2013年5月7日火曜日
2013年5月6日月曜日
bones
骨 Bones
死んだあとでも楽しめるように
墓石に点数を彫ろう
前衛的だと君は笑った
たぶんほめてくれてるんだろう
So that I can enjoy myself after I die
I'm going to keep score on my gravestone
"Sounds avant-garde," you chuckled
Probably a compliment
生活や、学問や、あるいは恋において
気まぐれな思い付きが
わたしを立たせている
About life or wisdom or perhaps about love
Random thoughts are what help me stand on my feet
それはまるで骨のように
わたしを通る強い直線
それはまるで骨のように
私を燃やして残るもの
Just like a bone
It's a strong line that penetrates me
Just like bones
They will remain when I'm burned into ashes
生きる間も手抜きせぬように
墓石に点数を彫ろう
受けて立とうと君は笑った
たぶん本気で楽しむんだろう
So that we won't be lazy while we're alive
Let's keep score on our gravestone
"Challenge accpted," you chuckled
You're probably really going to enjoy it
国籍や、性別や、あるいは肌の色や
様々な枠組みが
わたしを作っている
Nationality, sex, or perhaps the color of skin
A variety of framework make me the person I am
それはまるで繭のように
私を守る柔らかな鎧
それはまるで繭のように
わたしを包んで育むもの
Just like a cocoon
It's a soft armer that protects me
Just like a cocoon
It embraces me and lets me grow
後ろめたさを引きずって
楽しめない愚か者
全力で快楽を受け止めて
つぶされずに生きていけるように
Unable to get over guilt
I'm a fool who can't enjoy
Trying to take the pleasure with all my strength
So I can live on without being crushed
I don't know the band. I just saw them on TV the other night just before snuggling into bed, and thought, wow, I can really relate to this -- in a very... unique way. Except that I don't keep score on my gravestone. I write a blog instead.
2013年5月5日日曜日
fishing
Woke up at 3:30AM and went fishing. Still feel like floating on the raft.
It's amazing how beautiful a fish can look. Those you see at supermarkets, they're dead: their eyes are dead, their bodies don't shine. But when you look at them when they've just come out of the water, they look beautiful. The way their bodies reflect the sunshine, the vivid color of their fins, the unique patterns, the bulging eyes, the way they jump and try to live until the last moment. It sort of reminds you of the fact that humans are the only creatures that commit suicide. In the natural world, you're obliged to live. It's a strict rule and therefore beautiful.
(I only caught three or four baby horse mackerels. This is just a random picture; isn't he cute?)
On a side note, relating to what we've been studying at school, I saw a parasite crawling out of a fish's mouth. It was pretty big, considering the size of the fish.
It's amazing how beautiful a fish can look. Those you see at supermarkets, they're dead: their eyes are dead, their bodies don't shine. But when you look at them when they've just come out of the water, they look beautiful. The way their bodies reflect the sunshine, the vivid color of their fins, the unique patterns, the bulging eyes, the way they jump and try to live until the last moment. It sort of reminds you of the fact that humans are the only creatures that commit suicide. In the natural world, you're obliged to live. It's a strict rule and therefore beautiful.
(I only caught three or four baby horse mackerels. This is just a random picture; isn't he cute?)
On a side note, relating to what we've been studying at school, I saw a parasite crawling out of a fish's mouth. It was pretty big, considering the size of the fish.
2013年5月4日土曜日
capsules in love
It's a holiday and it was sunny and all I did was read a pathology textbook and watch House and go to the supermarket and do yoga.
House is actually one of the best TV series I've ever seen. In the last episode of the 1st season, House is asked to treat his ex-girlfriend's husband. He's not over her, and he finds it difficult to be his usual self - cold, distant, and unemotional. Somewhere in his head, he even hopes the husband will die. But in the end, he fulfills his duty as a doctor. The girlfriend comes to thank him, and admits she's not over him either. "You're always going to be the one. But with you, I was lonely. With Mark, there's room for me."
