Let Winterlight Come

Def Tech has a way of making my mood better almost instantly. Though now I also want to go to Hawaii. Instantly. XD I took a nap today under a pile of blankets and woke up actually hot instead of just not-cold. Win!

I knew I had a post I wanted to make, and I finally remembered it last night. So, before I delete it from my computer, JE Countdown flail! It's been a week, so I am not going to cut for spoilers (whatever constitutes spoilers in a music show, anyways). If you care, scroll really fast, hit the comment button, and I will protect your eyes. :D I will also keep this all positive, because I whine plenty about other things. Okay, almost all positive. There will be one non-positive.

Commence Flail:
Bad first: YARA HAIR FAIL. Okay, to be fair, I couldn't see it really, really well (though there was a very clear shot of Yone's face behind Tsuyoshi at one point, and I laughed, sorry, Yone), but it did not look promising. Am hoping they shot January Shokuras before he got this hair. XD
Everyone brought the sparkly, wow, especially H!S!JUMP, and Arashi and NEWS halfway through. I wonder how many sequins are used just for Countdown costumes.
Ohkura's smile! And non-permy hair. And Yasu in general. ♥ Okay, one more non-positive: Ryo's ghostly mustache. Although it's also funny, so. XD
Random Junior sightings! Totally found Yamaryo without specifically looking for him because his head is big and blond and fluffy and that flail is unmistakable. Also, he sings along with everything and his mouth is big, too. >.> And therefore, he is easy to spot, I mean.
NYC is stupid catchy. And I love A.ra.shi partly because whenever I listen to it, I think of that clip with MatsuJun majorly failing at being on time. >.>
V6 looked so good in purple and black. *_* Also, everyone still backflipping after 15 years? Hellz yeah. Rock on, chicken!leader!
I feel like Takki is the Gackt of JE sometimes. In that uber-dramatic this-is-srs-bsns-but-I'm-really-a-big-dork way. XD Just substitute Juniors for men in cat suits!
Medleys always fun. Love the random people who end up glomping each other, like Ohno and MiyaKen.
Hee, Okada and Sho, again! Nagase totally in love with Koichi. Tsuyoshi will kill him if he tries anything. A bajillion virtual cookies if you get that reference.
Kanjaninjas! And Toma with a quarter of a pheasant pinned to his suit jacket. ...Go is shorter than Massu? :O D'aww, sparkly TomaPi.
Massu's puuuuunsss... <33

Somehow, when I watched this the first time, the year of the tiger bit didn't hit me. It did when I was in Chinatown on Monday though, 'cause the year of the tiger means that my dad is turning 60 this year. He will undoubtedly not want a party celebrating this. XD

Also, I need more multi-person JE icons. >.> And maybe one of Massu. And Yamaryo and/or Yara. Or Bun-chan and his blankface.

Watching May 18 (화려한 휴가) was probably not the best idea for a pre-bed movie. Tonight started out well; I watched WALL-E again, since Iris's flailing about it when she watched it made me want to see it. Watched the October 11th episode of Shokura, as mentioned in the last post.

Moved on to most of Coming Century's most recent live tour (okay, I kinda sped through a lot of the songs in search of ones I knew, MCs, and VTRs but I will watch the rest some time), which was predictably entertaining (and had unexpectedly fail costumes at some points - really, V6 had been doing so well). Okada really does love his skinship. XD He managed to grab both Go and Ken's asses at different points; with Go, it was pretty quick since they were walking, but Go still noticed while Okada pretended like he hadn't done anything, and with Ken, he used the ass-grabbing to push Ken along the stage, and Ken told him to not do that. XD

And then I watched May 18, since it had finished downloading. It's a Korean movie, based on the brutal crushing of a supposed civilian uprising in May 1980 by a somewhat rogue military force. I guess I kept comparing it to Tae Guk Gi in my head, since that's the other Korean war movie I've seen, and both have main characters who are brothers. This one is not quite as gory as Tae Guk Gi, but just the fact that it's not about two armies fighting one another - it's about the military vs. civilians/a civilian militia made it - I think - more poignant for me. Well, I feel like I cried through a good quarter of it.

They had random comedic characters in it, which was a bit unsettling... since, ultimately, you know there won't be a happy ending, and at least one of the funny guys was more of a caricature than a character, so it was hard to match that with the context of the movie. The main character's arc was pretty predictable, as well, but there aren't too many different directions one can go in a movie like this.

At any rate, I generally liked it, but it's not the best movie to sleep on.

So now I have screencaps from the Kamisen tour final, their first in six years. :D

( Illustrations of the things mentioned above, plus a VTR bit )

And sleepiness just hit me like a ton of bricks. Wow. *blinks* Time for bed, hopefully without dreams of bloodshed. >.>

UWAH~

THUNDER.

I thought I saw lightning (because who's taking flash photos outside at 4:40am, when I should be sleeping, but have fallen into a v6id and so am not. Again), and then....

rumblerumblerumble.

I'm pretty sure there have been bugs crawling on me all night, since our room is warm, and my laptop is shiny.

