tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6823722932724403282024-03-05T23:36:48.491-08:00Tokyo CorrespondenceNotes from a writer beyond the headlinesYuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.comBlogger416125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-53323650733953032682011-07-08T19:49:00.000-07:002011-07-08T20:04:46.546-07:00Announcing YuriKageyama.com<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IPG1orwVEwI/ThfCuMj6mjI/AAAAAAAAAtI/QnK1V-XVnrE/s1600/header.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IPG1orwVEwI/ThfCuMj6mjI/AAAAAAAAAtI/QnK1V-XVnrE/s320/header.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627180358324361778" /></a><br />This is my brand new web site _ <a href="http://yurikageyama.com/">Yuri Kageyama dot com.</a> Thank you <a href="http://ianlynam.com/">Ian Lynam</a> for brilliant design work, a delightful collaboration process and being a patient and fun teacher. I hope I have lots to update on this site. And I hope to keep writing on this blog like the diary and running notebook for my poems that it has always been. And oh, we got another reading: at <a href="http://www.booksmith.com/event/evening-poetry-and-music-yuri-kageyama-eric-kamau-gravatt-and-isaku-kageyama"> The Booksmith </a>in The Haight, a day after the big book party at Yoshi's.Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-47234832526101172372011-06-28T04:29:00.000-07:002011-06-28T04:47:44.376-07:00Please come to my Book Party<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rgeFHwjK88o/Tgm7XSrbWaI/AAAAAAAAAs8/4uT0t75IIC8/s1600/TALKINGTAIKO-9.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rgeFHwjK88o/Tgm7XSrbWaI/AAAAAAAAAs8/4uT0t75IIC8/s400/TALKINGTAIKO-9.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623231618574145954" /></a><br />BOOK PARTY:<br />A celebration of Music and Poetry upon the publication of <br />YURI KAGEYAMA's "The New and Selected Yuri: Writing From Peeling Till Now" from Ishmael Reed Publishing Co.<br />ERIC KAMAU GRAVATT, drummer for McCoy Tyner, Weather Report, Source Code, Charles Mingus, Stanley Clark, Wayne Shorter and many others. <br />ISAKU KAGEYAMA, drummer for Amanojaku, a Tokyo taiko group, Toshinori Kondo, fusion trio Hybrid Soul. <br />MAKOTO HORIUCHI guitar/musical director. <br />Special Guests ISHMAEL REED poet, TENNESSEE REED poet and HIROYUKI SHIDO bass. <br />At Yoshi's restaurant in San Francisco<br />1330 Fillmore Street (at Eddy)<br />TEL: 415-655-5600.<br />Tickets at Yoshi's Box Office: http://sfyoshis.inticketing.com/<br />$15 advance/$20 at door covers both sets 8 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.<br />An evening that challenges preconceptions, crosses borders without even thinking about it and ever so whimsically mixes into a ferocious blend a range of cultures, generations and genres coming together in a single courageous voice of Poetic Song.Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-56201737172508678162011-05-27T20:42:00.000-07:002011-06-04T07:52:43.616-07:00Isaku takes taiko to another place<iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/prrHsZsuBoQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://www.isakukageyama.com/"> Isaku Kageyama </a> believes taiko must claim its legitimate place in the world of great music.<br />Japanese culture is beautiful.<br />But unless Japan can be part of the world and see its place in the true sense _ with all the duties, responsibilities as well as rewards involved _ it won't work. <br />Art is a way of facing up to that important and universal Question _ and maybe one of the few ways where there is a true Answer. <br />Luis Silva made this <a href="http://www.wealljapan.com/video/isaku_kageyama/"> multicultural video statement </a> in his gorgeous documentary for WeAllJapan, that says it all.<br />LONG LIVE GREAT JAPANESE TAIKO MUSIC.<br /><a href="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5185/5760966421_3cf0e92189_s.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 75px; height: 75px;" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5185/5760966421_3cf0e92189_s.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-76642061566587931422011-02-27T04:29:00.000-08:002011-02-27T05:56:19.034-08:00I have a new book out: "The New and Selected Yuri"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK02S2D39dE4AFifcIb3AKtFxPtudcyawTT9TdGPCiPqrR7EHKJvi2Z6utpApIU2ChucaQTz6o1iqrMzaJXPHBOlv2FsrEGHNijA-8lAmm1m5FmNbXoqPDvpc9aMsDPioQpvj71vdw_LA/s1600/bookcover.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK02S2D39dE4AFifcIb3AKtFxPtudcyawTT9TdGPCiPqrR7EHKJvi2Z6utpApIU2ChucaQTz6o1iqrMzaJXPHBOlv2FsrEGHNijA-8lAmm1m5FmNbXoqPDvpc9aMsDPioQpvj71vdw_LA/s400/bookcover.