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recentanimenews · 3 years

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Ai no Utagoe wo Kikasete Anime Film's Full Trailer Reveals Mysterious Transfer Student Shion's True Identity

The official website for the upcoming original anime film Ai no Utagoe wo Kikasete (Sing a Bit of Harmony) has posted a 60-second full trailer introducing to announce its release date of October 29, 2021.

In this new clip, it is revealed that the mysterious transfer student voiced by Tao Tsuchiya, Shion, is an AI under test. Shion, who came for Satomi, who has been all alone, is a little clumsy, but cheerful and innocent, and Satomi and her classmates quickly begin to feel "happiness" with her. One day, however, the company that developed Shion retrieves her, and Satomi and her classmates struggle to see her again.

Full trailer with English subtitles (via: Funimation)

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Main poster visual:

Synopsis:

One day, Shion transfers to Kagebe City High School. On her first day at the new school, she suddenly started to sing like a musical in front of Satomi, who is isolated in class, saying "I'll make you happy!" Shion's excellent grades, athletic ability, and cheerfulness make her a popular girl in the class. Even though Satomi asks her not to sing, Shion sings without hesitation, and her unexpected behavior causes a big commotion among her classmates.

Main VAs:

Shion: Tao Tsuchiya (Misao Makimachi in Rurouni Kenshin live-action films)

Satomi: Haruka Fukuhara (Himari Arisugawa / Cure Custard in Kirakira PreCure a la Mode)

Touma: Asuka Kudo (Rinya Koshikawa in 1/11)

Gocchan: Kazuyuki Okitsu (Jonathan Joestar in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood)

Aya: Mikako Komatsu (Arte in Arte)

Thunder: Satoshi Hino (Ainz Ooal Gown in Overlord)

Mitsuko: Sayaka Ohara (Alicia Florence in the ARIA series)

Nomiyama: Kenji Hamada (Dobu in ODDTAXI)

Saijyo: Kenjiro Tsuda (Seto Kaiba in Yu-Gi-Oh!)

TBA: Kazlaser (Maple Chogokin)

TBA: Miyu Sakihi

Main staff:

Original story writer/Director/Screenplay writer: Yasuhiro Yoshiura (Time of Eve, Patema Inverted)

Co-screenplay writer: Ichirou Ookouchi (Code Geass)

Original character designer: Kanna Kii (Umibe no Étranger mana author)

Chief animation director/Anime character designer: Hidekazu Shimamura (Nodame Cantabile)

Anime production: J.C.Staff

istributior in Japan: Shochiku

┼─　　　　　　　　─┼ 　メインビジュアル解禁　┼─　　　　　　　　─┼ 　最後にきっと、笑顔になれる　　 #吉浦康裕監督最新作ちょっぴりポンコツなAI・シオンとクラスメイトが織りなすエンターテインメントフィルム誕生????#アイうた????10.29 ROADSHOW#アイの歌声を聴かせて pic.twitter.com/bXt3ZGpZWv

— 映画『アイの歌声を聴かせて』 10.29 ROADSHOW (@ainouta_movie) July 14, 2021

Source: "Ai no Utagoe wo Kikasete (Sing a Bit of Harmony)" official website / Funimation YouTube channel

By: Mikikazu Komatsu

#Anime #News #Latest in Anime News by Crunchyroll!

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bl4cklabyrinth · 4 years

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Live Report: MY FIRST STORY TOUR 2019 Semi-Final at Kobe World Memorial Hall

Disclaimer: Take note that all of these reports were translated by ear, so there is no assurance of accuracy. Because of this, please do not retranslate my work. I am no Japanese or English native.

I am only reposting the relevant MCs from my Twitter thread for archive purposes. Please check my tweets to read more about my thoughts on the show.

Photo by Takashi Konuma | Taken from MFS’ official Twitter

Setlist

不可逆リプレイス

Black Rail

ブラック・スワン

花-0714-(Re:arrange)

monologue

虚言NEUROSE

KING & ASHLEY

mine

君のいない夜を越えて

終焉レクイエム (Acoustic ver.)

Love Letter (Acoustic ver.)

LET IT DIE (Acoustic ver.)

Band session

無告

Missing You

Weight of my pride (Pay money To my Pain cover)

MONSTER

絶体絶命

ACCIDENT

モノクロエフェクター

REVIVER

With You

Encore

THE OVER (UVERworld cover)

LET IT DIE

ALONE

Story about Weight Loss

Hiro: Anyway, this has no relation (to the acoustic session) whatsoever, but didn’t I get super thin?

Kid’z: You did! Tell us more! You really did lose weight! Nob too!

Hiro: We declared during Hall Tour that we’d lose weight within one month, but we couldn’t do it. We made a promise though, didn’t we? I did my very best, you know?? I seriously gave it all I got!!

Kid’z: I’ve been avoiding carbs for a long time, and even tried diligently apportioning my meals and stuff like that. But before I knew it, I was already eating curry!

Crowd: *laughs*

Fan: How much weight did you lose?

Hiro: I dropped 6 kg.

Crowd: Ohhh! *claps*

Kid’z: That’s a lot!

Hiro: Amazing, right? On the contrary, I’ve always been fat.

Kid’z: No, seriously.

Hiro: I lost weight so that I can get fat again. I want to get fat so I lose weight. When I’ve lost weight, I’ll gain weight again. It’s a never ending cycle.

Kid’z: Don’t leave it as it is!

Hiro: I get told that all the time. I mean, I’m gonna gain weight before METROCK again anyway.

Kid’z: Isn’t METROCK great though?

Hiro: Can I say this? Why do they hold festivals at such a season?

Kid’z: Because (the weather) is cool? I once thought Doraemon was the one singing.

Hiro: Who you calling 123 cm tall?

Kid’z: Nobita-kun.

Hiro: I’m not the blue geezer.

Kid’z: He isn’t a geezer!

