【だからキミは負けるんだ】
今日は、仕事のノウハウみたいなではなくて、僕が今、一番熱を入れている映画『えんとつ町のプペル』のお話をしたいと思います。
僕は、もともと漫才師としてスタートして、漫才を書いていて、自分を育ててくれた師匠と呼べる人が「後藤ひろひと」という劇作家ですから、舞台の脚本も書いていて……
そこから絵本作家に転職して、絵を描いて、ストーリーを描いて、で、絵本の曲も作るんですね。
あの「♪ハロハロハロハロウィン」って曲を作った人です。
https://youtu.be/Rihe2JOyLQA
劇場の楽屋に小道具のギターがあるもんですから、空き時間に触っているうちに、ギターが弾けるようになりました。
ちなみに、次々回作の絵本『夢幻鉄道』のテーマソングもいいのが作れたので、YouTubeで検索してみてください。
https://youtu.be/PkoCXybjrrw
そんな感じで仕事をしているので、映画『えんとつ町のプペル』における僕の役割は、「原作・脚本・製作総指揮・宣伝・作詞作曲」という忙しいことになっています。
このことを受けて、時々、「ゴーストライターがいるんでしょ!」と時々言われるんです(笑)
これに関しては、「西野がこんなに素晴らしいものを作れるハズがない」という意味なので、褒め言葉でしかないのですが、残念ながら、僕、ゴーストライターなんていないんです。
分業している場合は、「分業しています」と公表しています。
その方がいいんですよ。
いろんなクリエイターさんに「西野の仕事に参加したい」と思ってもらった方が得なので、絶対に、その人の名前を出す。
出さない場合もありますが、それは出すべきではない場合です。
たとえば、三日前にYouTubeチャンネルにアップした『えんとつ町のプペル』の動画の備考欄には、歌詞の他に、「歌、作詞作曲、編曲、振付」のスタッフの名前しか入っていません。
照明さんや美術さんや衣装さんの名前は入っていないんですね。
あくまで、あそこは音楽に関する情報を載せる場所として位置付けているので。
関わったスタッフの名前を全員書いてしまったら、80人ぐらいになっちゃう。
ああいった、いわば「CM」の場合は、基本、スタッフの名前は載せません。
テレビCMの最後に「ディレクター=○○」と出ないのと同じです。
ただ、ストーリーを書いたり、音楽を作ったりする場合、僕には「ゴーストライター」と呼ばれる人はいません。
珍しいパターンだと思いますが、こと「ビジネス書」においても、僕はライターを雇っていません。
自分で書いた方が圧倒的に早くて、自分の仕事が減るからです。
パフォーマンスでも何でもなくて、5万部売れるビジネス書でよければ、5〜6時間で書けます。
すでに自分の中にある体験と考察を文字起こしするだけなので。
「キー!」となるかもしれませんが、「ゴーストライターだろ!」と言っちゃたり、思っちゃったりする人が、コンパしたり、ナンパしたり、家族旅行に行ったり、ワイドショーを観てタレントの不倫にとやかく言ったり、何も考えずにボケーっと受験勉強している間、僕は、一つでも踏み誤ると死んでしまう戦場でずっと戦ってきました。
かれこれ20年ほど、平均労働時間は19時間です。
でもって、この20年というのは、「勝ちパターンを捨て続けた20年」で、コツを掴んだ職は、どんどん捨てて、新しい領域に挑戦し続けた20年です。
なもんで、能力と知識量に圧倒的な差が生まれるのは当たり前の話で、僕は「努力は報われる」ということを言っていきたいので、ここは隠したくありません。
反則技を使っているわけでも何でもなくて、「キミの1000倍努力してるから、キミの1000倍の結果を出しているんだよ」というだけの話だと思っています。
そして、この現実を受け入れず、「いやいや、ドーピング的な…何か特別な力が働いているに違いない」という思ってしまっているうちは、一生始まらないまま人生が終わっちゃうので、それが嫌なら受け入れてください。
「僕、こんな努力をしてますよ」と自分から言う奴、なかなかいないと思うのですが、いい機会なので言っておきます。
今日も映画『えんとつ町のプペル』のアフレコがあるわけですが、そこでは、声優さんから質問があったり、「ここは、こんな感じでお願いします」と指示を出さなきゃいけない。
なので、家で「指示を出す練習」をしていくんです。
自分も、実際にやれるようにしておく。
たとえば…
「えんとつ町は煙突だらけ。
そこかしこから煙が上がり、頭の上はモックモク、黒い煙でモックモク。
朝から晩までモックモク。
えんとつ町に住む人は黒い煙に閉じ込められて、青い空を知りやしない。輝く星を知りやしない。
見上げることを捨てた街で、一人の男が上を見た。
町を覆った黒い煙に、男が想いを馳せたのは、酒場で出会ったお喋りモグラが聞かせてくれた夢物語。
煙の向こうの世界の話。光り輝く世界の話。
