Makoto Tsubasa

I made my first color bar! Yes, I have too much time on my hands.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/Kyanite/Takarazuka/mami_color_bar5.png

The oldest pictures of Makoto on my HDD were from 2000... when I wasn't interested in anything manga, anime or Japanese AT ALL. But I thought she's cute, so I saved two pictures of her. :D (That was all I could find... Google was still small, youtube didn't exist and I had lots of other things to worry about.)

ekusudei wrote about Tsubasa:

"I'm trying to figure out why she always got these absolutely bizarre shows. I mean, revue shows are always bizarre, but Blue Moon Blue? And this one is nearly as odd. I think I've got it. It's because Makoto Tsubasa has the balls to pull it off. She's got that untouchable star aura that says: "Yeah, I own this stage. And yeah, I own all of you. And I know it." I don't think I'd get along with her at all if we ever met face to face, but maybe that's just her stage persona. Anyway, she can use that to stare you down. "You're saying something is odd? Yeah? No? OK, good." "

XD yup, yup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_61r4W9pg4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIcWEWSp8mE

Herman Hesse: "Demian"

My favorite book when I was 16/17, given to me by someone very special and very dear, who 'entrusted' me with her copy.


Demian about the story of Cain and Abel:

We walked on. I felt very self-conscious. Suddenly
Demian laughed as though something had struck him as
funny.

"Yes, when we had class together," he burst out. "The
story of Cain who has that mark on his forehead. Do you
like it?"

No, I didn't. It was rare for me to like anything we had
to learn. Yet I didn't dare confess it, for I felt I was being
addressed by an adult. 1 said I didn't much mind the story.

Demian slapped me on the back.

"You don't have to put on an act for me. But in fact the
story is quite remarkable. It's far more remarkable than
most stories we're taught in school. Your teacher didn't
go into it at great lengths. He just mentioned the
usual things about God and sin and so forth. But I be-
lieve—" He interrupted himself and asked with a smile:

"Does this interest you at all?"

"Well, I think," he went on, "one can give this story
about Cain quite a different interpretation. Most of the
things we're taught I'm sure are quite right and true, but
one can view all of them from quite a different angle than
the teachers do—and most of the time they then make
better sense- For instance, one can't be quite satisfied with
this Cain and the mark on his forehead, with the way it's
explained to us. Don't you agree? It's perfectly possible
for someone to kill his brother with a stone and to panic
and repent. But that he's awarded a special decoration for
his cowardice, a mark that protects him and puts the fear
of God into all the others, that's quite odd, isn't it?"

"Of course," I said with interest: the idea began to fas-
cinate me. "But what other way of interpreting the story is
there?"
( "Does this interest you at all?" )