JAM Project leaves for Europe today. I updated the the information on the Paris and Barcelona concerts. Also, added info about a new JAM Project CD to the discography.
In other news, Election Day is November 4th! Get out and vote!
peace
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Sunday, October 05, 2008
concert schedule update
Updated the concert schedule page with information about the JAM Project concerts in France and Spain. ^-^
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
updates
Today, I added some new Fukujin information the concert schedule and discography pages. ^-^
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
Happy Birthday, Yoshiki Fukuyama!
In Japan right now, it's currently 3:30 in the morning of September 14, 2008. Today, Yoshiki Fukuyama also turns 45 years old, just like I did last month. ^-^
Normally, I and a few dozen other people would go on his site's BBS and post "otanjoubi omedetou" there, but after all these months his BBS is still broken. When I asked him about it at Otakon, he said that the staff were currently in the process of renewing the whole site and that the BBS will be fixed then. Well, it's happened twice before that the renewed site was launched on his birthday. I'm hoping that will be the case this time too.
I'll keep checking his site today. If there are any changes, I'll definitely post them here as soon as I find out!
Anyhow, in the mean time...
Fukuyama-san, if you can see this (or the Japanese version that I wrote), Happy 45th Birthday!
^-^b
peace
Normally, I and a few dozen other people would go on his site's BBS and post "otanjoubi omedetou" there, but after all these months his BBS is still broken. When I asked him about it at Otakon, he said that the staff were currently in the process of renewing the whole site and that the BBS will be fixed then. Well, it's happened twice before that the renewed site was launched on his birthday. I'm hoping that will be the case this time too.
I'll keep checking his site today. If there are any changes, I'll definitely post them here as soon as I find out!
Anyhow, in the mean time...
Fukuyama-san, if you can see this (or the Japanese version that I wrote), Happy 45th Birthday!
^-^b
peace
updates
Updated the concert page. Plans are to update the discography, news pages, and the Friday Otakon report by the end of the day. Wish me luck! ^-^b
Right now, it's 3:00am. I lay down for a couple hours of sleep... oyasuminasai!
peace
Right now, it's 3:00am. I lay down for a couple hours of sleep... oyasuminasai!
peace
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Well...
It turns out that Fridays report isn't fully done yet. I started to write an entry in the Japanese version of my blog and it turned into a full mini Otakon report. Check it out, if you can read Japanese... or if you just want to see a couple pictures that haven't been posted on my site yet.
Tomorrow, it's back to work, so the next updates may not be until Saturday - but I'll try to be faster. ^-^b
peace
Tomorrow, it's back to work, so the next updates may not be until Saturday - but I'll try to be faster. ^-^b
peace
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Otakon report under construction...
picture: Otakon 2008 - at press round robin with JAM Project on Sunday
It's been busy this last couple weeks since we returned from Otakon, but slowly the Otakon report is taking shape. The English version of Thursday's report is up. I hope to have Friday's reports done by tonight. Then Saturday and Sunday need to be done. Becca's been helping with some of the picture/video editing. I also need to make the Japanese language versions... anyhow, please be patient, and keep checking back.
Other updates will be made soon to the discography and concert schedule pages. Lots of news - both during and after Otakon. This is a very busy year for Fukuyama-san and JAM Project!
On a personal front, Eleanor ended up having to leave for Job Corp just days after we got back. We knew she would be going. We just didn't realize it would be so soon! Her part of the report this time will have to be in a separate article rather than mixed in with mine. There just wasn't time before she left. Too many other things to do, preparing for her to leave.
We did go down and visit Mom and Bob at the campground they are hosting at. It felt good to get into the open air and nature! I think the kids and I will do it again after Labor Day. I can never get enough of the mountains around here!
Well, this isn't getting my reports done. See ya. ^-^
peace
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The family with all those cats...
Yea, that's us.We've recently added a new member to our family. Her name is Tobi. She's about 2 1/2 lbs of total terror, and cute enough to get away with it.
That bring our total back up to 3 cats... and a rabbit - plus the half dozen or so feral cats we feed. The feral cats pretty much ignore her, as does our oldest, Kitty. Cali, on the other hand, takes every available opportunity to show the young punk who's boss by knocking her down a peg or three. Tobi's best friend so far is, interestingly enough, the rabbit. Drea and Tobi can be seen playing chase games all over the house. We can't help but laugh!