ありやしないと思ったが、全くないとも言い切れない。
なぜなら誰も行っていない。答えは誰も持っていない。
それから男は日ごと夜ごと、煙の向こうの世界の話を、何度も何度も叫んだが、バカだバカだと囃されて、ホラ吹きものだと切り捨てられた。
男が一体、何をした。
男が誰を傷つけた?
そこに理由はありゃしない。
見上げることを捨てた町では、『目立たぬように』の大合唱。
見上げることを捨てた町では、夢を語れば笑われて、行動すれば叩かれる。
黒い煙は町を飲み込み、一縷の光も許さない。
黒い煙は人を飲み込み、あらゆる勇気を認めない。
それでも男は声をあげ、震える膝をひた隠し、船に乗り込み海にでた。
暗くて怖い海にでた。
誰もいない海にでた」
これは主人公の少年の父親が、自作の紙芝居を披露するシーンのセリフなのですが、今、僕は何かを見ながら書いたわけではなくて、これぐらいは暗記してるんです。
指示を出す人間として、これぐらいは。
これって、「何回もやっているうちに覚えた」という類のものなので、才能とかセンスじゃないじゃないですか。
これがプロです。
もし良かったら、一度、僕の会社のインターン生にでもなって、僕の近くで、僕の仕事を見てみてください。
たぶん、絶望すると思います(笑)
先ほども申し上げましたが、「努力がモノを言う」というところを伝えていきたいので、今後も、この部分は包み隠さず、積極的に頑張ったアピールをしていきたいと思います。
そうそう。
映画公開は12月25日なのですが、12月25日の夜に、YouTubeの生配信をして、映画をご覧になられた方に向けて、「あそこのシーン、実は○○なんだよ」という話をしたいので、映画は初日に観に行ってください。
今のうちに、12月25日のスケジュールに印を入れておいてね。
それでは、映画『えんとつ町のプペル』のアフレコに行ってきます。
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That's why you lose.
Today, it's not like work know-how, but I would like to talk about the movie ′′ a in the town ′′ that I'm in the middle of the day, and I'm going to have a good time.
I was originally a manzai teacher, writing a manzai, and a master who raised me is a playwright called ′′ goto hiroto...... so I also wrote the script of the stage......
I'm going to change my job to a picture book writer, draw a picture, draw a story, and make a picture book song too.
This is the one who made the song. Hallo Halloween ′′
https://youtu.be/Rihe2JOyLQA
There's a prop guitar in the theater dressing room, so I can play guitar while I'm touching the free time.
By the way, I was able to make a theme song for the picture book ′′ Phantom Railway ′′ which was made one after another, so please search for it on Youtube.
https://youtu.be/PkoCXybjrrw
I'm working like that, so my role in the movie ′′ a in the town ′′ is going to be busy called ′′ Original Script Production General command promotion lyrics,"
Sometimes it's said that sometimes," there's a ghost writer!" lol
As for this, it means ′′ Nishino can't make such a wonderful thing," so it's only a compliment, but unfortunately, I don't have a ghost writer.
