<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296</id><updated>2012-01-16T03:03:35.593+09:00</updated><category term='Gabrielle Giffords'/><category term='Asahikawa'/><category term='Oahu'/><category term='live'/><category term='Masaya Onishi'/><category term='shikaribetsu'/><category term='news'/><category term='Sunny-Side Up'/><category term='art'/><category term='Change'/><category term='Usato'/><category term='lyrics'/><category term='the perspectives'/><category term='Jimmy Webb'/><category term='concert hall'/><category term='bike'/><category term='sustainability'/><category term='Voice from the Sky'/><category term='FedEx'/><category term='summer'/><category term='Jackson Browne'/><category term='travel'/><category term='tragedy'/><category term='ping pong'/><category term='hiking'/><category term='Beaujolais Nouveau'/><category term='tokyo'/><category term='Gaia Symphony'/><category term='porpoise'/><category term='Roppongi'/><category term='naitai highland farm'/><category term='concert'/><category term='Maisha ya Raha'/><category term='J. 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Conqueror'/><category term='snow'/><category term='warning'/><category term='Ireland'/><category term='yokohama'/><title type='text'>ken@googleblog</title><subtitle type='html'>Curiosity almost kills me...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>60</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-4294663598719087935</id><published>2012-01-14T00:16:00.009+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T03:03:35.606+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='no nukes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lyrics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='John Hall'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nuclear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='classic rock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Three Mile Island'/><title type='text'>Take All Your Atomic Poison Power Away</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DB44z6KlhzA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Something urges me to post this song here because people in this country haven't learn anything from the misfortune which happened and this song which was written 32 years ago in the U. S.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thank you, Mr. Hall and all the other great artists who have sung this.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;どうしてもこの歌をアップしたかった。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;この国は32年前に米国で起きた不幸な事故とこの歌から何も学ばなかったから。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;John Hallさん、そしてこの歌を歌ってきた全ての素晴らしいアーチストたちに感謝したい。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Power&lt;/b&gt; (John &amp;amp; Johanna Hall)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Just give me the warm power of the sun&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Give me the steady flow of a waterfall&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Give me the spirit of living things as they return to clay&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;おひさまの温かいエネルギー&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;滝のように絶え間ない水&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;そして土へと帰る生きとし生けるものの魂さえあればいい&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Just give me the restless power of the wind&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Give me the comforting glow of a wood fire&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But please take all your atomic poison power away&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;止むことのない風の力と&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;燃える薪の心地よい灯りさえあればいい&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;でも、有毒な全ての原子力は要らない&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Everybody needs some power I'm told&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To shield them from the darkness and the cold&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But some may seek a way to take control when it's bought and sold&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;誰もが暗闇と寒さから身を守るには&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;何らかのエネルギーは必要なのだといわれてきた&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;でもそれが売り買いの対象になると&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;必ず支配したくなる者がでてくるもの&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I know that lives are at stake&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yours and mine and our descendants in time&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There's so much to gain and so much to lose&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I say that everyone of us has to choose&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;生命が脅かされているよ&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;あなたのも、私のも、そして先々の子孫のも&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;あまりに多くを手にして、多くを失なう&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;私たちみんなが選択を迫られているのだよ&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Just give me the warm power of the sun&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Give me the steady flow of a waterfall&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Give me the spirit of living things as they return to clay&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;私にください&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;おひさまの温かいぬくもり&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;滝のように絶え間ない水&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;そして土へと帰る生きとし生けるものの魂を&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Just give me the restless power of the wind&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Give me the comforting glow of a wood fire&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But please take all your atomic poison power away&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Won't you do this for me&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Take all your atomic poison power&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Take all your atomic poison power&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Take all your atomic poison power away&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;私にください&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;止むことのない風の力と&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;燃える薪の心地よい灯り&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;でも、有毒な原子力だけは要らない&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;お願いだから、残らず取り去ってください&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;有毒な原子力だけは...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(translation: ken)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;©1979 Siren Songs and EMI/Blackwood&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-4294663598719087935?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/4294663598719087935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=4294663598719087935' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/4294663598719087935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/4294663598719087935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2012/01/take-all-your-atomic-poison-power-away.html' title='Take All Your Atomic Poison Power Away'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/DB44z6KlhzA/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-3691579803366476260</id><published>2011-03-25T23:20:00.006+09:00</published><updated>2011-03-26T01:24:24.261+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lyrics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Earthquake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nuclear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jackson Browne'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Three Mile Island'/><title type='text'>Let The Music Keep Our Spirits High</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jxGgw1wqzuI/TYzBmWVqLMI/AAAAAAAAANc/X7f-_F24VIU/s1600/lateforthesky.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jxGgw1wqzuI/TYzBmWVqLMI/AAAAAAAAANc/X7f-_F24VIU/s320/lateforthesky.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588054102235557058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ever since the massive disaster hit the nation on the 11th of March, so many things have come in and out of my mind that I haven't been able to post anything at all.&lt;div&gt;However, I will just attach the link to YouTube video of this song that Jackson Browne recorded in 1974, and its lyrics (excerpted) with my translation. It doesn't need any comments.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;あの甚大な災害がこの国を襲ってから、あまりに多くのことが胸の内を去来し、ブログに何も書けませんでした。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;でも、1974年にJackson Browneが書いたこの曲の（YouTubeへの）&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjG63Vd0moo"&gt;リンク&lt;/a&gt;、歌詞と訳詞を入れます。説明の必要はないでしょう。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjG63Vd0moo"&gt;"Before The Deluge" (3rd verse)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(from the album Late For The Sky)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Some of them were angry&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;At the way the earth was abused&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And they struggled to protect her from them&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Only to be confused&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;By the magnitude of her fury in the final hour&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;一部の人たちは怒りをおぼえていた&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;その美しさを力へと変換できる人たちによって、地球が悪用されていることに対して&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;彼らはこの星を守ろうと奮闘するが、最後のときの地球の憤りのあまりの莫大さに、ただただ困惑するだけで終わってしまう&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And when the sand was gone and the time arrived&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the naked dawn only a few survived&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so huge&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;そして最後の時が来て、砂がさらわれてしまう&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;丸裸になってしまった夜明けに、僅かな人たちだけが生き残る&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;こんなに単純で重大なことだったと理解しようと思いながらも&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;彼らは「大洪水の後にも」生きていく運命にあるのだと悟るのだった&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Let the music keep our spirits high&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Let the buildings keep our children dry&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by, by and by&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;音楽でわれわれの気持ちが落胆しないようにしよう&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;建物で子供たちが濡れることがないよう守ってあげよう&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;「創造」の神秘が次第に明らかになっていくのを見つめよう、少しずつ、少しずつ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;われわれの中で失われてしまった光が空に届くころに...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; ©1974 WB MUSIC CORP.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-3691579803366476260?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/3691579803366476260/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=3691579803366476260' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/3691579803366476260'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/3691579803366476260'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2011/03/let-music-keep-our-spirits-high.html' title='Let The Music Keep Our Spirits High'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jxGgw1wqzuI/TYzBmWVqLMI/AAAAAAAAANc/X7f-_F24VIU/s72-c/lateforthesky.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-7449545021225001329</id><published>2011-03-07T15:12:00.008+09:00</published><updated>2011-03-07T23:54:28.740+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hatsume Sato'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaia Symphony'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='announcement'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lecture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ischia in the Forest'/><title type='text'>Almost 90 Years Old, But She Keeps Going</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--L4ICuwfkAI/TXR-GifkQ1I/AAAAAAAAANU/WxOAFMoG4kY/s1600/hatsume_sato%2B-%2B1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--L4ICuwfkAI/TXR-GifkQ1I/AAAAAAAAANU/WxOAFMoG4kY/s320/hatsume_sato%2B-%2B1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581224489022407506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-udVZfeyNAZM/TXR98vsWJsI/AAAAAAAAANM/nvArU9H-bgw/s1600/flier031311.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 227px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-udVZfeyNAZM/TXR98vsWJsI/AAAAAAAAANM/nvArU9H-bgw/s320/flier031311.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581224320766977730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On Sunday, 13th March, &lt;a href="http://homepage2.nifty.com/chiisanamori/hatzume/"&gt;Ms. Hatsume Sato&lt;/a&gt;, who has dedicated herself for more than 50 years to helping hundreds of people, is invited to have a lecture.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;She has welcomed people who suffered from social burden or mental illness to her house called "Ischia in the Forest" which is located in the foothill of Mt. Iwaki, Aomori prefecture. There she simply listens to them while serving her genuine dishes and was brought into the spotlight when she and her compassionately prepared Omusubi (rice balls) were featured in the movie, "&lt;a href="http://gaiasymphony.com/bu/index-e.html"&gt;Gaia Symphony&lt;/a&gt; No. 2 (1995)" directed by Jin Tatsumura.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is going to be a precious opportunity to listen to the 89-years-old quiet activist who has discouraged many from killing themselves.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;◆&lt;a href="http://blog.livedoor.jp/bluebook/archives/52128260.html"&gt;"Message of Life" Lecture by Hatsume Sato&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;▶presented by Obihiro Inochi-no-Kai (Life Society)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;▶on Sunday, 13 March, 2011 from 1:30 p.m. -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(the venue opens at 1:00 p.m.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;▶at 2F, Tokachi-kan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%97%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%976%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE2%E7%95%AA%E5%9C%B0&amp;amp;aq=&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=37.871902,57.568359&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=Japan,+Hokkaid%C5%8D+Obihiro-shi%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%97%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%96%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%92&amp;amp;ll=42.925053,143.194299&amp;amp;spn=0.004282,0.007027&amp;amp;z=17"&gt;2, W7 S6, Obihiro&lt;/a&gt;/phone: 0155-24-1040)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;▶1,000 yen tickets available at Kachimai Salon, 7F and Ticket Pia, 5F, Fujimaru Department Store&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;▶childcare service (booking required)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;▶information (Japanese): 0155-21-5759&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;[まもなく90歳。でも動き続ける]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;50年以上も多くの人々を助けるために半生を捧げてきた&lt;a href="http://homepage2.nifty.com/chiisanamori/hatzume/"&gt;佐藤初女（さとうはつめ）さん&lt;/a&gt;が、3月13日（日）に講演会のために訪れる。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;初女さんは、青森県岩木山麓の「森のイスキア」と名付けられた自身の家を、社会的な重荷や心の病に苦しむ人々に解放してきた。彼らに耳を傾け、心づくしの食事を提供する彼女が注目を浴びたのは、映画「&lt;a href="http://gaiasymphony.com/"&gt;地球交響曲（ガイアシンフォニー）&lt;/a&gt;第2番」（1995年・龍村仁監督）に、彼女自身と心を込めて作る「おむすび」が取り上げられた時。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;多くの命を自殺から救ってきた89歳の静かな活動家のお話を聞く貴重な機会になる。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;◆&lt;a href="http://blog.livedoor.jp/bluebook/archives/52128260.html"&gt;『佐藤初女さん、いのちのメッセージ』&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;▶講師：佐藤初女氏&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;▶主催：帯広いのちの会&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;▶とき：3/13（日）13:30〜（13:00 開場）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;▶ところ：とかち館 2F 金枝の間（&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%97%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%976%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE2%E7%95%AA%E5%9C%B0&amp;amp;aq=&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=37.871902,57.568359&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=Japan,+Hokkaid%C5%8D+Obihiro-shi%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%97%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%96%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%92&amp;amp;ll=42.925053,143.194299&amp;amp;spn=0.004282,0.007027&amp;amp;z=17"&gt;帯広市西７条南6丁目2番地&lt;/a&gt; 0155-24-1040）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;▶チケット：1,000円（藤丸デパート 7F 勝毎サロン／5F チケットぴあ）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;▶託児室あり（要予約）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;▶お問い合わせ：0155-21-5759 (tel. &amp;amp; fax)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-7449545021225001329?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/7449545021225001329/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=7449545021225001329' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/7449545021225001329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/7449545021225001329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2011/03/almost-90-years-old-but-she-keeps-going.html' title='Almost 90 Years Old, But She Keeps Going'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--L4ICuwfkAI/TXR-GifkQ1I/AAAAAAAAANU/WxOAFMoG4kY/s72-c/hatsume_sato%2B-%2B1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-5018409828495344396</id><published>2011-02-27T01:04:00.010+09:00</published><updated>2011-02-27T02:49:29.250+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='J. S. Bach'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CD'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='piano'/><title type='text'>The Pianist, Wolves &amp; Bach</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.helenegrimaud.com/cms/showimg.htms?ID=cb8bd1357b4f3c0f3b5b1febbdad2bb2" width="200" height="180" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Could J. S. Bach possibly predict that one of the indisputable pinnacles of his works,  Chaconne in D-minor (from Violin Partita No. 2 BWV 1004/arranged by F. Busoni) would be represented this way with this instrument which wasn't even appreciated in his age?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In my recent favorite &lt;a href="http://www.helenegrimaud.com/special/index.htms?ID=grimaud-bach-enter"&gt;album, Hélène Grimaud&lt;/a&gt; lets Bach's music capture my soul easily, or it might be Bach's piece that drives her to do so?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You may find the answer in &lt;a href="http://video.pbs.org/video/1804039672"&gt;an interview with&lt;/a&gt; her as a pianist and also as the co-founder of Wolf Conservation Center, Upstate N. Y.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;J. S. Bachは予想できたろうか？疑うことなき傑作の一つ「シャコンヌ」（ニ短調／バイオリン・パルティータ第2番 BWV 1004／ブゾーニ編曲）が、彼の時代には評価されなかった楽器によってこんな感じで再現されることを。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;私の最近のお気に入りの&lt;a href="http://www.universal-music.co.jp/classics/artist/helene_grimaud/uccg1426bach/uccg1426.html"&gt;アルバムで、エレーヌ・グリモーが&lt;/a&gt;バッハの音楽で魂を捕らえて離さない、いやバッハの音楽が彼女をそうさせるのか？&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ピアニストとしてだけではなくニューヨーク州北部の「オオカミ保護センター」の共同創設者としての&lt;a href="http://video.pbs.org/video/1804039672"&gt;インタビュー&lt;/a&gt;（英語）に、何かのヒントがあるかもしれないよ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(CD: Hélène Grimaud | Bach ©2008 Deutsche Grammophone GmbH B001254-02)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-5018409828495344396?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/5018409828495344396/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=5018409828495344396' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/5018409828495344396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/5018409828495344396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2011/02/pianist-wolves-bach.html' title='The Pianist, Wolves &amp; Bach'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-9132683359724146851</id><published>2011-02-22T23:14:00.005+09:00</published><updated>2011-02-27T02:53:29.602+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nonsense'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tokyo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yokohama'/><title type='text'>Pervert Bear?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i4mVysGGXBU/TWPFYIaZYUI/AAAAAAAAANE/ifDFN-bDj7A/s1600/DSC03646_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i4mVysGGXBU/TWPFYIaZYUI/AAAAAAAAANE/ifDFN-bDj7A/s320/DSC03646_2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576517781980537154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A funny sticker. I used to wonder why the half-naked bear was wearing a T-shirt but no pants. You can still find it on each door of Toyoko-line trains, and probably other lines in Tokyo and around.&lt;div&gt;東横線（たぶんその他の首都圏の電車も）の全ドアに貼ってあるクマはTシャツを着てるけれどパンツをはいてない。おもしろいシール。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-9132683359724146851?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/9132683359724146851/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=9132683359724146851' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/9132683359724146851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/9132683359724146851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2011/02/pervert-bear.html' title='Pervert Bear?'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i4mVysGGXBU/TWPFYIaZYUI/AAAAAAAAANE/ifDFN-bDj7A/s72-c/DSC03646_2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-1219450621100610099</id><published>2011-02-17T01:49:00.006+09:00</published><updated>2011-02-17T02:18:27.312+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rhythm and Blues'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acoustic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sunny-Side Up'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='classic rock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rancho El Paso'/><title type='text'>Sunny Side of Music</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cbZNz2Is334/TVwD0zi1h3I/AAAAAAAAAM8/6yawpryL0Qg/s1600/sunny%2Bside%2Bup%2Blogo%2Bfinal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 92px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cbZNz2Is334/TVwD0zi1h3I/AAAAAAAAAM8/6yawpryL0Qg/s320/sunny%2Bside%2Bup%2Blogo%2Bfinal.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574334644502234994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a reminder for those who enjoy classic, yet nostalgic kind of rock or R &amp;amp; B stuff from 60's and 70's LIVE! My brand new acoustic group called Sunny-Side Up is going to perform at Rancho El Paso on this coming Saturday (19 Feb.) evening. No good music, no life.&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Saturday, 19th February&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;at &lt;a href="http://www.elpaso.co.jp/elpaso/events.html"&gt;Rancho El Paso&lt;/a&gt; from 7:00 p.m.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Rancho El Paso's 35th Anniversary LIVE Music"(the venue opens at 5:00 p.m.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For advance tickets (¥500@) and priority seat reservations, call (toll-free) 0120-33-8683. One order of drink is included in a ticket.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=ja&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%96%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%96%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%93%E2%88%92%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%90&amp;amp;aq=0&amp;amp;sll=42.900262,143.206857&amp;amp;sspn=0.002248,0.004436&amp;amp;brcurrent=3,0x5f739bdcbe6f2f7b:0xb26235898ba79ac9,0&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%96%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%96%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%93%E2%88%92%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%90&amp;amp;ll=42.904954,143.179171&amp;amp;spn=0.002118,0.004533&amp;amp;z=18"&gt;13-20 W16 S16 Obihiro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;60's - 70's あたりのロック、R &amp;amp; Bのカバーを中心をライブで楽しみたいって方々はお忘れなきよう。