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Minority Report (2002)

Year: 2002
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer/Producer: Philip K. Dick (short story)
Actor: Tom Cruise

Watching Situation: At my house with husband. Actually I was watching alone, then he came home at the middle of the movie and he got to interested... Rented from TSUTAYA
Rating: ★★★★　

なぜか見たくなってしまったのよね。そして見てよかった。前に見たときに「これはおもしろい」ってういうレーベルはしっかり貼ってあったのだけれど、どんなストーリーだったのか、どんなおもしろさだったのかすっかり忘れてしまって観たくなったのでした。

スピルバーグが監督だったのね。すっかり忘れてたんだか、知らなかったんだか……。

2012年クリスマスディナー

　今年は我が家で、私と旦那のふたりきりのクリスマスラストイヤー。来年は３人だ。きっと子どものために料理も生活もいろいろ変わるんだろうな。今年のクリスマスイブは休日だったけれど、旦那は店舗出店の準備で忙しいとかで仕事。なので私が一人でクッキング。

　これを作ったよ。

・マッシュポテト　（粉じゃない、本物のが食べたかったのら）
・ローストビーフ　（ユニーで800円くらいの牛の塊肉を購入）＋グレービーソース
・ほうれん草のキッシュ
・クリームチーズのババロア
・ホタテのスープ　（これはインスタント）

　ほぼクックパッドのレシピを見て作ったのだけれど、クックパッドの中にもレシピがありすぎていつもどれを使ったか忘れてしまうので、上にリンクを貼っておこう。

＜今年の教訓＞
・キッシュのパイシートは具を入れる前に一度素焼きしておくこと。具を入れてからオーブンするとパイには火が通らない。
・ローストビーフのくず野菜はにんじんと玉ねぎだけでもＯＫだった。セロリが高くて……。
・クリームチーズのババロアはもっと甘くてもＯＫ。
・マッシュポテトは大成功。ハンドミキサーを使わなくても、木ベラだけで十分潰せた。ちょっとごろっとしたポテトが入っているくらいがちょうどいい。
・マッシュポテトの生クリームはなしで、牛乳でもＯＫ。

ローストビーフ途中経過

Chocholate

★Trader Joe's Dark Crisp Chocolate. 

ボストンに住んでいるお友だちにいただいたの。筒入りのポテトチップスみたいなかたち（プリングルスみたい）で、クリスピーのつぶつぶが入ってて、薄くて、甘すぎなくてとぉってもおいしかった。すぐ食べちゃった。

　Trader JoeのHPかわいいね。ハワイテイストのコンビニでアメリカで流行っているのかな。レシピやオーガニックフードなんかも充実してるね。問題は価格だな。きっと高級なんだろうな。



★LEONIDAS

　会社でお土産にいただいたチョコレート。とってもおいしかったの。高級チョコで本当においしいと思ったのはこれがはじめて。代官山、鎌倉あたりにあるらしい。２４個入りで５０００円ちょいか。高いけれど、これはもらったらうれしいと思う。ゴディバよりうれしいとおもう。
　味は甘すぎず、それぞれの味の要素のコンビネーションがとてもセンスいいの。感動した。ああ、また食べたい。

シェ・ミカワ＠赤坂 ランチ

　文楽の日（１２月の初旬）にマイコルとランチをしたお店。ベルギービールのお店だから、本当は夜行ってビールをグイッと飲みたいところなんだけど、なんせ今妊娠７カ月なもんで、それは出来ずにランチでお邪魔いたしました。

　ランチラストオーダーが１時ってなっていて、もうギリギリというところでお店に駆け込んだのだけど、お店の人はウェルカムしてくれて安心。でも「早く食べてね」のオーラーがバンバン出ていて、セットのサラダとスープはあっと言う間にでてきた。

　わたしはリンゴを使ったソースのチキングリルみたいなの食べたのだけれど、とてもおいしかったよ。マイコルはラムを食べたんだっけかな。それも一口いただいたらおいしかった。

　パンについてきたバターの量がすごいのにオドロキ！この写真だと容れ物の深さが見えにくいけれど、パンナコッタとか入れる普通のココットくらいのdepthあるのよ。

Lunch Check No1

Having lunch with friends or boyfriend/girlfriend is fun and also reasonable to eat great meal at nice restaurant. Here are some memo of the restaurants around Tokyo that looks good.

