charming route guide to live venues -- there are 55 of these videos! I have walked two hours in the wrong direction convinced of "just round the corner".
The one below will be used tonight, in order to see the reformed band "hana no youni" -- I spoke of them once
I am happy of this now existing, as I ready to roam --
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Very interesting, I assume they start from an easily recognisable point? It was nice to take a walk around Japan like that. Perhaps you could make your own, and sneak some footage from within the gig? Though that does annoy me to be honest. Now, going to see a gig here involves weaving your gaze through a throng of waving arms all holding aloft camera phones which capture little but flashing lights and muffled sounds. People aren't actually watching the band or listening properly. They are too preoccupied. Anyway, thanks again, I enjoyed these.
ReplyDeletehello! They all seem to start from train station exits. Most anywhere is within 15-20 min max from a train station exit. The stations themselves can extend some 5 minutes walk or more underground and have multiple exits in all directions.
ReplyDeleteI once went to see sunn0))etc in Liverpool and was very annoyed by the field of held-aloft phones, some people were even phoning people during the concert, sending files and things. I almost grabbed the phone being raised directly in front of me, i was going to throw it randomly away.
People seem more considerate here, bands tend to have their own designated person to video the thing. Like go here: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/hananoyouni/ and already the yesterday's live is fully viewable.
I must say thank you for your continuing commenting here. It is much appreciated. Your blog has retreated behind private lines if I am not mistaken?
I have sent you an email so I do not clog up your blog with my personal details regarding my blog - but there is nothing sinister in it.
ReplyDeleteYes, I always click on your blog to see what's new. In fact, I am going to send the link to a friend of ours. She has just returned from living and teaching in Japan for a year, and is currently writing a book on the teaching of English to the Japanese, I believe. I have told her about you. Olia and I still intend to make the trip one day, most definitely. It is nice that they have designated video makers. At a Radiohead gig last summer, I tapped a (Japanese, I think) man on the back, and shook my head at him whilst gesturing that he moved away. He had a video camera held up directly in front of us, and I think he intended to video the whole gig. Needless to say, he moved.
there was a good book by a japanese woman who taught (maybe still does) japanese to foreign vermin people. It wasn't a technical manual, but a series of observations of her pupil people.
ReplyDeleteI remember particularly, one boy who was ostracised(sic) by his japanese dorm-mates for using "yo" too often -- at the end of sentences, used as a sort of emphasiser, but can become sort of rude or something. Also someone else ostracised (sic) for using "ne" -- has a feminine air.
should have put feminine in quotes because I disagree with the general assesment or the idea it is a disagreeable thing.
ReplyDeleteand the whole thing is full of variables.
I dont remember what the book in question was called. I got it in london, one of those oriental bookshops around the british museum. They had incredibly thick chinese dictionaries from 100 years ago, full of now-discontinued characters. Wish I had got one of those.
Suppose they are easy to come by here, come to think of it.
I miss the band "hana no youni" who have not been operative for some time. I don't know of any other reasonably good band of that generation.
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