If you are in the middle of labor, you are publishing ′′ division of labor,"
It's better to be.
It's better to have a lot of creators think ′′ I want to participate in nishino's work so I'll definitely name the person.
Sometimes you don't put it out, but it's if you shouldn't put it out.
For example, in the notes section of the video of ′′ a no-′′ that I uploaded to the youtube channel three days ago, besides the lyrics, there is only the name of the staff of ′′ songs, lyrics, arrangement, choreography ′′ I'm sorry.
There is no name of lighting, art, or costumes.
It's just that it's a place to put information on music.
If you write all the names of the staff involved, it will be about 80 people.
Oh well, so in case of ′′ cm I don't put the name of the basic, staff.
At the end of the tv commercial, ′′ it's the same as not going out with director.
It's just that if you write a story or make music, I don't have anyone called ′′ Ghost writer
I think it's a rare pattern, but even in the ′′ business book I don't hire a writer.
It's more overwhelming to write yourself, because my work is reduced.
If you don't have a performance or anything, you can write it in 5 TO 6 hours if you don't mind a business book that sells 5 million
I'm just going to make a character of my experience and thoughts already in my own.
It may be ′′ key!" but," it's a ghost writer, and people who think about it, are compound, flirting, family trip, and watch the shows. I've been fighting for a battlefield where I'm going to die when I'm talking about talent adultery, and I'm studying the exam without thinking about anything.
It's been about 20 years, average working time is 19 hours.
So, this 20 is," 20 years that I've been throwing away the winning pattern," and the job that grabbed the trick is more and more throwing away, and it's been 20 years since I've been trying to challenge the new area I'm sorry.
So, it's obvious that the overwhelming difference in the ability and knowledge is born, and I want to say that ′′ effort is rewarded so I don't want to hide it here.
I'm not using a foul trick, but I'm just saying that I'm trying twice as hard as you, so I'm going to have 1000 times the results of you," I'm sorry.
And I don't accept this reality," no no, it's doping... I think something special is working... my life is over without starting for a lifetime. So accept it if you don't like it.
I don't think there's a person who says ′′ I'm doing this kind of effort but I'm going to say it because it's a good opportunity.
There is also a recording of the movie ′′ a in the town ′′ today, but there is a question from the voice actor, and I have to give instructions that ′′ I'm going to have a good time here,"
So I'm going to do ′′ practice to instruct ′′ at home.
I will actually be able to do it.
For example...
′′ A town is full of chimney.
Smoke from there, moc mok on my head, black smoke and moc mok.
Moc. from morning to night.
People who live in a town are trapped in black smoke and don't know the blue sky. I don't know the shining stars.
In a city that abandoned looking up, one man looked up.
The Black smoke that covered the town, the man made his thoughts on the dream that the heyyy mole I met at the bar told me.
The story of the world across the smoke. The story of the shining world.
I thought it wouldn't be, but I can't say it at all.
Because no one has gone. No one has the answer.
Then the man shouted over and over again, day and night, the story of the world across the smoke, but he was told that he was stupid, and he was cut off as a hola.
What the hell did a man do?
Who did the man hurt?
There is no reason there.
In the town that abandoned looking up, a big choir of ′′ conspicuous,"
In a town that abandoned looking up, if you speak your dreams, you will be laughed, and if you act, you will be slapped.
Black smoke swallows the town and doesn't allow the light of all times.
Black smoke swallows people and doesn't acknowledge every courage.
And yet the man gave a voice, trembling his knees, and he got into the ship and went to the sea.
It was in a dark and scary sea.
I was in the sea with no one ′′
This is the line of the scene of the protagonist boy's father showing off his own kamishibai, but now I didn't write it while watching something, and I'm memorizing this much.
As a person who gives instructions, this is so much.
This is the kind of thing that ′′ I remembered while I've been doing it many times," so it's not talent or sense.
This is the professional.
