JinnyOops

[tangerinesun]

Setsubun Jinny party and planning meeting



Simultaneously on a January high, and dealing with a February comedown.
They're back to playing clubs all over the map and hanging out in cafes, as usual.

After quite a while, the trio got together
This year again [ it was ] Chihiro-han's ehomaki
Ayaka's Tarot   too much on-target fortune telling   Jinny making a racket
Uh-huh, it's time to focus on the band

For all we know, the demons might be nice guys inside!
Good fortune is most definitely inside!

Drinking during the meeting
We want to do something big
We want to do something interesting
We will do it, you know

〜By all means, please go ahead!

They're getting wound up with big ideas, again. Good for them.

Ehomaki is a sushi roll you eat at Setsubun to celebrate the end of winter. 
This is while Japanese Twitter is overflowing with photos of unusual snowfalls. 

The talk about demons and good luck also refers to Setsubun holiday traditions. 
You drive bad influences out of the house, yelling "Demons outside, Good Fortune inside!"
Mitsuyo says that fortune is absolutely with them, and a few demons might be
nice to have around the house, why not?


Setsubun - Ehomaki culture
2014 JAN 17 by Emi Onishi for Deep Japan.org 
deepjapan.org/a/2308 
This custom originally started in the Kansai area. With your eyes closed,
we wish for perfect health and praying for success of business…

Everybody faces in the auspicious direction for that year, and finishes an
entire uncut maki roll in silence.

This is such a big tradition in Osaka that my guess is, the attractive 3-sided
boxes are specifically for serving ehomaki at parties on the 3rd of February.

The cute boxes have auspicious characters on their ends.

Hiromi  Chihiro  Mitsuyo

釆 福 招

Separate, divide, (topped rice radical)   Blessing, fortune, luck, wealth Invite, summon, engage

Fortune-telling with Tarot cards

Good fortune for the coming year is on everybody's mind at winter
Setsubun, but AFAIK gypsy card-reading only happens if you have
an occultist friend who's into it.

In the photo, everybody is holding a card belonging to the set of
Major Arcana in a typical tarot deck. That makes it look like they've
just drawn them as advice cards… or it might be that each girl is
holding up the Significator card from a fortuneteller's spread called
a Celtic Cross.

Either way, it's a key bit of symbolism for the holder. The correlation 
with each member's gift box is kind of interesting. 

Interpreting this stuff is way beyond me. This is a quick and dirty take
from a website with no special claim to authority.

Hiromi: Chihiro: Mitsuyo: Ayaka (?):

XVII – The Star X – The Wheel of Fortune XIX – The Sun IX – The Hermit

Your time is best spent in reflection and spiritual pursuits. Change is imminent. The benefits you gain could last a long time. Let your light shine. Be confident in the power of your original nature. Give yourself time for contemplation. Don't let others stand in your way.

[tangerinesun]

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Not new, bumped down b/c getting ridiculous upstairs... 


The super-special announcement was a concert DVD

[ BAN LIFTED!!! ]

JinnyOops! first live DVD release decision!!!

Live venue & mail-order only, 2017.4.8 release!

Through fifteen years' unyielding determination to their first one-man show,
the miracle of a 3-piece female indie rock band generating a sellout crowd
at Club Quattro

〜It wasn't a mere three people〜



They're taking advance orders at the online shop on the band website.
¥3,000, not bad for full-length DVD.

Through 28 February, your order comes with a hand-signed thank-you card
from the band.

Though as always, they're only prepared to mail domestically and only accept
Japanese credit cards or payments through intermediary convenience stores.

jinnyoops.buyshop.jp/items/5468835

[tangerinesun]

http://instagr.am/p/BQnT4xrDViF

They changed my life
These people.
So inspiring.

#野良犬  (Nola Inu)
#二万電圧  (20,000 Volts)
#西坂将作  (Shosaku Nishizaka)
#重田孝史  (Takashi Shigeta)


Hitomi's with the poet and street performer Shosaku Nishizaka and drummer Takashi Shigeta.
They've just done a set with Tetsuhiro Takahashi's band STOCKMAN. Hitomi said she was going
to help out on percussion, which is one reason she stayed behind in Tokyo when the rest of
JinnyOops! went home to Osaka.


From ~2000 to October 2011 Nishizaka and Shigeta were together with guitarist Shingo Motegi
and bassist Shinpei Saito in the band Nola Inu (Stray Dog(s)).

Five years on, a lot of people Hitomi's age still say the same sorts of things about Nishizaka
and Nola Inu. Nishizaka the songwriter is overwhelmingly honest, emotional and direct;
as a singer, the same.