Numbers?

1) Since Wednesday, I've slept a total of 10 hours and eaten 2 proper meals (lunch at 3pm on Wednesday, and dinner yesterday). I sort of worry myself sometimes with the ease with which I can forego food (today, I ate some Goldfish crackers and five Pringles, and drank a bit of water and a cup of tea. And I contemplated getting food a lot).

2) It sounds like rain! Ooh, it is... Too bad my room is still 80-something degrees Fahrenheit. It's quite nice outside.

3) I spent last night watching Neverland, the 2001 drama with Tsubasa, Ken, Hina, Toma and Koki. Once I got over the cheesy dramatic effects (drastic closeups every other second on people when Things Happened + completely unsubtle soundtrack), the terrible subs (there were Chinese subs and horrible English ones), and the generally poor video quality, it was surprisingly good (though I kept thinking that Ken looked like Yasu). If nothing else, the boys all get points for tackling such complex roles pretty well across the board.

( Spoilers, if anyone cares )/end spoilers

4) Still on a V6 kick. Stupid shiny new fandoms with all of their shiny TV shows... >_< Am saving the food ones until after I start eating properly again. Tonight's V6 "drama" was Hard Luck Hero, which was also surprisingly good. More fun than Neverland, since there's some humor in, with less angst, better music, more cars, and all of V6 being spazzy/flaily/panicky/dramatic together. ♥ Plus shirtless!Okada doing a random dance, for those who like their eyecandy with their pseudo-gangsta movies. ;)

( Another reviewish thing, but sans spoilers )

5) Miyake Ken has a twin sister! But apparently, she left with his dad, whenever that was.

6) I went back and translated that little blurb with Ruiza from some JE magazine. Nothing particularly eye-opening (he thought Kimutaku's singing voice was cool! He was bad at Chem, and good at Math! He lived with two dogs, but one was his grandma's!), though I wonder why we had previously assumed that the drama mentioned (Ginrou Kaiki File) was one that he had been in... it's just one he liked. Which means that this blurb is from at least 1996, which means that at the youngest, he's 17 in that magazine.

7) There are definitely bugs on me.

8) Go figure that number 6 would be the one to break the train of V6-related rambling.

9) Today, I am going to sleep before 6am. So. Goodnight! I'll spend the weekend resetting my body, I think. :P

10) ...Oh, Bergerac's last live was/is today in Japan. :((( Tatsuha hasn't updated his blog since they first announced they were disbanding back in June, and I miss his random camwhoring.

Hm. You know, I had wondered about this PSC-sponsered live when it showed up on LiZ's OHP ages ago, since it was pre-ViViD announcement, and it seemed odd to me that there would be no PSC bands in the line-up (I know labels have presented lives with non-label bands, but there's usually at least one band from the actual label appearing sometime).

4月19日(日) 高田馬場AREA
■PS COMPANY PRESENTS
～地中楼閣 その88～■
出演 : LiZ/DOGinTheパラレルワールドオーケストラ/DELUHI/vistlip/ViViD/CELLT

But now it makes sense! Especially since ViViD's debut was said to be happening on the 19th.

And the other fandom thing: April Shounen Club. I haven't watched all of both of them, but the dance battle was srsly good fun, especially with Tama-chan flaunting his height over Kawai at the end. XDD Though I don't know why they pick Question? members for things involving dancing... well, no, it does have entertainment value, but if they want an actual competition? Perhaps not the best idea. XD Granted, Nikaido failed about as much as Fujiie (probably more, since he does actually have to do those dances), so...

Tama is seriously all over the place - from randomly in the middle of KAT-TUN's 10-single-medley with other chibi!juniors on Music Station to (apparently) half the songs in May's medleys. Which makes sense, seeing as the Gokusen special is out now, but it makes me glad that he edged his way up and became my favorite sometime when I was still working on je_holiday. XD Not that I think I was ahead of the curve or anything, but I don't like feeling like I'm someone's fan just because he's in the spotlight suddenly, I guess. :P But now I'm doing the sort of possessive thing where I'm glad he's getting more screentime but I sometimes wish he wasn't getting quite so much, just because... then I do feel like I'm just following along. *weird* But generally, it's cool to see him more. So, tag for Tama-chan!

When Hikaru asked what I wanted from Japan, I should've had him bring Tama back. XDD

Oh, and of course! An Cafe tonight with swtjemz, Erika and a bunch of Fanime people I should stop referring to as a single entity! Yay!

I woke up at 7am for no apparent reason other than to have another coughing fit. Or maybe because coiled_iris woke me up via telepathy. At any rate, I am tired of coughing. It's a good thing I'm not signed up for the Valentine's Day paintball outing half of the house is going on... I'd definitely not be very ninja.

Our super-skinny, odd(ly lovable), quirky quiet Korean friend (with Jaejoong hair, says Iris) is leaving next Wednesday for Hong Kong and then Korea, so we're going to surprise him in SF on Sunday. He thinks only one person is coming up, but there will be... around seven of us. It's that time of the month where I am prone to crying very easily - I cried through a good third of an episode of Mei-chan no Shitsuji today and don't really know why - so hopefully I won't be embarrassing. XD

Ah, but I don't like goodbyes...

