hexwren posted:

Just got done watching it - surprised Hakuho didn't pop up in it after all the noise made about him wanting to represent Japan somehow in the games before he retired, but perhaps those were all rumors. Or he'll make it into the closing ceremony.

Hiromi Uehara is a beast on piano and I absolutely recommend snagging one of her albums - the live one she cut with Chick Corea was fantastic, but my personal favorite is probably Brain (2004)

per the NYT, the piece she was going off on was this, which I hadn't heard previously:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9M0lIAIMOM

I had no idea that the pictograms originally came from the `64 games, that was a cool thing to learn