Five years ago, I thought I would ever understand this kind of complicated feelings, but I was wrong. It was sort of like when you realize the depth of a song you used to sing when you were a kid without even caring much about the lyrics.
A couple of weeks ago I went to a concert with a friend. My friend said she wondered why people so often sang about love. "There's more to life, isn't there?" True. We go through our life gathering all kinds of experiences along the way. Love is just one of them.
But it's actually pretty obvious why we're destined to be love-addicts, or more precisely, attracted to sex, and have even made it an object of art. (I mean, it's pretty amazing when you think about all the highly regarded smutty classics that have been created all over the world.)
It's all because our bodies and minds are basically just tools to pass on our genes to the next generation. The reason our genes design all these proteins that make our body function the way they do is because they always need a capsule that can create a new capsule where they can live on. Which, by the way, actually means that our genes take great care of our body to help us live up to the age where we're biologically ready to reproduce, but after we reach that point, our genes start getting lazy -- they don't really care what happens to our body now because they most likely already have a new capsule to live in.
House is actually one of the best TV series I've ever seen. In the last episode of the 1st season, House is asked to treat his ex-girlfriend's husband. He's not over her, and he finds it difficult to be his usual self - cold, distant, and unemotional. Somewhere in his head, he even hopes the husband will die. But in the end, he fulfills his duty as a doctor. The girlfriend comes to thank him, and admits she's not over him either. "You're always going to be the one. But with you, I was lonely. With Mark, there's room for me."
Five years ago, I thought I would ever understand this kind of complicated feelings, but I was wrong. It was sort of like when you realize the depth of a song you used to sing when you were a kid without even caring much about the lyrics.
A couple of weeks ago I went to a concert with a friend. My friend said she wondered why people so often sang about love. "There's more to life, isn't there?" True. We go through our life gathering all kinds of experiences along the way. Love is just one of them.
But it's actually pretty obvious why we're destined to be love-addicts, or more precisely, attracted to sex, and have even made it an object of art. (I mean, it's pretty amazing when you think about all the highly regarded smutty classics that have been created all over the world.)
It's all because our bodies and minds are basically just tools to pass on our genes to the next generation. The reason our genes design all these proteins that make our body function the way they do is because they always need a capsule that can create a new capsule where they can live on. Which, by the way, actually means that our genes take great care of our body to help us live up to the age where we're biologically ready to reproduce, but after we reach that point, our genes start getting lazy -- they don't really care what happens to our body now because they most likely already have a new capsule to live in.
2013年5月3日金曜日
rights
May 3rd is Constitution Day in Japan. Revision to the constitution has been a hot issue lately, but in general, I think the Japanese people are pretty much indifferent about the constitution. Human rights are taken for granted, and people who claim their rights are regarded as selfish, unlike in English speaking countries where the word 'right' means correct. In Japanese, the word right (権利 kenri) includes what stands for 'benefit' -- a character that is sometimes included in words with a negative image (e.g. 利己的=selfish).
Throughout the Japanese history, there has never been a revolution in which the people fought for their rights. The current constitution was 'given' from the GHQ after WWII when Japan was still under America's control. Human rights were always given instead of being fought for. And consequently, people literally just sit on their rights and freedom. I wonder how much of the population even know that the constitution is what protects us from the state power.
But apparently, it wasn't like that when the constitution was first established. Women were counted as humans for the first time. People were excited. New born babies were named after the word 'constitution' (憲法kenpo).
Throughout the Japanese history, there has never been a revolution in which the people fought for their rights. The current constitution was 'given' from the GHQ after WWII when Japan was still under America's control. Human rights were always given instead of being fought for. And consequently, people literally just sit on their rights and freedom. I wonder how much of the population even know that the constitution is what protects us from the state power.
But apparently, it wasn't like that when the constitution was first established. Women were counted as humans for the first time. People were excited. New born babies were named after the word 'constitution' (憲法kenpo).
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