音楽

listening to: AFI | AFI
mood: great

Oh well, you know, when I am hooked on something I go nuts, so since my newest want-to-have-everything-of-them-band is AFI I did as I always do. I ordered CD's and most of them came today. Stuffed carelessly into my letterbox by the postman whom I have to kill for doing so!!! What if somebody stole them???? GRARRRR
Well anyhow, here we go:

AFI - Answer that and stay fashionable (1993/1995)

AFI - Very Proud Of Ya (1996)

AFI - Black Sails in the Sunset (1999)

AFI - The Art Of Drowning (2000)

AFI - Sing the Sorrow (2003)

AFI - a nitro perspective (2004)

AFI - Decemberounderground (2006)

This reminds me of something a good friend of mine once said: Aki just collects differently (^_^)

listening to: HAKUEI\THE WORLD IS MINE
mood: not certain

Well, I got it a couple of days ago and still did not feel like watching more than the reddish Diva Version PV and it's making of, so I can't really tell if this live DVD is great or lame (^_^) but I doubt that it will be lame.
Reddish is just one of those typical D'espairs Ray PV's, nothing new! But still a nice PV it's typically D'espairs, but that doesn't mean it's bad, I like it at least (^_^) I like the setting with the curtains and all.
The live was at Liquid Room Ebisu (Tokyo) 2004.09.23. and the DVD is called murder Day. Well one thing a friend of me actually made me think about. Japanese DVD's start by themselves, which doesn't mean they don't have a menu, they have, you just have to press the menu button on your control! I never thought about this before, since I don't really ever use the menu, at least not those on music DVD's except there are hidden tracks as on the 5 Ugly Kingdom DVD by Dir en grey....which leads me to the news, that Dir en grey will have a new DVD out at the end of June called average fury. It will be a PV collection, which is good, since I'm craving for some new Dir en grey PV's (^_^)

P.S. spell check did not find any mistakes....is that possible?

Well this is just a pic of the stuff I will have to review, but to be honest I haven't even listened to all of it yet, so gimme some time. I know I promised to do the review stuff as soon as I find some time, but you have to understand that I'm actually really busy, sorry!

listening to: Apocalyptica's Apocalyptica
mood: rather confused by to many vocabs

Oh well, finally the Osaka Jo Hall live DVD arrived...which band? Dir en grey! Be ashamed, you should know that (just kidding) It's a pretty cool live which is famous among fans for the Garden performance. I was told to pay a lot of attention to the performance of garden, which is during the first encore. So I did and I was waiting for something major dramatic to happen, but the only thing that happened was that Toshiya (Bass) nearly started crying that Kyo's (Vocals) eyes where watery and the rest of them looked as if somebody had stolen them their favorite toy. That was it! I was kind of disappointed, not that I'd love to see them break down and cry on stage, but people acted so dramatically about this performance that I had expected a little more. So the next time Osaka Jo Hall live gets mentioned and everybody makes a sad face just tell them that they are drama queens! But the DVD is really nice, I like the early Dir en grey performances a lot, because they kind of interact a little more than nowerdays. You see them jumping around having fun on stage, especially Toshiya, Kaoru makes lots of faces into the camera and Die is just sometimes grinning his time away. Shinya, well Shinya always kind of hides behind his drums, that just seems to be his nature. At the end the fans get fooled a little, but to find out what I mean you will have to buy the DVD yourself (^_^) And they are torturing poor little Shin again (^_^) Well the performances are great and the bonus stuff is a little short but okay, too. You get some backstage stuff, equipment and staff. So if you are interested what that extremely ugly Bass is called Toshiya uses during the second encore you can look it up here (^_^)