Hiro: He’s a geezer, isn’t he?

Crowd: *laughs*

Hiro: Generally, we release a CD around spring or summer. Then we start tour around autumn, right? From the beginning of fall, Hiroki starts losing weight. Little by little. Then, year end starts rolling in. By the end of the year, tour ends, it becomes production season, and eating Hiroki comes out. Hiroki enters hibernation, just like any other large mammal.

Kid’z: You need to stock up, right?

Hiro: Yep, so I can get through winter. Then it becomes spring again. METROCK is waiting for me, but I don’t want stocked-weight-from-hibernation-at-its-max Hiroki to be exposed there! Why do I keep getting told I got fatter or thinner every time?! Leave me alone!!!

Kid’z: But you did your best, right?

Hiro: ...Yep.

Kid’z: Good job.

Crowd: *claps*

Kid’z: How about Nob? How are you doing?

Nob: I lost 5 kg.

Hiro: You lost weight only because you were sick, right?

Kid’z: Because his tonsils were taken out.

Nob: I haven’t gotten my sense of taste back up until now.

Hiro: Don’t let yourself lose one of your most important senses!

Nob: Some time ago I had pickles and it was the best.

Hiro: What an old man.

Story about Poor Kid’z (figuratively and literally)

Kid’z: This story has no relation to anything we’ve talked about so far, but you (Hiro) started an IG account, right? During Hall Tour. Since then, you did a lot of things to me, like that game with the paper cups and the 10,000 yen you put inside one of them, which I played along with having good intentions in mind. I chose the right cup and you gave me the bill, but you revealed that there was 100,000 yen in the other cups.

Hiro: Yep.

Kid’z: ...I tried that with a friend. I was caught. 100,000 yen.

Hiro: Eh?? They made a winning move, huh.

Kid’z: I was like, “Oh no, what should I do?? Should I take it back?” I wanted to be able to fool someone, to get a taste of how it feels! So I started turning the cups around thinking I could do it like you did. When it was time for them to pick, my friend chose a different cup, and in my head I was all, “No no no, not that!!!” and eventually they got it...

Hiro: That person probably saw my IG post and thought you were an idiot.

Thoughts on Marriage

After Love Letter, Hiro and Kid'z talked about being excited yet nervous to play the next song, since it's been a while since they last played it.

Kid’z: Speaking of which, the person beside me seems to be nervous!!

Nob: *rubbing his palms on his pants*

Kid’z: Can I do a hand check? *touches Nob's palm* It's all sticky!

Hiro: Eh? You're scared of making a miss again? Like in Yokoari? Higedan. Ah! Speaking of which, Satoshi-kun got married! Congratulations!

H&K: *congratulate Nob*

Hiro: Eh? Official?

Kid’z: This is Unofficial.

Hiro: Ah, sorry. Unofficial. He got married, huh... There's been a crazy marriage rush recently...

Kid’z: Yeah, it's been all over LINE NEWS lately.

Hiro: Right. back number, Higedan, Maple Chogokin.

Kid’z: You're mean for putting Maple Chogokin as last!

Hiro: No no no. *laughs* The marriage rush is insane, right... Right... Insane right...

Fan: Do you want to get married?

Hiro: ...I don't wanna get married.

Crowd: Eh???

Hiro: Do you? Someday, I assume. As for me, I don't wanna get married at all.

Kid’z: *in a teasing tone* Is it because you don't have a partner?

Hiro: *taunting tone* Ha? Ha? Ha? What the hell are you saying, you.

Kid’z: Ah, sorry we had a little quarrel.

Hiro: Let's get a divorce first!

Kid’z: What the hell is this breakup!

Poor Nob

Photo by Takashi Konuma | Taken from Hiro’s IG post

Hiro: Anyway, are we good? You (Nob) still seem nervous. How are his fingers?

Kid’z: They're tender.

Hiro: If I had to play it in a room like this, I'd be pissed.

Nob: *strums a tune*

Kid’z: It's that song!! It's definitely that song, right? Can you do it, Nob bear? Are you alright? You practiced last night without sleeping.

Kid’z: Give him your support.

Crowd: Cute!! You can do it!!!

Kid’z: The pressure on you is rising, huh.

Hiro: *in an old man voice* You can do it! You can do it! You can do it!

Kid’z: Eh? What was that voice? Father?

Hiro: *taunting tone* Ha? What the hell are you saying. Who you calling father, come home and I'll kill you.

Kid’z: Ah, sorry. Father, I apologize.

Hiro: to Nob You okay? Dududadududa~ (T/N: the intro of LET IT DIE) The last song for the acoustic session. Please listen, LET IT DIE.

Then, Hiro crouched down from his seat and kneeled, looked at Nob closely, and so did Kid’z. Nob stared back, aced the dududadududa intro and everybody clapped for him! However, Nob made a mistake towards the very end, playing the last string of notes twice. When they were walking back to the main stage, Hiro put his arm around Nob and teased in a mocking tone, "Hey, in LET IT DIE, in LET IT DIE, hey, during the acoustic set, hey, I was satisfied with the beginning, but in the middle of the song, hey, you made a mistake, right? Even if you were doing so well." When they got back to the main stage, Nob bowed down in apology.

Weight of my pride MC

Hiro: Your voice has been heard! There were a lot of requests for PTP, and in my heart, PTP is my eternal hero. It shouldn't be just us; so that he can also hear your voices, shout as loud as you can Kobe!!! Next song is called Weight of my pride!

Check out their version of the performance at Saitama Super Arena here:

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モノクロエフェクター MC

Hiro: How are we doing Kobe? I thought everyone in Kobe could handle it, you know? Aren't y'all drinking too much milk tea? Your nipples are gonna become tapioca if you drink too much milk tea, you know? Well, if you're sure you're not drinking too much then you should be able to handle it, so let's all dance together!!

