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Fun music in the style of Metal

My favorite site was updated after a gap of 5 years.
This site is written in Japanese, but it would make sense to listen to the mp3 files in it if you like Heavy Metal music.

http://www.tanoshi-ongaku-metal.com/
(http://www.tanoshi-ongaku-metal.com/soundroom2006.html --- There are links to the mp3 files on this page.)

The site performer says "This site brings the tunes which we were singing in our elementary or junior high school programs, with Metal style guitar sounds.

"My Grandfather's Clock", "Green Sleeves", Bizet's Serenade, "Chim Chim Cheree", "Romance", "Funiculi Funicula",etc... All tunes are terribly nostalgic for me!
Moreover they compel Heavy metal maniacs like me to grin.

I think they are too jolly, so regardless of your kind of music, if you try to listen to them I bet you will smile.

RESTART

I haven't been getting much exercise for a long time, so I thought I had to do some phisical activity.
I quit taking tap dance class the summer before last because I pulled and injured the arch of a foot. After that I was interested in taking a drum class.

Today, Sunday, there is no drum lesson, so I was looking for a tap dance class on the Internet in the morning and found a good one (which starts at noon) near the terminal station.
I looked around for my tap shoes like hell and dashed to the studio.
The instructor was so generous and considerate. He has 3rd level classes on Sundays and they are open classes.
I practiced tap dance after a long interval but enjoyed the class.
I decided to attend the class next week too.

UDON

Finally, I had the friends, with whom I got acquainted through a MEGADETH fan site on the Internet some years ago, over to my house.
We love MEGADETH and also have a common trait that is loving carbs. Today, we had a plan to make something with wheat flour.
We had been interested in making UDON, so decided to try to make Udon.
Udon is a a typical and traditional Japanese noodle, along with buckwheat noodles, made of all-purpose flour, salt and water.
It is very simple but good and Udon is very chewy and tasty. We can buy both types of Udon, rehydratable or raw, at nearby stores, however freshly made is the best.

First, We mixed flour, adding salted water little by little. Because of the small quantity of water, the ball of flour was tough, but when the flour was forming into a ball, we put it in a thick plastic bag.
We trod on the dough in the plastic bag for half an hour by taking turns while playing an MTV video.
After 2 hours of waiting with GIGANTOUR DVD, we rolled out the dough into a tenth of an inch thickness, folded it and cut it into long sticks along the side.

Then we boiled them for 7 to 8 minutes, and soon ate them with only soy sauce and some relish(finely-chopped raw cibol and grated raw ginger).

Perfect! It tasted perfectly good.
We were very pleased with our work and promised to hold the second "carb" party at some later date.
The MEGADETH members can't believe that people who met via an Internet fan site held a noodle making party.


Indeed one of them brought the dough and made a pizza and cookies.
I forgot to take pictures of the pizza. It's a shame! The pizza and cookies were also very good.
While she was baking cookies, the others washed the dishes and kitchen utensils, which really helped me out after the party. How marvelous lady friends are!

ALMIGHTY T-SHIRT

I heard that some Rock or Heavy Metal bands sometimes dislike each other and the fans of those bands avoid wearing the adversary's band name T-shirt when they go to the show.
My friends said you can wear an "Almighty T-shirt" at every rock concert, for example "Iron Maiden"'s.
Most of the Heavy Metal and Hard Rock bands love and revere Iron Maiden, so if the fans appeared in an Iron Maiden T-shirt, it wouldn't incur anybody's displeasure.

In October, I saw a show by a group with two Japanease Heavy Metal singers.
In the event, they sing their original and '70 to '90's mainstream Japanese popular songs. They organize the recital in a small venue periodically, separately from the extravaganzas of their own individual Heavy Metal bands.
The people gathered in the venue are grown-up enough and sofisticated at a level appropriate for their age, so all of them fix up to go to the show. I also considered my clothes and my friend and I had on Japanese summer kimonos at the show last summer.
However, at this Autumn concert, I was wearing a MEGADETH logo T-shirt because I had some work in an exhibition hall for my business before the show.
I felt a strange premonition when I put on the T-shirt, but I thought no one would care about my wearing it and I cast aside the feeling.

In the show, one of the two singers played trivia which I accidentally answered. He said he had a prize for me and asked me to come forward.
Then, the other singer stared at me ferociously (as I shrunk) and said "How could you wear a MEGADETH T-shirt at such a pop recital!?" Then I guessed he only read my T-shirt logo and didn't stare at me, but my favorite singer addressed me for the first time, "Geez", as pointed out on the T-shirt. The first one responsed with "Oh! Why don't we sing 'Symphony of Destruction' next time?" and made the people giggle.
I felt glad the T-shirt elicited laughter. Also, If I had put on nice clothes, he would never have said anything to me.
I kind of worked out my hunch...

At a later date, I told this story to the MEGADETH-fan friends and they said I could wear the ALMIGHTY T-shirt.
Uh...I don't think the matter was the MEGADETH T-shirt... In this case, HEAVY METAL T-shirt is the issue!

MEGADETH

Today, I saw a great show of the American thrash metal band, MEGADETH!
The show tickets were available from October 1st.
Today is October 13th... I can't believe it!
I thought that would never happen as the show tickets of such a bandwagon from abroad had been sold only for a short period of time. Well, they had the monster event, "LOUD PARK", on the day after the show day.
So there was the smallest number of people I had ever seen(However, There were hundreds people in the audience), and I could see my most favorite band up close as never before.
I met with some familiar MEGA fans after all these years, and we chatted gaily in a cafe. Before I parted company with them, I promised to invite them to my house and have a little party.
It'll be fun and I have to clean up my house!

TRAMPOBICS

A free Trampobics lesson was held near my house and I tried and enjoyed it.
Trampobics is aerobics on the trampoline, which is a small personal-type one called "Jog".
Young or continuously-exercising people can jump lightly on the jog and old or underexercised people can walk slowly on it (with hanging on somewhere like the bar).
Your power and sense of balance will develop on the soft ground and landing impact is very low for your knees.
Bouncing (even slightly) will uplift the internal organs and spirit.
Go and do Trampobics!

...Actually I 've got to get the Jog first. I heard the jog is 0.86 meters in diameter, one-fifth of a meter in height and under 7 kg in weight. I don't drive so going shopping for it will be good exercise!?