This time I wanted to test out iTunes and so I used it to purchase stuff I always kind of wanted but never bothered to buy the CD, so I've got lots of new stuff from Finland. I like the Finnish goth-rock bands a lot, because they aren't that gothy and more rocky, if you understand what I mean. So first of all I really needed to buy the Bettersweet EP by Apocalyptica. This song has been following around me ever since it got released, but I don't go into normal CD stores anymore, since nearly all I'm listening to at the moment needs to be imported! So I bought it, I just love this song...I love Ville Valo's deep voice haunting through this beautiful cello song. For those of you who didn't know, normally Apocalyptica stuff is not with lyrics, it's only for celli. But they make beautiful melancholic music, and that's just what I need right now! I even like Lauri Ylönen's high pitched voice in that song, because it harmonizes to Ville Valos rather deep voice. I really love that song. There are three versions of it on the EP, the normal one, of course, the acoustic one and the instrumental one. I like all three versions a lot. There are two other songs included which are Misconstruction and Quutamo. Misconstruction is a really beautiful song. I like to listen to it Quutamo is all right, to, but a little too happy for my taste at the moment. None the less a good song.
Since I don't have the time to give detailed reviews right now...remember guys, I'm having lots of exams next week, I'm just going to tell you what else is new. We start with Apocalyptica, besides the Bittersweet EP there is Apocalyptica (album), Apocalyptica plays Metallica by four Cellos and Refelctions. To stay with the Finns I had to buy some new H.I.M stuff. A couple of you will roll their eyes, but I still like them a lot. I liked them 5 years ago and just now I discover that I still like them, and they also suit my mood right now. So I got their And Love Says No album (sounds like a quote out of my life!), Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights (album) and Love Metal (album). All three of them pretty cool.
Next week exams are over and they you guys will have to read quite a lot of detailed CD and DVD reviews.....you will see (^_^)
I also got via I tunes some Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds stuff, but stupid me I accidently deleted two of the CD right after buying them. Now I have to figure out whether I have to buy them again or if the iTunes support can help me otherwise *breakdown*
So now we have the first minus of digital music (T_T)

listening to: ガゼットのcockayne soup
mood: stressed out

it's been a while since I updated, but to be honest I've got so much work to do since exams are coming up really fast and I'm probably going to fail half of them, therefore my creativity is kind of not available at the moment! My mind is simply stuck on other stuff.
I've got three new Gazette CD's which I'm really proud of, as you can see by what I'm listening to right now cockayne soup is one of them, of course I got the new one Disorder, too. The last one I got is 悪友會 (read: akuyuukai) I already like them a lot and I will give you a bigger review as soon as my exams are over. I'm too stressed out by now. Since I'm not in the mood for the search of Kanji I can't tell you the names of my new Kagrra stuff...okay one is easy, it's sakura. I've got two new Kagrra DVD's, too...you can already tell that this order was more or less a Kagrra order (^_^)
Well what else have we got...yes some new (well it's old stuff, but it's new in my list of things) Penicillin stuff. I just love that band and I can't believe that I'm a stupid bitch not going to their anniversary. But whatever...okay lets see...ahh yes Penicillin's Missing Link and Into the Vally of Dolls is to be called mine (^0^) And finally I've got Déspairs Ray's Gärnet, too \(^_^)/...so give me some time to listen to the stuff and then you'll get a report that couldn't be more specific *lol*