Reviver MC

Hiro: Thank you so much for today! It's been a great day, I'm really grateful. I've always been alone. I've lost so many people I didn't want to lose, and I've let go of things I didn't want to part with many times. I might not be able to change the world with music, but because of music, I met the members, I met all of you, and it made me think that my life was pretty impressive. I want to believe it was my destiny to meet all of you here tonight, so let's keep walking together Kobe!!!

With You MC

Hiro: Thank you so much for today, Kobe!!! After this, the tour will be ending soon. Thinking about it makes me sad, but knowing that you will all be supporting us next year, and the year after that, and the year after that, and even after 10 years makes me feel very grateful. But there's one thing I want to say before today ends: Kobe, I love you!!!

THE OVER MC

Hiro: How was it? MFS' UVERworld. Did I become Hiroki∞? This song was really difficult. The way the lyrics jump, especially during the part before the last chorus.

Kid’z: I didn't learn that note.

Hiro: *emphasizes the difficult enunciation of a line from the song* Unbelievable, I had a hard time remembering it.

Kid’z: The instruments were tough, too. Even Nob was complaining, there were notes he had never seen before.

Hiro: I couldn't match the timing of the lyrics either. I had to enter at an exact time, 3 characters in one second!! If MFS were to do it, we'd go with a lower key.

Kid’z: You say MFS but it's your key, right? Your voice is hella loud you know.

Hiro: It's because if I'm alone, then it's not MFS.

Kid’z: Nah, we were able to match the key, but only you can sing it that high, right? (T/N: They seemed to have raised the key by 2 octaves)

Hiro: You guys thought the cover song was only Weight of my pride, didn't you? You're wrong! We did UVERworld but we received many other requests. There were a lot of PTP songs in the tags. Who else was it... Sheena Ringo, Oral, and King Gnu too.

Kid’z: Weirdly enough, B'z was highly requested too.

Hiro: It'd be weird if I sang their songs.

Crowd: Sing! Sing! Sing!

Hiro: 萎えぇぇ！萎えぇぇ！萎えぇぇぇぇー (T/N: Nae is Japanese slang that roughly translates to “no” or “ugh” in this context) Wait a minute. Change the song.

Kid’z: *offended tone* Huh?

Hiro: Well then, sing a line that starts with A!

Hiro: You're an Ultra Soul Idiot. Do you know any other song apart from Ultra Soul?

Kid’z: Of course I do! Don't you? All of you? I love them more than anyone else, I'm even in the fanclub! こいよ！！

Kid’z: *sings a B'z line that starts with A*

Hiro: Gi!

Kid’z: Gi? *sings a line that starts with Gi* I told you, I can do anything.

Teru: Yu!

Kid’z: Yu? YUME JANAI ARE MO KORE MO SONO TE DE DOA MO AKEMASHOU, SHUKUFUKU GA HOSHII NARA KANASHIMI O SHIRI HITORI DE NAKIMASHOU, SOSHITE KAGAYAKU ULTRA SOUL!

Crowd: HEY!!!

Hiro: Oi, Teruki!! Why did you say "yu"?! You should've let him build up first before making him sing "yu"!! It was too early to make him sing that as the third song!

Kid’z: It felt really good!!

Hiro: Why did you say "yu" so quickly?!

Teru: I just made a mistake.

Hiro: Don't be an airhead!!

Kid’z: I'm really grateful!

Nob’s Redemption Arc

After their UVERworld cover, Hiro asked the audience what they should do next. The crowd started screaming different songs, to which Hiro said "I'm seriously fine with anything." Nob suddenly played the first three notes of LET IT DIE, to which Hiro said, "Ah, from earlier?" Kid'z said, "He made a mistake a while ago, so let's give him another chance." Then Nob started practicing. The crowd screamed, "You can do it!!!" then Nob walked towards the center stage and did a moonwalk. Hiro was all, "You can't do it, you're not Michael Jackson!" then sang a MJ line and howled his signature "Woo!"

Final MC

Hiro: Today was truly an amazing day, thank you all so much. We had such an intense gathering here at Kobe World Memorial Hall. The first Coming Kobe was also held here. We have so, so, so many memories here in this place. Right now, we're still on our way to reaching our dream. From hereon, we don't know if we could make such a big dream come true. We still have a long way there, but we're doing our best every year, making music for everyone and visiting various places as well. Next year, and the year after that, and even after 10 years, it would be nice if we could all make amazing memories together. Thank you so much! We're definitely coming back, Kobe!!

Photo by Takashi Konuma | Taken from Hiro’s IG post

#my first story #マイファス #live #2019 #still sad we didn't get a DVD of the Kobe show #liked it better than Saitama #we could've gotten the MCs and the encore at the very least #sighs #ah well

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ai-da-ice · 5 years

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Kazlaser: We interrupted Da-iCE’s release commemoration event.

# We couldn’t resist intruding on their photo

Toru: Thank you for the two days of release events 😌!!

It was my first time seeing a proposal in person, and it was really emotional 💑 I wish you happiness

After that, I also received a proposal from Natsu-san and it was also really emotional 😂🎵

Sota: Thanks for the release event! I’m glad the proposal was a success~!

Taiki: It was cold in both Tokyo and Osaka, so thanks to everyone who came!

Thanks to the two members of the Maple Chogokin comedy duo! We laughed so hard our stomachs hurt!

