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 
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