listening to: Penicillin の赫赫
mood: not in the mood to visit my grandma

I completely forgot that some stuff arrived before Chirstmas at my parent's house. Finally some of the still left to come stuff from neo tokyo, probably the slowest internet j-music deliverer one could imagine. I ordered that stuff back in September when I came back from Shanghai! Can you belive that there are still things missing? I already got stuff from Tokyo and HongKong in that time and I ordered that stuff waaaaaaaaaaaay later! Okay, but since this is not supposed to be a bitching-about-neo-tokyo-entry I will move on to the things that arrived. They made me really really happy, those things that arrived of course..what else is making me happy lately but new stuff from Japan? Not much!
So here we go:
it's J's "The Judgment Day" 2003.1.4. Live at BUDOKAN. This DVD fucking rocks, even though again the backstage and arrival and whatever scenes are cut inbetween songs (-_-) miraculously it doesn't ruin the live feeling as much as it normally does, but it still sucks. But still this DVD is awesome. Songs that rock all the way, really cool performances, I really liek the "Fuck J" thing, I nearly peed my pants laughing. And the orchestra song was really cool, too. I would have never thought that he'd actually take a live orchestra into BUDOKAN, but he did. J rocks (^_^)
Tracklist will be there later...I will post details as soon as I watched that damn thing again! I will have to watch it with a friend, it's so much more fun having someone sitting beside you while watching a live DVD, since 4 eyes see a lot more than only 2, right?
Okay, next thing that arrived, which made me even a lot happier Dir en grey's GAUZE-62045. It contains the Gauze PV's. I guess everyone nows them already, but I will post some kind of review later. I really need some more time for the review shit *sigh* where does all my time always go? Oh I know....dreaming it a away, or spending it studying Chinese and Japanese....I totally forgot about that (-_-) There is one thing I want to mention right away though. You can watch the songs with English subtitels which is really fucking neat. No honestly, I've read nearly all the translations off all songs I took a special interest in...mainly to check if there was something political I would not be able to tolerate...but to be honest, I never sat down listening to a song holding the translation in my hand reading along, I don't even do that with the romanized stuff. I read the orginals along, as far as my kanji-knowledge takes me, but that's pretty much it. So watching the PV with English subtitles is a great opportunity to really understand a song. And I really liked that. They should have put the opportunity that one can read the romanized stuff, too, on the DVD, too (okay, strange sentence but never mind, I guess if anyone at all reads this shit, he or she will understand what I mean (^_^) I hope...)That would have been really cool, but we should not ask for too much should we. It kind of sucks that there aren't any making offs on it, but this again is a "a knot" thing. Only members get those kind of things (T_T) This is going to be the first thing after moving to Tokyo next year. JOIN THE "A KNOT" \(^_^)/ I will probably not be able to eat the first couple of month because of spening all my money for Visual stuff, but hey...it's not that I couldn't live of my fat for a while (^_-) just kidding (^_^)
okay that will do for a new arrival report (^_^)
see ya later guys (^_^)

listening to: Rainy Sun no Porno Virus
mood: still mixed

Okay people, a tiny load of Korean music arrived from Hong Kong. You wonder why I order Korean music from Hong Kong. Easy thing, I'm a yesasia shopper and since they have Korean music, too there is no need to get it from Korea where I would have to find a music store that is sending stuff to Germany first. And I didn't have the energy to do that yet, and maybe I never will. Where's the difference anyway whether I get it from Hong Kong or directly from Korea. None I guess.
Okay this time I got of course "Paradox" or "Blast" from The Trax...I just love those boys and I really love their songs. They are quite different from normal Visual Kei stuff, I wouldn't even call the Visual, even though their way of clothing could make them (-_-) I'm still sick, please keep that in mind while reading this!
The Trax's single includes of course the song Paradox I already told you about numerous times, then there is "On the Road" which is starting of real slow followed by some rappy part more or less in the background, finally the song is speeding up a little but it remains quite slow, more like easy listening...oh well the stuff I consider easy listening (^_^) a beautiful song, but nothing really special. I'd say they rock the thing limp biskit (or however those Americans are spelled like) failed to rock. Even this slow song is quite powerful, but nothing really new. I still like it though. "Are you ready" is the last song on this single which starts with some nice riffs, quite aggressive singing which I like a lot. And it works even though or especially because they are all pretty young. There is a quite spooky part to it, too and our dear X-mas is doing a good job on screaming again (^_^) I like that song since it isn't flowing nicely in a crossover way, but it has some nice unexpected parts in it without becoming disharmonic. So if you guys are looking for a typical Visual Band, keep you hands off their CD's, but if you are open to a more X-over style of Visual give it a chance.
Two of the other 3 CD's that arrived are by rainy sun, who have a more bat cavey sound to them, if you know what I mean. I guess it is the quite spooky singing. I got porno virus and woman by them, but I haven't really listened to those CD's, so you'll have to wait to get something like a review.
The fourth CD is a compilation called Indie Power 2003 which means that popular Korean pop songs are performed by indie bands. Some of those are really really cool, and those I don't like are too death metally. I just hate that senseless screaming shit *argh* I like it when there are parts of songs like that (best example: Dir en grey) but I really hate it if the whole song isn't understandable at all. What's the purpose of that anyway? Okay, enough of the bitching, I will tell you later which songs are good and which ones sucked badly (^_^)

listening to: ナイトメアのリヴィド
mood: EXTREMELY PISSED

Okay, this morning (Saturday morning) at 8:00 a.m. my dorbell rings and there is my new stuff straight from Japan. I was kind of pissed since DHL alsways comes that early even though the guy already knows me and he should know that I'm still asleep at that time! So I payed the toll -fees, ripped the package open and there they were my new posessions. So I went back to bed and started watching.

