Tsucchi's "Taiko Strange Story" No. 10 | Bear's cage... Reading, decluttering, thoughts

Happy New Year to everyone reading the JPC newsletter.
This is the first drum story of 2016. I'm also very happy that I was able to make the Yoda story bloom with everyone through this magazine. We look forward to working with you again this year.

Well, in the world, the New Year has already ended, the Nanakusa period has passed, and life has returned to normal.
That's why there is.
As for me, this period, which usually runs from January to March, is a time when I have a lot of free time at work, so much so that some of my colleagues call it an ``ice age,'' and it's a cold time for both my pockets and the weather.
It might be a good time to take care of a lot of things about yourself that you had neglected due to the busyness of the year-end and New Year holidays, or even the busyness of last year's "What the hell is going on?" That said, METAFIVE, led by Yukihiro Takahashi and now a regular band, will be performing a live performance on record starting early in the new year, and we are currently rehearsing to great acclaim. Some of the new songs were premiered at last year's World Happiness summer festival held on Dream Island, but the full album is finally being released.
This is seriously cool! A vibrant techno new wave sound. Please give it a listen!
That said, I don't feel like I'm completely packed with work, and I'm living a relatively leisurely life during this period, which is like a ``bear cage'' period when I'm digesting a large pile of reading books.
This is very important.

People get frustrated when they are busy, and they release their stress in various ways, and there are many different ways to release that stress. Well, I hope I don't cause trouble to people.
The way I release my energy is by shopping. I also focus on books and CDs, not clothes.
On my off day at my tour destination, I was strolling around the town I visited when I came across a bookstore that looked interesting. This is an independent bookstore, not a chain store. A used bookstore is fine. When I find a place like that, I just fall in love with it.
It might be about the local history of a particular area, or if a famous writer is from that area and has all of their works. I found the book I had been looking for. I often find that my suitcase has more books than clothes.
It would be fine if that was all there was to it, but the troublesome thing these days is that there's a cave called Amazon, and if you do a little searching, they'll kindly tell you, ``Oh, we have that.'' If this happens, we will lose because we got caught up in the trick.
Stressful as we are, we spend the night in bed in a hotel while traveling.
When I get home, I find a pile of Amazon cardboard boxes, and I can feel the silent pressure from my mother, who receives them every day.
I'm always sorry.
When you lock yourself in your room with those cardboard boxes, time passes by in the blink of an eye. There are only so many books you can read in one night. Before I knew it, I had a pile of books in my room. This ice age period is very important for digesting those books.
I don't have a job, and I take advantage of my free time by locking myself in my room all day long, reading books, listening to music, and enjoying movies. I wonder how great it would be if I could make money from this, but I don't write book reviews, music reviews, or movie reviews, so that would just be a pipe dream.

I'm often asked, ``What kind of books do you usually read?'' This is mostly random, and my tastes change from time to time. Sometimes I like science fiction, sometimes I like historical novels, sometimes I like philosophy books, pure literature, personal novels, mythology, manga, nonsense, decadence, whatever. By the way, what's in the pile of reading books in front of me right now? ``Kotaro Sawaki, Midnight Express, all 6 volumes,'' ``Genpei Akasegawa, A Childless Man with an Object,'' ``Shincho 2015/10, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Realm of Monads,'' ``Junichiro Tanizaki, The Love of a Slut,'' ``Adobe/Illustrator/Textbook of Operation and Design,'' ``Koji Yabe.Japan``Why can't we stop the bases and nuclear power plants?'' ``Genichiro Takahashi: What I think about ``rightness'' since ``That Day.''''
This includes books that you have already read. I have trouble swallowing, so I read the same book over and over again, so I don't close a book once I've read it and put it on the bookshelf. The same goes for movies and music. The fact that it's on the shelf means that it's a work that I really like. If it's true, I'd like to keep all the works I've acquired, but there is a limit to the size of the six-tatami room. Only the carefully selected items remain.

Drum sets that I got married to

Last year was the final stage of the decluttering process that I have been steadily working on for the past few years. I mainly reduced the number of musical instruments, but when I tell my friends about this, they all say, "It's a waste!" No, everyone agrees when I say that I think it would be a waste if they just put it away without using it for a long time.
It's not just drum sets, but any musical instrument that makes a sound is worth it.
I thought it would make the instruments happier if I gave them to someone who would use them, so I decided to let go of a few sets.
Everyone is happy to use it. That's a blessing.
I'm lucky that a stranger didn't take it with me. Whenever I wanted to meet that instrument, I would go to a friend who could meet me.
So, the only sets I have left are two pink Rogers and Ruddick acrolites, a 5" and a 6.5", a Rogers 8" snare, and two cymbals. That's it.
I'm not a professional musician, so I've come to think that this is more than enough, more than a little extravagant.

