I’m falling…
*sings Koichi’s song* “… falling in love with you.”
Sorry, Tsuyo. Your new songs are a tad too oyaji-ish for me lately (I miss Endlicheri!)
After dozens of listening to Koichi’s BPM Tour (short for ‘Best Performance and Music’), I have decided to buy the DVD if he ever releases it. His sexy tunes are definitely not your run-of-the-mill KinKi Kids style but it suits him perfectly like a sarung nangka baluts a… well, nangka of course.
I’m starting to appreciate his music more after noting how awesome he sings solo LIVE. Studio recordings doesn’t do him justice. Which is basically why I fell 100% for him from the Endless Shock musical, ne?
Besides, I’d love to watch cameos by Tsubasa (who came onstage) or Yara and Johnny-san (who stayed backstage). Oh please please please.
A summary of the week:
- Inocchi is going to be a papa soon! Omedetou~
- Tsuyo’s new show 24CHANNEL offers lots of cuteness to glomp on. Doesn’t even reach 20 mins so I wonder what his ‘100 Things Tsuyoshi Wants To Achieve’ would be?
- Chemical Pictures’ single is out for leeching. Heheh. Sorry, JImi. I promise to buy your first album.
- Watch Oguri and Mizushima on Domoto Kyodai (subbed by newshfan). If only to lol at the fans for kyaa-ing at a KinKi Kids Love moment. Have I mentioned that I LOVE it when KinKi fans unanimously go “KYAA~”?
- Stressful week. Even more stress coming. As if we’re not understaffed yet. Pfft.
- Oh, our Japan Muslim Package thingy is cancelled. Like, BOO!! We’ve been shoved around by 2 agencies, so we’ll just go ahead with the free and easy option. Tak sempat nak wait for other packages.
I seeeeriously don’t know why it’s so bloody fucking hard to get a vacation?
Oct Updates
- Sushi Tei played Luna Sea’s “I For You” yesterday ♥ Chou uresshi!
- Kochan’s Best Performance & Music solo concert tour ends today. Eventho I wasn’t there, great job Kochan *thumbs up*
- Koichi has confirmed that KinKi will be celebrating New Year in Tokyo. Yay for NagasexKoichi and JunichixTsuyo!
- Chemical Pictures’ new single is absolute PWN. Sad that Schwarz won’t be apart of them anymore tho. He makes CP’s sound dreamier. T_T
- 2 more weeks to Japan… but still no confirmation from J-Horizons. sigh.
No Time
My Jrock mode has been off for roughly a month now. I’m guessing since the illegal download crackdown got tougher on J-music, there aren’t as many people willing to sacrifice their souls cyber identities anymore?
Quite a few new releases that I was supposed to look up this month but I don’t think I can remember now hmm blame it on my anxiousness to fly to Japan. Cough or it may be thanks to the distraction of a certain concert DVD by a certain duo cough.
But nevermind that, I’ll find something soon. But it sure ain’t gonna be Gazette, ugh, because instinct tells me they’re not moving anywhere into the direction I assume they would take after DIM. Although I am tickled by Go’s effort (since he’s sworn off giving them an actual try) in reviewing their latest single “BEFORE I DECAY”.
Sugizo’s busy with a capital B as usual. However, he’s promised that he’ll present us something new soon. *jots down on note to buy his Rise to Cosmic Dance DVD when in Osaka*
Better yet… *jots down all the cds/dvds I think I can afford to buy in Osaka or Japan*
Eid Mubarak!
An advanced Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to my fellow friends and readers 
I’ll be spending a week in Johor (Thu to Fri in JB) and will be back on Wednesday. Have a great time eating and fattening our fat arses. Mwahaha.
For some reason I’m being really perky, eventhough I should be at home PACKING but I’m not… and our tour package is yet to be confirmed… and I’m leaving a lot of work to be handled by some 2 persons in the office… so yeah, anyway… KinKi made me super happy today because they’ll be releasing a NEW SINGLE next month.
And if my trip is double triple confirmed, it might overlap with the single release day! GOSH! *dies of happiness*
Countdown to DVD
Johnny’s Entertainment intends to tease us into a crescendo by releasing two beautimous (but simply not enough) clips from the KinKi you DVD.
15++ days to complete spazzing meltdown. xDD
“Mou Kimi Igai Aisenai“: One of their best (underperformed) ballads from the 2000 album (D album).
And of course, it doesn’t hurt to release yet another Live Version PV of “Garasu no Shounen”
In the meantime, I’m trying to figure out how to make my dvd drive region free. *shrugs* A few confusions here and there but once I follow the instructions down to pat, it’ll mostly be attainable before it gets here.
