Author Archives: Richard Graham

Samples, Samples, I robot

Couple of hours doing email catch up, then had a meeting with a mate about some business stuff. Then I popped into the music store for a couple of hours to listen to a load of sample CDs. There is some fantastic stuff out there, and I ended up buying quite a few. This new…

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Yanagawa

I was first invited to today’s school a long while ago by one of the parents. At the beginning it was quite tricky to get the school to agree to the visit, but once they find out what I do they’ve been well keen, even sending out teachers to my other workshops to get some…

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Book and UK/England

I wasn’t too motivated to do any music today, things just didn’t seem to jive right ( maybe it’s the clouds outside) . But I did get a massive chunk of my new book done. I also realised I didn’t mention in the newsletter yesterday or in the diary about the UK/England explanation animation I…

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In town…

Went into town to run some errands, send some stuff off to my Mum and pay for my ticket to Hong Kong next week. I also popped into Best Denki and bought the Panasonic software that will let me copy my mp3s onto my phone digitally. Although the coding ( for the digital rights management!)…

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Big typhoon, Newsletters and stuff

Oooo, this is a big typhoon! Well not really, when I first came to Japan everyone started talking about typhoons and really I didn’t think they are much bigger than the storms we have back home. But this morning I went out for a carton of milk and couldn’t stand up on the way back!…

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It’s beyond a joke now….

So it’s my weekly day off again, and what happens??? Yes, it’s raining! This is beyond a joke now, basically everyday I’ve had off this Summer has rained! Today I had planned to go to the Space World Theme Park for a change, but it’s not that much fun in the rain! So in the…

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