〜〜〜〜〜


Here are the two of them doing one of Nishizaka's best-known songs,
"Gyoka Mizugokoro (Fish Song, Water Heart)", again at Koenji 20000 Volts
but the year is 2007.



Fish Song, Water Heart / Nishizaka Shosaku
2007 OCT 23 by magicalxm さんのチャンネル (03:27)
2007.10.23
Koenji ２００００V





Nishizaka Shosaku / Shosakuotokogi Street Session - No Woman No Cry
2015 NOV 13 by shosakuotokogi (02:11)
西坂将作/shosakuotokogi street session -no woman no cry

Random jam in a favorite pedestrian underpass with a foreign passer-by,
who has a good voice and "likes Bob Marley very much".


〜〜〜〜〜


Handsome-man Nishizaka has cleaned up the image again and is having
something of a career renaissance since last year, after basically chucking
the music recording industry for a while.



Nishizaka Shosaku - Time Machine (Acoustic ver)
2016 JUL 17 by Shosakuotokogi (04:02)
Nishizaka Shosaku - Time Machine (Acoustic ver)


The photo stuck to the guitar is of Ryoma Sakamoto, a samurai swordmaster
and revolutionary advocate of a democratic society. It was taken just before
the Meiji Restoration, circa 1866–7 at a studio in Ueno, a stronghold of his
enemies in the political party of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate.

[tangerinesun]

Martyred in the cause of rock

http://instagr.am/p/BRho0D_Dn_K

Today is the live at Tennoji Fire Loop.
This is the start! Cheers!



Here comes... 

Natural purple-green eyeshadow

http://instagr.am/p/BRj8twKBGhA

Now that I'm awake, I can't open my right eye!

I didn't protect my own body from myself!
I hate senseless violence, but
In the middle of a mosh you can't help it, you just have to be prepared to plunge in
But since I want to avoid injury as much as I can, I try to dodge with dexterity
Mitsuyo-nan is OK!
Thank you to those who worried.
[ Photo ] by Mitaro

Where's the exotic almond cat's eye now? Only on the cat for a while.

http://instagr.am/p/BRuy4bmhvrc

Starting today at 10:30pm
Boiler Rikugame's invitation to JinnyOops!
Oharu x Mitsuyo
Oharu, huh?… apparently is being the sexy younger sister, a forbidden feeling
We'll do acoustic covers of each other's songs, what will happen?
Please come on, you're most welcome!

Makeup. There's nothing it can't hide, or at least use.

[tangerinesun]

http://instagr.am/p/BRdcLyHgLom

Adorable lameness

http://instagr.am/p/BRrGqlKgYRl

Stick to what you're good at

http://instagr.am/p/BRvNYQWAYAd

Well… OK, just do what you feel like.

http://instagr.am/p/BRgQPlvDW5p

I want to become a drummer that can drum brilliantly even on a fallen tree.

[tangerinesun]

Roughing it in the great outdoors at FATCAMP Festival in Takatsuki


Fatcamp 2017 was a camp-out music festival held at a public
campground called Rabbit Park, high in the hills halfway between
Osaka and Kyoto. A spinoff of ONE Music Camp, held in August in
the Northwest up in Hyogo Prefecture, where JO! have played
several years running. Not this time, though. Since FATCAMP is 
newer, they were the biggest fish in the pond. 

http://instagr.am/p/BS5gLBZDyb-

This year's number-one festival live
Osaka FATCAMP!
Very nice place!
It's our turn starting now!




Reminder not to tease Chihiro on Instagram

http://instagr.am/p/BS537bFD6An

Hitomi:  💄
kiyoshiiiif1983:  Cleft chin, isn't it 
Chihiro:  @kiyoshiiiif1983   Ass 


The apparent cleft in the admirable chin is a loose strand of hair, so it's a dumb
comment, but moreover he used an annoying epithet, ketsuago, "ass-chin".
Chihiro held her reply to the bare essentials.  



Camp means camping. O-chan means guitarist Nobumasa Ohira of ghostnote.

http://instagr.am/p/BS6PqHqjRzj

Oh-chan joined us too!

http://instagr.am/p/BS6aCtwjWYB

At FATCAMP festival
A halo of backlight on the goemonburo
Oh-chan goes on at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.


A goemonburo is the simplest kind of hot tub, basically a cauldron with a fire under it.
Fancy ones may be made of wood, concrete, ceramic, fiberglass etc., but for many decades,
they've been improvised out of steel storage drums that just barely fit one (smallish) adult.

