sprawl

They heard me singing and they told me to stop
Quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock
These days my life, I feel it has no purpose
But late at night the feelings swim to the surface

'Cause on the surface the city lights shine
They're calling at me, come and find your kind
Sometimes I wonder if the World's so small
That we can never get away from the sprawl
Living in the sprawl
Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains
And there's no end in sight
I need the darkness, someone please cut the lights

We rode our bikes to the nearest park
Sat under the swings and kissed in the dark
We shield our eyes from the police lights
We run away, but we don't know why

On the black river, the city lights shine
They're screaming at us, we don't need your kind
Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small
That we can never get away from the sprawl
Living in the sprawl
Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains
And there's no end in sight
I need the darkness, someone please cut the lights

They heard me singing and they told me to stop
Quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock
Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small
Can we ever get away from the sprawl?
Living in the sprawl
Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains
And there's no end in sight
I need the darkness, someone please cut the lights
I need the darkness, someone please cut the lights


From the latest album of Arcade Fire, "The Suburbs"

i wanna live like this

more videos from Lisa Hannigan

nosys love cute girls

Eng: just new video have arrived from my nosy.
We love the girl from this clip Lisa Hannigan.
and this song is so nosy!!!!


Esp: me llego un clip de mi Nosy!! la chica de este clip Lisa Hannigan esta muy "Nosy"!!! y la cancion tambien!!! Nos encanta!!!


にほんご：　なんかこんなクリップをNosyちゃんが送ってくれました。
Lisa Hannigan かわいい☆
そしてこの歌、f☆ck yooouuuu って連発してます（笑）

そんなところも好き。

Nakandakare

Yesterday, i had a very personal and very strange encounter which took me suddenly to some almost forgotten memories of mine.

I had spent my last year of high school in a small countryside city called Cipolletti, in Argentina.
In my host school,there was a boy whose grandparents were Japanese immigrant moved there before world war 2.
His last name was Nakandakare, which for me didn't sound really japanese and even sounds kind of mysterious. So i processed myself this too mysterious and incomprehensible fact for clueless 17 year old brain, like "oh maybe years of living and struggling inside far-japanese circumstances made his last name sounds like NOT japanese". So i didn't question it myself again or ask him about it.

And almost after 9 years, totally unexpected but a sudden encounter came to me and some smoke-like mysterious feeling which had been resided in my remote memory have just resolved.

As always i was working in the office where i work just few days a week as an office assistant. I was checking a huge list of personal information (name, address, phone number, email etc) and my brain was almost tripping between those mass of numbers and addresses.
Suddenly i saw some Kanji (those chinese ideograms) name very unfamiliar for me, i don't even have an idea how to read it. I turned back to PC and checked this guy's data base to find out what is about this name.

On data base it written, "Nakandakare"

It was a name that i hadn't heard for years!!! And of course it took just a second to bring me some flavors of far memory...

It turns out that, this name Nakandakare is an Okinawan name. Thousands of Okinawan immigrate to Argentina back to 19th and early 20th century.
Okinawa is now a prefecture consists of thousands of very south islands of Japan, but it used to be a kingdom called "Ryukyu" until mid 19th Century, and had developed very unique and its own culture. Also their language was quite different from Japanese. Presently it remains only as dialect and very few people can speak Okinawan. (Miyagi sensei from Karate Kid supposed to be an okinawan too!!)

It's so different than Japanese that i may not understand anything if someone speak to me in Okinawan. It's not like latin languages such as Spanish,Portuguese,Italian,French sounds all alike and are not impossible to understand each other.

So it makes a whole lot of sense that i couldn't recognize the name Nakandakare as Japanese one.

After years of unconscious puzzled, yesterday some clouds which had coverd my memory was cleared and suddenly i am smelling many of them from those days.

hope

this is my hope, in this hell workin' week...

my favorite song from 2010, for now.

hope see them soon...

grand new open "Nosy and Fif"on Etsy!!!!

We opened our shop on Etsy finally!!

Still not very complete but little by little we are going to construct it!!

Visit our shop by clicking image above and take a look!!!

pony hair bands

Finally, i'm doing a "productive" life again.

For some months i had compromised too much doing my chain works and i was not doing anything else. Although most of the time it's very fun, creating "art" brings some waves of stressful moment once in a while , making me feel like i'm doing something meaningless.

So it's simply fun making some "non-art" things, like these hair bands, which you can use in daily life.

I'm planning to selling these on etsy very soon, so please keep checking info right here!!

summer time is hard for me, but finally

As the title, summer time in tokyo is the hardest time for me. Because of it's heat up and full humidity and concrete construction hell, even where i live, the margin of Yokohama where still left some natural soil and green, i'm barely surviving.

However, at least, some good news has just arrived yesterday. My new work, which i had applied for a competition, has been elected to exhibit at a group exhibition on September. I'm glad and relief at the same time, hearing this news. I had been afraid to not being elected because all the fact that i can work for this is because of my nosy and my family who always be supportive and patient to me, and i never want to disappoint them.

Here are some fotos i took on the day i left my work at the competition site.








Thanks again and again for my nosy, and my family.

i love u

inspired

eagle vs shark

Finally i saw this!!!
This is a movie from 2007 so it's not even a "news", however, i enjoyed very much discovering that there are such an ambient in New Zealand, almost unknown country for me. 

Also the soundtrack is nice!!