音楽

listening to: Sex Gang Children
mood: sad (after I read this)

take a look at this translation of the reasons for Ryouhei leaving Ayabie and the feelings of his fellow bandmembers about that. I think it's pretty sad (T_T)

watching: The Simpsons
mood: tired

Ohhh NOOO Ryouhei is leaving Ayabie. That means I saw them with that line up for the last time!!! And Ryouhei was the leader of the band, too, what going on???
Reasons for this decision will be given at their last live at Shibuya AX....to bad I can't be there.

listening to: Penicillin | God of Grind
mood: bored

Some good news just reached me (Thank you Tai for telling me). Penicillin Nano will torture our wallets in August. They are releasing 7 singles, each in two versions, with or without DVD (guess which ones I'm getting *GGG*) and an yet untitled album in two versions, one is coming with a DVD for about 3360 Yen and one with a book for 3150 Yen.
The release dates are the following:

August 1: Garakuta no Maria
August 2: Sakura Moyou
August 3: Shine
August 4: daring
August 5: I believe
August 6: Cinderella
August 7: War Dance

August 18: Album

seems as if August is going to be very expensive (-_-#)) but who knows if their stuff is good? is the live in the US before that? That would be awesome, because people would know if it's worth spending 200-300 Euro on that stuff

listening to: The TV
mood: still drenched

Uhh here some more news for J-Rock lovers (^_^)
Here we go.

Ayabie are releasing a DVD of their live tour Tsuki no kakera furisosogu on 24.5. and it will cost about 5775 ¥. Now that is cool, another Ayabie DVD and they spit it out before the live (^_^)

And now some news about Penicillin. Hakuei and Chisato will start a new project. They will remix some old songs of Penicillin and are planning on composing some new ones as well. The new Projects name will be Penicillin nano. They are probably taking part in the Stylish Wave Circuit '06 in Shibuya's O-West on May 30th. That is darn cool. I wish I could be there. Would be fun to watch that new project launch. But hey. can't have everything, right (^_^) I wish them luck, as always.

listening to: Dream Theater | Images and Words
mood: sad

Well even though my real mood doesn't fit with the title, please just ignore it! The J-Music machinery is starting to get rolling in Europe. Not only is the German label Gan-shin releasing Phantasmagoria, 12012 and Vidoll stuff, but also the band Ayabie will give a live in Germany this summer.

I don't care about the Phantasmagoria and 12012 releases, cuz I got the Japanese Orginals of mostly everything that has ever been released by them already, but I'm happy about Vidoll, cuz Vidoll's stuff is sold out mostly everywhere, hence hard to get a hand on, so yay for German Vidoll releases (^_^)

Regarding the Ayabie live, I hope I'm still in Germany when it takes place, cuz I would love to see if their live concept works in Germany, too. Ayabie is one of those bands who's live performance make you move a lot. They have like a zillion hand daces and I just can't imagine an Ayabie live without spinning around every god darn second of it \(^_^)/ They are the masters of crowd control (^_^)
It might also be interesting to hear people's reviews on that live who've never been to an Ayabie live before, cuz they don't know what they are like in Japan and might have a complete new outlook on the whole thing. I might be very sad if they would leave out the hand dances, and might not like the lives in Germany as much as I LOVE them in Japan. But we will see (^_^)

listening to: Bullet For My Valentine | The Poison
mood: giving away money

Well it is a new month, so I decided to do some CD shopping (^_^)
Here we go, todays order includes:

Bullet For My Valentines new album The Poison. A good friend got me into them and I have to admit that I like them a lot (^_^)

The current order all under the sign of Alice Nine, cuz I love them (^_^) Of course I needed their Alice In Wonder Film DVD

and their Kowloon -Nine Heads Rodeo Show- Type-A single

and their Fantasy Type-A single

and their Akatsuki Ikuoku no Chandelier DVD version single

I also was in the need for some heavier stuff, so I ordered 12012's play dolls [Type A / CD+DVD]

and Mucc's Houyoku even though it is supposed to be a little more chilled (^_^)

just for the sake of it I ordered Gazette's new Album Nil, too

last but not least, since I had a lot of fun with this band, I simply needed their last live
Shulla's last live DVD: The Grand Finale

Since some of these item's are futur releases I will have to wait till I come back from Barcelona, but that is okay I guess (^_^)

listening to: my mom mumbling something
mood: quite good

So finally Germany is having their own releases for J-Rock CD's by Gan-Shin. This actually means that you get a version that doesn't cost as much as the Japanese ones.
But they do indeed get released a lot later than in Japan, which is a minus, but if you can wait and don't want all the extra stuff you sometimes get when buying that stuff directly in Japan, you should buy your CD's in Germany.

D’espairsRay – Coll:set will be released on 13.1.2006 and Mucc's new album will be released on 27.1.2006

If you order them till 31.12.2005 at Neo Tokyo they will deliver it on the release date.

watching: ムックのココロノナイマチ
mood: somewhere in between

Am I wrong or is this new Mucc song a lot different from they usual work? I dunno I never got into Mucc, cuz I thought that their music was even a lot more disordered than Kagerou's stuff, and to be honest, I have to be in a really weird mood to listen to a Kagerou CD straight through till the end. Not that I don't like Kagerou...I luv them, especially live (^_^), but they ain't a very melodic bunch, are they?
Well surfing around I found this new Mucc PV (scroll down...Mucc in Katakana as in the title!) and watched it out of pure boredom and the lacking will to go have a shower (^_^) So I watched it, and I have to admit, I'm a bit surprised, since I don't really remember that I ever heard the vocalist actually SING a song. Okay, I only know about 3 songs of those guys, but I never really liked them. This one is more like a lalala sing along song, but I have to admit I find it kind of catchy and I like it. Yeah, the first Mucc song I like *strangedout*
It would be veeeeeeeeery helpful if any of you could tell me if they are aiming for a new style or if there are actually a couple of thongs like that? I would totally go for them in that case....even though it is a little lala (^_^)

So now we have the chance thanks to arte to watch Déspairs Ray on TV. So don't miss it on January 6th 23:20 on arte
maybe I'm shown....who knows ^^

Da das wichtig ist...nochmal auf Deutsch das ganze. Désprairs Ray wird am 6.1.2005 um 23:20 in ner Sendung von arte auftauchen....zum Glück haben die auch in Paris gespielt, sonst könnte man es wohl kaum sehen !!!
Also hängt euch vor die Glotze Leute (^_^) Die Sendung geht rund um Japanische Mucke, wird also kein Bericht über Visual, aber wir wollen uns ja mal nicht beklagen!