Ascii Art

Recently, I'm very inspired by Ascii Art. Most of people know about it, but those who don't know. Ascii Art is a picture made by keyboard characters.
I always think how do they creating this kind of art. But this is one kind of artistic production.
Come to think of it, "Black Tambourine" music video of Beck is also created by Ascii Art!

hear's some website that posts information about Ascii Art.
http://www.ascii-art.de/
http://www.chris.com/ascii/

About SUDOKU

Now in Europe, Sudoku is becoming popular you know? I heard that many people playing "Sudoku" everywhere on the train in the morning. Do you know "Sudoku" is Japanese? I even didn't know what it was though.
It's a puzzle game.

If you don't know what "Sudoku" is, or you want to play this visit this website!

here http://www.sudokufun.com/

I'm going to play every day, cause I need more brain exercise!
But it takes lots of time for me to solve.

Japan iTunes is rubbish!

I get pissed off with iTunes Japan store because the sales of songs are not many.
There are only 1 million songs now. It lacks of international songs.
iTunes Japan store has launched since this August. Maybe most of Japanese wating for this time. As I thought it showed record sales figure at first.
But now, I'm not satisfy!
Sony makes no attempt to give songs for iTunes! I think that's the problem.

My favorite director

I like watching video works like short film or music video.
Especially, I love Michel Gondry's works. I watched "Everlong" video of Foo Fighters for the first time. It was overwhelming. I took a liking to his works since I've watched this video.
I also like Björk video. My favorite is "Bachelorette".
I think feature of Michel Gondry's works are time-lapse or one-scene,
one-cut method. The White Stripes videos are the example.

I asked how to change this blog template, but nobody answered...
Although I could change some color! How about this?
I going to change this blog a little more each day.
I'm little bit way behind the times, today I got GMail account.
It's very useful.


Now I'm listening this CD album lately. This is "Help: A Day In the Life"
Various artist participated in this album.
I recommend "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" of Kaiser Chiefs. This is very catchy tune!!!

It's cold lately. Now, a little snowing in my home town, I live in south part of Japan though.
I love winter but I hate cold day.
Anyway, now I'm very intersted in pocasting. I'm already subscribing some programs.

Here's my list

• Aimee Mann: Music and Interviews - http://www.mediarica.com/podcasts/aimee_mann/
  
• Best of Moyles - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chrismoyles/
  
• Chris Evans - The Best Bits http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/evans/
  
• Go Digital - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/1478157.stm
  
• Talking 6 Music - http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/listen/download_trial.shtml
  
• the tartanpodcast - http://www.tartanpodcast.com/
  

I checked Japanese Podcast downloading ranking, I find that many Japanese downloading English learnimg programs and there are a lot of that kind of programs in Japan as well.
I think most of Japanese yearn for fluent skill of English.

Hi! I'm from Japan. I want to improve my English, so I try to write this Blog in English!