音楽

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 (^_^)

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!