Category: La Musica
New song
“Japanese Dinner” Cedar Park, 2016
こんばんは！ Hello, how’s it going?
Tonight’s photo is of another delicious dinner that Mariko prepared for us. It’s a Japanese style meal, with ebi-furai (breaded and fried shrimp), hamburg-steak, noodles, and some salsa. It’s very eclectic I guess! But soooo yummy!
After dinner I started learning a new song on the ukulele – Utada Hikaru’s “花束を君に” which is the theme song to the current Asadora, Toto Nee-chan. It’s an awesome song! I love it. 🎵
Here’s a great cover version:
Have a nice evening!
– B 
Steppin by MISO
Enjoying my Friday at home.
A-Z Challenge – N
N is for “Nostalgic 懐かしい”
One of my favorite Japanes words is “Natsukashii” which means “nostalgic”. For instance, when talking with a friend and you reminisice about an old time, you will say “natsukashii”. Or if something spurs an old memory, you can say the same thing.
As I get older, I often have these moments where I remember something from log ago and I think back fondly about it. I was listening to some music from my library, and a song came on that always brings back a certain memory… it was 1996 and I was watching tv at my shared apartment in Tokyo and a commercial came on that had a song that I really liked. One of my housemates told me who it was (Sakamoto Ruichi and Fujitani Miki) and I told her that I really wanted to find that song. So a couple weekends later, we went to Tower Records Shibuya and at a listening station, we found that cd… Ten seconds into the song, the main melody came thru our headphones*, I looked at my friend and she looked at me and we both said, “that’s it!”. Needless to say, I bought that cd.
It’s so fun when natsukashii moments happen. I wish I could share memories better… if there were some sort of memory recorder, that would be amazing. I admire people who can illustrate on paper so much. If I could I’d love to documents some of these memories like that. Or writing as well… I wonder if it is something I should work on. It’s a worthwhile thing, I think.
But maybe these memories are so personal, that they will have no meaning to strangers. Which is why that shared experiences are so special. Now I want to get in touch with my friend to see if she remember that moment too.
*The listening stations were set up so with a pair of headphones for each station
Pure Imagination by Helen Marshall
I just read this wonderful post ‘Read Gene Wilder’s feedback on Willy Wonka costume concepts for the 1971 film’ at Boing Boing. It’s great. And then I had to listen to Pure Imagination, one of my favorite songs.
Here’s a fantastic version by Helen Marshall:
Hope you are having a nice Wednesday!
