Sunday, December 17, 2006

I'm sorry the following message is in japanese...
Actually there's no relation with the blog, it's just my report i have to do for tuesday, and since i wrote it in japanese, and that (of course (-_-;) ) i didn't memorize the reading of the kanji, i need to use rikai. For those who don't know it it's kind of dictionnary, if you enter an url of japanese page, it will give you the reading and meaning of all words in english. Very useful : http://www.rikai.com/perl/Home.pl
So i needed to entered the text here, so i can get it on a webpage. The thema is "cluste bombs", not so interesting, but that's the less boring tpoic i found. Hope it will be good enough, because in this class there's only korean and chinese students, wich are so strong in japanese, actually some of my korean friends (maybe all of them) are fluent in japanese, and even one in kansai slang.
Have a nice sunday !



きーワード:
クラスター爆弾:この爆弾は、通常の空対地爆弾とほぼ同サイズのケースの中に、数個から数百個の子弾(爆弾や地雷)を搭載し、母機から投下後に空中でケースが分裂することにより子弾を散布して広範囲にわたってダメージを与える。主に人的被害やあまり強固ではない施設・兵器への広範囲の被害を狙うものである。


問題:終戦後にクラスター爆弾の小型爆弾はまだ爆発しません。その「第2の地雷」の被害者は子供や農民や下流階級です。対人地雷の問題みたいです。それからノルウェーは全面禁止の条約を示す。今日本は何の連座するで考えています。


支持:ノルウェー、ドイツ、スウェーデン、ニュージーランド…

-被害者は軍人じゃないです。
-その兵器は必要じゃないです。
-終戦後の長い間クラスター爆弾のせいで災害があります。
-ONGは第2の地雷」の被害者の世話をしってから、お金と時間を使い過ぎます。


反対:アメリカ、ロシア

-クラスター爆弾産出国。
-地雷の除去は高いです。
-軍隊の力を発揮したいです。


私の意見: もちろんそれは大切ですが、クラスター爆弾の全面禁止後で新しい兵器を発明すると思います。対人地雷の問題はまだ解けない(たとえばベトナムでもういっぱいあります)、でも他の問題を取り扱いたいです。法案を採決して、皆を助けると思って、大きい討論をして、でも事実は現地であんまり何もしてないです。

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

DJ Ozma's live




Last friday i went to DJ Ozma's live in Osaka. About DJ Ozma, it's a band formed with the leader/singer of Kishidan, the mascott of the same band, and one of the dancers. As kishidan it's stupid, hilarious and great ! If you want more informations, search "Kishidan" in wikipedia, there's some good explanations.


Since it was all standing i decided to go few hours before to be in front of the scene. So i arrived at the live's place, Zepp Osaka (a small dome), around 12'. There were nobody, and it was really cold so i decided to walk around in a near shopping center. One hour later i went back to the Zepp, but there were only 3 girls. I talked to them, and they were waiting for Ozma, but they asked me why i cam here so early (at that moment we were 6hours to the concert). So i explained to them i wanted to enter the 1st, but they told me that there were numbers on the ticket and that we were entering by numerical order ...... I was 723 !


Actually they were waiting for the opening of goodies shop, so i decided to wait with them. We wited something like 3 hours, and i thought i would lose my hands since it was so cold. After 3 hours, i was satisfied by being the 4th guy accessing to the goodies : i bought a T-shirt.


After this i decided to go back to the shopping center to warm up a little and then to come back before the opening of the gates (at 6 o'clock). In the shopping center i actually falled asleep sitting on some stairs since i was tired and it was warm. When i went back i realized people all got the same ide as me, since i saw many people with some Ozma goodies in that shopping center.


Back there, 2000 people were waiting, they started calling people by group of 400, then divided us in group of 200, and in front of the door, we went 20 by 20. When i entered i grabed a drink (that i paid 500yen V_V)and hurried in the main room. There were still some free space in the right side in front of the scene. I was maybe at 2m of the scene so that was really nice i thought, even if it was not really in the center.


The light turned off and then a clown appeared, he did some stupid things, then it started. The first 3 songs were some famous one, so everybody jumped, danced, singed, and moved all around. Wich moved me to the center and a bit closer to the scene^^. I was kind of lucky and stayed here till the end. It was really incredible : it lasted 3 hours, wich is normal since Kishidan's live are always more than 3h30. Half of it was the songs, and the other half some jokes, stupid acts, or some wierd dancing. They really set the all audience in fire. I really laughed a lot, and nearly understand everything. Since it's stupid it's easy to get the meaning.


Many hours later i was still stunned by this concert, it's really something i could never forget. All those japanese people were so different than usual it was like crazy. Ozma was so charismatic, and i spent such a good time. Really unforgettable !!!


After the live i falled in the trap of the small shop keepers, and bought a poster and a towel. And i singed all the way back to home, wishing i'll have the chance to go to another of their live show soon. For the anecdote the title of this blog comes from the first hit of DJ Ozma : Age Age Every Night (Kishi) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A277Pdo7cLw

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Visual Kei, live

I went to a live show yesterday, actually it was a visual kei event.
For more informations about this kind of music just look here : [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_kei]Visual kei[/url]

It was in obe, started at 4:30, and finished only at 9:30, so it was a bit long. There were 7 bands, all amateurs, but in Japan even the smallest band produce his own cd to sell after concert. It was really interesting , even if i felt abit uneasy. Of course we were only 2 foreigners in there, and it surprised everybody. I felt even more uneasy since i was one of the only male ...
I thought there would be lot of boys and girls, all wearing some punk and gothic clothes. Well, i was totally wrong. There were only girls, we were maybe 3 men, and they were totally normal, i would even say cute and sexy for many of them, and probably half of hem were high school girls.
The other thaing hat surprised me is the comportement of japanese fans (or should i say spectator for those people). I know japanese people are cold, but i thought they would be different during a concert. As i said there were 7 bands, but nearly everybody come for the band he supports. So lot of people leave after their band is done, and when they waiting, and that an other band is performing those girls just sit down in the floor, laugh together, smoke, send mails through their cellphones... So you can guess how popular a band is by seeing how many girls stand up for them.
There were one band wich came from Tokyo, and it was the only wich made everybody stand up. But i must say they were really good !!

About the bands, the first one was not so bad, but they got an ugly singer, wich did lots of mistakes (he nearly fell down, lost his mic ...), and spent more time taking care of his hat than singing.
The second, was the one i came for , La'Skull. They began recently, but were pretty good.
3rd group, were missing some of his members, so they were only 2, a brother and a sister. That's pity everybody wasn't here because i really like what they did. And they played some funny characters.
4th group was one of the best, each member got a different style, a man disguised in schoolgirl, a dark cool guy, a funny guy, an ugly drummer, and a bad guy !
5th band, totally sucked ! there were only 2 girls wich stand up for them.
6th band, was the one wich came from Tokyo. They were just like professional, get down the public to play, made everybody (besides the men) dance ! It was really cool !
the last band was not so bad, but the singer was wearing a short pant, and looks like a kid. He really got no charisma, so it didn't impressed me ...

Anyway it was a really good experience, so i guess i'll go back to see this kind of event, maybe even go back for some of those band.
here's some of the band i saw
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJWxJVHvaYA]La'Skull[/url]
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig4HYtFJ8tc]Ciela'xeno[/url] 4th band, but they changed a little