tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54057122024-03-19T12:28:42.493+08:00ひとりの夜もそばにいようぜ 君と僕の歌を歌うelaine.tokyoElainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.comBlogger870125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-50471732978284685092020-09-14T02:02:00.001+08:002020-09-14T02:11:56.380+08:00FandomsIf I could bottle the sexual tension between Bonnie Franklin and Shnyder, I could solve the energy crisis. &Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-73759136477216284412019-03-13T20:08:00.001+08:002019-03-13T20:08:40.296+08:00THE NOVEMBERS - Angels NOVEMBERSおめでとうー
Wow. The new NOVEMBERS album needs digesting. And I think I mean that in a good way. It’s most definitely a huge break from their previous stuff. I’m definitely no music connoisseur, but it’s like a lesser version of NIN meets... wha? I mean this in a good way.
The album is titled Angels but the sounds conjure anything but. Unless said angel is a fallen one ( ̄▽ ̄)
It’s like Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-85208980780126937582019-03-07T14:59:00.001+08:002019-03-12T19:37:18.646+08:00On the Burning EdgeSo, I’ve read quite a few books about the Prescott Fire that killed 19 hotshot wildfire firefighters.The first one I read was The Fire Line, by Fernanda Santos and the second one was Granite Mountain, by the only survivor of the crew Brendan McDonough.The Fire Line was... quite factual. In terms of what happened at the fire line where the crew died. But I think 1/3 of the book was background and Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-55531545990840400212019-03-04T22:52:00.001+08:002019-03-04T22:52:11.827+08:00So,.... today God.Today I prayed to God about. Today I was thinking about things and I felt God absent, distant, forsaking.It’s probably because I myself who’s been neglecting God but I felt God so silent and just so not at all present the past few weeks in terms of the whole thing with Hoshino.I wasn’t even praying for anything but I’ve just been asking for help from God for things to be Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-57191668690530780862019-03-03T12:37:00.001+08:002019-03-03T12:37:43.201+08:00Oh yeah... and Charlotte actually watched this...Mannnnnnn what did she think?!?!?! About the intensity between her and Tim??? (Guitars I meant, guitars)Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-37744302605698442092019-03-03T11:43:00.001+08:002019-03-03T12:28:11.348+08:00IG stalking ^^;So it seems that Charlotte and Tim were in Australia at the same time during New Year’s and Tim’s birthday this year.Tim posted it first and Charlotte reposted it. It’s cute he replied haha.It seems nice he was in Australia for the New Years when Charlotte was there too. And met up with her the day after his birthday too!Ash’s tour to Australia was back in November.So it seems like he espressedlyElainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-58625143008516772172019-02-28T20:18:00.001+08:002019-02-28T21:15:13.028+08:00AshSo yeah.We’re still here on Ash, albeit not Charlotte and Tim this time.I wish I had kept all my CDs properly, but I remember I religiously bought ALL of their single for Free All Angels and I mean every single one, all DVD versions too because I wanted the bonus videos on them!!I even somehow (and I have no idea how!) managed to even get my hands on the Warmer Than Fire CD-ROM version.. that’s Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-81462237943776137292019-02-27T19:34:00.001+08:002019-02-27T20:58:25.251+08:00Tim & Charlotte (2019 revisit)So... listening to Ash today, I suddenly remembered that there was another pair that I totally totally shipped, and that’s Tim and Charlotte.They used to look so cute together and all those suggestive overtones that they totally played into was seriously fun to see.It’s really such a shame they booted her out of the band the way they did considering that by that time, Charlotte had been in Ash Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-41646539523949468162019-02-23T17:52:00.001+08:002019-02-23T17:52:17.992+08:00ほしWhen we leave the heat of the city and enter into the sparse dim lights of the country, as we draw closer, the cold, the darkness envelopes.“What do you really lose if you lose him? Seriously.” He asked.There was no answer because I didn’t know.Maybe I’ll lose the sweetness of a memory that’s now dead and gone.Maybe I’ll lose a connection I thought I might have had.Maybe I’ll lose...
