here is a summer

  Your favorite musica group, THE SHAKERS is now rocking TriBeca every wednesday and thursday. Come meet us at great restaurant, BARZINHO and enjoy the beautiful music and authentic Brazilian dishes. (yum!). We make you dance. 

BARZINHO

255 West Broadway (bet. White st. and Franklin st.)

HITOMI KANEHARA "Ash Baby"

wow... here is the insanity of real sick people. It will take you little journey to inside of selfish, crazy, and extremely lonely girl. It's real Marylin Manson world comes true to me. What almost made my brain explode is that the author wrote down AYA's fucked up emotion without missing any single word. But does people really think like this much in their mind? Yeah people does. I do at least unconsciously. That's why it makes me unpleasant because they don't wanna know that. But now I find it's very unhealthy. This book possibly destroy you if you are exhausted and down, and especially teenager. It's that strong. But I am happy that it did not make any influence on my mood. I admire her techniques of writing, sure she is a great writer as her age. 

I an a believer that everything so called art has to make people's head up eventually. But it does not mean art always have to be positive, cheering and laughable. I be positive even I watch very depressed and sad thing. I like the thing shows strength of life no matter it's obvious or hidden. I don't like the thing just let me down and leave me like "this is me, I don't care if you understand this" , because I feel like I am raped by someone's satisfaction of self-consciousness. And it's very disgusting. 

金原ひとみのアッシュベイビーを読んだ。あまりに遠過ぎて狂った世界の中に居る狂った若い女の子の話としか言えない。主人公の文句や心の内を読んでいて、自分勝手でうぬぼれが強くて弱くて頭が爆発しそうになった。でも人間って無意識でこういうことまで考えていることは確かだなと思う。ただこの小説はそれを言語化して紙にプリントしてあるから、人の知りたくない部分を赤裸裸にしていて嫌な気持ちになるんだな、と。そしてそれは実に不健康なことであるということも。人間は小さな脳みそでそんなに考えるべきじゃない。この話が自分の感情にまったく影響を及ぼさなかったのはよかった。もし暗くて死にたいみたいな１０代中盤のムードでこれを読んだら、それこそ破壊されちゃうかもしれない。間違いなくそのくらいパワフルだ。それにしても彼女の文才は文句無しですばらしいと思う。

わたしは文章、映画、絵、音楽、いわゆるアートと呼ばれるすべてのものは、最終的に見た人に前を向かせるべきであると信じている。これはアートがすべてポジティブ明るくないといけないということではない。暗く、寂しく、ネガティブで怖いものを見た後に不思議と「よし」とポジティブになるという作品はたくさんある。ただ、落とすだけ落として「これがわたしです」と言っていなくなるアートは、自意識が強過ぎて嫌いだ。

pie face

sometime you just need to sit back, relax, and laugh at loud. 

Source: some don't remember, but mostly from daily what

Hope these helps.

 

I have not seen such great magazines for a long time..

Left: Fashion Magazine by ALEC SOTH

Right: Emigre Magazine (not published any more)

I've never knew about Alex Soth, but I deeply fell in love with his photography. I cannot even explain this feeling very well.

Emigre Magazine, all designs are very inspiring. and it's big. I love big magazine. Whenever you turn a page, my eyes are blinking and my mouth is signing.

 

Please bury both magazine with me if I die today.

going up yonder

Please let me share this beautiful motion picture.

This is the trailer of "dear and yonder", the movie came out about a year ago.

I feel that these brave women respect ocean through love and fear they experienced.

We can never control this powerful force of nature and never should, no matter how technology can go beyond.

I love beach, sea, ocean whatever.

For me, it has unconditional strong power.

I wanna keep my face spotless in the future, but I would not pay so much attention about sunscreen when I am in beach.

It's too beautiful to be under the shadow to avoid suntan. (Weirdly, the year I go to a beach a lot, I don't really get cold in that year. It's very strange, but true)

Just lay down on the sand, listen to the wave and chat of people, little nap, enjoy sunbeam in your eyehole, dip your body into cold water. It's important annual healing process to me.

I love beach.

Oh My...

They got me!

I really had to post this. Since I found very flashy poster on the Delancey street, I could not stop wondering what OMYS is all about. My guess was another skate brand or electro cheezy music duo.

Excitement is not happens so often in daily life. But it was that moment.

