I haven't listened to Ofra in ages. Found her through The Sisters of Mercy when she sang backup on Temple of Love but as her CDs were just a little hard to find I tracked a lot of them down, listened to them waaay too often, and kinda went off on the whole thing. I'll have to give her another go, it's been twenty years...
A 6ft x 4ft rug for my living room. I've ordered this on the assumption my new flat has hardwood floors, but you know despite viewing the property before Christmas I couldn't say for sure it has. I have great difficulty taking things in and committing them to memory. I know the general layout, but wall colour, light fittings, style/colour of the kitchen units/bathroom suite... the details of all these things escape me completely
How many times did you view it? Just once? If so I totally understand. You can't take in that much information that fast and expect to remember much of it. Should've taken high-res photos you could consult (hah! Hindsight, am I right?)
Yeah, just the one viewing. I was only there 10 minutes at the most. And you're dead right! Should've taken photos.
As long as you can find it again. I remember being terrified that I wouldn't remember exactly where (no definable addresses here) my first apartment in Japan was. First time I walked out the door I probably spent five minutes just staring around the street burning landmarks into my brain.
The streets here literally don't have names. So the US consulate in Osaka, for example, has an address of: 2-11-5, Nishitenma, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-8543 That means Osaka city (which is in Osaka prefecture, but who's counting?), in the Kita (or north) ward, in block 5 of block 11 of block 2 in the Nishitenma neighborhood. Without a map on which those wards and blocks are drawn there's no way of determining where a specific address is. Here's the google map, a couple of the larger roads have numbers but those aren't used in expressing the address. Japanese people literally tell each other where things are by saying stuff like "Take the subway Midosuji line, get off at Namba Station. Go out exit 25, turn left, take the right after the cigarette machine with the grafitti on it, walk down the street about 30 meters, it's on the second floor on the right. If you pass the mechanical crab, you've gone too far." The so-called address is useless.
For all the simply ingenious little conveniences that Japan has, this is a huge set back. If its too complicated for people to understand your basic roadways, you have a problem.
Same with kanji, the Chinese characters, and the fact that we use regnal years here. When you see two people explaining their names to each other, they need to describe the Chinese characters and sometimes draw them on their palms. Just like we have dozens of different ways to spell "Caitlyn/Katelyn/Katelynne," there are twenty-five different sets of characters that can have the sound "Akira," which is a pretty common boys' name. Also, while you thought it was 2021, it is currently Reiwa 2, the second year of the reign of his Majesty the Emperor who will be known on his death as "Reiwa," nee Naruhito, which was his given name prior to his ascension to the throne. His father, Emperor Heisei, reigned from Hesei 1 to Heisei 31, which is also Reiwa 1. I was born in Showa 46, the forty-sixth year of the reign of His late Majesty Showa, commonly known in the west as Hirohito. I arrived in Japan in Heisei 13, as my documents will attest. Don't even get me started on the fact that all members of the royal family have regnal names that are known only in Japan, and most Japanese people don't know the royals given names off the top of their heads. I guess it would make more sense to a British person who thinks in terms of "The Duchess of Crouch End met with the Marquess of Chavshire today" but it throws me for a loop.
No video but I do have some photos. @OurJud you won't want to miss this. The pot heated from about 105 to 148 degree over the course of the experiment. Spoiler: M&M photos Very pretty Those white flakes you see floating on the surface are the dyed layer of the candy coating. This is the soup they feed you in Hell
"Margret, have Wadsworth whip up a batch of that split M&M soup. And ring Mr. Alistair about getting one of them new-fangled light up Swiss Army Maps that fit in the pocket. I'll go down and gas up the old Edsel. And pack a bag, we're going on vacation."
So in other words, it's a place where people can disappear, a perfect hidey-hole for those on the run from the law who want to get lost in a tangled sprawl of nameless streets where the police are incompetent or so snarled in strange archaic procedures that they're incapable of finding anyone or accomplishing anything. Hmmm... why did you go there again?
Ofra was amazing. I too had been taking a break, mainly because I was so upset about her ultimate fate and I had to take a break to stop being mad about it. But I had to have this cd because the remix of La Fa La and Ya Hil We are too amazing.
I about piss myself laughing every time I hear Iggy Pop in Daw da Hiya though. Straight up Ator the Fighting Eagle level lyrics.
Have you heard her in this? (my gateway drug): Edit: I remember listening to this as I crested the pass in Wyoming at 80 miles an hour. Perfection in an inexpensive car.
And half the time, the taxi drivers don't know where that place you're trying to find is. "Customer-san, where's this hotel please?" "Driver-san, I'm: a) a tourist b) a foreigner and c) drunk. If you can't find it, we're screwed."
American friend of mine in Tokyo was stopped once for speeding. She responded by pretending to be lost and asking the policeman for directions, which caused him to immediately snap into "service mode", and he started helping her find the place she was supposedly looking for. By the time they finished, he had forgotten why he'd stopped her in the first place, and off she drove.
Actually, no. My obsessions are Alive and Kol Yom Matchila Shana. I tend to stick more to her traditional stuff than her collabs.