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578345655954463970" /></a><br /><br />I have a new book out: "The New and Selected Yuri _ Writing From Peeling till Now," Ishmael Reed Publishing Co. (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Yuri-Ishmael-Publishing-Company/dp/145354156X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1298810079&sr=8-2"> Amazon US site hardcover,</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.jp/Selected-Yuri-Ishmael-Publishing-Company/dp/145354156X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1298810248&sr=8-4"> Amazon Japan hardcover,</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Selected-Yuri-Writing-Peeling/dp/1453541551/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1298810079&sr=8-1"> Amazon US paperback,</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.jp/Selected-Yuri-Ishmael-Publishing-Company/dp/1453541551/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298810295&sr=8-1"> Japan paperback,</a> ebooks coming soon.) <br />Reed's partner Carla Blank, author, performer, director, dance instructor, edited the book and led me every step of the way. <br />Reed, an award-winning poet, novelist, playwright and professor emeritus at the University of California Berkeley, where I was a student, published my first book of poems <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Peeling/Yuri-Kageyama/e/9780918408266/?itm=3&USRI=yuri+kageyama"> "Peeling" </a> in 1988.<br />"The New and Selected Yuri" compiles the best of my writing _ poetry, fiction and essays _ from the 1970s, including my first poem to ever get published (also by Ishmael Reed) in iconic Berkeley literary magazine "Y'Bird" _ to today. <br />It is one of those strange happenings in life that has connected me to Reed over all these years. <br />I still don't understand it at all. <br />Reed not only published my new book. He also wrote the Foreword: <br /><br />The Yuricane<br /><br />They’ve called Yuri “cute” often during her life. She’s cute all right. Like a tornado is cute. Like a hurricane is cute. This Yuricane. I found that out when she was a student at the University of California at Berkeley in the 1970s. One of her poems about iconic white women became an underground hit on campus.<br />In 2009 the audience at New York City’s Bowery Poetry Club was also blown away by her poem, “Little YELLOW Slut,” a devastating look at the way Asian women are depicted in the media.<br />The New and Selected Yuri includes poems like this; the manner by which Japanese women are imprisoned behind a “Noh mask,” but Kageyama doesn’t leave it at that.<br />Unlike many American Gender First feminists,she is capable of understanding how men are also victims of outmoded customs, though they are not dismissed merely as “reproductive machines,” as one minister was caught saying in an unguarded moment. Women should be “quiet” and have bok choy ready when the men come home from<br />drinking with the boys.<br />It’s also the women, who bear the miscarriages, the abortions, the rapes, the beatings from a father, who, years later, can’t give an explanation for why he did it. In the United States, the white men who own the media and Hollywood blame the brutality against women on the poor and minority men. White middle class women, and their selected minority women, who want to remain on their payrolls in business,<br />politics and academia, have become surrogates in this effort.<br />Courageously, Yuri Kageyama debunks this myth and correctly calls out men of all backgrounds and classes as women abusers. The father who inflicts gratuitous punishment upon his daughter is a NASA scientist. <br />These poems are honest. Blunt. When she says that writing a poem is like taking “a bungee jump,” she means it.<br />Very few of the world poets have Yuri Kageyama’s range. Her poems critique Japanese as well as American society. The Chikan. The arrogance of the gaijin, who, even when guests in a country, insist that everybody be like them. Some are erotic. You might find allusions to Richard Wright, Michelangelo, John Coltrane. Music is not only entertainment but like something that one injects, something that invades the nervous system.<br />I asked writer Haki Madhubuti, what he meant by African Centrism. He said that it was based upon selecting the best of African traditions.<br />Some of Yuri Kageyama’s poems might be considered Nippon Centric. She wants to jettison those customs that oppress both men and women, especially the women, and keep those of value. The Kakijun, The Enryo and The Iki.<br />Ishmael Reed<br />Oakland, California<br />July 8, 2010<br /><br />I hope I live up to those words.Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-62679956366980101392011-02-27T03:54:00.000-08:002011-02-27T04:07:16.386-08:00Haiku for Van GoghHaiku for Van Gogh<br />by Yuri Kageyama <br /><br />An old wooden desk <br />Yellow dots of light shrieking <br />Van Gogh's room <br /><br />Warped plums dagger rain <br />Crazed geisha dance in ukiyoe oil <br />Breathe Van Gogh's Japan <br /><br />Sliced ear of love denied<br />Road to nothing ravens in flight <br />Genius of yellowYuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-16697384047892003632011-02-11T06:46:00.000-08:002011-02-11T20:19:44.653-08:00Fun music in Tokyo<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="480" height="296" id="utv336088" name="utv_n_871616"><param