“We do not remember days; we remember moments.” – Cesare Pavese
A delightful and dangerous tiger recently wrote about favorites and their persistence through life. With this notion, I immediately recalled School Rumble, a favorite I’ve not been able to shake for many years, and how my experience with favorites is drowned in nostalgic context. Rather than mechanically entertaining my current circumstance, favorites often allude to a time before and my presence in a distant memory.
Truthfully, Nodame Cantabile (drama) has greater merit in the realm of favorites. I have watched the drama on numerous occasions, thick and thin, and I am returned to the closing months of 2006 each time. These were beautiful university days – leisurely, festive, off-the-record – and soon-to-be fleeting, in a certain sense. Nodame Cantabile was not alone in my weekly followings, and that is peculiar. What attribute of this drama allowed a personal fondness above the rest?
I would suggest resonance, an amplication of enjoyment between reality and fiction. Nodame Cantabile resonates with me still, but the feeling was then so pristine. It was the right time. And I was able to feel the characters and story integrated with life’s magic, the whimsical magic which leaves a residue of happiness and moves like an ocean tide.
My abstraction, framed by resonace and timing, is undoubtedly vauge and quite possibly the pink lemonade of a lunatic’s wisdom. But listen: nostalgia, while clouding judgement, is not what creates favorites. Instead, I believe that duty rests on contextual elements of today, those with nostalgic potential, and their coalescence with the fiction we experience at present. This makes sense to a fool like me.
Though a romantic, I do not find myself actively living in the past; life should never allow such folly. No, I am desperately aware that moments of elation, built upon the time and texture of reality, are irreplaceable at best… and forgotten at worst.
SnippetTee on Tari Tari’s Architecture
It was an interesting post, and my thoughts…
In the midst of reading up on Tari Tari, though I’ve yet to watch and may not watch. I would have enjoyed mention of how the architecture bridges contemporary and traditional architecture motifs in the Japanese style. The use of wood is clearly traditional, while glass and metal yield modern aesthetic. From the second image, a mild Victorian presence can be seen in the south/west building, which is an interesting contrast between the two campus buildings. I do wonder what the characters were discussing in these frames. Also of interest is the gymnasium, which, with the double gable structure and angled supports/columns, appears as a modern take, streamlined, version of the traditional Mediterranean temple.
Alas, these things were not discussed.
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