新しいアコースティックグループSunny-Side Upが来る土曜日（2/19）の晩、&lt;a href="http://www.elpaso.co.jp/elpaso/events.html"&gt;ランチョ・エルパソ&lt;/a&gt;で演奏します。No good music, no life!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;『ランチョ・エルパソ35周年記念ライブ』ところ：ランチョ・エルパソ &lt;a href="http://www.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=ja&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%96%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%96%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%93%E2%88%92%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%90&amp;amp;aq=0&amp;amp;sll=42.900262,143.206857&amp;amp;sspn=0.002248,0.004436&amp;amp;brcurrent=3,0x5f739bdcbe6f2f7b:0xb26235898ba79ac9,0&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%96%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%96%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%93%E2%88%92%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%90&amp;amp;ll=42.904954,143.179171&amp;amp;spn=0.002118,0.004533&amp;amp;z=18"&gt;帯広市西16条南6丁目13-20&lt;/a&gt;日時：2/19（土） 開場 5:00 開演 7:00チケット：500円 ワンドリンク付き／1階優先席での観覧ご予約：0120-33-8683&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-1219450621100610099?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/1219450621100610099/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=1219450621100610099' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/1219450621100610099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/1219450621100610099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2011/02/sunny-side-of-music.html' title='Sunny Side of Music'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cbZNz2Is334/TVwD0zi1h3I/AAAAAAAAAM8/6yawpryL0Qg/s72-c/sunny%2Bside%2Bup%2Blogo%2Bfinal.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-9086170143000387856</id><published>2011-02-05T21:42:00.010+09:00</published><updated>2011-02-06T01:49:22.446+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sustainability'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joni Mitchell'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lyrics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oahu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><title type='text'>Big Yellow Bulldozer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I got a postcard from my friend today, which reminded me to visit Oahu again, and it also made me think about that well-known &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTQubWecuv8"&gt;Joni Mitchell's song&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;However, the reason why I am posting it is that in my country some people think it is a slap-happy kind of song from the way it sounds. So I have attached my translation. For the original lyrics, go to &lt;a href="http://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=208"&gt;Joni Mitchell's web&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I have also found on the web that it was recommended by someone as a suitable "happy" song to sing at a wedding party. What a ...!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;今日届いた友人からのハガキに、オアフへのうれしいお誘いがあり。そこで&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTQubWecuv8"&gt;Joni Mitchellのあの定番ソング&lt;/a&gt;も思い出した。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;でも、どうやら日本では多くの人たちに能天気に明るい曲だと思われているようだから、改めて自分の訳を入れてみた。（訳責：ken 原曲の詞は&lt;a href="http://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=208"&gt;こちら&lt;/a&gt;で）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ウェブでは、誰かがウェディングパーティで歌うと盛り上がるというおすすめをしていた。クラクラ...。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;＊＊＊＊＊&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Big Yellow Taxi&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(Joni Mitchell / &lt;a href="http://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=208"&gt;original lyrics&lt;/a&gt; © Siquomb Publishing Company)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;みんなで楽園を舗装して、駐車場を建てている&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ピンク色のホテルや、ブティックや流行りの人気スポット&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;失ってみないと大切さに気がつかないってこと&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;なんだかいつも繰り返していない？&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;みんなで楽園を舗装して、駐車場を建てている&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;樹木をみんな切りたおして自然博物館に運んでる&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;それを見せるために1ドル50セントの入場料を取っているよ&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;失ってみないと大切さに気がつかないってこと&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;なんだかいつも繰り返していない？&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;みんなで楽園を舗装して、駐車場を建てている&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ねえ、農家さん、農家さん&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;DDTを使うのをやめてよ&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;リンゴに（虫食いの）しみが付いててもいい&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;鳥たちや蜂たちをそのままにさせてよ、お願いだから&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;失ってみないと大切さに気がつかないってこと&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;なんだかいつも繰り返していない？&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;みんなで楽園を舗装して、駐車場を建てている&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;昨日の夜遅く&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;玄関の網戸がバタンと閉まる音を聞いた&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;大きな黄色いタクシーがパパを連れて行っちゃった&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;失ってみないと大切さに気がつかないってこと&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;なんだかいつも繰り返していない？&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;みんなで天国を舗装して、駐車場を建てている&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;失ってみないと大切さに気がつかないってこと&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;なんだかいつも繰り返していない？&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;みんなで楽園を舗装して、駐車場を建てている&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;みんなで楽園を舗装して、駐車場を建てている&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;＊＊＊＊＊&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart... this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song.（Joni Mitchell)*&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;（ジョニ・ミッチェル自身のコメント）「"Big Yellow Taxi"は、初めてハワイに旅行した時に書いた曲よ。ホテルにタクシーで乗り付けて、翌朝目を覚ました時にカーテンを開けて外を見たら、遠くに美しい緑の山々が見えたわ。そして近くに目をやると、そこいら中に見渡す限り駐車場が並んでいたの。こんなのひどいなって思った...こんな美しい楽園を台無しにしている。そこで座り込んでこの曲を書いたのよ。」(translation: ken)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TU1la_4hX_I/AAAAAAAAAM0/kP1cwujpcKA/s400/oahu%2B0505.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570219828626677746" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Had she opened the curtain upon arriving, it might have looked like this picture of mine. Well, it has become not only about parking lot in 35 years, but also...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;もし彼女が着いた時にカーテンを空けていたら、こんな感じだった...。いやいや、35年の間に駐車場どころではなくなってしまった。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Yellow_Taxi"&gt;(from Wikipedia)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; "&gt;Hilburn, Robert (1996-12-07). &lt;a href="http://archive.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-96/12-07-96/b01ae065.htm" class="external text" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url(http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/vector/images/external-link-ltr-icon.png?2); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "&gt;"Joni Mitchell looks at both sides now: her hits -- and misses"&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;i&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="reference-accessdate"&gt;. Retrieved 2008-05-16&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-9086170143000387856?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/9086170143000387856/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=9086170143000387856' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/9086170143000387856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/9086170143000387856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2011/02/big-yellow-bulldozer.html' title='Big Yellow Bulldozer'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TU1la_4hX_I/AAAAAAAAAM0/kP1cwujpcKA/s72-c/oahu%2B0505.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-4623360104552675501</id><published>2011-02-02T16:58:00.009+09:00</published><updated>2011-02-05T13:50:50.196+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Usato'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rhythm and Blues'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='laugh-la'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sunny-Side Up'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Celebration of Oneness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rancho El Paso'/><title type='text'>More about Sunny-Side Up's Gigs</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 92px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TUkau0qiXCI/AAAAAAAAAMk/YvIBs7aBppQ/s320/sunny%2Bside%2Bup%2Blogo%2Bfinal.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569011805933689890" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here is further information on our gigs to be held in February:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF0000;"&gt;Saturday, 12th February&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=ja&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%98%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%94&amp;amp;aq=0&amp;amp;sll=36.5626,136.362305&amp;amp;sspn=39.999072,72.685547&amp;amp;brcurrent=3,0x5f73996f1dbfe53b:0xe1afb0b6c59d971c,0&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%98%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%94&amp;amp;ll=42.900262,143.206857&amp;amp;spn=0.002118,0.004699&amp;amp;z=18&amp;amp;iwloc=A"&gt;at Laugh-la&lt;/a&gt; from 5:00 p.m.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;at "Usato Clothing Displays and Sales/Planetta Organica"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The show includes storytelling time by Motti (vocalist).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(the venue opens at 11：00 a.m.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;door charge (including tea): ¥1,000@ (from 5:00 p.m.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;4 W1 S28 Obihiro&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(for more info, go to &lt;a href="http://www.mytokachi.jp/tomipanda/entry/19"&gt;Otokachi&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. Saturday, 19th February &lt;a href="http://www.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=ja&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%96%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%96%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%93%E2%88%92%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%90&amp;amp;aq=0&amp;amp;sll=42.900262,143.206857&amp;amp;sspn=0.002248,0.004436&amp;amp;brcurrent=3,0x5f739bdcbe6f2f7b:0xb26235898ba79ac9,0&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%96%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%96%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%93%E2%88%92%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%90&amp;amp;ll=42.904954,143.179171&amp;amp;spn=0.002118,0.004699&amp;amp;z=18"&gt;at Rancho El Paso&lt;/a&gt; from 7:00 p.m.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Rancho El Paso's 35th Anniversary LIVE Music"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(the venue opens at 5:00 p.m.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For advance tickets (¥500@) and priority seat reservations, call (toll-free 0120-33-8683)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;One order of drink can be made for free for one ticket.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;13-20 W16 S16 Obihiro&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1. 「うさとの服」「プラネッタオーガニカ」&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;＜展示会スペシャルライブ＞ライブと大人の絵本読み聞かせ&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=ja&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%98%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%94&amp;amp;aq=0&amp;amp;sll=36.5626,136.362305&amp;amp;sspn=39.999072,72.685547&amp;amp;brcurrent=3,0x5f73996f1dbfe53b:0xe1afb0b6c59d971c,0&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%98%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%94&amp;amp;ll=42.900262,143.206857&amp;amp;spn=0.002118,0.004699&amp;amp;z=18&amp;amp;iwloc=A"&gt;ところ：帯広 NPO サポートセンター内 ラフラ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;帯広市西1条南28丁目4番地&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF0000;"&gt;日時：2/12（土）&lt;/span&gt;開場 11：00 開演17:00〜&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;入場料￥1000（お茶付）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. 『ランチョ・エルパソ35周年記念ライブ』&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=ja&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%96%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%96%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%93%E2%88%92%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%90&amp;amp;aq=0&amp;amp;sll=42.900262,143.206857&amp;amp;sspn=0.002248,0.004436&amp;amp;brcurrent=3,0x5f739bdcbe6f2f7b:0xb26235898ba79ac9,0&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%96%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%96%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%93%E2%88%92%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%90&amp;amp;ll=42.904954,143.179171&amp;amp;spn=0.002118,0.004699&amp;amp;z=18"&gt;ところ：ランチョ・エルパソ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;帯広市西16条南6丁目13-20&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;日時：2/19（土）  開場 5:00   開演 7:00&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;チケット：500円   ワンドリンク付き／1階優先席での観覧&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ご予約：0120-33-8683&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thank you and we are looking forward to seeing you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-4623360104552675501?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/4623360104552675501/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=4623360104552675501' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/4623360104552675501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/4623360104552675501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2011/02/more-about-sunny-side-ups-gigs.html' title='More about Sunny-Side Up&apos;s Gigs'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TUkau0qiXCI/AAAAAAAAAMk/YvIBs7aBppQ/s72-c/sunny%2Bside%2Bup%2Blogo%2Bfinal.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-3612674519956246713</id><published>2011-01-31T20:33:00.009+09:00</published><updated>2011-02-02T17:34:36.706+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rhythm and Blues'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acoustic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='laugh-la'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sunny-Side Up'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='classic rock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='concert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rancho El Paso'/><title type='text'>Sunny-Side Up's Gigs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TUanTui0UEI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/2QFIcDqeFM8/s1600/SSU%2B012611%2B-%2B%2Bmotti.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TUanTui0UEI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/2QFIcDqeFM8/s320/SSU%2B012611%2B-%2B%2Bmotti.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568321946643615810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Sunny-Side Up, a brand new group of local musicians who love classic rock, R &amp;amp; B and pop music is going to make some appearances to play acoustic stuff at the following venues:&lt;div&gt;1. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF0000;"&gt;Saturday, 12th February (corrected) &lt;/span&gt;at &lt;a href="http://www.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=ja&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%98%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%94&amp;amp;aq=0&amp;amp;sll=36.5626,136.362305&amp;amp;sspn=39.999072,72.685547&amp;amp;brcurrent=3,0x5f73996f1dbfe53b:0xe1afb0b6c59d971c,0&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%98%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%94&amp;amp;ll=42.900262,143.206857&amp;amp;spn=0.002248,0.004436&amp;amp;z=18&amp;amp;iwloc=A"&gt;Laugh-la&lt;/a&gt; from 5:00 p.m.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(for more info, go to &lt;a href="http://www.mytokachi.jp/tomipanda/entry/19"&gt;Otokachi&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. Saturday, 19th February at &lt;a href="http://www.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=ja&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%96%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%96%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%93%E2%88%92%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%90&amp;amp;aq=0&amp;amp;sll=42.900262,143.206857&amp;amp;sspn=0.002248,0.004436&amp;amp;brcurrent=3,0x5f739bdc4b55cee1:0xd46e3d71550cdc7b,0&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%96%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%96%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%93%E2%88%92%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%90&amp;amp;ll=42.904942,143.179144&amp;amp;spn=0.001124,0.002218&amp;amp;z=19"&gt;Rancho El Paso&lt;/a&gt; (probably from 7:00 p.m.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(more info. to be announced later in this blog) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The artists include (photo from left to right) : Chiba-Chiba (guitars, vo., perc.), Motti (vo.), ken (piano, vo.), Yohei (guitars, vo.).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well, how come it's Sunny-Side Up?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 58px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TUan0ctJXgI/AAAAAAAAAMY/4ZeOFe6GsgY/s200/sunny%2Bside%2Bup%2Blogo%2Bfinal.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568322508790783490" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;一昔前のR &amp;amp; B、ロックやポップミュージックを愛する？地元ミュージシャンが集まった新ユニットでアコースティック・ライブをやりま〜す。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1)&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF0000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "&gt;（訂正▶）&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF0000;"&gt;2/12（土）&lt;/span&gt;開演17:00 &lt;a href="http://www.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=ja&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%98%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%94&amp;amp;aq=0&amp;amp;sll=36.5626,136.362305&amp;amp;sspn=39.999072,72.685547&amp;amp;brcurrent=3,0x5f73996f1dbfe53b:0xe1afb0b6c59d971c,0&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%98%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%94&amp;amp;ll=42.900262,143.206857&amp;amp;spn=0.002248,0.004436&amp;amp;z=18&amp;amp;iwloc=A"&gt;ラフラ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;（くわしくは&lt;a href="http://www.mytokachi.jp/tomipanda/entry/19"&gt;オトカチ&lt;/a&gt;で）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2) 2/19（土）開演たぶん19:00 &lt;a href="http://www.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=ja&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%96%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%96%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%93%E2%88%92%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%90&amp;amp;aq=0&amp;amp;sll=42.900262,143.206857&amp;amp;sspn=0.002248,0.004436&amp;amp;brcurrent=3,0x5f739bdc4b55cee1:0xd46e3d71550cdc7b,0&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E5%B8%AF%E5%BA%83%E5%B8%82%E8%A5%BF%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%96%E6%9D%A1%E5%8D%97%EF%BC%96%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%93%E2%88%92%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%90&amp;amp;ll=42.904942,143.179144&amp;amp;spn=0.001124,0.002218&amp;amp;z=19"&gt;ランチョ・エルパソ&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;（くわしくは後日このブログでお知らせ）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;メンバー（写真左から）は上記の通り。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;でもなんで「目玉焼き」？&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-3612674519956246713?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/3612674519956246713/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=3612674519956246713' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/3612674519956246713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/3612674519956246713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2011/01/sunny-side-ups-gigs.html' title='Sunny-Side Up&apos;s Gigs'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TUanTui0UEI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/2QFIcDqeFM8/s72-c/SSU%2B012611%2B-%2B%2Bmotti.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-1922870396779161591</id><published>2011-01-31T16:25:00.006+09:00</published><updated>2011-01-31T19:39:52.580+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='concert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daichi Yoshino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Obihiro Museum of Art'/><title type='text'>Loungeful of Audience</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TUZrxXgtdCI/AAAAAAAAAMI/nTZHSQ3JaTA/s1600/OMA%2B012911%2Bneko%2B6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TUZrxXgtdCI/AAAAAAAAAMI/nTZHSQ3JaTA/s320/OMA%2B012911%2Bneko%2B6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568256485159171106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Daichi &amp;amp; ken had a pretty good "mini" concert in the lounge of Obihiro Museum of Art, in the "rallentando" darkening blue after dusk embracing the venue. I couldn't even help but staring up at the sky through the windows behind us sometimes while I was playing.&lt;/div&gt;Although I couldn't advertise this event very well, much more people than expected, probably more than 140!, showed up to see us in spite of the congested parking lot and icy road up to the museum.&lt;div&gt;I would like to thank all of them and those who supported us for this concert.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;帯広美術館のラウンジでゆっくりと暮れて行く青い光に包まれながら、Daichi &amp;amp; kenでちょっとしたミニコンサートができた。演奏中にもステージ後ろの窓から外の空へ何度も目をやってしまった。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;このイベントの広告は充分できなかったけれど、予想以上に多くの人たち（きっと140名以上）に来ていただいた。いっぱいの駐車場とつるつるの道路にもかかわらず。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;お越しのみなさま、そしてイベントを支えてくださった方々に、あらためて感謝。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(photo by TN)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-1922870396779161591?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/1922870396779161591/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=1922870396779161591' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/1922870396779161591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/1922870396779161591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2011/01/loungeful-of-audience.html' title='Loungeful of Audience'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TUZrxXgtdCI/AAAAAAAAAMI/nTZHSQ3JaTA/s72-c/OMA%2B012911%2Bneko%2B6.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-5619522382513754518</id><published>2011-01-14T22:23:00.008+09:00</published><updated>2011-01-15T16:09:29.816+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cetaceans'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bryant Austin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dophins'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='whales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marine mammals'/><title type='text'>Eye to Eye with the Whale: Bryant Austin</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uIpEjjih514?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=ja_JP"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uIpEjjih514?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=ja_JP" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Here is a photo exhibition I missed. I didn't even know about this photographer when it was held in Tokyo in December. However, because of my own experience of encountering (and communicating with) wild dolphins in the U. S. about 15 years ago, I really understand "emotionally" what made him shoot such photographs of wild whales in the water. Please check this out:&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.studiocosmos.com/index.html"&gt;http://www.studiocosmos.com/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.beautifulwhale.jp/bryantaustin.html"&gt;http://www.beautifulwhale.jp/bryantaustin.