Walking Shade Video Review

This is review for the music video of Walking Shade; the song from Billy Corgan's coming new album TheFutureEmbrace.

Walking Shade maybe my favourite one side by side with Tonight, Tonight.
The song is never-heard-before structure and complex, but I believe it is succeeding.

Zwan's "Honestly" and "Lyric" was so powerful and made me happy, but it wasn't quite billy and new. (I didn't think this way in zwan era).

Walking Shade is unlike others, there isn't really a climax and ending. I feel maybe that is why I feel this is so true to him and reality.

I am watching (Walking Shade) again and again so many times now, and that makes me wonder if he really got something this time.

Walking Shade - Billy Corgan

I just watched the video of Walking Shade.
It is so beautiful!
I have never heard song like Walking Shade.
It is like a mixture of feelings, but feelings just doesn't last long, constantly shifting from one to another. I think in this sense it is very real and true.
Video is so beautiful. My favourite video is Tonight Tonight, and it made me his fan.
But this one might become the best video for me!
It is like I am falling in love once again!

I don't know if I am allowed here, but here is the link to download.

It wasn't proper to use "feeling". Maybe "emotion" is better to be used...
I felt that the song changes its melody (or tune), and the new melody does not last long as I expected as usual songs. Some says that you are trying to do too many things at once, but I believe it is not. I felt that the song is emotionally changing and shifting, and there isn't final state of emotion and answer.
I hope this explains my feeling about the song better...

Billy Corgan talks about his first solo album

Read it here.

Aichi Expo 2005

I went to Aichi Expo 2005 for the last saturday and sunday by myself.
There are many many countries' booth and cool technologies. Where else should I go!
I'm planning to go back real soon.

Photo report coming on the way!

Billy Corgan is coming back!

Check renewedBillycorgan.com or www.myspace.com/billycorgan.

He is coming back with his album very very soon.

Jack Johnson's New Album on iTunes Music Store comes with 21pages of Digital Booklet (PDF)

Jack Johnson's New Album on iTunes Music Store comes with Digital Booklet, which is PDF file. Album was only $9.99 and comes with 15 songs + 21 pages of nice Digital Booklet.

I am using iMac, and the OS is Panther. It comes with the software called Preview, which is PDF reader. This PDF reader has Full Screen Mode.

So I am reading nice Digital Booklet in Full Screen Mode in Preview while listening to very nice Jack Johnson's new album called, "In Between Dreams."

This is by far the best digital music experience.

Week 9: Mar 1 - Mar 7

Week in Review:

• Bought iPod Shuffle for PianoBall
  
• Designing for DVD/VHS Jacket
  
• DVD Post Rental (Livedoor)
  
• GoF Software Patterns
  
• Yellow Stone on TV.
  
• Kilimanjalo and the river. Hippos.
  
• Shanghai Convenience Stores.
  
• Coffee Store in Takashimadaira.
  

Week 8: Feb 22 - Feb 28

Week in Review:

• Lost in real world.
  
• Lost my purpose on writing blog.
  
• Keep reading Anthropology book in Japanese.
  
• Keep buying songs related to morning
  

Coffee: Kenya AA (GIN-NO-MAME)

• Type: Kenya AA


• Roast: Full City Roast (3/5)


• Aroma: Fruity. Calm.


• Acidity: Strong


• Body: Light, easy


• Flavor: Morning, yellow


• Price:


• Note: Great coffee. I was told that this coffee would be very sour with weak roast cause this is one of the strongest in acidity. I found I am liking sourness of coffee.

Week 7: Feb 15 - Feb 21

Week in Review;
This week was a week of Speaker and Sound.
Listening in the car and at home with harman / kardon speaker system is bliss.

• stenographic records. (writing down in shorthand.)
  
• two kinds of spagetti. Natto Spagetti, Gorgonzola Spagetti.
  
• Morning with morning songs.
  
• Contact lens
  
• Rust prevent stainless work on our entrance door.
  
• Learning new language.
  
