how movies can reveal the true nature of human beings.
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GRADUATED and RETURNING
KshKnxnStudio projects resuming, in preparation for 10 years of KshKnxnStudio music in May.
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[2011.06.20] 風になる（コスモス寮祭リハーサル）— Kaze ni Naru (Cosmos Festival rehearsal)
Found this while cleaning out my computer. Listening to this reminds me of the hot… humid… good ole summer days, when I left my room window open for all the world to hear our practice. DX lol
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“For each of us eventually whether we are ready or not, someday it will come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours, or days. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else. Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance; it will not matter what you owned or owed. Your grudges, resentments, frustrations and jealousies will finally disappear. So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans and to-do lists will expire.
The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away. It won’t matter where you came from or on what side of the tracks you lived at the end. It won’t matter if you were beautiful or brilliant. Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.
So what will matter?
How will the value of your days be measured?
What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built. Not what you got, but what you gave.
What will matter is not your success, but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.
What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage, or sacrifice that enriched, empowered, or encouraged others to emulate your example.
What will matter is not your competence, but your character.
What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you are gone.
What will matter is not your memories, but the memories that live in those who loved you.
A life lived that matters, is not of circumstance, but of choice.”
— A Beautiful Truth, a docmentary on a cross-country road trip to investigate The Gerson Therapy
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Got a new camera. Canon SX40HS. just in time for the foliage change.
24-840mm zoom. wooooot.
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As I’m compiling all of my musical pieces and compositions into one folder on my desktop for the CD I’m putting together for archiving early next year, the current number I have is 30 completed pieces. I have about 10 more in the making/remastering. Wow. November is here. I still have two months before 2012 to complete all outlying projects, so that I can redo my site and all that good stuff for 10 Years of KshKnxnStudio. w00t w00t
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Nearly 10 Years Ago — ほぼ10年前のこと
While cleaning out my computer, I found this recording of a gig I did as a band at one of the tri-area meetings at the Florida Nature and Culture Center (FNCC). We played a song called “Peace Forever” in front of an audience of nearly 1000 people. I wasn’t the best of players, but when we played together we played with heart and that’s all that we had going for us. The biggest thrill of my life.
パソコンの整理をしてたら、ほぼ10年前の創価学会の会合で演奏した曲のレコーディング。千人の前で「Peace Forever」という曲だった。自分は「プロ」でもいえるぐらいのレベルじゃなかったけど、みんなと合わせたら心の底から演奏した。たぶん自分にとってこれは人生の中で一番の思い出になった演奏だと思う。
Guitar & Vocal: TK — Bass: Kurt — Drums: Kana — Keyboard: Kusho — Violin: Erica — Viola: Jade — Flute: Jenna
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
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Violent resistance and non-violent resistance share one very important thing in common: they’re both a form of theater, seeking an audience to their cause. If violent actors are the only ones constantly getting front-page cover and attracting international attention […] it becomes very hard for non-violent leaders to make the case to their communities that civil disobedience is a viable option in addressing their plight.
