm)

Even a small piece of my heart will reach you, that’s my belief

Your most precious wish will not be consumed away, the world turns

Even a little piece of my heart will go round and round

Etc…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxxnr3j604k

FYI the polyrhythmic section starts at 1:36 in the video if I am not mistaken. If you don’t know what a polyrhythm is but you do know what a triplet is, the polyrhythm is basically a halftime triplet going in the background over a straight 4/4 time.

Now that I have been impressed for today, I feel much more amiable and I give in to another womanly request:

temptresses. all of em.

“Kerei na Yukina no toki! Dan, shashin wo totte kudasai!”

“This is a ‘Yukina is pretty’ moment! Take my picture Dan!”

I went to the softbank store today. Turns out they don’t sell prepaid cell phones at the store, you have to go buy a softbank prepaid phone from a mini mart like 7/11 i guess. He gave me a list of participating mini marts..

Tonight I am going to the eigakan (movie theater) with Yuka, I don’t know what movies there are. hopefully she will chose a good one. Mom wants us to go see ‘gachi boi’ (mmmmaaybe it is supposed to be ‘gutsy boy’… Actually the more i think about it, the more I think that is actually it. It is in katakana ガチボイ　so that means it is representing english words… probably) Apparently it is about some boy who takes up boxing and always gets wailed on then gets a brain tumor or something. I swear, the Japanese can’t think of anything sad besides brain tumors. There are like three “OMG BRAIN TUMOR” tear jerker TV dramas on right now… LOL… But I told Yuka that one didn’t actually look interesting no matter what Mom says, so I don’t think we are going to see that one .

Sunday, Weekend 1 August 31, 2008

Making Takoyaki Mix!

Today we had Takoyaki for lunch! It is pretty much the same thing as Okonomiyaki that we had when I was in Nagoya (the big pancake on grill thing) except you put it in this little special griddle that makes them into balls that you eat. It was yummy. And that ^ is Yuka, the younger sister.

Last night we ate gyoza, which was fun. I helped okaasan to make them! You make a mix of meat and veggies, then you get some small flat flappy bread circle type things, wet them down, put the mix on them, then you fold them closed in a special way, then you fry them or grill them. We did both! I liked fried better of course lol. I also tried natto, the sweet beans. Though I was able to eat a whole serving, it IS pretty gross and I wouldn’t recommend it. After dinner, independance day was on tv and I watched it.

Then, randomly, at around 9pm or so mom and dad were like ’see you!’ and headed towards the door. I was like ‘eh? you guys are leaving?’ and mom said ‘yeah, we will be back tuesday night, so Yuka and Yukina will take care of you till then!’

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WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Oh well, whatever I guess! So us three are fending for ourselves now!

I also watched Liar Liar with Yuka today (Yukina watched a little, but she stays in her room almost all the time unless she is doing chores, which she does most of them; cleaning, clothes washing, trash sorting (you have to sort trash into burnables, plastics, and bottles) she is pretty amazing! Yuka has been doing most of the cooking though. I wish I could help, but the name of the game for me at this point is usually just quiet observation.) Yes I did just have a parenthetical statement inside of a parenthetical statement. Yuka thought liar liar was funny, we rented it at the rental place last night at my suggestion so I was glad of that.

I was thinking:

Words can deceive, but actions never lie. In America we express politeness through actions (holding doors open, etc.) while in Japanit is expressed through different verb conjugation. However, in Japan people rarely say to another that they care about each other, it is shown through what you do FOR one another. Perhaps in America we are too quick to give words to our ‘love’ and we deceive even ourselves. What a tragedy. Perhaps in the future I will try and show my friends and loved ones how much I care before I say it.