If you'd like, once you'd like to be my company intern student, near me, take a look at my work.
I think I'm probably going to despair lol
I said it earlier, but I want to tell you that ′′ effort is saying things," and in the future, I would like to make an appeal that I have been actively working hard.
That's right.
The movie is on December 25th, but on the night of December 25th, I'm going to have a live broadcast on Youtube, and I'm going to have a good time with the movie," the scene over there, actually ○○ I want to talk about ′′ what is it so go see the movie on the first day.
While you're in the middle of the day, mark your schedule for December 25th.
Well, I'm going to go to the recording of the movie ′′ a in town ′′
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《Mandarin and English versions 》
我是旅行者-王芮緹
自2016年以來,我旅行了1,118天,部分時間是步行,部分時間是騎自行車從台灣出發,穿越中國。 經過數百個晝夜的訪問到達了意大利,羅馬內的梵蒂岡城。 我以普通遊客的身份走進聖彼得大教堂。 這是一個承諾,這是我已故女友的夢想。 我終於把她帶到了那裡。 或者她帶我去看世界。
梵蒂岡城過後,我繼續旅行,途經法國,西班牙..等等總共44個國家。 輪渡把我和我的自行車帶到另一個大陸,然後我到達了尼日利亞。 這不是最容易旅行的方式,但是我想用自己的腳環遊世界。
我為這次旅行設定了持續時間。 我想用10年的時間來體驗現實世界。 然後我要分享。 我想分享我遇到的那些事情,我聽到的聲音以及那些從我的眼睛溜走並佔據我的角落的場景。
當我踏入聖彼得大教堂時,此旅程的最初目標已經完成。 但這並不意味著旅程的結束,因為這段旅程告訴我,這個世界上有很多人需要別人的幫助。 我可能無力解決造成貧困,飢餓或疾病的那些問題。
但是我相信,通過走進我們的同胞所遭受的痛苦的地區,通過體驗他們所經歷的事情,我的旅行可能會引起那些能夠改善這種情況的人們的注意。
我獨自旅行。 但是意識到自己的旅程停止後,我就必須停止做善事的舉動。 他們(需要幫助的人)和我在一起。 我希望世界通過我的眼睛看到它們。 如果可以的話,伸出援助之手。 我知道我不是唯一一個這樣做的人,但願意邀請你們成為其中一員,貢獻我自己的一生與你們一起做善事。
雖然旅行、寫故事、賣明信片這些方式,的確得常常可以到來自世界各地的朋友的一些援助,讓我順利走往下一站,但在這樣有限的資源裡,僅有這一份小小的力量其實很難再支撐我走下往下一站或者幫助更多的人。
無論如何,我將繼續以自己的方式積極影響世界,繼續努力繼續往前走。 如果您願意支持這一旅程,我想帶著您的願望將它們帶到世界的每個地方。 即使很小,也有機會,我們可以共同使世界變得更美好。
如果您願意在經濟上支持我,可以按照以下信息進行。
如果您只想對我說幾句話,請跟隨FB IG YT .....的整個旅程。
Paypal : https://www.paypal.me/juitiwang
玉山銀行帳號:0820-979-011914 (銀行代號808)
I am Juiti Wang, an traveler.
Since 2016, I have been travelling for 1,118 days, partly by my foot, and partly by cycling. I departed from Taiwan, walked through China. After hundreds of days and nights, I arrived Italy, and then Vatican City in Rome. I walked into St. Peter's Basilica as a normal tourist. It was a promise and it was a dream of my deceased girlfriend. I finally brought her to there. Or she brought me to see the world.
After Vatican City, I continued the journey, cycled via France, Spain. A ferry took me and my bicycle to another continent, then I arrived Nigeria. This is not the easiest for travelling, but I want to travel around the whole world with my own foot.
I set a duration for this journey. I want to use 10 years to experience the real world. And then I want to share. I want to share those things I encounter, those sounds I hear and those scenes that sneak through my eyes and occupy a corner in my mind.
