into the void

I should probably come to Shibuya more often but I guess the reason why I don't is because I CAN come here often.

Shibuya is crowded but I still like it better than Shinjuku although Shinjuku is getting more beautiful each time, especially in the cool breeze of the night.

So... I guess I should write some stuff about life in Japan... though it only constitute of..... WORK.

Yes.

Shall try to.

I SERIOUS SERIOUS SERIOUSLY think that Tsubaki's Isshiki looks ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT like Arashi's Sakurai~!!!!!

"But things always work out perfectly. They just do. Generally, when you let go of your vision of how something is supposed to be, the universe hands you exactly what you need."

FINALLY DONE!!! Three days!!.... I will never be a good editor like my brother :(

SOOOOO... here's to the tune of Kinoshita Riki's Raspberry!....... IMA SO SORRY!!! I had to EDIT the song!!! waaa~ I don't think I have enough videos for the whole song :(

Anyway, here goes~





These are some videos I took of New York, LA and Boston.......

I wanted to practice using Final Cut, so I've been trying to cut some music videos from what I have... I really like Kinoshita's song raspberry... I feel it's like a driving song... haha! But it's kinda weird isn't it?? America with a Japanese song!!

But anyways.... I realized that I only take videos from cars, trains and buses... and I don't take videos of people at all :( And I think I lost a lot of videos... I think the WHOLE WHOLE WHOLE folder with the videos of the last time I was in New York were in the Hard Drive that my brother LOST. WTF. Shit.... Sigh...

Anyway.... The other songs I am going to ATTEMPT to do next are:


神聖かまってちゃん (Sinsei kamattechan) - ちりとり (Chiritori)
- This song is kinda DAMNNNNNN long...................... and there's a whole part where it's really slow...

LOVE LOVE LOVE - カナカナ (Kanakana)
- This song is also DAMNNNN long but fuck... I love love love (haha!) the ending bits of this song, it's so damn inspiring!!!

パウンチホイール (Paunchwheel) - 長電話
- I think this is the MOST doable of all the songs... It's slow and SHORT! lol~ I had an idea of just having it be about Tokyo/Shimokita... We'll see...

LOL!!!!! EXTREMELY SKEWED!!! lollll~~~~

A caution, this band is definitely NOT for everyone but damn! I love them!!!!!!!!!

What can I say about their style??????????? The SEX PISTOLS meets happy-keyboard punk!!!!! DISTORTED screeching vocals overlaid with catchy keyboards, punctuated with a tinge of electronic stuck together with punkish guitars and percussion. AWESOME!!!!

This band is DEFINITELY weird. The whole damn band is weird led by the weirdest of them lot, only named "no ko" (の子). Except for the drummer (YES, who is an INCREDIBLY CUTE girl), no one knows their names. However, there's a proliferation of homemade videos and documentaries of the band doing weird shit, not excluding a webcam of noko naked in a tub, sexually hugging his bandmate (YES, the incredibly cute drummer), them sitting in messy rooms, noko talking streams of endless gibberish (does he stutter?!), webcams chats from the drummer's bedroom, and all with noko screaming his head off most of the time, which really lead me to really believe that there is something SERIOUSLY WRONG with that boy! lol~

Which is why, I think, their music is the way it is and needless to say, yes damn, I LOVE IT.

I guess, 神聖かまってちゃん (Sinsei Kamattechan) is DEFINITELY a very, very different, different take on the Japanese indie rock sound these days. They definitely don't play Western sounding rock music like most Japanese rock bands (Tsubaki, Art-School, Ajikan, andymori), they're also NOT at all like the usual Japanese-sound indie rock bands these days (plenty, Any, S.R.S, Love Love Love, Co.In, colors department, Prof. Moriarty & Smiley Todd, the court), nor are they like the other types of Japanese-sound rock bands (serial TV drama, butter butter, e-sound speaker, Galileo Galilei, the local art, People in the Box, Setsuna Blue Star) or the heavier Japanese rock types (lego big morl, Multi Colored Vox, syrup16g), or the Japanese post-rock types (lostage, the Novembers, the telephones), or the electronic rock types (hare-brained unity, Ogre You Asshole, Starboard, sakanakusyon) or the more Japanese indie-rock (Merenge, Sekaiichi, Otonamodo), and of course, the recent rise of Japanese indie piano-rock bands (andop, Sekai no Owari)..