Hayate: Thank you so much 😂😂😂🙏🙏🙏

Staff: A lot of people came to both the Osaka and Saitama "#Kumo wo Nuketa Aozora" release memorial special events 🎤! ! Thank you very much. Today there was a surprise proposal that wound up being a huge success, and we had an exciting time with the comedy duo #Maple Chogokin too 💍

#da-ice #translation #instagram #twitter

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anywhereyougothereyouare · 7 years

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20170831 One is glad to be of service Today is my last day in San Francisco and, ignoring time zone shenanigans, my last day in the New World for now. I hadn't planned anything for this day, but then I noticed my flight leaves at 2325 hrs!A stratagem was devised.Pack my bags, clean out the room and check out. The hotel let's people leave their bags after checkout, so I did so. Then I organised an airport shuttle to take me form there to the international terminal. Then I asked for directions to silicon Valley. This is the last bit of the bicentennial man tour I can manage. In the film, the NorthAm Robotics corporation headquarters is played by the beautiful buildings that, in the real world, are the Oracle corporation HQ, a big software company.I took a CalTrain to there, a big double decker thing, straining to hear the names of the stations that went by, and to not fall alseep with the dulcet clickity clack or comfy chair.It's 25 degrees in San fran but down here its 31, so it was not only a long walk but a hot walk to the buildings, helped only by the melting ice in my water bottle and the soundtrack pumping through my headphones.But even without the film reference it was worth it. A lovely lake, staggered identical blue glassed buildings, you get the picture. Also, a yacht! A trimaran that won the 33rd America's cup has been planted on display in the lake. Got plenty of photos of that for dad.Stuck into a Japanese restaurant just before it closed for some katsu chicken curry and to fill my waterhole, then caught the same train back north to the hotel.What followed afterwards was about an hour messing about on free wifi to organise an uber. Some drivers cancelled because it was so busy, other times I had to leave the WiFi and didn't get the licence plate... Next trip I'm getting a data connection even if it kills me.Finally got back to the motel, grabbed a burger for dinner and then waited in the foyer and chatted with the hotel dude until the shuttle arrived.It didn't arrive, he called and found out it had been cancelled for some reason. He gave me a fifty and called a cab which promptly came, so it all worked out fine and I wasn't worried. Then had a very wide ranging political and philosophical conversation with my cable in the way back, agreeing to fit him in the luggage on the way home if he paid the baggage costs. We sended to forget that arrangement as we arrived, I tipped him generously and left onwards.This was it, this was me leaving America, the end of my great expedition, my grandest experiment and my farthest reaching stress test of my human condition. That, after all, was realy the point of this trip. To make sure I could do it (I knew i could but I needed to prove it), and to force me to update and test myself, then to see who I was by the end of it. I'll probably do one more entry after this once I've collected my thoughts. I'm not going to write about Melbourne because this blog is about time spent away from home, and Melbourne has so many family and friends that it's long ago stopped being anything but a second home.

#chogokin maple

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anywhereyougothereyouare · 7 years

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20170825 monument to the final frontier

First proper day in new York going solo. And I have one real objective: to see the Intrepid Air and Space museum, AKA the USS Intrepid. An aircraft carrier dating back to the end if world war 2, converted and modified throughout the cold war, and now laid docked to a peer as a museum ship hosting a plethora of rare, famous and vintage aircraft.

The walk there was long, but also the first time id actualy seen the quiet, residential, homely part of new York. I got to see times square morph in to restraints, into homes, then into garages and industry just before I hit the shore.

And the first thing I saw was the naked exhaust apertures of an A-12 peeking playfully over the bow of the carrier. It was enough to light my fires. Fires the 20 minute wait I. The queue couldn’t dull, despite it being just an hour after opening. Fires that the four under ten year olds in front if me, bantering away with their adorable adolescent primary school humor about how excited and bored they were couldn’t dull. And then I was in.

Now, to be fair, what I thought I saw initially was an SR-71 Blackbird, a high altitude reconnaissance aircraft famous for being the fastest and highest flying jet in the world and, along with the F-22, the plane any scrub says is their favourite aircraft when they haven’t looked too far into it yet. But, when I arrived on the flight deck, noticed it’s smaller stature and solo cockpit, I correctly guessed my error before I was close enough to read the info pannel.

And what a cast they had! tomcat, Falcon, Kifir, Iroquois, Talon, Entard, and those are only the names I remember! Beautiful beasts they were. And some dirty internals exposed to the crowds too! Most of these were carrier aircraft (but not all), and folding wings give you some intimate looks into the folding mechanisms. I’ve been sure to get plenty of raunchy close-ups for my upcoming video journal ;)

But enough softcore, that was the fun stuff. Taking shots of these sweet fighters and helicopters. Next was the main course. Next, was Enterprise.

When NASA was designing the space shuttle launch system, they created several mock-ups, structural frames and prototypes. The last and most advanced of these was visual almost identical to the finished product. It was launched from the back of the carrier 747 for glide testing, literaly flying the shuttle to the runway.

It was only ever a prototype. There seem to have been several vague plans to refit the body to become space worthy, but none of them ever came to fruition. But that wasn’t the end if it’s life, becuase this prototype did something that no other orbiter ever realy did with such flair and charm: it captured the public’s imagination and joy. It went travelling to show off what NASA could do for the world, to show their amazing new space plane! But to that it needed a name.

It was going to be Constitution, and revealed as such on constitution day. But a massive fan letter write in to president Regan changed the plan.

It became known as OV-101 Enterprise. The first official space shuttle in name, if not function.

It’s in an enclosed hanger built atop the stern of the intrepid. You walk in through a small room where they can take your photo introit of a blue screen, then a short tunnel where you listen to the radio chatter of the test glide flights. And then when I arrived inside I saw I was standing beneath the starboard wing of this giant. Black ceramic tiles meters from my head tapering forwards in its delta wing, revealing the bone white hull, illuminated with spotlights, focusing on the black lettering upon its side that changed this engineering testbed from footnote to inspiration. “ENTERPRISE”.

You walk forwards, and all around are displays talking about the shuttle program, the other orbiters, the creation of the museum. They even have a series of star trek fanzines preserved, opened to the pages celebrating their success alongside the official declaration and photos of the original series cast present at its inauguration.

I read all of those later. Much later. It was all I could do to make my hands move, get my camera out and try and take some decent and interesting photos showing framing and detail.

