[aha] more from Hateruma Island

Mer 9 Feb 2011 21:31:10 UTC

-- Mae-san seemed to be discouraging me from enjoying what I
assumed would be a sunny day... it wasn't that great, I
basically nodded-off on the breakwater, lost my deluxe Thai
fishing lure and had my float smashed-somehow.... no
watercolours... up too early I guess... bought some Southern
Star (in the can and the sky), peanuts, and paper(!)
Orion, often referred to as The Hunter, is a prominent
constellation located on the celestial equator and visible
throughout the world. It is one of the most conspicuous, and
most recognizable constellations in the night sky. Its name
refers to Orion, a hunter in Greek mythology...  eskimo.com
is down again ;( hope the stars register on last night's
pinhole... the assistant principal introduced himself and
welcomed me to theis 'special day' with a western handshake
(in hideous-America you'd be instantly castigated as a child
molester) a most perfect day: not a cloud in the sky:
recorded the childrens' musical performance (in the thumping
floorboard gym) from the outside along with birdsong and
passing traffic, while sitting in the precious sunlight:
[heard Edelweiss sung on Japanese radio last night and now
played on childrens' recorders:  Edelweiss, Edelweiss Every
morning you greet me Small and white clean and bright You
look happy to meet me Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow
Bloom and grow forever Edelweiss, Edelweiss Bless my
homeland forever.] breeze shifted during the second disk and
I'm having to edit-out some noise: may merge with echoed
breakwater gurgle recordings, which is where I spent the
rest of the day sunbathing, fishing, and painting: the line
on the reel has gotten all snarled, perhaps I'll straighten
it out today but I really hate untangling things... (there
are massive jumbled masses of cables and cords in my
studio/room at home)... the goat has been crying all
morning, she's probably tangled-up as well... [no, it's the
neighbour's goat but she's glad to see me-- many mosquitos
clustered on her leg]; down to the port and a fair attempt
at fishing (disassembled/untangled my reel: I'm thinking
that they're pre-assembled in this miserable state)... made
some decent casts and then one tangled-mess which I
converted into a near-shore dangled (US-Vienna sausage)
offering... a Japanese angler passed-by and said something,
which could only be some variant of 'any luck?' so I shook
my head 'no'... was worried that I might lose my furry
windscreens as I dangled the microphone over the breakwater
so I tried recording without them: impossible;  later I had
the bright idea of wrapping my small black elastic hair
bands around them to better secure the slip-on furries...
assembling the sections now but may need a little more
water-sound (too bad you can't duplicate sections somehow)
no, I recorded the goats out back instead: all becoming
quite surreal with chirping birds, little children singing,
undercurrents...: today is supposed to be somewhat sunny I
think... volcano ash is still big news on TV...  which city
has a ferris wheel (with a digital clock in the center!) ?
Okinawa?...

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Me eparcen mi corazon
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