07.24.07
Posted in Japanese, TV and movie at 18:13 by krause
Jul 24, 2007 Tue
There seems to have been a lot of TV programs about Japan on Finnish TV lately. I know it alreade showed in the US and well, what can we say…
Kelly Osbourne turned maiko (Last part: Episode 3 Part 5) today on TV… and finally she appreciated some aspect of Japanese society. Must say I was almost jealous of her being permitted to entertain customers – I’d especially like the dancing. Fortunately dancing is something that anyone is allowed to practice.
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 1 Part 1: Going to Japan & squirting toiru
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 1 Part 2: Meido kissaten (maid cafe)
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 1 Part 3: Rabu hoteru (love hotel)
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 1 Part 4: As a samurai
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 2 Part 1: Kosu puree (cos play)
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 2 Part 2: Oxybar
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 2 Part 3: At a HOST bar (not a hostess bar)
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 2 Part 4: Nun for a day
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 2 Part 5: Nun for a day 2 + burning her doll
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 3 Part 1: Eigo no sensei (English teacher)
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 3 Part 2: Dog hotel
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 3 Part 3: Backstage + and learning to sit
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 3 Part 4: Buyou – Maiko (geisha) dancing
Link to the last part (geiko entertainment) is in the text above.
As I am not the expert in even those arts I did study over in Japan, I will not attempt to submit any critique. Everybody starts somewhere and everybody has been a beginner. I think it was brave of her to even give it a try. It was impossible for her to know how her natural behavior will be regarded in each situation. Yes, maybe I wuold have been more subtle, but the again, she did recognize she “had the mouth of a truck driver” and that “by no means is she a lady.”
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07.23.07
Posted in Gender at 02:26 by krause
How about going to a dance, I mean a mainstream social ballroom dance, and getting fondled front and back? I have come across some really invasive ones before, but these were new: When leading an under arm turn the leader uses his other hand to brush across my breasts. Yes, in plain view, no mistake. He then does the same a few times a while later, but this time letting his free hand brush over my behind. And me? Well, he is a good leader, so I wouldn’t want to irritate him by snapping out at him… sooo, I tell him a few times: “Hmm..” and “Ooooukaaaayyy?” in a meaningful tone. The last hint was a Finnish “noh, noh” *wink wink*, but no, I don’t think it helped. He suggested to me, two nights in a row, to leave the dance in his company, in order to… you get the picture.
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07.06.07
Posted in Dance, Japanese at 00:37 by krause
Tangomarkkinat 2007: I went as a friend and instructor to my fellow Hämis dancers, as a competitor, and a journalist. I came back without a voice, having received help from my fellow dancers as I was pretty sick (thank you!), 9th in the open class /Finnish champs in social Jive, with a story, and with a new Japanese friend!
Keiko-san had travelled to Seinäjoki with her Japanese dance instructor and some fellow dancer. She even participated in the Tango competition. I saw her dancing in the evening dances, as I was too sick to be on the floor. After a while I went to say hello, and all the Japanese were surprised someone spoke Japanese. Using my elementary knowledge I managed to arrange a date on the phone for us in order to see the sights of Helsinki. I took her to the Hämis dance club and some guys helped me out and came to dance with Keiko-san. She proved to be a good Leader, too! I promised we could exchange video clips that we take at the studios in our respective countries, and so she will be able to pick up humppa and jenkka and I might get hints on Japanese moves or even buyou or odori.
We had lunch at the Market square and she was brave enough to try pea sou, rhye bread, and some fish the Finnish way. The Japanese tourists found it very amusing that I was walking around in a yukata with a Japanese woman in Western clothing. I was the most photographed sight in the Market square that day… Then we took a nice stroll to the Cathedrals of downtown Helsinki. In the evening, I showed her to the Ice Bar. The next day we make new potatoes, chanterelles and salmon soup the really creamy way. With that, we had black bread baked with syrup, Finnish cream cheese (the archipelago way) and Carelian rice pastries. What a really refreshing Japanese breeze it was!
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