• インシエメ (@青山 Aoyama, Italian)

Friend had some pictures of here on the Facebook. It looked good. They have 1000-yen lunch only for week day's.

友達の恋人

Japanese Drama

Year 1997 (TBS)

WIKI

Actors:瀬戸朝香 Asaka Seto、桜井幸子Sachiko Sakurai, 安藤政信 Masanobu Ando, 加藤晴彦Haruhiko Kato、　加瀬大周 Taisyu Kase

Watch Situation: TBS on-demand TV

安藤君の顔は犬顔だ。

桜井幸子のキャスティングはナイス！

最終回まで見られなかったのでぜひ最後まで見たい！1997年ってことは私が高校2年生だから、ドラマとか見ていたはずなのに、これはまったく記憶がないな。安藤君にはあまり興味がなかったんだろうな、その頃。確かに年代を感じるところはあるけれど、朝から一日全部見せます特集でみちゃったらはまっちゃったよ。でも全部見られなかったから、チャンスがあったらちゃんと最後までみよ。主題歌歌ってるグループ全然しらないけれど、なぜか頭に残る。

この年代のドラマについて調べると日本語のサイトより、中国語のサイトのほうが情報が多いので驚く。

東京タワー Tokyo Tower movie

Year 2004

Director: 源孝志 Takashi Minamoto

Writer: 江國香織 Kaori Ekuni(book)

Stars: 黒木瞳 Hitomi Kuroki, 岡田准一 Junichi Okada(V6), 松本潤 Jun Matsumoto(Arashi), 寺島しのぶ Shinobu Terashima, 宮迫博之 Miyasako, 平山あや Aya Hirayama, 加藤ローサ Rosa Kato, 岸谷五朗 Goro Kishitani

My rating: 1.0　★

Watch Situation: CS program

熟女×ジャニーズイケメンを見せたかっただけの映画

I like Okada-kun, so it was worth to watch for one time, but I’m sure I don’t want to see this again. If you don’t know anybody in this movie, don’t watch. The biggest uncomfortable part is the title. Why is this titled “Tokyo Tower”? There’s no strict inspiration from Tokyo Tower. 

BUNRAKU – The Japanese traditional performance 2 –

Only thing I knew about Bunraku was that it’s a puppet theater. For me, the word ‘puppet theater’ directly links to the scene of the movie The Sound of the Music. It was a puppet that manipulated with the strings from the above, so audience won’t see the manipulators. But in the case of Bunraku, three manipulators stand by the side of the puppet. One main manipulator controls the head and right hand, the other moves the only left hand, the other do the legs. That’s total of three people to movie one puppet. This means if there are five puppets are on the stage, naturally total of 15 manipulators are on the stage. Even if they have the face cover to hide the existence, it is really funny picture. Only main manipulator can show the face, they can play without the masks. The most amazing part was they don’t move or change their aspects at all to make the expression out of the scene except the puppets.

Of course, puppets can’t speak so there are groups to make the sounds and lines. Syamisen, Japanese traditional type of the instrument look like a guitar is used to express the atmosphere and singer called “Tayu” do the part of the lines ant tells the story.

Last night show had an about 30 minutes of the class for Bunraku beginners. It was really great. The real actors came out on the stage and show as how to move the puppets, how the puppets are made, the importance of the sound and music in Bunraku, and so on. It was really helpful class for people like me who thought it was like the Sound of Music type of the theater. 

As the other Japanese traditional performances like Noh, Kabuki, Rakugo, it has a strong roots in families. So you will find that many same family names in the actor’s name. It’s like a school in Japanese traditional art scene and still active. In this strictly ruled network, I has a preconceived idea that maybe all the actors were pretty old. But I must say it was wrong. There were some young faces, maybe around early 20s or so, and they were pretty cute. Plus the fact that they are contributing to this art scene gave me an positive impression. I just want more people to go to see the Bunraku and get the touch of the traditional art, especially for Japanese young people who don’t know much about it like me.

