Bok Choy and its health benefits

So… I hate a lot of really healthy foods, and Bok Choy is not an exception. However, I will eat it, only, and only because it’s so healthy that it’s crazy.

First of all it’s known for helping to prevent some cancers(colorectal, breast, prostate, & lung), it’s also known for reducing the risk of cataracts. It’s great for hair growth (especially if you’re losing hair), it’s high in fiber (this aids in digestion). It has calcium, manganese, and potassium; along with vitamins A,C, and K. It helps regulate blood pressure, it’s low calorie and zero-fat.

And actually. I very much enjoy eating the stem, a lot more than the leaves, but the leaves are healthier… go figure.

Granted, do not binge on this, and don’t always eat it raw, and remember to wash the damn thing. It grows in the ground it’s bound have dirt in it. Just rinse it with water and you’re good to go. Lots of people love bok choy… not me so much, but it’s sooo healthy and with my terrible eating habits and my bad eye sight and my unknown family health history… might as well… I try to eat it about every other week at minimum.

Apparently there’s some healthy food index thing, it scores a vegetable by how many nutrients it provides and bok choy is one of the top foods. So like I said, I might not like it (and I’m sure that’s because I don’t really know many ways to cook it) but it’s so healthy it’s crazy.

CTCon!!!! 2010!!!!

Soooooooo…………. the CTCon is coming up soon! I’m very excited! This is the very first convention that I’ll be going all 3 days to! It’s gonna be awesome This isn’t much of a post, but I’m gonna have pictures of the event when I come back So… I’ll have stuff up… monday or tuesday depending on if I have work those days or not.

Tsuchiya Anna

This is mostly a picture post… because I’ve been so drained from work to actually do anything.

But anyway, so I’ve been getting back into Anna Tsuchiya (AKA Tsuchiya Anna) Depending on whether you put the first name first or the last name first. I’m just gonna call her Anna, because, it’s based on her, and let’s hope I don’t confuse anyone. I’m taking this from wiki: ” Japanese singer, lyricist, actress, film director and semi-retired model. Tsuchiya was born to a Japanese mother and an American father, with Polish-Irish ancestry. She was bilingual at an early age but lost her fluency in English after her parents divorced when she was 7. She has a younger brother, Kenneth, and an older sister, Angela, who is also a former model” and “Eriko Sato, a glamour model who once had a bloody brawl with Tsuchiya involving folding chairs which caused Tsuchiya to fracture her orbital bone in early 2000s, has also stated that Tsuchiya seems no longer violent and looked like a different person”

From what I’ve read when she was a model she got major abuse from other models who called her fat, Oh yeah 97lbs. That’s fat(NOT!)… XP Imagine if they saw me. I also heard she dished some abuse out herself, I don’t blame her, I would’ve gotten a complex too.

But yeah… for the longest time I thought she was Russian, why? No freakin’ clue.

But yeah, she was in the movie Kamikaze Girl’s, she played Ichiko/Ichigo. And she sings. I love her music. But anyway. Time for the “Picture Show” The many faces of Anna Tsuchiya

This is a single cover

This is a single cover

Apparently this is from a calendar

This is a cover from one of her mini-albums

She’s still in demand from KERA

I just gotta say….

If  it’s 10 AM and you have to be drunk to go into a grocery store on a weekday… you’ve got issues.  Granted, drinking + driving = STUPID

But this is what happened at a store I worked at… granted, we’re assuming SHE (yeah, it was a woman) was heading to the liquor store. Since she didn’t come into the grocery store (it’s split into two stores, but the owners are the same). Everyone assumed it was  teenage boy because of the wrecklessness, but no, it was a woman, an old woman. 65 to be exact. She was near a busy road, she could’ve hit a mom, a kid, she could’ve killed a lot of people because of her stupidity.

In a Photograph…

I love photography, and yes, I actually can take a picture. and I thought I knew a good portion of photography… but I learned today that there’s a lot to this art that I don’t know…

I had to take a picture of the opposite sex. and where I am I don’t exactly know anyone, let alone guys. So I picked this one kid, kind of quite, once in a while he has an outburst of saying something a little offensive, but I don’t see him with anyone for the most part, it’s really quite sad.

