Back when I was living in Mililani, there was this grove of trees at a street corner that I walked past every day that would remind me of the inside sleeve of one of Nishida Hikaru’s albums. It could be simply that at the time, Hikaru Nishida was my favorite artist and so perhaps I simply had “Hikaru on the Brain”, nonetheless, I thought of the album every time I saw the corner, and in fact, subsequently, several songs on the album REMIND ME OF THAT CORNER now!
The album in question was 19 Dreams, Hikaru’s wonderful fifth Pony Canyon release, featuring such fave songs as Happy Dream, Meguriai, Hohoemi Ni Yakusoku, and one of my very VERY fave songs from her, Ikiterutte Subarashii, so you can bet I listened to that album a LOT back then.
Recently, I was listening to the CD, and of course the music took me back, and I began reminiscing about that old corner. Just HOW MUCH did it actually look like the picture in the booklet? To satisfy my curiosity, I drove out there the past weekend, and visited that corner to see for myself!
First, the actual Booklet picture:
And “The Corner”…
AHAHAHA The Verdict? Well, I don’t know if the tress and shrubs/foliage grew or changed a lot since the 15 years when I lived there, but MAN that corner wouldn’t remind ANYONE of the Hikaru album, would it? AHAHAHA, at least, anyone except a Hikaru-obsessed fan! LOL!
Well, OK, squinting my eyes and focusing purely on the trees in the background, I can sort of see what probably made my brain think “Ah! 19 Dreams!”, but it’s not close enough to make it worthy to blog about, for chrissakes (whoops, too late…gomen)
