Kanji

By the way, I've been working on a project called "Thoroughly use this notebook for secondary and tertiary use, and suck it all to the bone", but I've been working on "Creating an English translation blog" and "Podcasting the translated text out loud".

Oh, by the way, the "case where the podcast wasn't distributed despite a notice from Google Podcasts that it was available" has been resolved before we knew it.

KANASHIBARI Radio:Google podcasts

That's why I've completed the "Japanese -> English" and "Text -> Voice" sections, but isn't there anything else?

I think the elements of expression are "text, sound, color (still image), and motion (video)", and this "text" is the note, isn't it? And "translating" means converting sentences into English, and "reading out loud" means converting sentences into sounds. These can be applied to other applications, such as "French translation" and "reading out loud".

And other than that, it would be nice to be able to convert "text to color (still image)" or "text to motion (video)".

So I tried to look for something that uses AI to automatically generate images and videos from text, but I couldn't find anything convenient like that.

Then I remembered a news story I saw the other day about Tommy Lee of Mötley Crüe getting a tattoo of the Chinese character for "truth" on his face.

Motley Crue's Tommy Lee gets 'truth' tattooed on his face

Come to think of it, kanji itself is an art form, isn't it? It's exactly like calligraphy.

So that means...

'Oh! I think I've found the opportunity for another flaw in my life..." So, I'll be back tomorrow to tell you the rest of the story (as promised).

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"Mountain Day" Eve

Just the other day I was asked, "Well, do you have more holidays these days? I've just written what I just wrote, but to my surprise, we're still in the middle of the holiday season! What the hell is going on here? If you don't work and play around all the time, you're going to get hurt now! (A grasshopper.)

Drinking and celebrating

Well, today is just a Sunday, but I heard that tomorrow is the usual "Mountain Day".

What in the world is a "Mountain Day"? So, as usual, I asked Wikipedia about it.
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Although the purpose of the festival is "to give people the opportunity to become familiar with the mountains and appreciate their bounty," it does not have a clear origin, such as a special mountain-related event.
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And when I read the article carefully, it seems that it was established with the intention of making "the day after the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics" a holiday, and the word "mountain" is just a complication.

Then, why don't we just change it to "the day after the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics"? Or "the day after the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics" for short.

Anyway, tomorrow is the first Mountain Day since I found out about it (it was enforced in 2016). The eve of it! Pre-opening and (no)! It's Eve and Eve! The ones on the menu, bring as many as there are from the most expensive ones!

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If you don't have bread, you can have cake

Time goes by fast. If time is this raging, it's no wonder it's not easy to regain love and trust once it's lost.

It was a long time ago when we flew around the world from scorching deserts to frozen forests in search of the perfect thickness of strings for drop C tuning. Now I'm completely back to my old ways, cackling and cackling in drop D tuning and playing my guitar.

And then I realized that it was time to change the strings. I found this thing on my desk, which had become an object.

It's been three weeks already since I bought this guy. Time has gone brutally fast. This guy is probably the best choice for drop C tuning, but as I mentioned earlier, the current Ore-sama is "What is a Doro-Pushie? (Nose Hoji)". But the strings are there, so you have to put them up. Like a climber who climbs a mountain because it's there.

After I started to re-split the strings, I was astonished to find out the truth.

The ball end of the first string was not neatly hooked up. This is not in the process of removing it for a string replacement. It had been in this condition for over a month since the last time I put it on.

I can't believe I've been playing it like this for over a month, cackling and singing and gobbling it up! It's too embarrassing! If I had a hole in the ground, I'd do that thing all night long (it's a picnic)!

I was so embarrassed that I took off the strings in a daze and strung the new ones in turn.

Then

Suddenly the new four-string snapped off. No, it came off so irresistibly that the word "snapped" is not appropriate. Maybe it was already broken. This is before I wrapped the strings around the pegs and right after I put the strings through the tailpiece. It was as if it was the natural order of things.

I've used strings in many different states before (like new but bent at right angles), but this is a first. It's a novelty. No, I would call it a revolution. Yes! The battle has been fought out! If you don't have any bread, eat your cake!

I still have one more set to go, but I wonder what's going to happen.

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I could have swum the whole ocean

We went through a storm of pods, swam through a sea of casts, and finally did it, yeah.

Rumor after rumor led to rumor, and Kanashibari Radio, which was said to be on the verge of drowning in a sea of rumors, is now available on Google Podcast.

Oh, thank goodness. Now all the starving beastly Kanashibarists of the world can get their daily showers of KanashiBARI Radio to their heart's content. Honestly, I'm so glad! Time to feast, you hungry wolves!

Before we celebrate, "First, let's see that momentous delivery launch with our own eyes! So I opened up the Google Podcasts app, which I had installed on my phone and prepared in advance, and typed in "KANASHIBARI Radio" with the index finger of my trembling right hand.

Hmm?

I can't get out.

Huh? I thought, "That's weird," so I checked the Google Podcast admin page and there's not a single episode that's been distributed. I've got 10 episodes out so far, but not a single one. What do you mean?

Hmmm... I'm not sure about Google Podcasts.

Also, I'm not sure if it's officially called "Google Podcasts" or "Google Podcasts".

I feel like my blood is going to boil in my body today.


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DEAD BOYS Pitch

The world is full of "cool" rock albums, and no one would argue that this one is definitely one of those five, right?

This is "Younger, Louder, & Snottier", a rough mix version of the first album "Young Loud And Snotty"...by the well-known New York punk band DEAD BOYS.

Here's the cover for the original version.

The rough-mix version is rougher and cooler! I've often been told that, and I've always thought so too, but now that I've listened to it, I've come to realize that the original version is better, or maybe I just like the original version better, because it has a better balance. But if you're listening to it on a boombox without the bass, the rough mix version is definitely better. The sound quality of the rough mix version is rough at best, and it's a little hollow at worst.

The reason why I've brought up the topic of the DEAD BOYS' first album being so cool is because I've been into changing the pitch of the recorded sound.

Today's technology is amazing (well, it's been around for a long time now), and it's possible to change the pitch of a recorded sound without changing the speed of the sound. Of course the sound quality is degraded, but sometimes it's nice to be able to include that in the mix. I tried turning down the toms on the drums, or the tuning of the strings (I always turn them down).

Then I remembered that in the 70s, when I tried to copy them on the guitar, they didn't seem to be in tune. In those days, it was quite common to speed up the speed of the songs to create a bouncy, tense sound, and as a result the pitch was a little higher.

And I thought that's what happened with this album, and I listened to it again...wasn't that the case...or was it? For example, Sonic Reducer, the first track on the album, is in the key of exactly D. There's nothing weird about it. However, if you watch the video of their live show, this song is in D flat. It's not a problem if you think of it as a "lowered" tuning only for live performances, but I doubt a band like this would do that. I think they took what was recorded in a lowered semitone and turned it up a semitone to give it a sense of speed and tension.

By the way, I went to Amazon to get the image of the album cover, and I was shocked to find that the first album of DEAD BOYS was classified as "Heavy Metal". It's almost as shocking as the fact that "Sonic Youth" was classified as "Heavy Metal", and Amazon likes to classify Western music as "Heavy Metal" anyway, don't they?

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