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Rock, Olympics, Oe, etc  投稿者:Hamish  投稿日:2008年 8月28日(木)14時35分47秒   返信・引用
  Hey everyone and a very special shout-out to Peke, our number one student poster.
Peke, thanks so much for the Patty Boyd attachment and the Japanese comedy attachment.
Apparently Eric Clapton wrote "Wonderful Tonight" for Boyd. Did Harrisson write any songs for Boyd? I hope she wasn't used by Clapton and Harrisson and that they didn't use her. If she inspired Eric to write a hit should she get money for that? What do you think? Has anyone seen the movie, "Muse" starring Sharon Stone who plays a muse (someone who inspires creative men)? Sharon's film character got some Tiffany jewerly and a nice hotel room for inspring some screenwriter characters in the movie "Muse".
Which brings me to the question: how much should a housewife be paid? Recently in America someone calculated that a mum or "mom" as American's say should recieve roughly $100,000 U.S. a year. What do you think, is that fair, or is that too much, or too little, or should a mother's work be for free?
Recently I read an interesting article about a woman who was the former girlfriend of Peter Frampton in Esquire magazine. Apparently she was part of the reason Frampton took a break from music, and his follow-up album wasn't successful, so it seems she didn't inspire him and she also tried to sue him unsuccessfully. But there are always two sides of a side right? It seems many women associated with males stars are demonized by the press or the public, doesn't it?
Being married to or dating a rockstar definitely has it's good and bad sides. Yoko Ono, etc have said as much. Have any Japanese women or men written about their lives with rockstars? If they have what did they say?
Moving away from rock, what did you think of the Olympics? There were some great performances from so many athletes and China apparently was a great host for the games. Let's hope though that China becomes even more internationalized and open and democratic in the futureas a result of having hosted the Games.
Time magazine had a lot of very interesting articles on all aspects of the Olympics and I learnt a lot from those articles. One small article that I found very interesting was about how well Chinese women athletes did. However the same article pointed out that in the not so distant future there will be more men then women in China or is the other way around?! I've heard in Kansai there are more women than men is that true?
Has anyone read any books by the author Oe Kenzaburo? He sounds like an interesting guy. As you probably know, Oe like Kawabata won a Nobel prize for literature. I found a book at the library which is collection of speeches he made called "Japan, the Ambiguous and Myself". That book was interesting because Oe talked about many things: his childhood, World War 2, his opposition to the S.D.F. and the Joint Security Treaty that Japan has with America and the themes of his work and his opinion of many Japanese writers. If someone has read Oe ou there, please tell me what you think of him and his books, I'd love to know. I have a Korean acquaintance who told me Oe is her favourite Japanese writer and he is a hero for supporting the Korean writer Kim Ji Ha, who was imprisoned in Korea in the 1970's.
BFN,
H
 

and a femme  投稿者:Peke  投稿日:2008年 8月 2日(土)22時02分38秒   返信・引用  編集済
  Hi Willy... I got the answer, and then I recognized a fateful woman
once tied to the guitarist. I couldn't imagine how was the feeling of her...
being loved by two men of genius. Anyway I like to see the "Photo Album" and the "Polaroids".
 

time for music  投稿者:Willy  投稿日:2008年 7月24日(木)21時28分10秒   返信・引用
  Check this out and see if you can name the guitar player!  

Get Brazilian BBQ Party  投稿者:Gregg  投稿日:2008年 7月 3日(木)18時25分39秒   返信・引用  編集済
  Hey all, just wanted to let you in on some info about the next great GET event. On Saturday, July 12th, we'll be having a party a Eterna, an awesome Brazilian BBQ joint that has an endless selection of mouth-watering meat and a tasty buffet. It'll be \3200 for men and \3000 for women. Sadly, drinks are not included but if you like juicy charbroiled meat and good company then don't miss out on what promises to be a great little shindig. And as special bonus, for those of you who remember, former GET teacher Hugh will be on hand so come on out and say hello.  

Japanese acoustic world  投稿者:Peke  投稿日:2008年 6月15日(日)16時55分34秒   返信・引用  編集済
  Hi,Hamish, I'm glad to hear you again.
Yes, Kurt Vonnegut past away last year. I put my name in City Library website to reserve his last novel. I know a famous comedian wrote a review of this book on a magazine. That's why I've been waiting quite long time, there are more than 20 people reserved the book earlier than me!!
In fact, he'd been one of unknown author among Japanese until Murakami introduced him as his favorite writer. I read Murakami's work when I was high school student, and I filled up my book shelves with not only his books but also other foreign writers' books as following his recommendation.
So the books, writers, movies you listed on your last post are almost all I read and watched. I will try to see all in English somehow someday. It encourages my interest towards English and US as same as your friend's interest towards cosmetics… I'm sure that your interest towards Issa helps you, for your life in Japan. I like one of his haiku ---稲妻にへなへな橋を渡りけり. へなへな expresses a situation that someone's spine and the joint to pelvis lose hardness with fear. The rhythm and sound of "hena-hena" is humorous to the ears of Japanese people too, it's a distinctive point of Issa.

OK, let's move on.
In Japan, it's little opportunity to hear spoken English on daily basis, and there are a lot of people living totally non-related-to-English life. We use our organs in Japanese-oriented world. Please check this experiment with the Japanese audition.
 

