Thought #1
We all make mistakes. No one can claim that they are without mistakes (and sin but that's a bit debatable to some groups of people) so there is some form of regret or similiar. So, what if we all had just one chance to rewind to an arbitrary period of time in our past and you can change the course of events from that moment onwards? We carry all the years of hindsight along with the ride but we can only use it once only. Basically, it's the same type of question as "What would you have done differently?" except a bit more general. Note that we not only can use it correct our most regrettable mistakes (thus far as we do not know of more regrettable mistakes later on when we make the decision to rewind) but we can also use it to relive the same moment in time because it was that memorable and would continue to be so even after having the years of hindsight carried along for the second time round.
Enough babbling already. Now the questions...
When would you rewind to, what would you do (if any) and why?
If you don't want to rewind, how would you know if you need to?
Or when do you draw the line and hit the rewind button?
Keep asking this question after several years. I'm sure answers change but it would be interesting to know. Also possible as an avenue for evangelism.
Thought #2a
I'd want to go back for Christmas to non-cliched Christmas music. Exposed to a lot of big band or funky arrangements of Christmas songs so that when I go back home I don't want to hear the pan flute Christmas compilation CD that my dad plays Every. Single. Year. It's not cool. Nor do I want to hear the same old arrangements on Christmas songs. It's been done a zillion times already on a zillion other albums with a zillion squared singers.
Thought #2b
Speaking of Christmas songs, I wonder how would we Asians feel like had we lived the American lifestyle and listening to these songs that only the Americans know so dearly. Being Asian and all, we don't really understand when we hear the lines "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nibbling at your nose..." or
Oh the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we've no place to go
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it Snow!
We don't know the real spirit of Christmas (so to speak, without religious implications) that these songs tell about. All because of the weather. Mostly. Would we finally connect with these songs?
Thought #2c
Christmas like many other holidays are so universal in its observations but remarkably local about its original atmosphere. Or so the classics say. For example, the songs of Christmas don't change even for people who don't get snow at all. Is it possible to have Christmas songs that give the same atmosphere as it was originally composed yet something that locals in a radically different country can identify with?
Thought #3
Current music style liking, much to the "surprise" of people, math rock. It's like rock but with...math? Not to be confused with the similiar sounding "meth". And it seems like the Japanese are the best math rockers around.
Thought #4
Meh.
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math rock.. interesting ... would you say this is math rock?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUveadqdhHM
seems like it keeps consistent time but... stylistically similar
first time i came across a 7/8 time song in rock-band2 i immediately failed the drum part...
Before I go on, who are you? You don't seem to fit in my usual friends/followers profile
i'm a random internet stalker who wanders the internet who stumbled upon this =D i like to keep things anonymous online, because everyone is closer than they realise. you think i don't fit? think again...
now that you've popped the question though... i did a quick search for you on facebook and yes, we are connected by three different networks of friends. ^_^ no we don't know each other though.
but fair's fair. since i found your blog and figured out who you are, maybe you can figure out who i am from my public presence -
http://aetherfox.livejournal.com/
if you don't want me to comment and read anymore i'll leave quietly through the back door!
Hmmm...you're one of those second degree friends. This should be interesting =P
By not fitting in, I mean you don't seem to resemble the people who normally say anything in this blog together with other bits and pieces.
And besides, there isn't much to figure out who I am anyway. It's way too open compared to a rather careful but secretive you.
Now that you have established some "credentials", my answer to your first comment. I would say that they aren't even stylistically similiar. Math rock is very typically denoted by the use of very strange time signatures like 7/8 or even more jazz-like signatures like 13/8 or (I think I've heard it being used before) 17/8. And they tend to have rather clean tight progressions rather than the J-rock-ish style of Radwimps. Math rock is almost like jazz drumming mixed with the general umbrella of rock.
I don't mind you commenting and reading, just be careful in what you might say in the future. Nothing too cryptic or rocking the boat too much. Not that there is anything wrong with what you said earlier but I don't know you well (yet) or even worse, the rest of the readers don't know who you are (at all) and things might get messy if you say anything out of order.
Other than that, welcome.
But I have my eyes on you. =P