Dusk

Another snow day, snowing and snowing....
Though it is 8:00 at morning, as dark as evening.






So deep.



Compared to 3 days ago.

hmm...
about twice as deep as...
I think someone in this house should remove snow by now.

Snowing

Not so much, as much as the other years....though,








it is the snow season now.
There is much snow on the roof.

There's much snow on wether report too.

And temperature is relatively low.

Golden Words From England 1

Golden Words from England selected by Peter Milward.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E%E3%81%AE%E5%90%8D%E5%8F%A5%E3%83%BB%E5%90%8D%E8%A8%80-%E8%AC%9B%E8%AB%87%E7%A4%BE%E7%8F%BE%E4%BB%A3%E6%96%B0%E6%9B%B8-%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AB%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89/dp/4061494023/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202678764&sr=1-1


chap. 1 Man

1. What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Hamlet iv. 4

2. We look before and after;
We pine for what is not.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) "To a Skylark"

3. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) An Essay on Man II

4. Heaven is for thee too high
To know what passes there. Be lowly wise.
Think only what concerns thee and thy being.
- John Militon (1608-74) Paradise Lost VIII

5. The child is father of the man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) "My Heart Leaps Up"

6. How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in it!
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) The Tempest v. 1

7. Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither;
Ripeness is all.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) King Lear v. 2

Southern All-Stars - The Days in Love and Desire

Southern All-Stars PV - Get some summer lovin!



I introduce a Southern All Stars song again :D
The Days in Love and Desire (愛と欲望の日々) , with English subtitle.


Kuwata Keisuke's japanese lyrics are too beautiful to translate to another language, but you can look at that music and movie are also cool.

Whaling Research

Research?

maybe that is true.

I live in japan and i feel that japanese goverment want their people to hate other nations.

It seems that japanese government sometime makes another country or UN mad on purpose in order to make them criticize japan.

japanese news program is... like this↓ I can't understand why many japanese watch such foolish things.

After making other countries mad, they control domestic mass media and persuade people to believe that foreign people are just idiot and racist, and what japanese government says are always completely right and what foreigh governments say are always inferior to ours. They privent people from being wise by learning from other countries. In doing so, they can carry out politics in their favor.

I think this is why children in japan are not happy because their education is decided by their parents and parents' income, despite japan is rich enough. etc...

Nancy Spain

Irish song, Christy Moore's Nancy Spain.
This video is only music without movie...but what a beautiful song.


cover of this song by someone in Canada ↓




I like him =)

Theme of Me in 2008

Happy New Year!!

Today, I settled my theme of 2008.
that is........ "Renaissance".

What I mean by Renaissance is,

1. Renaissance means "rebirth" in French. I'm going to clean out my old self who was in idleness, and WILL COMPLETELY REBIRTH!!

2. Renaissance is the revival of classical literature. Humanists of that time aimed to write beautifully and studied ancient texts in the original. In this year, I WILL COME TO WRITE BEAUTIFULLY too!! And it is set that I have to study Latin and greek.

3. The ideal person of Renaissance is polymath. A polymath is a person who actualize his talent across a wide variety of area. So, this year I WILL TRY TO BE GOOD PERSON IN EVERY WAY!! I believe I will do well at the things that I am bad at before, the development of physical strength, reading and writing, acting quickly and making everything count, etc.


Maybe I'm exaggerating a little. It is just a theme.
I mean, I will act with this target at the core, and improve myself better than the last year.

Long before (a year in 90's and when I was a highschool student) , my theme of the year was "Aesthetic and Sophistication". but I wasn't so aesthetic or sophisticated. LOL

Anyway, I'll do my best =)