.:] Off the Charts [:.

He was one of my best friends ever. He had the awesomest phoenix tattoo with his Chinese names inscribed. He would pick me up from work on his motorcycle. We would spend hours upon hours watching anime and sci-fi flicks. We'd smoke up and watch Ninja Scroll. He'd cook me all kinds of Chinese cuisine and pointed out that stabbing your chopsticks into a bowl of food was a no-no.

I would sleep over all the time in his bad he'd made to look like a screened Japanese tea room. Yet as my friend/bartender, Sooch, would say, "no huggin', no smoochin'?" None. Pure unadulterated spooning. Then he would wake me up with the gentle soundtracks from Ghost in the Shell or even Macross Plus.

KANNO Yoko/Sharon Apple - Voices (Myung's Song)

hitotsu me no kotoba wa yume
The first word was "dream"
nemuri no naka kara
From the middle of my sleep
mune no oku no kurayami wo
Which secretly accompanies
sotto tsuredasu no
the darkness in my heart
futatsu me no kotoba wa kaze

The second word was "wind"
yukute wo oshiete
Directing my journey
kamisama no ude no nake he
From God's arms,
tsubasa wo aoru no
Fanning wings

tokete itta kanashii koto wo
As if counting
kazoeru you ni
the melting sorrows,
kin'iro no ringo ga
Yet another golden
mata hitotsu ochiru
apple fell

mita koto mo nai fuukei
Not even looking at the scenery,
soko ga kaeru basho
There is the place you're going
tatta hitotsu no inochi ni
With merely a single life,
tadoritsuku basho
You struggle to reach that place

furui mahou no hon
An old magic book;
tsuki no shizuku your no tobari
moondrops; the curtain of night --
itsuka kaeru yokan dake
Only a premonition of meeting someday

we can fly
we have wings
we can touch floating dreams
call me from so far
through the wind
in the light

mittsu me no kotoba wa hum . . .
The third word was "hum" . . .
mimi wo sumashitara
Caught by straining ears
anata no furueru ude wo
As I softly release
sotto tokihanatsu
your trembling arms

He was the director of an acting troupe where I was an actress and writer of scenes. All was well until people kept asking me what was going on. Then, when I asked him for what everyone else had assumed, I had asked for too much. That and some brotherhood dealy with his best friend who was my Number Seven, a few years earlier. But we'd stayed great friends throughout. Though I clearly remember bawling my eyes out over him and the dates he'd gone onto have - with some of MY close friends. Eh, he introduced me to Dune and gave me dear dear Dulce...I still consider him a great friend.