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;見逃した写真展があり。開催中（東京で12月）にもこの写真家のことを知らなかった（ちょっとガッカリ）。しかしながら、15年ほど前の米国で野生のイルカと遭遇し（てコミュニケーションをし）た私自身の経験からも、なぜこのような水中でクジラの写真を撮る気持ちになったかがとてもよく理解できる。詳しくはこちらをどうぞ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.beautifulwhale.jp/bryantaustin.html"&gt;http://www.beautifulwhale.jp/bryantaustin.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.studiocosmos.com/index.html"&gt;http://www.studiocosmos.com/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-5619522382513754518?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-5341716817930805256</id><published>2011-01-10T18:47:00.004+09:00</published><updated>2011-01-10T18:52:32.363+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gabrielle Giffords'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shooting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arizona'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tragedy'/><title type='text'>Imagine</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;there are no guns.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CCncm_bd0Kg?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=ja_JP"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" 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term='Museum of Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='concert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daichi Yoshino'/><title type='text'>Live Performance at Art Museum</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TTFKVuQVd8I/AAAAAAAAAL4/PYb8m1-WWpg/s1600/daichi%2Band%2Bken%2BOMA%2B012911%2Bpv.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TTFKVuQVd8I/AAAAAAAAAL4/PYb8m1-WWpg/s400/daichi%2Band%2Bken%2BOMA%2B012911%2Bpv.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562308751833528258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.turiya-music.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.turiya-music.com/"&gt;Daichi Yoshino&lt;/a&gt; and I have been invited by Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art to perform in its entrance hall on Saturday, the 29th of January. This is going to be our first appearance at the local museum which is located on a hill of grand Obihiro Green Park.&lt;div&gt;We are going to be performing from 4:30 p.m., when twilight blue probably begins to prevail the wooded patio which you can see through the tall floor-to-ceiling windows in the background of our stage. Please look forward to seeing how we fill the quiet venue with our music. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF99FF;"&gt;No charge for our concert (free!).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CC0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  To download this photo flier, &lt;a href="https://files.me.com/kensaitoh/bz6tbp"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;  To download detailed fliers from the museum (Japanese), &lt;a href="http://www.dokyoi.pref.hokkaido.jp/hk-obimu/fukyu/koorimaturi2.pdf"&gt;click here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Coincidentally, there is an impressive exhibition of landscape pictures "Soaked in Landscape. Play with Nature." in cooperation with the Museum of Art in Hakodate, which is Daichi's hometown, also my second hometown. I hope you will enjoy it as well. For details check out &lt;a href="http://www.dokyoi.pref.hokkaido.jp/hk-obimu/index1.html"&gt;the museum's website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1/29（土）北海道立帯広美術館のロビーで&lt;a href="http://www.turiya-music.com/"&gt;吉野大地&lt;/a&gt;と「ミュージアム・コンサート」を行います。広大な帯広グリーンパーク内の丘の上にある同美術館での出演は初。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;午後4:30からのライブで、ちょうどステージの背景の窓一面に広がる中庭の林が黄昏の青色に染まり始まるころ。静かな会場は、私たちの音楽でいっぱいにするとどうなるのやら。&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF99FF;"&gt;入場料は無料。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CC0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;→プリント用ミニフライヤーは&lt;a href="https://files.me.com/kensaitoh/bz6tbp"&gt;こちらから&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;→美術館発行の詳しいチラシは&lt;a href="http://www.dokyoi.pref.hokkaido.jp/hk-obimu/fukyu/koorimaturi2.pdf"&gt;こちらから&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;奇しくも、当日は道立函館美術館の「コラボ」による風景画展「風景に、浸る。自然と、遊ぶ。」も開催中。こちらも楽しめそう。函館は大地さんの出身地、かつ私の第二の故郷。（詳しくは&lt;a href="http://www.dokyoi.pref.hokkaido.jp/hk-obimu/index1.html"&gt;美術館のウェブサイト&lt;/a&gt;をどうぞ。）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-8758565448596355600?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/8758565448596355600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=8758565448596355600' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/8758565448596355600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/8758565448596355600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2010/12/live-performance-at-art-museum.html' title='Live Performance at Art Museum'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TTFKVuQVd8I/AAAAAAAAAL4/PYb8m1-WWpg/s72-c/daichi%2Band%2Bken%2BOMA%2B012911%2Bpv.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-7387245760713720149</id><published>2010-12-18T23:04:00.007+09:00</published><updated>2010-12-18T23:46:09.550+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rancho El Paso'/><title type='text'>Here Comes The Sunshine</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TQzEakfHD-I/AAAAAAAAALk/GtLUFf69Y5s/s1600/121210%2Bwedding.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TQzEakfHD-I/AAAAAAAAALk/GtLUFf69Y5s/s320/121210%2Bwedding.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552028401390784482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I realized the bright sunshine coming in through the windows just when we started playing "Here Comes The Sun," and it was exactly the party coordinator had predicted during our rehearsal.&lt;div&gt;This is a scene from the party to celebrate my friends' wedding at Rancho El Paso. I believe the newly wed couple has had a great heartwarming time with the flowers, food, costumes, live music, hula dancing, etc., thanks to the sun... NOPE! to all the nice friends (more than 80 people!) who gathered to congratulate them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Here Comes The Sunshine" を演奏している時に、温かい日差しが窓から差し込んで来たのに気がついた。パーティの幹事がリハーサル中に予想した通り。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ランチョ・エルパソでの友人の結婚お祝いパーティの1シーン。新婚夫婦は、きれいな花、おいしい食事、仮装（？）、ライブ、フラダンスなどなどでさぞかし満足だったかな。お日様の...いやいや80人以上お祝いに集まってくれたみんなのおかげ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-7387245760713720149?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/7387245760713720149/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=7387245760713720149' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/7387245760713720149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/7387245760713720149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2010/12/i-realized-bright-sunshine-coming-in.html' title='Here Comes The Sunshine'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TQzEakfHD-I/AAAAAAAAALk/GtLUFf69Y5s/s72-c/121210%2Bwedding.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-4600294792031705066</id><published>2010-12-18T20:32:00.012+09:00</published><updated>2011-02-01T17:53:36.676+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Circle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marumigaoka'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thaddius'/><title type='text'>Great Moments of Inspiration</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TQy9E-iIj9I/AAAAAAAAALM/cXSqHfPSE_A/s1600/thaddius%2B101110.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 142px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TQy9E-iIj9I/AAAAAAAAALM/cXSqHfPSE_A/s320/thaddius%2B101110.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552020333844271058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a nice and warm Sunday in October, I was invited by my band mate, &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/thaddius1"&gt;Claude (Thaddius)&lt;/a&gt; to play in his acoustic set with (photo from left to right) Katz a.k.a Fucchie (perc.), &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/1004611117/blog/536634144"&gt;Toshi&lt;/a&gt; (bass), Chip (perc.) at his base station, Marumigaoka-Onsen.&lt;div&gt;As always, Claude just named some songs we could probably play together right before the show. I am sure, although we had not rehearsed together, we were able to weave out pretty nice and groovy music. Yes, even with the artists I've met for the first time (Chip and Toshi this time right on the stage), we can always build something great as long as we keep inspiring one another. This is what I believe live music is about! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cheers, Claude, it's always fun to join you (and for getting the piano tuned).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;10月の温かい日曜日、バンド仲間の&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/thaddius1"&gt;Claude (Thaddius) &lt;/a&gt;に呼ばれて、Katz（フッチー・perc.）、&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/1004611117/blog/536634144"&gt;Toshi&lt;/a&gt; (bass)、Chip (perc.)と一緒に、彼のホームステージ丸美が丘温泉でアコースティクライブに参加。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;いつもどおり、ステージ直前にClaudeがこのメンバーでできそうな曲をチョイス。リハーサルなし。でも、なかなかいいノリだった。お互いに刺激し合っていれば、初対面のアーチスト（ChipとToshiはステージで）とでさえ、いい音楽ができる。これがライブの醍醐味。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Claude、いつも楽しい時間（と調律）をどうもっす。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt; (photo by M-Jane)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-4600294792031705066?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/4600294792031705066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=4600294792031705066' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/4600294792031705066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/4600294792031705066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2010/12/great-moments-of-inspiration.html' title='Great Moments of Inspiration'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TQy9E-iIj9I/AAAAAAAAALM/cXSqHfPSE_A/s72-c/thaddius%2B101110.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-3457086844870750072</id><published>2010-12-18T19:50:00.005+09:00</published><updated>2010-12-18T20:26:12.268+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bike'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bikers Paradise'/><title type='text'>Let It Snow Again</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TQyZh-gdX9I/AAAAAAAAALE/f_dGyWFzMH0/s1600/let_it_snow_121910%2B-%2B02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TQyZh-gdX9I/AAAAAAAAALE/f_dGyWFzMH0/s320/let_it_snow_121910%2B-%2B02.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551981249634852818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is the snowcapped top tube of my bike, worn and battered, but still as reliable as an old friend. We see much more snow here even before Christmas this year. It's time to go mushing!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;すり切れてくたびれた、でも旧友のように頼りがいのある自転車のトップチューブに積もる雪。今年はクリスマス前からずいぶん降る。犬ぞりの出番だ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-3457086844870750072?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/3457086844870750072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=3457086844870750072' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/3457086844870750072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/3457086844870750072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2010/12/let-it-snow-again.html' title='Let It Snow Again'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TQyZh-gdX9I/AAAAAAAAALE/f_dGyWFzMH0/s72-c/let_it_snow_121910%2B-%2B02.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-4252784350937079042</id><published>2010-12-06T20:08:00.004+09:00</published><updated>2010-12-07T01:34:47.242+09:00</updated><title type='text'>Backdating Updates</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"&gt;I am now updating my blog backdating with a lot of topics I have missed to upload in the past half year. I was just too busy....well, no excuse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"&gt;I can't even believe that I haven't purchase an iPhone 4 in spite I have been a power user (classic expression!) of Apple Mac for 24 years. It would&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"&gt; hopefully&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"&gt; help me update my blog more easily.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"&gt;過去半年間にアップし逃した話題をさかのぼって更新している。忙しかった...言い訳はいかんです。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;iPhone 4もまだ買っていない。もう24年もApple Macのパワーユーザー（ちょっと昔の言い方？）なのにもかかわらず...。まあ、（手に入れると）ブログももっと簡単にアップできるようになるんだろうな。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-4252784350937079042?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/4252784350937079042/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=4252784350937079042' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/4252784350937079042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/4252784350937079042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2010/12/backdating-updates.html' title='Backdating Updates'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-2600479054616664859</id><published>2010-12-06T19:57:00.012+09:00</published><updated>2011-01-14T23:24:44.196+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Biodynamic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coffee'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Balmaadi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nilgiris'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biodiversity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='organic'/><title type='text'>What a Great Time a Cup of Coffee Can Make!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TPz2GOMej5I/AAAAAAAAAK8/qAwtvTehNYg/s1600/balmaadi_organic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TPz2GOMej5I/AAAAAAAAAK8/qAwtvTehNYg/s320/balmaadi_organic.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547579427763687314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;This could be one of the most rich coffee I have ever experienced. I am not a coffee connoisseur or taster, nor do I drink it everyday either, but I could immediately feel that this presents very deep taste and lush and diverse aroma.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;I brewed it at home one warm afternoon of October and it could be a perfect match with any relaxing music you name. I would choose &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qcFzZrhkWY&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;this&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;I had a kind of noteworthy chance to meet, Mrs. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Unnamalai Thiagarajan,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; the owner of a fully-organic, Biodynamic coffee estate in India, at the local airport. She came to Tokyo to attend a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scaj2010.jp/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;specialty coffee convention&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; and she took this opportunity to visit &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.baaj.jp/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Biodynamic Farming&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; practitioners and farms in Hokkaido, and we were going to guide her. But unfortunately, she had to turn back on the airplane she flew to here since she had to go back to India ASAP due to unexpected urgency. That was the coffee she left with us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;From her very, very concise presentation (in front of the departure gate!) of her farm in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, we could see that it was carefully grown with no chemicals in the mountainous region blessed with abundant biodiversity, good water and soil. See more details of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.balmaadi.com/aboutus.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Balmaadi Estate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;If you are interested in trying the coffee from my brief impression by any chance, check out &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.specialtycoffee.jp/beans/797.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;for further distributor information (in Japan)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Well, I hope to see her again wherever it may be.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;今まで出会った中でもおそらく一番リッチなコーヒーの一つかも知れない。コーヒー鑑定士でもテイスターでも毎日飲む愛飲家でもない私にも、とても味わいが深くて、贅沢で沢山入り交じった香りに包まれるのがすぐに分かる。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;10月のあたたかな昼下がりに家で入れてみた。どんなゆったりした音楽にもぴったりかと。私なら&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qcFzZrhkWY&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;これ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;かな。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;地元の空港で、インドで有機農法（バイオダイナミック）の農園を経営する&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Unnamalai Thiagarajan女史にお会いする機会があった。実は東京でのスペシャルティコーヒーイベントに出席するために来日、ついでに北海道の&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.baaj.jp/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;バイオダイナミック&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;農家を訪ねたいとこの地にいらっしゃったのでご案内する予定だった。しかしながら、急用でインドに帰ることになり、着いたその脚で同じ飛行機に乗って帰られる事に...。上記は彼女のおみやげのコーヒー。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;（なんと出発ゲート前で!）タミールナドゥ州ニルギリにある農園についての超短いプレゼン。山中の現地の、とても豊かな生物多様性と、上質な水と土壌に支えられ、化学肥料や農薬を一切使っていない事をとりあえず了解。詳しくはこちら（&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.balmaadi.com/aboutus.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Balmaadi Estate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;）。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;こんな紹介でもお飲みになりたい方がいらしたら、&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.specialtycoffee.jp/beans/797.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;こちらへ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;どうぞ。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;また機会があればどこかでお会いしたいものだ。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-2600479054616664859?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TPz2GOMej5I/AAAAAAAAAK8/qAwtvTehNYg/s72-c/balmaadi_organic.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-8752743717346440451</id><published>2010-12-04T14:09:00.008+09:00</published><updated>2010-12-04T14:42:55.016+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Minimokudo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beaujolais Nouveau'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rancho El Paso'/><title type='text'>Beaujolais Nouveau 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TPnSZtwYBEI/AAAAAAAAAK0/1Uq23HR-Dcg/s1600/beaujolais%2Bnouveau%2B111910%2B-%2B7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TPnSZtwYBEI/AAAAAAAAAK0/1Uq23HR-Dcg/s320/beaujolais%2Bnouveau%2B111910%2B-%2B7.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546695755304535106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We had another music show at &lt;a href="http://www.elpaso.co.jp/elpaso/index.html"&gt;Rancho El Paso&lt;/a&gt;'s "Beaujolais Nouveau Dinner Special" on Thursday, November 19th.&lt;div&gt;I was joined by Yohei (guitars/center) as usual and also by the superb guitarist, Yoichi Watanabe (right) and the natural-high vocalist, Ai Tanaka (not shown) both from Minimokudo, as a full acoustic set.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was a great opportunity to make &lt;a href="http://ameblo.jp/minimokudou/"&gt;Minimokudo&lt;/a&gt;'s debut at the venue showing off the great original songs by Yoichi sung by Ai, whom I joined with Choppa (bassist) in their groovy gig on October 30th at Mega Stone.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Besides, wouldn't it be nice to perform under those ham and sausage and between those cactuses? They are all real ones!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To those who came to the show, thank you all for joining us and I hope you enjoyed the fill variety of music we played.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;11/19（木）またまた&lt;a href="http://www.elpaso.co.jp/elpaso/index.html"&gt;ランチョ・エルパソ&lt;/a&gt;「ボージョレー・ヌーヴォー・スペシャル・ディナー」に今年も出演。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;フルアコースティックセットで、いつもの洋平（guit./中央）に加えて、&lt;a href="http://ameblo.jp/minimokudou/"&gt;ミニモク堂&lt;/a&gt;の最高のギタリスト渡辺洋一さん（右）とナチュラルハイのヴォーカリスト田中愛さん（写真なし）も登場。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;洋一さんのオリジナル名曲を愛さんが歌って披露するエルパソデビューのよい機会にもなった。ミニモクとは10/30メガストーンでベースのちょっぱさんとグルービーなライブもやりました。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;それにしても、ハムやソーセージの下、サボテンにはさまれてライブっていうのもいいかも。全部本物。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;お越しいただいたみなさま、最後までおつきあいいただきありがとうございます。なんでもありの選曲で楽しい時間を過ごされたか？と願うところ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(photo by T. Noda)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-8752743717346440451?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/8752743717346440451/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=8752743717346440451' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/8752743717346440451'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/8752743717346440451'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2010/12/beaujolais-nouveau-2011.html' title='Beaujolais Nouveau 2010'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TPnSZtwYBEI/AAAAAAAAAK0/1Uq23HR-Dcg/s72-c/beaujolais%2Bnouveau%2B111910%2B-%2B7.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-1885175820982581284</id><published>2010-12-04T11:43:00.008+09:00</published><updated>2010-12-07T01:13:37.990+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chiaki Hayakawa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Masaya Onishi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maisha ya Raha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='slideshow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kibera Slum'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='percussion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kenya'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drums'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='African music'/><title type='text'>Heat Wave from Africa</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TPm5tMJN-GI/AAAAAAAAAKs/iCjYz7q2we0/s1600/DSC03237.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 201px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TPm5tMJN-GI/AAAAAAAAAKs/iCjYz7q2we0/s320/DSC03237.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546668602088618082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was involved in a live music show by an African music group on the 20th of October at Hokkaido Yell Center as a sound engineer. (I was asked the day before! My Goodness!) It was unexpectedly small but I really had a big time though.&lt;div&gt;The group was led by Chiaki Hayakawa (vocal) and Masaya Onishi (vo., gt. &amp;amp; perc.) and joined by Norihiko Yamakita (perc.) and Hiromi Kondo (perc.) (photo: from left to right), and (some of them) were on tour all over Japan calling for people's support for the education and independent lives of African children and their monetary fund, "Maisha ya Raha ("happy life" in Swahili)" they built for such purposes. For further information on their endeavor, please check their &lt;a href="http://www.maisha-raha.com/newhp.html"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Their passionate and energetic performance as well as the beautiful slideshow they presented were so impressive that I hoped much more people had known this event earlier. Probably because of the lack of organized advertisement efforts, there wasn't a big turnout of audiences this time unfortunately, but definitely not next time though.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;10/20に帯広エールセンターでのアフリカンミュージックのライブに音響のお手伝いをした。（頼まれたのは前日！ぎゃあ〜）予期せず小さなイベントになってしまったけれど、とても楽しかった。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;パフォーマーは早川千晶さん（vo.）、大西匡哉（まさや）さん（vo., gt. &amp;amp; perc.）、そして山北のりひこさん（perc.） そして近藤ひろみさん（perc.）の4人。そのうち何人かで日本中をツアーして、アフリカの子供達の教育と自立のための支援を求めて回っている。詳しい&lt;a href="http://www.maisha-raha.com/newhp.html"&gt;活動内容&lt;/a&gt;はこちら。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;心に残る熱い演奏と美しいスライドショーを目の当たりにして、もっともっとたくさんの人たちがこのイベントのことを早くに知っていたらと思った。