I woke up early this morning and read the dictionary. i had a bunch of words i wanted to look up, mainly nmaes to try to the understand some of the possible connotations of the names of characters in a novel I am writing. Michael means "like God" and Frank means "Liberal, generous, unreserved" after the character of the Germanic invaders of gaul ( ( Read more... )

Well another great week-end in this great city, Kyoto, mother of my soul. I went down to Demachiyanagi for the drumming jam on Friday night with Lazo and Ian Ropke then got to bed late ( Read more... )

The weekend was another blur of parties by the river and in bars. The heavy rain put a bit of a damper on things but I had lots of good yarns to my mates and a wild night on friday walking down the Takanogawa river and singing in the rain and remembering the old days when i first got to Kyoto ( Read more... )

Behind the catholic church ( Read more... )

I have had a really busy week. First I caught a cold then I had a to write a bunch of papers for the course I am doing in linguistics. A lot of the material was kind of interesting to read about but writing about it was not much fun. I had to rush to get it in ( Read more... )

Wet and wild and cold again today after a lovely weekend. Typhoon after typhoon comes in from the China Sea band drenches the isles of Japan in bucket after bucket of wet cold rain...not too heavy though, like last week ( Read more... )

We had a big typhoon during the week and a lot of peaople were killed, about 60, mostly from landslides ( Read more... )

I had a very busy week-end hanging out at the riverside meeting people. I went to a drumming jam at Demachiyanagi on Friday night then on Saturday I went to a picnic in the same place then i rode up to Yoshida with my friend "Be" to see Indian devotional music from Bengal (Baul). It was great. I want to go back to India ( Read more... )

It is a cool sunny Autumn day. There is Baul devotional music (from Bengal)on this weekend in Kyoto. I will probably check it out ( Read more... )

I had a great week-end hanging out by the river with my friends drinking beer, barbecueing and swimming and playing round with drums and a didgeridoo ( Read more... )