So I went up to him and asked if he’d help me with this project, he’s in my class too, so it’s not like I had to prove I was telling the truth or anything, not that I think he wouldn’t trust me. He was more than willing, he wanted to know where he wanted me, what pose, where he should look, it was a little funny. He seemed like he really wanted to make sure I got exactly the picture I wanted. It was hard though, mostly because I felt awkward with the whole having to take pictures of someone I don’t really know. And I didn’t want to put him out of his way, after all, it’s not like he even knows me. He’s doing a favor. But we went outside, I got some pretty good pictures. Though going through them, it’s funny because I was like “These aren’t gonna be good at all” and it had nothing to do with him. I just wasn’t comfortable being the weird artsy person I am. and usually I’m in my room, blasting lights on my own face and using mirrors to reflect the light and all of these things, and now I was just using available light.

As I was saying, as I was going through the pictures… they were actually pretty good… but in every single one he looked sad. He was even smiling in some of them and he still looked sad. It’s strange how much of reality the camera can capture. People say the eye is the window to a person’s soul, but I think the camera is. It shows people’s true feelings, which is why you can usually tell if the subject was uncomfortable.

“Politically Correct” by SR-71 & My Disgression

Welcome to the Divided States of America… wait… It’s United? Since when?

“Politically Correct” by SR- 71 oh how I love this song and I hate it. Because I tend to lean towards the politically correct side, but it’s got a point, which is something I can respect. It bothers me when people use politically incorrect terms because they choose to be ignorant or for a reaction or for no other reason than to use it. But the song really doesn’t use politically incorrect words, such as racial slurs. It just talks about how everyone is so scared to say anything in case anyone else might feel offended. It also talks about politics in a way that really reflects todays politics “You lean a little to the left or the right but you can only see how’s on your side. A little blind, a little hypnotized.” Which is exactly what happens today, A Republican says an idea and the democratic party vehemently says that it’s not right, but then a Democrat will pose an almost identical idea and the Republican part hates the idea. It’s too divided, republicans wont accept democrat ideas and democrats wont accept republican ideas, it’s sad because it shouldn’t be childish. They’re running our country and all they can do is see who’s on their side. I thought our pointless war was in Iraq, not our own country. But it happens time and time again. Our country is being ruled by children, and it’s not just the democratic side and it’s not just the republican side. It’s both of the sides. They need to think clearly, and I think the best way would be to just drop the titles. Republican, Democrat, Green Party, etc. All just need to be changed to “Independent” why? because they need to think independently for themselves and when you attached yourself to part of a group, you feel obligated to conform with the majority, it’s human nature, it happened everywhere, not just in politics. But if no one was connected to a side and they all had their own ideas they could think for themselves and make the choice they really believe is right, not just the choice they decided 30 years ago when they had to pick a side. People learn, grow, and adapt (it’s a trait of being alive) Maybe someone thinks one way is efficient, but then over time they realize while it’s a great idea in theory, it doesn’t work in reality, or they find a big flaw in it later that they didn’t think of at the time. They should be allowed to change their views, but if you do that you’re no longer part of that side (so it seems anyway). But if everyone was independent, yes, there’d be people who seemed conservative and people who seemed liberal, but if you drop the titles and the “Party” sides, while people still might find a way to group together, it wouldn’t be as powerful as having just two groups constantly battling each other.

At the same time, it’s too late for that, because everyone’s already chosen a side, even if that side’s Independent, and people will still call themselves a Democrat or a Republican even if we drop the titles, because it takes decades for people to change, and other groups will probably form anyway

“So you conform with the best of intention. Change comes from inside. After all that’s what this country was founded on, Do nothing different just fall in line.” and actually it was. While people did escape to America for religious freedom, it was a single religion, a single religion that wasn’t accepting of other religions. (Which is ironic, don’t you think? They leave to freely practice their religion, but they wont let others practice their own religion?) The main point of this is “everyone’s so sensitive to every bad vibration” that is doesn’t let us think for ourselves or speak freely, because if we do we get attacked for being “insensitive” or “politically incorrect” and while I do find it important to be sensitive, at the same time, people can’t always express their own ideas. It takes hours to figure out a sentence that expresses their opinion without sounding insensitive. It’s funny because we’re so “Freedom of Speech” and yet anything we say, we could get sued for. It’s silly. I must say I love this line in the song “There’s nothing I believe in more than my own insignificance, So why does everybody think that my words can make a difference” because it’s true. Unless you’re chased by the paparazzi, what you say really shouldn’t matter, because most of the world isn’t listening and most of the world doesn’t care about you, or me, or my friends or anyone I know. Let me clarify that statement, We’re not rulers, we’re not talking for anyone other than ourself, correct? We should be able to speak our mind and ideas as long as we’re informed about the topic. For example, someone who believes that the holocaust didn’t exist, probably shouldn’t talk about Hitler. But someone who’s a historian who specializes on WWII should be allowed to speak his mind. We don’t have to agree with everyone, but we can’t just attack every word out of someone elses mouth because a random person we don’t even know might be hypersensitive and assume you’re talking about them and they’ve got a lawyer ready to sue you.