Lots of updates this last week or so... the news page, concert schedule, discography... I'll be adding a little more to the translations over the next couple days. Eleanor just finished redoing the "Smokey Mountain" translation for me, so that'll go up soon. I think she's working on "Tori ga Inai" right now. She's doing several translations to pay me back for the plane ticket to Baltimore...
Three more weeks. Just three more weeks and we'll be on that plane to Otakon where JAM Project will be playing in concert! We'll arrive on Thursday morning, find the hostel and check in, familiarize ourselves with where everything is, pick up our badges and press passes, then find our way back to the airport to meet Pedro's group at we're-not-going-to-get-much-sleep-are-we o'clock that night. (-o-) Ah, well, who needs sleep? ^-^b
It's going to be fun! I'm really looking forward to it!
Baltimore is the third stop on JAM Project's World Flight 2008 tour. They are heading out today for their second stop and a brief reunion with part time JAM member, Ricardo Cruz, in Brazil at the Anime Friends convention there . My friend in Sao Paulo, Flavio, will be our Brazillian eyes. Watch for his report!
Check out the concert schedule for the steadily increasing list of tour dates: Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mexico City... and even an occasional appearance in Japan!
BTW, first opportunity I get in Baltimore, I'm buying JAM Projects "Get over the Border" CD and Japan Flight 2008 DVD which go on sale August 6th. Will there be a World Flight DVD coming, I wonder...
peace
Thursday, June 19, 2008
New laptop...
because the old one died T-T.
Windows decided to not work and refused to repair and now it's not finding the hard drive at all. I had some translation projects in progress on that computer that will have to be started over again. The biggest loss is some of Rebecca's songs and AMVs in progress were on there too. I'm still hoping to recover the data off that hard drive for that reason.
We really need to replace the external hard drive I was using for backups. (Someone dropped it and it broke...) That's the problem with these huge hard drives. The only thing that's big enough to back them up is another huge hard drive.
Well, the good news is I have a new laptop. Dan surprised me with it while I was in the middle of fighting with the old one. Bigger screen. Twice the hard drive space. Twice the processing speed. Four times the memory. Three year extended warrenty. It has Windows Vista, which takes a bit of getting used to, but all-in-all I'm happy with it.
^-^
Updates this week... Just updated the concert schedule page again during the night. Oh, and the release date for the JAM Project best album and Japan Flight tour DVD has been changed from July 23rd to August 6th. Sometime today I'll be updating the news and discography pages to reflect that.
I guess that's it for now. I'm still working on setting up the computer with the software I use, but gradually I'm getting back into the swing of things. Look for more updates soon. ^-^b
peace
Windows decided to not work and refused to repair and now it's not finding the hard drive at all. I had some translation projects in progress on that computer that will have to be started over again. The biggest loss is some of Rebecca's songs and AMVs in progress were on there too. I'm still hoping to recover the data off that hard drive for that reason.
We really need to replace the external hard drive I was using for backups. (Someone dropped it and it broke...) That's the problem with these huge hard drives. The only thing that's big enough to back them up is another huge hard drive.
Well, the good news is I have a new laptop. Dan surprised me with it while I was in the middle of fighting with the old one. Bigger screen. Twice the hard drive space. Twice the processing speed. Four times the memory. Three year extended warrenty. It has Windows Vista, which takes a bit of getting used to, but all-in-all I'm happy with it.
^-^
Updates this week... Just updated the concert schedule page again during the night. Oh, and the release date for the JAM Project best album and Japan Flight tour DVD has been changed from July 23rd to August 6th. Sometime today I'll be updating the news and discography pages to reflect that.
I guess that's it for now. I'm still working on setting up the computer with the software I use, but gradually I'm getting back into the swing of things. Look for more updates soon. ^-^b
peace
Sunday, June 08, 2008
It's been one of those days...
I'm writing this while sitting in a Starbucks waiting for my sister to get off work so we can carpool home. I'm probably going to crash hard when I get there.
