For the Halloween edition of the Weekly, I took a detour on the creative front to make another short Tokyo music video. I happened upon this frightening menace at the Nijubashimae subway station on the way to the farmers market on Saturday. Funny, as Nijubashimae is the wrong stop – I was day dreaming (ok I was looking at my cell phone like everyone else) and went one stop too far. But I’m glad fate expedited the process of getting this particular song out there, as it’s been hanging in the books since July 2012.
Sunday, Oct 26: breakfast of basmati rice and ghee, victory lunch of vegetable curry after the Undokai, dinner of sweet potato loaf (recipe, awesome by the way) and various breads and cheese at a friend’s
Monday, Oct 27: persimmon fruit course, om rice (Japanese rice with egg and ketchup – I use the one for grownups), snack of rice with pesto and almonds, dinner of palak paneer (recipe)
Tuesday, Oct 28: oatmeal, palak paneer, vegan banana loaf by my one and only (recipe), post-Yoga Chinese soup and parmesan salad
Wednesday, Oct 29: banana, oatmeal, pesto brown rice with egg and pan fried vegetables by one and only, mac and cheese dinner (recipe)
Thursday, Oct 30: persimmon, natto, mac n cheese, banana bread and anno imo (a type of Japanese sweet potato, the best), spicy chickpea and lentil soup (recipe in “Pressure Cooking” by Women’s Weekly) with cilantro pesto (recipe) over brown rice
Friday, Oct 31: persimmon and akibae apple, anno imo, chickpea soup and brown rice, olive sandwiches at Youtube Halloween event
Saturday, Nov 1: persimmon and apple, small peanut butter sandwich (off the wagon again), soup and brown rice, salad with avocado and tuna, banana bread and anno imo, dinner of Halloween kinpira over Japanese white rice, remaining mac n cheese with pesto sauce and chickpea soup with brown rice
On tap for this week: baba ganoush pizza, broccoli polenta cakes, and more
Personal production: worked on “Tokyo Mouse” while resting my voice from another cold; this week looking to record, mix, and master “My Little Flipper Girl”; next up will be “Stir to Sleep”, a music instructional on my pre-bed breathing meditation. After that, “Radiohead Park” – music for a future “Tokyo Beach” video
Current listening: TP’s May playlist
Youtube inspiration: Bill Hicks interview
Podcasts: What On Earth is Happening #40-41 (occult schools of thought)
Again no time for the market this week, except to note the violent risk on trade taking place as stocks put in yet another v-shaped bottom. Though the move is impressive, and SentimenTrader’s studies broadly point to higher markets ahead, we almost have to put on an end-of-QE trade given that the market has given us this gift of new highs. At the very least I’m using recent weakness to cover shorts in Treasuries, and I will look at a 1-3 month short of stocks when I next make time for the market. We should also accumulate more yen here.
