My last film work in Japan will be screened Mar. It’s an omnibus of shorts themed with “Lie”. I composed music for one of them “Keep holding me” just before I came to LA. The omnibus will be released on 13 Mar. As for “Keep holding me”, it is screened on 22-26 Mar at Eurospace 2 @Shibuya, Tokyo, from 21pm. The charge is 1000 JPY.

LAに来る直前にやった日本での最後の作品が上映されます。「嘘」を題材にしたオムニバス作品の一つ「離さないで」に曲を作りました。3月13日(土)公開。「離さないで」については22日～26日、ユーロスペース２（渋谷）21時からの上映で、入場料は1000円です。

Honestly, I was so disappointed at Apple’s new product iPad. It’s not for me. But I realized what market this product is for.
I don’t need this because of battery, size, function. This device is just a big iPod touch. You will need Kindle (or other e-book device), smart phone and laptop. If you don’t want to bring both Kindle and laptop, even after you can compromise with e-book and laptop, iPad is your solution. But I can’t compromise this way. They said “better than the laptop, better than the smartphone.” This is, however, “worse than the laptop, worse than the smartphone“, unfortunately.

I misunderstood that I could call for free with Google Voice. But even if you use GV for your call, it uses your mobile phone call, so you will use your minutes or be charged. Some people are explaining a solution for this problem, I mean “How to Make Unlimited Free Calls on Your Cellphone with Google Voice”. You can learn from this article. BUT

I intended to save money by using the technic I wrote yesterday. But T-mobile don’t allow you to contract data only plan without Social Security Number. I didn’t know that. Actually, T-mobile website says “If you do not wish to provide your Social Security number, you may purchase your phone in one of our T-Mobile retail stores.” so I though I could buy SIM card with data only plan in T-mobile store. But I couldn’t.

I learned this technic from LifeHacker’s article: How a $530 Nexus One Might Actually Make Sense. But I think you can save more money.

It’s been really long time since the last blog post. I’ve been busy. Of course I have plenty of time as I have no job, but I stayed here Tokyo on Oct for a couple of weeks and met many people. I composed musics for a feature-length film “海への扉” on Nov. Now I am in Tokyo again. I arrived here on 2 Dec. I’m getting home Kobe on 15 Dec. If you’re available in Tokyo, gimme a call.

Though I thought “海への扉” would be the last work of mine before leaving for LA, actually, I might get other job, a short film. It’s unpaid job, btw. When it’s fixed. I will announce here. FIY: “海への扉” will be screened on early summer 2010 and its DVD will be released on late winter 2010.

今日からKyoto Filmmakers’ Labです。4泊5日の合宿ワークショップ。世界中から若手の映画クリエーターが集まります。日本人は半分以下で、公用語は英語です。むきー！大変そう。勉強になりそう。大変そう。大変そう。京都東映・松竹の撮影所で行われる5分程の短編時代劇の撮影を含みます。今日は押井守監督の話も聞けたりします。楽しみ。現在せっせせっせと自分のデモCDを焼き焼き中。

From today, Kyoto Filmmakers’ Lab is going to be held. It is 4-night-5-day workshop camp. Many young filmmakers are coming from all over the world. Japanese are less than half. English is spoken there. wow! It sounds hard.. good for training.. hard… The program includes shooting short Jidaigeki which is about 5-minute length. I am looking forward to Japanese famous director Mamoru Oshii’s lecture today. Now I am burning my demo CDs.

Today, I started reading “The Jazz Piano Book“, which is very well-established jazz piano theory textbook. It is very hard to talk about music theory in English because I don’t know enough words to describe music. so I determined to start reading a music theory book in English. I finally started it. My language exchange partner told me about the book. By the reviews about the book, it seems to be very well-established. Then I chose the one. Since I read other book describing introduction of jazz theory in Japanese, I could manage to understand. Otherwise, it is even harder to understand English jazz theory book for me. Today I read from chapter 2 to 4. skipped chapter 1.

I wrote the article introducing how to use SIMBL with 64bit Safari before. Now new SIMBL, which is compatible with 64bit, has been released as beta version(0.9.1b). You never have to load SIMBL as web-plugin as this article.

You can download it here.

PS(2009/9/8): with 0.9.1b, once you restart computer, SIMBL is not loaded automatically. Just after installation it is. This problem has been solved with 0.9.2b. It’s also available at here.

I mentioned about iStat Menus before. Everyone needs iStat Menus, which work in Snow Leopard. The author said “Sorry, we’re not giving out any more copies of the iStat Menus 2.0 beta. Those who have tested it have really helped us though. Thanks.”

However, I found it uploaded. It is not safe. It might contain virus or something like that. If you are brave, try it. I think this would be removed immediately, so get it soon. Here.