They are not "well-talented-OK-I-don't-mind-listening-in-background" kind of band. They are "so-good-cannot-stop-looping-for-whole day" kind of band. I literally did that for couple of these days.

I am so regretting that I missed them a week ago at Pianos. I don't mind to fly to Windy C actually at all.. only to see them! They are so good and they are not dead yet, you know what I mean? Also, they reminds me that there are so many beautiful thing in the world that I have to discover.

Record label should sign them as soon as possible, Stones Throw sound good to me. OK, enough explanation? I know I am becoming too enthusiastic. I will just shut up now. Check them out, they are so hot and boiling..

チョット前から、Delanceyで見かける派手なポスターが気になってた。一度見たら忘れないような、素敵なロゴだったから、ウェブサイトを見てみた。新しいスケートブランドかエレクトロのちゃちなバンドかなんかだろう、と期待ゼロで見たらものすごく嬉しい発見が訪れた。

O'mys' は、「才能はあるし、流れていても気に障らない」というたぐいのバンドではなくて「このたった数曲を一日中ループして聴いていたい」というたぐいのバンドだった。現にこの二日はずっとそんなかんじだ。それは、汚いスリフトで高級ブランドものを３ドルで見つけた嬉しさや、誰も知らない小さな通りで、おいしいレストランを見つけた気分にすごく似ている。

１週間くらい前に、近所のPianosでライブをやっていたことを知らずに終わってしまったことがすごく悔やまれる。でも、この人たちを見るためだけにシカゴに飛ぶのも全然かまわない。O'mysは素晴らしくて、それにまだ死んでない。今生きてるんだから！こんな小さな予期せぬ発見は、世界にまだいろんな素晴らしい音楽があることの喜びを沸き立たせる。 早くレコードレーベルが契約すればいいのに。売れるのに。Stones Throw なんていいな。

あ、もういいって？久々に現行の音楽にすごく熱い気持ちになったので説明が長くなっちゃったー。いい加減黙ります。チェックしてください。熱過ぎて沸騰してます。

（ついでに言っておくと、ストリートのゲリラ的宣伝にここまでひっかかるとは思わなかったけど、「あれって何なんだろう」って思わせたらもう向こうの勝ちだな。その中でも、数割だけが実際に調べてたどり着くんだろうけど。）

addiction

I don't do smoking, neither drinking. I don't do drugs. 

But I DO ice cream.

ok, who brainwashed me?

Many people keep telling that we have to go through the things you don't desire, to get where you wanna be. Of course this is truth about life. They said, be patient and stable, and you will be rewarded ( or not ) someday (may you will be dead by then) . This mindset was coming from all Japanese background that I been raised. School taught me how unfair that life will be. Parents taught me that. Society praised the people those who sacrificed themselves to work and devoted all their life. But who really knows how I can be happy? Why they encourage to abandon the dream from the beginning? Why they kept showing us giving up is the most easiest things to do? 

I might be a super selfish to say that, but but why we can just live with what we really want it to be?

life is already unfair. Don't be a bitch about it. 

Today, I decided strongly that I will never give up what I wanna do.

I push myself real hard. I mean HARD! 

やりたいことをするためには、やらなきゃいけないことをじっくり時間をかけて我慢する、そしたらいつか報われる、という洗脳は日本社会のどこそこにもしっかり刷り込まれている。人生は不平等で不条理なものなのですということをまるで美学のように教えられる。でも、やりたくないことをやってる間にも、年をとって、気力を失い、夢を簡単に忘れるようになることは教えない。私は日本人で日本が一生大好きですが、悪いところもいっぱいあると思う。アメリカもおんなじで。もちろん辛抱は肝心で、やりたくない勉強もしたから卒業できたし、やりたくない仕事もしてお金を稼いだし、そこで学んだこともたくさんあるから後悔はまったくない。でも、やりたいことだけを一本まっすぐ突き進むことは、まったく悪徳ではないのに、自分勝手だとか後ろめたさを感じるのは変だ。

さて、なんでこんなこと書いているかっていうと、今日、仕事がおわってタイムズスクエアから自転車をこいでPaid in Fullを聞いたら、絶対にあきらめないぞ、と心がしっかり石のようにかたまった。それをなくさないで、しっかり握りしめようと思う。Rakimのライムノートみたいに。