It’s just so illogical.

“Politically Correct” oh how I love this song and I hate it. Because I tend to lean towards the politically correct side, but it’s got a point, which is something I can respect. It bothers me when people use politically incorrect terms because they choose to be ignorant or for a reaction or for no other reason than to use it. But the song really doesn’t use politically incorrect words, such as racial slurs. It just talks about how everyone is so scared to say anything for when anyone else might feel offended. It also talks about politics in a way that really reflects todays politics “You lean a little to the left or the right but you can only see how’s on your side. A little blind, a little hypnotized.” Which is exactly what happens today, A Republican says an idea and the democratic party vehemently says that it’s not right, but then a Democrat will pose an almost identical idea and the Republican part hates the idea. It’s too divided, republicans wont accept democrat ideas and democrats wont accept republican ideas, it’s sad because it shouldn’t be childish. They’re running our country and all they can do is see who’s on their side. I thought our pointless war was in Iraq, not our own country. But it happens time and time again. Our country is being ruled by children, and it’s not just the democratic side and it’s not just the republican side. It’s both sides. They need to think clearly, and I think the best way would be to just drop the titles. Republican, Democrat, Green Party, etc. All just need to be changed to “Independent” why? because they need to think independently for themselves and when you attached yourself to part of a group, you feel obligated to conform with the majority, it’s human nature, it happened everywhere, not just in politics. But if no one was connected to a side and they all had their own ideas they could think for themselves and make the choice they really believe is right, not just the choice they decided 30 years ago when they had to pick a side. People learn, grow, and adapt (it’s a trait of being alive) Maybe someone thinks one way is efficient, but then over time they realize while it’s a great idea in theory, it doesn’t work in reality, or they find a big flaw in it later that they didn’t think of at the time. They should be allowed to change their views, but if you do that you’re no longer part of that side (so it seems anyway). But if everyone was independent, yes, there’d be people who seemed conservative and people who seemed liberal, but if you drop the titles and the “Party” sides, while people still might find a way to group together, it wouldn’t be as powerful as having just two groups constantly battling each other.At the same time, it’s too late for that, because everyone’s already chosen a side, even if that side’s Independent, and people will still call themselves a Democrat or a Republican even if we drop the titles, because it takes decades for people to change, and other groups will probably form anyway ”So you conform with the best of intention. Change comes from inside. After all that’s what this country was founded on, Do nothing different just fall in line.” and actually it was. While people did escape to America for religious freedom, it was a single religion, a single religion that wasn’t accepting of other religions. (Which is ironic, don’t you think? They leave to freely practice their religion, but they wont let others practice their own religion?) The main point of this is “everyone’s so sensitive to every bad vibration” that is doesn’t let us think for ourselves or speak freely, because if we do we get attacked for being “insensitive” or “politically incorrect” and while I do find it important to be sensitive, at the same time, people can’t always express their own ideas. It takes hours to figure out a sentence that expresses their opinion without sounding insensitive. It’s funny because we’re so “Freedom of Speech” and yet anything we say, we could get sued for. It’s silly. I must say I love this line in the song “There’s nothing I believe in more than my own insignificance, So why does everybody think that my words can make a difference” because it’s true. Unless you’re chased by the paparazzi, what you say really shouldn’t matter, because most of the world isn’t listening and most of the world doesn’t care about you, or me, or my friends or anyone I know. Let me clarify that statement, We’re not rulers, we’re not talking for anyone other than ourself, correct? We should be able to speak our mind and ideas as long as we’re informed about the topic. For example, someone who believes that the holocaust didn’t exist, probably shouldn’t talk about Hitler. But someone who’s a historian who specializes on WWII should be allowed to speak his mind. We don’t have to agree with everyone, but we can’t just attack every word out of someone elses mouth because a random person we don’t even know might be hypersensitive and assume you’re talking about them and they’ve got a lawyer ready to sue you.It’s just so illogical.

SR-71 … I can’t believe I didn’t mention them sooner

Okay, so it looks like April is going to be more “congested” as far as my posts go, this is a good thing… hopefully it’ll continue?