おそらく組織的に広告宣伝ができなかったので満員にできなかったのが悔しいが、次はそんな事がないようにと願う。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-1885175820982581284?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/1885175820982581284/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=1885175820982581284' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/1885175820982581284'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/1885175820982581284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2010/12/heat-wave-from-africa.html' title='Heat Wave from Africa'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TPm5tMJN-GI/AAAAAAAAAKs/iCjYz7q2we0/s72-c/DSC03237.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-353140434484302261</id><published>2010-12-03T23:45:00.007+09:00</published><updated>2010-12-04T00:16:25.568+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='green'/><title type='text'>VietJapBraz 2010 Meet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TPkGIES_LHI/AAAAAAAAAKM/MeyF4p0gA1E/s1600/vietjapbraz%2B-%2B04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TPkGIES_LHI/AAAAAAAAAKM/MeyF4p0gA1E/s200/vietjapbraz%2B-%2B04.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546471151745576050" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;In September, three gangster clan bosses from Brazil, Vietnam and Japan (in the order of the photos) had their annual secret gathering in downtown Obihiro.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You know it's cool to hang around by bus these days, not in those outrageously huge black limos anymore. Yes, we even go green too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;9月にブラジル、ベトナム、日本（写真順）のギャングの親分3人が帯広で恒例の&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TPkGInOLp4I/AAAAAAAAAKU/5FKAlS-bgZM/s200/vietjapbraz%2B-%2B06.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546471161120663426" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;秘密会議。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;最近は路線バスでうろうろするのがクールなんですぜ。あのバカでっかい黒いリムジンというのはもうナンセンス。私たちもエコで行く時代だ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TPkGI1oN3kI/AAAAAAAAAKc/_IDeMaYYPOs/s200/vietjapbraz%2B-%2B07.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546471164987956802" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-353140434484302261?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/353140434484302261/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=353140434484302261' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/353140434484302261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/353140434484302261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2010/12/vietjapbraz-2010-meet.html' title='VietJapBraz 2010 Meet'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TPkGIES_LHI/AAAAAAAAAKM/MeyF4p0gA1E/s72-c/vietjapbraz%2B-%2B04.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-1671116735628183282</id><published>2010-11-18T02:00:00.014+09:00</published><updated>2010-12-17T09:26:27.836+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jimmy Webb'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='songwriters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Just Across The River'/><title type='text'>Nashville, Just Across the River</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TPiTvDaXbPI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/Hj50FGsOGDY/s1600/jimmy_webb%2B-%2B3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TPiTvDaXbPI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/Hj50FGsOGDY/s320/jimmy_webb%2B-%2B3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546345377685794034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;Great! Finally I have got &lt;a href="http://jimmywebb.com/"&gt;Jimmy Webb&lt;/a&gt;'s latest CD "&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBb5p1aQ2jw"&gt;JUST ACROSS THE RIVER&lt;/a&gt;," which was produced by Fred Mollin, the same producer as "Ten Easy Pieces (96)," and recorded in Nashville (!) with his live band and whole bunch of prominent artists featured in its tracks.&lt;/div&gt;For example, &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sXP533I5eo"&gt;Billy Joel sings "Wichita Lineman"&lt;/a&gt; just as if it had been written by him, while&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNz-gdc8vxw&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt; Jackson Browne covers "P. F. Sloan"&lt;/a&gt; perfectly with the composer. Needless to say Linda Ronstadt and Glen Campbell prove that they are really meant to sing his songs. And more...&lt;div&gt;Out of quite a few great American songwriters, "Tunesmith" &lt;a href="http://jimmywebb.com/"&gt;Jimmy Webb&lt;/a&gt; has always been very special for me.&lt;div&gt;How could I forget the great low-keyed light in his eyes when he really grabbed my hand when I met him in Tokyo after his solo gig? (photo: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBb5p1aQ2jw"&gt;JUST ACROSS THE RIVER&lt;/a&gt; and "Suspending Disblief (93)" CD sleeve autographed by Mr. Webb) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;最高! &lt;a href="http://jimmywebb.com/"&gt;Jimmy Webb&lt;/a&gt;の新譜"&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBb5p1aQ2jw"&gt;JUST ACROSS THE RIVER&lt;/a&gt;"（セルフカバーアルバム）をやっと入手。プロデューサーは96年の"Ten Easy Pieces"のFred Mollin、そして自分の生バンドを従えて、超豪華なゲストアーチストたちを迎えてナッシュビル録音！ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;例えば、&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sXP533I5eo"&gt;Billy Joelが"Wichita Lineman"&lt;/a&gt;をまるで自分の曲のように歌い、&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNz-gdc8vxw&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;Jackson Browneが"P. F. Sloan"&lt;/a&gt;を作曲者と一緒に完璧なカバー。もちろん、Linda RonstadtやGlen Campbellも彼の曲を歌うためにいるようなもの。そのほかたくさん。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;並みいるアメリカの偉大なソングライターたちの中でも、私にとって"Tunesmith"の&lt;a href="http://jimmywebb.com/"&gt;Jimmy Webb&lt;/a&gt;は特別だ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;以前彼のライブのあとに東京で会った時、がっちり私の手を握ってくれた彼の目の中のしぶーい光を未だに忘れない。（写真："&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBb5p1aQ2jw"&gt;JUST ACROSS THE RIVER&lt;/a&gt;"とスリーブにサインしてもらった"Suspending Disbelief (93)"）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-1671116735628183282?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/1671116735628183282/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=1671116735628183282' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/1671116735628183282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/1671116735628183282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2010/11/nashville-just-across-river.html' title='Nashville, Just Across the River'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TPiTvDaXbPI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/Hj50FGsOGDY/s72-c/jimmy_webb%2B-%2B3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-7035634061157183235</id><published>2010-06-09T02:33:00.007+09:00</published><updated>2010-12-04T18:25:50.030+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Summer Solstice Organic Festival'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='street live performance'/><title type='text'>Busking in Downtown</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TA6B-eirBaI/AAAAAAAAAJY/2RxfQeNlQRI/s1600/live.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TA6B-eirBaI/AAAAAAAAAJY/2RxfQeNlQRI/s200/live.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480460706906834338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To promote &lt;a href="http://diary.oubdfarm.com/konomi/462.html"&gt;Ben &amp;amp; Konomi's Summer Solstice Eco Festival 2010 for the Organic Movement&lt;/a&gt;, 13 artists who are appearing in the festival showed up in downtown Obihiro last Sunday. It was a beautiful sunny day, but if it had not been a sports day for school kids in the area, we could have seen more people walking around though. It was totally not like Shibuya or Yokohama.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I would like to say thanks to all the dedicated musicians who joined together to enjoy performing outdoors.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Participated are: Trevor (vocal, guitar &amp;amp; mandolin), Hiroshi (vocal &amp;amp; guitar), Choppa (ukulele), Charles (accordion), Maud (vocal &amp;amp; accordion), Ai (vocal), Yoichi (guitar), Ako (percussion), Yuma (vocal &amp;amp; flute), Toshimitsu (percussion), Keiichiro (guitar), Maa-kun (percussion) &amp;amp; Shinya (special appearance).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We are going to have a fabulous music festival!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://diary.oubdfarm.com/konomi/462.html"&gt;BenとKonomiの夏至オーガニックフェスティバル2010&lt;/a&gt;のプロモーションのために、同フェスティバルに出場するアーチストが13名集まって、帯広中心部でストリートライブを敢行。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TA6BrEu61lI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/cPj9um15-nY/s320/PT108+060910+-+3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480460373561366098" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;晴天に恵まれたけれど、運動会の日だったために人通りもまばら。渋谷&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;や横浜のようにはいかん。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;屋外ライブに参加してくれたすばらしいミュージシャンたちに「ありがとう」。（出演者は上記）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;いけてるミュージックフェスティバルにしたいものだ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(musicians photo by TH)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-7035634061157183235?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/7035634061157183235/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=7035634061157183235' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/7035634061157183235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/7035634061157183235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2010/06/busking-in-downtown.html' title='Busking in Downtown'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TA6B-eirBaI/AAAAAAAAAJY/2RxfQeNlQRI/s72-c/live.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-8470618594623652923</id><published>2010-06-02T22:04:00.009+09:00</published><updated>2011-01-23T00:21:57.577+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bike'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bicycle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bikers Paradise'/><title type='text'>Nice Ride through Forest</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TAZnam74u7I/AAAAAAAAAJA/m5xMuynR60k/s1600/obihiro+forest+ride+060110+-+9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TAZnam74u7I/AAAAAAAAAJA/m5xMuynR60k/s320/obihiro+forest+ride+060110+-+9.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478179703568776114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yeah, Monday was a perfect day for riding through &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;q=obihiro&amp;amp;sll=42.895248,143.149645&amp;amp;sspn=0.004535,0.008175&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;split=1&amp;amp;rq=1&amp;amp;ev=zi&amp;amp;radius=0.25&amp;amp;hq=obihiro&amp;amp;hnear=&amp;amp;ll=42.895122,143.148186&amp;amp;spn=0.004535,0.008175&amp;amp;z=17"&gt;"Obihiro's Forest."&lt;/a&gt; The bikers &amp;amp; walkers' path is also a perfect shortcut without traffic lights or any other obstructions up to almost halfway to the destination.  It normally takes about 15 minutes by car, but it takes me exactly the same by bicycle, then why go by car?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;q=obihiro&amp;amp;sll=42.895248,143.149645&amp;amp;sspn=0.004535,0.008175&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;split=1&amp;amp;rq=1&amp;amp;ev=zi&amp;amp;radius=0.25&amp;amp;hq=obihiro&amp;amp;hnear=&amp;amp;ll=42.895122,143.148186&amp;amp;spn=0.004535,0.008175&amp;amp;z=17"&gt;「帯広の森」&lt;/a&gt;を走るのにパーフェクトな日和。自転車歩行者遊歩道はもちろん信号も障害もなく、目的地までの半分くらいの地点まで完璧なショートカット。通常クルマで約15分のルートが自転車でも全く同じ。自転車で充分か?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TAZnmkphlyI/AAAAAAAAAJI/w1blcRLWvc0/s320/obihiro+forest+ride+060110+-+5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478179909113321250" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-8470618594623652923?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/8470618594623652923/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=8470618594623652923' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/8470618594623652923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/8470618594623652923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2010/06/nice-ride-through-forest.html' title='Nice Ride through Forest'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/TAZnam74u7I/AAAAAAAAAJA/m5xMuynR60k/s72-c/obihiro+forest+ride+060110+-+9.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-5300084219978317609</id><published>2010-05-26T11:01:00.006+09:00</published><updated>2010-05-26T11:33:45.939+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='second harvest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mottainai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NPO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Food Not Being Eaten?</title><content type='html'>Do you know that in Japan more than 5-million tons of harvested or processed food is disposed of every year? This is the reality in the country of  "Mottainai" culture.&lt;div&gt;I have seen on TV about &lt;a href="http://www.2hj.org/"&gt;Second Harvest Japan&lt;/a&gt;, and it has also given me a lot of hints about what an NPO can do for the society.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Food is made not so much for financial profit as for humanitarian benefit of all people, I hope.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;日本では毎年500万t以上の食品が廃棄されているって知ってますか？でもこれが「もったいない」文化の国の現状。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;テレビで&lt;a href="http://www.2hj.org/"&gt;「セカンドハーベスト ジャパン」&lt;/a&gt;が紹介されているのを見て、NPOというものが社会のためにできることも考えさせられた。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;「食べ物」は経済的な利得のためより、全ての人々が恩恵にあずかるためにあるはずだと願いたい。 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-5300084219978317609?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/5300084219978317609/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=5300084219978317609' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/5300084219978317609'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/5300084219978317609'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2010/05/food-not-being-eaten.html' title='Food Not Being Eaten?'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-2095895269699624771</id><published>2010-05-24T22:54:00.008+09:00</published><updated>2010-05-26T10:35:33.151+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='naitai highland farm'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bike'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bicycle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bikers Paradise'/><title type='text'>As Free As The Wind Again</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/S_qPPaY08RI/AAAAAAAAAI4/vyxsQeYiDII/s1600/naitai+HF+052310.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/S_qPPaY08RI/AAAAAAAAAI4/vyxsQeYiDII/s320/naitai+HF+052310.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474845791966523666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;Once again, I went biking in Naitai Highland Farm which I introduced in &lt;a href="http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2010/05/free-as-wind.html"&gt;my previous post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This time I was shot all day by NHK TV crew with a reporter, who for the first time climbed the grand and hilly farmland by bicycle, but she really made it. Quite a girl! I testify it isn't a staged show.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We were expecting the weather to be fine, but the foothill of the Daisetsu Mountain National Park was covered with pretty dense fog (photo).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Let's see what the report will be broadcast like:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(both on NHK-G)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ohayo Hokkaido/Burari Mite Aruki on Saturday, 29 May from 7:30 a.m. (hokkaido-local)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yudoki Network/Retto Tsutsu-Uraura on Thursday, 10 June from 4:50 p.m. (nationwide)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;またもや、ナイタイ高原牧場へ自転車を乗りに。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;今度はNHKのクルーに、初めて自転車での登頂？に挑戦するリポーターとともに撮られっぱなしだった。心配をよそに彼女は登頂に成功！なかなかだ。ヤラセではありませんよ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;天気はよくなるはずだったけれど、大雪山の麓は濃霧（写真通り）に包まれてしまった。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;放送内容はどうなることやら...。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;5月29日 7:30 a.m. おはよう北海道・ぶらりみてある記（北海道地方）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;6月10日 4:50 p.m. ゆうどきネットワーク 列島津々浦々（全国）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-2095895269699624771?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/2095895269699624771/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=2095895269699624771' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/2095895269699624771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/2095895269699624771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2010/05/as-free-as-wind-again.html' title='As Free As The Wind Again'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/S_qPPaY08RI/AAAAAAAAAI4/vyxsQeYiDII/s72-c/naitai+HF+052310.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-4176781763424717382</id><published>2010-05-17T23:58:00.010+09:00</published><updated>2011-01-14T23:58:19.563+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='naitai highland farm'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bike'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bikers Paradise'/><title type='text'>As Free As The Wind</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/S_Fayl4lAeI/AAAAAAAAAIw/I18AEG9wukk/s320/naitai+HF+051510+-+39.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472254847441240546" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On Saturday, I biked with my friend up to and down from the top of &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=43.275331,143.201294&amp;amp;spn=0.070114,0.141964&amp;amp;z=13"&gt;the biggest dairy farm in Japan&lt;/a&gt;, where we still saw snow patches all around.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is a part of the video footage he captured then, of course, on the way down!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;土曜日に、残雪の散在する&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=43.275331,143.201294&amp;amp;spn=0.070114,0.141964&amp;amp;z=13"&gt;日本一でかい牧場&lt;/a&gt;の頂上へ、自転車で登って降りてきた。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;こちらは、（もちろん下りの時に）彼が収録したもの。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  white-space: pre; 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margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/S8X1-kCTbyI/AAAAAAAAAIo/q3E7QntJtJk/s320/profiles_daichi_ken.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460040578430627618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/S8X1QWXuwJI/AAAAAAAAAIg/Dc1mVtljSa4/s1600/img-404170827-0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/S8X1QWXuwJI/AAAAAAAAAIg/Dc1mVtljSa4/s320/img-404170827-0001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460039784488419474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Sunday, the 9th of May may be a memorable day of a kind for my musical career. Daichi and I are going to have a gig at a (Buddhist) temple for the first time.&lt;div&gt;I heard some young monks of the temple called Myoken-Ji in Kushiro enthusiastically coordinate a pretty good live music show every year in order to offer more opportunities for neighbors and citizens to feel more familiar to the public asset.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although it will be a show in normally solemn atmosphere, we will be very happy to share a nice and relaxing time with everyone. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;No admission charge! The venue opens at 4:00 p.m. and some dishes are going to be served, the show begins at 5:30. Please check this flier for details.  *Info: 0154-55-4444 Myoken-Ji (Temple)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;5月9日（日）は私の音楽人生の中でもちょっとした思い出になるかも知れない。なんと吉野大地さんと私のライブがお寺で開催される。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;妙堅寺という釧路のお寺の若い僧侶さんたちが、地域の人たちの共有の財産としてお寺にもっと親しみを持って欲しいと、毎年なかなかいいライブを熱心に主催しているそうな。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;いつもは荘厳な雰囲気の中にもかかわらず、ゆったりとくつろげる時間がみなさんと過ごせればありがたいです。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;なんと入場無料! 開場は4:00 p.m.、お食事（有料）も出るそうな。開演は5:30 p.m.。詳しくはこのフライヤーをどうぞ。お問い合わせは0154-55-4444の妙堅寺さんまで。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-6816804989247102230?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/6816804989247102230/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=6816804989247102230' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/6816804989247102230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/6816804989247102230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2010/04/live-music-at-temple-in-kushiro.html' title='Live Music at a Temple in Kushiro'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/S8X1-kCTbyI/AAAAAAAAAIo/q3E7QntJtJk/s72-c/profiles_daichi_ken.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-1735948604438025438</id><published>2010-02-03T23:23:00.014+09:00</published><updated>2011-01-23T00:21:25.074+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='map'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tokachi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bike'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bicycle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bikers Paradise'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Slow Wave Sunku Village'/><title type='text'>"Bikers Paradise" Map #1 To Be Issued!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/S2mY5vxWmaI/AAAAAAAAAIY/MSZeFCenknk/s1600-h/bikers_paradise_FP_S.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 155px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/S2mY5vxWmaI/AAAAAAAAAIY/MSZeFCenknk/s320/bikers_paradise_FP_S.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434042543242647970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ever since I came back to Tokachi, I have been hoping to see more people, locals and tourists, enjoy biking in this area. Although we have pretty long and severe winter here, Tokachi's modestly rolling hills and vast plains surrounded by the amazingly beautiful mountain ridges and horizons stretching in the distance could always be the good reason why I would call it "Bikers Paradise."&lt;div&gt;Recently I have produced a nice guide map for tourists and local cyclists for the first time on behalf of NPO Slow Wave Sunku Village, a local volunteer group acting for sustainable society and lifestyle.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This map contains quite a lot of items including 3 maps from the one covering downtown Obihiro to the entire Tokachi region, 10 model courses and safety information, etc. If you are interested, please &lt;a href="http://files.me.com/kensaitoh/zopan1"&gt;download&lt;/a&gt; the high-res preview data (about 10MB) in A3 size (297 x 420 mm), which is separated into 4 pages. (password: bikers)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(Sorry, English-Japanese edition will be available from the next issue on hopefully.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;sorry,&gt;&lt;/sorry,&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I hope you will find biking in Tokachi amusing!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;十勝に戻って来てから、ずっともっとたくさんの人たちが自転車に乗ってくれるといいなと思っていました。冬はすこしきびしくて長いけれど、美しい山並みとどこまでも広がる地平線に囲まれたなだらかな起伏と広い平野だけでも、「バイカーズ・パラダイス」（自転車天国）と呼ぶには充分な素地がある（と思っています）。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;最近、NPOスローウェーブすんく村（持続可能な社会とライフスタイルのために活動するグループ）を代表して、旅行者にも地元の人たちにも見ていただきたいガイドマップを作りました。帯広中心部から十勝全域の3つのマップと、10のモデルコース、安全情報などをてんこ盛り。ご興味の方は、実寸A3サイズのプレビューデータ（10MB・4ページに分割）を用意しましたので、こちらから&lt;a href="http://files.me.com/kensaitoh/zopan1"&gt;ダウンロード&lt;/a&gt;(パスワード: bikers)の上、ご覧くださいな。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://files.me.com/kensaitoh/zopan1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;十勝で自転車乗りは楽しい!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-1735948604438025438?