Sad news

I was watching the TV program of the US president Ronald Reagan's funeral.

Then today, Ray Charles Dies at 73. This was another sad news.


http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/rr40.html
White house web site

Japanese soul music "ENKA!"

The reason why I have not written in here is that I've been busy working. Maybe.
The other day, I was asked to play in the band that makes Enka music, or "Japanese-Spanishlike-Koreanlike-Blues-Rock-traditional-ethnic-pentatonic-heartful-every-song-sounds-like-the-same music".Each time they pay me 5000 yen that's not much but enough to buy extra 4 sets of Dean Markley's Alchemy gold guitar strings. The best accaustic guitar strings I've used so far. If you play the accaustic guitar, you should try this , it's expensive though, anyway. By the way, enka sucks.

You can get some info about the Japanese Enka by looking up the following sites.

http://www.japan-101.com/art/saburo_kitajima.htm
http://us.yesasia.com/en/brPrdDept.aspx?section=karaoke&code=j&did=7118
http://www.quixium.com/enka/
http://www.okada.de/archive-japanasitis/enka/enka.html
http://www.do-enka.com/
http://www.interq.or.jp/enka/svkoya/enka.mokuji.html
http://www.netwave.or.jp/~n-hirao/
http://www.smart-set-friendly.com/enkadayo/