I guess... the philosophy of noko and consequently the music he makes can be very, very well summarized with the words he wrote in the song ロックンロールは鳴り止まないっ (Rock and Roll sounds forever). I really, really like this song, not just because it's an amazing representation of their sounds, but also an encapsulation of their (and noko's) music philosophy.


Ima try to translate it!
 
ロックンロールは鳴り止まないっ
昨日の夜、駅前TSUTAYAさんで
僕はビートルズを借りた、セックスピストルズを借りた
「ロックンロール」というやつだ
しかし、
何がいいんだか全然分かりません

do da
turatura
oh yeah!yeah!yeah!

夕暮れ時、部活の帰り道で
またもビートルズを聞いた、セックスピストルズを聞いた
何かが以前と違うんだ
MD取っても、イヤホン取っても
なんでだ全然鳴り止まねぇっ

do da doda
tura tura
oh yeah! yeah!
yeah!

今も遠くで聞こえるあの時のあの曲がさ
遠くで近くですぐ傍で、叫んでいる
遠くで見てくれあの時の僕のまま
初めて気がついたあの時の衝撃を僕に

いつまでも、いつまでも、いつまでもくれよ

もっともっと、僕にくれよ
もっと、もっと、もっと、もっと、
くれよ！

遠くにいる君目がけて吐き出すんだ
遠くで近くですぐ傍で叫んでやる
最近の曲なんかもうクソみたいな曲だらけさ！
なんて事を君は言う、いつの時代でも

だから
僕は今すぐ、今すぐ、今すぐ叫ぶよ
君に今すぐ、今、僕のギター鳴らしてやる
君が今すぐ、今、曲の意味分からずとも
鳴らす今、鳴らす時

ロックンロールは鳴り止まないっ

Last night, at the Tsutaya store before the train station,

I am the rock and roll guy who borrowed the Beatles and the Sex Pistols.
However, the meaning of what is good, I still don't understand.


do da doda
tura tura
oh yeah! yeah!
yeah!

In the evening, on the way home from club activities,
still listened to the Beatles, listened to the Sex Pistols,
Something is different than before,
Holding my MD, Holding my earphones
Why is it that it totally goes on always. (THIS IS PROBABLY WRONG!! I don't understand the sentence!!)


do da doda
tura tura
oh yeah! yeah!
yeah!

Now the distant song of that time that can be heard
is screaming in a distance nearby by my side.

In a distance my mother of that time that can be seen,
the first time she noticed at that time, she was shocked at me (THIS IS ALSO PROBABLY WRONG!)

always, always, always, give me

more more more more more to me, give it to me.

The you at a distance, eyes are.... (I DON'T UNDERSTAND!), I vomit,
Far away and nearby and right by my side, cry

Music these days are just like shit (HELL YEAH!)
The things you say even in any period.


That is why,
right now, I scream,
To you, right now, my guitar is ringing,
Even if you don't understand the meaning of the song.
Rings now, this is the time it rings.

Rock and Roll never ends.

(Inside me, which summer... If I hear that rock and roll, I remember a little)

DUDE, CHECK THIS ONE OUT: http://klmosher.blogspot.com/

This girl is awesome!!! hahaha... reminds me of the whole gang back in LA!!!! She's like the Malaysian version of Luis&co!!!!! Goes for a BILLION GIGS in KL (well, if there are a billion gigs!) and incredibly insightful into the whole local gig scene... Has been a really really really entertaining and enlightening read!!!!!

check the blog out! AWESOME!!!! Would definitely be something i WISH I could have written myself! But alas~ I'm too damn lazy hahaha!

But dearrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr GOD... how I wish I could be LOST in Shimokitazawa and I could start a frigging blog for EVERY DAMN SHOW within the grasps of Shimokita!!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!! それはそれが私の本当の夢だ！！！！！！！！！

YESSSSSSSSSS~!

Tsubaki FINALLY is on twitter~!

Hoorahh!!!! 一色さん！岡本さん！

Please follow!

http://twitter.com/noriyasuisshoku

http://twitter.com/okamoto_tsubaki