No Music, No Life
The title of my post was an ad campaign by a music company that I have forgotten (was it Tower Records?) However, Jiro (from GLAY) was in the commercials. So, music. I have some interesting leads at...
View Articlelife and how to live it
So… I have been busy. First, (or: most recently) I’ve updated my twitter page with a customized background: http://twitter.com/nancynishihira It’s not perfect, but it is something fun until I feel like...
View ArticleUniversal AR Online
I am VERY disappointed. I’ve been trying to access their website to submit an EPK for the entire week, and first, the website they sent me said it was no longer active. This site:...
View ArticleOnline Promotion for Indie Musicians
I have been recently engaging on a campaign of “relentless” self-promotion. I don’t believe that it is something that comes naturally to most musicians (most of us are not business people or business...
View ArticleIn the Fields
I love the autumn. This photograph goes with this song that I wrote when I was fifteen or sixteen. Both the song and photograph were created in a very different time period in my life… a time that...
View Articlethe cold
I’ve been working on this song for awhile. I’ve finally put it on Bandcamp. I am not sure if this will be the final version, but it’s part of my idea to get the songs out there before I release the...
View ArticleCounting Crows – Cover Song Contest on Indaba Music
Check out this submission in Counting Crows – Cover Song Contest on Indaba Music. So I just recorded and uploaded a cover of Counting Crows “Round Here” for this contest. I don’t expect to win [AT...
View ArticleTransmutability
The ability to turn light into dark. Dark into light. Creating something out of nothing. Transform ugliness into beauty. A view of the world through my eyes. As a musician and artist, these things...
View ArticleSleep
Sometimes I hear songs in my sleep. Sometimes I write songs in my sleep. I have to record what I’ve been dreaming or else it slips away, never to be seen or heard again. Last night, I dreamt...
View Article春を愛する人
It feels like summer, but I’m still posting about SPRING. Here’s a great song by one of my favorite bands, GLAY.
View ArticleMore like you
Feeling more like myself “But I like to keep some things to myself” – Shake it Out/Florence + The Machine Sometimes (a lot lately) I wonder, WHY? Why didn’t I do these things that I should have done...
View ArticleCould you, would you, in a box?
Sometimes I worry that it might be confusing to the people who like my photography that I also do other things. Photography is readily accessible and it only takes about a half a second for someone to...
View Articlea letter from myself
I’ve playing ukulele a lot and rediscovering my old songs. Rewriting old lyrics. Dusting off the cobwebs. Examining this historical record of my secret past thoughts and dreams. Some songs never...
View ArticleBuilding with flowers
Peony Garden at the Arb I spend a lot of time consuming media. I spend a lot of time reading about all of the terrible things happening in the world. And feel terrible that there is so little I can do....
View ArticleTime is ticking…
Within the last few years, I can really feel the gravity of time and the wrong choices I have made in my life. Choices that seemed right intellectually, but were perhaps not a great fit for me...
View ArticleSleep
Sometimes I hear songs in my sleep. Sometimes I write songs in my sleep. I have to record what I’ve been dreaming or else it slips away, never to be seen or heard again. Last night, I dreamt...
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