The initial goal of this journey has be completed when I stepped in St. Peter's Basilica. But this should not be the end of this journey, because this journey has taught me that many people in this world need a hand from others. I may be incapable of resolving those issues causing poverty, hunger or diseases.
But I believe that, by walking into the area where our fellows are suffering, by experiencing what they are experiencing, there may be a chance that my trip can arouse the attention of those who are capable of improving these situations.
I travelled alone at the beginning of this trip. But after realising that my journey may have a little chance to benefit those who I met, I stopped feeling so. They are with me. I want the world to see them via my eyes. Reach out a hand if they can. I know I am not the only one doing this, but I am willing to be one of them, with a portion of my life.
Over the past thousand days, I have received all sorts of supports from people around the world. Their supports have helped me complete the first chapter of this journey. These supports are indeed invaluable. However, with limited supports, it is difficult for this journey to be continued.
In any case, I will keep trying my best to continue the trip, using my own way to positively influence the world. If you are willing to support this journey, I would like bring your wishes with me carry them to every places of the world. There may be a chance, even if it is little, we may together make the world to be a better place.
If you are willing to financially support me, you can do so by following the information below.
If you just want to leave some words to me, please follow this journey by FB IG YT.....
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if you can dream it you can do it意味 在 Bikepacker Min - 單車背包客 Facebook 的最佳解答
【素人推薦文-最重要的夥伴】
四年前,我請在旅途中遇到的兩位好朋友,幫我寫一段他們對我的感想。不愧是我的好朋友,所以在兩年前,我終於收到了其中一位瓦倫的回覆(我們是拖時間比賽嗎XD)。當我現在要把他們整理到書裡面時,覺得NG的片段也太好笑了,所以決定一刀未剪的放上來給大家瞧瞧,你就會知道,在路上可能會遇到什麼樣沒頭沒腦只會拼命講幹話的好朋友 :D (以下是我的翻譯,原文可以往下跳到最後)
「兩位:
我終於找到時間寫些句子給Min,這真的不是一件容易的事情,因為當我開始認真寫個三句話之後,就會忍不住接一些廢話進去。這真的不是一件容易的事,試想看看,如果你得寫一篇關於某人好話的文章,但其實你心裡清楚她其實是個騙子,因為她總是跑去搭火車?
因此,這是我第一個嘗試:
Min是一個像金一樣純的人,她充滿愛和精神,總是穿白色衣服。她沒有騎車,而是在地球上飛行了50厘米。 不...他媽的!
第二次嘗試:
