ソメイヨシノ

I remember that I really loved this song. It's beautiful. I really liked Tsuyoshi. The words that he write... in songs like this, like 街, like Original Color.



On another note, I notice that I have a big appetite. Actually, I noticed it quite some time ago... it started from around the time when I was in Europe... the hall food, I can't seem to get enough of it, especially breakfast.

I still eat a lot for breakfast these days... and dinner.


While worrying a little about eating so much, I also think, at the back of my mind, that it's good I have a big appetite. Because I've learnt in the past that when one is sad and one's heart is heavy, food does not seem so appealing anymore, and one doesn't eat much. So, despite feeling a little lost this couple of days... looking for a job and all... I'm still pretty happy, it seems.

背後の暗闇

I forgot how I got to it, but I spent the last couple of hours reading Ryutaro's twitter and catching up on Plastic Tree...

Ryu-chan fell sick on Dec 21 with a fever, and was diagnosed with the Guillain-Barré syndrome... It was really worrying, but it seems that he's getting much better already... I hope so. I haven't been listening to Plastic Tree very much recently, but they were really an important part of what sustained my youth.

I really liked Ryutaro. I liked the things he wrote - lyrics, prose, observations. And I liked his voice, and I liked their songs. When I was lost in darkness, they made me feel a little better.

Well, I knew they got a new drummer after Bucchi left, but I didn't know anything much because as I said, these days I wasn't listening to them much. But now I think the new drummer is actually really cute! He's called Sato Ken Ken. He reminds me of Miyavi, actually. It seems like he's really sweet too, like how he hugged that little kid who acted as the young Ken Ken in the PV for Mirai Iro, and gave him his drum sticks as a keepsake. And he visited Ryutaro very often when he was hospitalized. And he sends really funny messages to Ryutaro via Twitter. And one of them is this, I just have to put it here (and Ryu-chan's reply too):

ケンちゃん。俺、香港の港で一分間ぐらい背後の暗闇に話しかけてたよ。みんな、居ると思って。 RT @Pla_kenken: @Pla_ryutaro 有村さん聞いてください。友達と買い物してて「コレいいね」って話しかけたら他人だった時、恥ずかしかですね(涙)それじゃ、もう寝っです。

3:33 AM Nov 18th, 2010 via ついっぷる for iPad
Retweeted by 21 people
Pla_ryutaro
有村　竜太朗

Translation:

Ken Ken: Arimura-san, please listen to this. When one is shopping with a friend, and calls to him "This looks good, doesn't it?", and realizes that it was someone else, it's embarrassing isn't it (::cry::) That's all, I'm going to sleep now.

Ryutaro: Ken-chan. In Hong Kong, at the harbour, I was talking for about a minute to the darkness behind me. Everyone has times like this, I think.

Haha, I think Ryu-chan's reply is super awesome... 'The darkness behind him'. This is why I liked him so much in the past. I still do, perhaps...

Well, this is all I wanted to say, hope Ryu-chan gets much better soon!

O Mio Babbino Caro

Maria Callas, 1973. "O Mio Babbino Caro" from Gianni Schicchi (1918, Giacomo Puccini).

City Connection

Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1!!!!!

I've been searching for this since forever... I played this game when I was a little kid, on an old dusty nintendo console... the background melody has been haunting my mind ever since, and I was just thinking about it recently...

You can play City Connection here

カキゴオリ

『カキゴオリ』上田竜也





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