en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 60 http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices asobi's Last.fm Journal http://www.last.fm/user/asobi/journal The Last.fm journal for asobi. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. advantage lucy lyrics http://www.last.fm/user/asobi/journal/2009/05/03/2p3t0d_advantage_lucy_lyrics Sun, 3 May 2009 16:33:43 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/asobi/journal/2009/05/03/2p3t0d_advantage_lucy_lyrics I couldn't find any lyrics for advantage Lucy songs, so I tried translating one:
advantage Lucy - Nico

目を覚ましたら 聞こえてくる
when I wake up
雨音に耳をすます
I catch the sound of rainfall
明けない夜に 昇るはずの
in the unending night, the the thought of where the sun is
陽の位置を思い浮かべる
drifts into my mind

ふつりあいな程 大きな黒い傘
a disproportionately large black umbrella
薄明るい空に
when I stretched out my hand and opened it
手を伸ばしさしたら
in the dimly lit sky -
小さな闇になった
a tiny darkness

近すぎた影 遠い嘘
I dislike too-close shadows, distant lies
静かすぎる部屋は嫌い
this room that is too quiet
確かめる間も ないままに
without even the time to confirm things
なぜ急いで沈むのだろう
I wonder why the sun sets so hurriedly

何も見えない夜は
in the night where nothing can be seen
見失わないように
so that I wouldn't lose sight of things
苛立ちと願いを ろうそくに 灯せば
I lit up a candle with wishes and irritations -
寂し気な天体になった
a solitary heavenly body

もしも言葉が星よりも
if there were more words
数え切れない程あるなら
than the countless number of stars in the sky
伝えられるかもしれないけど
I would probably be able to express myself but
そんな大切なものではないと思う
I think it isn't that important
そこまで 歩いてゆこう
let's set out to that point

雨が降りやんだら
when it stops raining
穏やかな朝焼けが
the gentle sunrise
眩しいだろう
will probably be dazzling


it reads like poetry, but I found a lot of that hard to get across (like how 小さな闇 and 寂し気な天体 parallel each other). because the Japanese is so sparse and ambiguous, it was really hard to translate naturally and concisely (and I still have questions like... is it the sun or the singer who is the subject in certain parts?) but I love the images in this song.]]> more music surveys http://www.last.fm/user/asobi/journal/2007/09/25/3ojk_more_music_surveys Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:40:36 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/asobi/journal/2007/09/25/3ojk_more_music_surveys Take the 50 top artists in your musical profile, and create a cloud of the similar artists that are not in your top 50. The result is a collection of highly recommended artists for your personal profile. You can generate your own cloud (in BBCode) at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/recommend.php

My recommendations are
ART-SCHOOL BEAT CRUSADERS Base Ball Bear Beck Belle and Sebastian Bright Eyes Broken Social Scene Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Death Cab for Cutie Do As Infinity Doping Panda GOING UNDER GROUND HUSKING BEE Interpol JUDY AND MARY L'Arc~en~Ciel LUNKHEAD Mates of State Metric Modest Mouse Mr.Children NUMBER GIRL Neutral Milk Hotel ORANGE RANGE Rilo Kiley Spoon THE BACK HORN Tegan and Sara The Arcade Fire The Band Apart The Decemberists The Fiery Furnaces The New Pornographers The Shins Tommy heavenly6 Yo La Tengo noodles of Montreal the brilliant green くるり サンボマスター ストレイテナー スネオヘアー チャットモンチー フジファブリック ポルノグラフィティ レミオロメン 木村カエラ 東京事変 椎名林檎






Generate your own musical cloud.
]]> the extent i go to to procrastinate... how eclectic? survey http://www.last.fm/user/asobi/journal/2007/09/25/3ojj_the_extent_i_go_to_to_procrastinate..._how_eclectic%3F_survey Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:18:26 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/asobi/journal/2007/09/25/3ojj_the_extent_i_go_to_to_procrastinate..._how_eclectic%3F_survey Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently

