My life moment

趁记忆还没消失，写下这篇游记，是以纪念这次愉快的日本之行。

Day 1 大阪

飞机开始下降时，清晰看到日本国土的地形，长长的跨海大桥，方正的填海地。第一晚住大阪全日空酒店。附近的outlet和商店一般，9点就关门了，倒是摩天轮很美。

Day2 大阪

去了大阪城公园和心斋桥。前者是纪念丰城秀吉的塔楼，后者是著名的购物商业街。总之一句话就是：时间太短。都是匆匆一览，心斋桥都没走完1/5呢。

Day3 京都

古都，也是我向往已久的城市之一。清水寺人气很旺，很多日本居民前去参拜，连着一条民俗街很热闹，卖各式各样的特产，让人联想起成都的“景里”街。晚上入住的酒店，左边是市中心的商业街，右边是坐着一对对情侣的河边沙滩以及特色酒吧，waiter统一穿着和服，听说河边樱花盛开的时候更美，是个约会的好地方。

Day4 名古屋 箱根

这天行程最赶。先去了游客和市民众多的大涌谷，一座活火山，富含硫磺的泉水池温度高达80度，用池水煮过的鸡蛋会变成黑色，称“黑玉子”，说吃了可以延寿，奇妙。接着是去了叫忍野八海的农家村庄，一座座独栋的house收拾的非常干净，街道整洁，门口种植花花草草，好像迷你世外桃源。然后赶去了著名的富士山，在bus上就能看到，远看很特别，像矗立在天空中的海市蜃楼。bus差不多开到半山腰就停下，称作“五合目”的位置。因为夏天，山顶并没有落雪，近看就像一座普通的活火山，夕阳西下，别有一番风景。晚上便去了下榻的温泉酒店。箱根以温泉出名，少不了泡温泉。酒店在湖边，池子虽小，在露天的阳台上泡温泉欣赏夜景还是蛮惬意的一件事。

Day 4 横滨

去了中华街和海边公园。横滨应该是华人最早来到日本定居的地方，很多已是第三代、第四代的移民。今年是横滨开港150周年，整条中华街，据说卖最旺的是大包，中式料理都像勾芡过，味道已改良一些。接着便参观了一座巨大的机器人——广受日本国民喜爱的动画角色“高达”。然后便是皇宫，外围被大片的草坪包围，是市民悠闲的好去处。

Day 5 新宿、银座

新宿歌舞伎厅是著名的红灯区。来到银座，长长的主干道延伸至八合目，沿街的百货公司、奢侈品牌的专属building很豪气，尤其Cartier，整栋金黄色高楼，特气派。逛了几家日本著名的百货公司，人流如织。只在Fancl house 和Muji逛了下，产品非常丰富。

Day 6 成田

自由购物，集合，出发去机场，登机返程。

遗憾的是除了酒店的自助早餐外，没享受到太多美食。

以上。

最近在听：

100%乐团《赤子》

如上张专辑《突破》一样，作为乐团主唱和核心人物，范晓萱一如既往的坦诚表达她的生活态度和创作概念。喜欢《赤子》的音乐概念，尤其喜欢专辑封面，染黄色头发的萱萱眼神迷蒙的看着镜头，其他3位团员躺坐在山坡的草地上，与蓝色的天空交织，很美。
萱萱曾说过：“我喜欢被一小群人喜欢，那样让我觉得自己很特别。”一如她的音乐，从歌词里透露出的强烈自我，只有她的忠实歌迷才能理解吧。自己成立公司独立制作专辑，包揽从创作构思到制作宣传的每一个环节，是非常辛苦的。我想，更辛苦的是，已32岁的她，怀着一颗赤子的心，依然坚持做自己的态度。

方大同《Timeless可啦思刻》

每当听到歌手推出翻唱集或自选集，我都很兴奋。因为不仅可以了解该歌手的音乐喜好，更可以推动听众去关注原曲，关注那些被人遗忘的经典旋律。某次听方大同在演唱会上翻唱Stevie Wonder的名曲《Signed,Sealed,Delivered,I'm yours》，印象颇深，他受西洋节奏布鲁斯音乐的影响很大。华人做R&B难是显而易见的，一手的R&B精神总是属于Africa American。正因如此，方的音乐才华和独特个人气质，让我对他的期待，不止停留在那些吟唱爱情的歌词和旋律上，而希望他能给流行乐坛带来更多不一样的东西。

