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Eclipse
Mar 07, 2008
A few weeks ago, when I was walking on the street at night, I received a text message from a friend. "Look up at the moon! The eclipse!" So I looked up at the moon with curiosity and excitement.
Among the buildings of New York City and the fog in the sky, I saw the "eclipse" on the moon. It was just moon, slightly darker than usual. I mean, I felt that it was darker than usual, but it could have been that way for a long time. It wasn't that mythtical or beautiful. I didn't know how to respond to my friend because I could not lie to myself and be excited about it because it's just a moon.
I do not see anything exciting about eclipse (but people do from what I saw). In theory, we get to see the shadow of the world, Earth, with our own eyes, but the fact that the earth we live on is just a planet in universe, is hard to fully understand in my everyday life. If the only proof of Earth being a planet in universe that I can see is eclipse on the moon, I will not be excited about it.
I don't even know that the Earth is really round, and that the world I live on is a planet in the universe. I live in my room, doing my own stuff, with people I know...
Oh, God, I am probably fooling myself. The fact I do not feel close to the universe, that shows how much a joke my life is. Just as much as we make fun of primitive people, the people in the future will be making fun of me right now.
We are all just one of billions of living creatures on this planet after all, and none of this all matters as much as I don't see any meaning in the boring shadow on the moon.
Breakfast
Mar 06, 2008
Sweet and warm French Toast, a genius book from Japan and Mozard symphony music on my ipod. Breakfast is my favorite part of my day.
I am really lucky in some ways. I was born in Japan, and I can speak Japanese. And now I am discovering amazing books by brilliant writers from japan. I will writer more about a book I just read that shocked me for days, and I am still horrified sometimes. ( this is the book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_longer_human )
Then I am here in New York City, speaking English, and learning/playing a lot of exciting Western music, especially classical and jazz. They alone give me the most pleasure in a day.
Real genius such as Shakespeare, Bach, Mozard, Miles Davis, and the Japanese writer I just read, they were also human being like us. They ate, made friends, had family... just like billions of others. But they made something meaningful in their life. If one has only a few hours to live, he should be listening to those genius music.
Genius music are simply power of extreme that will naturally shake and stimulate our soul by only listening to them. I think he is missing a lot of good stuff if he leaves the Earth without experiencing what those genius artists made it available.
I am very very lucky, and I thank God for making these genius experiences available to me.
Let's get serious.
Feb 20, 2008
This is the very first official blog about my music adventure in new york city.
Here is very little info about where I am: So far I have memorized tens of songs, I have "professional" experience to play the piano at restaurant, and I have sat in besides that. Some days I am very great, that people come up to me to tell me they liked my performance. But some other times, I get so self-conscious, and get lost, and there is always a guy telling me which music I should listen to improve my skills.
As I practice everyday, I feel I have some break throughs in moments, but I will never know for sure if I am really great or not to public until I go back to play for people.
I dream to be a real musician to reach people with heart and warmth. Even on the Titanic, I'd be honored to play to the bottom of the ocean. And then when I get discovered by the future scientists, I'll be still playing Gershwin in my arrangement.
Enough fantasizing. I am just excited about "what if" thoughts when it comes to music career.
In meanwhile, I will continue to practice very very very hard every day.
I will be checking out some public places where I could play, and I'll be writing all about it in this blog page beautifully created by my best friend Andrew. I won't dissapoint you. Thank you so much!
Today, I practiced Giant Steps. The songs has three keys randomly shifting up and down. I guess that's why the title is giant steps. I guess when I play I should feel like walking up and down in steps, probably like hanging around with favorite friends in favorite city. Mr. John Coltrane Composed it.
I will dream tonight about playing music like McCoy Tyner tonight. He is 70 something years old and still plays at Blue Note. He's very modest, exciting pianist. I want to be like that.
Here's a big test by the Webmaster
Feb 17, 2008
Checking to see if line breaks work correctly, as in this:
Is there a break up there? Let's try two empty lines...
Yay! I hope it worked!
Jazz
Feb 11, 2008
Jazz music has inspired me because many Jazz songs are very personal, honest, and exciting. People who were going through difficult time before, during and after Great Depression, war, hunger, death of loved ones, fear for life, used this particular form of art to be in touch with their feelings.
One should never forget to the origin of art in it when using it. Music has nothing to do with being impressive or skillful. It is all about creating truthful sound. A musician is hired to create that truthfulness in the sound. Nothing else.
This is a test and the very first blog by me.