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nd to the different zones ms k this one s yours ms i take this one mr y this one s headed your way kevin the next one is yours most of the drivers follow our directions most lines and zones fill up so we adjust to match somehow we manage to fit them all in just as we re starting to talk about emergency overflow contingencies it all comes to an end the graduation ceremony has already started we downsize our staff so they can attend to other responsibilities and we wait a little more just in case no more cars arrive so the main office staff tell the remaining 12th grade teachers that we re done and we head back to the school now i have to find something to do with myself until lunch maybe i ll write a blog post posted by the moody minstrel at 12 51 pm 1 comments monday december 19 2022 is creative emulation a bad thing when i was returning home from a christmas shopping adventure a couple of days ago the parallax album by the japanese band the ricecookers that s how they write it came up in my wacky racer s onboard music library it had been a while since i d heard that album and i noticed that my reaction to it had changed from the previous time i was actually enjoying it i bought the album when it first came out in 2013 songs by the ricecookers had been used as the opening and ending themes for a japanese tv series and subsequent run of movies called spec i and my family had become fans of that series so it only followed that we came to like the ricecookers music the final movie which brought the story to an apocalyptic end blew me away and i left the theater with the end theme the lead off single from the parallax album ringing in my head i bought the album as soon as i was able and i listened to it rather intensely for a while after that but then something happened the ricecookers though a japanese band had actually formed in boston as all of the members had met at the berklee college of music their style incorporated a number of stylistic influences but unsurprisingly 1990 s alternative rock was the primary foundation i still wasn t all that familiar with the bulk of 90 s music at the time so it went past me however a few years later my music retro education began to focus on iconic 90 s alternative rock and eventually i made a discovery that was quite disappointing at the time a few years ago as with this time parallax came up in my car s onboard library while i was out driving and there was something that i noticed immediately hey that song is radiohead that one is soundgarden or at least chris cornell radiohead again what s this mudhoney now the smashing pumpkins right down to imitating bill corgan s voice although the songs were original and cool to boot it was now obvious that the band had deliberately imitated the style and sound of iconic 90 s bands that understanding made me feel both disappointed and annoyed and i figured i didn t need to listen to that album anymore stylistic emulation is nothing new here in the land of the rising sun in fact it s expected a lot of popular artists over the years i ve been here have been so blatant in their imitation that at times it has seemed almost comedic some have taken well known songs by the beatles or rolling stones for example changed just a few notes added their own lyrics and topped the charts historically that has always irritated me but now i ve come to realize that it may be a cultural thing in fact when i first started becoming musically active here playing clarinet in a community band one of the first things i tended to be asked was who is your favorite clarinetist that question blindsided me and when i answered that i didn t really have a favorite i was met with confusion they would ask then who is your role model i would reply that i didn t really have one in particular except perhaps my private instructor in my school days my role model was a combination of experience and various examples i d heard over the years that was an answer that they found hard to comprehend it was generally assumed that everyone had a particular role model they tried to follow obviously it s the same in the rock genre japanese artists i ve come to like in recent years are really no different superfly especially in the beginning modeled herself after janis joplin without the problems also one ok rock who i ve become rather a fan of recently started out as a typical japanese pop punk band but had their breakthrough when they started emulating the foo fighters and linkin park and now they re emulating queen the thing about both superfly and one ok rock however is that while they ve based themselves on the stylistic foundation and vibe of their respective role models their songs are original and quite good one could listen to a one ok rock song off their 35xxxv album and think hey they sound kind of like linkin park but no one would ever mistake them for linkin park the same is true of superfly they emulate their role models to various extents but with their own distinctive flavor and now i realize that the ricecookers did the same thing so i suppose it makes more sense for me just to get off my high horse shut the hell up and enjoy the music posted by the moody minstrel at 9 50 am 0 comments saturday october 01 2022 the meaning of family last august my wife realized she hadn t talked to her uncle t in tokyo for a while so she gave him a call he gave her some disturbing news during the months since we d last heard from him he had developed a serious health problem that had left him weakened he was no longer able to go out as before and since he lived alone in his old family homestead he was kept under surveillance by a security firm in cooperation with his doctor the public welfare department of his local city ward delivered a boxed meal to him every day but it usually contained oily food that his health problem prevented him from eating he had literally gone for weeks eating almost nothing concerned my wife tried calling his surviving direct family members only to be told that they were all dealing with chronic health issues so she was basically given a don t tell us your problems brush off uncle t had been quite generous to us in the past for one thing when my daughter went to college in tokyo for four years and my son studied there for one year they lived in an extra house on his property which he was only too happy to let us borrow rent free there was no way we were going to leave him like that so my wife suggested that he come and stay with us not liking to trouble people he was hesitant at first but after we discussed the matter with his doctor he changed his mind we arranged for him to come and stay with us after completing a final battery of tests at his hospital in tokyo which would mean sometime in october fate had other plans in mid september while my son happened to be home visiting he got a call from uncle t on his smartphone uncle t had fallen down and was unable to get back up the security company that was supposed to be monitoring him hadn t responded and he d already been there for quite a while my son immediately notified my wife and she and my daughter ran down to tokyo picked him up and brought him home thus started his stay with us the security company later alerted his doctor that unauthorized people had moved him thanks for nothing we put him in my son s bedroom and set to work making our home a bit more senior citizen friendly he was able to move around pretty well on his own