The key feature is the wooden lid that doubles as a platform to protect you from direct contact
with the hot bottom. The name is pretty sardonic, since it reminds you that your bathtime is the 
reenactment of a cruel criminal execution.

[tangerinesun]

Touring to re-boot Who the Bitch



Generic rock bad-assing. The "Oh Sister" tour has one date to go,
22 April at Pangea.

http://instagr.am/p/BSpK3d6B9Mz

Here's our pose for decorating the cover of Young Guitar! (photo)
Ashura Syndrome NAGA-san (Who the Bitch support)
SUPER RESPECT!
I'll make a family heirloom of this, thanks.

Even though you'll never see a 4th player in a WtB music video,
Naga's been their secret weapon for live shows since 2013 at least. 




In the practice studio from April 07, JinnyOops! covering Who the Bitch:

http://instagr.am/p/BSlhIybhK3j

Tomorrow at last!
Starting off in Tokyo on 4.8 at Shimokitazawa SHELTER
the "Oh, Sister" project with our beloved big sisters Who the Bitch
We tried copying a little of their song "Cherry"




Who the Bitch speaking on the subject for themselves.



Who the Bitch『Cherry』Music Video
2007 NOV 18 by Who the Bitch (02:57)
Who the Bitch new PV

〜〜〜

Who the Bitch sort of straddle the gap between '80s pop and '90s grunge.
Ehi (Vo/Gt) and Nao (ba/vo) sprinkle their impressionistic songs with
English words and phrases. Occasionally, they make up their own English
— like here.

From their self-titled 2007 mini-album on Sword Records. Piecing this 
together from Japanese-speaking sources was very dicey. Distinctions 
like thought versus though are utterly obscure to them. If something's 
totally wrong, they assume it must be fine because who can make 
sense of English anyway? 


Cherry

The cat which walks on the wall
The fellow makes a fool of me
All do not go well today
I had my cherry stolen by her

A lie? I'm not believed
A lie? I'm not believed now…


Though I met in me yesterday
Though I enjoyed it very much
All do not go well today
I had my cherry stolen by her

A lie? I'm not believed
A lie? I'm not believed now…

Cherry is not satisfied with her kiss
There is not a thing winning my kiss, my kiss
Cherry is not satisfied with her kiss
There is not a thing winning my kiss, my kiss, my kiss, my kiss


Nerdy musics of radio
Irritate me more
All do not go well today
I had my cherry stolen by her

A lie? I'm not believed
A lie? I'm not believed now…

Cherry is not satisfied with her kiss
There is not a thing winning my kiss, my kiss
Cherry is not satisfied with her kiss
There is not a thing winning my kiss, my kiss, my kiss, my kiss


Well, the words are nothing but a pretext for singing anyhow. 

The fellow who's making a fool out of ehi is the free-living, 
unperturbed cat. Cherry seems to be the name of a girl 
who's wrecking ehi's happy life, all because she can't get 
along with just a kiss. 


Otherwise, it's hard to figure this, but I'm OK with guessing. 

Though I met in me yesterday is something you could end 
up with if you start from kinou watashi ni atta kedo "though
<someone> met me yesterday" and aren't too clear about  
what needs to change if the subject is "I". 

There is not a thing winning my kiss could be accidentally
produced by the grammar of "nothing" statements in Japanese, 
if what you mean is "winning my kiss is nothing."

The difference between being an inconsiderable nothing and
literally not being a thing is slippery for us all. 

It's not too great, but it's not that terrible for somebody
who learned out of a high school textbook; and if you use 
Google, may god have mercy on you. 

[tangerinesun]

More FATCAMP memories
Hitomi doesn't forget to say thank you, she forgets she already did 

http://instagr.am/p/BS8gLJdD4lZ

Thanks once again, FATCAMP! Jinny with ghostnote's Oh-chan!

They were the band that gave us the opportunity to go on an Okayama tour.
When ghostnote performed live in Osaka, their first battle of the bands was 
with Jinny. To be able to co-star in a festival like this with such a long association,
I'm so happy I can't stand it.

Something I want to remember from this festival — after staying up later than
anyone, drinking more than anyone, Oh-chan's first singing voice of the morning
echoing truly wonderfully from the mountains of Takatsuki.

As well, thanks so much to everyone on the FATCAMP staff!
A warm festival held in a natural setting.
We'll support it from now on.

http://instagr.am/p/BS8il1WD6Er

My big sister who was cheering me all the way from the shadows.
I was really glad to settle down to doing some childcare at last,
so she could go play (T_T)

If you noticed, her nurse friends were all wearing Jinny tees (tears)

Thank you〜！

Big sis is holding up a copy of the Jinny one-man concert DVD
in a way that'd make Carol Merrill proud.

