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I vaguely remember dreaming about getting myself entangled in spider webs a lot. Possibly that dream came because we'd been moving furniture and I got
to put a cellar spider outside. That's lethal to the buggers. I suppose these are the kind of spiders that freak me out most, because those long brown
legs look just like my hair. It'll cure when I go entirely grey next year.
Did I tell you I'm learning Japanese? It's what all that Howl's Moving Castle did to me.
I now have a full respect for people who have to translate that: for lip-sync, they tend to have the exact same amount of syllables, and Japanese puts
a suffix behind the subject, object, predicate, possessive etc. The simple word I is watakushi in Japanese. A sentence like I am a man, 4 syllables,
translates to Watakushi-wa otoko-de su, 10 syllables.
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When do YOU use I'm a man?
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About as often as I use "Kore-wa naifu-de su ka? -Iie, sore-wa naifu-de ari-masen. Sore-wa fooku-de su.", which means "Is this a knife? - No, that is
not a knife. That is a fork."
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If you look closely, the words "knife" and "fork" were directly imported from English into Japanese, but apparently they already had spoons there.
Every syllable in Japanese is open (as in: ends on a vowel), but U usually gets swallowed at the end.
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It's oh, so quiet, shh, shhh, it's oh so still...
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Björk!!
I made a promise to drop by regularly a long time ago and I've kept to it. The dark place is so boring at the moment it's like watching paint dry.
I don't have a lot to say at the moment, I'm not in a particularly good frame of mind, mainly due to the metal deterioration of my mother and the
impact it's having on everything I do. The problem is that there's not much you can do about it and not much anyone can really say. It is what it is -
shitty.
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Terribly sorry to hear about your mother, Poly. It's terrible watching someone you love in that state.
Zappa forum's not what it used to be. I didn't even get a comment on the comics I published there.
Anyway, regarding Japanese and syllables: there's a lot of languages that have similar issues or short words for long descriptions (I love the
Scottish "tartle"):
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TranslationYes Click the Real Life folder.
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this one always cheers me up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s78u9S2rK0
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This video contains content from EMI, who blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
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this is the song in a different clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-53aixewrE
and can you see this page?
http://www.youtube.com/user/jcizz/videos?flow=grid&view=0
it's the one called kono yo no kagiri
anyway, here's the lyrics
LYRICS
Kono yo ni kagiri wa aru no?
Moshi mou hate ga mieta nara
Dou yatte waraou ka tanoshimou ka
Mou yari tsukushita ne
Jaa nando datte wasureyou
Soshite mata atarashiku deaereba subarashii
Sayounara
Hajimemashite
But still my dear if the end draws near what should I do?
If you hold me tight I'd feel all right but still be blue
But if a song were to play just for us for a moment
To take the heartache away
Well then Id say, I'll make a song for you
Nothing too old, and nothing too new
Sing to the light of day
You'll smile for me, well be happy that way
Da la la...
Just turn away and take this point of view
Nothing is old, and nothing is new
When you look at me and say I'll forget you...
If you were me who would you be when the sun goes down?
Two faces bright but I fear the night might come around
And if reflections appear from the past, all our moments,
Smiles, love and laughter, I fear...
Well then Id say, I'll make a song for you
Nothing too old, and nothing too new
Sing to the light of day
You'll smile for me, we'll be happy that way
And take this point of view
Nothing is old, and nothing is new
When you look at me and say
Nice to meet you, would you mind if I stay?
[Edited on 27-10-12 by punknaynowned]
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I can't see it, sorry.
Can you see this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn7TuKHCu_g
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ah, that sux.
yes I can see the one you posted
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Not much happening over here. Actually, I kind of enjoy the relative quietness here compared to the election-related stupidity at the Z-forum.
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I wrote a lyric to the tune of the finale of act 1 of swan lake. You know, that classic tragic tune with these notes (the bold F# is to indicate it's
below the B, unlike the others which are above):
// B C# / D E / F# - / - D / F# - / - D / F# D / B D / B - / - F# / B C# / D E / F# - / - D / F# - / - D / F# D / B D / B - / - -
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When you say goodbye tonight, I'll miss you all night long, and
When that last goodbye arrives, the rest will all be wrong.
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You know I played that tune a lot when I was younger?
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No, I didn't know, but now I do. It's one of the hackneyed tunes of the classical music world I guess, like Für Elise and so on.
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IMO it is one of the classical works that is played frequently and is used in more poppy songs. Maybe as a bridge between classical and modern music.
But the popularity of a song can also means that an "oh,no not again" feeling appears. Something you see with candy sweet popsongs. I love the
classical elements that walked over the bridge into populair music instead of me going over the bridge to classical music. I don't mean things as
Swanlake by Madness, but more not on the surface floating elements like you see in for instance the music from Earth and Fire, Supersister, Focus,
It's a Beatiful day, Chicago T.A. and others.
[Edited on 31-10-2012 by DED]
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I played it "my way". That is, I didn't know how to do the left hand, and I played it in A-minor. I replaced the left hand with my regular 4-note
accompaniment and on my Tamaha with the Single Finger Chords and the Duet setting, that would make a lot of noise! 
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I used to like playing the scherzo, the third movement of Beethoven's 6th Symphony on guitar. I can imagine that arranged for a rock band.
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