It’s Saki. Thanks to everyone who came out with us for the Osaka and Unit shows! Meeting people is so amazing! You out of all those millions of people. I’m so happy we met!
It’s Ikasu. I feel like I can’t really accept things changing yet. Is doubting something
equal to trusting? I really just want to know.
I think the way you live your life is decided by whether you’re the type of person who can put your decisions into action.
In the end, the answer doesn’t really matter as much as the fact that you chose a direction and are heading towards it.
My blog posts have been so academic lately! Let’s be more relaxed.
A scene from the Warped DVD.
Have I written a post right after a show before?
It's Ikasu.
Today we've got a show at Tokyo Unit.
We're used to doing a show with no rehearsal because we did it at Warped tour, and they can be fun.
Shows are live!
People are imperfect, so shows can turn out all sorts of ways. No one is perfect.
I'm not the person I was until yesterday. Today I am who I am today.
We have to face forward and move ahead.
* This sentence here is to myself because I can never face forward and move on.
It's Ikasu.
I do a conversation corner in Rolling Stone, and I've finally figured something out.
When I had a conversation with the Magokoro Brothers, who I really respect, I was more nervous than I've ever been. I'm really just a big fan.
I asked about all kinds of things I thought about.
They said something that really left an impression on me - That they doesn't have an biases, they puts a lot of importance on the flow of things.
I think that means that doing what you do and thinking that it happened because of the flow of things.
The biases that you have are really so small, and sometimes they make you who you are, but they're really not that important. I think the thing to do is to be open to things and to relax. It was like therapy.
It was amazing. I'd never met someone like them. (And I actually said that.)
I want to live my life like that.
Now I love the Makogoro Brothers more than ever.
Have a photo.
We're at the beach in at Chiagasaki in Kanagawa, living in a house with 7 people. Because lots of stuff is happening in Tokyo. I'm sleeping in the loft with Ikasu. We'll be here for a week. It's so much fun.
I was happy for people who said they were looking forward to my photo blog yesterday. I'm in the car heading to Tokyo now. Next to me is my luggage and gear. I like to be surrounded by things in the car, so I usually pick this seat. It makes me remember that scene in Totoro. Do you all know the one I mean?
Really cool.
The other day, when I was talking to Tae-chan and Ikasu and and Leader, we were talking about this:
Tae: Saki, who are your favorite Japanese artists?
Saki: I got asked that before and I didn't know. I guess like...T.M Revolution, and Arashi, and SPEED. I really like Western music...
Tae: What about you Ikasu?
Etc.
Then I realized something. I don't listen to the lyrics! I just just listen to the music!
Tae: Oh yeah! So how about trying some Japanese artists? I recommend the BLUE HEARTS!
I went to borrow a bunch of CDs.
Now I'm trying to listen to the lyrics.
I want to got to WARPED TOUR!!!!
I wanna go! I wanna go! I wanna go!
I wanna go, or rather...
I wanna play! I wanna play! I wanna play it!!
It's hard when the people important to you don't understand things that are important to you. But all you can do is keep going on the path that you think is right, and not lose hope that one day they'll understand.
I don't know what's right now, but I think I'm on the right path.
I love the coolness of the air when the sun is rising. It's a strange and spexial feeling to think that the beginning of someone's day and the end of mine are coming together like that.
Today I'll be in the studio all day. I wonder if I'll be able to wake up for it?
On the news last night I saw something about a telephone pole falling down. Nothing hit it, but the iron telephone pole had rotted and finally fallen down. They said on TV that they thought the cause was dog's marking it. Urine has salt in it so it corrodes iron. They scolded the dog owners a little.
And on the way home from the studio today, I saw a guy park his car, and pee on the side of the road.
If us humans don't watch out, the dogs will get angry at us for being weird..
I know it's sudden, but have you heard of Sakiland? It's even bigger than Disneyland! There are parts of it I haven't even discovered yet. It might even be the size of outer space!
I've only gone through part of it yet, and I'm so excited about the kind of rides I'll be riding on next. Heh heh.
I can do all kinds of things that I want to do, and that I dream of there. I build the system myself! Isn't that amazing?
But that means that when I'm feeling negative, there are really freaky and scary attractions there! Lately I went in, but I was so scared I left really quickly. There are a lot of negative horrors that jump out at you. They make you feel really negative.
I'ts really scary!
Right now I'd love some fun attractions!
Oh, I've also been to Taekoland, Morikoland, Ikasyland, Tomiland and Leaderland, and those are all really fun too!
There were so many amazing and surprising attractions!
They were so much fun. I want to go again soon!
I'm sure you all have your own lands too!
Leader brought me this REGA, which is bound by the two Gogo no Koucha drinks.
This is Saki. Recently I realized that I have no make up on almost all of Moriko's photo blogs. (LOL) Today I bought the new volume of One Piece that I've been wanting forever. Yohoho. Yohoho. It's so thrilling.
Scott's DVD comes out June 25th! We're in it as the back band! I got an early copy and I super excited!
After I went to eat with Ikasu, I went to Gusto with Tae-chin and Leader and we had so much fun talking.
Yahoo!
When you can see where things are going it make syou look forward to them even more!
This is as late as I can stay up. I always get wobbly around now.
