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[NO EFFECT NO.3] translation into English
Happy New Year! I guess 2001 means we’re in a new century now …and Kimura Takuya’s getting married, too. So, by the way, I’m a night person. I never wake up before noon unless it’s for work. I get all my sleep before noon, see, so why would I be awake then? I think I generally went to sleep around 10 when I was a kid, and then 12 when I was in high school, and then I started staying up later and later, and now I go to bed around 5 am. I’m one of those people who can fall asleep anywhere, so it takes me 20 minutes at most to fall fast asleep once I’m in bed. It’s kind of fun to think things over while I’m waiting to fall asleep, but I go to sleep quickly, so if I try to think up the set list for my next show or something like that, I’ll usually have only picked about five songs before I’m out.
My favorite time of day is late at night, between midnight and 3 am. I watch a lot of late-night TV. Yeah, you might wonder what on earth I’m doing until 4 am every night, but I don’t really do anything in particular. Even when I’m feeling kind of sleepy, I feel like it’s a waste to just go to sleep before three, so I’ll always just watch some TV. I don’t understand mah-jongg at all, but for some reason I like watching mah-jongg shows like “Wareme de Pon.” (although I naturally don’t watch the whole thing) I like “Tailor’s Workshop”, too. I wish they’d make something for me. A while ago I was watching that and started wanting to make something myself, so I tried to add something to some clothes of my own, but I messed up. I guess I shouldn’t try to use a sewing machine that late at night. But you know what’s surprisingly boring, is late night TV movies. Don’t you think so? I wish they’d play better stuff, like the satellite cable channels do.
I have a really serious hatred of getting up early. It’s not that I have low blood pressure or anything like that, I just hate it. I hate getting up early for check-out when I’m on tours, too, but I’d hate going back to my room and getting to sleep early the night before even more. And I have dreams almost every night. They’re in color, and all kinds of people show up in them. I dream about the house I lived in as a kid a lot, and I’m happy whenever my old dog shows up. I also have a lot of dreams about the Noodles. A pretty common one is that we’re stressed out because we’re late for our set. I also have this silly dream where I start laughing so hard on stage that I can’t sing. Every once in a while, I dream about the Noodles playing for an audience of 20,000 like GLAY does. I really would like to do that, but I know that’s getting way ahead of myself. Although, Ayumi also had a pretty ambitious dream a long time ago, where they were saying on TV that, “Ayumi from the Noodles has passed Hitoshi Matsumoto to become the richest person in the world!”
Come to think of it, video games are probably one of the best ways to pass time late at night. There must be tens of thousands of people up late at night-I wonder how many of them have lost themselves in a video game? Or are computers the big thing now? I’d like to use the internet, too. I’d like to surf the web. Hey, what’s the “IT” in the “IT revolution” stand for?
Some friends and I talked a while ago about whether we laugh when we’re watching TV alone. Pretty much everybody said they laughed, but I don’t actually laugh out loud. I don’t talk to the TV, either, or even to myself. I do sing, though. They don’t play the commercial with the Noodles in it that much, but I sing along with the commercials a lot. Like the Sokenbicha one, or the one for Onoden.
So, that’s how this golden time of day is slipping away from me right now.
-Kimura Takuya is a famous actor.
-Wareme de Pon is a show which just features celebrities playing mah-jongg.
-Tailor’s Workshop is a show where two teams of clothing designers compete to make an outfit for a guest celebrity.
