Fly Me to the Moon

I've been researching 1920's movies for a history class group assignment. This came up while looking them up on youtube. Love it. It's so funny how he sticks out his arms at the end. Fly me to the Moon is a song my family has a lot of ties to.

I also love Charlie Chaplin's vids.

Prisoner of Love

Utada Hikaru! Prisoner of Love! I don't think I ever heard this song of hers until yesterday.

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Lemon Elegy

Lemon Elegy

You had been so waiting for a lemon
In your sad and white and bright deathbed,
Your perfect teeth bit with a crunch
Into the lemon you took from my hand.
A topaz coloured scent arose.
Those few drops of heavenly lemon juice
Suddenly made you normal again.
Your shining lucid eyes smiled gently,
You gripped my hand with such a healthy strength!
Though there was a storm in your throat,
In these last moments of your life
You became the old Chieko again,
You focused a life of love into one moment
And then you took a big breath
Like on the mountain peaks long ago,
And in that breath your engine shut down.
Today, once again, under the cherry blossoms
By your photograph, I'll put a coldly shining lemon. 

-Kotaro Takamura

I just love the Chieko Poems, especially this one.

The Chieko Poems 

Final Distance

Some of Utada Hikaru's best songs are hidden so it's hard to find them. This is one.
Distance remix m-flo

Utada Hikaru made the ballad version of this song (Final Distance) after hearing about a school stabbing where a 6-year old girl had died. Rena Yamashita (the girl that died) had won an essay contest about how she wanted to be like Utada Hikaru.

if you want to read more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Distance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka_school_massacre

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or something

ahhh, even though I hardly have any homework, I'm finding it hard to do the things I want to do. Like write. Or sleep. Or read. Or something. How frustrating.

Passion

Utada Hikaru is largely to blame for my love of Japanese music. I think I'll post some more of her.

I love how this music video is so random.

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Fidelity amv

This freakin' amv always makes me cry.

from the anime movie Wolf Children Ame and Yuki.