A couple translation updates on my site this morning:
"No Border" - the first of many translations that Eleanor is doing for me to earn her part of the airfare to Baltimore in August. We're going to Otakon to see JAM Project together. ^-^b
"Skill" - the groovy thing about the NicoNico Douga site is that people write their comments across the screen. Lately the fans have been writing the song lyrics across the screen. I've finally got a corrected version of the song's intro and outro that weren't on the CD liner notes with the rest of the lyrics! Yay!
We've also found words to a lot of the rapping and background vocals in "Cry for the Earth". Eleanor says the words to the rapping change the song translation a bit... so we'll be revising the whole translation together on my next available free day. Look for it!
Oyasuminasai! zzzzz (I wish...)
peace
A couple translation updates on my site this morning:
"No Border" - the first of many translations that Eleanor is doing for me to earn her part of the airfare to Baltimore in August. We're going to Otakon to see JAM Project together. ^-^b
"Skill" - the groovy thing about the NicoNico Douga site is that people write their comments across the screen. Lately the fans have been writing the song lyrics across the screen. I've finally got a corrected version of the song's intro and outro that weren't on the CD liner notes with the rest of the lyrics! Yay!
We've also found words to a lot of the rapping and background vocals in "Cry for the Earth". Eleanor says the words to the rapping change the song translation a bit... so we'll be revising the whole translation together on my next available free day. Look for it!
Oyasuminasai! zzzzz (I wish...)
peace
Thursday, June 05, 2008
updates...
Today's updates: News, Concert Schedule, Discography.
No big essays tonight. I need to take the girls to a school event in the morn... and morning comes fast. I'm going to bed. Good night!
peace...
No big essays tonight. I need to take the girls to a school event in the morn... and morning comes fast. I'm going to bed. Good night!
peace...
Sunday, May 18, 2008
This week's updates...
Updates in English:
News, Discography, Concert Schedule, Anime Connections, and still working on the "internet appearances" page and translations.
Updates in Japanese:
News, Discography, Anime Connections, and still working on the "internet appearances" page.
Coming soon... Spanish?!? In an attempt to reach out to even more of Fukuyama-san's international fans, Pedro (with Nidia's help) has offered to help translate part of my site into Spanish! I'm quite excited about the prospect! Keep an eye out for it! ^-^b
peace
News, Discography, Concert Schedule, Anime Connections, and still working on the "internet appearances" page and translations.
Updates in Japanese:
News, Discography, Anime Connections, and still working on the "internet appearances" page.
Coming soon... Spanish?!? In an attempt to reach out to even more of Fukuyama-san's international fans, Pedro (with Nidia's help) has offered to help translate part of my site into Spanish! I'm quite excited about the prospect! Keep an eye out for it! ^-^b
peace
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Happy Mothers' Day to all you mothers - and grandmothers - out there!
For today's breakfast, I wrote "kids plan it" on the menu. Half the house ate pop tarts and the other half poured a bowl of cereal. (shrug) Ah, well. I just took advantage of the fact that I didn't have to please everyone today and scrambled together some green onion, shiitake, spinich, eggs, and cheese. Yum!
I also used the fact that it's Mothers' Day to bludgeon my way into full control of the computer and the TV at the same time! (heehee) If I didn't still have to go to work in an hour, everything would be perfect... Right now, I'm eating and watching Electric Fire 2007 for the umpteenth time. It was expensive, but worth it!
I've also been watching clips from a TV special featuring JAM Project's Japan Flight 2008 tour. Wow! They just keep getting better and better each year! I look forward to he DVD going on sale! I suspect it won't be until after the world tour end next November though... They'll no doubt be adding a few clips from that to the extras disc like they did last year when members went to events over-seas. (If you have the DVD but haven't seen them yet, click on the airplane on the menu screen...)
Oh, for all you Becca-isms fans out there, I thought I'd shared with you the breakfast she just showed me she's eating: a bowl of strawberries mixed with broccoli and a cup of peanut butter mixed with Nutella. Well... it's good for her, at least. ^^b
I've done some work on my site last night and this morning. Anime Friends in Brazil finally made official the announcement that JAM Project's Brazil stop will be at their convention... just as we all figured, eh. ^-^ No doubt Ricardo Cruz will be joining them there since Anime Friends is his home territory, eh. I noticed in the Japan Flight clips that he's performing as a fully integrated member of the group now when he's with them. It made for a much smoother overall performance, and show-cased his own abilities better, than when he was just brought in as a featured artist for a couple songs during the encore like last couple years.