*The comment on Bunraku from the Japanese rapper BOSE is pretty funny.

*The governor of the Osaka where the Bunraku originally started said that manipulator of the puppets should be two people to cut the employment costs. I can’t believe this!  

*文楽協会HP
  
*太夫（Tayu）　豊竹咲寿大夫　（平成元年生まれですよ！）

*三味線(Shyamisen) 豊澤　龍爾 （私と同じ年！）写真の左側の人。

Home Alone (1990)

Year: 1990
Director: Chris Columbus
Writer/Producer: John Hughes
Actor: Macaulay Carson Culkin

Watching Situation: At mom's home with mom. It was on TV program.
Rating: ★★★★　（especially during Christmas season）

I have nothing to review about this movie. Just wanted to mark this that I watched this year again because I can't remember how many times I've watched this movie. This movie always takes me to the world of Christmas in Stages. The big house, beautiful illumination around the neighbors, great Christmas songs, macaroni and cheese dinner, and the importance of the family (I don't like the mother even after Kevin forgave her. I think she is terrible). 

There is one thing caught me this time. It was Kevin's jacket that has hood with the zipper in the middle. When it is unzipped, the hood looks like a sailor suite. I remember that I used have those kind of cloth when I was a kid, but I don't see them anymore. They are really cute. I think I want one for new jacket this year. It's good for me that they are out of fashion. I love out of fashion. 

金田中 － Kanetanaka －

The best established Japanese restaurant "Ryoutei (料亭)".

金田中

I didn't know about this restaurant until I had the Obento Box at the Noh Gakudo of ceruleantower. According to my Japanese traditional art teacher, KANETANAKA is the best of the best of Japanese restaurant. Not only the price, but the service and security is highly promised. So we can't make a reservation with out introduction of someone who has the connection to the restaurant.

In the ぐるなび site, it says that the lowest price starts from \30,000.  Wow, I don't think I could ever visit there. But there is a way you can eat their meal for reasonable price. At the Noh Gakudo!  They prepare Bento Box at the side of the reception for the audience. Actually, it's not a Bento Box, but each dish is portion size and you can pick up some you want and make your own dinner plate. Last night I had a, Kamameshi, Karaage, Milk pudding. They were wonderful, and total was \2000. Yeah, that was the money I can afford.

I was glad to know the existence of KANETANAKA, because I'm sure that none of my friend would know about here.  This restaurant is so limited.  Maybe there are more to find in Japanese traditional art world, it is exciting!

シドニー子育て記

シドニー子育て記―シュタイナー教育との出会い―　　雁屋 哲　著

『ミュンヘンの小学生』読了後、シュタイナー教育についてもっと知りたいと思い読んでみました。まさかマンガ『美味しんぼ』の原作を書かれているかたがシュタイナー教育についての本をだしているなんて思ってもみませんでした。

雁屋さんは4人の子どものために、日本の教育から逃げ出して理想に近い教育を求めてオーストラリアの地へ。そこでまさかシュタイナー教育に出会うとは思ってもみなかったのに、偶然にもグレネオン（シュタイナー学校）に子どもたちが入学して、そして子どもたちはそこを大変気に入り、最後に次男が卒業するまで20年ほどオーストラリアに住み着いてしまったという。

自分は「教育難民」だと冒頭に書かれていましたが、私にはその意味がなんとなくわかる気がします。私も雁屋さんと近い感覚で、シュタイナーの思想そのものにどっぷりはまるつもりもなく、強く信仰しているわけでもありません。ただ日本の今の教育を考えると自分の子どもを、受験という名の競争ばかりのレールにはどうしても置きたくないと考えています。その分、得意なことを伸ばして、子どものうちにたくさんの経験を吸収してほしいのです。そういった意味でこの本はとても勇気をくださいました。私が自分の子どもにどれだけシュタイナー教育を取り入れるかはまだわかりませんが、すくなくともしっかりと進むべき方向は見えてきたように思います。

まだお腹に子どもいる段階で、生まれてもないのにいろいろ調べてかなり気が早いかもしれませんが、でもまだまだ私の知らない教育理念や方法がたくさんあるはず。これからももっとリサーチ続けます。

これがグレネオン。　（

Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School

）

KABUKI – Japanese traditional performance –

Yesterday I went to see Kabuki performance. It was my first experience and it was way better than I expected. Usually it costs around 15000 yen for a ticket but it was the special performance day for kids for free. My friend who has many connections to Kabuki society invited me to this wonderful event.

