Wednesday, February 15, 2012

mental sketch modified, of us, of a little night.




"Nanatsu-Mori", a small cafe in Koenji was named after Kenji Miyazawa's a poem,



屈折率


七つ森のこつちのひとつが
水の中よりもつと明るく
そしてたいへん巨きいのに
わたくしはでこぼこ凍つたみちをふみ
このでこぼこの雪をふみ
向ふの縮れた亜鉛あえんの雲へ
陰気な郵便脚夫きやくふのやうに  
(またアラツデイン 洋燈ラムプとり)
急がなければならないのか

this is so beautiful that I have even no confidence in translating it.

Monday, February 13, 2012

This makes me sick. however.




According to the official web-page of well-known pizza buffet,
 "Shakey's", was"opened in a remodeled grocery store
 in Sacramento, California 
in 1954 by Sherwood 'Shakey' Johnson.
it was originally established as "ye public house" 
for pizza & beer, Johnson indulged his passion 
for Dixieland jazz and added live ragtime music to mix, 
featuring banjos and player pianos 
throughout his rapidly expanding franchise ".

I never knew! how nice. 
...well, I didn't feel a scrap of Dixieland jazz and Ragtime 
at Shakey's Shibuya though.


but I love this commercial.