So I started writing a fucking long review, and when I wanted to post it.....something went fucking wrong and everything got deleted. Can you believe it....DELETED! So I'm in a really fucking bad mood right now, cuz I have to start it all over again! *ARGH*

Okay, here we go:

雅:
1) ロックの逆襲　-スーパースターの条件-
21世紀型行進曲 (Single plus DVD)
2) 21世紀型行進曲
ロックの逆襲　-スーパースターの条件- (Single plus DVD)
3) 一人芸 (DVD)

Kagrra:
京 -special edition- (DVD with booklets)

ナイトメア:
リヴィド (Album with DVD)

Déspairs Ray:
-gemini- (Japan release comes with DVD to Born)

Penicillin:
Flower Circus (Album)

Let's get started with the Meev. Since even those among you who can't read Japanes must have noticed that 1) and 2) look pretty much the same (and right you are, the songs are the same ones) you probably wonder why I bought both singles, well here is the answer: They come with differnt PV's which means that you have to purchuase both in order to see them both, or you listen to me and only buy the one with the good PV, which would be the 2) one mentioned, since the PV to 21世紀型行進曲 is rather cool.
It's set on some deserted road in the country side. Meev is wearing some designer samurai outfit, which suits him very well. Good hair and nice make up. No goofing around, which is really good, since I hate it, when he does it like in "POP is dead" *shudder* (but we'll come to that one later!) Different people form all kinds of races appear in this PV and are convinced by our sweet little Meev that music is spicing up their lifes, so they all start playing the guitar and dancing along at the end of the song. The colors are kind of greyish, I really can't describe that one, sorry, you will have to watch it! Funny thing, when an Arab guy is shown a plain is in the background. I wonder if that was made on purpose.
The PV to ロックの逆襲　-スーパースターの条件- has nothing to it. Same outfit, different setting (plain white studio setting) different people, but boring, so if you wonna see what the Meev lookis like it is enough to buy the version mentioned above under 2).

一人芸 is a PV collection with the following track list:
-Girls,be ambitious
-POP is dead
-死んでもBoogie-Woogie
-自分革命-2003-
-Coo quack cluck-ク･ク･ル-【original ver】
-常勝街道
-あしタ、元気ニなぁレ。【original ver】

-POP is dead【off shot ver.】
-死んでもBoogie-Woogie【off shot ver.】

The making offs aren't erally inetersting. During the Shindemo Boogie-Woogie making off they show Meev with his bare chest....highlight....very yummy (^_^) and you can tell that this PV is one of his first ones ager Due, since he barely has any tattoos yet, which we all know isn't like that anymore (^_^)
During the "POP is dead" making of he shows his smile a lot, which is really really cute, but the rest is rather boring. Another thing about those off shots wich I don't like is the fact, that they don't have the original sound. I would have loved to hear Meevs blabla, but maybe he was talking too much crap that it was decided to play one of his songs instead of letting the views hear what he says...who knows.
Okay the original versions. Let's start with "Girls, be ambitious" which is quite a nice PV. It's about a girl beeing tied down to her bed by some illness in a very scifi looking room. Then she has visions about Meev in another room, just next to hers. That's about it....she gets up in her dream and opens the door. When she tries to tough him he disappears. That's pretty much it. I like the PV since Meev doesn't goof around and he look cute (^_^).
Next one is "POP is dead". I hate it....I really do, it's too poppy and Meev is goofing aroudn way to much for my taste. Well never mind watch it and you will discover what I'm talking about.
"Shindemo Boogie-Woogie" is set in an old theatre and Meev is either dancing around in a sparkling red suit which makes him look even skinnier than normally. Along with him there is some white chick wearing barly any cloth and a colored guy dancing along, too. Very freaky PV with no plot at all...or maybe I'm just too stupid to get it.
"自分革命-2003-" is set in some be-drawn factory building. Meev is wearing either a white or blue hooded jacked which looks really nice on him. Mainly there is no real plot to the PV. He's just running around destroying stuff, but the PV has a certain energy to it, which means I like it, even though it doesn't have a plot (^_^)
"Coo quack cluck-ク･ク･ル-" is also set in some be-drawn industrial area. Again no plot to the PV, he's just walking around there. I don't like the outfits, too. The cowboy hat with the sunglasses is nice, but those blue and white pants suck...and who the fuck gave him those gloves *yack*. With the other outfit he has some white cloth thingy wrapped around his head. Looks strange and doesn't appeal to me at all, so a big MINUS for that one. Avarage Meev PV, nothing special.
"常勝街道" iw one of my favorites since I like this back alley setting a lot. I like the fear and confusion you can see in Meev's eyes and he wears some pretty cool cloths. He just looks great in those big red pants (^_^) The video again doesn't have a plot, but we don't even ask for that anymore, do we?
"あしタ、元気ニなぁレ" is set in the country side. He's genkily dancing around in a field and just looks happy. No visual make-up which goes along with the setting really well....and to be honest, he doesn't seem to need it anyways. Those of you who know the song probably recall that there is a piano part to it. Well during that part he's playing on some toy piano, showing that he has no clue at all what he is doing. Really cute scene which makes this PV my favorite of the above.