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/1735948604438025438/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=1735948604438025438' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/1735948604438025438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/1735948604438025438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2010/02/bikers-paradise-map-1-to-be-issued.html' title='&quot;Bikers Paradise&quot; Map #1 To Be Issued!'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/S2mY5vxWmaI/AAAAAAAAAIY/MSZeFCenknk/s72-c/bikers_paradise_FP_S.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-505108260420904748</id><published>2010-01-04T17:55:00.005+09:00</published><updated>2010-01-04T18:45:22.963+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tiger'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Greetings'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Archangel Gabriel'/><title type='text'>The Year Of The Tiger</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/S0G3z5IJaKI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/P74qNUn7doo/s1600-h/a+zoo+39+trmd.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/S0G3z5IJaKI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/P74qNUn7doo/s320/a+zoo+39+trmd.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422817528466991266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A Happy New Year Of The Tiger!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Last year was my year (Ox) and I opened my door to my further voyage. Thanks to Archangel Gabriel, my future paths are getting clearer hopefully.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My new year's resolution: "Sail on." I wonder what the next water will be like.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;あけましておめでとうございます。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;昨年（丑）は年男で、更なる航海へのとびらを開けた。大天使ガブリエルのおかげで航路が見えて来たのかも。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;今年の抱負は「航海続行」、次の海はどんなのだろうか。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;今年もどうぞよろしくお願いいたします。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(photo: ©2007 ken）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-505108260420904748?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/505108260420904748/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=505108260420904748' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/505108260420904748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/505108260420904748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2010/01/year-of-tiger.html' title='The Year Of The Tiger'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/S0G3z5IJaKI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/P74qNUn7doo/s72-c/a+zoo+39+trmd.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-2824146535358600368</id><published>2010-01-04T15:09:00.005+09:00</published><updated>2010-01-04T15:19:13.239+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='piano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daichi Yoshino'/><title type='text'>Our Best Concert 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/S0GGOFuM7sI/AAAAAAAAAII/wtImndTeBME/s1600-h/020+berries.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/S0GGOFuM7sI/AAAAAAAAAII/wtImndTeBME/s320/020+berries.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422763002943041218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/11/greetings-from-sky.html"&gt;The Warmth Of Life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;23 December&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://ameblo.jp/turiya-music/"&gt;Daichi Yoshino&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; ken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I felt as if I had played for only 5 minutes even after having performed 5 or 6 songs... just like our music and time had been absorbed into the atmosphere in the venue.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thanks to all the support of the event staff and the uncompromising conditioning by the sound crew and piano tuner, we were able to present every piece of music deeply and softly without being distracted.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Moreover, it was probably the full house of the audience who breathed in our music most, so all of them remained still in the seat even after we left the stage. Thank you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We are also very happy to unexpectedly, but successfully perform our second encore we just improvised without rehearsing. I thought we were going to offer some warmth, but it was the audience who made the show with their warm compliments.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;No warmth of life, no music.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/11/greetings-from-sky.html"&gt;ライブ「いのちのぬくもり」&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;12/23&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://ameblo.jp/turiya-music/"&gt;吉野大地&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; ken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;あけましておめでとうございます。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;5、6曲演奏したあとでも、5分くらいしかたっていないと感じた不思議な感覚... なんだか会場の空気に音楽とともに時間も吸い込まれるような...。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;スタッフの協力に支えられ、音響クルーと調律師さんの妥協知らずの調整のおかげで、気を散らさずに1曲1曲を深く丁寧に表現できた。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;きっと、私たちの演奏を吸い込んでくださったのは満場のお客様。最後の曲が終わっても席を立たずにいてくださった。ありがとうございます。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;予期せぬ2度目のアンコールでの全く準備なしの即興も成功。こちらが温かい演奏をしようなんて思っていたけれど、ライブを温かく支えてくださったのはみなさんの方でした。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;「いのちのぬくもり」なくして、音楽はあらず。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A Happy New Year!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-2824146535358600368?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/2824146535358600368/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=2824146535358600368' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/2824146535358600368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/2824146535358600368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2010/01/our-best-concert-2009.html' title='Our Best Concert 2009'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/S0GGOFuM7sI/AAAAAAAAAII/wtImndTeBME/s72-c/020+berries.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-7983515094415606252</id><published>2009-11-27T00:54:00.006+09:00</published><updated>2009-11-27T01:35:07.215+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Circle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rancho El Paso'/><title type='text'>The Circle's Christmas 2009</title><content type='html'>The Circle will come back to "Great Country Festival" again. Surrounded by those good ol' soft and smooth local country musicians, Broncos and Chuck Wagon, are we really going to rock again? Well, let's see how we groove with a special guest singer, Yuma, who was featured in &lt;a href="http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/11/club-beaujolais-nouveau-2009.html"&gt;my previous post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div&gt;This blurry photo is from this year's organic summer solstice festival, (from right to left) Choppa (bass), Dan (drums), Yohei (guitar), Claude (vocal, guitar) and me (key), on the truck bed stage built by &lt;a href="http://diary.oubdfarm.com/ben/index.html"&gt;Ben&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div&gt;I do hope we will see you having fun at &lt;a href="http://www.elpaso.co.jp/elpaso/events.html"&gt;Rancho El Paso&lt;/a&gt; on Saturday, the 12th of December.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 169px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/Sw6qOZZDjnI/AAAAAAAAAH8/mJgz5KDsRPQ/s320/SSOF09_05_trmd.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408447366829411954" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Circleがまた「グレートカントリーフェスティバル」に帰ってくる。あの懐かしくて優しい音を奏でる地元カントリーミュージシャンのブロンコスとチャックワゴンに囲まれて、またロックしちゃうのだろうか？今年はゲストシンガーのYuma（&lt;a href="http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/11/club-beaujolais-nouveau-2009.html"&gt;前のブログ参照&lt;/a&gt;）も加わり、どうなるかお楽しみに。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;今年の夏至まつりからのブレブレ写真は、&lt;a href="http://diary.oubdfarm.com/ben/index.html"&gt;Ben&lt;/a&gt;の手によるトラックの荷台のステージで、右から Choppa (bass), Dan (drums), Yohei (guitar), Claude (vocal, guitar) そして私 (key)。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;12/12（土）、&lt;a href="http://www.elpaso.co.jp/elpaso/events.html"&gt;ランチョ・エルパソ&lt;/a&gt;でぜひお楽しみを。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-7983515094415606252?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/7983515094415606252/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=7983515094415606252' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/7983515094415606252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/7983515094415606252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/11/circles-christmas-2009.html' title='The Circle&apos;s Christmas 2009'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/Sw6qOZZDjnI/AAAAAAAAAH8/mJgz5KDsRPQ/s72-c/SSOF09_05_trmd.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-3450951961010618900</id><published>2009-11-14T12:54:00.007+09:00</published><updated>2009-11-15T01:33:09.411+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yuma'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flute'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acoustic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guitar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yohei'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='piano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rancho El Paso'/><title type='text'>Club Beaujolais Nouveau 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/Sv4qqB8ZIRI/AAAAAAAAAHs/6j7hOgINjtc/s1600-h/DSC02715.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/Sv4qqB8ZIRI/AAAAAAAAAHs/6j7hOgINjtc/s320/DSC02715.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403803504455786770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;My next gig at Rancho El Paso is featuring an acoustic set with Yohei (guitar) and Yuma (vocal &amp;amp; flute) on Thursday, 19th November for the restaurant's dinner service to celebrate the release of Beaujolais Nouveau 2009. Yohei is a young but awesome guitarist who has been playing with me in many occasions and Yuma is a pretty soulful vocalist who made her debut on this unit in October at the same venue (photo).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We are covering some charming pop/rock classics with the combination of the piano and guitar as well as Yuma's flute for some songs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;No tickets or door charge necessary! Free! I hope you will enjoy our music along with their brand new selection of the French wines and special menu.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Besides, we are all Pisces coincidentally...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For more info: &lt;a href="http://www.elpaso.co.jp/elpaso/events.html"&gt;http://www.elpaso.co.jp/elpaso/events.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;次のライブは、11/19（木）ランチョ・エルパソでの2009年ボジョレーヌーボー・ディナーのためのアコースティックセット。登場するのは、もう何度か一緒に演奏して来た、若いけれどかなりイケてるギタリストYoheiと、10月に同じハコでのデビュー？を果たしたYumaという、けっこうソウルフルなボーカリスト。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ピアノとギターをベースに、Yumaのフルートも加えて、親しみやすいPopやRockのカバーを中心に演奏する予定。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;新物ワインとスペシャルメニューとともにお楽しみに。入場無料ですよ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ところで、なんと偶然3人とも魚座。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;イベント情報、詳しくは&lt;a href="http://www.elpaso.co.jp/elpaso/events.html"&gt;こちら&lt;/a&gt;をどうぞ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-3450951961010618900?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/3450951961010618900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=3450951961010618900' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/3450951961010618900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/3450951961010618900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/11/club-beaujolais-nouveau-2009.html' title='Club Beaujolais Nouveau 2009'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/Sv4qqB8ZIRI/AAAAAAAAAHs/6j7hOgINjtc/s72-c/DSC02715.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-8165998619243118150</id><published>2009-11-10T18:21:00.015+09:00</published><updated>2009-11-16T15:04:23.798+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Voice from the Sky'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='December 23'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ken'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='piano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daichi Yoshino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gig'/><title type='text'>Greetings from the Sky</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/Svk48lt510I/AAAAAAAAAHk/G-bpg-Zm-u0/s1600-h/122309+flier+back.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 222px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/Svk48lt510I/AAAAAAAAAHk/G-bpg-Zm-u0/s320/122309+flier+back.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402411841575573314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/Svk48V66lHI/AAAAAAAAAHc/KucoF8ako64/s1600-h/122309+flier.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 225px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/Svk48V66lHI/AAAAAAAAAHc/KucoF8ako64/s320/122309+flier.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402411837335180402" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.turiya-music.com/"&gt;Daichi Yoshino&lt;/a&gt; could certainly change the entire atmosphere of a large concert hall, not with the volume of his voice, but probably with its unmistakably spiritual quality. That's why I sometimes feel honored to back him up. Right before this Christmas, on the 23rd of December (national holiday), I am sure you can relax and experience something you haven't at our gig. Please check this out!&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.turiya-music.com/"&gt;吉野大地&lt;/a&gt;は、声量で圧倒するのではなく、魂からとしかたとえようがない声質で大きなコンサートホールの空気全体でさえも変えてしまう。そんな彼の伴奏役ができるのは、とてもありがたい。今年のクリスマスの直前（12/23 祝日）、ゆったりと今まで経験したことのないライブの過ごし方はいかが？詳しくはこちらのフライヤーをどうぞ。（&lt;a href="http://ameblo.jp/turiya-music/page-1.html#main"&gt;吉野大地のブログ&lt;/a&gt;もどうぞ。）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-8165998619243118150?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/8165998619243118150/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=8165998619243118150' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/8165998619243118150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/8165998619243118150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/11/greetings-from-sky.html' title='Greetings from the Sky'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/Svk48lt510I/AAAAAAAAAHk/G-bpg-Zm-u0/s72-c/122309+flier+back.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-8800491086098282884</id><published>2009-11-08T01:16:00.011+09:00</published><updated>2009-11-16T06:27:52.031+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hapo ne tay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='forest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gallery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ainu'/><title type='text'>Mother Forest Gallery</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SwBxgdl8aqI/AAAAAAAAAH0/NrK__Djrt_g/s1600-h/haponetay_23.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SwBxgdl8aqI/AAAAAAAAAH0/NrK__Djrt_g/s320/haponetay_23.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404444355358124706" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Deep in the forest located on the foothills of &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=42.847779,142.88578&amp;amp;spn=0.141713,0.288048&amp;amp;z=12"&gt;Tsurugi Mountain&lt;/a&gt;, Shimizu, Hokkaido was an experimental outdoor gallery which was opened by some young Ainu artists who usually live in Tokyo area.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The forest was named "Hapo Ne Tay" which means Mother Forest in Ainu language. The owner, Rumiko Ehara offers her property as a place and opportunity for the young artists who are trying to find their own ways of new artistic expressions based on the long-lasting tradition of the tribe.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Her daugher, Utae Ehara has been producing such events, exchanges, promotions and exhibitions in the metropolitan area as well as in Hokkaido.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Exhibited as &lt;a href="http://www.tokachistyle.jp/td.cgi?id=TD000014488"&gt;Forest Gallery&lt;/a&gt; in September were the impressive pieces of work by Shogo Yoshino and Sayo Ogasawara. Shogo creates them with hand-drawn lines to symbolize celestial bodies (photo: "Sun") and animals while Sayo demonstrates unique and colorful illustrations of the gods = animals and traditional Ainu patterns.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the quiet white birch and larch forest where you can hear the sound of streams and birds echoing, surrounded by their handmade works of art displayed here and there, the entire gallery itself was standing as if it were also a piece of art. I hope &lt;a href="http://gallery.me.com/kensaitoh#100089&amp;amp;bgcolor=black&amp;amp;view=mosaic&amp;amp;sel=0"&gt;my gallery&lt;/a&gt; conveys such atmosphere too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;北海道清水町の&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=42.847779,142.88578&amp;amp;spn=0.141713,0.288048&amp;amp;z=12"&gt;剣山&lt;/a&gt;の麓の森の奥深くに、首都圏に住むアイヌアーチスト達による実験的なアウトドアギャラリーがオープンした。「ハポネタイ」（アイヌ語で「母なる森」）と名付けられた森、代表の惠原るみこさんが、民族の長い伝統を受け継ぎながらも新しい表現を見いだしていこうとする若いアーチストたちに場所と機会を提供している。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;惠原さんの娘さん、詩乃（うたえ）さんは、このようなイベントや交流、普及活動、展示会を首都圏や道内でプロデュースして回る。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;9月に&lt;a href="http://www.tokachistyle.jp/td.cgi?id=TD000014488"&gt;「二人展」&lt;/a&gt;として展示されていたのは、芳野省吾さんと小笠原小夜さんの美しい作品の数々。省吾さんは手描きのラインで天体や動物たちをシンボライズし、小夜さんは神様である動物たちとアイヌの伝統模様を個性的でカラフルに表現する。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;せせらぎの音と鳥の声が響く静かな森の中に、人間の手でつくられた作品が点在するギャラリー全体そのものが作品のようだった。そんな雰囲気が私の&lt;a href="http://gallery.me.com/kensaitoh#100089&amp;amp;bgcolor=black&amp;amp;view=mosaic&amp;amp;sel=0"&gt;ギャラリー&lt;/a&gt;からも伝わるといい。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(Special thanks to Ms. Ehara, Utae, Shogo and Sayo)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For more information:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hokkaido-nl.jp/detail.cgi?id=1535"&gt;http://www.hokkaido-nl.jp/detail.cgi?id=1535&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-8800491086098282884?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/8800491086098282884/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=8800491086098282884' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/8800491086098282884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/8800491086098282884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/11/mother-forest-gallery.html' title='Mother Forest Gallery'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SwBxgdl8aqI/AAAAAAAAAH0/NrK__Djrt_g/s72-c/haponetay_23.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-1593743497651699864</id><published>2009-10-02T02:05:00.021+09:00</published><updated>2011-01-21T12:28:32.021+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Voice from the Sky'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daichi Yoshino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='African music'/><title type='text'>Celebration Echoing in the Mountains</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SsjIjXju94I/AAAAAAAAAGc/O6dPFkpczS0/s1600-h/P5270912.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SsjIjXju94I/AAAAAAAAAGc/O6dPFkpczS0/s320/P5270912.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388777464093669250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The view from the outdoor stage which was built in the middle of the bumpy meadows of Saito Farm (see &lt;a href="http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/08/something-unusual.html"&gt;***&lt;/a&gt;)  was like a big Sunday picnic of reportedly 700-800 people.&lt;br /&gt;On sunny September 27th, about 20 minutes from central Asahikawa, Hokkaido's second biggest city, deep into its rural area, in the mountains where they say the ancient gods live, gathered the virtuosos of various musical instruments from African drums to Japanese flute from all over Japan for &lt;a href="http://cele-one.press328.com/"&gt;"Celebration of Oneness 2009 in Asahikawa."&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The grand finale was performed by (photo 1: from the right) &lt;a href="http://insho.kmlw.net/index.html"&gt;Shunsuke Kimura&lt;/a&gt; (Japanese flute &amp;amp; Shamisen, from Saitama), &lt;a href="http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~hanzou/band/index.html"&gt;Etsuro Ono&lt;/a&gt; (Shamisen, Miyagi), &lt;a href="http://www.yamamoto-kosei.com/"&gt;Kosei Yamamoto&lt;/a&gt; (saxophones &amp;amp; other wind instruments, Osaka), &lt;a href="http://www.yurai-works.com/"&gt;Esoh&lt;/a&gt; (percussion, piano &amp;amp; vocal, Awaji Island) and joined by &lt;a href="http://www.turiya-music.com/"&gt;Daichi&lt;/a&gt; (vocal) and me (piano &amp;amp; keyboard), and each of them brought his musical treasure to raise the awareness of life and the planet, all in carefully hand-woven natural costumes which were designed, prepared and dressed by &lt;a href="http://www.usaato.com/profile.html"&gt;Usaburo Sato&lt;/a&gt;, the executive producer of the event.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Then we all get together for our joint session to play the beautiful theme "Ai wo Yoru, Omoi wo Tsumugu ("Twist Thread Of Love To Weave Our Hope" written by Shunsuke K.)" which was sung by Daichi, and also covered my piece "Mother Earth." &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SsjI_IVc98I/AAAAAAAAAGk/UNHxpPwqHU0/s320/P5270950.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388777941043574722" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;That's when &lt;a href="http://www.chakkiri.net/"&gt;Chakkiri&lt;/a&gt; (percussion &amp;amp; vocal, Shizuoka: left, photo 2), the incredible improvisor of spontaneity, joined us from the back end of the audience area, singing and drumming on a wireless microphone, who cranked up the jam into a higher ground.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When the session began, the sun fell behind the mountain and the cold dew immediately covered my keyboards and other instruments, but the heat from the united audience kept us playing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Music is just like the air we breathe. Let the songs go on even after we have left the venue.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;齋藤牧場（記事&lt;a href="http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/08/something-unusual.html"&gt;参照&lt;/a&gt;）のでこぼこした草地に設営されたステージ上からの眺めは（報告によると）700〜800名の人々が巨大なピクニックをしている日曜日を見ているような感じだった。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;北海道第2の都市、旭川市の中心部から20分ほどの、田園地帯の神々が居る（神居）という山の中、&lt;a href="http://cele-one.press328.com/"&gt;いのちの響宴2009 in 旭川&lt;/a&gt;のためにアフリカンドラムから和笛の名手まで様々なアーチストが日本全国からやってきた。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;フィナーレには、＜写真1右から＞&lt;a href="http://insho.kmlw.net/index.html"&gt;木村俊介&lt;/a&gt;（笛・三味線：さいたまから）、&lt;a href="http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~hanzou/band/index.html"&gt;小野越郎&lt;/a&gt;（三味線：宮城県）、&lt;a href="http://www.yamamoto-kosei.com/"&gt;山本公成&lt;/a&gt;（サクソフォンおよび他の管楽器：大阪）、&lt;a href="http://www.yurai-works.com/"&gt;慧奏&lt;/a&gt;（打楽器、ピアノ、ボーカル：淡路島）に&lt;a href="http://www.turiya-music.com/"&gt;吉野大地&lt;/a&gt;と私が演奏。それぞれが命と地球への思いを広げようと、主催者の&lt;a href="http://www.usaato.com/profile.html"&gt;さとううさぶろう&lt;/a&gt;氏がデザインし、準備し、着付けまでしてくれた手織りの自然素材の衣装をまとって、宝物のような音楽を持ち寄った。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;最後のジョイントセッションは、吉野大地の歌う美しいテーマソング「あいをよる おもいをつむぐ」（作詞作曲：木村俊介）、そして私の書いた"Mother Earth"。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;そこへ、観客席の後ろからワイヤレスマイクで歌いながら太鼓を叩く&lt;a href="http://www.chakkiri.net/"&gt;チャッキリ&lt;/a&gt;（吟遊音楽家、パーカッション、ボーカル・写真2左：静岡）が登場して、音楽はめくるめくハイヤーグラウンド（絶頂）へといざなう。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;セッションの始まった頃に太陽が山陰に沈み、あっという間に冷たい夜露が鍵盤やその他の楽器に降り注いだが、みんなで観客の熱気に応えて演奏を続けた。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;音楽はわたしたちにとって空気のようなもの。会場を立ち去ったあとも響き続けてほしい。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(photo by T. Kawamura)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-1593743497651699864?