{"id":13,"date":"2004-06-21T01:11:31","date_gmt":"2004-06-21T09:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbueno.com\/wp\/meisakuki\/2004\/06\/21\/aa_utagoe\/"},"modified":"2004-06-21T01:11:31","modified_gmt":"2004-06-21T09:11:31","slug":"aa_utagoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/2004\/06\/21\/aa_utagoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Aa, utagoe &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn. I haven&#8217;t posted to this thing in [does quick math from last entry] six months.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s nothing much, really, to report.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve gotten nowhere with the fiction because I&#8217;ve been busy re-settling down with the current job and re-settling down with my old apartment which became my new apartment once again. Yeah. That sentence doesn&#8217;t make much sense.<br \/>\nSo I haven&#8217;t done much creatively.<br \/>\nI do, however, have my keyboards set up once again &#8212; had to break them down for my move &#8212; and I&#8217;ve been teaching myself a bunch of J-rock songs. For the sake of padding this entry, here&#8217;s my current &#8220;set list&#8221;, as it were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Shiina Ringo, &#8220;Tadashii Machi&#8221;\n<li> Shiina Ringo, &#8220;Kabuki-choo no Jyoou&#8221;\n<li> Shiina Ringo, &#8220;Marunouchi Sadistic&#8221;\n<li> Shiina Ringo, &#8220;Koofukuron (Etsurakuhen)&#8221;\n<li> Shiina Ringo, &#8220;Koko de Kiss Shite&#8221;\n<li> Shiina Ringo, &#8220;Gips&#8221;\n<li> Shiina Ringo, &#8220;Yokushitsu&#8221;\n<li> Shiina Ringo, &#8220;Honnoo&#8221;\n<li> Shiina Ringo, &#8220;Tsuki ni Makeinu&#8221;\n<li> Hajime Chitose, &#8220;Kono Machi&#8221;\n<li> Hajime Chitose, &#8220;Rinto Suru&#8221;\n<li> Hajime Chitose, &#8220;Kotonoha&#8221;\n<li> Hajime Chitose, &#8220;Itsu ka Kaze ni Naru Hi&#8221;\n<\/ul>\n<p>For some reason, I&#8217;m singing women&#8217;s songs. I bet I&#8217;m not even changing the gender perspective when I sing these songs.<br \/>\nI remember back when I was starting to learn piano, it was an effort to get me to practice the minimum half-hour. Now that I&#8217;m teaching myself these songs, it&#8217;s easy for me to go full tilt for 1 1\/2 to 2 hours.<br \/>\nAnd it feels good.<br \/>\nI must, however, report that I&#8217;ve scheduled my first singing lesson for Thursday, July 1 at 7 p.m. Of course, that conflicts with a happy hour I attend every month. Eh, it&#8217;s only a half-hour lesson anyway.<br \/>\nSo yes, I&#8217;m making good on my New Year&#8217;s Resolution.<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" width=\"50%\">\nWhen I do think about fiction, I think about Crash and Cleary. I&#8217;m plotting how their relationship plays out. At this point, I&#8217;m getting the sense Cleary has the patience of thousand Buddhas as he waits for Crash to get over himself. Crash, of course, resists his obvious attraction to Cleary.<br \/>\nAnd yet they sleep with each other.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m foreseeing a happy ending, despite Crash&#8217;s best efforts.<br \/>\nGary Huang and Mitch Warren, though, are a different story. There are so many ways their relationship gets messed up, not the least of it a lack of social support for a Chinese-black interracial couple. Gary has his own issues with parenting, which of course surface when Mitch broaches the subject of adopting. And I&#8217;m wondering whether to include infidelity on both their parts.<br \/>\nBut that begs the question &#8212; what makes them stick together in the end? I think it&#8217;s the realization that they&#8217;re each strongest when they&#8217;re together, and it&#8217;s that basic teamwork &#8212; not even intrinsically romantic &#8212; that makes them start a family.<br \/>\nOf course, it would be nice if I could hang all these ideas around some semblance of a plot.<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" width=\"50%\">\nI&#8217;m still wondering about Adam Fulton. I&#8217;m wondering what it is that attracts Crash to the point where he gets involved with solving his murder. More importantly, what the hell does Adam look like? I haven&#8217;t figured that one out yet.<br \/>\n(Hmm. Maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvtome.com\/tvtome\/servlet\/PersonDetail\/personid-35131\">Mike Doyle<\/a>? Maybe &#8230;)<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" width=\"50%\">\nMan. I haven&#8217;t thought about Crux in forever.<br \/>\nBut I have this feeling I&#8217;m going to start the first novel from scratch. AndyA says I have to get rid of all the backstory, and I&#8217;m starting to come around to that idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, I&#8217;m singing women&#8217;s songs. 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