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09.15.08/01:10 keiko sensei I saw her at the Jero concert a few weeks ago. I hadn't seen her in two years, but she recognized me and remembered a silly comment I made during a short speech I made at our department's graduation brunch. She looked great, bubbly even.
And now she's gone.
Keiko McDonald was one of the most beloved professors on all of Pitt campus. I realize it's common to praise the departed, but Keiko sensei was great. She could be seen around campus, always in her running shoes, always smiling.
While I was a student at Pitt, she was an indispensable source of guidance, help, and encouragement. She fought administrative red tape to get me extra credits they tried to deny me when I studied abroad, she registered me for classes while I was in Japan, and even got me a coveted spot in her already-filled-for-years-in-advance cinema class. She wrote letters of recommendation for me, she let me read the pinnacle scene of Musashi Miyamoto during one class while they were filming a documentary about her.
I would like to be able to say that she passed without regrets, since she led a ridiculously rich life, but I didn't know her well enough to be able to make that kind of statement. What I can say is that if I could live like she did, that kind of switched-on, always-excited-about-something kind of life, I'd have no regrets. 09.03.08/02:13 nepenthe - video
09.03.08/02:08 doldrums Yeah, I don't know. I'm in kind of a funk. I recommend Coin Locker Babies to you if you haven't read it. This Murakami is very, very different than that other Murakami, something you gather from the very first line of the book. Good times all around, so long as you have the stomach for it.
I've put up five or six videos since the last one, and now I'm in the process of making new lyric/chord pages for them to match the new site style. The video above this post is for a song I wrote a few years back. You may have even already heard it at some point. What ever happened to the insanity that allowed me to write it? I'm trying to get it back...
Chords and lyrics for: [nepenthe]
If you happen to have a band or find yourself musically inclined, you are welcome to cover any of the songs in my videos in the form of a video response. Easy and quick way to promote your band a little and add another song to your repertoire with little effort. Good luck!
Oh, and if that's not enough for you, I even managed to update the Hear the Wind Sing glossary up through page 88. Fun fun fun.
*END TRANSMISSION* 08.27.08/17:19 girl, you're a zombie - video
08.27.08/17:15 girl, you're a zombie - lyrics CHORDS (no capo) - G Em C D
girl, i love you but you're a zombie, i gotta cut off your face we coulda been good friends in another time in another space oh yeah (8x)
girl, i love you i think your body is hot you got the pale, smooth skin that the other girlies want but they haven't got oh yeah (8x)
girl, i loved you, but you became a zombie and your eyes, they're pretty-- but your lust for brains affronts me
REPEAT FIRST VERSE (arpeggio)
girl (3x) i gotta let you go 08.27.08/17:09 betrayal I guess in the end, as always, the only person you can really trust is yourself. But when you betray yourself by, say, breaking your own promise to yourself to quit smoking or something, that's a sad day. And if you can't even trust yourself, who the f**k can you trust? I lost my naïveté about this a long time ago, but it's never pleasant to have old wounds exacerbated. Such is life.
You may have noticed that August is gone. Go click on that word if you want to see it again. It was a big month of lots of stuff that you'd be sorry to miss if you did, in fact, miss it.
The video above is the first in a series of videos I'm planning to make over the next few weeks. Big thanks to Papa-san for the use of his video camera. And no, in case you're wondering, she said no. I asked, but for some reason she just wasn't into it. It's almost like she doesn't care how many hits my site gets... |
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