name="flashvars" value="loc=%2F&autoplay=false&vid=12591672&locale=en_US&hasticket=false&id=12591672&v3=1" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/viewer.swf" /><embed flashvars="loc=%2F&autoplay=false&vid=12591672&locale=en_US&hasticket=false&id=12591672&v3=1" width="480" height="296" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" id="utv336088" name="utv_n_871616" src="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/viewer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object><br /><br />Taiko drummer <a href="http://www.isakukageyama.com/"> Isaku Kageyama </a> shows he can swing on traps drums as well, delivering the pulse for Keisuke Kato, the guitarist singing his composition for a Valentine's LOVE get-together at St. Blue in Asakusa, Tokyo, THU Feb. 10, 2011. <br />Some buzzing in the first part of the Ustream video but OK otherwise for an iPhone effort.<br />Below, the encore they said they wouldn't do _ so it's impromptu, blog readers and Ben E. King. <br />Thanks for the music, guys.<br />Everybody had a great time. <br /><br /><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="480" height="296" id="utv93216" name="utv_n_687047"><param name="flashvars" value="loc=%2F&autoplay=false&vid=12591705&locale=en_US&hasticket=false&id=12591705&v3=1" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/viewer.swf" /><embed flashvars="loc=%2F&autoplay=false&vid=12591705&locale=en_US&hasticket=false&id=12591705&v3=1" width="480" height="296" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" id="utv93216" name="utv_n_687047" src="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/viewer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object>Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-45113594693690501122011-01-23T03:18:00.000-08:002011-01-23T03:27:24.287-08:00Music in Tokyo (again)<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="480" height="296" id="utv435556" name="utv_n_145281"><param name="flashvars" value="loc=%2F&autoplay=false&vid=11909545&locale=en_US&hasticket=false&id=11909545&v3=1" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/viewer.swf" /><embed flashvars="loc=%2F&autoplay=false&vid=11909545&locale=en_US&hasticket=false&id=11909545&v3=1" width="480" height="296" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" id="utv435556" name="utv_n_145281" src="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/viewer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object><br /><br />Tokyo rocks when <a href="http://www.facebook.com/carl.freire?sk=info#!/carl.freire?sk=wall"> Carl Freire </a> picks up his guitar and gets up on stage. <br />And what a steady hand I have as videographer with my iPhone.<br />Please admire Carl _ and my steady hand.Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-24237963258512134152011-01-23T02:54:00.000-08:002011-01-23T03:09:39.591-08:00Abortion _ a poem by Yuri KageyamaAbortion<br />_ a poem by Yuri Kageyama <br /><br />circling earth spinning mind<br />I dread the scalpel and the guilt<br />the blood does not come <br /><br />words careless words carefree <br />letters like scalpels that bleed<br />I am made of words<br /><br />so without love<br />the fetus wrenched from within<br />so I turn to words <br /><br />a story stillborn<br />abortion resurrected <br />yet I am made of words <br /><br />taste the characters <br />sumi stroke patterns cover <br />my pale naked skin <br /><br />come home my baby<br />womb wounds of words gaping wide<br />uterus darkness <br /><br />^ --- <<br /><br />This is a poem that developed out of an exchange with a writer on Twitter. The lines are all from my part of the exchange, but we set up a rule so that each had to follow an idea from the other, especially the last line, as an inspiration springboard for the next three lines of haiku. We wrote three lines each day. And we took turns. I never told this other person I was writing about abortion. I have subsequently changed the "we" in some lines to "I." I guess I wanted the statements to be softer in the Twitter exchange by making them come from "we." But I really meant "I." I am grateful to the tweeter who helped me write this poem, a segment at a time, a day at a time, and to Twitter for giving us as a tool for personal poetic expression. It has a different feel from a poem written in a single sitting.Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-25777359064380170782010-12-16T18:51:00.000-08:002011-02-11T20:21:04.879-08:00mix of taiko beats out the new in familiar soundsClick on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ikageyama#p/u/13/uSKoKjv4j9Q"> this, "Midare Uchi" </a> to watch on YouTube in a rare collaboration by drummers from three Tokyo groups plus a kawaii guest.<br />from the recent BEAT AHEAD at Roppongi's SuperDeluxe in Tokyo starring Isaku Kageyama of Amanojaku, Yuu Ishizuka of Bachiatari and Makoto Sekine of Medetai. <br />Below, they join forces on "Bujin" the trademark Amanojaku piece by master composer Yoichi Watanabe. <br />Click on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ikageyama#p/u/12/g2opoOwgqeM"> this </a> to see that _ also on YT as the embedding isn't working for some reason.Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-9122490217155311142010-12-10T08:31:00.001-08:002010-12-16T19:08:34.850-08:00Haiku by Yuri KageyamaHaiku by Yuri Kageyama <br /><br />a blue plastic bag<br />so hard so still no more<br />Tokyo train tracks<br /><br />in my deathly dreams<br />your sweet breath, fat knees, wet hands<br />a child forever<br /><br />timeless tweet timeline<br />scroll blindly touch-panel light<br />mumbles of loneliness <br /><br />I wrote these recently, the last one just a few seconds ago.<br />The first one is about the body bags that we see lying by the railroad tracks because a fair number of Japanese people commit suicide by flinging themselves in front of commuter trains. <br />It is stunning how the bags have an eerily impersonal color, and they are motionless and rigid.<br />But you can tell for some reason that it is a body in there, nothing else. <br />There is nothing that we can do as witnesses except to pray. <br />The body bags are a constant reminder of the otherworldly closeness of death amid the mundane like riding the commuter train to work. <br />They seem to increase during the winter months _ maybe because cold is more depressing than warm, especially if you are feeling down, and maybe because the year-end and New Year's holiday season comes as a stark reminder of how extremely alone a lonely person really is. <br />My third poem is about Twitter, which I do quite actively because it is encouraged on my job. <br />I see how people want to connect to others, not just the people they know in real life, but to others they will never meet. <br />It's called networking, and it shows how the world is a small place in this rapidly globalizing age.<br />As the world turns, the iPhone touch-panel whirls under your fingertips as you scroll the Twitter timeline, showing comments from all over the world, mostly about nothing, and photos of dinners and lunches and sunsets and pets.<br />It is a cool technology and a convenient tool. <br />But it is also about how people are alone but can't stand to be by themselves.<br />People are lonely. <br />The poem in-between is about my recurring dreams, where my son, who is fully grown in his 20s, is still a toddler. <br />My little boy.<br />I wake up, looking for him, almost panicked, wondering if he is OK, and then I am relieved there is no need to worry. <br />It is just a dream. <br />I have always believed death would be like a dream, except you never wake up.<br />And so I realize these dreams are a reminder that I am still always reliving motherhood, though I am just growing older and getting closer to death.<br />I'm reliving that moment of motherhood, with my son being that eternal child, and death will not be an end at all but a recurring dream.<br />I feel as though I am going backward in time.<br />Life has no beginning or end.<br />Death is just a string of pockets of different dreamlike moments, in no particular order, in and out, falling and flying and rising, being lost in a blurry faraway dream.<br /><br />Previous <a href="http://yuri-kageyama.blogspot.com/2009/04/haiku-compiled.html"> Haiku </a> by Yuri Kageyama.Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-33300215848052902422010-12-10T08:15:00.000-08:002010-12-10T08:31:03.336-08:00Music in Tokyo<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="480" height="296" id="utv496588" name="utv_n_471335"><param name="flashvars" value="loc=%2F&autoplay=false&vid=11245267&locale=en_US&hasticket=false&id=11245267&v3=1" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/viewer.swf" /><embed flashvars="loc=%2F&autoplay=false&vid=11245267&locale=en_US&hasticket=false&id=11245267&v3=1" width="480" height="296" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" id="utv496588" name="utv_n_471335" src="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/viewer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object><br /><br />Heard the other day at Gamuso, a cool artsy dive in Tokyo where I have read poetry with music a couple of times, <a href="http://www.polarityrecords.net/sammbennett/sammbennett.html"> Samm Bennett </a> on the diddley bow, a one-string instrument made of a marron glace box, speaking a million words with a single string, his voice and his heart.Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-9993953334673544582010-11-13T03:06:00.000-08:002010-11-13T04:48:40.935-08:00Taiko as REAL MUSIC in Tokyo<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tdHS7FxBqlw?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tdHS7FxBqlw?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />Not your everyday around-the-corner taiko, this is serious music that challenges the boundaries of ethnic tradition and identity and universal eternal art. <br /><a href="http://www.isakukageyama.com/profile/english/profile/"> Isaku Kageyama </a> with Daisuke Watanabe and Chris Holland of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQPNu83q4LU"> Amanojaku </a> Tokyo's top taiko group led by master drummer and composer Yoichi Watanabe play in a collaborative concert with <a href="http://www.yuuishizuka.com/"> Yuu Ishizuka, </a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x4ZBkQ5CL8"> Makoto Sekine. </a> <br />SUN Nov. 28 6 p.m. <br />at Roppongi <a href="http://www.super-deluxe.com/"> SuperDeluxe </a> <br />3-1-25-B1 Nishi Azabu Minato-ku Tokyo, Japan.