親愛的人們,我必須警告您:這本書是一本幻想小說!如果作者寫了幾公里這樣的文字,很有可能實際上是公尺;當她寫單車時,她意味著火車;當她寫帳篷時,其實指的是一間三星級酒店。
第三次嘗試:
關於第一個騎單車的背包客女子從德國乘火車到臺灣的簡短故事。
我第一次遇到Min時是在德黑蘭的土庫曼大使館大樓外。她問我:「您是Vali嗎?德國人,騎單車前往烏茲別克斯坦嗎?我是Min,我也想去那裡,我們可以一起騎嗎?」
那時候,我不想結識其他騎單車的人。某方面來講,我已經聽夠別人的故事,並很享受自己一個人的旅行。自從我的旅伴朱莉從伊斯坦堡離開我之後,我便開始享受旅途中的寂靜與寂寞。所以我並不想和Min一起旅行,但我只是回答她:「好吧,...是的,好吧,如果我們都能順利拿到簽證,就可以一起騎車。」於是她問了我的聯繫方式,最後她也真的打電話給我一起去領取簽證。
我們開始一起旅行時,我的伊朗簽證只剩9天,因此我每天必須不斷地趕路,我不確定Min是否能夠跟上,因為這將會改變騎車的節奏。但是當我開始認識Min時,我發現她是一個有趣的女孩,一個只燃燒熱情就打算從慕尼黑回到臺灣的女人,充滿了理想和天真。
她只是單純的展開了計劃,在還不知道接下來會發生什麼事,也沒有任何騎乘單車和露營經驗的情況下。她帶了一個彈出式的帳篷,那種帳篷你只會為了在車上應付緊急情況而準備的帳篷;是當你可能在開高速公路回家的路上,因為太過於勞累,而決定扔出這種圓形帳篷休息一下才會用到的那種。而她的單車也沒有前袋,所以她所有的裝備都扛在單車的後面以及她的背上,因為她竟然背了一個背包!實際上,她是第一個騎單車從德國到臺灣的背包客。這就是Min令人印象深刻的一件事:她有這個想法,然後她做到了。
她得到一台贊助的單車和一些贊助的裝備,然後就拿著這些東西展開旅程。她的思考模式不像我這樣的德國人,在計劃開始之前必須擁有完美的單車和完美的裝備。對她而言,在還沒有這些條件之前就可以動身了。我永遠不會知道她何時開始計劃,以及為何要做這趟旅行,我想連她自己都不確定,即使在書裡她告訴了你們不同的故事。
所以在伊朗的時候,我們開始認識彼此,而我的內心也開始轉變,我發現和Min一起騎車真是太好了。
有一天我們還遇到了香港人Senda,傍晚我們一起紮營時,他們兩個在抱怨伊朗米飯因為不夠粘稠,所以不能用筷子吃。請想像一下,有三個人聚集在他們各自的帳篷前,在伊朗沙漠中繁星密布的星空下,而我這顆德國馬鈴薯陷入了一場關於米飯的討論之中。我不得不為自己大笑,當我告訴他們在煮飯時我加了鹽時,他們倆都非常生氣。從這種情況下,我了解到米對於Min、Senda和其他將米作為主食的人來說是非常重要的。於是,我決定再也不會煮米飯給他們,因為他們比我更知道如何煮好米飯。
之後Senda前往阿富汗,Min和我前往馬沙德(Mashad),我們就此分開直到在烏茲別克再度相見。在土庫曼斯坦的途中,我遇到了一個叫雷蒙,又名骯髒的旅行者的瘋子,我們一起前進,當我們離開土庫曼斯坦時,我們又遇到了Min,組成一個黃金三角的夢幻單車隊。雷蒙非常熱愛騎單車,是一個非常可愛的傢伙。我們三個在一起的時刻如此獨特,在一起共享每一天,只有在夜晚時,被帳篷的薄布分開。我們一起騎單車,一起出汗,一起奮鬥,一起度過美好的夜晚,同時在帳篷前烹飪美味佳餚,共享非常愉快的自由與自主的時光。當我現在回想起來,不得不承認那是我一生中最美好的時光。Min是其中很大的一部分。
如果您想進一步了解Min和她的冒險經歷,則必須購買此書。真是太神奇了,我在馬桶上翻起書頁,就在那待了兩天,直到看完為止。讀這本書就像呼吸吉爾吉斯斯坦高原的空氣一樣,就像在雷蒙身後騎車並聞到他的屁味一樣。這將是一本暢銷書,是一本令人難忘的書。絕對推薦!買吧!」
-Valentin R (一位來自德國的瘋狂自行車旅人,和Min一起旅行了兩個月)
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來來來~想要一起蹲在馬桶上兩天的請往這裡請
👉https://pse.is/minbook
🤭我個人是很好奇, 他到底蹲了兩天看什麼東西?
🤔不要說我的書沒有德文版, 連中文都還在做編輯...
🤫到底是看了什麼啊...? XDDDD
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(原文)
Hey guys,
while staying for four days in Bangkok to repair audio amplifiers for rich Thai men I finally I found the time to write some sentences about Min and it was really not easy, because when I start writing something like this, I will write bullshit after three sentences. It is really not easy. Have you ever written something about another person and you have to talk good about this person while you know she is a liar and always went by train?
