Happy New Year, O Readers! May the Year of the Monkey treat you well. We come once again to the Tokyo International Forum for another two days of shows. Any new readers or those wishing to reread earlier posts might want to go to the Table of Contents first. ☆ November 16, 2002 Tokyo International …
exist†trace – SHOOTING STAR
I just realized that Winter term classes don't start until January 11th. Woo! I might be able to make some good progress in both my Air Moon and exist†trace projects with such a long break from school. So here's one from the latter, keeping on with World Maker. After the Japanese & romaji lyrics is …
The Air Moon Ch. 4: Kagen no Tsuki, Part 6
So I signed in several weeks ago thinking I'd bust out this one stop right quick, when I happened to see on my WordPress dashboard that one of the search engine terms that led someone here was "air moon gackt english pdf." That was a bit troubling. As is written in the "Request" in the …
First Snow of the Season
I've never completely agreed with the characterization of winter as a gloomy season. Maybe it's because even when I was in a traditional work setting and left home in the dark and got back in the dark, I knew that in between the sun was shining, and in all but one occasion (when I worked …
Why Not Just Teach Kids Not To Be Assholes?
And please don't excuse my language 'cause I would hate for you to misrepresent the true expression of my anguish --Lupe Fiasco, "ITAL" An interesting thing happened in Intro to Art Education today. We were talking about the domains of the Charlotte Danielson "Framework for Teaching," and how even student-teachers would be evaluated on this …
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Vanity’s Progress
The fall term has begun, signaling the start of my second year as a part-time Art Education grad student. Last fall I had one painting class, but the first painting I set out to do ended up taking nearly the whole entire term to paint. Mostly because I picked a difficult subject and restarted several …
The Air Moon Ch. 4: Kagen no Tsuki, Part 5
I had translated a little bit of this a few days ago in celebration of the fact that I accomplished one of the things I was trying to do this summer. I finished it today because I was so angry at someone, and then angry at myself for letting stuff get to me like that, …
exist†trace — Nagai Yume no Owari ni
"Nagai Yume no Owari ni" is the second to last track on exist†trace's album World Maker. In her blog explaining this track, miko mentioned that this song was originally performed as the last in a 3-song medley beginning with "Ritoru Mearii to Utsukushiki Nikushimi no Donau", a track which eventually appeared on VIRGIN. (She doesn't …
Air Moon Indefinite Hiatus
Hello there, O Readers of The Air Moon. First of all I want to thank everyone who has been reading my translation and going on this trip back in time with me. Besides the joy of sharing the hard work and antics of this Moon we gaze upon, it brightens my day to log on to …
Hilcrhyme – Ouinkenbunroku
While I was in Japan, I was introduced to Hilcrhyme by a friend who said she'd seen a video with this singer who looked like Axel from Kingdom Hearts. The video in question was "Daijoubu." Much to my amusement, the similarity was certainly there, at least in terms of his build and hairstyle. Hilchryme consists …
Warped Frost 