However happy the clips have made me, there’s still that niggling worry after this afternoon’s highly disappointing news from our travel agent. Looks like nobody wants to go to Japan all of a sudden.
I mean yeah sure the swine flu is really bummer and all… but c’mon. I think Japan’s pretty safe as compared to other Asian countries (including our beloved Malaysia). *double shrug*
May God show us another sign.
Lazyin’ with True Blood
I have got 5 to 6 new VK releases to review but the words aren’t flowing out very well. If and when I can stop obsessing about True Blood then maaaaybe I’ll get them up in oh a coupla weeks. Or more.
Or perhaps only by the time my KinKi you DVD is here ^^;; Either way, I CAN’T WAIT! Nyahahahaha.
SELAMAT MENYAMBUT HARI MERDEKA! Stay at home if you haven’t made plans. Otherwise make sure to avoid overly crowded places where there might be chances of catching some other person’s flu. There ain’t nothing worse than getting sick during puasa and since this bad weather’s not making the illness heal any faster it’s better safe than sorry, right?
Raya Cards
Lawa sangat plak aku buat e-greetings utk GSC nih =__=;;
*sends for approval*
I’m tired of making a lot of versions due to cough komen membina cough so this time around I’m gonna do it right and all purty!
You can see em up at the site oh in about 2 weeks or so.
Pissy
My downloads aren’t working, this computer chugs like a steamengine, Firefox is being a bitch, Farm Town is loading so friggin’ slow tonight and I can’t even get episode 4 of True Blood to load!
So when one of my old random schoolmate tries to sidle up to me and ask stuff I consider personal about my coming Japan trip without a simple introductory “Hello, how have you been?” or “Hi, long time no see”… I’m going to be all pissy and rude with her regardless of whether it’s Ramadhan or not.
Isn’t it annoying when someone, whom you aren’t even chummy with during highschool in the first place, messages you out of the blue thinking you’d be all friendly now? Er hello? Do you even know me that well?
Have the decency to warm up to me first please. Then and only then you may cut to the chase and ask me who I’m going with and if you ‘know’ these friends of mine. Pffft.
It’s like an indirect breach into your personal space wtf. And I LOVE my wall-high-1m-wide No Entry Zone which is exclusive only to people I care about.
Sounding pushy and vague, I can’t even tell if she’s merely making a bad start of a cordial conversation or she seriously wants to join me and my friends. But I’d like to keep this trip ‘VIP Only’, thank you. What makes you think I’d let you jump on the bandwagon we’ve worked so hard to build, huh?
Just the other day I told my twinnie on how I deal with friends I’ve lost contact with. But this is an exception, k? Our conversations were like so few that I doubt it could reach 1 hour totalled up.
Crazy Tats
Was looking for karasu. But found Bluck Tlick.
Was looking for Bluck Tlick. But found GeKiGaKutai.
MUCC makes me go round in circles :S
Happy circles, that is. Because now I have reasonable proof to remind myself why I don’t like girugamesh’s ‘MUSIC’.
The album features a notably heavier sound than their previous album, with a more “aggressive, destructive, and power” sound. Drummer Ryo comments that during touring, the band felt as if “there was something missing in our [Girugamesh's] songs”, and the band “wanted to make our songs a little bit harder with an “edge.” The band collaborated on “Patchwork”, “Stupid” and “Crazy-Flag” with label-mates Tatsurou and Miya of Mucc, and with Miya as the co-producer for the album.
Stumbled upon this forgotten fact at Wiki about girugamesh (the album) by girugamesh (the band, aka Gilgamesh) because Google led me to other random searches for “Jack in the Box 2009″. Miya and Tats combi is the love. In fact I love this album the best out of all giru’s work.
I shall go now and continue my relentless search. Pbhht! 
Notes:
karasu = session band covering Kuroyume; consists of Tatsurou (MUCC), Hiroto (A9), and names I don’t remember from Sadie and JealKB and um yeah one other guy sorry.
Bluck Tlick = Tatsurou’s previous session band; covered… you guessed it: Buck Tick.
GeKiGaKutai = Miya (MUCC) has his own session band? Download!!
Gwailo VK
I thought Elec/Jimi is the only gaijin making waves in VK Land. Who knew there’d be an American band touring the indie underworld over there in Japan?
They’re called L2D: Love Twice Despaired.
Really good! I seriously hope they make it big. And I hope Jimi knows them so there’ll be more insider gossip news!