SR-71    I LOVE THIS BAND!!! I don’t actually know what they look like… it’s their music I really like. The band was named after a fast airplane… wiki says “SR-71 Blackbird, a supersonic surveillance aircraft of the United States Air Force. The band was originally known as Honor Among Thieves, and as would be the case with SR-71, singer/songwriter/guitarist Mitch Allan was the only constant member.” Oh how much smarter than me you sound Wiki.

I actually haven’t heard all of their music though. I have the following songs: “She Was Dead” “Empty Spaces” “Alive” “Goodbye” “In My Mind” “My World” “Hello Hello” “Tomorrow” and “Politically Correct”

So it’s not like I listened to one song and fell in love… one song was what got me started. The song “My World” I had first listened to with a Naruto AMV. It’s a really sweet song. It’s strange because I’m really into angry songs, but this was is really cute. It’s about a boy and girl who used to date, and the boy is still in love with her, but she’s dating someone else now. A line that seemed to really stick with me was “Is he all the things you tried to change me into?” There’s just something sad about it, because he really seemed to love him, mean while she didn’t love him for him, she wanted to change him. And she moved on when she realized she couldn’t, but he still clings to the idea that he really loves her, it’s so sweet, and sad, but I love it so much.

Alive is another amazing song from this band. It’s about a woman who was abused by her husband and she finally leaves him and is liberated. I really enjoy the chorus “Say goodbye to Mr. Right, lock the door, turn out the light, pack your bads, leave this trap, run away, don’t look back, see another day with each new sun, your life has just begun.” I feel like it should’ve been used for Anti-Domestic Abuse ads or some sort of campaign like that. It’s a great song because it’s about liberating oneself, (and at the time) breaking the norm, knowing what’s wrong and acting on it. She knows she can’t change him, she knows she’s old (65 in the song) but she knows that she deserves better and so she leaves. She frees herself, and it’s a powerful story when you think about it. (As opposed to the stories of abused women who eventually lose it and kill their husbands anyway…) No one deserves to be abused, physically or verbally.

I started writing about “Politically Correct” and it’s pretty long, so I’ll save it for a separate post… sorry. I get into things other than the song.

“She was Dead” I think this is a comical song, but at the same time I really hate it, because it’s his own fault for getting into the bad relationship and maybe if he was “busy staring at her chest” he might’ve not gone into the relationship, so he’s going to give her Hell because of his bad decision. Yeah she seems like a psycho, but he could’ve said no… probably…

“Empty Spaces” is just a really cute song. He had a girlfriend and they broke up and he’s wishing they could go back and fix the problems. He talks about how he hopes to get back together and says “There’s always room for one more mistake” meaning he thinks he’s a mistake. He’s expressing regret for how he acted and says he’s changed and would love to get back together if she would let him. It’s just a nice soft, slow song to relax to. I enjoy it anyway.

For now I must eat, but I’ll review the other four songs in my next post, and “Politically Correct” in the post after that

Check the band out

Ke$ha? … you’re kidding me…

There is one interview where she admits she’s not flawless and that she does make up words. But I don’t think she’s serious about music, from the interviews I’ve seen, she says she wants to take “the piss out of everything” whatever that means… Something I’ve learned from seeing the interview with artist Ayumi Hamasaki really reinforces the idea that you can’t really hate something you don’t understand, because if you don’t understand it, how do you know you’re just not scared of something new and different. So that’s what I tried with Ke$ha (who I keep pronouncing as “Quiche-a”  it’s more of a “Keh-sha”) She doesn’t seem serious about the music at all, she talks about partying (and I’m not talking about her songs, I’m talking about what she talks about in interviews). She says that partying is not superficial and that everyone needs to have fun (clearly she has a very narrow idea of fun) and party. Which is silly, she needs to wake up and get into the real world, she sounds like she’s a little tipsy when she talks.

She also looks like she doesn’t use a mirror and “rolls around in a dumpster” as one person on YouTube commented. She repeats the exact same thing over and over and over and over… was it manufactured? They’ve done it before (“they” being the music industry) she tells the exact same story about her mom and “Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton are singing her song” and it just seems like she’s playing the exact same words, the exact same lines, she never really offers any other information. All the interviewers ask about her songs and stuff she’s done (which just seems to be about breaking into Prince’s house). I think it’s strange, who says the exact same thing practically ‘word-for-word’.