• Bikkuri Donki Humberg
  

iTunes Music Store - Cat Stevens, Louis Armstrong, Living Language

This weekend I purchased three.
Two songs are really great for listening in the morning.
Another one is for learning Chinese.

Morning Has Broken
What a Wonderful World (single)
In-Flight Mandarin Chinese: Learn Before You Land

I am really glad I boght Cat Stevens' "Morning Has Broken". So wonderful piece of music! I think I am gonna wake up every Sunday moring with this song!

I am going to bed and listen to "In-Flight Mandarin Chinese" tonight.

Goodnite!

Oldest Homo Sapiens is from Ethiopia, Africa.

190,000 years ago in Ethiopia, our ancestor was born. Probably it looked very much like us, had brain as big as ours'.
So we then splead to all the places, and killed off another Homo Sapiens, Neanderthal and possibly more apes, which are extinct now. Anthropology is fun, cause it let us imagine things that really happened.

The article on Nature.

This skull, called Omo II, is from the earliest known member of our species.
© Michael Day
Two Ethiopian fossils have been crowned as the oldest known members of our species. An estimated 195,000 years old, the pair were witness to the earliest days of Homo sapiens.

The discovery adds yet more weight to the argument that Africa, and Ethiopia in particular, was the birthplace of humans. The dating sits well with genetic analyses of modern populations, which suggest that H. sapiens first appeared in Africa around 200,000 years ago.

Rent CDs - John Mayer, Alicia Keys

Rented two CDs from Tsutaya

Heavier Things - John Mayer
the diary of alicia keys - Alicia Keys

Listening pleasure for coming weekend.

Week 6: Feb 7 - Feb 14

Week in Review:
This week was about iTunes Music Store.
Bought total of 9 songs.
It was an exciting week, because now I can buy a song, not whole album!

• PianoBall's two trips.
  
• TalkativeSnow went to see marathon.
  
• Bad decisiion on buying sub woofer.
  
• Home Alone
  
• Alone in Nagasaki Chanpon
  
• Sleep too much
  
• Billy Corgan's Poem - Blinking with Fists - from Amazon
  
• Jimmy Chamberlin's first album - Jimmy Chamberlin Complex - from Amazon
  

Global Consciousness - Random generators placed in many places of the world can detects the future events.

Article and Global Consciousness Project Website

The article is so interesting. Time may flow both foward and backward, and we are capable of detecting the future event.
If this finding is true, it can explain de ja vu. Even more, it can change our understandings the law of our Universe and physics.

More on this story as I investigated.

My thought in Japanese is here.

My first iTunes Music Store's iMix - yasutMix01

yasutMix01 is just been released from yasut! It is available for 1 year.

They are my first 9 songs I purchased from iTunes Music Store. Last 3 songs are for you to sleep. Over 80 minutes of songs for only $9.69!

iTunes Music Store Purchases

Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
Soul Bossa Nova - Quincy Jones & Quincy Jones & His Orchestra

Both are heard in Japanese TV programs, and they sound very familiar.

iTunes Music Store - Darwin Chamber

I bought a song? of Darwin Chamber.
3D Thunderstorm Environment 30 minutes in length, and it is only $0.99!

I hope it isn't just a normal environment sound. Actually I don't really like thinderstorm...

Purchases from iTunes Music Store

Today I pick myself three songs.
They are:

• Don't Blow It (a song from motion picture "Solaris") - Cliff Martinez
  
• Only Time - Enya
  
• Guided meditation for Sleep - Simonette Vaja
  

"Solaris" is such a great film. Worth buying DVD and Soundtrack. Composer, "Cliff Martinez" is in my Great Composer list.
I am going to listen to Guided meditation for Sleep now. It is 30 min in length, and still cost only $0.99! What a deal!

I bought songs from iTunes Music Store for the first time!

I bought gift certificate from ipodfactory and bought songs from iTunes for the first time. It was such an excitement!
My mom and I picked these three, and it was worth it! It was so much fun buying.

• Impromptu No. 5, Op. 102 - Pierr-Alain Volondat (composed by Faure)


• Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye


• Leaving On a Jet Plane - Peter, Paul & Mary