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| <nettime> Hello from Hateruma Island (Japan); fourth excerpt |
I like listening in the morning to the weak radio signals drift in-and-out while watching the pre-program TV train montages... up too early (2 a.m.) and made a nice big pot of rice, miso, doshi, seaweed, dried chilis, chopped vegetables; expect more rain with forecast high of 69F... such a (political? (out of business in 2008) shame that the Arimura ferry no longer goes to Taiwan from Ishigaki... just now an email message from Sizzle! <xxxxx@nifty.com>: I _did miss her performance... took apart and cleaned the clipper head with a small screwdriver/plier tool and it works much better now :)... probably spending too much time on this second disk from the childrens' concert that really had too much wind noise but some nice moments with my patented reverse mic techinque (pointing in the opposite direction, the target sound source is effectively flattened and relegated to the background so incidentals flourish...) but it's sounding rather blustery outside anyway just now; ok, T-shirt (not quite dry; neither are my shoes from yesterday) and pinhole inside... solid blowing layers of grey clouds overhead... calls for a cup of warm sake... may just be recording the rain today is this why Mae-san was up applying waterproofing compound to the roofs of various units the day before (maybe I should operate a guesthouse somewhere)... ok, the recorder's out (I need some sort of affordable, effective strong wind-baffle or perhaps a pop screen would help?); the daily morning tune has begun as has the Tapan soap (all those grilling/quivering fish-flakes in the intro are just like the collective hand-gestures in the Oki-TV dance)... I wonder if there's a better/good gap between Japanese written (symbolic, as opposed to phonetic) and thought-spoken language, thus perhaps explaining their reverence for the written-word (and art)... oh dear, it's pretty difficult to fake playing musical instruments isn't it?/ the main young character apparently aspires to be a trumpet player... embouchure as kanjii... and I think to myself what a wonderful world... Tapan seemed to be pre-empted by the winter snowstorm news, so I'll finish-off the remaining 8 minutes of this disk... nah, I'll just switch disks as this one runs-out... [dear emypre, rhizome, island-studies, net-behaviour et al mailing-lists: I realize you'll never not block these relayed posts but that's ok as I trash 99% of _your insipid institutional-careerist driven complicit pronouncements; I do my part bumpkins; you've learned nothing: time's long overdue...] wrote a couple more postcards, clipped my fingernails and ate some peanuts... well, down to Nishi (a few hardy souls from the mainland no doubt) and substantial wave action in the harbour... contemplated the towel/sugar packages again... walked home: no rain but threatening in the American-way; bought RH in NY a minuscule pack of Hope cigarettes (Y220; it might be interesting to collect additional interesting packages especially recalling the Bangladeshi brand that featured the owner's portrait on each cig... [see GIP Island 4.0]), to be sent in a monetary-gift envelope but without any postage or return address; we'll see if Hope is enough; despite some very impressive, under-appreciated early work (maybe too much persona but easy to overlook), Robert routinely discounts everyone butt himself no different than the refuted Artworld cul-de-sac ... bought another bottle of sake (Y1600; not much else to do) from the sisters' store and feel badly that I can't understand more than a few words at best of what she's earnestly trying to tell me (she ran back from sweeping leaves off the street and chatting with the passing cafe-owner despite my protestations)... for some reason the post office is closed today (even though I saw the mail being picked-up: Friday Feb 11)... what am I missing?... oh, oh oh it's National Foundation Day (?? maybe that was it... will there be a local event?)... the eagles' hotel-california song (weirdly heard globally all the time: maybe it's the comfy-chorded part about 'never leaving...') is now on TV (with Japanese subtitles), you know now to let them love you... had another pot of rice, left the free heat on (22C) mostly to dry my shoes, Okinawan sanshin dance on TV, wind still blowing... Mae-san and wife were putting up corrugated iron sheets between the units (wasn't sure how/if to help; easy to envision sculpture made from this and a heavier variant of the omnipresent, elegant clothes-drying racks outside)... bought still more food: baby cheeses (Y180, very nice/mild, tiny silver foil rectangles with red printing; think I was craving calcium), big bright yellow, toasted, crispy, vaguely fishy discs (Y220; most snacks are tidily arranged in a secondary, light plastic trays), half-pint of milk (Y100 for coffee/calcium), tin of sardines (Y130; with the Okinawan noodles) there are various white (I suppose, western) popular bread products and even peanut butter in the stores, and while I didn't give them a second glance at first, the texture of toast is becoming appealing... I'll need to ask for a toaster-oven watched some young boys playing their idea of baseball (safe plastic bat and ball,) in the informal lot behind the sisters' store (where I first witnessed the weird local golf game): no conflict at any time, nor any sashimi anywhere today for me: rather miserable and cold; couldn't be much happening at the observatory either... receipts make great souvenirs and I like using the free handmade newspaper-bags at the main shop... time for the pinhole! very cold (sa-m-u-i) and windy (ka-ze) this morning (4m seas), may have to revert to tights; editing a 'utaki' disc [u11311-6: maybe add a little weight to the R channel]: these are going to be very good indeed: long, introspective, mystical... would make a nice 10-CDR box-set (three utakis: 6, 3, 3 disks)... perhaps a few sanshin notes at the beginning of each... received guesthouse reservation confirmation for Mar 28-30 in Ishigaki [Guest house Rakutenya: ANNEX HOUSE SECOND FLOOR 2nd room http://www3.big.or.jp/~erm8p3gi/vew2/b9.html Y3000/night; cheaper and better than what the travel agent reserved]... now editing [u11311-5]... there are decks of playing cards for sale, I wonder if they're any different:... there are Hanafuda & Kabufuda playing cards but somehow I don't think that's what's in the shops... Hanafuda is a Japanese card game evolved from Western-style playing cards introduced by the Dutch in the 16th century and a Heian period court pastime called Kacho-awase (literally meaning "matching birds and flowers") Hanafuda consists of 12 suits of four cards each. Each of the 12 suits is represented by trees, shrubs, or flowers, each corresponding to a particular month of the year. (cards with plum trees represent Feb, cherry blossoms Mar, wisteria Apr, paulownia Dec etc). The objective of the game is to collect as many cards or as many points (each card is assigned a point) as possible by matching suits. 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