A spring of ill-fated grandeur.
03.02.23
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Music o' the Entry: "Hanareru na", The Yellow Monkey
YAY! I finally found my CD case with my Yellow Monkey CD in it (I have five CD cases and they're strewn in various places throughout my house at any given time), I've been wanting to listen to this for the last three days but never got around to it. However, prior this, I was listening the OneUp Mushrooms' Time & Space CD and I must say, the remix of Xenogears' "The Ship of Sleep and Regret" rocks. A lot. Holy monkey, I could listen to that song on repeat for hours...and have. For which cause you should all probably develop a healthy fear of me, or my obsession with harpsichords.
Speaking of harpsichords, the other day I got it in my head that I could afford harpsichord or some sort of music lessons on my pathetic salary so I went online and decided to search for instructors...nada, the closest one is in Tacoma. I do not live close to Tacoma in the slightest. Much sadness ensued. But there are other options, I *DO* have a relatively ancient accordian sitting at my family's home...still, it's in dire need of repair before I even think of making horrific noises on the thing. I think I just need some sort of musical outlet, I'm getting a bit nutty about it. I think today it came as a realization when I was reading the newspaper and they had a blurb on Norah Jones, and she was citing her musical influences...hey, I have musical influences. Leaking out of my ears, in truth. And now I know I must sing. Not that this is a terribly recent realization, I've always adored singing. The only thing is I'm afraid to write songs, I don't want to produce something terribly maudlin and awful, which I'm sure I'd inevitably do. It's like someone said one, leaving me alone in a room to think by myself never leads to any good. It sounds mean, but it actually makes comically tragic sense to me. Oh, and makes me laugh too. Somehow. So I don't know what to do. Nerdishly, my romantic dream of this week (aside from the lounge singer one) is to do the single to a video game. Yes, to join the lofty ranks of Rikki, Faye Wong, Emiko Shiratori, Joanne Hogg, and uh, Hikaru Utada. Which now when I think about it, isn't something I exactly had on the list for this week, but it is now so I suppose I should just run with it. Keep in mind this is far from my grandiose of plans, in past entries I pondered out-writing Tolkien in terms of a fantasy book (and I still plan to, if it kills me). Of course, it'll be different and I likely won't; Tolkien's books are excellent, the historically undisputed emperor of all things fantasy, something I don't intend to take away...we'll see. One thing I'm looking forward to and enjoying right now is seeing all the changes I'm making in my story as I study geography more and more, changing with my interests...whereas Tolkien wrote as a linguist, I shall write as a geographer. Who studies Czech and Japanese. Seriously, I now have an island nation of Czech/Slavic speakers that I've yet to completely integrate...writing is beautiful.
Which brings us to yet another instance of myself speaking on one topic and completely shifting with glee. I bet I could be a fun teacher to have, the kind where you're sick of listening to the topic at hand so you just bring up something and I would forget and ramble without ceasing on something else (which I'm guilty of doing, actually. So help me, it was junior high and we were analyzing poetry. So I brought up some vaguely esoteric topic relating to German and we were home free.). But the point is, I WILL sing. Don't worry, I won't subject anyone here to anything horrid, but we'll see what happens...but I suppose what I was speaking of earlier, my musical influences, I will cite them now: Loreena McKennitt, Sarah McLachlan, Hajime Chitose, Chihiro Onitsuka, and Gackt. Yes, Gackt. Don't worry, there're others, these I'm just spitting off the top of my head. I've actually tried my hand at writing music and I have to say the biggest influence there is Yoshiki, which is probably about as bombastic as it sounds, minus 99.5% of the talent. Although perhaps I give myself too much credit there yet.
Yesterday was pleasant, I did some math homework and went home to wash my clothes, being greeted with a magnificent apple crisp prepared by my mother and then going out to eat Mexican, including a supa-tasty melon margaritas. Bless you melon, for you shall never fail me, and bless you Japan to bestowing the knowledge of such tastiness upon me. I so need to work on my cooking blog. Some of y'all may remember this project that I spoke of so long ago, that fell to the wayside along with the rest of my life (hooray higher education!)...but man, some of these recipes...look for the cooking blog this summer, I'll see what I can do over my first mini-summer break (given I'm taking summer classes). Lessee, I also received my birthday present from my grandparents (Yes, my birthday was in January.)-a new Catholic Extension "Catholic Art in America" Polish (with a Czech translation by my grandmother) calendar, $20 (YAY!), and a Czech lesson, complete with a tape, made by my grandmother. This makes me ridiculously happy. Plus my grandmother's totally getting into the whole me-learning-Czech dilly, now she's putting Czech translations on pretty much anything she writes to me (from English) and I eagerly await the day I can read all of it (and pronounce it!)...rock. Czech DOES beat the pants off of Japanese by not having kanji, which, by the way, I've begun studying again. Which I probably shouldn't, given there's about three weeks left in the quarter, but I WILL read Japanese, so help me, and I will learn the jouyou kanji before the end of this year, I hope. Yes, all of them-I will rock.
Guu, I have a massive geology exam tomorrow which means I need to develop spatial perception before tomorrow. I HATE YOU GEOLOGY. Does anyone else have such an issue? Ah well, I should probably begin to study then, I'm supposed to go watch City of Lost Children at my neighbor's house who is incidentally a friend of Matt's and whose apartment is attached to the rear of mine this afternoon...but before that, I feel I must enlighten some to the presence of a wonderful band: ladies, gents and everything in between, please meet Jangli Jaggas. No, stop looking at me like that. If you like Castlevania music, then you *WILL* like this band, which is...a Pakistani black/fantasy/medieval metal band. Yes, even I'm reaching new heights in bizarre obscure music, but this is GOOD...not that I don't think the other obscure musics I listen to are good, but I just want to recommend this to those of you with tastes in that direction. Which brings me to my next quandary, should I pick up an Ofra Haza disc or Jangli Jaggas? Oh the issues...anyway, I've things to do, so more next week...
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