Speaking of encores, I saw the clip with them singing Skill just minutes after Fukuyama-san broke his collarbone... that guy is amazing! Aside from the fact that he wasn't bouncing around so much, there was absolutely no indication in his performance of how badly he was hurt! Wow! That's a pro!
On that note, here's today's updates list. Look for new entries on: the concert schedule page; the page following Fukuyama-san's recovery from the above mentioned broken bone; and I'm revamping the Internet Appearances and Concert Reports page - it's actually starting to have "internet appearances" info on it. (What a concept!) Working on, but not up at all yet: English translations for "No Border" and Disc 2 of the Electric Fire 2007 DVD.
See ya ^-^
peace
I also used the fact that it's Mothers' Day to bludgeon my way into full control of the computer and the TV at the same time! (heehee) If I didn't still have to go to work in an hour, everything would be perfect... Right now, I'm eating and watching Electric Fire 2007 for the umpteenth time. It was expensive, but worth it!
I've also been watching clips from a TV special featuring JAM Project's Japan Flight 2008 tour. Wow! They just keep getting better and better each year! I look forward to he DVD going on sale! I suspect it won't be until after the world tour end next November though... They'll no doubt be adding a few clips from that to the extras disc like they did last year when members went to events over-seas. (If you have the DVD but haven't seen them yet, click on the airplane on the menu screen...)
Oh, for all you Becca-isms fans out there, I thought I'd shared with you the breakfast she just showed me she's eating: a bowl of strawberries mixed with broccoli and a cup of peanut butter mixed with Nutella. Well... it's good for her, at least. ^^b
I've done some work on my site last night and this morning. Anime Friends in Brazil finally made official the announcement that JAM Project's Brazil stop will be at their convention... just as we all figured, eh. ^-^ No doubt Ricardo Cruz will be joining them there since Anime Friends is his home territory, eh. I noticed in the Japan Flight clips that he's performing as a fully integrated member of the group now when he's with them. It made for a much smoother overall performance, and show-cased his own abilities better, than when he was just brought in as a featured artist for a couple songs during the encore like last couple years.
Speaking of encores, I saw the clip with them singing Skill just minutes after Fukuyama-san broke his collarbone... that guy is amazing! Aside from the fact that he wasn't bouncing around so much, there was absolutely no indication in his performance of how badly he was hurt! Wow! That's a pro!
On that note, here's today's updates list. Look for new entries on: the concert schedule page; the page following Fukuyama-san's recovery from the above mentioned broken bone; and I'm revamping the Internet Appearances and Concert Reports page - it's actually starting to have "internet appearances" info on it. (What a concept!) Working on, but not up at all yet: English translations for "No Border" and Disc 2 of the Electric Fire 2007 DVD.
See ya ^-^
peace
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Update History Archive
I'm changing my index page and moving the update history into the diary. Here's the last few updates prior to today:
Alinda Sue's Yoshiki Fukuyama site
Concert Schedule, Discography,Main (News) (April 11, 2008)
Main (News), Concert Schedule, Discography, and Profile (November 3-4, 2007)
Concert Schedule, Lyrics (October 16,2007)
Discography, Main, Concert Scheduleand large Lyrics and Translations update (October 7, 2007)
Lyrics and Translations (August 23, 2007)
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Alinda Sue's Yoshiki Fukuyama site
Concert Schedule, Discography,Main (News) (April 11, 2008)
Main (News), Concert Schedule, Discography, and Profile (November 3-4, 2007)
Concert Schedule, Lyrics (October 16,2007)
Discography, Main, Concert Scheduleand large Lyrics and Translations update (October 7, 2007)
Lyrics and Translations (August 23, 2007)
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Autism
Autism has come up a lot in the news lately. I think March was National Autism month or somethhing like that...
Interesting that, because Kirk's birthday is in March. Kirk, my son, is autistic.
He's quite a charming 24 year old with long curly "rock star" hair that he frequently wears tied back into a ponytail.