So the first try:
Min is pure gold. She is full of love and spirit and always wears white clothes. She is not cycling, she is flying fifty centimeters over the earth. NOOOOO fuck it!
second try:
Dear people, I have to warn you: this book is a fantasy book! If the author writes about kilometers on the bicycles she meant probably meters. When she writes bicycle she means train, when she writes tent she means three star hotel.......NOOOOO shit!
third try:
A short story about the first backpacker woman on a bicycle who travelled from Germany to Taiwan in a train
The first time I met Min was at the Turkmen embassy building in Teheran when she encountered me and asked: „Are you Vali, the German guy travelling to Uzbekistan by bike? I am Min, I also want to go there and I wanted to ask you if we can ride together?“
At this time I didn't want to know any other cyclists, somehow I was bored to hear stories of others while I was having a great adventure by myself. I enjoyed the silence and loneliness on the road since Jule, my cycle mate, left me in Istanbul. So actually I didn't want to travel with Min in the first moment, but I just answered to Min: „Well,...yes..., ok, if we get the visas we can ride together.“ So she asked for my contact and she really called me to pick up the visas.
I only had nine days left in Iran before my visa expired so we had to go really quick and I didn't know if Min was able to catch up. It was a change in rhythm for my bike tour, but when I started to know Min I found out that she is a funny girl with a burning ambition to fulfill her aim travelling by bicycle from Munich in Germany to her home country of Taiwan. A woman full of spirit and a good portion of naivety. She just started the trip without knowing what will come and without any experience of cycling and camping before this trip. She was equipped with a pop up tent, the kind of tent you have in the car for an emergency, when you are still on the highway and you get to tired to drive home. So you have this kind of round tent that you can throw and it pops up as a tent by itself. She also didn't have front panniers (bags) on her bike, so all her equipment was in the back – and also on her back, because she was wearing a backpack! Actually she was the first backpacker on a bicycle to travel from Germany to Taiwan. And that is the impressing thing about Min: she had the idea to do this trip, so she just did. She got a sponsored bike and some kind of sponsored equipment and she just took this and started the tour. She didn't think the German way like me who had to have a perfect bicycle and perfect equipment before I started. No, she just started without any spare parts for the bicycle, without any experience in cycling and camping. I never found out when she started to have this idea and why and probably she doesn't know herself even if she tells you different in this book.
So in the time in Iran we got to know each other and my mood was turning and I found out that it is nice to cycle with Min.
On day we also met Senda, an Hongkongnesian guy and in the evening Min and him were complaining about the Iranian rice, because it is not sticky so you cannot eat it with chop sticks. So you must imagine three people in front of their tents under a really nice Iranian starry sky in the desert and me as a German potato in the middle of this rice dicussion. I had to laugh for myself a lot and when I told them that I put salt in the rice when I cook it, the both got really angry. From this situation I learnt that rice must be something really important for Min, Senda and other people that eat rice as staple food. This night I decided to never cook any rice for them, because the knew it always better in terms of rice.
Senda went on to Afghanistan and Min and me went on to Mashad and we divided there to meet up in Uzbekistan again. On the way through Turkmenistan I met a crazy guy called Raimon a.k.a. Dirty Traveller and we went on together and when we left Turkmenistan we met Min again forming the golden triangle of cyclism, a dream team. Raimon is really passionate about cycling and a really lovely dude. We three had so much unique moments together, sharing the whole day together, only the nights we were divided by the thin cloth of our tents. We cycled together, we sweat together, we fighted together, we had nice evenings together while cooking nice dishes in front of our tents and having a really good time of freedom and self-determination. When I think back to this time now I have to admit that it was somehow the best time of my life. And Min was a big part of it.
If you want to know more about Min and her adventures you have to buy this book. It is totally amazing, I read it on the toilet and stayed there for two days until I finished reading. Reading this book is like breathing in the air of the Kyrgizian Plateau, it is like smelling the fart of Raimon while riding close behind him. It is just a best seller. It is the book that takes you and never leaves you. Absolute recommendation! Buy it!