Well today was exciting! Not as a day entirely, but just a couple of things about it. And these couple of things kind of go hand in hand, I guess. But they are exciting for different reasons.
The first exciting thing is I finally went back to a yoga class. I have been wanting to go but haven't looked too much into it. I only looked at places I was recommended by my yoga teacher in Shanghai (she's Australian and used to live here and actually got trained here) but they're all in the city. But I looked up what's around me and found something and finally went in this morning. I have done yoga one time in the last 6 weeks or so and I've been missing it. It just makes me so relaxed. It's my favorite.
Anyway, so I went back to yoga today, and we had a substitute teacher, this Japanese woman. And at one point she said something to someone else in Japanese about a Japanese language yoga class. So after class I spoke to her in Japanese and asked her about it, and it happened right then, so I took another yoga class in Japanese! It was difficult, there were a lot of things I didn't catch, but I got like 70% of it and was able to follow along. And tonight I have a session with my tutor so we're focusing on body parts and body movement verbs.
I will definitely go back to the studio cause I got a great 2 week intro deal and it's close to the hotel. And hopefully I won't be in the hotel for more than 2 weeks... And anyway, I actually might keep coming later on. If there's a Sunday class, it's actually only about a 20 minute drive from where I want to live, and if I can do it in Japanese, that's fantastic practice. And hopefully friends. And there was a Japanese pottery shop across the street that looked like they did classes and I want to go ask about it. Lots of Japanese stuff around there, actually. Which was surprising cause it was like a little street in a neighborhood that all of a sudden had a row of shops and restaurants among the houses. And they were 90% Japanese. I'll find out more and report back.
And I'll also report on rum.gold now. He is a new artist from New York (of course) making more queer black music. I've written about this a couple of times lately. And we all know I'm obsessed with Moses Sumney. And now here's rum.gold who's somewhere in between Moses Sumney and James Vincent McMorrow. I heard his track Where There's Smoke on a playlist a few weeks back and immediately loved it.
Love that falsetto. And everything else about it. He actually only has two songs out, the other being Cashmere Cage, which is also fantastic. And nice to hear his non-falsetto voice, which is also fantastic. He'll be putting out an EP called yaRn in January, I think. I'll be impatiently waiting for it, cause this is some excellent stuff.
The first exciting thing is I finally went back to a yoga class. I have been wanting to go but haven't looked too much into it. I only looked at places I was recommended by my yoga teacher in Shanghai (she's Australian and used to live here and actually got trained here) but they're all in the city. But I looked up what's around me and found something and finally went in this morning. I have done yoga one time in the last 6 weeks or so and I've been missing it. It just makes me so relaxed. It's my favorite.
Anyway, so I went back to yoga today, and we had a substitute teacher, this Japanese woman. And at one point she said something to someone else in Japanese about a Japanese language yoga class. So after class I spoke to her in Japanese and asked her about it, and it happened right then, so I took another yoga class in Japanese! It was difficult, there were a lot of things I didn't catch, but I got like 70% of it and was able to follow along. And tonight I have a session with my tutor so we're focusing on body parts and body movement verbs.
I will definitely go back to the studio cause I got a great 2 week intro deal and it's close to the hotel. And hopefully I won't be in the hotel for more than 2 weeks... And anyway, I actually might keep coming later on. If there's a Sunday class, it's actually only about a 20 minute drive from where I want to live, and if I can do it in Japanese, that's fantastic practice. And hopefully friends. And there was a Japanese pottery shop across the street that looked like they did classes and I want to go ask about it. Lots of Japanese stuff around there, actually. Which was surprising cause it was like a little street in a neighborhood that all of a sudden had a row of shops and restaurants among the houses. And they were 90% Japanese. I'll find out more and report back.
And I'll also report on rum.gold now. He is a new artist from New York (of course) making more queer black music. I've written about this a couple of times lately. And we all know I'm obsessed with Moses Sumney. And now here's rum.gold who's somewhere in between Moses Sumney and James Vincent McMorrow. I heard his track Where There's Smoke on a playlist a few weeks back and immediately loved it.
Love that falsetto. And everything else about it. He actually only has two songs out, the other being Cashmere Cage, which is also fantastic. And nice to hear his non-falsetto voice, which is also fantastic. He'll be putting out an EP called yaRn in January, I think. I'll be impatiently waiting for it, cause this is some excellent stuff.
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