这张自选集的歌曲我都很喜欢，值得一提的是他翻唱了MJ的《Bad》，看到这首歌出现在专辑里时，我有点惊讶。方的演绎有他的个人风格，但他温柔儒雅且略显单薄的唱腔无法表达出《Bad》歌词里那种愤怒的感觉，由他唱出来的感觉，就像一个温柔的妈妈在教育小孩子。客观的讲，作为一名听众，方的音乐，包括前面几张专辑，并没有感动我，只能说流行度较高。从《未来》到《爱爱爱》再到《橙月》，最喜欢的方大同作品就2首：《歌手与模特儿》和《四人游》。我个人只能将其归类为流行R&B音乐，那种几年后不会再翻出来听的专辑。要做出好的音乐，年轻的大同还需沉淀和思考。

关于翻唱，让我想起某日听歌，发现MJ《HIStory》专辑中收录的一首《Come together》竟是翻唱The Beatles的歌，约翰列侬词曲。我翻出原唱，心里不禁再次赞叹，任何歌曲，由MJ演绎，就完全成为他的风格。MJ的版本，比原曲更好听。他绝对是少数几位能将翻唱曲唱得比原唱还好听的歌手之一。一直希望华语流行乐坛能出现这种创作歌手，他们不只唱关于爱情，而是通过音乐探讨更广阔的话题，比如政治、经济、文化、社会、环保、动物、妇女等各类主题。我也相信，真正能打动人的音乐，歌者的声音是带着灵魂，思想和感情的。

另，下个星期去旅行。话说已经很久很久没有旅行了，有些期待和兴奋，这次是我梦想的旅游地。感谢上天给了这个机会，要好好体验并记录。

Just enjoy it.

Music indeed span borders. She has become an important part of my life.We are just like closer friends than ever before. In 1993 Oprah's interview, Michael Jackson once said "I'm a slave of rhythm."It impressed me most.

At one time,I prefer folk,jazz,country and some indie music.However,these days I've got rhythm music and dance mania,especially for those distinguished Africa American singers like Michael Jackson,Stevie Wonder,Luther Vandross,James Brown and the like. Their music talent and singing voice fill me with awe. It’s amazing!!

Black is a great nation. They have innate fantastic talent for music, dance, and sport. They are born to singing and dancing. It is incredible that Gospel,Soul,R&B,Jazz and Hip-hop are all originated from Black. While another fact is that most of them are still suffering poverty, starvation epidemic, injustice and prejudice.

Recently, a serial reports on NYT, which come out as a hot debate, have got my attention. It’s about a white sergeant who has arrested a famous Harvard black professor. A columnist said it’s unjust that the cop arrested professor just because he didn’t received preference and obedience. I’ve never been to the America, so I have no real experience of racism reality in this most developed country, nor did I fully fathom the truth of this event. No matter who are wrong or right, it has apparently been upgraded as racism and injustice issue

I don’t know much about the racism history, neither Black nor Jewish. I just wonder why there still exist so many racism injustices in America, even on two elites who are living in 21^st century, let alone in 80s-90s, when it must be a tough ages for Africa America to be successful ,except the genius like MJ who was once and will always be a milestone of pop music industry. He has written some songs which underlying the racism, most popular like “Black or White “and “They don’t care about us”. The latter is more straightforward. Now I can deeply understand the lyric meaning of “They don’t care about us”, and more important,MJ’s legendary achievement as a world superstar must not be an easy thing at that times. He surely very hard working and dedicated his whole life into it.

Look back the world history, war, massacre, aggression are all concerned with inveterate racism problem, especially in Europe and America. It seems that human being’s self awareness of equality is disproportionate with the rapid development of civilization and globalization.I just wanna say, no matter what your color skin is, black or white; no matter what kind of language you speak, English or Chinese; no matter what culture you live, Western or Eastern; no matter what kind of religion you choose, Buddha or Christ, human beings are born to be equal.

Few days ago,I'v read a comment in NYT which is about Harry Potter 6.The auther said most 20 something label Harry Potter as their Peter Pan.The serial books and movies are blockbuster.Fans who were children six years ago have grown up now,together with Harry Potter.Still those characters in film have been an important part of their childhood.

What's my Peter Pan?

I can still remember that there's a classic TV drama called "Little Dragon" is televised in CCTV several years ago.This is a story about a little boy who has dragon angle and tail want to find his mother.He take a tough adventure with other 3 good friends who are grown up near by in Chinese traditional quadrangle courtyard. 

It really intrigued my imagination and fanscination with quadrangle and doughnuts.

认识的人见面都问：“你咋晒这么黑了？”一到夏天，就容易变成黑皮，所以我不喜欢夏天。今天出门奔波了一整天，除了脚痛还是脚痛。