On a better note, enshinge translated another round of Dengonban, which has so many awesome little snippets, like:

From: Miyake Ken
To: Ueda-kun
Hey Romeo, why are you Romeo?

---

From: Yamapi
To: Koyama
Sorry I poured sports drinks over your rice and stuff (laughs).

---

From: Koyama
To: Yamapi
I'm sorry I took so many weird pictures using your cell phone’s camera.

---

Weird pictures are usually not good. XDD This batch seemed extra-full of awesome, but I think my favorite was the 'shippiest one, though:

From: Yasu
To: Shibuyan
I love you.
I don't need anything else.

♥♥

Let us open with a brotherly quote:

"brother: o shit waffles! yeah i forgot about that one..."

So, yes. I forgot that we were going to drive down to LA tomorrow to retrieve said brother. We're staying overnight, and coming back on Saturday. Because the weather is so hot (this is probably the warmest summer I can remember - we do get warm days here, but usually not until August, and certainly not in May like he have this year), we're leaving at 5:30am to try and beat most of the Central Valley heat. x_x

BUT ON THE VERY UP SIDE, I get to see karinberry again! And it hasn't even been a year since our last meeting. :DDD

I had a dream last night that there was a fancam for Ryo and Ohkura's TORN, and the dance involved kissing. At least I think it was a dream. >.> I didn't remember it until this afternoon, which makes me wonder if it's my faulty memory smushing things from last night's 1-Hour Challenge together.

I also have a ramble to do for Satomi Hakkenden, but I'm going to wait until I watch the bits I haven't watched yet. I've seen 95% of it, and the other 5% either on mute or um... while skipping around. I watched it at night, and my dreams are easily influenced by whatever I'm doing before I sleep, and I did not want evil dreams.

But I definitely recommend it. It surprised me because I was expecting something hokey and unintentionally silly, but despite the conventional plot devices and the hilarious fake blood, it's pretty good (though not without its hokey moments, since there is a Romance). There's pretty hair, and violence and a bit of gore, and pretty pretty costumes, and Yamashita Shoon and puppies. No, really.

I need a wibblyninja!Shoon icon (haha, at first I left off the 'icon' part). And to possibly write fic about wibblyninja!Shoon. >.> *has bunny, sort of*

*totally hit a Shoon spot in my Juniors void*

And finally, for some context re: the beginning quote, brother was actually talking about forgetting Father's Day:

brother: maybe ill buy him my reportcard AHAHAHa
me: ...
me: odd child
brother: SERIOUSLY SO WEIRDEDEDEDED

The WST was over two hours of sitting in a stuffy classroom with no air conditioning. x_x It was about as challenging as any of those high school standarized tests (i.e. not very), and was especially easy because a lot of it dealt with error analysis and things that I've spent the whole semester doing in my Tutor Training class and with my tutees.

I like trains, though. I watched some little white birds diving for food at a lake. They had really sharp wings and would hover and hover and then just tuck their wings in and drop like little missiles into the water. Sometimes they'd sort of just angle their wings a bit and fall like sheets of paper. Really really pretty.

And trains are good for listening to new music I put on my iPod. Today was KAT-TUN's DON'T U EVER STOP (and dammit, I want to type 'YOU' every time) and SuG.

So. I have this thing about Jin. Sometimes I think he's great fun, in a funny, hip-swiveling sort of way - depending on context (I mean, the first time I saw a picture of him was when he'd gotten to LA and ended up in a pikachu outfit), and sometimes I think he's annoying, in a bratty, I-don't-really-want-to-be-here sort of way. I rarely find him hot, though (yes, shocking! call it overexposure?).

But 'kay, LOVEJUICE changed that. Also that moment in DUES with the "Hell, yeah." But mostly LOVEJUICE. Especially that bit in the beginning that goes, "Drop. that. shit. like." Which makes me laugh because it's so.... Jin+LA, but also turns a small part of me to goo. >.>

I actually really liked all of their solos. ( Are people spoilerphobic about this? )

I was going to listen to both KAT-TUN and SuG on the way down to San Jose, but I ended up listening to DUES on repeat. >.> Listened to SuG on the way up, though, but I slept through a few songs. This was not because of the songs - I really like SuG; they don't sound like most of the other Jrock I listen to; I was sitting in the sun.

Aaaaaaand, happy birthday, Alei and Karen! ♥ I wish I had presents or a shiny graphic or something, but... maybe belatedly. I make no promises, though. XD

I may need a Jin icon. For those slutty moments that I have oh-so-often-right.

You know you're gonna be working in a cool place when the front desk guy's name plaque includes, as part of his job title, "Ninja." XDD

And now, PV flailings ( for Fahrenheit and KAT-TUN )

To add something Jrock-related, Liz!Kai (Mr. Snaggletooth) thinks you're funny (Ryo is looking sly behind him)!