音楽

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*

So my dears, that's the first single by "The Trax" Yoshiki Hayashi's new project directly from Korea (^_^) I've already linked their official hompage in the link category. You can check out their latest PV for scorpio there (^_^) Good boys, they are smart and put it on their homepage, what a pleasure for foreign fans who aren't able to watch korean tv (^_^)
Okay, it's a 3 track single

1)Paradox
2)On the Road
3)Are you ready?

I've been talking about the Paradox track quite a lot already, but I can't stop. So it's a complete x-over track, nothing for those of you who are looking for the typical visual stuff, but those who like to taste somethin' new here you go. I will try to get a translation of this song by a Korean friend...maybe she will do it, I'll ask her. What I like most about this track ist the beginning, because it starts off like a typical pop song (I can't stand listening to) and then some really fat riffs blast through your speaker, neat effect (^_^) in the middle is a really cool riff part, too. I like the song a lot, because of the stopps before they get to the riff part and then back again. I really liked that (^_^) The refrain is really catchy and if you listen to it enough you can sing a long even though you don't have a fucking clue what you are singing about (^_^) Back to 14 *ggg*
The second song On the Road also starts quite poppy, but the riffs are soon to follow even though they aren't as fat as those in Paradox. The song gets slow really fast (strange sentence I know) but they kick in soon enough before you start to think: Hey...I din't by a Boa CD, where are my riffs???? Again some neat stopps which sometimes are placed quite unexpectively. Typhoon really has a nice voice (what's his real name again, since I really hate their nicknames for Trax *shudder*) I's nothing new, but they have a poppy theme which they repeat in a rocky way afterwards, but still it is a good song. At least I think so! And that's what's counting! (^_^)
Okay last but not least...there is Are you ready? I like the beginning with those sirenes and the rough and hard singing right from the beginning. It really has something mean to it, and boys you know how much I like that (^_^) But even though they try to be rough the put a harmonic singing part in the song, which caught me kind of by surprise. I like the quiet part near the ending of the song, too, but I like the ending of the the quiet part even more, some screaming, some riffs, some rap, a stop and then Typhoons (what's his fucking real name...pleaaaaaaaaaase) nice and rather clean voice. Really cool combo if you ask me.
That's it for the Paradox single.

The mini album (or however you'd like to call that)Scorpio is rather strange, I can't even remember the tacklist *sigh* and I'm too lazy to look it up.

1)Scorpio
2)Tears
3)???
4)???

Scorpio is a good song but I hate the beginning. You wonder why? Because Yoshiki made 2 major mistakes on this mini album. First some of you might remember the X-Japan stage entry woman's voice saying X with an echo on the live live live CD? They did the same thing with Trax! What is Yoshiki trying to do? Relive is youth? He shouldn't try that and for sure he shouldn't fuck up the boys from The Trax trying too hard. Well the rest of Scorpio is neat. There is the PV on the official homepage so take a look when having the time (^_^) They have a new look. I liked Attacks old look better than the new one. He looked hotter with the straight hair. I swear.
Then the second song is the scond mistake on this mini album. They covered tears. It wouldn't be so bad if you didn't know the original by X-Japan. If you are used to Tochis voice singing this song with extremly much emotion going along with it you can't like Typhoons voice singing this song. At least for me it is not possible. And no, they don't sing it in Korean, they sing it in Japanese.
The last two songs are quite cool. There is a slower song which is also in Japanese which is kind of a lovesong and a bit slower, as far as I understood the stuff he was singing, and you guys know how bad my Japanese is, so please don't rely on that. The other song is in Korean, and as faf as I remember it was quite cool, a bit faster more in the Parasdox (as single not the song) style. They should keep to that, seems that that's what they are best at.
So much for The Trax for today. I hope they release a full album soon!