I don' care!!

I don't care what you think after watching this music video. But all I can say is I like this band, 'Fall Out Boy', and their songs. I didn't know this band till my friend introduced the video. Then I became a fan of them. To be honest, I don't know about them, and only thing I know about them is that they make people sick! However, I like it (am I insane??). Just watch and listen to the video. I know the PV is kinda crazy, but they don't care literally. I hope you like it!

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My favorite songs of Incubus

I often listen to Incubus, which is Alternative Rock band and one of my favorite bands. It was 7 years ago that I met this band, and I was a junior of junior high school. My elder brother suddenly introduced me this band and I became a fan of it cuz all of their songs were amazing for me.

1: Talk Shows On Mute (from their 5th album "A Crow Left Of The Murder")
This song is really nice song. I like this interesting melody and lyrics, and some exchange students like this song too. The lyrics are loosely base on George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". I guess I put the video of this song before, I'm not sure you can see the video on this blog though... :P

2: Anna Molly (from their 6th album, "Light Grenades")
I like the guitar sound of this song, which drives me crazy. And this song is really interesting The title, 'Anna Molly' is a figurative name meaning girl who does not exist. If you listen to the lyrics, you can figure out the meaning.

3: Dig (from "Light Grenades")
This is a story of love. According to the music video of this song, a dancer discovers the importance of a relationship through the art of dance. I like the melody of the song.

4: Drive (from their 3rd album, 'Make Yourself')
This is the best song of them for me, and it is the one of the songs of the album which I met them then. Also the music video is one of the coolest music video I have ever seen. The song is what is widely described as mellow. And it is very relaxing and positive ambiance.

5: Stellar (from 'Make Yourself')
I like the melody line of the song, which is really beautiful, I guess. It makes me like...

Click the each title, and you can go to YouTube and can watch each video!

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Free-writing: Basketball Club

When I was in high school and junior high school, I belonged to a basketball club. I was in the roster as a 6th-man in junior high school, and I was in roster as a vice captain and starter in high school. Almost everyday I practiced basketball, and every practice menu was really hard. But they were really good for me too because I could improve my physical and mental. Sometimes I wanted to quit the club but I didn't do that because every time I noticed I love basketball. I don't belong to any basketball club, I sometimes play basketball with my team mates when I go back hometown. I still love basketball, and now I check NBA everyday. Basketball is part of my life. If I didn't meet it when I was in junior high school, I don't love it now. I know basketball is really tough and hard sport, but it's really exciting sport ever!

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NBA!! NBA!!

Finally NBA (National Basketball Association) 2008-2009 season has opened on October 28th!! And almost everyday at least 1 or 2 games a day and times more than 10 games a day are held. Basketball is kinda winter sport I guess because the beginning of the season is the end of October and the season is continued till June.

Now 30 teams belong to NBA and they are divided to conferences, Eastern and Western conference. In each conferences, there are 3 divisions. In the Eastern Conference, there are Atlantic, Central, and Southeast divisions. And in the Western Conference, there are Southwest, Northwest, and Pacific divisions. And there are 5 teams each in each division. They play 82 games in total, and 8 high-ranking teams in each conference go to Playoff. It is a tournament, and every game is going to be crazy! I mean more exciting because each team aims at the champion. On Playoff Final, the top teams of each conference play to be the champion. It's really exciting more than Playoff! When the Final is over, the season is over.

I often go to the official site of NBA to check the result of each game, what's new, and so on. And I watch videos of games. I can find what happened on a day easily, and it's good to improve my listening to skill. Here's the official site of NBA, so check it out!!

http://www.nba.com/ (English)
http://www.nba.com/japan/ (Japanese)

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About a girl.

Finally, I found a music video of 'The Academy Is... '. The song name is 'About A Girl', which is from their new album 'Fast Times At Barrington High'. This song's melody is really nice huh? And the voice of the vocal is really nice, too. So, this song is one of my favorite their song, and this band is one of my favorite bands! I feel kind of same thing as the lyrics, 'Can't breathe when I'm around her', when I'm with hot girl. I guess every man is so. Anyway, I like this song and band, and I hope you like it too!!

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Outline: My favorite place

1. Introduction

• Where is my favorite place and why (it's just briefly)

2. About people

• People who lives in the dorm.

• Their countries.

3. Reason why I go there

• Why I go to the dorm - Things I can get and learn.

4. Extra

• Events in the dorm.

• Curfew.

5. Conclusion

• Those are the reason why I go to the dorm (just briefly).

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Urgh!! Brainstorm!!!

Comfortable
Music
Cultural
Communication
Friendly
Fun
Drinking
Learning
Movies
Indoors
Outdoors
Hanging out
Chilling
Games
Languages

My favorite place is... what??

My favorite place is the dorm for exchange students. I often go there because there is so much fun place, even though there is a curfew... But it doesn't matter for me because I can spend much time with exchange students almost everyday.

Now about 30 people live in there in total now. They are from America, Canada, England, Australia, Korea, China, Vietnam, and Thailand. Everybody can learn their mother tongue in the dorm. In my case, I'm majoring in English so I can improve my English skills there. And I'm interested in Korean, so I can learn Korean.

In the dorm, as I said, people from 8 countries live there, which means, we can know their cultures. Most of people can speak Japanese, so we can talk about it in Japanese, and we can talk about it in English too. And sometimes, they cook me their ethnic foods. My favorite one is Korean food. Of course it's too spicy, but I can eat them up because I love spicy food!

I'm sure some people want to know English slang. Me too. If we go to the dorm, we can know some English slang, even f-words, swear words, and something like that. I've been learning slang from exchange students a lot. And slang makes us easy to communicate with people, I guess. Speaking of slang, Japanese can teach Japanese slang to exchange students. And also Japanese can teach district to them. It's totally fun!

I love the dorm!!

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My favorite Fall activity is... EATING!!!

My favorite activity during Fall is eating! I love eating whole seasons, but during fall I have a big appetite. I mean, my appetite has increased. Maybe it's not only me but also everybody in Japan. It's because fall in Japan is called fall of appetite. I know it's called other name, but to me, fall is for eating!! For example, I get hungry soon everyday, even though right after each meal I'll get hungry soon. So fall is kind of important for me. Speaking of eating, I often eat kimchi these days. I love spicy food, especially Korean food. My favorite Korean food is Jimmiche (I don't know the correct spell and pronunciation), but nobody has it even Korean friends in Japan. That's why I eat kimchi instead of it. But as you know, kimchi is really good!

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