Saki and Tae-chan and I talked about our show at Gusto until the restaurant closed at 5. We thought up our set list for the summer festival. We can't wait!! What should we do!? That's where we're at so far.
On the way home we talked about Japan and that country with the missiles, and then said good bye.
Lately I think a lot about how there is so much danger and so many things that could kill you in the world. So I think there's no more precious moment than the one you're living right now.
So! I'm tired, so I'm going to bed. Good night.
You can't really tell from the picture, but when I passed the park on my way home from the studio, some high school kids were having a field day. It brings me back. Can't believe it's been 2 years.
A great place in Sakai.
Lately it's been so humid, I really don't like it. Even though it's good for your throat.
It's Ikasu.
Things have been going better. If you don't get a move on, nothing will happen.It's scary. I just need to take a deep breath inside myself, where I am now.
If you just think you'll get there someday, you'll never get there. I've been thinking about that a lot lately.
The place and the environment doesn't matter, the important thing is to head in a direction that makes sense to you, that you're satisfied with.
I want to make people tremble.
Last night I saw one of my classmates from high school. We acted liked idiots and laughed together and chatted about stupid things, and then I realized something!
My friend is an adult now! Damn it! You used to be such an idiot! And I'm still just a kid!
Oh my god!
But I was so inspired.
We were in the US.
We'd finished the photo shoots for the CD jackets for What a Wonderful World vol 1 and vol 2, and we were heading off to Target.
Oh, I want to go to the US!
I have so many things to talk about I don't know where to start.
I've been watching movies and reading books and seeing shows and talking to the other girls in the band.
I think that there's something to talking to people, having contact with the world, doing what you love, and being active. If you just keep on moving something will come to you.
You just have to broaden your horizons.
Today I went to Thirteen to see a show of a friend of mine. Thirteen is such a great club. I'd love to play their one time.
I'm itching to!
Nothing goes exactly the way you want it to, but I hope things go well!
My laundry smells. Even though I didn't hang them inside the house. Darn this humidity!
I was watching TV and they had a commerical for this air conditioning that gets ride of the smell when you hang your laundry inside the house.
"That's just what I need!" I looked up and realized that the air conditioning from the commercial was sitting there in my living room.
Oh. So I guess it gets rid of the smell of the room, but not the laundry.
That's why I hate the rainy season.
っていう理由で梅雨きらいやねん
We've got practice now.
Woohoo!
Is it warm or cold lately?
The weather is all over the place!
I really felt the energy from the tower of the sun! I could feel the obsession and determination it. It's so impressive.
When people make things a piece of their soul really goes into them.
"People can create anything they can imagine."
It's so true.
Artists create their own world, and the things they create move people.
And this one moved me!
They were selling Evangelion chocolates, so I bought them.
I ate Ritsuko.
Mom and I were talking about how to use my stimulus check and I ended up giving my mom my old DS and she gave me the cost from her check so could by a new DS.
I bought it today!
It's so amazing!
Now I don't need digital camera! I put the photos I took on my SD card and save them that way!
It's so amazing! Nindendo!
It's great! I'm so happy my face lost it's shape!
Here's a photo I took with it!
I meant to talk about Kururi in that last blog, but I forgot. (LOL)
Today I bought Kururi's CD.
Sometimes I get an urge to listen to a certain kind of music and then I go by their CD. Not because someone recommended them to me or I've liked their music before.
When I listen to music at times like that, I feel like the music is water filling the holes in my heart.
That's what happened this time too.
It feels so great!
After we finished in the studio today I ate dinner at home. Don't you think that natto furikake smells even more than real natto?
There's this song I've been trying to put some horns in but I can't imagine how it will sound. I try to make a new song when that happens, but I haven't been able to do that this time! It sucks.
But today in the studio I laughed and I suddenly felt really motivated.
When you're stuck the thing to do is the laugh more.
The sunset is so soft today! It's growing totally dark now though!
I just had an email from our manager.
He said, 'You guys are my treasure. I believe in you.'
I was getting depressed because I couldn't get this song right, so it really made me happy.
We have have the best manager in the world.
I hung out with some friends from home that I hadn't seen in forever! It was so familiar, I was totally able to relax.
Did you know? Yesterday was Rock Day.
Did you all rock out?
Rock n' Roll!!
I want to rock! I want to dance!
That's what's in my head as I write songs. But it's not going very well.
We're all getting so greedy. What I want to get across is so simple, but then I add mixers and simulators and see what's left, and then do it all over again. That's what it's like.
And the music grows warmer. I think it's about to boil. Maybe too much.
But the staff have really good vibes. You can feel vibes even if you're apart.
I hope you guys can al feel these vibes.
When I was in my last year of middle school, I had a graduation show with some local kids my age at a venue called Harayamadai DAB. One of the girls I played the show with had a baby today! Wow!
A baby!
The sun sets and then it rises again. Life really is the turning of the planet.
I'll raise my glass to this wonderful day! To the new mother and father!
Ah! My eyes will only open halfway!
This has got to be because I had three bowls of miso soup late last night!
I'm off to the studio now~
Song writing just wasn't going well today, so I finally asked Ikasu to help me. It's so great to have companions! I'm so lucky to have friends who care about me so much.
Today I e-mailed John from REEL BIG FISH. When I was having trouble with the horns, I reached for REEL BIG FISH's CD. They really are so cool! I'm so inspired by you, John!