There is a gantry built in front of the nose. Stairs take you up to nearly the level of the cockpit windows granting you a view over the wing and of the entire ship. I could see some hinges on the payload doors looked a bit dinky and oversized. It’s not space rated so they probably didn’t care about that as much.

I just had to stare. I don’t know, the ground zero museum didn’t have this affect on me. Graduating high school didn’t, seeing times square didn’t.

It was just… There. In front of me. Right there.

Of course there were security guards keeping tight watch and constantly catching people who tried to touch the orbiter. Id be lying if I said I didn’t want to. But the Enterprise doesn’t need a grubby hand print of a child on it any more than it does mine. And touching something isn’t the only way to make something real.

Two laps and plenty if photos later I exited to check out the Concorde before I left. It’s a lot smaller than I would have guessed, not much longer than the shuttle. I walked underneath and remembered where the fuel take was that caused the accident that killed one of these birds. I did a project on it in high scool, I remove the shape of metal that caused it.

These posts were supposed to be like one ir two paragraphs, geeze, let’s hurry up!

Bought a shirt, saw a salvation army thrift store two blocks away and had to ignore it becuase I was pressed for time. I was tasking an uber to Central Park to meet Elen. Needed her signature for a hilarious joke at a friends expense. Let me tell you, you have not lived unless you’ve requested an uber using only free wifi spots that drop in and out. One of them was an actual coach bus that drove off as soon as my uber got close.

But we got together in the end. I found Elen, we reminisced, got icecream, signed the thing, saw central park, and with one final selfies I bid goodbye to the last of Heathers tour group.

Meandering home I found McGee’s pub which was the inspiration for the show How I Met Your Mother’s pub, I found the Nintendo shop and bought a blastoise, gave the finger to yhe lego shop becuase of a convoluted in joke, had an excelent subway sandwich not from the epinonymous store.

And then I watched phatom of the opera again in theatre and had a lovely dinner from a quiet and excelent Italian diner down the road from me.

I’m super tired and can’t believe I did so much in a day. I need to do less so I can write these faster!

#chogokin maple

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anywhereyougothereyouare · 7 years

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20170819 solo round: montreal This day I had three objectives: 1) buy a hard case small suitcase to fit my growing gifts and future shopping into 2) go and see a museum, because I have barely gotten a chance to work through any of them so far 3) chill in my own and clear my head And I accomplished all three! Hard case for 70 ish coin is very cute and practical. A good place to store my ZOIDS command wolf and other delicate and future gifts. Not gona bother posting it home, I'll just take it with me. Then the museum. I went into the Montreal museum of modern art. It's actually four buildings all connected underground by tunnels. And the layout isn't consistent This means it was very easy to both wander aimlessly AND get hopelessly lost. But I managed to see the exhibit on 60s psychedelic culture by the end of it. And step 3, chill out. I mostly hung with myself this day and it helped a lot. In the evening, we were off to O'noir, a dark restraint. Our waiter was blind and the entire room was pitch black, not a speck of light was showing. You could also order surprise meals, which some people did (I didn't) and then guess what it was you were eating. It was so much fun with everyone there, working together to coordinate not speaking ontop of each other and also try to eat their food without sight. Would do again!

#chogokin maple

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anywhereyougothereyouare · 7 years

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20170828 Goldie VS The Hills: round 2 Today was my first full day in San fran, and I started it out how all tourists should start their journeys: a trip to the visitors center. I was presented with an onslaught of brochures of cool things to try (as of writing on the last day, I barely did any of them). Speaking with a lad at the desk I got a public transport pass which gets you onto most but not all things. I wish all countries would get universal public transport systems. Here they have different sorts of busses, trains, cable cars, and half of them are combined and half aren't. Firs stop on the bicentennial man tour was Grace Cathedral, where little miss was married and where little miss's daughter worked to restore it. Large, sober, beautiful, it's a big old church. Oh I did see some cops helping direct traffic for some people filming something. I'll post a picture in my album later so we can cross check what it ends up being. Trudging on, I came to am epiphany. I know now that there was another reason for my coming to the New World. A subconscious desire to meet a challenge. In Perth, we are a flat land people, with a gently rolling peninsula, and horizontal horizons for an infinity in all other directions. But in Vancouver, I saw the challenge of the mountains. In Bamf and in Jasper I met them and conqured them. Again and again, from the cobblestones of Quebec City to the treaturously slippy banks of the stream in Stowe, I defeated them. And now FINALY, here in San Francisco, I WILL NOT BE BEATEN BY THESE STUPID HILLS! Seriously, WHO BUILDS A CITY ON A HILL!? Like, build around it. Cut it down for crying out loud. I'm talking nearly 35 degree slopes, how do people drive here!? That outburst ran it's course and I arrived at some lookout tower I forget the name of (I'm waiting for my train to depart for silicon Valley on Stardate 201708311248 and can't find the name). Lovely views from the hill but the queue up the tower was long and didn't seem worth the wait. Skip forwards about half an hour of walking down hill and I reached the pier-WAIT I forgot about the cable car museum. So I thought san fran had trams, and that's only half right. Cable cars aren't like the electric trams of Toronto or Melbourne, they're actualy mechanical. The museum is actualy the power plant for them. Massive wire cables run under the streets at a constant 9.5mph. The cars have claws beneath them that grip this lubricated cable to speed up or let go to slow down. Purely mechanical and beautifully simple. Ok, back to the pier. America can't do fish and chips, I've had one in Canada and one in USA and they were both gross. This second one was from hard rock cafe, and once it was dine I left to find the liberty ship. On the way there were a bunch of sea doggos, AKA seals, lying on a bit of the dock being all cute. Beyond that was the last liberty ship. In WW2 the allies neended a transport ship they could mass produce to send supplies to the front. The British came up with the design and they and the Americans manufactured literaly thousands of them, taking as little as 60 days to build. The one berthed in San fran is the last one afloat and operational. It's engine rooms were actualy used to film scenes from titanic of the pistons. The ship had to replicate Titanic's manuvers in order to get the shots. Another fun story was that this ship's last port of call while in service was Fremantle! It's cago: Australian war brides. And while taking photos my hat blew off in the wind. I saluted it as it fell beneath the waves RIP F Muse Du mechaniqe was next door, one man's collection of arcade games stretching back to the 1850S. Mostly clockwork stuff all of these, with pinball and some more modern video games too. I was pooped. Time to go home. Busses here are weird, they like to hide their bus stops, and I wasn't entirely clear which one to catch. So I resolved to just uber back home. What ensured was half an hour of me walking about trying to find a half decent wifi signal to scavenge to get the app to work. Next time I come I'm going to get a proper data plan. Later that night I met up with a local lad I'd met online. Big part of this trip is meeting new friends and new people after all. Met up at a coffee shop (not the Amsterdam kind) in the Castro (the queer district) and we hit it off right away! Chatting for hours about politics, history, movies, my kinda dude. I even got some recommendations of things to do or see in San fran!

