michael lambe

It’s a wonderful thing to know that there are people in this world prepared put so much love and effort into creating 5 and half minutes of perfection – and then offer it up online for free! Watch this! Just watch it!

Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.

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This month’s word or 今月の言葉 went up in the classrooms this week.
失敗は終わりではない
その失敗を反省し
成功に結びつければよい。
失敗 shippai – failure, defeat
終わり owari – the end
反省する hansei suru – reflect, consider
成功 seikou – success
結びつく musubi tsuku – conclude, reach, result in
Failure is not the end
It is better to reflect on that failure
And finally reach success
And here’s a timely case in point! A [...]

This month’s message at my school:
他人にやさしく
自分にきびしく
hito ni yasashiku
onore ni kibishiku
他人　- Normally this would be read “ta nin” but in this case “hito” (normally written as 人). “Hito” means people but these kanji mean “other people”
やさしく – “yasashiku” = “gently”
自分 – Normally this would be read “jibun” but in this case “onore” (normally written as 己). [...]

This documentary looks awesome.

Winner of audience awards across the world, including Sundance, SilverDocs and Hot Docs, The Cove follows a team of activists and filmmakers as they infiltrate a heavily-guarded cove in Taiji, Japan. In this remote village they witness and document activities deliberately being hidden from the public: More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises [...]

Featuring some views from the big wheel that tops Takashimaya in Matsuyama, and some lovely trams.
Not much more to say about Ehime except to say I bumped into Tadg Mc Loughlin there, which was odd. And I brought back a few bottles of the local microbrew Dogo, one of which I gave to Ted and [...]

Wow!

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Koichi Yoshida had his spring recital at Zac Baran Jazz Bar last night – and the place was packed! I like what he does with his recitals; inviting many other musicians, playing different genres, and generally mixing it up. After an initial honkyoku (traditional shakuhachi) tune to gives us some roots, he warmed us up with [...]

Remember this?

Well, here’s the sequel. I almost had a hernia laughing at this.

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I love this new song from Michael Franti:

Listen to it in the morning and it’ll put a spring in your step and a smile on your face. This from his website:
Michael Franti and Spearhead return with their eagerly-awaited album, All Rebel Rockers, on September 9, via Anti-Records. Recorded in Kingston, [...]

Can’t upload any pictures from South Africa today, I’m afraid. Bubbleshare just aint behavin’! So instead I bring you a new addition to my net empire! Japanese Reboot is my attempt to rekindle enthusiasm for my long neglected Japanese studies:
Japanese Reboot is a study journal in which I will review whatever items of Japanese language [...]