<br />TEL: 03-5412-0515<br />3,500 yen w/advance reservation. <br />4,000 yen at the door.Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-21506818028922665572010-10-17T04:33:00.000-07:002010-11-13T04:10:28.412-08:00becky naobecky nao<br />a poem by Yuri Kageyama <br /><br />becky nao <br />kicked me so my shins turned purple <br />taunted me daily mimicking my voice <br />becky nao <br />believed there was only one slot <br />for an Asian girl in fourth grade class<br />becky nao <br />the white girls weren't rivals<br />only me, the one other Oriental girl, <br />becky nao<br />slit eyes and black hair, <br />good grades, neat handwriting<br />becky nao<br />if i fell dead, gone, wiped out,<br />she could be that survivor yellow girl<br />becky nao<br />who's going to tell us apart?<br />so there can be only one of us <br />becky nao<br />flicks her eyelashes at blond boys <br />flaunting a fetish, even at age 10 <br />becky nao <br />fat face, fat calves<br />her fat belief as the solitary token<br />becky nao<br />hatred curled tight in a nasty gnarl<br />all for wishing to be that China doll<br />becky naoYuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-10839136045534098522010-10-03T06:06:00.000-07:002010-10-03T06:37:13.176-07:00Taiko drummers Isaku Kageyama, Yuu Ishizuka, Makoto Sekine at Super Deluxe<a href="http://www.super-deluxe.com/images/410-274120101128topamano2flyer.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 410px; height: 560px;" src="http://www.super-deluxe.com/images/410-274120101128topamano2flyer.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Drummer <a href="http://www.isakukageyama.com/"> Isaku Kageyama </a> of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQPNu83q4LU"> Amanojaku </a> collaborates with <a href="http://www.yuuishizuka.com/"> Yuu Ishizuka </a> of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDE9YleIVHs"> Bachiatari </a> and <a href="http://www.taikolab.com/thickbox/sekine.html?TB_iframe=true&height=564&width=750&modal=true"> Makoto Sekine </a> of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lcISsM4SjI"> Taikoshownin Medetai </a> to explore new possibilities in MODERN TAIKO. <br />at <a href="http://www.super-deluxe.com/about/"> Super Deluxe </a> in Roppongi, Tokyo.<br />SUN Nov. 28, 2010. <br />Doors open 5:30 p.m. Music starts 6 p.m. <br />advance 3,500 yen. door 4,000 yen.<br />Make your <a href="http://www.super-deluxe.com/2010/11/28/the-beat-ahead/"> reservations online. </a> <br />B1F 3.1.25 Nishi Azabu, Minato-ku,<br />Tokyo 106-0031, Japan<br />tel: 03-5412-0515 <br />5 minutes walk toward Nishi Azabu on Roppongi dori from Roppongi station (Hibiya Line or Oedo Line).<br />30 seconds walk from Roppongi 6-chome bus stop (TO-01 Shinbashi >> Shibuya).<br />1 minute walk from Roppongi 6-chome bus stop (TO-01 Shibuya >> Shinbashi).Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-91385456069696437522010-10-03T06:02:00.001-07:002010-10-03T06:05:35.859-07:00More Mother Earth Orchestra<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vddfsZARdKs?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vddfsZARdKs?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />Video/photos by Ryan Bruss. <br />Mother Earth Orchestera Sept. 23, 2010 at Kuraki Noh Theater <br />Isaku Kageyama taiko/cajon <br />Winchester Nii Tete African kpanlogo, odono and other drums<br />Nata didgeridoo <br />Cari electric guitarYuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-71825892549912608902010-09-30T21:18:00.000-07:002010-09-30T21:30:54.643-07:00MEO photos by Luis Silva<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qeI5TPkawys/TKVhmfE3J6I/AAAAAAAAAsE/tkd4tgYSfIk/s1600/luis1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qeI5TPkawys/TKVhmfE3J6I/AAAAAAAAAsE/tkd4tgYSfIk/s400/luis1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522927831844595618" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwMdEKzB9jpS6twuLkwbsH8Yi_Z-bkI1FqJfzGBBYVEjCnY53qhTODpe5xjwzW_rRpnyuKgby4q8bnLBOEebSujhO0htsgmQFyTK94woKqTKyaRdoMHl3B-uGRb8j5aD-PsJh7gzuiwrc/s1600/luis2.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwMdEKzB9jpS6twuLkwbsH8Yi_Z-bkI1FqJfzGBBYVEjCnY53qhTODpe5xjwzW_rRpnyuKgby4q8bnLBOEebSujhO0htsgmQFyTK94woKqTKyaRdoMHl3B-uGRb8j5aD-PsJh7gzuiwrc/s400/luis2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522927966513664802" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx70gYLH-KbDSzdtsdwl13LDF8Os9oydgGKBUsZZ4rDb_xklfIo5TLsh8g76FofKBoEbVpD_6Ai-TaKMfriYSd6olJ4y6pNzHTvZTeVYwH73B2s4cIx09aQozT5bCVWac5RLVJN6Hg5uI/s1600/luis3.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx70gYLH-KbDSzdtsdwl13LDF8Os9oydgGKBUsZZ4rDb_xklfIo5TLsh8g76FofKBoEbVpD_6Ai-TaKMfriYSd6olJ4y6pNzHTvZTeVYwH73B2s4cIx09aQozT5bCVWac5RLVJN6Hg5uI/s400/luis3.