Hideo Kobayashi (小林 秀雄, Kobayashi Hideo, 11 April 1902 – 1 March 1983) was a Japanese author, who established literary criticism as an independent art form in Japan.
Kobayashi was born in the Kanda district of Tokyo, where his father was a noted engineer who introduced European diamond polishing technology to Japan, and who invented a ruby-based phonograph needle. Kobayahsi studied French literature at Tokyo Imperial University, where his classmates included Hidemi Kon and Tatsuji Miyoshi. He met Chūya Nakahara in April 1925, with whom he quickly became close friends, but in November of the same year, began living together with Nakahara's former mistress, the actress Yasuko Hasegawa. Kobayashi graduated in March 1928, and soon after moved to Osaka for a few months before moving to Nara, where he stayed at the home of Naoya Shiga from May 1928. His relationship with Yasuko Hasegawa ended around this time. In September 1929, he submitted an article to a contest hed by the literary journal Kaizō, and won second place.
Hideo Kobayashi (born January 28, 1943) is a Japanese sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1960s. At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, he was eliminated in the repechages of the K-2 1000 m event.
Almost There may refer to:
"Almost There" is a song written by Gloria Shayne and Jack Keller and performed by Andy Williams. The song reached #2 in the UK, #12 on the U.S. adult contemporary chart, and #67 on the Billboard chart in 1964. The A-side, "On the Street Where You Live", was also a hit, reaching #3 on the adult contemporary chart and #28 on the Billboard Hot 100.
"Almost There" is a song written by Randy Newman for Walt Disney Pictures' 49th animated feature film The Princess and the Frog (2009). It was originally recorded by actress and singer Anika Noni Rose in her film role as Tiana. The song was nominated for Best Original Song at the 82nd Academy Awards but lost to "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart. "Down in New Orleans", another song from the film, performed by Dr. John (with prologue & finale versions by Rose), was also nominated for the Oscar.
Tiana and her mother Eudora, are at Tiana's restaurant. In the song, Tiana is singing that she is "Almost There" to successfully opening her dream restaurant. During the song sequence, the animation shifts to the same art deco style used in Tiana's picture of her dream restaurant that her father James gave her.
Besides the original English version, Disney Character Voices International released The Princess and the Frog (including the song) dubbed in 41 foreign-language versions of "Almost There".
First time in rap history
Your mind will be tooken to a level
Prepare yourself
When I relax with thoughts, then my brain
Hovers new york, my third eye glides with the view like a hawk
Defined, my mind is automatic, rhymes are tragic
Fount in the attic, lost you in asia, minor, find you in amazin
Beams I'm supreme my mindstate is like a dream, stargazer
Scarred from the radar, beyond gods and bombs and airwaves
And channels; desert rats and camels, reptiles and mammals
Stand wisdom daniel, and man who is samuel
Ezekiel's gonna overthrow in trees in hills and mountains
Fountains rivers lakes brooks and ponds
Inhabit by rabbit snakes and swans
Energy is solar life barreling beyond the sun controller
Over jehovah through the days of noah, tremendous speed
I ride the octavus seed, black seed, sea of caspainian
Persian gulf all the way to the mediterranean
City of atlantis, skin is gettin tight as a mantis
Styles organic, mechanic seagulls, swings over the eagles
Soars over the cathedral built durin the medieval
Shall remain in the ordained byzantine empire
Take you higher one stage is a mass of fire, but sting like
Niger your archrival constantine, dark ages got sparked
Through the stages, 3m7 ages
Constantinople ruled mobile seeking global filled with
Motion over the odds of oceans, scan the land, every inch
Of the sand, never bring plans, animals woman child and man
Beasts and fish every inch length and width
Come through the abyss, over egypt..
This odyssey, more angles than photography
More exotic pusses erotic like pornography..
Am I almost there?
Yeah I'm almost there?
Am I almost there?
Yeah I'm almost there?
Am I almost there?
I'm a space cadet from a tape in the cassette, player
By fasting and prayer, I'm passing the ozone layer
I meditate in the mere, top of skyscrapers
Grew through a nature, droppin blew through a vapor
Then there's paper, the wind that take ya, quiet as
The breath in your nose appear in the cold from the depths of my soul
Which has no weight, constant rotate at a slow rate
Through the black hole, purple rainbows in kuwait
Destination operation alternation of the sun
Circuit stars positions seasons that weigh a ton
And mortalic through galaxies I'm burning, it's like
The accomplished, plus the comets keeps turning
Beautiful virgin release every burden, I travel when I preheated
The urban, hit the firmament and shock waves are permanent
Rays of children gaze and stand amazed, so long I'm gone
To the place paul apostle was born
Which is in tarses, small city in solicia
Then I move south, all the way to nigeria, golden tigers
Travel all the way to syria, mesopatamia
All the way to syria, euphrates to the urban child these
Of the high land located near iran
Fertile crescent, til I reach a section, from each direction
From east to west and, from north to south
All over the equator, neptune from the womb
Of the creator; killah priest dyin sheep from the middle east