Also I got my hair cut--bangs in my eyes can be a headache factor--and enjoyed myself as usual grumbling with the salon lady about politics. She is maybe late fifties, with bright red-purple hair, the middle one in three generations of single mothers, very kind and fiercely liberal; I keep telling her she should run for office herself, and I wish she would.
Wow. Most Japanese people I know are not really into politics. I mean to the extent about grumbling about a particular policy or a particular politician... but I got the idea from them that the main parties are really not all that dissimilar and the attitude is 'to hell with both of them'. I certainly don't know anyone who might at all qualify as an activist, even to a minimal level. (Except the shouty guys at train stations, but I don't know them, thank god.)
Götterdämmerung... you know, we seem to have a lot of musical taste in common, but I have this huuuuuge gap between the early Romantics and... Queen, essentially, where I don't like any of the music at all, while you seem to be able to appreciate almost anything! I'm envious! Of Wagner I like Lohengrin and Tannhäuser, and I'd probably like Der Fliegende Holländer if I ever listened to it. But even the early Ring stuff has long passages where I just... can't, and by the time you get to Tristan und Isolde I don't last through Act 1. Is it Tristan or Götterdämmerung which starts with those three women screeching dissonantly? Wait they were Norns so must have been the latter. Anyway, that scarred me for life.
I always liked German mythology (I have views on the Nibelungenlied) so I tried, so, so hard too listen to all that but... ouch. No.
Thank you for the vocab: I only knew 傘 かさ at this point. :)
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Date: 2020-12-27 04:30 pm (UTC)Wow. Most Japanese people I know are not really into politics. I mean to the extent about grumbling about a particular policy or a particular politician... but I got the idea from them that the main parties are really not all that dissimilar and the attitude is 'to hell with both of them'. I certainly don't know anyone who might at all qualify as an activist, even to a minimal level. (Except the shouty guys at train stations, but I don't know them, thank god.)
Götterdämmerung... you know, we seem to have a lot of musical taste in common, but I have this huuuuuge gap between the early Romantics and... Queen, essentially, where I don't like any of the music at all, while you seem to be able to appreciate almost anything! I'm envious! Of Wagner I like Lohengrin and Tannhäuser, and I'd probably like Der Fliegende Holländer if I ever listened to it. But even the early Ring stuff has long passages where I just... can't, and by the time you get to Tristan und Isolde I don't last through Act 1. Is it Tristan or Götterdämmerung which starts with those three women screeching dissonantly? Wait they were Norns so must have been the latter. Anyway, that scarred me for life.
I always liked German mythology (I have views on the Nibelungenlied) so I tried, so, so hard too listen to all that but... ouch. No.
Thank you for the vocab: I only knew 傘 かさ at this point. :)