August VK Reviews
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Title: Ain Soph Aur *AWEFUCKINGSOME* Band: RENTRER EN SOI Verdict: 4.5 stars. 3 years ago, having a weakness for strong vocalists, Satsuki’s lyrical prose and emotive voice inspired me to follow them. Their guitar play and compositions changed drastically throughout their 6 year stint. Highlighted in this compilation are hits from the effeminate (pre-) Sphire Croid era with songs like the wondrous “Shinwa”, “Full Moon” and “Eyes of Forest” which I have only begun to familiarize with. Their later major albums started the expansion to Europe based tours and at that time RES’ music swerved to angura-kei territory with “THE ABYSS OF DESPAIR”, “I HATE MYSELF AND WANT TO…” and “PROTOPLASM”. The crown definitely goes to their 2008 works especially “STIGMATA” and “Last Scene” which in their final year happens to be their finest products. 32 of their best hits will not revive them, no matter how many times I replay this. They held so much promise that it’s a shame for Visual Kei to lose one of its better bands. RES’ powerful combination could’ve outdone so many bands of recent times that lack the quality they had. But they were ill fated to break during their prime. Sigh. Go for: ‘Shinwa’, ‘STIGMATA’, ‘LAST WORD [ ]‘, ‘Last Scene’, ‘JUST MAD PAIN’, ‘wither’, ‘JUDE’, ‘Eyes of Forest’, ‘I HATE MYSELF AND WANT TO…’, ‘Full Moon’. New songs: ‘STAY GOLD’ & ‘Tsuki ga Maioriru Koto no Nai Daichi’. |
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Title: UROBOROS Delux Unplugged Disk (First Press Limited Edition) Band: Dir en grey Verdict: 4 stars. Honestly there ain’t much to review about this disk except that the four unpolished songs are definitely out of character. What you have here is Kyo’s crisp voice bleeding your ears off (in a good way). The amount of changes he’s screwed his voice over has culminated into this ingenious and mature style which I can’t help but be grateful for. The packaging is a beauty in brooding black and red. And weighing at almost 2 kg, I lugged this back home on the LRT with a crick in my left shoulder for 2 days! But it and the bargain price are so worth it. I only need to figure out what to do with the LP records… *sweatdrops* Go for: - |
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Title: under-world Band: Merry Verdict: 1.5 stars. I downloaded this in February right before my old PC went kaput and after I recently successfully got to save all that data, I thought “Yay! Something to review in early August” but uhm I remember now why I don’t like Merry. There are a few acceptable songs only because the rest is poorly written and leaves you wishing they’d pick up a few copycat abilities. They used to be monotonous and boring. But now this album is just unbelievably lazy. Go for: ‘Piranha’, ‘Canary’, ‘[human farm]‘. |
+ Bonus review: I’ve been unable to download Luna Sea’s GOD BLESS YOU concert for a year so when I found this cough pirated version at Amcorp Mall… (Insert squealing fangirl). Had I not felt the inexplicable pull to enter the pirated DVD shop I always ignore, I guess until forever oso I wouldn’t be able to watch the full concert. Since it’s expensive and it’s in sucky Region 1! Sigh. Anyway, since I’d already spazzed about the performances here, I’ll only spazz review on the DVD aspect and features.
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Title: GOD BLESS YOU ~One Night Déjàvu~ DVD*AWEFUCKINGSOME* Band: LUNA SEA Verdict: 5 stars. The lighting, the passionate crowd, the unseen moments and sheer brilliance of the production captured in this DVD is the best way to experience a Luna Sea concert. There are almost no areas left untended by cameramen and seeing how vast the minimalist stage is, pretty amazing shots of the band and pans of the whole stage are abundant. I just love the swift camera work: plenty of close-ups on those legendary twirls and spins by J and Ino and oooh the beautiful shots with one or two members (especially when Sugizo and Ino are at the wings) aligned in the background of the same frame while Ryu gets emo in the foreground. I also really love the amount of screen time Inoran is given here *pinches his cheeks*. The ‘Miracle at Holy Night’ TV broadcast of the concert has a couple of missing content here and there. So now I finally get to see the Shinya drum solo get rescued by J’s rowdy bass solo and then the performances for “Fate” and “Mother”. I’ve seen the cut-down version of this concert for the nth time and this DVD twice, but it hasn’t become stale and I doubt it ever will be. So if anyone wants to try listening to Luna Sea, I’d suggest them to watch this first rather than downloading their full discography (I can pinjamkan too). The perfection of this concert will bowl you over, I promise. Go for: ‘Rosier’, ‘Déjàvu’, ‘Desire’, ‘TONIGHT’, ‘Fate’, ‘Breathe’. |
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Title: Kimi no Uta PV *HOT* Band: abingdon boys school Verdict: 5 stars. YES! A hot new song to go with an equally hot PV. 10 seconds into the intro and you instinctively know these folks won’t be disappointing you this time. I love the burnished tint and the Babylon-esque ruins as if abs dropped into a Lost-slash-Transformers movie set. Even the whole wind whipping works wonders with their cool hoodies. Can’t wait for the new single AND album. Go for: - |
Warped
“..living as a captive of destiny or not is something each person decides for oneself, so I think there is no one right answer…
..supposing that I accepted ah, this is my fate, it would probably be a little boring since I won’t feel any drive. Then I wouldn’t be able to grow, I wouldn’t be able to be visited by good encounters either. There really isn’t any meaning to things like that. So, I think that living a life where I believe in myself and am not influenced or bewildered by other people’s words is fine…”
Article: “Destiny”, Domoto Tsuyoshi (Wink Up 2009)
Credit: mangenhougo @ LJ
Of course, one has to be a real narcissist like Tsuyo to continue on living with a strong believe in just your own self while disregarding other elements.