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/1593743497651699864/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=1593743497651699864' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/1593743497651699864'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/1593743497651699864'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/10/celebration-echoing-in-mountains.html' title='Celebration Echoing in the Mountains'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SsjIjXju94I/AAAAAAAAAGc/O6dPFkpczS0/s72-c/P5270912.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-1777657157960017506</id><published>2009-09-12T01:43:00.011+09:00</published><updated>2009-09-13T21:17:59.276+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Roppongi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='restarurant'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='piano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='organic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Veggies in Roppongi, Yum!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzhB4Xu_XI/AAAAAAAAAFc/lYmE1fUCgLQ/s1600-h/DSC02562.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzhB4Xu_XI/AAAAAAAAAFc/lYmE1fUCgLQ/s320/DSC02562.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380923077228952946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I visited a new restaurant/bar in Roppongi called &lt;a href="http://roppongi-nouen.jp/"&gt;"Soul Village STATION - Roppongi Nouen (Garden)"&lt;/a&gt; that my friend successfully renovated his entire house into.&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Most of the core staff members are the sons and daughters of farmers who live in other places in Japan. Fresh and good veggies they serve are carefully grown by the farmers or the ones my friend or the staff know personally, while other selections of wines, other food and drinks seem to have been chosen in the same fashion. Yum!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Also, the walls, floors and ceilings in the restaurant, bars, entrance and stairways were carefully designed and handmade with natural clay which were brought from some places in the country. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;He took me to the bar in the basement, and with his affable and mischievous smile he uncovered his old piano he hid in the wall-cabinet there. I improvised several pieces and hopefully contributed to that organic and comfortable atmosphere.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was full house even though it was Thursday, and my friend told me it was booked up until October. If interested, give it a call and take a chance...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzhRB1bNDI/AAAAAAAAAFk/y9LkGQJRsPc/s200/DSC02564.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380923337467442226" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;友人が自宅を改装して六本木に出現した&lt;a href="http://roppongi-nouen.jp/"&gt;「SoulVillageSTATION 六本木農園」&lt;/a&gt;に行ってきた。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;主なスタッフはみんな地方の農家の息子や娘たち。出されている新鮮な野菜は、その農家またはオーナーや彼らが直接知っている生産者から仕入れているようだ。そのほかのワインやドリンク、料理も同様のようだ。おいしい。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;レストラン、バー、入り口、階段など、全ての壁、床、天井は国内数カ所から運んできた「土」を使って、丁寧に手作りされている。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;彼は私をバーに連れて行くと、こっそりと壁の中にしまってあった古いピアノをニコニコしながら出してきた。即興で数曲弾かせていただき、（願わくば）お店のオーガニックで心地よい空気に貢献してきたかも。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;木曜というのに満席。10月まで予約でいっぱいとのこと。ご興味の方はダメもとで電話をしてみて。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-1777657157960017506?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/1777657157960017506/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=1777657157960017506' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/1777657157960017506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/1777657157960017506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/09/veggies-in-roppongi-yum.html' title='Veggies in Roppongi, Yum!'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzhB4Xu_XI/AAAAAAAAAFc/lYmE1fUCgLQ/s72-c/DSC02562.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-8879197878115343687</id><published>2009-09-10T01:09:00.008+09:00</published><updated>2009-09-13T21:38:19.674+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='camera'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Shinjuku'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='filter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='JICA'/><title type='text'>Down in Shinjuku</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqfVmYjjqSI/AAAAAAAAAFE/VbP3lRZYVZE/s1600-h/DSC02544+trmd.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 209px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqfVmYjjqSI/AAAAAAAAAFE/VbP3lRZYVZE/s320/DSC02544+trmd.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379503135320680738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Until this weekend I am working and staying at JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Tokyo International Center near Shinjuku, fortunately on the 10th floor!&lt;div&gt;It's quite a view, but ironically I have heard Bosozoku (motorcycle gang) roaring up and down the Koshu-Kaido street some 300 meters away.&lt;div&gt;However, I am pretty happy that I could buy a new super-thin filter for my camera at one of those camera shops in crowded Shinjuku today.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I can hardly find both such an noisy Bosozoku and the same filter in my hometown.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;今週末までJICA東京国際センターへ出張滞在中。なんと10階の部屋。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzngENH1pI/AAAAAAAAAFs/IL_P2Ht0H8M/s200/DSC02547.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380930192871511698" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;なかなかの眺めだけれど、300 mほど離れた甲州街道で轟音をうならせる暴走族一軍が...。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;でも今日は、混雑する新宿の某カメラショップで念願のカメラ用薄型フィルターを手に入れて、とりあえずはよしとしよう。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;帯広では、こんなににぎやかな暴走族も同じフィルターもお目にかかれないし。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-8879197878115343687?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/8879197878115343687/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=8879197878115343687' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/8879197878115343687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/8879197878115343687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/09/down-in-shinjuku.html' title='Down in Shinjuku'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqfVmYjjqSI/AAAAAAAAAFE/VbP3lRZYVZE/s72-c/DSC02544+trmd.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-7183968307732689619</id><published>2009-08-29T15:08:00.010+09:00</published><updated>2009-10-06T01:44:31.457+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='concert hall'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daichi Yoshino'/><title type='text'>Relax and Enjoy!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SpjNiUSeCDI/AAAAAAAAAE0/ZOqmbeEBvac/s1600-h/eflier_HPHC09_090309.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 281px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SpjNiUSeCDI/AAAAAAAAAE0/ZOqmbeEBvac/s400/eflier_HPHC09_090309.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375272144712108082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Wouldn't it be nice to have soothing and relaxing "live" music in the middle of a formal public convention or such an occasion?&lt;div&gt;We will make it happen. &lt;a href="http://www.turiya-music.com/"&gt;Daichi&lt;/a&gt;, who have appeared in this blog several times, and I am going to perform on Thursday, 3rd September from 12:45 to 1:30 at one of the best concert halls in the area for Hokkaido Public Health Convention 2009. (No admission, Free!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although I am also running some slideshows while we perform, I recommend that you close your eyes and listen carefully to his voice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ちょっと堅苦しい「公衆衛生大会」のようなイベントの真ん中に、気持ちがなごむようなゆったりとした音楽が聴けるなんてどうでしょう？&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;やってみせます。何度かこのブログに登場している&lt;a href="http://www.turiya-music.com/"&gt;吉野大地さん&lt;/a&gt;と、9/3（木）地域でも最高のコンサートホールで開催される「第58回北海道公衆衛生大会」の最中、12:45 -1:30に登場しますよ。入場無料ですよ!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 282px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SpjPSj2WUaI/AAAAAAAAAE8/vhR7rBGplnQ/s400/%1BHPHC09_obihiro.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375274073034477986" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;演奏中にスライドショーも流すつもりだけれども、ゆっくりと目を閉じて彼の声に聴き入るのもいいかも。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-7183968307732689619?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/7183968307732689619/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=7183968307732689619' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/7183968307732689619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/7183968307732689619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/08/relax-and-enjoy.html' title='Relax and Enjoy!'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SpjNiUSeCDI/AAAAAAAAAE0/ZOqmbeEBvac/s72-c/eflier_HPHC09_090309.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-2770394585441574562</id><published>2009-08-21T18:32:00.007+09:00</published><updated>2009-09-10T03:30:16.734+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fireworks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tokachi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='summer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hanabi'/><title type='text'>Hanabi: Fireworks</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/So54iwB9XeI/AAAAAAAAAEs/5FdoKYKq5Bc/s1600-h/fireworks+081409+-+26.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/So54iwB9XeI/AAAAAAAAAEs/5FdoKYKq5Bc/s400/fireworks+081409+-+26.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372363943903583714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/So54X0d84lI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Vt9VolMgvcw/s1600-h/fireworks+081409+-+01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/So54X0d84lI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Vt9VolMgvcw/s400/fireworks+081409+-+01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372363756116173394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the most extravagant firework festivals in the nation, "Kachimai Hanabi Taikai" is an annual function here. Thanks to my friends who own a house near the less crowded side of the riverbanks, I could relax and enjoy a nice summer evening this year.&lt;div&gt;But I just wonder why they needed those "laser beam show" and "dance music" in the main stage which was fortunately away from where I was... They probably spoiled the peaceful and quiet evening with the beautiful starry skies above, didn't they? Am I just getting older?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;国内でも有数の絢爛豪華な花火大会「勝毎花火大会」は、ここでは年中行事。メインスタンドの反対側の混雑していない河原の近くに家を構える友人のおかげで、今年はゆっくりと夏の宵を楽しめた。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;しかしながら、なぜレーザーショーやダンスミュージックをがんがんやっているのかがよく理解できなかった。すでに美しい星空に平和で静かな夕闇があるのに...。年をとっただけかな？&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-2770394585441574562?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/2770394585441574562/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=2770394585441574562' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/2770394585441574562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/2770394585441574562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/08/hanabi-fireworks.html' title='Hanabi: Fireworks'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/So54iwB9XeI/AAAAAAAAAEs/5FdoKYKq5Bc/s72-c/fireworks+081409+-+26.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-4606548815510419776</id><published>2009-08-16T16:29:00.004+09:00</published><updated>2009-08-16T16:50:20.454+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lonely planet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='four-leaf clover'/><title type='text'>Four-Leaf Clover</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/Soe4EejBoRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/d1pjcZkuFOQ/s1600-h/obihiro+forest+080609+-+8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/Soe4EejBoRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/d1pjcZkuFOQ/s320/obihiro+forest+080609+-+8.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370463467721564434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is my recent discovery of a four-leaf clover in response to my friend's posting. Take a close look and find another one behind it too. I found this in Obihiro-no Mori (Forest) when I was testing my new (second hand) camera last week. Will this be a sign of "double" good luck?&lt;div&gt;It also reminds me of the front page of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ireland-Lonely-Planet-Travel-Guides/dp/1741040787"&gt;"lonely planet" Ireland&lt;/a&gt;, country of clovers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;友人のブログ投稿に応えて、私の見つけた「四つ葉のクローバー」もこちらに。先週帯広の森で新しい（中古）カメラをテストしていて見つけたけれど、よく見るともう一つ後ろにありますよ〜。ダブル幸運の前兆だといいけれど。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ireland-Lonely-Planet-Travel-Guides/dp/1741040787"&gt;lonely planetのアイルランド版&lt;/a&gt;の表紙も思い出す。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-4606548815510419776?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/4606548815510419776/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=4606548815510419776' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/4606548815510419776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/4606548815510419776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/08/four-leaf-clover.html' title='Four-Leaf Clover'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/Soe4EejBoRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/d1pjcZkuFOQ/s72-c/obihiro+forest+080609+-+8.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-4399704538102523428</id><published>2009-08-11T01:33:00.007+09:00</published><updated>2009-08-11T02:35:49.986+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='milk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Asahikawa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='farm'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cattle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Celebration of Oneness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dairy'/><title type='text'>Something Unusual?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SoBUgjyrr2I/AAAAAAAAAEE/Hdxz78JAEus/s1600-h/saito+farm+080509+-+61.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SoBUgjyrr2I/AAAAAAAAAEE/Hdxz78JAEus/s320/saito+farm+080509+-+61.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368383674165997410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Earlier in August, I visited Saito Farm on the outskirts of Asahikawa, where another music festival called &lt;a href="http://www.usaato.com/"&gt;Celebration of Oneness 2009&lt;/a&gt; is going to be held on Sunday, September 27th.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I am very happy to find this farm very peaceful and full of lives. It will surely be great for me to perform music "outdoors" here with a whole bunch of great artists.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Great smile! The owner, Akira Saito has been practicing his own way of sustainable farming style consistently and stubbornly for more than 60 years! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SoBUSzIHLhI/AAAAAAAAAD8/EtRc2dDPJKw/s320/saito+farm+080509+-+52.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368383437764242962" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The milk produced here is thick and rich, which instantly reminded me of that good old flavor of Trappist Monastery Butter Candy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;However, there are some things very unusual with the cattle grazing on this farm. Look at this photo!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SoBTyMrQuOI/AAAAAAAAAD0/fTPGJToSPbo/s320/saito+farm+080509+-+13.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368382877686872290" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In Japan, it is hard to find such dairy farms. Have you noticed?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For more photos, please visit &lt;a href="http://gallery.me.com/kensaitoh#100077&amp;amp;view=mosaic&amp;amp;bgcolor=black&amp;amp;sel=19"&gt;my gallery page&lt;/a&gt; on this farm.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;8月初旬、旭川郊外の「斎藤牧場」を訪ねた。ここでも9/27（日）に音楽祭&lt;a href="http://www.usaato.com/"&gt;「いのちの響宴2009」&lt;/a&gt;が開催されるからだ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;とても平和で生命力にあふれた牧場。こんなところで野外ライブ、それも名だたるアーチストたちと一緒にできるなんてきっとすばらしいに違いない。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;この笑顔！牧場主の斎藤晶氏、60年以上もこだわりの（今でいう）持続可能な牧畜スタイルを貫いてきた。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;牛乳も一飲みで懐かしいトラピストバター飴の風味を思い出させるほど、濃くてリッチ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;そして、この牛の写真。日本の牧場ではかなり普通じゃない風景。気がつきましたか？&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;他にもたくさん写真を&lt;a href="http://gallery.me.com/kensaitoh#100077&amp;amp;view=mosaic&amp;amp;bgcolor=black&amp;amp;sel=19"&gt;こちら&lt;/a&gt;でどうぞ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-4399704538102523428?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/4399704538102523428/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=4399704538102523428' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/4399704538102523428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/4399704538102523428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/08/something-unusual.html' title='Something Unusual?'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SoBUgjyrr2I/AAAAAAAAAEE/Hdxz78JAEus/s72-c/saito+farm+080509+-+61.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-5788610199191820055</id><published>2009-07-01T11:58:00.007+09:00</published><updated>2011-01-21T12:23:19.993+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Voice from the Sky'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='laugh-la'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='turiya music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daichi Yoshino'/><title type='text'>Come feel the music in the air!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SkrT8nxSeII/AAAAAAAAADs/fOfwWKgvY1M/s1600-h/daichi+yoshino+live+071109.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 227px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SkrT8nxSeII/AAAAAAAAADs/fOfwWKgvY1M/s320/daichi+yoshino+live+071109.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353324145504581762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sorry, it's been a long time since I updated last. So many things have been going with me that I couldn't work on my own publication. However, this surely will be your lifetime experience. Please don't miss it!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Daichi "Voice from the Sky" Yoshino &amp;amp; ken live at &lt;a href="http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/laughla/"&gt;laugh-la&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Saturday 11th July 2009 from 7:00 p.m. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;しばらく更新をサボってしまいました。すみません。自分のPRにまで手が回りませんでした。でも、きっと思い出に残るライブになります。ぜひお越しください。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;吉野大地 &amp;amp; ken プレミアライブ&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;at laugh-la（&lt;a href="http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/laughla/"&gt;ラフラ&lt;/a&gt;・帯広市西1条28丁目4番地 0155-25-1455）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;開演 7 p.m. (開場 6 p.m.）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Daichi's Website: &lt;a href="http://www.turiya-music.com/index.html"&gt;TURIYA MUSIC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Blog: &lt;a href="http://turiya-music.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2009/06/post-bd9a.html"&gt;http://turiya-music.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2009/06/post-bd9a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;for further information, please check out this flier:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;詳しくはこちらのチラシをご覧ください。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-5788610199191820055?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/5788610199191820055/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=5788610199191820055' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/5788610199191820055'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/5788610199191820055'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/07/come-feel-music-in-air.html' title='Come feel the music in the air!'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SkrT8nxSeII/AAAAAAAAADs/fOfwWKgvY1M/s72-c/daichi+yoshino+live+071109.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-5352155992543765681</id><published>2009-04-20T01:06:00.007+09:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T23:50:23.776+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Band'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='classic rock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='and'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rancho El Paso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gig'/><title type='text'>The Circle: Live Cherry Blossoms</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SetkuUZRp_I/AAAAAAAAADk/9DjxZdb6jdA/s1600-h/flier-042509-clr.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SetkuUZRp_I/AAAAAAAAADk/9DjxZdb6jdA/s400/flier-042509-clr.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326461731207227378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a nice cherry tree near &lt;a href="http://www.google.co.jp/maps?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;amp;hl=ja&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;ll=42.904975,143.179227&amp;amp;spn=0.000982,0.001993&amp;amp;z=19"&gt;the venue, Rancho El Paso&lt;/a&gt; where we are going to have a gig on this coming Saturday, 25th April, and that's why I titled the show "live cherry blossoms."&lt;div&gt;"The Circle" is named partly after Marumigaoka Onsen, which can literally mean "Circle Beauty Hill Hot Spring" where Claude, the vocalist of the band lives and works. The five-piece session band is going to cover some of cool rock classics and rock the whole house!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;NO DOOR CHARGE! I hope you will come and enjoy our live music!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Circle:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Claude Burrows: vocal, guitar&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yohei: guitars&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Naoto "Choppa" Fuke: bass&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dan Marino: drums&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ken: keyboards&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For further information:&lt;a href="http://www.tokachistyle.jp/td.cgi?id=TD000114353"&gt; The Circle: live cherry blossoms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;4月25日のライブの&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.jp/maps?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;amp;hl=ja&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;ll=42.904975,143.179227&amp;amp;spn=0.000982,0.001993&amp;amp;z=19"&gt;会場となるランチョ・エルパソ&lt;/a&gt;のそばに、すてきな桜の木があったので、こんなライブ名にしてしまいました。The Circleというバンド名は、ヴォーカルのClaudeが住み込みで働く「丸美ヶ丘温泉」から少し引用しました。5人編成で、ロッククラシック（60's、70'sなど）のカバーなどで、ドカーンと行きます。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;入場無料！ぜひお聴き逃しなく。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-5352155992543765681?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/5352155992543765681/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=5352155992543765681' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/5352155992543765681'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/5352155992543765681'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/04/circle-live-cherry-blossoms.html' title='The Circle: Live Cherry Blossoms'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SetkuUZRp_I/AAAAAAAAADk/9DjxZdb6jdA/s72-c/flier-042509-clr.