Yoshitaka Amano

Went in to Tenjin this morning with Liz, Katy and Katy's boyfriend Daniel. We went to the 11th floor of "Best Denki" the giant electronics shop, where there was a mini-exhibition of some of Yoshitaka Amano's paintings. He's done a lot of character design and concept art for the Final Fantasy series of games, which are my favourite, and so it was really cool actually getting to see some of this work for real. There were a few Final Fantasy X drawings, including one of a dead Tidus and the commissioned work he did for IGN.

Then, I found the floor with all the computer games on, so I bought a Nintendo DS along with "Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!", a game about male motivational cheerleaders! It's basically a rhythm game, with the gameplay being to hit the screen in time with the music in certain ways. All good fun!

We had another barbershop practice this evening. We've now added "We Were Gathering Up the Roses" and the start of "Stand By Me" to our repertoire.