Elittlet ,Veoh and Youtube

A picture of me on Elittletokyo: http://elittletokyo.com/gallery/bondance?page=3. It's form another obon festival. But in case the pictures get moved here is another link to the main gallery: http://www.elittletokyo.com/En/gallery.htm

Not the best but around 6 minutes into this video look across the street.: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v10649008WfNKYwc

I'm across the street again in this one. I come up on screen at about 5mins into the clip: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OpBlta9AMjM .

最もじゃない　でもこのビデオに６分。私は通りのさら遠く側に見ます。：　http://www.veoh.com/videos/v10649008WfNKYwc　
別ビデオ（５分）：http://youtube.com/watch?v=OpBlta9AMjM　。　こちらがもう一度通りのさら遠いです。

First sighting on a website and OreskaBand

The Oreskaband is pretty cool. I wish I got to go to one of their concerts here in the US. Will probably have to make due with a CD though. I'm a bit surprised I like their music. I've never been interested in ska before but I heard their music once and had to hear more. I guess it's like most of the music I listen to.Kind of like Random Ninjas and Rusika last year where I wasn't interested in rock music until I heard them. Actually except for the theme song for the Spiderman movie,"Hero". That came first.

Here is a link to a site I'm on.From a blog for the Oreskaband about their pizzaparty with Street-team fans.: http://playlog.jp/terrynote/blog/

For the post I'm in: http://playlog.jp/terrynote/blog/2007-08-28

オレスカバンド

オレスカバンドはかなりかっこいいです。
今スカ音楽に興味がある。

オレスカバンドは　私にRandom NinjasとRusikaを思い出す。　前RandomNinjasロック音楽に興味がありません。　あ　実は少数ロックの歌を好きでした　でもおれの名前がわかりません。

おれスカバンドのパーテイーに行った。このウェブサイトは写真があります：http://playlog.jp/terrynote/blog/ 。

My Worst AnonymousAfro Sighting yet

This is from the ending ceremonies at this year's Nisei Week. I'm only in it for a few seconds and it almost looks like the photographer has an afro because you can just see the top of my head and hair. By the way Zendeko really do rock,one of my favorite taiko teams. Yes even thought it seems a bit silly since I think the first time I heard them or taiko drums was last year I do have favorites grpups. Also an interesting fact about Zendeko,one of the Nisei Week princesses is a member of Zendeko. So here is the youtube link: Zendeko ,you'll see me or my hair around 1 minute in.

Another possible sighting was on the "Buddhist Way of Life". According to a friend last Suday they did a segment on O-bons. They showed O-bon festivals at California temples like Higashi, Nishi, Venice, WLA, NW, etc. (yeah I went to all of those). So he said he thought he may have spotted me on one of their clips. I wish I taped it.

Nisei Week is over/ 二世ウィ－ク終わり!

Nisei Week is over! Yes that means no more odori dancing for me. I seemed to have just found it and now it's gone. At least I joined in the ending ceremonies. However that's not where the bad news ends. That also means the nebuta is gone. It will no longer be in front of the JACCC anymore! I think it's time to steal the nebuta. It told me it wants me to take it home and put it on my roof. Actually I'm not the only one who had this idea, I heard one person say it would fit in their parking lot! Seriously, I wonder what is going to happen to it. Aomori you'll see me (at some time,who knows when)!

Karaoke・カラオケ

Karaoke

I've just gone to a karaoke place for the second time. When I say the second time I mean second time going there and second time doing karaoke in my life. I never really thought of it before but karaoke is pretty fun! When I first went,mostly to waste some time I was surprised the place got any business. I heard karaoke parlors were popular in S.Korea and Japan but couldn't see a place staying in business here in the US.Being the guy I am I looked up karaoke on wiki . I found out the word came from the Japanese word kara-empty and orchestra combined.

Also I decide I'll make 2 copies of post to practice the languages I'm interested in so more Spanish & 日本語 to come!

カラオケ

私はカラオケ場所に行きました。第二です。

Nisei Week and Yet another Sighting!

Well this year's Nisei Week「二世ウィーク」 seems to have a lot more people than last year's. Unluckily as much as I wish they were there for me I know what brought many of them. The Nebuta float from Aomori「青森」! I myself was really excited to see it. I first got to see it in person on Saturday. It was behind the Little Tokyo Shopping Center and they were still setting part of it up. It was taken apart to transport it here. Later that day they had a talk with the creator about why he chose a samurai,who he did,Takeda Shingen and other questions.

Sunday,the day of the parade I experienced another sighting incident. I was buying Nisei week t-shirts and raffle tickets and another person buying them recognized me from 2 obons. I really stand out at these O-bons? I thought there were loads of people who looked just like me at the o-bons.

Cool thing, I saw a few people I know Saturday and Sunday. Interesting fact, I met 2 of them at O-bons.

Sayings and Uses!

You know when you think of it most sayings don't make sense. At least not for what they are referencing. Most made since when first used but as it changed and got used for more things lost it's sensibility. The most recent I noticed was "When the cards are down". It makes sense when talking about a card game where you may thing you've won until another player shows his hand is larger or closer to the selected number or whatever. However just today I heard where it hardly means anything. I think I will end up writing about more of these sayings later

Sightings

I have found out that I happen to be on a few videos that are online. One I found while I was searching for the name of a Group. I was searching to remember the name of a group I saw at the Cherry Blosm festival and found this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFurD2HqwT4 . then recently I was told at an Obon by a fellow dancer how I was on more from another obon. Just showing again how noticeable an afro is! Those were here: HigashiHongaji ,Bon Dance @ OBON CARNIVAL of HIGASHI HONGANJI 2007.7.28 , HigashiHonganjiobon . I would also like to do a disclaimer now that No one has heard of a Beachboys' song becoming an obon odori dance before so everyone was off on that one not just me.
Another: Hongashi

There is a Problem

I have noticed a problem with my everyday life. Simply it's hard being anonymous when you have a noticeable haircut. Surprisingly this never occurred to me before. For some reason I seemed to think I could use it sometimes and not others. However recently I've had 2 times when someone saw me at an event yet I didn't notice or recognize them. Interestingly both were at Obons. Both times I found out later that they saw and recognized me while I probably saw them but had no idea.

At the moment I have no idea what to do.