Miki's Fat City

I worked for an interview with Steve Ferrone for Rhythm & Drums Magazine about 10 days ago. The interview as initially scheduled on February 10 but he was still jet-lagged that he couldn't do it that day. I know how hard it is to be jet-lagged since I had a hard time getting my biological clock back to Tokyo time at the end of January after my trip to winter NAMM show. Anyway, we had an hour to interview him before he flew from Narita. He is really open and funny. We just kept laughing during the interview. Teruyo, the interviewer, says she was fascinated by his smile. Unfortunately I didn't have a chance to see him play live with Yosuke Onuma, one of excellent Japanese young guitarists, but could imagine how he enjoyed the shows in Japan from what he told us that day. The thing I thought funny was about the project he participated, Burning for Buddy. Neil Peart from Rush produced it. Steve played with a big band and he says it worked very well. He was happy with it. B...

On Valentine's Day, I found tons of spams with subjects such as "Love you," "I Like You," "I Find You Interesting," etc. when I logged-in my work email account in my office. Wow! So many secret admirers!! ;-) Since I sometimes receive emails from strangers who are actually business associates, I don't basically filter spams to go directly to my spam box. I certainly delete obvious spams when reading subjects. But I had an experience of deleting a few important emails by accident a couple of years ago, so I don't trust the filtering system in my email software. 98% of spams I receive are in English. It's because I often go to English websites to get information. Not many Japanese spams come to me. But when I got those "I like you" spams that day, I asked my coworkers about Japanese spams they got. Voila! They are much more interesting than mine!! I mean, the text in those emails is like cheap porno dialogues but it seems they ...

I had a chance to chat with one of my fellow photographers Yoshika at work yesterday. Actually the planned interview with Steve Ferrone was cancelled because of him being jet-lagged. He was too sleepy to do it and went back to his hotel for a nap right before we arrived at the venue. Yoshika and I had about a couple of hours to chat before Steve returned to the venue for performance and we caught him on the way to the dressing room to take some photos of him. Thank goodness, the interview was rescheduled. Girls just love to talk about Love Life for no reason and we started talking about it in the course of nature. She said that her boyfriend is young, which is a bit of problem for her because she wants to get married but he doesn't. Well, she is 2-3 years younger than me and I understand it when she said so. I mean, I don't see the importance of marriage as long as I'm happy with the relationship with my partner. But for some girls, they certainly long for marriage especi...