92/100



The 92 related artists for my profile are ACIDMAN, ART-SCHOOL (2), ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION (2), Animal Collective, Asobi Seksu, BEAT CRUSADERS(2), BENNIE K, BONNIE PINK, BUMP OF CHICKEN (2), Cat Power, Chara, Cibo Matto, Claude Debussy, Clint Mansell, Crystal Kay, Danny Elfman, Davide Balula, Domotic, Ennio Morricone, Every Little Thing, F.I.R., Feist, Fiona Apple, Fly to the Sky, GRAPEVINE, George Winston, Gutevolk, HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR, Heartsdales, Jon Brion, KOTOKO, L'Arc~en~Ciel, Lunkhead, Liars, Lily Chou-Chou, Maksim Mrvica, NUMBER GIRL, O.Lamm, ORANGE RANGE, Pipas, Richard Clayderman, Rilo Kiley, S.H.E, SE7EN, Salyu, See-Saw, Sufjan Stevens, Syrup16g, THE BACK HORN, TV on the Radio, Tenniscoats, The Band Apart, The Fiery Furnaces, The Marshmallow Kisses, Thomas Newman, Tommy heavenly6, Xiu Xiu, YUI, Yanni, Yuhki Kuramoto, Yui Makino, ZAZEN BOYS, At17, m-flo loves EMYLI & YOSHIKA, noodles, the brilliant green, The Pancakes, くるり, ストレイテナー (3), フジファブリック (2), 下川みくに, 中島美嘉, 中村一義, 大塚愛, 大島ミチル, 宇多田ヒカル, 安室奈美恵, 川井憲次, 新居昭乃, 林俊傑, 林原めぐみ, 梶浦由記, 梶芽衣子, 植松伸夫, 王力宏, 王菲, 菅野よう子 (2), 陳綺貞, 陶喆, 동방신기, 별, 신화

the strange thing is i've probably heard of all the asian bands, even the ones that i haven't listened to, at one point or another... it's just that i can't read their names... OH my poor chinese/korean/japanese skills -__-]]> shanghai restoration project http://www.last.fm/user/asobi/journal/2007/04/20/3oji_shanghai_restoration_project Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:59:13 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/asobi/journal/2007/04/20/3oji_shanghai_restoration_project The Shanghai Restoration Project was pretty amazing live. at first the idea of fusing traditional eastern and western instruments seems overdone, but when I was listening, I realized that's the sort of thing that I love the most. like erhu mixed in with a beat, funky pipa melodies, etc. I feel like most chinese artists don't take advantage of it enough.
anyway, I'm trying to locate songs from the 1930's jazz age in china, which as David Liang was saying, is one of the earliest and most gorgeous fusions of chinese and western music. one of my friends was against calling it china's jazz age because it was really just a chinese imitation of america's jazz from the roaring twenties, and not really a chinese invention or even a fusion in itself. still, i'm still really excited about the concept and i can't imagine what it would sound like.]]> excuse me for being sentimental http://www.last.fm/user/asobi/journal/2006/04/16/3ojh_excuse_me_for_being_sentimental Sun, 16 Apr 2006 22:20:55 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/asobi/journal/2006/04/16/3ojh_excuse_me_for_being_sentimental I was checking out the tags for Just Like Honey while simultaneously listening to it, and god, the combined effect just put me on the verge of tears.

Tags like , , , , , , , , , , , , , ... just summed up everything I felt for this song and more.

I love tags, and that is the point of this entry.]]> seven of the moment http://www.last.fm/user/asobi/journal/2005/12/05/3ojg_seven_of_the_moment Mon, 5 Dec 2005 00:16:21 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/asobi/journal/2005/12/05/3ojg_seven_of_the_moment I posted this somewhere else, but here are my top seven tracks of the moment:

1. 1000 Oceans
2. Don't Speak
3. Sailing Day
4. Nutty a hermit.
5. Sodatsu Zasso
6. Lonely in Gorgeous
7. The Candy Man]]>