Please no deconstructivist anti-postmodern vilifying analysis of hanami, even if you dislike it. Onegaishimasu.

you know, i hear that there is some hanami art/social protest group called the 'chirikau kai' who is doing this big PoMo crit on the absurdity of not having eternally blooming 'sakura' in a post-superflat, modern japanese society. i hear they also have a beef about sidewalks, but i'm not sure what that's all about. anyway, how poetic!

these last 2 post are very japanese style blog/diary of you. don't forget to take a picture of a pastry. =)

whats on the ipod with all this cycle riding and nice new weather?

Haru ga kita!

Or alternately, you can come to Aomori where it's cold and windy and rainy, and the sakura will be in hiding for another two weeks.

Indeed if Japan is superflat how can I be this jealous of Tokyo?

What's impressive to me this year is how suddenly
満開　is upon us. It's different every year.

I'm lucky enough to live near a stretch of the kanda river where a bunch of trees are in bloom now and my ride to work passes the palace moat for more sakura!!

Cherry blossoms are impossible to hate. The reason my blog load is light is that I've been out in the sun, riding back and forth along Meguro-gawa.

Soundtrack: I've realized that songs for speedy movement are different than walking songs. I want more constant rhythms and have more tolerance for longer things. I've actually been listening to mostly 90s alternative and other kinds of rock. I've just started this vehicular life, so I'll see what that does to my next album. I've been listening to the demos while riding and they fit the 10-15 mph range pretty well.

Soundtrack: I've realized that songs for speedy movement are different than walking songs.

Audition is an important sensory cue to maintain awareness of your environment. Be careful!

You guys ride bikes in the city while wearing headsets? And you have no problems orienting yourselves in traffic and hearing crazy bastards on/in bikes/scooterts/cars coming up from behind?

Those sakura along the river near Nakameguro Sta. are the best. It's almost absurd, how many trees and how fully they bloom. I love it, even though tomorrow there's going to be people from hell there.

yeah, but brad, since we are from the hood, we can just do some 'yozakura' action action right? when all the teeming masses are gone.
best,
r.
p.s. let's have drinks sometime soon.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, wherever you think you've been, Momus has been there first.

You guys ride bikes in the city while wearing headsets?

I also wear a blindfold. I live on the edge.

daivd said: Ladies and Gentlemen, wherever you think you've been, Momus has been there first.

robert says: i've been in touch with reality. does that count, cuz i don't think nick has been there recently.

i've been in touch with reality

This is a dangerous and arrogant delusion. Abandon it before it destroys your mind.

robert said: i've been in touch with reality

nick said: This is a dangerous and arrogant delusion. Abandon it before it destroys your mind.

and robert says: isn't that the whole point? going back to Captain Beefheart's line "Please God fuck my mind for good"...i don't think there is a god so he can't fuck my mind. i have to do it for myself. now having decided on a self-mind-fuck, i have to select my M.O., right? shall i fuck my mind thru raw fantasy, or thru a deluge of reality? either way, it is a mindfuck, right?

Just as long as you find a way to consider yourself wrong, it's okay with me, Robert.

Just as long as you find a way to consider yourself wrong, it's okay with me, Robert.

Wait, Momus wrote this...?

nick said: Just as long as you find a way to consider yourself wrong, it's okay with me, Robert.

and i say: hummm...that one seems like the ubermindfuck to me. i'm game.