Okay let's move on....why did I buy the Japanese release of -gemini-? because of the "Born" PV which I desperately wanted to watch since I love Déspairs Ray (^_^)
The setting is some dark, wet alley. They are just performing their song, but since I love those dark PV's a lot this one get a two thumbs up even though nothing really happens. And of course they look good. Nothing to say about their outfits, I just love them (^_^)

The special edition of Kagrra's 京 live DVD comes along with some booklets about the members. Nothing really great but quite a nice job.
I already have the regular edition of the live DVD, so I have to wirte the review on my memory. Okay...what was remaralbe about this live? 真 (Shin) extremely ugly make-up. That boy is really not as ugly as he looks during this live, so why didn't they steel the kajal from him? It makes his face look as if Piccasso at the age of 5 tried to put on some make-up. Okay besides that I really admire　一志 (Isshi). You wonder why? Because he's able to jump with platform high heels. I mean, how does he do that? I'd probably brake my neck trying that out. All of their outfits are great, so no ciric words on those.
Really cool is the fact that they show the audience repeat Isshi's handdances acurately. It looks very neat, especially with those girls who are wearing Kimonos ( 着物 ). The only thing that sucks about this DVD is the fact that it is really short and that they didn't put the rehersal shots and stuff like that at the End. They put it inbetween songs. I hate that kind of concept, because it rippes you out of that live-feeling which is so easily destroyed watching a DVD. Boo to that.
The cover artwork was again done by Yuichiro Fukaya. I love his drawings *sigh*

Well, done with Kagrra which leads me to Nightmare. This was the first Nightmare merchandise thing I've ever bought in my life. I knew what they look like from pictures and they don't look any better during this extremely boring PV. I'm talking about the PV to 赤触　(akashoku: crimson touch). They are standing on some canyon rock plateau performing their song. I don't even recall if something else happens. Maybe I fell asleep of boredom. The only thing that yankes you back to attention is 柩's (Hitsugi: (G)) look. He looks as ugly as always. I just don't like his style. I don't have anything in particular to say about RUKA (Drums) and Ni~ya (Bass). They are just pretty boys. YOMI (vocal) is extremely tiny. I'm not kidding, how tall is this guy 1,50 or something around that? My favorite is 咲人 (Sakito) the other guitarrist. He is a fucking beauty. He's so skinny that he makes you believe that there exists nothing like chocolate or pizza in this world. I love men that are sooooooooooooooo skinny (^_^)

There will be no reviews on the songs today...just in case you wonder, since I have to listen to the new stuff a couple of times before I can tell you what I liked and disliked in detail. But I have to warn you, I'm not a very good music critic. Feel free to disagree (^_^) And since the new Penicillin CD had no PV DVD to it....they don't get reviewed today (^_^)

Ahhh I made it....written all over again (^_^)I hope I didn't leave anything out. Now I will try to do something for my Chinese class. Even though I'm not even slightly in the mood to do that *sigh*
Maybe I should eat something first, since I haven't really eaten anything today. Sounds like a good idea, doesn't it?