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20170827 NYC > SAN FRAN All my bags are packed, and I'm ready to go. The taxi's expensive and I'm out the door (didn't manage to get the shuttle organised and the trains seemed just too complicated to risk at the last minute). But yeah, nice ride into the airport and a few longing looks back at Manhattan as it dissapear from view. Largely uneventful flight with friendly TSA staff at either end. Then while I was getting my bags from the pick-up point and got back onto wifi, Elen (from the trip) replied to my message from over a day ago letting me know how to catch the train to the airport. So shoutout to her timing. Trains from San fran airport tho were a little.confising. Each city has different terminology and a lot of USA public transport isn't public but private and share betweven multiple companies. Smartrider, mikee, oyster card, multipass, ugh. These ones are called Bart or something. Or maybe that's the trains. Got to station, walked some blocks with my luggage, and it struck me there were a lot of homeless people about. I've since heard that while san fran isn't any worse off than new York in that regard, it's a lot.more visible here than there. So, hotel, Days Inn motel. It is Niiiiice! Bar fridge, microwave, massive queen bed that is super soft and firm at the same time! Over all, way better than Edison. It was pretty late, but I was ready to go ot on the town. Now you might recall that I hate loud pubs and bars to a nearly traumatic degree, so why subject myself to that again? Well if I'm solo, I'm more in control. I'm not compelled to stay because of others. Also, I wanted to see the city I'd heard so much about. So I picked the direction that seemed like the CBD and started walking. And promptly found myself in the middle of the unsavoury part of the neighbourhood. I was offered extacy and morphene by a homeless man (which I politely refused). I saw a street where it seemed dozens of people were making similar deAl's. I was not in Kansas. This is not the San fran I had advertised! Eventualy I found my way to the main street and a burger king where I had a rushed dinner and used the WiFi to call an uber across. So, lesson learned. Read the fucking map!

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20170822 Dawn of the Final Day Quebec city was in the rear view mirror, and so is most of our trip. This is the last full day of our trip. Tomorrow we drive from Stowe, Vermont to the drop off point outside New York. On the road our usual sing-alongs happened until we hit the boarder of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! Shockingly, the boarder guards had no sense of humour and were super intimidating #sarcasm. We waited in line to be questioned. A few of us had to pay another 6$ to get our ESTAs revalidated. This seems to have been because at the border, some people's passports hands been stamped. I was lucky and got off Scott free. Next stop was the magic hat brewery which was kind of eh. I don't care for beer, and while the factory production line was cool, it wasn't realy my scene. The funky artwork there tho was good to check out. Next stop, Ben and Jerry's factory. My guess is this might have been their first factory, and it's now more of a tourist exhibit than a full production factory. The tanks and production floor seemed a bit small to do much, but it was fine. Features were a "flavour graveyard" for all the dead flavours. Each had a cute little limerick. The main building actually had some.cool historical artefacts: ancient icecream scoops, original signals and photos from the 70's, and a cool promotion they did in the past. To get people to buy icecream in the snowy Vermont winter, they had "Penny Off Per Celsius Degree Below Zero Winter Extravaganza" which was called "POPCDBZWEM". Elen amd I look fabulous in our rainbow tie dyed bj shirts :p and I did spot a reference to BJ'S pursuit of marriage equality amongst their social and ethical values (recently in Australia, BJ has refused to serve two scoops of icecream of the same flavour until equality is passed). There was a tour with an above average tour guide. He had a good sense of humour, but some atrocious puns I unfairly (and hilariously) blamed Millie for. The day was nearly dine, and we arrived at our camp ground: a beautifully soft grassy meadow, flanked either side by Hills and forrest. And rain. A good amount of it. Heather told us to all "stop complaining like it's acid rain" and we Bolted out of the van to set up the tents. We were trained, practices. Like a well oiled machine. Tarps out, luggage under quick cover, awning deployed, tents out... Then Flak and Jordan's tent literaly swapped and ripped their tarp XD. The rain got harder, we finished getting the tents out and done, but we were all by then soaked to the bone. I abandoned any pretence, took my shoes and socks off, left them in the van, and embraced the rain. It was wonderful! I never get to realy just bask in the rain because it's often over too quickly in Perth, or busy during the day with work or other stuff, or (most commonly) I'm carrying precious and sensitive electronics I'm too worried about getting them wet to enjoy it. But none of those applied, so I got soaked! Elen went poking around and discovered a wide and shallow stream behind the camp site. We both waked in, and everyone else followed. In the soaking rain, ankle or knee deep in a stream... This is what I came fir, it was so much fun. Steve and Jordan, ever keen to keep their bromance aflame, stripped to their pants and went swimming. Well, tried to. Mostly they just got scraped up by the shallow rocks. I did a Kylie Minogue impression perched on my claimed rock in the middle of the stream. I spent the rest of the evening in soaked clothes not caring about the rain, and we started dinner. I've become a pretty good chef, good at delegating jobs If someone gets too close to the stove, they get given a job. "cut onion Tim, grab some water Elen, pass the hand sanitiser Millie, find Tim a better knife kat, help me strain the pasta Steve, tell everyone it's ready to dish up Steve"! Artistic differences between Tim and I lead to his view of hard veggies winnine out (I'd have preferred soft for the sauce but oh well). And, as to be expected, it was delicious and served with parmesan cheese :) During digestion, heather spoke about the end of the trip amd how she viewed it, and how thankful she was for all of us not only being good travelers but also good friends. Then Millie and Elen sprung their trap. For the past few weeks they've gothen everyone to help contribute towards a power we had written. Weeks ago heather wrote and read us a poem about the Canadian voyagers while we visited the athabasca glacier, so we returned the favour. Millie and I had helped proof read the rather, and we each read it out in alternating verses (Elen through she might cry if she read it). It was beautiful, with some unexpectedly ingenious rhyming included! I'll put it into this blog as soon as it gets transmitted through our whatsapp group. And then we did three laps: our favourite moment, something we learnt, and something that will make us laugh for years to come. Everyone's answers were heart-warming, beautiful, sweet, hilarious, and kind. My favourite moment: That night. Walking through the rain, feeling soaked clothes, a warm stream, soft wet grass under my naked feet, not needing to care or worry about thorns, venomous animals or insects, gross water, or anything that I might need to worry about in Australia. And then cooking with friends for friends. Delegating, organizing and commanding the lot of them. The thing I learnt: I'm non-binary. I don't identify as male, and I don't identify as female. I've been unhappy for a long time with the gap between who i was trying to be and what made me happy. What this means for myself, friends, family and framily is still to be determined as I figure out how I want to live my life, but this has been a long time coming and I can make no more progress in loving the life i want to live privately. I know I've got plenty of people I can look to for help and support, that this is a journey I can only take myself, and that I'm looking forward to coming home so I can figure out how to live the life i want to live. And I'm so thankful that I was able to come out to such a beautiful and supporting group of people that night xx What will make me laugh for years to come: Zoe showed us a bogan cover of "uptown funk" called "Westie c*nt" with lyrics that go far beyond the content warning I've imposed onto this blog. It's a bit of a mood change from the last paragraph, but it's a good listen. Be warned tho that it is 100% coarse language. And I got a piggy back to my tent from Elen to cap off the night :3