[tangerinesun]

Who the Bitch, ambassadors of good will

JinnyOops! & Who the Bitch
"Oh, Sister!"
4.22 (Sat) Amemura PANGEA w/ An Sept.

The comment battle starts tonight!
We're waiting for the 22nd!


Darth ehi joins Admiral Nao to plug the last show of the
"Oh Sister" tour. It's a big finish in the JO! homeland 
of Osaka, at PANGEA in the American Village district.

This starts off harmlessly enough, but since it's an
Osaka audience they begin reflecting on the differences
between Tokyo Japanese and the Osaka dialect.

About 1 minute in, ehi stops doing her Star Wars bon odori
routine and starts doing her impression of the raspy lisp
of one Mitsuyo Ishibashi, Gt./Vo. for JinnyOops!

Dewa, Micchan wa, yappari koitsu wa: Sore wa yamemashou ka  Choudai yo〜〜〜!!  Yoroushikunode  Ja, i-ki-ma-shou…

So, same with Micchan, she's like this: Shall I stop it?  Let me have it!  'Cause we'll be counting on you  Well, let's… get… going…

Mitsuyo's mannerisms are not that hard to get a handle on,
but this is the first time I've ever seen somebody who had
the nerve to make fun of her.

It's OK, Mitsuyo gave this a re-tweet right away. Hopefully 
Osaka doesn't boycott the show. 

[tangerinesun]

WtB teach JinnyOops! how to be loose on camera

After-show thank-you comments
From Jinny and the Bitches
We multiplied our groove!
Thanks so much to everyone!!!


The lesson didn't transmit 100% the first time.
It's a process. Ikimashou〜

[tangerinesun]

http://instagr.am/p/BTNQb3sD63l

"Oh, Sister!" Osaka edition produced in cooperation with Who the Bitch
Thanks so much everyone!! It was an incredible spectacle beginning to end.
Gratitude.

[tangerinesun]

Mayumin will not lose
New shots up to her usual high standard 

http://instagr.am/p/BTNn4x7A9qj

20170422 Amemura Pangea
I shot the "Oh Sister" collaboration project, a comeback battle between
JinnyOops! and Who the Bitch! I lost sensation in the index finger on my
right hand. Shooting while verifying shutter position, a little further…
a touch more — if you don't have endurance…

http://instagr.am/p/BTQR8t0gVtt

Rock photographer par excellence Mayumi Saito is recovering from an
acute multifocal cerebral infarction, i.e. a stroke affecting more than
one area of the brain. She only got out of the hospital on the 10th.

[tangerinesun]

http://instagr.am/p/BTRSMwwhbno

To be able to have our picture taken for the ones who love us
To have the heat of the moment vacuum-packed, what a wonderful thing it is

Welcome back, Mayumin
Let's take it slow and easy!

4.22 Amemura PANGEA
Photo by mayumi saito

The ban on the next live is lifted
4.30 Hokage
Winding up, and…
BANG!!!
Come on by all means!

[tangerinesun]

Jinny are gigging perpetually like usual, these are recent:




She's wiry, but Futema can overpower her for sure.

http://instagr.am/p/BTlL0o-ATC6

As a matter of fact George Washington is one of my heroes.

http://instagr.am/p/BToOx_FAztZ

Oh… Golden Week.




AC for amps, DC for EFX, isn't it?

http://instagr.am/p/BTtdGtMgLjA

RAIMEI SHOCKING goes Latin, a little. The cajón does it. 

http://instagr.am/p/BUBpc-Vgzjt

I guess regular driver Chihiro's on probation.

http://instagr.am/p/BUA15_rgh-q

The rain is terrible but I'll drive safely to Nagoya!
Since I could drive alone to Tokyo yesterday, I gained a little self-confidence.
Red socks!!




Was there some trouble in Nagoya, ever? Chihiro's katana is an umbrella, thank god.  

http://instagr.am/p/BUDAoAzhPrC

Got home safe!
5.13 Nagoya HUCK FINN
Despite the band being from Osaka, they let us be their birds.
Though it was a first time for many seeing us, I thought everybody in Nagoya was
really cool. There was a nice barrage of moshing & diving. We were able to continue
cleaning up our Nagoya connection, it was a good night. Thanks most sincerely!

[tangerinesun]

Two sides of a coin
They're working on it, let them work 

http://instagr.am/p/BULjUzZALop

Posted a little after 4am local time:

There are around 40 drum phrases that don't make sense in a voice memo.
I realize that in the morning they'll make even less sense.  
Recording very soon. That is all.