Thank you everyone for your hard work this week.

I have several alarms set to wake me up every 15 minutes from XNUMX o'clock, but at some point, a foreign bell sounds like a gongarajanjan, probably because I set the alarm tone wrong.
(Maybe because I saw before that changing the alarm sound depending on the time helps you wake up.)
It was really stressful waking up to that noise.
I'd think, "Wow, what time is that, damn it!" but in the end I've been half asleep and haven't known what time it is for the past few months.

So, the day before yesterday, I finally thought, "Why not use my favorite song as an alarm?" (Too late, too late)
I asked my middle school self for advice that if I set my favorite song as my alarm, I would end up hating it.
I set Masakatsu Takagi as my alarm, hoping to have a nice morning.
The music is falling along with the sparkling morning light, making for a truly wonderful morning.
It's like my days are taken through a beautiful photo filter.
Following on from Nanao Tabito, who gave me his morning, I would like to present a box of sweets to Takagi Masakatsu as well.


Yesterday, while I was killing time at Starbucks, the staff member brought me a sample of their new Frappuccino.
The girl tried her best to explain the product to me, saying, "Um, mango, hmm, ah, oriental mango..."
The prizes are given out in order, so even though you're thinking to yourself, "Oh, it's coming, I'm definitely next," you wait with a look on your face that says you haven't noticed at all, listen to the same explanation as the person next to you, and then react with, "What, are they giving it to me too?!" (?)
I'm really happy and grateful for this, but every time I feel like, "Is this really the best solution?"
I was wondering if I could respond more naturally and smartly when the lady next to me said,
"Hehe, I was listening to you and thinking it sounded delicious," she said, and began chatting with the waiter, so in my mind I waved a flag that said "Complete Defeat" high.
Charm is truly wonderful.


On a different note, something very happy happened to me recently.
What makes me happy? Like everyone else, it's when my favorite artist releases a new album.

I have an artist who gets me through every day looking forward to his new album release. He just released an EP recently.
I press play at exactly midnight, heart pounding, and listen to it in bed at a volume a little louder than usual, searching for a voice in the wall of incredibly distorted shoegaze and bigyaabagaaa sound.
Honestly, I don't know what you're talking about. (But it's okay to not know what you're talking about.)
So, even if you try to look up the lyrics, Spotify is really slow to display them!
But that's not the worst thing. When I was able to listen to the song while reading the lyrics again,
I feel happy to hear that he said something like that. I feel like I've finally read a letter from him.
I think songwriters are truly amazing. They can make people they've never met or spoken to feel this way.
I was once asked this simple question: "What is fun about making music if you don't write your own lyrics?" It was somehow very difficult, and to be honest, I couldn't answer it properly.
I think at the time I felt that maybe that was true, but also thought it might be difficult to put into words so that you could understand.


Recently I read "Park Life" by Shuichi Yoshida.
I've seen a few of the film adaptations, but I've never read the novel.
I walked into a bookstore thinking that it had been a while since I had read something easy to read, not something complicated, and then my eyes literally met. I read the synopsis and discovered that the story was set in Hibiya Park.
I had a live performance planned at Hibiya Park this weekend, so I read this and thought, "Yes, yes, this kind of thing happens." If you can come to the Hibiya Music Festival, please come.


Ocean (Updated 2025.05.30)