The title was “RENJISHI” （連獅子）.  The story is about father and his son. There was a hill on the mountain, and it was known for the place to test the child. If child could climb up the hill, he has real brave heart. This custom was originated from the old legend of Singh in this story. So father pushed him down to the bottom of the hill. After son is gone, father couldn’t stay calm worrying about his son. Despite all his concern, son climbed up the hill alive. They hugged and danced hard to share the happiness for a long time.  Here, strange thing happen. They are possessed by the spirit of the Singh while they were dancing. 

Then, next scene comes with two old men who believe different religious. This scene is a contradiction of first scene which had almost no lines and funny situation, two men battles over their religious in a funny way and it makes us laugh. They became company to pass the hill together because of the legend that tells Singh will appear and get you. On the way to the hill, suddenly they hear the weepy sound of the wind.

 Then, last scene comes with father and the son who became the spirit of the Singh. The costume and their hair is completely different and it looks real Singh. Long long hair that reaches their feet. They sake their head to show the madness with that long hair, it is the high spot of this performance.

It seems that second part is not that important to this performance, but it is. The second part makes time for actors of father and son to re-make up and change their costume. Also gives the audience to refresh the dark moment of first scene.  The performance starts suddenly without any explanation of the background story, so I recommend to get some info before you watch. You don’t have to know all the detail but just the situation, for instance who is the character and the rough story line. I wouldn’t find out that two main characters were father and son if I didn’t read the commentary. I would thought they were couple, because son had a red hair and father had white hair. One important point to see Kabuki, female can’t be on the stage on Kabuki theatre. So it is common to act female by male actor.

              The performing time was about an hour. I thought it will be longer but according to my friend, the running time is different on each title.  “RENJISHI” is great title for whom goes to Kabuki first time. The new theatre for Kabuki（GINZA　KABUKIZA） is open next April!!  

※一番上のパンフレットの画像は中村屋のものですが、私が見に行ったのは音羽屋さんの公演でした。

found photo

ツイッターでホンマタカシ『たのしい写真2　ポートレイト　市川実日子』のお知らせをみつけて、そこからいくつかリンクをたどったら、このサイト（between the books）に辿りついた。

いろいろな写真集やアートとしての写真の見せ方を教えてくれるいろんな情報が載っている。
おもしろいな、と思ったのでメモ。

紹介されている記事の中で、特にfound photoといのがおもしろかった。
写真を撮るんじゃなくて、写真をコレクトしてその見せ方で作品にするという・・・。スクラップブックみたいな感じだけど、収集方法と集め方にちゃんとコンセプトを置いてみると、こんな風になるんだね。

ホンマタカシって名前をよく見かけるのだけれど、実はそんなに詳しく知りませんでした。
でもこのサイトを機会に興味が湧いてきた。楽しみだ。

11/22/63

11/22/63 by Stephen King

http://www.amazon.co.jp/11-22-63-Stephen-King/dp/1451669518/ref=sr_1_2?s=english-books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352868581&sr=1-2

Stephen Kingの本はホラーとかサスペンスとか、恐いもの系が多いと思っていたけれど、最近はちょっと傾向が変わって人間味あるリアルなストーリーも書いているらしい。

キングの書く文章はシンプル。つまり無駄がない。ということで洋書初心者にも、洗練された英語を求めている人にもぴったりらしい。それを聞いて私も読んでみたくなった。

ちなみにキングの本で昔読んだのはITだったかな。

これもkindleの到着をまってからオーダーしよう。


≪後記≫　2012/11/24
病気の関係で去年からホームにお世話になっている父が本が大好きで、最近は目が弱っているのでこの書籍のオーディオブックを買ってあげたら（2700円くらいした！）、トータル10時間くらいあるのに二日間で聞き終わってしまったという。。。。すごいな。　でも楽しめたらしいのでよかったよかった。私がまだ読んでいないから、話題を共有できないのがさびしいわ。はやくkindle届け。

