I had this discussion with a fellow translator about what is and is not translatable. He said that a certain Yousei Teikoku song (Shoseijo no uta) falls in the latter category. I disagree(d).
SEX冠 in 京都MUSE
家から出発：4時30分。出たら暖かすぎて革ジャケットを上着に変えようかな一瞬思ったが帰りは遅いし夜は多分寒くなるから諦めた。電車は行きも帰りもよしもとばななのみずうみ読んでた。その本はいつか適当に買っちゃっただけだけど…京都に着いたらちょっととある阪急のオヤジギャグやってみようかなと思ったけど、やるきのなさが勝った。
京都MUSE行ったことなかったしちょっとサイトに載ってる地図も大まかすぎて、でも道聞いたら早く見つけた。そしてあほメタルの夜が始まった。
Opeth
The other day i went to Osaka for the second Opeth gig since i’m in Japan (the first was back in 2009), and it was awesome. Although back when the Heritage album came out, i wasn’t exactly happy with it, since then it grew on me, and i didn’t mind all that much that many of the songs at the show were from that album.
It was nice to have more quiet songs, songs when the people around me didn’t want to mosh (i don’t think Opeth is the kind of music you’re supposed to mosh to), but when i heard the first sounds of Face of Melinda, Heir Apparent or the Grand Conjuration, my heart skipped a beat. Ghost Reveries is still my favorite Opeth album, so i was very happy that they played at least one song off it.
last.fm discover
You might or might not be aware how seriously i’m addicted to last.fm. Actually i’m rather addicted to music and i love statistics, so last.fm is just the perfect place for me. No surprise it’s always open in a browser tab and it’s among the top visited sites in all my browsers. However, i’m not subscribed, because the only reason i could imagine doing that is the Radio feature, but the times i tried it, it simply didn’t work so well. After 2-3 songs suddenly something totally out-of-place would pop up and i’d rather close it and return to my own library.
But now it’s all changed with seeing one single tweet. Last.fm announced the launch of their new service called Discover. It claimed that it’ll help me find me new favorite artist–and truth be told, it has the best of chance to do so. Unlike the Radio, i haven’t seen anything here indicating a limit on songs i can listen for free, and i definitely do love discovering new and/or underground bands. It works based on tags, so there might be some songs that seem out of place, but then i can just click “something different” to find something more to my taste or “more like this” if i liked something.
That music freak
So, in about two weeks, we’ll have the yearly autumn camp of the university light music club. I can’t wait. It was a lot of fun last year, and this year it’s gonna be even more fun. Last year i only had one band and we practiced plenty beforehand, so while everyone else were practicing in the camp, i was bored, looking for people to play pool with. This year i have two bands, i’ll have the honor of singing some Marilyn Manson songs (the Fight Song and one more, yet undecided) and to play bass-vocals for a Hi-Standard copy band. This latter is of course more challenging, as ever since the failure of our Sex Pistols band last autumn (about a week after i bought my bass) i never tried singing while playing. So far i think i can do it, but it’ll need plenty of practicing.
Then of course once the camp is over, we’ll be facing the auditions for the autumn live, where again i’ll have to do my best if i want to get on stage. No bands are decided yet, but most probably we’ll come up with stuff in the camp. I’d love to play the guitar again too, but chances are that’s not gonna happen. If i could get to do the vocals for some nice grunting metal like Heaven Shall Burn, Machine Head or Slipknot, that would be outright awesome. Problem is there’s hardly any drummer in the club who can pull off songs with twin bass.
We’ll see. (In the meanwhile, i’m nearing 150 thousand scrobbles on last.fm.)
Peacocks are birds After All
The other album recommended to me during my rock’n’roll streak was the Peacocks’ album titled After All. For some mysterious reason during the week or so when i was only listening to 横浜銀蝿, Kings of Nuthin’, Elvis and this album, this album got the least listens even though i was playing on shuffle and it doesn’t have that much less songs compared to the Kings’ album (15 compared to 20). Either way, it’s definitely not because i didn’t like it, because like i did. A lot.
Old habits die hard
Back in the first days of July, when i had my rock’n’roll only days, The Kings of Nuthin’, which i did. They are indeed very similar, though quite different in many ways from 横浜銀蝿, which is more… traditionally rock’n’roll.
Gigs
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Last.fm
You’re kidding me, right? Right? Right?!
Music piracy and stuff
I had to write a report of roughly four-five pages for one of my english classes, and this is what i ended up with. The topic is as the title says, online music piracy and its supposed and real effects on the industry. I know it’s not such a great writing, but derp.
The Crazy Rider 横浜銀蝿 Rolling Special
昨夜変ゼミの最終話を翻訳した。そのなか車のラジオからいいロックンロール曲が流れた。ラジオのディスプレイに書いてあったのは「横浜銀蝿」ってバンドの「羯徒毘璐薫狼琉」って曲だった。当然曲名はそのまま読めなかったし、もしかして本当にある曲かなと、グーグった（グーグる、グーグって、グーグります、グーグればなど、グーグルで検査するって意味）。タイトルの読み方は「愛餓斗魔羅姐」と似たように「かっとびロックンロール」だ。こう漢字の読み方だけ使って言葉を書くことはもうであったことあるから、びっくりはしない。けど、それは本当にある曲、それに本当にいい曲だとはちょっとびっくりした。
気に入ったんで色々調べて、数個のシングルはユーチューブなどネットで見つけた（聞きつけた）し、ほとんどの曲は同じくいい感じのちょっとパンクっぽいロックンロールで、アマゾンから一番新しいベストオフアルバムを買っちゃった。まだ届いてないけど。
軽音部でも横浜銀蝿を知ってる人はいるから、合宿とかでやろうかなと思ってる。この感じのベースはマジ楽しいし。（楽譜まだ探してないけど。）