Maybe Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-35554889811316081212019-02-17T21:03:00.001+08:002019-02-17T21:03:42.714+08:00ArabicSo, I decided to learn Arabic again this time. To fucking forget Hoshino that’s what.I’ve always... thought of learning Arabic, since teaching at ELS and also the whole thing with you-know-who years ago. When he introduced me to Arabic music or when the students would speak arabic, I always felt it was a cool language to learn. So I’ve always wanted to learn it.But...... ARABIC IS ONE OF THE MOSTElainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-87252919809131454642019-02-12T21:42:00.001+08:002019-02-12T21:42:58.329+08:00Happiness is..So.. last weekend, I went out with Aki again.It’s been quite awhile since we last went out for the first time again last year and even longer since we last hung out so much, not since THAT DAY, when I sent him THAT email that destroyed everything... which was basically 5 years ago.He suggested going out of town on Saturday but it was snowing. Then, we didn’t get a hold of each other till Sunday Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-35493849617844682352019-02-11T20:51:00.001+08:002019-02-11T20:51:27.687+08:00I do not **gaze** at Scully. pt 1 Personal space anyone? 🤔Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-72487986065242639662019-02-05T21:41:00.001+08:002019-02-05T21:41:15.334+08:00Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-7728187594742657192019-02-05T16:23:00.001+08:002019-02-05T16:23:02.704+08:00Disclaimer:by the way, there’s so much x-files shit not coz I’m obsessed, perse, I’m just really depressed and heartbroken and disappointed, so it’s just a coping mechanism to be preoccupied with people who don’t exist instead of letting my thoughts dwelve into places i rather it not go.Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-31363616094578543902019-02-05T16:09:00.001+08:002019-02-05T16:09:48.839+08:00Part 1: MSRSo we’re revisiting this again. But of course.Before we delve into details, I must say, in understanding David and Gillian’s relationship and maybe also in growing up a little more, I think I’ve come to appreciate the up and downs and the frustrations of the Mulder-Scully-Relationship. And while I still think SEVEN SEASONS, was waaaaaaaay toooooooo long to drag out their relationship, I do think Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-1558060138385256002019-02-04T23:40:00.000+08:002019-02-04T23:40:13.384+08:00Yesterday we had our second 2-hour drum lesson in a long time. Maybe more than a year.But ended up talking with sensei for half the lesson haha. And we didn’t do much except accenting.I can’t help but feel like I disappointed him with “play whatever you want”. Bleh.I don’t like to disappoint him. Because I do respect him.But I also don’t trust him when he praises me too much.I think he’s just Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-51410743846371677392019-02-04T00:30:00.000+08:002019-02-04T23:25:21.834+08:00地底人 (Chiteijin)So I first saw Chiteijin last July in Koriyama when I went to see Silaph for the Mirai Oto compilation relwsse. They were VERY VERY impressive back then, best of the lot (silaph doesn’t count), and I had wanted to get their CD but didn’t get to coz.... NO ONE was at their merch table... bleh.Anyway, been wanting to check them out again.They’re a very very intense band, their guitarist (in the Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-84225410294875964122019-02-03T23:36:00.001+08:002019-02-04T00:29:06.203+08:00David & GillianSo seems like every 3-5 years I keep coming back to this ship of all ship.Yes. Mulder and Scully. Sort of. Ha!They did a (FINAL OF ALL FINALS) Season 11 last year and it’s still there: Mulder and Scully.But I guess I won’t delved into MSR this time, not yet, but rather David and Gillian.Well... One might say that the X-Files would’ve never been the X-Files had it not been Mulder and Scully Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-70669799121793782682018-04-12T11:14:00.001+08:002019-02-04T11:53:15.514+08:00Drumming is about timingI think I once wrote that years ago.But.. I think the best advice that sensei gave me a while back, maybe it was my second or third lesson with him and he was being really strict, was that he told me that it’s my LISTENING that was bad. Because I was listening to my own playing instead of the metronome, and he said if I did that, I’d never be able to match the metronome’s tempo.I’m still shite atElainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-21709722757223842982017-05-31T22:23:00.001+08:002017-05-31T22:23:30.060+08:00君のことI think I'm still really sad about Isshikisan.I'm not sure if it's sad, but there's a loss that lingers in my heart that wishes he was still alive, that wishes he wasn't dead.I was walking to the studio yesterday and passed the florist by the corner and they had a really pretty flower there. Seeing the flowers made me think of Isshikisan and how I wish we was still alive to see flowers like this Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-54670958787160792122017-05-30T20:12:00.000+08:002017-05-30T20:12:19.680+08:00music makes.So I've been checking out a lot of new Japanese bands on this app/website called Eggs.
It's such a stupid name and I've seen it around before but I ignored it coz of the stupid name.
But anyway, it's a great app coz basically it's an artist self-uploading Spotify-like app. It has daily and weekly ranking of most popular songs and artists. And you can just cloud stream the songs. (i wonder if Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-49600861120484910712017-05-29T21:25:00.001+08:002017-05-29T21:25:51.380+08:00Studios.So, I've only ever been to 4 studios.I usually go to Studio Bayd in Shimokita.I like that place coz it has an online booking system. So it's really convenient making reservations.It's also quite small and have about 6 regular staff. Sometimes I talk to the main guy, Nakata-san. Another girl there, she's a friend of Polly's guitarist.There's 3 main studio to reserve: A, B or C.Recently I've come Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-55287295774874882992017-05-24T21:40:00.001+08:002019-02-04T11:51:44.811+08:00Dear.So.I think I've decided to quit the idol fandom for good.I mean my interest have been waning the past few months anyway. It has been an very exciting, interesting and FUCKING EXPENSIVE ride. I'm really glad I got to experience this quintessentially Japanese bandwagon.But I think I'm gonna quit.Not only coz it's very expensive to keep up.But most of all...I CANNOT STAND the fans.Fans are Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-78183903193757852242017-05-24T21:18:00.001+08:002017-05-24T21:27:10.364+08:00Melampau much????Today, we couldn't reserve a two-hour slot at the regular studio in Shimokita so we went to Studio Noah (a popular and the widest chain studio) in Shimokita instead and we got THIS studio:
Overdoing it much???????
It's like the size of my apartment!!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Anyway, we decided to change a bit of Song 6 again. But this time I just don't think I have enough time to Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405712.post-70118601211870451632017-05-23T21:31:00.000+08:002017-05-23T23:05:11.446+08:00Song 6 - May 23Soooooooo today was a really good practice day!!! Compared to yesterday's which was a total bust!
So anyway, it's a little too late, but I've decided FOUR DAYS before my lesson, that I will modify Song 6, Mayim Mayim.
So Song 6 has 5 main parts:
Intro - 8 beat / 4 bars
[A] - 8 beat / 8 bars
[B] - 8 beat / 8 bars
[C] - 16-beat / 8 bars
[C'] - 16-beat / 8 bars
So the song goes:
Intro -Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761081662183193169noreply@blogger.com0