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20170803 jasper First full day in jasper which doubled as a free day for us. Heather told us the sights to see in town then dropped some off at the visitor center, then the rest (Inc. Me) at the gondola. We rode it to its end near the summit of... A mountain. Look ok, there are more mountains here than you can poor a stick at, I'm not even sure if all of them have names. I'm sure this one did, but it was a pretty tall mountain. Like 2500ft from sea level. Hard going hike up to the top (Steve suspected it was due to thinner atmosphere starting to play a part) but once there we all had some great opportunities for some fantastic photos! A lot of mine have come out realy well! I'm focusing on three things I'm shooting: cool things, other people taking photos of cool things, and stock images. First because there are some cool things here. Second because everyone has already taken better photos of these things than I have, but no one has taken photos of our group taking dumb self-esteem together with the cool thing in the background ;) And thirdly, stock images of mountains, clouds, gravel forests and stuff for my photoshop collage artworks so I'm less beholden to google images. After that we all took a taxi back to the town and strolled around. It was like 30 degrees and I've been going through almost four water bottles a day due to that and me trying to flush out my cold. But while we were in a Red Dot equivalent discount store, I found a second hand shop downstairs in the corner and it was AMAZING! A whole bunch of old records, books, and modern and VINTAGE VIDEO GAMES! I am now the proud owner of "Missile Commander" for the Atari console (don't yet know which one, but I'll be able to google it at some point). I was very happy :3 Got a nice bracelet then picked up and taken back to camp for dinner of rice, nacho mince (referred to as 'chili') sour cream and cheese. Then we packed up again to head out to some hot springs for a swim. Cool mountain road, sunny skies turned into dark clouds, and it was raining by the time we got there. It had closed itself off five minutes before we arrived because of the safety risk of swing during a thunderstorm. We hung out in the Cafe for about half an hour chatting which was nice, then headed home when they didn't reopen. On the way back I'm introduced Jason to Sammy J and Randy's difficult first album and Bo Burnham :D Back at camp I'd accidentally left my side door open. I got lucky tho, only my sleeping bag was a little bit wet, and heather's spare was good and warm even without the liner. Ok, that's up to date. Currently driving up yet more mountains the subsequent day, and I'll get to writing that up soon. These will probably all land together in a clump tho when we reach WiFi.

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20170818 the longest day We got breakfast in Toronto We packed up the van We drove to Montreal It should have taken like six hours I think? It took more than 9 A highway was closed or something. Zoe played some good Australian bogan cover songs on the stereo to impress the brits. We arrived, hostel is nice, unpacked, I got dinner at the downstairs kitchen, we got dressed and headed out for Ellen's fake hens night we had jokingly been planning for a while. It was realy loud. Too loud. There were lots of people, everyone is speaking French and the signs are all in French. The bar we first try to get into had a long wait. People are hungry so we duck into a nearby hooters for dinner. Hooters... It's loud, playing sport on some TV's and early 2000s hip hop on other others. There is a usb charging block on the table you can charge your phone from which was cool. I said practicaly nothing. And after we left and the group found another bar to go to, I called it a night, said goodbye, and got home by 1100.

