Bruce Springsteen @ Madrid
Though, scheduled opening time was 21:00, it started 21:40 and lasted 1:30 of next day!

Bernau stadium, home ground of Real Madrid, was full of Bruce fans.
Opening with Badland, No Surrender, Wrecking Ball,,,

Best moment was "Walking on a sunny day".
Bruce picked up a 3 years boy.
The boy sang "waiting, waiting,..,walking on a sunny day"
WOW!

It was really nice show!

But, you should reserve hotel near the stadium.

HS at Shizuoka, April
It is my first experience to attend J singers. He is my young age favorite one. Last year he released a DVD and accidentally I watched PV of TLWE. That evoked my old memory. It is time to protest.
Anyway, it was kick off of 6 month gig. I really enjoyed it.

mcr@yokohama arena
welcome to japan!

Start with NA NA NA
Vernon,
Famous last words
SING
Summertime
Black parade,
cemetery drive,
i'm not OK


cancer
helena

this is a partial set list.
full of our favorite songs.
I love it.

half of seats were closed. I regret that they can not attract enough audience to fill the arena for two days.
Osaka, nagoya too.

even previous black parade tour @ budokan, we found many vacancy. promoter should consider appropriate place for their show.
Anyway, i really enjoyed the show.

MCR going to release their new album. The first single "NA NA NA NA ...." is speedy. I really love it!
They say new one is not theatrical, but it seems to be really funtastic !

just a memo.
this summer i attended a conference in US. After the conference, i visited Chicago for the Rock Fes: Lapoola to see Green Day!
It was a very hot day. The performance was also heated. Anyway, summer is gone. And September ends.

Simon and Garfunkel @ Tokyo Dome
Perfect moment. Are they really 67 years old? Hope to see them again here.
They delivered the best of them and their solos. We understood why they had to separate. It is also a part of history.
We are waiting their new album.

Jogging
I have been jogging for two years!
I lost almost 20kgs.
About two years ago, jogging 20 minutes was burden. but, it is fun to jog 10km. oh! i made significant progress!
it is spring, cherry blossom is beautiful.

coldplay
Wonderful!
Started with Technicolor,,

Colorful two hours,
Ended with technicolor II

evergledes np
The best part of the park is wild lives. Arigator, ibis, pericun,,,

new york
It was 2002 when we visited ny. Teared WTC wall, smell of smoke, pictures of lost people at grand central,etc. gave us sad feeling. After six years, WTC site is surrounded by fence, discount store across the street, no one searching lost ones at grand central, everyone seems to forget the event.
As we know, the even was beginning of the end of american era.

Naples-Everglades
Naples is cozy town. Beautiful ocean, well designed town, and hi-class retails. I understand american people love this kind of town. Marco island too.
everglades Gulf Coast Visitor Center is northern part of everglades national park. small visitor info and boat launch are located. i drove to island, but nothing significant. I took wild life and manglobe boat tour. a girl at ticket booth told me, we should see arigator, but we could not. tour does not visit deeper side of manglobe that disappointed me.

conference@florida
From orando, it took almost 2 hours to the town where we have conference. Western shore town was also chilly. But, white sand shore is really nice. This is my first time to see gulf of mexico.
I completed analysis and had presented preliminary version in japan, so I have enough time to prepare presentation in english. I got some question and/or comment. After my presentation, a phd student contacted. We should keep in touch!

conference@florida
After 20 hours since i left home, i flew into orlando! It is much chilly than expected. Anyway, I arrived florida! Sleep well, next morning, i visited Kennedy space center. I expected to see real space shuttle very closely, what I could see was top of the shuttle on the launch pad few miles away. The shuttle will launch middle of february. We see assemble factory of the shuttle from bus! Why don"t you let us see more closely. Any way, we enjoyed very much.
I visited florida mall, found some interesting stuff. I tried to visit another mall, that was beginning of night mare. I passed international drive,,,then some toll road. I had no good map, getting dark. I don't know where I was. I reached airport. Around airport, I lost again. If I didn"t asked at gas station, I should be dead!
At last, I reached my hotel! Long day.

Conference was over. I come back to my home town.
Seattle is a city of slope, Mariners, and seafood.
I served as a chair. Our session was three non-US presenters and a US presenter. It was fun to be a chair.
See you next year.

Hot, hot, hot,,,summer was gone.
I hope beautiful season of foliage should come.
This year, I would go to some where I can enjoy foliage.
I miss mountains of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts. What a beautiful seanery.

guam
We returned from Guam. It was my first experience to visit a tropical resort island. We are afraid of we, out-door goers could enjoy such a place.
No problem!
We really enjoyed beautiful sunny sea. We bought snorkel at K-mart. Shopping in US supermarket is a fun part of our journey. We found a lot of fish even Ypao beach. Redia cape was perfect place. Black butterflies, white sands, emerald sea. Beware, sunburn and ocean tide! We spend half day at the beach. We suffered terrible sunburn. It took a week it cure.
Three hours flight take us to the island. It is a part of Japan? Maybe. Every activity is well capitalized: it cost at least $50, even just stay at private beache. We hate capitalism. Then got a rent car that brought us as we like.
We enjoyed beautiful senary, but I have to mention some illegal dumping. And Guam people are cheer and friendly, but public beach suffered some litters. I hope they learn new way of life.
Anyway, we had good summer again. It is going, I really miss.

Foleo by Palm
This is what I have been waiting. Large enough display, internet, full keyboard, sync with Mac, and cheap!

my chemical romance @ budokan
It was theatrical. Open with "The End". Gerald appeared with patient look, tear off the cloth, then he turned into familiar skelton look. The audience heated up immediately.
Gerald also speaks some Japanese "aishiteru(I love you)", "arigato(thank you"). he is cute. He also told us even if we have any trouble, we should consult some one so that to avoid stuck into lonlieness and hurt someone. May be he knew about Japan's agri minister's suicide.
MCR played entire "The black parade" album. Blast of fire, snow flakes, shout, jumping,,, perfect moment.

My Chemical Romance
I found a music genere called "screamo": screaming and emotional. Since last winter, I loved "Welcome to black parade", because of its dramatic, emotional, theatric, sound. I found "Famous last words" is also.
Their "Black parade", as critcs and themselves say, it sounds like blend of Qeen, Pink floyd's "the Wall", David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust". They are also my loved ones. I got ticket for MCR's Tokyo gig. I can't wait.

Winter has gone, spring term, will start soon. Dice-K got good begining.
Anyway spring has come.