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522927516572016194" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qeI5TPkawys/TKVhNHdacWI/AAAAAAAAAr0/NPABOSsNT3s/s1600/luis4.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qeI5TPkawys/TKVhNHdacWI/AAAAAAAAAr0/NPABOSsNT3s/s400/luis4.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522927396008391010" /></a><br /><br />Great photos by Luis Silva _ a video-journalist/photographer/artist who creates <a href="http://www.wealljapan.com/"> We All Japan </a> _ from the recent Noh stage concert by <a href="http://www.isakukageyama.com/"> Isaku Kageyama </a> and his <a href="http://yuri-kageyama.blogspot.com/2010/09/mother-earth-orchestra.html"> Mother Earth Orchestra. </a>Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-29739638215792040882010-09-30T19:27:00.001-07:002010-09-30T19:31:28.001-07:00Goals to go forWhat I found and was happy to find from taiko drummer <a href="http://www.isakukageyama.com/profile/english/profile/"> Isaku Kageyama </a> and what is the dream of all arists: <br /><br />I wanted to play at the highest possible level that was humanly imaginable. <br />I wanted a feeling that somehow the music I was playing was “my own.”Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-22750020354644586022010-09-24T05:39:00.000-07:002010-09-24T05:53:07.651-07:00Amanojaku's Dotou<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6Ro51iaffyo?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6Ro51iaffyo?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />Found on YouTube this video of Amanojaku performing "Dotou" at a Tokyo school July 2010.<br />They smoke! <br />A great taiko tune by Amanojaku leader and master drummer Yoichi Watanabe. <br />From left to right:<br />Isaku Kageyama, Chris Holland and Daisuke Watanabe.Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-87361347700855396932010-09-24T04:58:00.000-07:002010-09-24T05:17:06.786-07:00MOTHER EARTH ORCHESTRA<a href="http://blog.nata-web.com/images/DSC00257.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 430px; height: 288px;" src="http://blog.nata-web.com/images/DSC00257.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />from left to right <br />Winchester Nii Tete, NATA, Cari and Isaku Kageyama.<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qeI5TPkawys/TJyU940YGMI/AAAAAAAAArg/Fxc5FW2ylhw/s1600/P1000252.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qeI5TPkawys/TJyU940YGMI/AAAAAAAAArg/Fxc5FW2ylhw/s400/P1000252.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520451034194385090" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qeI5TPkawys/TJyVbCums3I/AAAAAAAAAro/RWcZuhJa36A/s1600/P1000261.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qeI5TPkawys/TJyVbCums3I/AAAAAAAAAro/RWcZuhJa36A/s400/P1000261.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520451535070737266" /></a><br />Mother Earth Orchestra brought together instruments from various continents to a Noh Theater to take us on a musical journey that showed great potential of innovation.<br />It showed the music is truly evolving from its launch at Tokyo Harajuku Crocodile just a month ago. <br />Music allows for such development through collaborations that can be more than the sum of its parts. <br />And Music directs us to further fulfillment.Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-15724491556795923042010-09-22T05:51:00.000-07:002010-09-22T07:05:18.859-07:00Isaku Kageyama's Mother Earth Orchestra<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qeI5TPkawys/TJn-i-9XkEI/AAAAAAAAArU/FyRBf3CwOnw/s1600/motherearth.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qeI5TPkawys/TJn-i-9XkEI/AAAAAAAAArU/FyRBf3CwOnw/s400/motherearth.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519722695288655938" /></a><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5AmOc97Bmsw&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5AmOc97Bmsw&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://www.isakukageyama.com/"> ISAKU KAGEYAMA </a> and the MOTHER EARTH ORCHESTRA at Yokohama Kuraki Noh Theatre<br /><br />Taiko, African percussion, digeridoo and electric guitar celebrate our time on Mother Earth with organic beats and melodies.<br /><br />THURSDAY, September 23 6:30 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.) <br />Kuraki Noh Theatre 8-21-7 Okamura Isogo-ku Yokohama<br />2,500 yen (2,000 yen with reservations: e-mail Isaku @isakukageyama@gmail.com<br /><br />How to get to <a href="http://j.mp/bGiIZ2"> Kuraki Noh Theatre </a><br /><br />A 15 minute cab ride from Isogo Station.<br />Or take bus 64 or 78 from Isogo station on the JR line or Byobugaura station on the Keikyu line and get off at Sasabori. <br />Five minute walk from Sasabori bus stop. <br /><br />MOTHER EARTH ORCHESTRA <br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/carijapan?gl=JP&hl=ja"> Cari </a> (guitar)<br /><a href="http://www.nata-web.com/"> NATA </a> (digeridoo) <br /><a href="http://www.niitete.net/"> Winchester Nii Tete </a> (percussion)<br /><a href="http://soundjewel.symphie.jp/ensooka/kageyama_isaku/index.php"> Isaku Kageyama </a>(taiko)<br /><br />マザー・アース・オーケストラ 久良岐能舞台でライブ<br /><br />和太鼓、アフリカン・パーカッション、ディジュリデュ、ギターのコラボバンドとして独自の音楽性を持つマザー・アース・オーケストラが久良岐能舞台にてライブを行います。