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20170815 Falling In the words oft repeated by Zoe since the beginning of the trip, we were all told to "GET KEEN" for Niagara falls. This was our next stop, camping in the city of Niagara. Also this is our last bit of camping for a while; our next four nights are hostels. This was a healthy sing-along day, myself delivering several operatic renditions of Mr Bright side, Make a Man out of You, My Heart Will Go On, and some.My Chemical Romance. "Angry Unstoppable Scotsman" Steve was sat next to me and both complained loudly yet couldn't help but join in. In his words "I'd be mad but he's just too damn good at it!". So glad I learnt how to roll my R's years ago. Then we entered our first real city since Vancouver, and it was a dive! NIAGRA is known as little-vegas, and it shows. There is an ugly amount of tourist aimed gift shops, tours, sight seeing, hotels, theme park rides, haunted houses (more on those stains later), and concrete jungle to make it one of the most overcrowded natural attractions of the tour so far. One KOA unpacking later we drove out to the falls to hop on the Hornblower ferry to ride under the water. Everyone was given special pink ponchos to wear on the Canadian side, while the American ferries (Niagra Falls sits on the border and is shared by the two countries) all wear blue ponchos. But I had my secret yellow poncho handed down to me from my father all those weeks ago as "Emergency Poncho No.1 (Specialised Water Replant Equipment)". In the spirit of being an iconoclast, I wore it instead and managed to avoid getting black bagged by security on our way aboard the ferry. It was wet. Wet and kind of amazing. I was almost more interested in the old decaying hydro electric plant I found at the base of the falls than by them themselves, but it was cool! Steve got more photos than me as he was more bold in using his DSLR in the spray than I was. Back to camp to have dinner, wash up, then back our for the fireworks - BUT WAIT! I spied a comics shop, and Zoe and Lauren (Aussie 1 and Aussie 2) spied a hens night shop critical to their planning of a fake hens night out for Elen (it's an in joke, I might explain more to you in person). But it provided a good excuse to check out the shop and STARS ABOVE! They had 3Rd party Predacons, mint packaging beast wars, pristine Naboo N-1 starfighter, mm aching wars Megatrons, an incredible amout of curated and carefully repackaged second hand ancient transformer toys!!! I managed to resist temptation and just buy a minion from 2014 called Evac whom I'll use as a basis body type for my character Wind-up. But they had- no, you know what? Most of you reading this don't know or care what I found there other than that it blew my mind and restored my spirits. If you're curious about more, check out the photos I put onto Facebook or ask me in person next you see me. Ok, back home, dinner of bangers, veggies, made and gravy, too many mozzies, I displayed the sketches I'd done of everyone so far and did another of Elen and Millie, got dressed back up and we took taxies out (so tour guide/14Th traveller) could drink. We saw fireworks over Niagara falls. The air was still, warm and humid so the smoke and steam stayed put creating colourful cloud that hid most of the last of the show. It was actually quite tranquil. And then the night took a sharp turn for the worst. i don't realy understand what happens with me and crowds, but I seem to shut down to only my badic functions. Social gets disabled, communications trunticated, pathfinders increased, and I just try to get from A to B asap so we can get out of the noise and crowd. I don't mind it, travelling through crowds is necessary, but I can't socialise in them, and the strip to the pub we were aimed at was loud and crowded. Even worse, there were nearly half a dozen haunted house style attractions bombarding the street side with their was mannequins, wooden anamatronics and pre-recorded chants. And ever since Dracula's in Brisbane, I've learen't that that gremlins ride has left deeper scars than I'd ever realised, so each attraction we passed put me more on edge. And when the pub turned out to be even noisier, I almost completely shut down. The rest of the night was an uncomfortable stretch of counting down the seconds until everyone else finished having fun and got tired enough to leave. Millie, bless her, noticed my discomfort and helped me through the rest of the night until we took a taxi home and I could scramble into my tent. I feel homesick.

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20170809 trailer town Last night I managed to open the bottle if mead I'd grabbed and shared it around. Not many takers but Steve, the hard as nails Scotsman, balked at how sweet it smelt. I had about half and it was realy nice! A bit drier than my usual, but then came the problems sealing it. See. It was corked this one, not my usual screw cap. I had bought a stopper and pourer but it did leak a little if held upside down. Ended up finding a spot in the trailer for it to hide until we arrived. And so began another one of our long driving days. Remember before when I said it was nice to be back in Australia? Forget I said that. It's not like Australia, it is Australia. It feels like an elaborate prank where the Northern Territory was actually just Canada all along, and we will eventually keep driving until we arrive back in perth. Flat farm land, long roads to the horizon. Less flies and slightly colder tho. Found a goat petting zoo where the goats climbed a tall wooden platform and you bought goat feed to send in a pull system up there. The goats were supposed to be smart enough to do it themselves, but we got a broken one and had to send it up ourselves. Other stuff happened during the day but it was just more driving realy. The next interesting thing happened when we arrived in Moose Jaw. Aparently they helped to smuggle in grog during the prohibition through tunnels, and some of them are now a tourist attraction for re-enactment. We went to it and it was... Well it was a couple good and we'll done but I hated it. The actors were fine but seemed nervous, and pantomime is only fun with comedy, not drama, so we were all unwilling to answer questions or volunteer when prompted. Oh and they had anamatronic humans for the bartender, piano man and a passed out drunk. Anyone who I've bored with my stories long enough will remember a certain traumatic gremlins ride from my childhood which comes to mind. I was wigged out and on edge for the rest of the day :( Well we got to the trailer Park. Tonight we were all geared up for the trailer Park experience. We were all wearing either plan or denim, with Canada temporary tattoos stuck all over ourselves. I got some use out if the queer pride flag I got in Vancouver (Canadian flag but with rainbows replacing the red bands either side). And it was kind if like just having a house party! After Millie noticed I was a bit down and we all started chattin, had dinner and started drinking, I felt a bit better. Played a drinking game called piccolo which is just an apparent that prompts for questions and rules which I'll break out myself next time. Followed by one of the best sleeps I've had in a fold out cot :)

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