He loves food that begins with "P": pizza, pop, potato salad, and peanuts. He loves trucks, busses, and trains. He loves going places in our van. His favorite place to go is the dollar store where he can buy "eyes" (sunglasses), "hello" (toy cell phone), and "sky" (chalk).
He goes through a lot of chalk by drawing pictures of the "sky" on our patio. It started a few years ago after watching a fireworks display at a friend's Independence Day party. The next day he was drawing fireworks style arcs of color and proclaiming proudly that it was "sky". The sky changes with the seasons and events, such as the lunar eclipse we all watched a couple months ago. Suddenly, "sky" started to have a big orange circle in the middle of it...
I went to Border's to look for a book last fall. While there, I stumbled on an interesting manga story. It's called "With the Light Raising an Autistic Child" by Keiko Tobe. Originally called "Hikaru to tomo ni", it's the story of a family with an autistic son named Hikaru (translation: Light) and the everyday challenges they go through as they try to navigate their way through the special education system and society's prejudices. Some of the situations she goes through look very familiar to me.
Since I bought this one in English for a change, everyone in the house (except Kirk, of course) has gotten into reading it - even my husband. According to the Wikipedia entry, there are 12 volumes in the original Japanese, but only two volumes have come out in English so far. I look forward to the next one!
You may notice I'm finally getting back into writing in my blog here. Dan and I have both decided after eleven years that it was time to take a break from staffing Sakura-Con for a while. It feels strange actually having time to work on other things besides the con, but I'm finding I may just get used to this!
Right now, I'm in the middle of a gradual overhaul of my home page, cleaning up outdated links and tightening the design a bit... and there's the usual updates. Last week, I updated the concert schedule page and the discography and news pages (in both languages). This week, so far, I've updated the English version of the links page and overhauled the diary pages. Tonight, the plan is to revamp the index page and add another entry to the page following Fukuyama-san's progress as his collar-bone heals.
Oh! JAM Project has announced their USA stop on their world tour... looks like I'm going to Otakon in August! Of course, there'll be a report after. Look forward to it! ^^b
Till next time,
peace
Interesting that, because Kirk's birthday is in March. Kirk, my son, is autistic.He's quite a charming 24 year old with long curly "rock star" hair that he frequently wears tied back into a ponytail.
He loves food that begins with "P": pizza, pop, potato salad, and peanuts. He loves trucks, busses, and trains. He loves going places in our van. His favorite place to go is the dollar store where he can buy "eyes" (sunglasses), "hello" (toy cell phone), and "sky" (chalk).
He goes through a lot of chalk by drawing pictures of the "sky" on our patio. It started a few years ago after watching a fireworks display at a friend's Independence Day party. The next day he was drawing fireworks style arcs of color and proclaiming proudly that it was "sky". The sky changes with the seasons and events, such as the lunar eclipse we all watched a couple months ago. Suddenly, "sky" started to have a big orange circle in the middle of it...
I went to Border's to look for a book last fall. While there, I stumbled on an interesting manga story. It's called "With the Light Raising an Autistic Child" by Keiko Tobe. Originally called "Hikaru to tomo ni", it's the story of a family with an autistic son named Hikaru (translation: Light) and the everyday challenges they go through as they try to navigate their way through the special education system and society's prejudices. Some of the situations she goes through look very familiar to me.
Since I bought this one in English for a change, everyone in the house (except Kirk, of course) has gotten into reading it - even my husband. According to the Wikipedia entry, there are 12 volumes in the original Japanese, but only two volumes have come out in English so far. I look forward to the next one!
You may notice I'm finally getting back into writing in my blog here. Dan and I have both decided after eleven years that it was time to take a break from staffing Sakura-Con for a while. It feels strange actually having time to work on other things besides the con, but I'm finding I may just get used to this!
Right now, I'm in the middle of a gradual overhaul of my home page, cleaning up outdated links and tightening the design a bit... and there's the usual updates. Last week, I updated the concert schedule page and the discography and news pages (in both languages). This week, so far, I've updated the English version of the links page and overhauled the diary pages. Tonight, the plan is to revamp the index page and add another entry to the page following Fukuyama-san's progress as his collar-bone heals.
Oh! JAM Project has announced their USA stop on their world tour... looks like I'm going to Otakon in August! Of course, there'll be a report after. Look forward to it! ^^b
Till next time,
peace
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