The Name of the Wind

The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One

http://www.amazon.co.jp/The-Name-Wind-Kingkiller-Chronicle/dp/0756404746

kindle待ち、洋書で読むべし、その方が安いから。

昨日kindle予約して、届くのは１月の初旬らしい。私がオーダーしたのは、paperwhiteタイプ。

ああ、楽しみ楽しみ。

頭のいい大学生、高校生がよろこぶ知識（物理、化学、言語学）が満載らしい。

イルカ

よしもとばなな著　(2006年)

よかったよ。
表紙もとてもかわいい。

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)

Year 1997

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writer: John Berendt (book), John Lee Hancock (screenplay)

Stars: John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, Jude Law, Alison Eastwood, Lady Chablis

My rating: 3.0　★★★

Watch Situation: Rented from TSUTAYA

ジョン・キューザック、若い、細い！

If I had read the original book, the rating would be little different because there are some comments that this movie reflects the original atmosphere really well. But as a dvd I just picked up randomly, this movie was a big one. I didn’t know the director was Eastwood until I see that on the end title roll.

Here is something I want to share besides my review, this site. When I was looking some information about this movie I run into this site and I thought this is great review site. Not just the review of this movie, but I was so glad to see the Totoro in the category of Animation. As Japanese who loves Giburi, I was so happy to see the comments. Well, I’ve never watched Giburi film outside of Japan in other languages, so I should try it some time.

Blood Diamond (2006)

Year 2006
Director: Edward Zwick
Screen Writer: Charles Leavitt
Stars:  Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou and Jennifer Connelly

My rating: 4.0　★★★★  (Regardless of the rating, everybody should watch this at least once)
Watch Situation: Rented from TSUTAYA

As I wrote on above, everybody should watch this movie at least once. Then people should have a time to think about buying diamonds. Well, I’m sure there is more issues like this besides diamond, but this will be a good start. At least it changed some of my thoughts towards the diamonds. I’ll never buy diamonds. If I got some by happening I will use them as a charity.

I have friends who are living in Johannesburg in South Africa for about one year as a resident. They came back to Japan last week, and I had a chance to meet them after a whole year. I was longed to hear the story about the town and their life. They, the couple seemed very happy together, but when it comes to the story about the town, they told us it is a lot different from here and I wouldn’t be able to imagine without coming there. And wife, my good friend, gave me a example to make it easier for me. It was this movie. She told me the town is like the one in this movie. Surely, she just mentioned the one town that is on the movie for a short time, but for me, the story itself struck me like a storm. It was an African storm. I didn’t know nothing about Africa, and it was much worth than I thought.

After we said goodbye, my boyfriend who joined to meet them together told me to go to Africa as our honeymoon. Yes, it would be a good idea. I don’t except any romantic gorgeous hotel or dinner there, I just have a opportunity to see what there is like. It will be great idea of using our time useful.

If you think diamonds is the best accessory for the women, I think it is wrong. Please just see this movie.

Here is some latest news.

Pay It Forward (2000)

Year 2000

Director: Mimi Leder

Original Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde

Screen Writer: Leslie Dixon

Stars:  Kevin Spacey, Haley Joel Osment and Helen Hunt

My rating: 4.5　★★★★☆

Watch Situation: On cable TV

I think this was my fourth time to watch this movie. The more I watch this movie, the more I like. I feel this every time, even if I watched without intention. (I just found out ‘intention’ and ‘intension’ are completely different word…)

When the time my kid goes to school comes, I hope he/she will have a teacher like Mr.Simonet (Kevin Spacey) who give an assignment of …

Think of an idea for change our world － and put it into action!

