OMFG! SIMPSON MIYAVI!!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!
Here is his Journal update that I promised i'd post up.
It's really heartwarming, I think, it makes me love him even more. =]
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Japanese:
GO 2 VOTE
こっちでもニュースやってるよ
俺はいつも投票日に東京に居ないから
期日前しか行けないんだけど
今回に限らずいつも思う。
政治家を変える前に
俺らが変わらないといけないんじゃないか
って事。
国は
政治家がつくってんじゃない、
俺らが作ってんだ。
日本は安全だ
日本は豊かだ
故に
政治なんて気にしなくったって
生きていける。
投票なんてしなくたって
恋愛もできればセックスもできるし
お金儲けもできる。
「お菓子で作られた家」じゃないけど
「娯楽でできた様な国」
ホントはその娯楽にドップリ携わってる
俺が言えた義理じゃないんだけどね。苦笑
ただ以前、姜尚中さんと対談させてもらった時にも言ったんだけど
総体的に今の日本に限らず時代は「生」に飽和してると思うんだよね。
もちろん一概には言えないけどシンボリックに表現するとしたら
『生きる事に飽きている』
だから簡単に死のうとする奴もいれば
平気で前を向く権利を放棄する奴もいる
生きるか死ぬかの瀬戸際の奴が
「今日ダリーなぁ」
とか
「あー死にたい」
とか
そんな悠長な事言ってられるだろうか？
必死で生にしがみつくだろう
本気で生きようとするだろう
これが戦後、平和の名のもとに
高度経済成長がもたらした見えない副作用
『本気さが足りない』
という事だと思う。
サッカーみてて韓国すげーなぁとか
相撲でモンゴルから来た力士強ーなぁとかさ、
決して日本人が弱いわけじゃないと思うんだよね。
ただ「本気度」で負けてるだけなんじゃないか
って気がする（エンターテイメントの世界でもね）
まぁ、おもっきり話それちゃったけど
とどのつまり
ぶっちゃけ投票なんて投票したい候補者や政党がいなければ
しなくていいと思う。
何より大切なのは『何故、投票するのか』という事であって、
その結果『国を良くする』という事に他ならないと俺は思う。
今、日本は弱い。
これは政治家がどうとかじゃない
それはただの責任転嫁だ
俺らが弱いんだ。
勿論たった一票じゃ何も変える事はできない
ただ、その一票がないと、なんにも変わらない
だからGO 2 VOTE
今の日本は俺らが作ってる。
．．なんだかコマーシャルみたいになっちったけど
とりあえずドイツ公演、
日本人として本気で頑張ってくるよ。
／雅
Translation:
GO 2 VOTE
It's on the news here too
I'm always not in Tokyo on voting day
So I can only do it ahead of time, but
I always think about it, not just this time.
That
Before you change the politicians
We must change ourselves.
A country
is not made by the politicians,
it is made by us.
Japan is safe
Japan is prosperous
Therefore
even if you don't care about politics
you can live.
Even if you don't vote or anything
You can be in love and you can have sex
and you can make money.
Though it's not "A house made out of candy"
"A country that seems to be made of entertainment"
We are really FULLY involved in that entertainment
Even though it's not really my duty to say so. hehe
It's just that before, I said it when I talked with Kan Sanjun1 too but,
I think that this era, not just Japan, but on the whole, is saturated in "life".
Of course not necessarily, but in a symbolic way
"Getting sick of living"
So if there are those who are just going to simply die
there are also those who are willing to just abandon their rights to be optimistic
Those who are on the brink of living or dying
Can they really say such things easily, like
"Today sucks"
or
"Ah I want to die"
and such?
They're probably clinging to life desperately
They're probably trying earnestly to live on
This is because of the peace, after the war
A side effect you can't see, brought on by rapid economic growth
I think it's
"There's not enough earnest"
Like in soccer Korea is really amazing
or like my friend, a
sumo wrestler who's from Mongolia who's so strong,
Like, I do not think that Japanese people are weak at all.
Just maybe we're losing at "being earnest" I suppose
That's what I feel（And in the world of entertainment too）
Well, I got way off topic but
Ultimately
I think that if there isn't really a candidate or political party you want to vote for
Then you don't have to.
More than anything else, it's important to know "why I am voting",
I think that the result can't be anything other than "to make the country better".
Now, Japan is weak.
This isn't up to the politicians
That is just lying the blame on someone else
We are weak.
Of course with just one ballod you can't change a thing
Just, without that one ballod, nothing will change
So GO 2 VOTE
We are making Japan now.
．．this kinda sounds like a commercial now
Anyway now at my performance in Germany,
I'm gonna earnestly do my best as a Japanese person.
／雅
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OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG!!!!! The new edition of Purple Sky- the summer issue, has Miyavi on the front cover!!!!!!!!!!!!!!