She apparently wrote all of her lyrics, which honestly, I don’t care about. I don’t like the lyrics. Her words are vulgar, “they literally fart hit songs” Ke$ha says about her record people. Really? She talks about being poor but she doesn’t actually say much about it, so… what’s up with that? Is this trying to get people to feel good about her like another “Rags to Riches” idea? Because I don’t like this.

She says, “I’m not ALWAYS drunk all the time,” what’s up with that? Really? then she goes to say “That’s just how I act,” really? I don’t really like her, I’ve looked at a bunch of interviews with her and I’m trying to like her… but she’s so… reckless and I don’t like it, and she doesn’t talk about anything mature. Apparently she’s not into clubs, but has nothing wrong with being drunk a good portion of the time. ”I mean I don’t wanna get arrested, but I’m not opposed to it.” Really?

This is probably the most likable video I’ve seen of her would be this one which isn’t an interview, it’s her waking up from partying and tell people how to say her name… she seems a little out of it.

I do think she looks like she rolled around in the dumpster for most of the interviews I’ve seen, but once in a while I must admit she does look a little cool, but then she opens her mouth. Don’t get me wrong, I think the song “Tik Tok” is catchy, I hate the lyrics and I hate the message it brings, but it’s catchy, and in America that’s kind of how it works… catchy songs… infectious songs are the ones that “make it” …sadly…

I just wanna say that this picture is hideous, this is the cover of her album “Animal” that lipstick/glitter color does nothing for her, also, she looks stoned in the picture, I didn’t know she had freckles though (or maybe she just went crazy with the tanning booth or something)

I don’t get what her glitter obsession is… but in that amount it looks like she’s got a bunch of dirt on her face. and that nose ring is really appalling (I know I must sound really old right now, I’m actually a female, and barely legal) So I’m young But she just looks trashy. Everything clashes, it looks like it took a lot of work too, but what she’s doing with her eyes doesn’t help them, it makes them look really small. This was photoshopped by an amateur, look at her elbow… wanna know what’s wrong? She’s bending her arm and it looks like her arm skin doesn’t bunch at all (I know she isn’t fat) but the skin doesn’t just absorb itself and you should see the bend and shadow, but you can also tell it was really air brushed. I know, I know, everyone gets airbrushed, but come on! That’s just lazy, it doesn’t even look natural (I use photoshop a lot, more for picture integration more than clearing up people’s natural features, but the key point is never over do it!) And they still couldn’t make her look decent.

Yeah, she likes glitter, she’s a glitter whore (which just means she hoards glitter and uses a lot of her, I’m not calling her a whore, it’s just how the colloquial words work).

As far as I’m concerned, while she might be an “artist” by my idea that an artist is someone who can make people feel emotion by their work, I just feel disgusted by her music and her lyrics and her lack of awareness of the real world. If she really lived in poverty as she keeps saying (but never divulging any facts other than “I had to buy canned vegetables” really? that’s your definition of poverty? There are people who can’t even afford that….

I really wanted to like you too… but you’re impossible to like… your story seems fabricated, you don’t take music seriously… you have a narrow idea of fun, which is being drunk and partying. Which, while some people might find that fun, there are plenty of other incredibly fun things to do than throwing up and getting a hangover the next day.

But hey, that’s just my opinion.

A Little Bit of Science

mathematician, a biologist and a physicist are sitting in a street cafe watching people going in and coming out of the house on the other side of the street.
First, they see two people going into the house. Time passes. After a while, they notice three persons coming out of the house.
The physicist: “The measurement wasn’t accurate.”
The biologists: “They have reproduced”.
The mathematician: “If now exactly one person enters the house then it will be empty again.”
——————————————————–

Three statisticians go out hunting together. After a while they spot a solitary rabbit. The first statistician takes aim and overshoots. The second aims and undershoots. The third shouts out “We got him!”
——————————————————–

A statistician can have his head in an oven and his feet in ice, and he will say that on the average he feels fine.
——————————————————–

