Ohayo SMAP!
April.19-April.23,1999

April.19(Mon):
Ah, this week, I will talk about "My Private Life". I was talking about doing a movie. Since I was working on the movie for while, I basically didn't have any private time lately. (laughing) Well, this is not exactly about my private life, but I went out with Mr. Ochiai, the director of this movie, and who took care of me very well, for dinner several times while we were filming the movie. He is quite a gourmet. We enjoyed talking about good food. Yeah. We didn't go any high-end place. Ah, we went to the place, which is more like a Country French, and wine bars. Well, when the next day schedule would start late, he took me to dinner a night before. Um. Well, that's about it. This is not exactly about my private life but it was kind a relaxing thing I did lately. Yeah.

April.20(Tue):
Today, well, since the theme of the week is "My Private Life" , I will talk about fashion. Spring has come and we are taking off the winter coats. Like fall, spring is also the time to enjoy fashions. Yeah, last week, after the movie was done, I went to shopping a little bit. Um... I wanted to go to shopping for some clothes. But, my impression of the spring fashion was that there were so many similar clothes among many brands. These clothes had a flavor of high-tech, probably influenced by "PRADA SPORTS". I am not so impressed by everyone doing the same thing as the one brand. Um. nd I listen to them.

April.21(Wed):
Well, today, I am would like to talk about my favorite movies, or the movies which I saw lately. There are the French movies which were recommended by my favorite director, Mr. Ochiai. Recently, I went to the video rental store to get these movies and watched them. Um. These movies were quite interesting. Some of you, who are the French movie fans, probably know Torifor, the director. His famous works are "Adults don't understand" and " The Night in America". Well, his works are categorized as French Mystery. Mr. Ochiai recommended them. I watched 2~3 of them. Um. I enjoyed them very much. May be some people don't know about French Mystery. But, I felt French Mystery movies are really my kind of movies now because they are really well constructed, and very well organized with the smell of poisonous French movies.

April.22(Thu):
Oh well, today, I will talk about music. Ah, when I listen to the music...there are two types of music. One is the music which I use as a back ground music. I am not really listening to them but I just play as BGM. The other is my favorite music which I listen over and over. Also, there are the music, which I listen in my car, and the music, which I listen at home. Ah, there are the music for morning and the music for evening, too. In that sense, I am using music to bring up my mood. It is more of back ground music than listening to some specific music lately... Of course, there are many pieces, which I really like and listen to them over and over. Um. Lately, Ah, the British band "Kula Shaker"... they put out a new album and I bought it. Um. I like them and I listen to them.

April.23(Fri):
Hi! I went to my friend's place recently. Ah, the reason of visit was that the family invited me for a meal. They are great cooking all kinds of food. It was really delicious. I tasted the home cooked meal first time in a long while...I felt that I should not eat out all the time. They served stewed vegetables and wild vegetables. Um, ah, the wild vegetables are from their hometown in the country part of Japan. Their family sent those vegetables and they cooked them. Um, these vegetables, which were growing in the deep soil, such as taro potatoes and butterburs, are delicious. Especially, these were fresh. And, rice...the rice they served was also from their hometown. It was really delicious. This rice is so delicious that you don't even need to have any side dishes. Um, the rice was served hot out of rice cooker. It was delicious. Since we eat out most of the time and the rice is not always hot out of rice cooker at the Japanese restaurants, I crave for the rice served hot out of rice cooker.

Ohayo SMAP