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-8691311667908918524</id><published>2009-03-25T00:47:00.007+09:00</published><updated>2009-03-25T12:24:54.469+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='porpoise'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FedEx'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Narita Airport'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='airplane crash'/><title type='text'>"Pawpoiz???"</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;It's been a while since I posted last. Meanwhile I finally got my overused iBook G4 broken so I had to slow down a bit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Today I am urged to write about something which came to my attention when I was watching TV.&lt;div&gt;There was an unfortunate crash of a big FedEx freight airplane at Narita Airport yesterday morning.  I felt sorry for the two pilots who died (as well as those who had to miss their vacations which were cancelled or affected due to this accident).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;However, what I felt awkward today was not it, but the way most, probably all of the Japanese news anchors explicitly pronounced something that sounds like "porpoiz" or "pawpoiz" which was considered to be the cause of the crash.  "What???" Yes, it meant "&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;amp;rls=ja-jp&amp;amp;q=porpoise+bouncing+airplane++Fedex+Narita&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;oe=UTF-8"&gt;porpoise&lt;/a&gt;," which is how the aircraft bounced up and down when landing. I even wonder if those bilingual newscasters felt uncomfortable about it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Is it just a de-facto-standard pronunciation long established in Japanese aviation personnel's jargon? If so, I suggest that this kind of misunderstanding be reviewed and corrected for this particular purpose since any miscommunication (e.g. between pilots and ground control) caused by such mispronunciation may lead to a serious disaster... before it's too late.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Some may say,"Why fuss so much? How could they change?" But it doesn't make sense to me since no one in Japan calls the popular vocalist "Tortoise Matsumoto" (from a band "Ulfuls") in the same fashion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;しばらくぶりに書きます。とうとう酷使してきたiBook G4がイカレました。少しペースダウンです。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;テレビを見ていたらちょっと気になったことがあって、書きたくなりました。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;昨日朝の成田空港での不幸なFedEx機の事故。亡くなった二人のパイロットのご冥福を祈るとともに、この事故が原因で休暇が台無しになってしまった人たちも気の毒と思う。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;でも、今日気になったのはこのことではない。テレビのアナウンサーたちが、事故原因は「&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;amp;rls=ja-jp&amp;amp;q=%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9D%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BA%E3%80%80%E6%88%90%E7%94%B0%E7%A9%BA%E6%B8%AF%E3%80%80%E4%BA%8B%E6%95%85&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;oe=UTF-8"&gt;ポーポイズ&lt;/a&gt;...」とあからさまに発音していたことだ。なんじゃそりゃ？ああ、"porpoise"（イルカの仲間！発音はスペル通りではなくカタカナなら「ポーパス」）、つまり（イルカのように）航空機が着陸時に上下に跳ねる動きをすることを意味していた。各局のバイリンガルのキャスターたちは気持ち悪くなかったのだろうか？&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;国内の航空業界用語としてすでに浸透している発音なのだろうか？もしそうだとしたら、特にこの業種のためには、このような誤解は他にもないか早いところ見直して是正した方がいいと思う。なぜなら（たとえば）パイロットと航空管制官間の通信で、このような発音の間違いによるミスコミュニケーションが起きたら、ただでは済まされないことになるかもしれないからだ。手遅れになる前に...。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;「そんなに騒ぐなよ」とか「簡単に変えられるわけないよ」という声が聞こえてきそうだが、言い訳にならない。だって、あのウルフルズの人気リードボーカリストを「トートイズ（tortoise: リクガメのこと）松本」って呼ぶ人はいないっすよ...。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;（Sorry, no photos again)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-8691311667908918524?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/8691311667908918524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=8691311667908918524' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/8691311667908918524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/8691311667908918524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/03/pawpoiz.html' title='&quot;Pawpoiz???&quot;'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-9115444489668112962</id><published>2009-02-21T02:17:00.005+09:00</published><updated>2009-02-22T02:06:02.804+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SBYOV'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Simón Bolívar Youth Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='orchestra'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dudamel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='classical music'/><title type='text'>Amazing Virtuosi: Dudamel &amp; SBYOV</title><content type='html'>I was watching NHK-Edu Channel then. Was it just another Tchaikovsky's No. 5? No, it turned out to be the most breathtakingly passionate performance of the work I'd ever heard in my life.&lt;br /&gt;It was a concert in Tokyo Art Theater in December 2008. Wait. Something looks unusual... My goodness! Look at those players in the orchestra... All of them are obviously as young as high school or college students. &lt;a href="http://www.fesnojiv.gob.ve/en/the-simon-bolivar-youth-orchestra-of-venezuela.html"&gt;The Simón Bolívar Youth Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela&lt;/a&gt; is comprised of young musicians of ages from 16 to 20. Amazing!&lt;br /&gt;Being conducted by the genius Venezuelan colleague &lt;a href="http://www.gustavodudamel.com/"&gt;Gustavo Dudamel&lt;/a&gt;, I would say, being one entity with the body and soul of Dudamel, their rendition was full of spirited energy from the New World. The great addition was Mambo! from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story as encore.&lt;br /&gt;I was just trembling with excitement throughout the show in spite of the non HiFi program. Had I been there, I am sure that I would have stood up to send my full ovation.&lt;br /&gt;(Sorry, no photos.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;驚きのヴィルトゥオーゾ：デュダメル &amp; SBYOV&lt;br /&gt;その時、NHK教育を観ていた。あれ、またチャイコフスキーの5番かぁ。いやいや、こりゃ今まで聴いた中で、胸が締めつけられるほど最も情熱的な演奏になってしまった。&lt;br /&gt;2008年12月の東京芸術劇場での公演。なんだか変だぞ。ありゃりゃ？奏者を見てみて。どう考えても高校生か大学生くらいの若者たち。&lt;a href="http://www.fesnojiv.gob.ve/en/the-simon-bolivar-youth-orchestra-of-venezuela.html"&gt;シモン・ボリバル・ユース・オーケストラ・オブ・ベネズエラ&lt;/a&gt;は、なんと16才から20才までのプレーヤーだけによるオーケストラ。驚き。&lt;br /&gt;そして、同じくベネズエラの天才、&lt;a href="http://www.gustavodudamel.com/"&gt;グスターボ・デュダメル&lt;/a&gt;の指揮により、いや、デュダメルの体と魂と一つの生き物のように一体となって繰り出される演奏は、「新世界」からの情熱あふれるエネルギーがいっぱい。素敵なオマケ？は、バーンスタインのウェストサイドストーリーから「マンボ！」のアンコール。&lt;br /&gt;高音質放送でもないにもかかわらず、興奮して震えが止まらないくらいの演奏会。その場に居たら、間違いなくスタンディング・オベーションを送っていただろう。&lt;br /&gt;（すみません。写真はありません）&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-9115444489668112962?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/9115444489668112962/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=9115444489668112962' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/9115444489668112962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/9115444489668112962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/02/amazing-virtuosi-dudamel-sbyov.html' title='Amazing Virtuosi: Dudamel &amp; SBYOV'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-2940671782917265345</id><published>2009-02-07T01:55:00.008+09:00</published><updated>2009-03-07T00:19:54.280+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='warning'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Al Gore'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='movie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='An Inconvenient Truth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UCS'/><title type='text'>"An Inconvenient Truth" (2006) To Be Shown</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SYxsktPSniI/AAAAAAAAACs/B-ZW30f5XCM/s1600-h/poster_022209_J_A4_72.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 289px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SYxsktPSniI/AAAAAAAAACs/B-ZW30f5XCM/s400/poster_022209_J_A4_72.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299730239383051810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;on Sunday, 22nd February 2009 from 1:30 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;at &lt;a href="http://www.m100.jp/guide.html#access"&gt;Makubetsu Centennial Hall (Makubetsu 100-nen Kinen Hall)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I know it's controversial in some ways. In this documentary, there might have been some information which was too dramatized, or probably exaggerated... I don't necessarily believe 100% of what's presented in this film, and I am not an enthusiastic supporter of Al Gore either, but I would say, "So what?" to those who comment nothing but skeptical about this film. &lt;br /&gt;It's because, in comparison, such discrepancies may not matter at least as much as Al Gore's real message, especially if you have read this &lt;a href="http://www.worldtrans.org/whole/warning.html"&gt;warning &lt;/a&gt;which was issued by&lt;a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/"&gt; the Union of Concerned Scientists&lt;/a&gt; in 1992.&lt;br /&gt;I think the film deserves to be seen by many people... not only by those environmentally conscious or conscientious, but also by those who may have a lot of questions about the U.S. and global politics, those wondering why things have gone wrong this far, or those who are interested in how to present and disseminate their ideas effectively, etc.&lt;br /&gt;However, what about our next-and-on generations?...that's what counts. Perhaps some arrogant people have been more powerful than people who really care. Will we change? Is this film the hope for those who would like to see such CHANGE in the near future?&lt;br /&gt;If you haven't seen it, please come see it for only 500 yen (free for 18 years old and under), which however may turn out to be a precious 500 yen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.climatecrisis.net/"&gt;movie website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;「不都合な真実」（2006）特別上映&lt;br /&gt;2/22（日）1:30 p.m.〜&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.m100.jp/guide.html#access"&gt;幕別100年記念ホール&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;この映画、ある意味物議を醸しましたね。このドキュメンタリー中のいくつかの情報は、ちょっとドラマチックに演出され、少し大げさに見えることもあったかもしれない。私自身、この中で語られていることを100%信用しているわけでもないし、Al Goreの熱心な支持者でもない。でも、この映画に対して懐疑的な意見しか言わない人たちに対して、あえて「それがどうした？」と言いたい。&lt;br /&gt;なぜなら、そんな食い違いは、アル・ゴアが本当に伝えたかったことと比較すると、少なくともさほど重要なことではないと思うからである。特に、1992年に世界の1700人の科学者たち（UCS憂慮する科学者同盟）が発した共同声明&lt;a href="http://www.worldtrans.org/whole/warning.html"&gt;「世界中の科学者からの人類への警告」&lt;/a&gt;を読む限りは...。（残念ながら、信じられないことに、日本語訳がウェブ上で見つかりません。文末に書き出しのみを添付しました）&lt;br /&gt;この映画は、環境に対して意識の高く、良心を抱いている人々のみならず、アメリカと世界の政治に疑問を抱く人々、なんでこんなにおかしくなってしまったのだろうと気になる人々、はたまた、自分の考えをいかに効果的に広く伝えるかに興味のある人々など、より多くの人たちに観てもらう価値があるでしょう。&lt;br /&gt;ところで、私たちの子供たち、そしてその先に繋がる世代の将来は？このことが重要でしょう。今までは、おそらく一部の傲慢な人々が、心から気にしている人たちよりも力があったのかもしれない。私たちは変わるのか？この映画は、近い将来のそんなCHANGEへの希望を託したのか？&lt;br /&gt;未だでしたら、ぜひ観に来てください。たった500円、でも貴重な500円になるかもしれない。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;パラマウント社&lt;a href="http://www.paramount.jp/futsugou/"&gt;「不都合な真実」ウェブサイト&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;「世界中の科学者からの人類への警告」（1992）から&lt;br /&gt;「人類は今、自然界との正面衝突への道を驀進しています。人間のさまざまな活動は地球環境とその貴重な資源に取り返しのつかないダメージを与えているのです。もしこのような破壊的な活動をそのままにしておけば、人間のみならず、動物や植物の世界の未来をも危機にさらすことになるのです。世界はもはや生命を維持し続けることができなくなるでしょう。破滅的な事態を避けるためには､私たちのあり方を根本的に変えることが必要なのです」&lt;br /&gt;Special thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.sloth.gr.jp/library/others/020222peter.html"&gt;The Sloth Club&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-2940671782917265345?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/2940671782917265345/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=2940671782917265345' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/2940671782917265345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/2940671782917265345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/02/inconvenient-truth-2006-to-be-shown.html' title='&quot;An Inconvenient Truth&quot; (2006) To Be Shown'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SYxsktPSniI/AAAAAAAAACs/B-ZW30f5XCM/s72-c/poster_022209_J_A4_72.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-6738662582237377303</id><published>2009-01-20T15:53:00.004+09:00</published><updated>2009-01-20T16:13:23.968+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ping pong'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='office'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tokachi-gawa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recreation'/><title type='text'>A Recreation Room?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SXV3zKW0MMI/AAAAAAAAACk/RtIMSG9KhNo/s1600-h/pingpong012009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SXV3zKW0MMI/AAAAAAAAACk/RtIMSG9KhNo/s320/pingpong012009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293268657880969410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a big recreation room where I started working recently. During today's lunch break, we all went downstairs to play table tennis.&lt;br /&gt;What a shame! Look at the way I stand like an idiot when receiving the opponent's "hyper-rocket" smash. No wonder this was probably my third or fourth ping-pong experience in my life and for the first time in ten years for sure.&lt;br /&gt;The ping-pong table is the only choice now, but I may be seeing a pool table, a pinball machine and a climbing wall, etc. in few months to come. Moreover, a little river kayak will do since the nice Tokachi-gawa riverbank is just a few minutes away on foot.&lt;br /&gt;Can't wait for the spring to come...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;最近働き始めたオフィスには、なんとレクリエーション・ルームがある。今日の昼休みに、みんなで卓球をしに階下へ。&lt;br /&gt;なんちゅうカッコして打っているんじゃい。対戦相手？のスーパーロケットスマッシュの標的となっている間抜けな格好の私。人生3、4度目の卓球、ここ10年はラケットを触ったこともない...まあ仕方ない。&lt;br /&gt;卓球台だけではなく、そのうちプールテーブルやピンボール、クライミングウォールなどが設営されるのではないかと期待している。いや、十勝川が歩いて数分のところにあるので、カヤックなんて最高でしょう。&lt;br /&gt;春が待ち遠しい...。&lt;br /&gt;（photo by &lt;a href="http://fieldesign.jp/?p=214"&gt;N. O.&lt;/a&gt;/the opponent: &lt;a href="http://www.sasakitomoharu.com/blog/"&gt;T. S.&lt;/a&gt;）&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-6738662582237377303?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/6738662582237377303/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=6738662582237377303' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/6738662582237377303'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/6738662582237377303'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/01/recreation-room.html' title='A Recreation Room?'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SXV3zKW0MMI/AAAAAAAAACk/RtIMSG9KhNo/s72-c/pingpong012009.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-3870544510610843194</id><published>2009-01-01T23:32:00.006+09:00</published><updated>2009-01-06T00:17:17.191+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tour de hokkaido'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the perspectives'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='manman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bicycle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='race'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='netherlands'/><title type='text'>The Green Jersey</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SVzVYqm5M4I/AAAAAAAAACc/6FBypW0JSKU/s1600-h/tour+de+hokkaido+08+-+60.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SVzVYqm5M4I/AAAAAAAAACc/6FBypW0JSKU/s400/tour+de+hokkaido+08+-+60.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286334682357117826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A HAPPY NEW YEAR!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you for waiting patiently to those whom I have already told that I was going to write about Manman. Yes, I've finally got &lt;a href="http://www.tokachistyle.jp/2008ch16_d.cgi"&gt;the special article&lt;/a&gt; about Emmanuel "Manman" van Ruitenbeek (Van Vliet EBH Elshof) who came from the Netherlands as one of the top competitors in Japan's biggest bicycle stage race, &lt;a href="http://www.tour-de-hokkaido.or.jp/index.html"&gt;Tour de Hokkaido 2008&lt;/a&gt;, uploaded (as The Perspectives Special in the 16th issue of &lt;a href="http://www.tokachistyle.jp/"&gt;Tokachi Style web magazine&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although the championship of the entire race was won by a Japanese racer, Takashi Miyazawa (Meitan Hompo-GDR), Manman actually held on to the Green Jersey (only worn by the "present" champion) from the 1st stage to the 3rd one which toured around in Eastern Hokkaido. So when the competitors left Obihiro for the 4th stage, he was the leader.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There might have been some articles about the race itself in general in newspapers and magazines, but this may be among the few which feature one particular racer. So, from his "perspective," you can find quite a lot not only about how he has enjoyed bicycling in his life, but also about our culture, values and environment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would like to thank the race organizers, the team management and of course Manman for giving me this great opportunity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2009年、あけましておめでとうございます。&lt;br /&gt;「マンマン」のインタビュー記事を発行しますよと声をかけたみなさん、大変長らくお待たせしました。日本最大の自転車レース、&lt;a href="http://www.tour-de-hokkaido.or.jp/index.html"&gt;ツール・ド・北海道2008&lt;/a&gt;に参加したトップレーサーの1人のオランダ人レーサー、エマニュエル・マンマン（ニックネーム）・ヴァン・ロイテンビークのスペシャル記事が、とうとう&lt;a href="http://www.tokachistyle.jp/2008ch16_d.cgi"&gt;アップされました&lt;/a&gt;よ。（&lt;a href="http://www.tokachistyle.jp/"&gt;十勝スタイル16号&lt;/a&gt;）&lt;br /&gt;レースの総合優勝は宮澤崇史さん（梅丹本舗・GDR）でしたが、道東地方で争われた第1から第3ステージではマンマンがグリーンジャージ（それまででトップの走者が着用）を保持していたため、レース集団が帯広を出発（第4ステージ）した時点ではチャンピオンでした。&lt;br /&gt;レース全体の記事は新聞や雑誌などでも見かけますが、一人のレーサーにスポットを当てたのは少ないかも。自転車ライフについてだけではなく（私たちの）文化や価値観、環境について、彼の目から見ての言葉が聞けます。&lt;br /&gt;レース関係者にチームマネジメントのみなさん、そしてもちろんマンマン、ご協力改めてありがとうございます。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-3870544510610843194?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/3870544510610843194/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=3870544510610843194' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/3870544510610843194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/3870544510610843194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2009/01/green-jersey.html' title='The Green Jersey'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SVzVYqm5M4I/AAAAAAAAACc/6FBypW0JSKU/s72-c/tour+de+hokkaido+08+-+60.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-964040151587356887</id><published>2008-12-25T02:59:00.004+09:00</published><updated>2008-12-25T03:08:01.062+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='best wishes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>Happy Holidays!</title><content type='html'>To everyone who cared about me this year,&lt;br /&gt;I 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src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-2719048824260498534</id><published>2008-12-15T02:30:00.006+09:00</published><updated>2011-01-21T12:24:42.064+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Band'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Save The Children'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rancho El Paso'/><title type='text'>We Still Rock</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SUVDRSoRB-I/AAAAAAAAACU/ccqs53zBohs/s1600-h/GCF2trmd.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 257px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SUVDRSoRB-I/AAAAAAAAACU/ccqs53zBohs/s320/GCF2trmd.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279700102499338210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Long as I can see the light..." Suddenly Yohei weaves out his own funk with his Fender Stratocaster while Claude lets his soulful explosion fill the atmosphere and Dan cranks it up with his groovy drive on the drum set. We still rock and never stay still.&lt;br /&gt;On the 6th of December, in the second occasion of the Christmas event called "Great Country Festival" at Obihiro's noted country-&amp;amp;-western-style restaurant, &lt;a href="http://www.elpaso.co.jp/"&gt;Rancho El Paso&lt;/a&gt;, we performed some classic rock pieces after two other long-established country &amp;amp; western bands, Chuckwagon from Shintoku and Broncos from Kitami. As "EL PASO BAND," I enjoyed those special moments we shook the ground there not only with our massive sound but also with our rockers' spirits.&lt;br /&gt;I would also like to thank Katz and Tetsu for joining us on percussion and bass respectively.&lt;br /&gt;And more than anything else, I would like to express my appreciation to the audience for their heartily donation to &lt;a href="http://www.savethechildren.net/alliance/index.html"&gt;Save The Children&lt;/a&gt;, which has accounted as much as 15,000 yen in total in spite of such a short period for collection that evening.&lt;br /&gt;Happy Christmas!!&lt;br /&gt;(Sorry, I didn't get any picture taken.)&lt;br /&gt;"Long as I can see the light..." 突如、Yoheiは愛機ストラトでファンキーに紡ぎだし、Claudeはソウルフルなシャウトで場を一変させ、Danがグルービーなドラミングでひた走る。ぼくたちも未だロックし続け、おとなしくしてはいられない。&lt;br /&gt;12月6日、地元で有名なカントリースタイルのレストラン、&lt;a href="http://www.elpaso.co.jp/"&gt;ランチョ・エルパソ&lt;/a&gt;での「第2回グレート・カントリー・フェスティバル」で、カントリーバンドとして長いキャリアを持つ新得のチャックワゴンと北見のブロンコスのあとに続いて、懐かしいロックの曲を演奏。ぼくたちは「エルパソバンド」として、地面を揺るがす特別な瞬間を楽しんだ。それは決してマッシブな音だけではなく、自分たちのロック魂がそうさせたのだろう。&lt;br /&gt;パーカッションのKatzそしてベースのTetsuさん、一緒にやってくれてありがとう。&lt;br /&gt;そしてなによりも、ほんのちょっとの短い時間にもかかわらずなんと合計約15,000円も&lt;a href="http://www.savechildren.or.jp/"&gt;Save The Children&lt;/a&gt;に寄付してくださった客席のみなさん、感謝感謝です。&lt;br /&gt;Happy Christmas!&lt;br /&gt;（すみません。写真がありません。）&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-2719048824260498534?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/2719048824260498534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=2719048824260498534' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/2719048824260498534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/2719048824260498534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2008/12/we-still-rock.html' title='We Still Rock'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SUVDRSoRB-I/AAAAAAAAACU/ccqs53zBohs/s72-c/GCF2trmd.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-7983146933976051596</id><published>2008-11-30T15:37:00.008+09:00</published><updated>2008-11-30T18:57:59.904+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ginza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tetsuya Nakagaki'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Northern Lights'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aurora'/><title type='text'>Check Out: Aurora in Ginza, 10th December</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/STI19Ix3_sI/AAAAAAAAACE/2mo5Op5NrHY/s1600-h/ad_2_800-600.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/STI19Ix3_sI/AAAAAAAAACE/2mo5Op5NrHY/s400/ad_2_800-600.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274337438049238722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(photo courtesy: Tetsuya Nakagaki)&lt;br /&gt;The real dedicated AURORA (Northern Lights) "evangelist," &lt;a href="http://aurora-dance.com/"&gt;Tetsuya Nakagaki&lt;/a&gt; is making his appearance in Ginza on Wednesday, 10th December.&lt;br /&gt;Born in Sapporo, he was into celestial photography since his childhood. In 2001 he was first knocked out by the extraordinary beauty of the aurora in New Zealand and ever since he has spent hundreds of days and nights on his own in the far north regions in Canada and Alaska in pursuit of the incredibly diverse and ephemeral views of the heavenly lights.&lt;br /&gt;Since I have supported him by performing music in and organizing his slideshows in my area in several occasions, I bet you will be struck by the hundreds of pictures he is showing. Please note up to only ten people can be admitted for each show. &lt;a href="http://auroradance.blog115.fc2.com/blog-entry-211.html"&gt;For details (Japanese only)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12月10日（水）、オーロラの「伝道師」として身を捧げる&lt;a href="http://aurora-dance.com/"&gt;中垣哲也&lt;/a&gt;氏が銀座で公演します。&lt;br /&gt;札幌に生まれ、子供のころから天体写真に目醒め、2001年に訪ねたニュージーランドで遭遇したオーロラのあまりの美しさの虜となる。それからは二度と同じ姿を見せることのない多様な北極光の美しさを捕らえるために、カナダ、アラスカの極北地域を何百日も一人で旅して歩く。&lt;br /&gt;十勝地域での中垣氏のスライドショー公演の際に音楽演奏やイベント手配を数度お手伝いをさせていただいた経験から、間違いなく強烈な感動をすることをお約束しますよ。1回につき最大10名様までなので要注意です。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://auroradance.blog115.fc2.com/blog-entry-211.html"&gt;詳しくはこちら&lt;/a&gt;。