As one of person who is interested in education matters, I think this kind of questions that give children an opportunity to think is the greatest work. Couple days ago, I had a chance to talk to some of the students who are attending to the American school in Japan. They were senior now, but they told me some interesting project that they had done in their school life from elementary to nowadays.  The most interesting project was ‘Dummy baby project’. In their health class, each student was given electronic baby which has an microchips to manipulate the baby like cry, craves for food, changing diapers and so on. The students have to carry them around for about 24HRs, to every class they have, to the friend’s house after school, to their homes to spend the night. I’ve never heard this type of class in Japan, but I thought this experience will stay in their mind long time and they can share with their friends, and having this kind of knowledge in early time of the life, especially men, are very precious experience. Like this, giving children to think and act with their actual life is important. I know that this project will need many budgets to put into action, but it teaches us one of an idea.

Anyway, the boy in this story changed the world with his thinking and action. My heart is moved a lot by thinking this. I know that this story is a fiction, but according to author’s site, (the Story is here)she really had an experience of ‘Pay it forward’. Making these little things into some kind of action can create many possibilities. This story teaches us that.

I was so curious that who did the special make-up on Kevin spacey, because it looked so real. And I found out. Here is the make-up artist’s site. It is very interesting.

Useful Sites

Paper.li
自分だけのオリジナル新聞を発行してくれるサイト
ネット上のツイートや口コミを自分の設定してキーワードで収集して、自動的に新聞にしてくれる。

こんな感じ。

GoodReads
アメリカのブクログみたいなもの

Pretty Woman (1990)

Year 1990

Director : Garry Marshall

Writer: J.F.ロートン

Executive Producer: Laura Ziskin

Stars:  Richard Gere, Julia Roberts

My rating: 5　★★★★★

Watch Situation: The show was on cable TV program and I watched by happening.

I’ve seen this movie for many times. I know how the story goes, what they do, and for some parts, what they would say. I definitely remember that I bought the soundtrack of this movie I was at the six grades along with the CD of My Girls, other my favorite movie. Both CDs were my treasure for all the time so far. I still have them and I love all the songs.

After I watched this movie, I cried the hardest throughout this year. I just couldn’t help crying at many moments, like with just the scene of Vivian smiles with big voice. It just makes me happy. Also I love the scene where Vivian wakes up and shows her red hair for the first time to Edward. Of course, I can’t forget the scene of the shopping at the Rodeo Drive.

All the scenes just bring me some kind of happiness, and wet my eyes. The friendship between the hotel owner and Vivian is great part of the movie too. Her dream wouldn’t be come true at the end if there were no help of the hotel owner. (Actually the limo driver.)

Even after I find out the most of the scene where shows the parts of Vivian are fake, a body double, it just don’t matter to me what I think about this movie. Although, I was little shock to see the cover of the DVD or the poster which Vivian and Edward are standing next to each other and their height looks as same as the other. That is impossible, because Vivian is totally taller than Edward. Oh, well, never mind.

I just had to say how much I love this movie, even I after I watched many times. It is just a one of the wonderful movie!! 

Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

Year 1995

Director : Carl Franklin

Writer/Screen Play: Peter Stone

Stars:  Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore and Jennifer Beals

My rating: ？？

English Listening Level: 5 ★★★★★

Watch situation: Recorded from TV program called “Gogo no Load Show”(my favorite program).

I recorded this because the description on the TV board said it’s a mystery, suspense and Denzel Washington. And I forgot that I recorded this for a long time. Then two days ago, there were nothing on TV, so I just checked the recorded list, and found this. I was dragged by the appearance of Denzel Washington at the beginning because he was young and smelled something old days. But in 10 minutes, I found myself not following the story. English spoken in this movie is so hard to understand for me. Definitely, the reason is the accent of the South. Of course the vocabularies used in the line were sophisticated and some are technical terms, but on top of that, the accent was just not something I was used to. So I can’t rate this movie by my understanding. I could judge only by the level of English. Apparently, this could be rank A, so I put five stars for that.  I have to practice more listening skills for variety of accents. Well, I’m glad that I found this lack of skills.

南部の発音を聞きとるのがこんなに難しいなんて！

この映画はきっと中でも結構レベルが高いほうだと思うよ。