What he says is true, some of it at least.
Choosing which Fate or Destiny that I’d want to believe in sounds like a good advice for others, but let’s just say I’m not strong enough.
Ah Long Cometh
I hate PTPTN.
They sent a nonsensical letter telling me since I haven’t paid my debt for months there is a ‘tunggakan’ and therefore I am required to pay the outstanding amount within ‘EMPAT BELAS (14) HARI‘ from the day this said letter was printed.
It was dated 24 July 2009.
I received it yesterday, 4 August 2009.
Tell me, should I blast their hotline and spill whatever swearword I could come up with at their stupendously idiotic system?
F***! There isn’t even an indicator in the letter nor the system (E-FES) which states what the bloody hell that ‘tunggakan’ is for. I just paid a rough figure that is close to the amount of my ‘Kos Pentadbiran Terkumpul’.
Celebratin’ the VK Festival in October…
…at home, wallowing while packing for my Japan trip since I’ll only be departing on that 24th October. At least I should be packing on that day because we haven’t even gotten confirmation from the tour agent.
Sorry lah Ah Jess, I can’t kidnap Hiroto for you. Wish I could be there to kidnap other people as well but looking at the ticket price pun I feel like dying already.
The lineup looks pretty amazing.
Saturday’s highlights: abingdon boys school, D’espairsRay, Angelo (to hear Kirito live!), PENICILLIN, Sex Machineguns. You don’t get this much old-school in joint cons anymore so it’d be cool. And hey, Marilyn Manson?
Sunday’s look more fun tho: Kagrra,, DuelJewel, existtrace, Gazette, LM.C, Sadie, Versailles.
Naaaaasib baik MUCC is not listed, Luna Sea and Rentrer en Soi are disbanded and um Yoshiki just had his surgery otherwise Sugizo would be there.
July VK Reviews
Oh well, I might as well just go ahead and review DIM. Not expecting any good new release from anybody til September (girugamesh album & D’esp single) so I’ll get this done and over with before I forget.
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Title: DIM Band: the GazettE Verdict: 3.5 stars. Dim, dim, dim. How do I even begin this? You see, DIM is the typical Gazette weighty bludgeons, a few repetitive ballads (I still don’t like ‘Guren’) and ridiculous fillers (’OGRE’ wtf?) but all is not lost because in the 2nd half of the album, there are - Why, hello. Surprise, surprise! - 3 treasures lying in wait for my cynical self. First is the sexy nu-metal experimentation called ‘13STAIRS[-]1′, the refreshing change I’ve so wanted them to try. Second is the beautiful ‘Shiroki Yuutsu’ that gives out a simple and sweet NIL vibe. Third is ‘DIM SCENE’, their best song in years: a chilling blend of Luna Sea-esque violin and Diru-ish wicked songwriting. Brilliant, these. I ought to give them 4 stars because they’re finally starting to move forward. However, I can’t handle their gothic chicness anymore. Right when it’s something I approve of, I’ve become too jaded. But hey this is a good album so if anyone, especially semi-jaded people, who wants to give Ruki and the boys another chance… now’s the time. Go for: ‘DIM SCENE’, ‘13STAIRS[-]1′, ‘Shiroki Yuutsu’, ‘LEECH’. |
I might be reviewing my shiny new purchases from YesAsia next up once they reach Malaysian shore. It’ll be a welcome hug for RES and my 2nd review for UROBOROS. ♥
And maybe I’d shamelessly pimp Koichi’s Ayakashi just to be biased.