Q. Did you hear the one about the statistician?
A. Probably….

——————————————————–
YOU MIGHT BE A PHYSICS MAJOR…
if you have no life – and you can PROVE it mathematically.
if you enjoy pain.
if you know vector calculus but you can’t remember how to do long division.
if you chuckle whenever anyone says ‘centrifugal force.’
if you’ve actually used every single function on your graphing calculator.
if when you look in a mirror, you see a physics major.
if it is sunny and 70 degrees outside, and you are working on a computer.
if you always do homework on Friday and Saturday nights.
if you know how to integrate a chicken and can take the derivative of water.
if you think in ‘math.’
if you’ve calculated that the World Series actually diverges.
if you hesitate to look at something because you don’t want to break down its wave function.
if you have a pet named after a scientist.
if you laugh at jokes about mathematicians.
if the Humane society has you arrested because you actually performed the Schrodinger’s Cat experiment.
if you can’t remember what’s behind the door in the science building which says ‘Exit.’
if you have to bring a jacket with you, in the middle of summer, because there’s a wind-chill factor in the lab.
if you are completely addicted to PhysLink.com.
if you avoid doing anything because you don’t want to contribute to the eventual heat-death of the universe.
if you consider ANY non-science course ‘easy.’
if when your professor asks you where your homework is, you claim to have accidentally determined its momentum so precisely, that according to Heisenberg it could be anywhere in the universe.
if the ‘fun’ center of your brain has deteriorated from lack of use.
if you’ll assume that a ‘horse’ is a ‘sphere’ in order to make the math easier.
if you understood more than five of these indicators.
if you make a hard copy of this list, and post it on your door.

——————————————————–
What is the difference between a physicist, an engineer, and a mathematician?

If an engineer walks into a room and sees a fire in the middle and a bucket of water in the corner, he takes the bucket of water and pours it on the fire and puts it out.

If a physicist walks into a room and sees a fire in the middle and a bucket of water in the corner, he takes the bucket of water and pours it eloquently around the fire and lets the fire put itself out.

If a mathematician walks into a room and sees a fire in the middle and a bucket of water in the corner, he convinces himself there is a solution and leaves. (credit: Jeremiah Jazdzewski)

——————————————————–

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Issac Newton: Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest, chickens in motion tend to cross road
——————————————————–
A neutron walks into a bar; he asks the bartender, ‘How much for a beer?’ The bartender looks at him, and says ‘For you, no charge.’

———————————————————
Heisenberg is out for a drive when he’s stopped by a traffic cop. The cop says ‘Do you know how fast you were going?’ Heisenberg says ‘No, but I know where I am.

——————————————————–
Wanted
$10,000 reward.
Schroedinger’s Cat.
Dead or Alive

———————————————————–

Reaction to Ayumi Hamasaki

So I finally got the time to check out an interview with Ayumi Hamasaki.

I’m almost ashamed to admit this, but I’ve been avoiding Ayumi Hamasaki because of her popularity. I do that with American artists as well. I looked at her as a pop star and nothing more. Though I watched her interview with CNN on a special “Japan Now” thing.

I never realized how honest she was and how sincere she was. I think it’s amazing how she admits that she’s childish and how she’s sometimes selfish.

I got a good look into her different fashions and hairstyles and looks. I really appreciate her attitude towards being famous, it’s really a realistic look at it, which is hard to find. Before she started singing she prepared herself for losing friends and people changing their attitudes towards others and how she needs to be sincere in her music. She prepared herself for whatever outcome may happen and she knows that even if she’s having downtime, she’s always Ayumi Hamasaki, and her fans see her as Ayumi Hamasaki, so it’s her job to stay herself, because she’s Ayu no matter where or why. She talks about how she needs to be true and that her music sells because it has no lies in it, and it’s very honest.

She says she doesn’t need a vacation because working hard on her music makes her the happiest. Throughout the interview she switches between English and Japanese, and I’m amazed with her English, I didn’t realize how much English she knew and how understandable it was, it’s was really amazing. She switched into Japanese because it’s an interview and can’t obviously express everything perfectly into English, it’s just how it works, also some words are in Japanese that are difficult to translate into English (even for professional translators).

With that, I’d like to apologize to Ayumi Hamasaki and all of her fans because she clearly didn’t need negative judgement from an ignorant person like me, who saw a face, only listen to about 5 songs, then judged her.

She says she does her music with lots of emotion, and that’s why people like it because it brings a sort of empathy to the fans, and I must admit, when I finally listened to a song that I liked (not that she’s short on good songs, but because she has so many songs it’s hard to find the right ones because even the best musicians make flops) I must admit I did feel empathy, and even more so after reading the translation of the song. And I always feel that for an artist to stir emotion in another person, just by having that person hear or see whatever their art may be, that is a sign of accomplishment. I take photographs and I use photoshop and I try to create something real and something that can stir emotion in other people. So from artist to artist, I wouldn’t be able to help but respect her, even if I had only heard that part.

For those who would like to see the interview I’m talking about you can see it on Youtube, it’s in 3 parts, here is the first part