My Best of 2011

Now, it's time to choose this year's my best tracks of 2011!!!

• "Shook Down" - Yuck

• "I Would Do Anything For You" - Foster The People

• "Helplessness Blues" - Fleet Foxes

• "Lotus Flower" - Radiohead

• "Running Away" - Friendly Fires

• "Shuffle" - Bombay Bicycle Club

• "East Harlem" - Beirut

• "The Bay" - Metronomy

• "Rearrange" - Miles Kane

• "The Good Rebel" - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

• "Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra)" - The Vaccines

• "Brick By Brick" - Arctic Monkeys

• "Junk of the Heart (Happy)" - The Kooks

• "For Anyone" - Beady Eye

• "Aberdeen" - Cage The Elephant

• "Municipality" - Real Estate

• "Belong" - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

• "Days Are Forgotten" - Kasabian

• "You Said" - The Horrors

• "Life is Life" - Noah And The Whale

I checked my Last.fm scrobbles, it seemed that I had been listening to so many Fleet Foxes songs unintentionally. Although I was not interested in this band for the first time, Now I'm addicted.

Anyway, my best memory of 2011 was that I attended Belle and Sebastian gig in Tokyo. A week after, terrible earthquake and Tsunami hit Japan though.
However, as I recall the gig moment, it cheer me up.

I expected that Arcade Fire will come to play in Japan this year but that didn't happened. I hope they will come to Japan next year.

Drawing practice

From November 20, 2011

I created an another art-work.

iPhone 4S and OS X Lion

I renewed my iPhone 3GS to iPhone 4S. At first, I'm not going to replace to new one but SoftBank career practice a campaign to free upgrade plans for 3GS owner.
So, I decided to replace it.

First, I need to upgrade from Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Lion. It was really easy to download Mac OS Lion through Mac App Store. Although it took several hours, I could upgraded to Lion without any effort.

But...I felt like my Mac is running very slow. Why???

When it comes to iPhone 4S, it's getting faster! Still I can't use the new functions thoughtfully though, I like Siri function. There is no Japanese version so far, but talking to Siri is really good way to train my English pronunciation. Because Siri can't understand strong accent.

Holy Flying Circus

I just finally watched a TV drama called "Holy Flying Circus" which is based on the 1979 television debate about the film Monty Python's Life of Brian.

As luck would have it, I became a big fan of Pythons most recently, and I was just thinking if today's actors play Pythons, it would be great. My dream came true!

Before you go any further, all of the actors really look alike Pythons! Especially, Charles Edwards who played Michael Palin looked almost exactly like him.

Rufus Jones who played Terry Jones is really look-alike for cross-dressed Terry J as well. I love Terry J's cross-dressing<3

At first, I imagined the story going to be more serious, but in fact, the story includes a lot of jokes and Gilliam-esque animations just like Monty Python's Flying Circus sketches. I think it was satisfactory interpretation for Pythonians.

Unfortunately, John Cleese and Terry Gilliam did not seem to be satisfied with this drama because it's inaccurate. Admittedly, this story seemed a little bit unrealistic. But I like it. At least, Terry Jones liked this drama.

Anyway, as always, I hope Japanese TV station do a broadcast it. I think there are a lot of Monty Python fans in Japan.

R.I.P Steve Jobs

With the benefit of hindsight, a Mac which I first started to use was Power Mac G4 Cube. It was my brother's. At this time, I hadn't owned a computer, so I used to share the Mac with my brother.
From back then, I really like the G4 Cube design. There were not other stylish and cool design computer as good as Mac at that time.

And now I'm owning iMac, iPod classic, and iphone. I can't live without Apple products. In the future, I'm going to buy MacBook Air and iPad.

The good thing about Apple is trailblazer in the field of personal computer and smart phone but, never go mainstream. Unfortunately, it seems Windows OS and Android OS dominate a Japan market. I suppose that's why Apple attracts people who hate mainstream hipster-like me. Anyway, you can't understand the user friendliness of Mac and iPhone until you've tried it.

Steve Jobs' life is so dramatic and he's the guy I'd want to look to as a model. Reading his quotes, they really cheer me up.

"Stay hungry, Stay foolish" Really good word.

I hope Apple will inheritor of Steve Jobs' spirit and keep producing innovative products in the future.

Thank you, Steve.

Guiar Lesson

I went for guitar lesson yesterday. In any case, I went to learn changing acoustic guitar strings and the basics of guitar.
I've been learning to play the guitar on my own for years, but there are many things to learn.

Then I noticed my guitar is half broken. I need to buy a new guitar any time now. Actually, I want to buy this guitar.



It's Graham Coxon Telecaster!!! This guitar has Graham's signature. I'm just a fangirl. I don't know whether I can buy it from Japan though.

Lemon Curry?

I bought complete series of Monty Python's Flying Circus! Although I can't understand some jokes from the period, most of sketches get a laugh. I became thoroughly Pythonian!

By the way, what is your favorite sketch?
Listed below are my favorite sketches.

• Upper Class Twit of the Year

Look at their silly faces! The winner of this sketch was Gervais (Michael Palin) but, the real winner is Oliver (Graham Chapman) for me!
"And Oliver has run himself over!!!" Hilarious!

• Silly Job Interview

For some reason, I like Graham as a straight man. John's authoritative character is good as well.

• Hungarian Phrasebook

What a phrasebook LOL

• Kilimanjaro Expedition

I like the unexpected punchline.

• Marriage Registry office

Eric's wife is John!? Why they all got married XD

• Art Gallery

I LOVE Graham and John as Pepperpot with high pitch voices. It's really tall women. I really like the scene where John slapped her child with no reason when Graham was seeing off her child.

In conclusion...

Dead Parrot

It seems Dead Parrot sketch is very popular all over the world, but actually I couldn't understand the humor. Conversely, perhaps because I had already watched Graham Chapman's funeral, the line of Ex-parrot made me cry.