Miho's favorites

Shakira, She is my new favorite musician. Shakira is from Colombia and she is a composer and also can play most of musical instruments and also great dancer. Especially I love one of her music Objection ( Tango ) .  It's like mixture of Tango and Spanish hard rock. She is fantastic ! Maybe I will buy her DVD so that I can enjoy her performance. I found her music when I was watching " 2004 World championship figure skating Exhibition " DVD, one of great skater Stephan Lambiel who is from Switzerland was using her music ( arranging to without song ) for his program . I like Stephan Lambiel's skate becasue his dancing is incredible, very fast , creative and artistic. Very fun to watch.  Also his music taste for his program is always great.  Of course Johhny Weir is my favorite, but Stephan is my second favorite skater.

Freddie Mercury I didn't know about Freddie Mercury except the name of English rock group " Queen" until a year ago. Queen  is famous all over the world. But maybe I didn't know much about them because Freddie's looking was not my type and so had never paid attention to him and Queen. I'll get back to Queen in a minute, but first, a little background about my music interests. I have been big fan of Japanese rock group " The Alfee " for a long time . Once I saw their live concert, it was really difficult to get big impression with other musicians' music. Because all of Alfee's music is very unique and variety, rock, classic, heavy metal (classic style), dancing, acoustic, and also simple music when they need to make a music for TV drama and movie. Their live event set was always amazing , big fireworks, colorful spot lights were always beautiful. Their lead guitarist is Toshihiko Takamizawa , and he is also the composer of al

Here is my impression for this year 2006 Marchall's international showcase, Johnny Weir - His talent and skating level is far above any others. I could feel Johnny is telling the story of the music, words, it was really excellent , he is naturally feeling the music and rhythm from beginning to the end , his slow movement was very deep and enchanting.  Also for example " wait for me, wait for me " his arm position and movement was very expressive. another example is his last part that super flexible position, I can't write enough to describe our deep impression.  Too many things to write .  Just really really amazing. Evan Lysacek was fun to watch with three different kinds of music. Different from competition. His dancing was great. EVGENY Plushenko was good, but always same music , style and image, felt little bit boring. Matt Savoie , the music was not really fit with his image and also no impression. Irina Slutskaya was great, sh

Evgeni Plushenko He is my second favorite skater. I'm not crazy about his skate and I think Johnny Weir is more talented as a skater except quads jumps. But I like his cool personality. He never boast his high scores after the competition.  He is always very calm as if he is not the winner, nothing was happened. It reminds me legend of Nadia Comaneci who got perfect 10 scores 7 times in 1976 Olympic gymnastic. It was very interesting to watch Plushenko's interview after finished his short program in Olympic 2006. Plushenko got score more than 90 in SP and the interviewer was asking about his short program performance , and Plushenko said  " I don't want to talk about it right now because it's just finished short program and the competition has not finished yet. " But the interviewer continued asking about " what messages do you want to give to Russian people now ?" and he looked really annoying for the interviewer and sa

It was very pain to watch this year's men's Championship figure skating for me.   My favorite skater Johnny Weir had injury with his back and he was not good condition for this competition because of the pain. We are wondering why they held the Championship this time so close to the Olympics , it's only 3 weeks from Olympic game and most of the skaters looked exhausted, and some had problem with their body.  It should be held much later so that skaters can get a time for the rest and training. Johnny skates very good in the Short Program with music " Swan " .  Only in the combination spin part , he little bit lost balance. In the free program, he skates with music "Otonal" by Raul DiBlasio, he did great quad , and his performance was very artistic and beautiful as usual even though he had back pain!  It's incredible ! but in the triple turn jump, he fell down and hit his body hardly on the ice and could not get up soon because of his

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I've never watched men's figure skate before.  But this year , I was impressed by two men's skaters " Johnny Weir " and " Evgeny Plushenko "in preview on TV. So I was curious to see them. Johnny Weir He was the biggest impact person for me and my husband in this Olympic. When I first saw him on TV, I thought he is a Russian skater because of his classical artistic image and I couldn't believe he is from U.S.A. Later we found out he loves Russian style and his coach is a Russian lady. The music was Otonal. I like this music and that was really fit with his beautiful skate and his image.  Every detail of his performance was artistic , smooth and beautiful that brought me his romantic world.  I watched his skate over and over and never bored. I don't know why but his performance was like magic.  Normally, it's enough to see once or twice for most of the performers. My husband and I are usually easy to be bored .