Books & music  投稿者:Hamish  投稿日:2008年 6月 7日(土)15時43分0秒   返信・引用
  Peke and all and sundry,
It's always nice to hear about what you are doing and what you are listening to, watching and reading.
William mentioned listening to jazz and going to jazz clubs. Does anyone like blues and can anyone recommend some blues clubs and blues artists?
Peke mentioned reading Kurt Vonnegut. Did you know Peke that he died recently? "Slaughterhouse 5" was/is a great book but a depressing one. Have you read "Breakfast of Champions" or seen the movie? Vonnegut used very different styles to write those books but I believe he had the ability to write both in a traditional style and in a very unique, modern style. If you like Vonnegut and reading blogs you might want to check out a blog by a guy who calls himself "Nagaijin" by a foreign man who lives in Nagai, who wrote some time ago about when he first read Vonnegut. You may be interested to know also that Murakami Haruki is a big fan of Vonnegut and has translated him, along with Fitzgerald, Stephen King, Salinger and Murakami's idol and one of my favourite authors, Raymond Carver.
From reading the excellent book,"Haruki Muakami and the Music of Words" by Jay Rubin I learnt of Murakami's love for Carver and his work. Murakami has translated all of Carver's work and actually met Carver and his second wife and apparently they became good friends.
Has anyone seen the movie, "Short Cuts"? I'm sure many of you must have seen that movie. If you don't know about it, Robert Altman, a movie director took nine random Carver stories and put them together to make a film called "Short Cuts". Some people loved Altman's movie but some people did not because they felt that Altman's movie was too negative and dark and they didn't like how he set the movie in L.A. not Seattle or Oregon where Carver tended to set his stories. I myself love Carver's writing and Altman's film. I agree with the people who said if see "Short Cuts" you can get a slice of how some people might live in L.A. Let me caution you that these people are unhappy people though and "Short Cuts" is a dark movie.
Recently I read some poetry by Kobayashi Issa which impressed me greatly. I heard that many Japanese people can recite his poems from memory, can anyone on this blog do that? The way I discovered Issa was a litlle unusual, I was reading a book about a man who came to Japan as a missionary in the 1960's. Normally I wouldn't read a book about a missionary but I found the book in a used bookstore in Tanimachi-9-chome for 100 yen, so I bought it and read it. To my surprise I found the book very interesting and I learnt a lot from it. The author of the book, Patrick Mc Elligot, described amongst other things how he learnt Japanese and came to write a P.H.D. thesis on Issa. He also wrote about his childhood and his work as a teacher. Thinking about Mc Elligot's book I am reminded of a comment by Bill Gates who said it is a good idea to try to read all kinds of material and not limit yourself to one genre. Gates advice of course can be applied to learning English and Japanese and other languages. When we learn another language we should try to read things written in that language whatever they me. To give a good example, I have a Japanese friend who likes cosmetics, so when she went to America she tried to locate and ask for cosmetics in stores there and to translate the labelling of cosmetics there. To some that might sound crazy but she told me she found it helpful and intersting and she could learn from it so...
 

Takatsuki Jazz Street Revisited  投稿者:Kim  投稿日:2008年 5月12日(月)19時46分54秒   返信・引用
  Yes, we were at the Takatsuki Jazz Street last Sunday and as ever it was truely excellent. In the evening we met some friends at one of the larger outdoor venues and saw a couple of the Big Bands doing some very good swing standards. They were lots of fun and really had the crowd going. Also at that time all the food stalls were competing for the end of day trade, so hotdogs were down to \100 and you could haggle over beer prices. But as usual I think the best entertainment was to be seen throughout the day at the very small venues, some small cafes and tiny bars. Here in these more intimate surroundings you could find some real gems, not the big names or the professionals, but some really talented and passionate amateurs. The highlight for us this year was a very inspired tango quartet made up of fairly young Japanese guys that we caught in one of the cafe/bars. They were outstanding! So next year if you have a chance please check out this event. It's well worthwhile.  

Takatsuki Jazz Street  投稿者:Willy  投稿日:2008年 5月 2日(金)15時40分1秒   返信・引用
  Greetings readers, and thanks Peke for your interesting comments! Yes, Dilbert (both the character and the comic strip) is often sarcastic, and it is indeed a glimpse into the less-attractive aspects of life in an American office. And it's usually very funny!

But now let's go from humor back to music. This coming weekend is the Takatsuki Jazz Street festival. I went for the first time last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. I think Kim and Melissa will be there, and I'll be there on Sunday. Be sure to call out my name if you see me!

PS Please have a look here and see if you can spot the English teacher pretending to be a flute player.
 

Reality show  投稿者:Peke  投稿日:2008年 4月15日(火)22時51分39秒   返信・引用  編集済
  Good evening Willy, thank you for your post and welcome back!(^。^)
...And where is Hamish?? And other friends?(@_@) You are always welcome!

Today a salesperson of our dealer came to my office. I'd hidden my laugh because he resembles ASOK the intern , a character of Dilbert... (especially shape of his head and hair style) chuckle, chuckle!!(~_~;) And one more coincidence, ASOK is an Indian guy, the salesperson is in charge of Indian trading... hee-hee-hee!

I know this cartoon because it's very famous and even some English textbook introduced it. I think this cartoon is a kind of reality show, based on our daily struggle with our boss, co-workers, company, and society...
I like the American sense of humor, it often has sarcastic outlook. That's why I like Kurt Vonnegut and other American authors too.
 

PS  投稿者:Willy  投稿日:2008年 4月10日(木)17時24分47秒   返信・引用
  I should have posted this yesterday . . . Here is the Dilbert archive where you can see all the strips for the past month. Now . . . check it out!  

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