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&amp;hl=ja&amp;geocode=&amp;q=%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E4%B8%AD%E5%A4%AE%E5%8C%BA%E9%8A%80%E5%BA%A7%EF%BC%96%E4%B8%81%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%94%E2%88%92%EF%BC%98+%E6%9B%BD%E6%A0%B9%E3%83%93%E3%83%AB&amp;sll=36.5626,136.362305&amp;sspn=35.655214,56.689453&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;start=0&amp;ll=35.671025,139.761356&amp;spn=0.001109,0.00173&amp;z=19"&gt;where?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-7983146933976051596?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/7983146933976051596/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=7983146933976051596' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/7983146933976051596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/7983146933976051596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2008/11/check-out-aurora-in-ginza-10th-december.html' title='Check Out: Aurora in Ginza, 10th December'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/STI19Ix3_sI/AAAAAAAAACE/2mo5Op5NrHY/s72-c/ad_2_800-600.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-2681489996838892164</id><published>2008-11-30T01:50:00.008+09:00</published><updated>2008-11-30T12:02:19.845+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tokyo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jackson Browne'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Change'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Time The Conqueror'/><title type='text'>Thanks Again, Jackson!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/STFzr0dikNI/AAAAAAAAAB8/GLpxdSQCFwU/s1600-h/JB1108dup.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/STFzr0dikNI/AAAAAAAAAB8/GLpxdSQCFwU/s320/JB1108dup.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274123835281674450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a rainy holiday evening in Shinjuku when &lt;a href="http://www.jacksonbrowne.com/"&gt;Jackson Browne&lt;/a&gt;, whom I have long admired as the greatest singer-songwriter and conscientious activist in America, proved he's still alive! on his first tour in Japan since he last performed solo here in April 2004.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The core of the band includes Mark Goldenberg on guitar, Kevin McCormick on bass and Jeff Young on keyboard, who have all been his musical compatriots quite long time by now, with the new addition of the young and soulful female background vocalists. I made sure that the combination of the piano, Hammond B-3 (organ) on the thick and solid bass lines is my ultimate chill factor.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;I wasn't able to hold my tears when he sang the line "...and we remember why we came..." in "The Load-Out - Stay" from his album &lt;a href="http://www.jacksonbrowne.com/discography/album/running-empty"&gt;"Running On Empty (1977)"&lt;/a&gt; as encore. It was not just the nostalgia but simply because it reminded me that, had it not been for him singing this, I wouldn't have decided to be a musician.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had to admit a majority of the audiences were more excited when he sang his classics, but even in his latest album &lt;a href="http://www.jacksonbrowne.com/discography/album/time-the-conqueror"&gt;"Time The Conqueror"&lt;/a&gt; he still drives on his lane to express what is wrong is wrong about his country along with other songs about love and faith.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As he has done so many times before, he closed the show with:&lt;br /&gt;"And I ain't no democrat&lt;br /&gt;And I ain't no republican&lt;br /&gt;I only know one party&lt;br /&gt;And it is freedom"&lt;br /&gt;("I Am A Patriot" lyrics courtesy: Little Steven)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do hope we will see a big "change" soon. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;雨降る休日の新宿で4年ぶりの日本公演、長い間私が最高のシンガーソングライターそして良心の活動家として崇めてきた&lt;a href="http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ジャクソン・ブラウン"&gt;ジャクソン・ブラウン&lt;/a&gt;は、まだどっこい生きているぜと証明してみせた。&lt;br /&gt;ギターのマーク・ゴールデンバーグ、ベースのケヴィン・マコーミック、キーボードのジェフ・ヤングほか、そろそろ長い付き合いになる同志たちに加え、今回はソウルフルな女性バックコーラスも加わる。やはりピアノとハモンドB-3、そして太くてソリッドなベースラインの組み合わせは最高にゾクゾクさせる。&lt;br /&gt;アンコールの"The Load-Out - Stay"（アルバム"Running On Empty (1978)"から）の"...and we remember why we came...（そしてなぜ私たちがここに来たかを思い出す）"という下りで思わず涙が出てくる。懐かしさだけではない。こう歌う彼の姿がなければ、私はミュージシャンになろうと決心しなかっただろうから。&lt;br /&gt;ほとんどの観客たちは古い歌を歌う彼で盛り上がっていたが、ニューアルバムの&lt;a href="http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/International/Special/high-hopes/release/jackson_browne_0810/index.html"&gt;"Time The Conqueror（時の征者）"&lt;/a&gt;でも彼は、愛や信念の歌に加えて自国の誤ったこともはっきりと描くことを相変わらず貫いている。&lt;br /&gt;以前のライブでもよくあったように、「おれは民主党支持者でも、共和党支持者でもない。1党だけしか知らない。それは「自由」だけ（アイ・アム・ア・パトリオット by Little Steven）」を歌って終了した。&lt;br /&gt;早く大きなCHANGEが訪れることを願う。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-2681489996838892164?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/2681489996838892164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=2681489996838892164' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/2681489996838892164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/2681489996838892164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2008/11/thanks-again-jackson.html' title='Thanks Again, Jackson!'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/STFzr0dikNI/AAAAAAAAAB8/GLpxdSQCFwU/s72-c/JB1108dup.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-6333321350746954781</id><published>2008-11-22T00:40:00.014+09:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T01:39:09.741+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Voice from the Sky'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='voice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wong Wing Tsan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='piano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daichi Yoshino'/><title type='text'>Rehearsing with Amazing Voice</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SSbrvoautZI/AAAAAAAAABk/XhAm27gRpk4/s1600-h/cd-sora.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 180px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SSbrvoautZI/AAAAAAAAABk/XhAm27gRpk4/s200/cd-sora.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271159617419654546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;div&gt;If there is anything like "heavenly voice," &lt;a href="http://www.turiya-music.com/"&gt;Daichi Yoshino&lt;/a&gt;'s must be the one.  As soon as I heard the sound of his voice on his album &lt;a href="http://www.turiya-music.com/disc.html"&gt;"Voice from the Sky,"&lt;/a&gt; I was convinced why my friend introduced me to him to get together to rehearse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;It was pretty slow and relaxing today and we played 3 songs from his album and one set of improvisation, etc. I don't know how to express how his voice was swirling and hovering all over on my piano in the studio. Incredible!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;As I expected, there's nothing greater than experiencing every single moment when accompanying him singing the song "Tobira" which was originally written by &lt;a href="http://www.satowa-music.com/e/"&gt;Wong Wing Tsan&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;Thank you Daichi, Sammy and Kao for giving me this opportunity and I am looking forward to performing together again for a lot more people in near future.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;「へヴンリー・ヴォイス」というものがあるとしたら、&lt;a href="http://www.turiya-music.com/"&gt;吉野大地&lt;/a&gt;さんの声がそうであるに違いない。彼のアルバム&lt;a href="http://www.turiya-music.com/disc.html"&gt;「空へ〜Voice from the Sky」&lt;/a&gt;の声を聴くやいなや、なぜ友人がリハーサルをするために紹介してくれたのかを納得。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;リラックスしてスローなスタジオ時間中、そのアルバムから3曲、即興で1曲、その他を合わせてみた。私の弾くピアノの上で渦巻くように浮かぶ彼の声は例えようもない。すごい。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;予想通り、アルバム収録の名曲「とびら」（&lt;a href="http://www.satowa-music.com/"&gt;ウォン・ウィン・ツァン&lt;/a&gt;氏作曲）を歌う彼に伴奏する一瞬一瞬は、なんとも言えずすばらしかった。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;大地さん、Sammy、Kao、こんなにすばらしい機会をありがとう。近いうちに多くの人たちに聴いてもらえるのを楽しみにしています。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-6333321350746954781?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/6333321350746954781/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=6333321350746954781' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/6333321350746954781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/6333321350746954781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2008/11/rehearsing-with-amazing-voice.html' title='Rehearsing with Amazing Voice'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SSbrvoautZI/AAAAAAAAABk/XhAm27gRpk4/s72-c/cd-sora.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-4234247711995261741</id><published>2008-11-17T00:57:00.009+09:00</published><updated>2008-11-17T13:56:29.840+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Obihiro Symphony Orchestra'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='orchestra'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='concert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='classical music'/><title type='text'>Obihiro Symphony Orchestra: Pretty Good!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SSDvhVaoPjI/AAAAAAAAABc/p7N4xO_8OzY/s1600-h/OSO111608.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 80px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SSDvhVaoPjI/AAAAAAAAABc/p7N4xO_8OzY/s200/OSO111608.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269474919987035698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was my second time to enjoy this orchestra's performance this year. Such an excellent local orchestra which can hold concerts several times a year should be appreciated more.  Especially the rich tone of the strings section is superb.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Featured today were a young conductor H. Matsumoto and an Obihiro-born pianist Yuriko Ito who played Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, as if she had been opening a jewel box on the stage. The orchestra also performed Tchaikovski's Symphony No. 5 in E minor, another Russian standard.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The ticket prices are 1,000 and 2,000 yen. How could you complain?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;今年2回目の&lt;a href="http://www.geocities.jp/obikyo/"&gt;帯広交響楽団&lt;/a&gt;のコンサート。年に数回コンサートを開催できる優秀な地方オーケストラはもっと注目されてもいい。特に弦楽器群のリッチな響きはすばらしい。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;今日の曲目は、ラフマニノフのピアノ協奏曲2番、指揮は松本宏康に帯広生まれのピアニスト伊藤夢里子の宝石箱を広げたような表情豊かな演奏。そしてもう一つ、ロシア音楽定番チャイコフスキーの交響曲第5番。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;チケットのお値段は1,000円と2,000円。大満足。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(Sorry about the poor quality of my Keitai photo.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-4234247711995261741?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/4234247711995261741/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=4234247711995261741' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/4234247711995261741'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/4234247711995261741'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2008/11/obihiro-symphony-orchestra-pretty-good.html' title='Obihiro Symphony Orchestra: Pretty Good!'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SSDvhVaoPjI/AAAAAAAAABc/p7N4xO_8OzY/s72-c/OSO111608.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-2781848682246899289</id><published>2008-11-14T23:32:00.008+09:00</published><updated>2008-11-23T00:42:15.553+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shikaribetsu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hiking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='autumn'/><title type='text'>Autumn Sky Over Lake Shinonome</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SR2RW5WoaUI/AAAAAAAAABU/8gw7whFxRM0/s1600-h/shikaribetsu+101408+-+64.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 209px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SR2RW5WoaUI/AAAAAAAAABU/8gw7whFxRM0/s320/shikaribetsu+101408+-+64.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268526961632241986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;About a month ago, I hiked to the beautiful Lake Shinonome after climbing Mt. Hakuun near Lake Shikaribetsu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The quiet lake is often rated as one of  "Hokkaido's 3 Best Hiko (Secluded Lakes)" and is surrounded by the abundant and dense bamboo fields.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The deep blue skies and the fast breeze running over the lake that hisses the bamboo leaves on the other side of the lake seemed like the last call of Autumn. The winter was around the corner.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;然別湖の対岸にそびえる白雲山に登頂したついでに、東雲湖にハイキング。北海道三大秘湖に数えられる、ほぼ全周笹原に取り囲まれた静かな湖。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;深い青空と湖面を走り抜けて対岸の笹の葉をサラサラと擦る駆け足の風は、去り行く秋の記憶。冬はもうすぐ...。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=ja&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E7%84%B6%E5%88%A5%E6%B9%96&amp;amp;sll=36.5626%3FC136.362305&amp;amp;sspn=35.655214%3FC56.689453&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;z=14"&gt;where?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-2781848682246899289?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/2781848682246899289/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=2781848682246899289' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/2781848682246899289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/2781848682246899289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2008/11/autumn-sky-over-lake-shinonome.html' title='Autumn Sky Over Lake Shinonome'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SR2RW5WoaUI/AAAAAAAAABU/8gw7whFxRM0/s72-c/shikaribetsu+101408+-+64.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-7322926371483717209</id><published>2008-11-14T16:55:00.011+09:00</published><updated>2008-11-23T00:41:09.190+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tokachigawa Onsen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='training'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hospitality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='workshop'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Four Days in Tokachigawa Onsen</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SSgoCx_mncI/AAAAAAAAAB0/XXgxZ31LcUU/s1600-h/tokachigawa111308.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SSgoCx_mncI/AAAAAAAAAB0/XXgxZ31LcUU/s200/tokachigawa111308.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271507392082124226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I went to &lt;a href="http://www.tokachigawa.net/english/index.html"&gt;Tokachigawa Onsen (Hot Springs) Tourist Information Center&lt;/a&gt; earlier this week to provide a 4-day hospitality business English workshop to the hotel staff in the area. It was an unprecedented trial by the hotel association to raise their levels of the quality in accommodating their increasing English speaking guests/customers. All the students attended the session completely. Their enthusiasm impressed me with their imminent demands for such training. I would like to thank all the people who put together this opportunity and my students as well.&lt;br /&gt;今週は、&lt;a href="http://www.tokachigawa.net/index2.html"&gt;十勝川温泉観光協会&lt;/a&gt;で現地のホテルスタッフ対象の4日間「接客英語セミナー」の講師を務めました。増え続ける外国からのお客さん対応のレベル向上を目的とする初めての試みとのこと。出席率100%の真剣さは、そんな講習の重要さを物語っていました。このセミナーの開催に努力された方々、そして生徒たちに感謝します。&lt;br /&gt;(photo courtesy: Tokachigawa Onsen  Hotel Co-op)&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=ja&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E9%9F%B3%E6%9B%B4%E7%94%BA%E5%8D%81%E5%8B%9D%E5%B7%9D%E6%B8%A9%E6%B3%89&amp;amp;sll=36.5626,136.362305&amp;amp;sspn=35.655214,56.689453&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=42.933301,143.298626&amp;amp;spn=0.031986,0.055361&amp;amp;z=14"&gt;where?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-7322926371483717209?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/7322926371483717209/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=7322926371483717209' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/7322926371483717209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/7322926371483717209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2008/11/four-days-in-tokachigawa-onsen.html' title='Four Days in Tokachigawa Onsen'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SSgoCx_mncI/AAAAAAAAAB0/XXgxZ31LcUU/s72-c/tokachigawa111308.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-5999186769572720343</id><published>2008-11-03T22:19:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2008-11-03T22:24:31.743+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the neville brothers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tokyo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><title type='text'>The "Funkiest" Neville Brothers</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SQ77SdIVHDI/AAAAAAAAAAg/FVjnbbPSaEg/s1600-h/neville_bros_102908.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SQ77SdIVHDI/AAAAAAAAAAg/FVjnbbPSaEg/s400/neville_bros_102908.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264421308918471730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most fabulous "Funk Masters" from New Orleans still funk powerfully in their blues-soaked deep pocket grooves in spite of their ages (The oldest Art is 70 years old!). It has been 12 years since they last had a gig in Tokyo. They were just passionate, soulful and groovy like no other bands anywhere in the world just as I saw them then. I was really carried away by the encore, Aaron's solo "Amazing Grace" - it's just more than you can imagine, which was followed by "One Love/People Get Ready" joined by all the other members. (29 October at JCB Hall near Tokyo Dome)&lt;br /&gt;秋風も涼しい東京JCBホール、ご高齢（最年長のArtは70才!）にもかかわらず、ディープなノリで圧倒するニューオリンズ産、史上最高の「ファンク・マスター」が12年ぶりに再来日ライブ。熱くソウルフルでグルービーなところは誰にもまねできないのはその頃と変わらず。アンコールはAaronのソロでAmazing Grace（想像以上）、そして全員でB. Marleyの"One Love"とC. Mayfieldの"People Get Ready"でぶっ飛びました。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nevilles.com/#_home"&gt;The Neville Brothers official website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-5999186769572720343?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/5999186769572720343/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=5999186769572720343' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/5999186769572720343'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/5999186769572720343'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2008/11/funkiest-neville-brothers.html' title='The &quot;Funkiest&quot; Neville Brothers'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SQ77SdIVHDI/AAAAAAAAAAg/FVjnbbPSaEg/s72-c/neville_bros_102908.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-808592975378614210</id><published>2008-11-03T20:45:00.008+09:00</published><updated>2011-01-23T00:23:40.046+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bike'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bicycle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yokohama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bikers Paradise'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bike shop'/><title type='text'>"COGGEY" Lalaport Yokohama</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SQ7n0znb48I/AAAAAAAAAAY/vCMGcF9EgjI/s1600-h/coggey_lala_yokohama.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SQ7n0znb48I/AAAAAAAAAAY/vCMGcF9EgjI/s400/coggey_lala_yokohama.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264399908837516226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This nice little bike shop is located in the patio of a huge shopping mall &lt;a href="http://www.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=ja&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E6%A8%AA%E6%B5%9C%E5%B8%82%E9%83%BD%E7%AD%91%E5%8C%BA%E6%B1%A0%E8%BE%BA%E7%94%BA4035&amp;amp;sll=35.538931,139.563618&amp;amp;sspn=0.071099,0.110722&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=35.517111,139.566482&amp;amp;spn=0.004445,0.00692&amp;amp;z=17"&gt;"Lalaport Yokohama"&lt;/a&gt; which recently appeared on one block where there was a big NEC plant I used to pass by on my way to work. Its spacious atmosphere and friendly clerks as well as their selection of items will surely make you feel the fun of biking.&lt;br /&gt;時々通勤路に使っていた緑産業道路のNEC工場跡にいつの間にか登場した、最近よくある巨大ショッピング施設&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=ja&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E6%A8%AA%E6%B5%9C%E5%B8%82%E9%83%BD%E7%AD%91%E5%8C%BA%E6%B1%A0%E8%BE%BA%E7%94%BA4035&amp;amp;sll=35.538931,139.563618&amp;amp;sspn=0.071099,0.110722&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=35.517111,139.566482&amp;amp;spn=0.004445,0.00692&amp;amp;z=17"&gt;「ららぽーと横浜」&lt;/a&gt;。その中庭にあるおしゃれな自転車屋さん。三方ガラス張りの明るい店内の自転車とアイテムの品揃えもなかなか遊び心があり、店員さんも親しみやすく好感あり。お近くの方はどうぞ。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.daiya-tsusho.co.jp/coggey.html"&gt;COGGEY website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=ja&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E6%A8%AA%E6%B5%9C%E5%B8%82%E9%83%BD%E7%AD%91%E5%8C%BA%E6%B1%A0%E8%BE%BA%E7%94%BA4035&amp;amp;sll=35.538931,139.563618&amp;amp;sspn=0.071099,0.110722&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=35.517111,139.566482&amp;amp;spn=0.004445,0.00692&amp;amp;z=17"&gt;where?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-808592975378614210?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/808592975378614210/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=808592975378614210' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/808592975378614210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/808592975378614210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2008/11/coggey-lalaport-yokohama.html' title='&quot;COGGEY&quot; Lalaport Yokohama'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SQ7n0znb48I/AAAAAAAAAAY/vCMGcF9EgjI/s72-c/coggey_lala_yokohama.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159232589446223296.post-1075664283395256756</id><published>2008-11-02T17:47:00.009+09:00</published><updated>2011-01-23T00:24:11.812+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bike'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yokohama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bikers Paradise'/><title type='text'>Down in Yokohama</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SQ1qsN18SNI/AAAAAAAAAAM/pCqqbC6d2W4/s1600-h/yokohama31.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 252px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SQ1qsN18SNI/AAAAAAAAAAM/pCqqbC6d2W4/s400/yokohama31.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263980847328676050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;I biked around downtown Yokohama last week to shoot some pictures of those historic buildings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;I hope I will have many pictures like this in my future exhibition.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;横浜の中心街を自転車で走り回り、歴史的建造物の写真をいくつか撮って回った。そのうち展示会でこんな作品も含めて紹介できるといい。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=ja&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E6%A8%AA%E6%B5%9C+%E8%B5%A4%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AC+%E5%80%89%E5%BA%AB1%E5%8F%B7%E9%A4%A8&amp;amp;sll=35.453154,139.64344&amp;amp;sspn=0.017234,0.028753&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=35.452927,139.64314&amp;amp;spn=0.008949,0.014377&amp;amp;z=16"&gt;where?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2159232589446223296-1075664283395256756?l=kengoogle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/feeds/1075664283395256756/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2159232589446223296&amp;postID=1075664283395256756' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/1075664283395256756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2159232589446223296/posts/default/1075664283395256756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kengoogle.blogspot.com/2002/08/down-in-yokohama.html' title='Down in Yokohama'/><author><name>ken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00414957343112546638</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SqzrFAvYc0I/AAAAAAAAAF0/Jc8udaISBA8/S220/050762+2+trmd.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mTpLrjLmGW8/SQ1qsN18SNI/AAAAAAAAAAM/pCqqbC6d2W4/s72-c/yokohama31.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