<br /><br />日時: 9月23日(木・祝) 開場18:00 開演18:30<br />場所: 久良岐能舞台 (神奈川県横浜市磯子区岡村8-21-7)<br />料金: 当日2500円 予約2000円<br /><br />予約は: isakukageyama@gmail.com までメールをお送りください。<br /><br />久良岐能舞台へのアクセスはこちらをご覧ください:<br />http://www.kuraki-noh.jp/navigation.pdf<br /><br />出演:<br /><br /><a href="http://moonlinx.jp/headline/music/000602.php"> 影山伊作 </a> (和太鼓)<br />太鼓集団天邪鬼の正メンバーとして国内外で活躍し、ミュージシャンとしても多大な可能性を感じさせる期待の若手奏者。太鼓集団天邪鬼の舞台で見せる本格的な和太鼓演奏に加え、ジャンルを超えた様々なアーティストとの熱いセッションにも注目が集まるマルチプレーヤー。<br /><br />伝統と創造、和と洋、古来とアヴァンギャルド、様々な要素が交差する独自の音楽性を活かし、コンサートホール、ライブハウス、クラブイベント、レコーディング、舞台のみならず、CM(あいおい損保・新日本建物)や数多くのテレビ番組(SMAP X SMAP、未来図鑑)に出演。<br /><br />ジャズトランペットの近藤等則、DJ Yama aka Sahib、アフリカン・パーカッションのWinchester Nii Tete、ロックギタリストのCariなどとのコラボレーションに加え、ロックギター、ジャズベースとのコラボバンド「Hybrid Soul」や民謡バンド「Minyo Ensemble of Tokyo」を立ち上げるなど、幅広い音楽活動が高く評価されている。 <br /><br />with <br />Cari (ギター)<br />NATA (ディジュリデュ)<br />ウィンチェスター・ニー・テテ(パーカッション)Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-60294673661481083182010-09-04T21:13:00.000-07:002010-09-04T21:19:03.000-07:00Poem Breaking SilenceMy poem "Disco Chinatown" is in "Breaking Silence," an anthology of Asian American poetry (1983: Greenfield Review Press) featured in the latest edition of this online magazine <a href="http://asiacana.livejournal.com/7754.html"> "asiacana." </a><br /><br />Disco Chinatown<br />a poem by Yuri Kageyama<br /><br />street blood throbbing<br />punk maggots of the slums with fake ID's <br />smelling British sterling<br />cover the stink of sweat, car grease and dirt<br />and the blood from being cut up by a Jo<br />or is it W.C?<br />slant eye to slant eye talking<br />smooth talking or trying,<br />"hey, baby-<br />looking nice tonight"<br />spilling sunrises<br />margaritas<br />bourbons with cherries<br />giddy easy striding to make it to my table<br />in your own eyes, a ghetto knight,<br />"wanna drink?"<br />in a flash and a flick, light my cigarette<br />the dance floor is dead tonight<br />linoleum cracked<br />the Filipino D.J. Berkeley Asian American Studies drop out is stoned<br />and even the lights look neon sleazy<br />you want me to move, a wax museum dancing doll, under your macho<br />gaze,<br />or in your arms, rocking following your rocks,<br />layered black hair,<br />moustache, always, to tickle the quick kisses,<br />cheap shiny shirt, four buttons open,<br />a jade pendant swaying against yellow brown flesh,<br />darker brown leather and long long legs,<br />you want to take me home<br />and the grip on my shoulder tightens,<br />you driving a Camaro Z28?<br />an Olds 442?<br />a broken down Malibu?<br />a Caddy Eldorado?<br />you want to be rich someday<br />you want to enjoy life, you say,<br />cuz it's so so short,<br />ALL girls want you for their old man,<br />"in bed, I have a good body,<br />opium makes me last<br />and last<br />I'm ten inches<br />and, "a smile,<br />"this thick"<br />you play the mind games with a too ridiculous seriousness<br />not another escape out just for kicks<br />your street male pride can't take no scratches<br />you'll kick my ass when the number I give you isn't mine<br />you tell me not to dance with anyone else<br />when I just met you tonight<br />and isn't your old lady waiting at your apartment?<br />hardened hard up<br />Ricksha stray tiger cat<br />your life view quite<br />doesn't<br />touch mine<br />and being gang banged isn't my type of thrill<br />disco steps don't silence sirens<br />and the skyscraper lights don't touch Grant Avenue on a Friday night<br />Golden Dragon massacred meat can't ever be pieced back together again<br />black lights and hanging ferns or Remy sweetness can't hide<br />spilled out alley fish guts<br />that tell you and tell you<br />there just ain't no future<br />your hands grope<br />your eyes closed<br />your tongue dry<br />your penis limp<br />poor ChinaMAN-childYuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-20090739371366484842010-09-04T19:24:00.000-07:002010-09-04T19:28:44.905-07:00Yuricane after action<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH293R0a7BXFIBDCa-DdUcZGH7hlqhSBb_pZNzNscQi5ScZyTVG6zOF56a6kcI_RYhRjYE21MCnWxFT5T_qH7Azi8pPmZ8F4UJL1hGUmJs2U52hnflizzI_7qxYGL3-htfh_ur2QT-WUo/s1600/okonomiyaka.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH293R0a7BXFIBDCa-DdUcZGH7hlqhSBb_pZNzNscQi5ScZyTVG6zOF56a6kcI_RYhRjYE21MCnWxFT5T_qH7Azi8pPmZ8F4UJL1hGUmJs2U52hnflizzI_7qxYGL3-htfh_ur2QT-WUo/s320/okonomiyaka.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513250191445885346" /></a>Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-81407776524674291912010-09-02T21:23:00.000-07:002010-09-02T21:54:37.313-07:00Poetry and Music in Tokyo this Saturday<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qeI5TPkawys/TIB4uUdf95I/AAAAAAAAAqs/2_OL5K-zdFk/s1600/pytagain.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 315px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qeI5TPkawys/TIB4uUdf95I/AAAAAAAAAqs/2_OL5K-zdFk/s400/pytagain.