yes, it is summertime.
i will maybe try to force myself to write more.
i just got really into a live version of ‘music fighter’ which was posted on youtube from the warp tour. they go at it with such intensity. Yuki is just so great, as they all are.. it really fires on all cylinders.
i was thinking today of how important Japanese music has been to me. It really did rescue me from a period of non-inspiration about my music or anybody elses. Before that, It was Robert Pollard, but time had passed since the fierce GBV inspired days and that was different anyway. I had gone through a big Japanese music phase before so I had a lot of music organized on cd and mp3. When I got my first iPod, I looked in my mp3 library and picked out the Japanese cd folder. Around that same time, Sara and I started listenting to a lot of Shonen Knife in the car. Sara got ‘Let’s Knife’ from me and we listened to Heavy Songs, Genki Shock and a bunch more. Then I started listening to my iPod and the rest is history.. I have not looked back. I have been crazy about finding the Japanese music that I really love. Somewhere in late 2006, I was on someone’s myspace page who had some Japanese youtube links. The link that I saw was to Judy and Mary Music Fighter. I had heard of Judy and Mary in passing, so I clicked the link. Yuki looked wild and it sounded cool, so I started clicking around.
Judy and Mary are my favorite band of all time.
Judy and Mary forever.