All of my peers and musical instrument tech friends around me are acquiring instruments one after another. That's a lot of fun. I also really enjoy hearing about new guitars, basses, amps, effectors, and drum sets that my friends have acquired. It's just that I don't have much interest in acquiring new instruments anymore, and I feel that the main reason for that is that I was able to find an instrument that made me think, ``If I had this instrument, I wouldn't need anything else.'' I'm sure you all get along with your musical instruments through trial and error every day. Everyone is wandering around in search of the ``ultimate one'' in their life.
I was able to find the ultimate machine, or rather, when I met it, it wasn't yet the ultimate machine. The color was nice, but I couldn't quite decide on the sound, so I went through a lot of trial and error, and over the course of several years, I was able to develop it into the ultimate product. During that time, I think what has changed the most is that I myself have changed more than my instrument.

2015 was an unprecedentedly fulfilling year for me.
I've been able to work with musicians that I've admired since I was young, not just once, but on one tour, for two months, and many times at different locations. Rather than reaffirming my roots, I was filled with great opportunities to demonstrate them in front of my eyes.
I guess that's why I became more and more simple. This is very important. It may be that you have been exposed to real vibrations for a long period of time, and that all your evil thoughts, earthly desires, and other such things have been washed away.
However, my own skills have not improved at all, and the gap between my image and reality leaves me wondering, ``Wow...''
But that's okay. I am me. I'm glad that I was able to discover the bottom of my talent just by noticing that.
I feel that because I understood, ``Oh, this is what it was like for me,'' I was able to face the music in a more level-headed manner. I guess you could say it felt very refreshing.
Then, around the end of last summer, I was having dinner with a friend and I was introduced to someone who was doing fortune telling.I thought it would be interesting so I decided to check it out.Last year was the best year of my life, so that makes sense. I patted my knee and agreed lol
At the same time, I was able to realize that if last year was the best, all I had to do was fall. I wish it would fall as slowly as possible, but only God knows. That's the guy. Well, let's have fun. Because of times like this.

This year is 2016, and there are only four years left until the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. I was just fifty years old at that time.
Tokyo is in an uproar because of this Olympics.
Scratch and build since 1964.
Every building in the city will be demolished and rebuilt. Was it really necessary? I can't help but have doubts. It's common knowledge that facilities are aging, but there's no excuse for tearing down city landmarks based on rules that apply to everyone.
How can a famous building with so much history etched into its walls be so easily destroyed?
I think Hibiya Public Hall and Hotel Okura Main Building are important cultural heritage sites. Hibiya Public Hall will not be demolished but will undergo earthquake-proofing work, but it is unacceptable to cover that beautiful exterior with an unsophisticated steel frame.
The Okura main building no longer exists in this world.
The loss of this building, which has been praised as the best Japanese modern architecture and welcomed VIPs from all over the world, will be a huge loss. There is no point in lamenting it now, but I can't help but hope that the new main building will inherit that atmosphere.

In this day and age, we may not be able to enjoy things that have deteriorated and become obsolete.
Because of the age in which it seems as if everyone can achieve a certain level of results in various fields due to advances in technology, the social trend is to demand "more and more" excessively, and in this atmosphere, things that have deteriorated and become obsolete are labeled as "unresponsive, inconvenient, unusable, unsafe," etc., and are dismissed. However, how can we bury those who have existed in this country longer than us, endured the wind and snow, survived the earthquake, and stored the breath of the times in their walls?

It is the destiny of cities to be reborn according to the times.

Maybe so. I'm sure that's an undeniable fact.
One person said:

Nowadays, it's popular for young people to be interested in retro things and learn about the culture of the Edo period and the Meiji and Taisho eras, and I think that in itself is a very good thing. But on the flip side, I think that today's young people can't see a future for this country, so they have no choice but to rely on nostalgia. When you think about it, it seems a little sad.

New culture is born from rumination on the past. I want the legacy of the past to be carefully passed down for the sake of the future. If you look at the long history, I'm still a "young person" lol
I want to know lots of wonderful things.

Before I knew it, the ``taiko'' in ``Taiko Kidan'' had been dropped, leaving only ``Kidan'' lol.
Please keep up with us this year as well.
Well then, good luck again.