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512538681063241618" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qeI5TPkawys/TIB43Y8-HQI/AAAAAAAAAq0/lm2t6352vVg/s1600/gamusomap.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qeI5TPkawys/TIB43Y8-HQI/AAAAAAAAAq0/lm2t6352vVg/s400/gamusomap.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512538836887805186" /></a><br />I'm used to talking to myself. <br />But please stop by for the Yuricane poetry and music SAT Sept. 4 at 7 p.m. (doors open 6:30 p.m.) <br /><a href="http://www.gamuso.com/"> Gamuso </a> in Asagaya, Tokyo. <br />FREE ADMISSION. <br /><br />Excerpted from the foreword by <a href="http://www.ishmaelreedpub.com/"> Ishmael Reed </a> for my upcoming book of poems and short stories, "The New and Selected Yuri: Writing From Peeling till Now":<br /><br />The Yuricane (an excerpt)<br />By Ishmael Reed<br /><br />They’ve called Yuri “cute” often during her life. She’s cute all right. Like a tornado is cute. Like a hurricane is cute. This Yuricane. I found that out when she was a student at the University of California at Berkeley. <br />One of her poems about iconic white women became an underground hit on campus.<br />The audience at the Bowery Poetry Club was also blown away by her poem, "Little YELLOW Slut," a devastating look at the way Asian women are depicted in the media ....<br /><br />Little YELLOW Slut <br />By Yuri Kageyama <br />first published in KONCH MAGAZINE, 2009. <br /><br />You know her: <br />That Little YELLOW Slut, proudly gleefully <br />YELLOW-ly hanging on Big Master's arm, <br />War bride, geisha, <br />GI's home away from home, <br />Whore for last samurai,<br />Hula dancer with seaweed hair, <br />Yoko Ohno, <br />Akihabara cafe maid,<br />Hi-Hi Puffy Ami/Yumi,<br />Kawaiiii like keitai,<br />Back-up dancer for Gwen Stefani,<br />Your real-life Second Life avatar<br />Eager to deliver your freakiest fetish fantasies,<br />Disco queen, skirt up the crotch, <br />Fish-net stockings, bow-legged, anorexic, raisin nipples, tip-toeing Roppongi on <br />Stiletto heels.<br /><br />Yessu, i spikku ingrishhu, i raikku gaijeeen, they kiss you, <br />hold your hand, open doors for me, <br />open legs for you, giggling pidgin, covering mouth, <br />so happy to be <br />Little YELLOW Slut.<br /><br />Everybody's seen her: <br />That Little YELLOW Slut, waiting at <br />Home, cooking rice, the Japanese <br />Condoleezza Rice, <br />Smelling of sushi, <br />Breath and vagina, <br />Fish and vinegar, <br />Fermented rice,<br />Honored to be <br />Cleaning lady,<br />Flight attendant for Singapore Airlines, <br />Charlie Chan's Angel, <br />Nurse maid, gardener, Japan-expert's wife,<br />Mochi manga face, <br />Yodeling minyo, growling enka,<br />Sex toy, slant-eyes closed, licking, tasting, swallowing STD semen,<br />Every drop.<br /><br />Yessu, i wanna baby who looohkuh gaijeen, double-fold eye, translucent skin, international school PTA, <br />maybe grow up to be fashion model, even joshi-ana, <br />not-not-not happy to be <br />Little YELLOW Slut.<br /><br />I recognize her: <br />That Little YELLOW Slut, rejecting <br />Japanese, rejected by Japanese, <br />Ashamed, <br />Empty inside, <br />They all look alike,<br />Faceless, hoping to forget, escape <br />To America, <br />Slant-eyed clitoris,<br />Adopted orphan, <br />Dream come true for pedophiles,<br />Serving sake, pouring tea, spilling honey, <br />Naturalized citizen,<br />Buying Gucci, <br />Docile doll, <br />Rag-doll, Miss Universe, manic harakiri depressive, rape victim, she is <br />You, she is me.<br /><br />Hai, hai, eigo wakarimasen, worship Big Master for mind, matter, muscle, money, body size correlates to penis size, <br />waiting to be sexually harassed, so sorry, so many, <br />so sad to be <br />Little YELLOW Slut.Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-29185755115935632902010-08-27T01:04:00.000-07:002010-08-27T01:23:26.857-07:00behold the eggbehold the egg<br />a poem by Yuri Kageyama <br /><br />behold the egg <br />boil it with a pinch of salt<br />for the simplest meal <br />full of Vitamin D <br />behold the egg<br />paint it pink, blue, green <br />to hide and find for Easter<br />remember resurrection<br />behold the egg<br />embraced by a brittle shell <br />the secret of life <br />not quite round but whole <br />behold the egg <br />waiting blind and eyeless <br />for a blind, eyeless sperm <br />to give birth that can finally see<br />behold the egg <br />behold the eggYuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682372293272440328.post-46624874104934546402010-08-23T06:12:00.000-07:002010-08-23T06:31:55.113-07:00up close video of Mother Earth Orchestra<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5AmOc97Bmsw?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5AmOc97Bmsw?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />better view and sound courtesy of bassist <a href="http://www.facebook.com/cirquebass?v=wall"> Craig Harris </a> and more on his Facebook video section. <br />Thank you Craig Harris.Yuri Kageyamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719207020021557665noreply@blogger.com0