so we didn t have to worry about him much besides since he hated to trouble people he was content to remain as quiet and unobtrusive as possible mainly spending his time either reading or watching tv however eating was always an issue we managed to increase the amount he ate little by little and he seemed to be getting better but it was like feeding a toddler trying to get him to eat at all could be a challenge and he tended to complain about the food most of the time something was too cold too bland terrible unknown and therefore not wanted something he never ate etc he kept trying to demand sweets instead of real food a lot of my wife s money and work wound up going into the trash my wife took him shopping to get some new clothes and he insisted on only really expensive items serious respiratory problems meant he coughed and wheezed loudly all the time plus he had some lifestyle habits that proved to be an issue with certain family members whether he was quiet and unobtrusive or not after a week of his living with us our nerves were starting to fray along with our tempers things were on the verge of boiling over we had his address registry changed so our home would be his official abode henceforth however he was still under the care of the hospital in tokyo and his tests weren t complete on september 28th after he d been with us for about two weeks my wife took him to the hospital for the next stage the doctor s prognosis was damning uncle t had developed yet another chronic health problem to add to the pile the doctor went so far as to say when it s this far gone there s no chance of recovery it s hopeless not surprisingly uncle t s mood became a lot darker after that that evening he said he wanted neither dinner nor a bath and went straight to bed on thursday the 29th all three of us had to work but uncle t had been perfectly find with that thus far he d been able to get around the house and take care of himself quite handily for the most part so we had no reason to worry before i left i looked in on him just in case and he was resting peacefully i came home earlier than usual from ye olde academy and when i arrived i found the breakfast and lunch that my wife had prepared for him and his newspaper untouched and he was nowhere to be seen that was odd and i had a bad feeling i went into his room and found him on the floor next to his bed help me he said he then told me that he d been there all day that seemed odd he had a ladder like rail next to his bed designed to help elderly or handicapped people get in and out of bed why hadn t he used it at least to raise himself to a sitting position so he could reach his smartphone anyway i tried to help him to his feet but he couldn t stand so i lifted him onto the bed that s when i noticed a certain smell it wasn t the smell of unwashed old man though there was that too but rather one that i remembered from when our poor cat hana died the smell of kidney failure i asked if i should call an ambulance or take him to the hospital in my car he insisted he was fine and that he would get up on his own he did so rising to his feet and putting on his slippers but when he tried to walk he managed only two or three steps before he froze and started to collapse i caught him and guided him back to the bed but though his eyes were open he was totally unresponsive as if having some sort of seizure once he was snuggled back in his bed he snapped out of it so i asked him again if i should call for an ambulance don t bother he said with a smile i m going to die tomorrow i told him to stop being foolish but he insisted adamantly that he just wanted to be left alone to rest that was when my wife came home she managed to get him to drink and eat a little bit but he continued to demand that we not take him to the hospital saying that he just wanted to relax and watch tv so we got him comfortable turned on his tv and left him so we could have dinner after we finished eating my wife daughter and i had a conference to discuss the situation and how well we were n t handling the stress things got rather intense but after things calmed down again my wife asked me to go check on uncle t i went into his room to find the tv on and him facing it with eyes wide open but immediately a whole lot of things felt wrong he didn t acknowledge me in any way and i felt no vibes from him at all as if he were furniture i touched his hand and it was ice cold his joints were stiff he didn t respond to me and checks for respiration and pulse were both negative his pupils were fixed and dilated i told my wife to call an ambulance and started cpr the fire station paramedics were there within five minutes and hooked him up to an automatic defib machine and respirator the ambulance paramedics arrived a few minutes after that and connected up a machine i d never seen before like a sort of mechanical cpr robot once he was secure in that arrangement they put him in the ambulance and took him off to a hospital in hokota i know that hospital well it s owned and run by a whole family of doctors i ve known and some of them i ve taught for years moreover both mil and fil passed away there we waited there while personnel ran in and out of the treatment room accompanied by the constant thump thump thump of the cpr machine after quite a while the doctor we know well and didn t seem pleased to see us came and told us that they d managed to get his heart moving but only a little and only for a short time and there was no sign of brain activity he said there was virtually no hope of recovery later another doctor took over and recommended against further resuscitation my wife gave her consent and the plug was pulled when uncle t was in his thirties back in the 1980 s he d had lung cancer and hadn t been expected to survive but he had and his cancer had gone into full remission he d survived long enough to care for his mother until she died in 2011 after that he d just entertained himself as best he could while trying to stay out of everyone else s way and like i said we were in his debt we didn t expect his stay with us to end so abruptly and so unexpectedly but he didn t want to trouble anyone and at least he didn t suffer i hope we did the right thing and now that we re having to deal with the funeral arrangements and a lot of other things and seeing which relatives are helping and which are leaving us holding the bag i hope we will continue to do the right thing because we re family like comment share posted by the moody minstrel at 12 04 am 0 comments tuesday october 10 2017 my complicated relationship with tsuchiura tsuchiura is arguably ibaraki s 3 city behind mito and hitachi but it is has plenty of significance it has had plenty of historical importance as a samurai clan domain a castle town though only bits of kijo castle remain most of them replicas and a way station along important roads and canals with the restoration of direct imperial rule in the late 19th century and subsequent westernization of japan tsuchiura became an important railway station much later in the 1980 s tsuchiura became rather grudgingly a sort of gateway to the rapidly developing tsukuba science city my first visit to the land of the rising sun during a college band tour in 1987 was to tsukuba and i went in by way of tsuchiura when i came again in 1990 and wound up staying the city took on a whole new role for me although i lived in the kashima area the majority of my ex pat friends lived in villages near tsuchiura ...