Shiina Ringo, Random thoughts
So here I am again! The same location as last week, but except that I am in class...? Since it's a working class and we are suppose to do research, so here we go!(where?)
Ok, to start out with, I have wanted to update new entry for a couple of days already. However my brain wasn't functioning properly after all the school and work, it could only read in but wasn't capable of producing anything. And then two days ago I found a game that I was looking for quite a while already, so as anyone would guess that I was in some seriously gaming process and didn't have the time to touch LJ >__>
In fact I did make a post on Sunday...? but it all died because IE fucked up just when I was half way through. To refrain from what I was writing, I wanted to talk about Shiina Ringo. Her new album- heisei fuuzoku(ok maybe not so new anymore) with Saito Neko is making me sooooooo happy for the time being,and I think I had made some people content as well for sending them the music, which is quite an unusual case for me :P
I have always like and look up Shiina Ringo as kind of a role modelish figure (?) though I am not a big or crazy fan of her. Stopped touching her stuff for a while ever since the beginning of Tokyo Jihen period. Not saying that the music is not good or I dislike it.
It was just the time being that I was too engaged with something else to have a good listen to them.
Because I was so happy with the album, I decide to watch Sakuran, the movie that Shiina Ringo produced the OST of from her new album, again since last year. For the first time I have already thought that her music blended into the world and context of the movie-a seemly classical and colourful Japanese Oiran world mix with modern senses. (I think I am exceptionally wordy today, but never mind the grammar )
However I thought the movie was rather disappointed the first time round when I watched it, but grew to it more the second time round. Oddly the person who struck me the most in the movie wasn't the highly expose and somewhat out of place protagonist-Tsuchiya Anna, but Kanno Miho, who played the first Oiran that young Kiyoha(the protagonistt) encountered in the beginning of the story. Although she probably only appeared no more than 20 or so minutes in the film. I had wanted to find a picture of her to make this a post with picture, but unfortuntely I think I have not been very successful >___>...
Many people did complain that it was a mistake to let a photographer to direct a film, but even if I haven't yet to read the manga,I still think that was probably all that there was to the story. I wouldn't say that it was some stunning master piece, but the world view and story was perhaps just perfect to work with for a photographer to elaborate her vision and show off her skill maybe...? Some other similar cases are such as Nikai Ken, a music video director who had directed some films already. (Sound Track, Last Quarter) Though I would say that the movie of Last Quarter wasn't that close to the original story,I still enjoyed the vision of fest that Nikai had to put on for the movie. (Fine, I admit that I am a fan of his.....)
oh, coming back to Sakuran, it pisses me off that a lot of morons are saying that it's a story of Geisha =________= and it's not that I have anything against Geisha, it was just the simple fact that Sakuran wasn't about Geisha but Oiran. I just hated the movie and the book of Memories of a Geisha to guts =______= I prefer something more far feteched and ironic such as Maiko Haaan!!! than that retarded work of American Fantasies. Great movie by the way, recommended it if you enjoy crazy stuff like me.
Ok so that's probably it for today, even if there's still 30 minutes more to go,
I better end this ramble before it gets out of hand.
peace out :3(???)
Ok, to start out with, I have wanted to update new entry for a couple of days already. However my brain wasn't functioning properly after all the school and work, it could only read in but wasn't capable of producing anything. And then two days ago I found a game that I was looking for quite a while already, so as anyone would guess that I was in some seriously gaming process and didn't have the time to touch LJ >__>
In fact I did make a post on Sunday...? but it all died because IE fucked up just when I was half way through. To refrain from what I was writing, I wanted to talk about Shiina Ringo. Her new album- heisei fuuzoku(ok maybe not so new anymore) with Saito Neko is making me sooooooo happy for the time being,and I think I had made some people content as well for sending them the music, which is quite an unusual case for me :P
I have always like and look up Shiina Ringo as kind of a role modelish figure (?) though I am not a big or crazy fan of her. Stopped touching her stuff for a while ever since the beginning of Tokyo Jihen period. Not saying that the music is not good or I dislike it.
It was just the time being that I was too engaged with something else to have a good listen to them.
Because I was so happy with the album, I decide to watch Sakuran, the movie that Shiina Ringo produced the OST of from her new album, again since last year. For the first time I have already thought that her music blended into the world and context of the movie-a seemly classical and colourful Japanese Oiran world mix with modern senses. (I think I am exceptionally wordy today, but never mind the grammar )
However I thought the movie was rather disappointed the first time round when I watched it, but grew to it more the second time round. Oddly the person who struck me the most in the movie wasn't the highly expose and somewhat out of place protagonist-Tsuchiya Anna, but Kanno Miho, who played the first Oiran that young Kiyoha(the protagonistt) encountered in the beginning of the story. Although she probably only appeared no more than 20 or so minutes in the film. I had wanted to find a picture of her to make this a post with picture, but unfortuntely I think I have not been very successful >___>...
Many people did complain that it was a mistake to let a photographer to direct a film, but even if I haven't yet to read the manga,I still think that was probably all that there was to the story. I wouldn't say that it was some stunning master piece, but the world view and story was perhaps just perfect to work with for a photographer to elaborate her vision and show off her skill maybe...? Some other similar cases are such as Nikai Ken, a music video director who had directed some films already. (Sound Track, Last Quarter) Though I would say that the movie of Last Quarter wasn't that close to the original story,I still enjoyed the vision of fest that Nikai had to put on for the movie. (Fine, I admit that I am a fan of his.....)
oh, coming back to Sakuran, it pisses me off that a lot of morons are saying that it's a story of Geisha =________= and it's not that I have anything against Geisha, it was just the simple fact that Sakuran wasn't about Geisha but Oiran. I just hated the movie and the book of Memories of a Geisha to guts =______= I prefer something more far feteched and ironic such as Maiko Haaan!!! than that retarded work of American Fantasies. Great movie by the way, recommended it if you enjoy crazy stuff like me.
Ok so that's probably it for today, even if there's still 30 minutes more to go,
I better end this ramble before it gets out of hand.
peace out :3(???)