Let Winterlight Come

This will be a J-rock post! With numbers. No, emoji. Emoji are fun.

LiZ!Kai is in a new, formally-named session band! He and Ryou have been playing in groups ever since Vict and Yuu left, while Rei has been completely MIA. It's sad that I'm pretty sure LiZ is not going to come off of its "hiatus" but I'm not surprised. They're an ickle indies band, after all. And it's nice that Kai is still around for once! My favorite is not the one leaving the scene or becoming a host. The group is called Gakudan Hitori 2, and Ruchi, who recently left xTRiPx (for the second time - he was their first bassist, left, and then came back as their 'third') is in it as well.

Interesting that Kai won't be playing with them for their last three lives in July due to "personal feelings." I wonder what that means.

These shots of Versailles are pretty (and f-locked), though I kinda want to laugh at Kamijo. >.> But when I first clicked the link, my initial reaction was, "Wait, that's not the full set..." Ah, still.

Hm. Miku has a new band. I guess it makes sense, since An Cafe did go on hiatus to let its members pursue solo things, but it seems a little late? And it is weird to see Miku looking almost normal and not like a giant-eyed... creature thing. >.> That sounds meaner than it's supposed to be.

I really, really like Satsuki's image/theme/whatever (what with the wings and everything - is anyone surprised? XD). And yet I've listened to his music, maybe once? Will rectify this one day.

Looking at scans at jrock_scans just reminds that I am still amazed at how giant and goofy Maaya from LM.C is IRL. Like, srsly. He looks shorter than Aiji in 90% of their promo things, and somehow, the shots of them standing next to each other (where Maaya is gigantic) never registered. XD

ViViD with Yoshiki and Toshi at Japan Expo in Paris... such a weird combination to me. XD Okay, they aren't playing together or even on the same day, but still!

Belated, but saaad about Canzel's impending disbandment. Surprised, too, despite them being an ickle Indies band.

I just tried to go to LiZ's OHP and I'm getting "Object not found!" :O They're still linked on Speeddisk's site, though. Really, I'd just like a solid, "LiZ is disbanding" post - I'm expecting them to, but this limbo state keeps that tiny sliver of hope alive against my better judgment.

Aaaaand, that's it. I am le tired, and I need to not sleep all morning like I did when I had yesterday off. :P

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.

In the continuation of the tear-inducing war movie-watching, Erika and I saw Letters From Iwo Jima tonight, which she hadn't seen yet. She liked it, even with the crying. XD

I continue to be surprised and slightly worried by how quickly and randomly I glom onto things. Tonight's case is Aki from Sadie. I haven't really listened to Sadie, so all of my exposure to them - aside from just seeing pictures of them in passing at jrock_scans - has mostly been through Iris, who has rambled about them and their blogs at me before, and who linked me to sadie_blogs, which is on my flist and which is where the translations in this post come from. XD

So, the most recently-translated Q&A post from Aki includes this one, which caught my eye:

Q214. I want to get a labret piercing, but does it hurt?
A. Not at all.

's true! I've heard this before from at least one other person with a labret, but no one else seems to believe me. The piercing did not hurt! Healing was a bitch, but only for maybe a week. Nevermind that the fact that Aki has eleven other piercings or so points to him possibly having either a high tolerance for pain, or being more M than he likes to come off as. :P

Anyways, now I am digging through his blog just for kicks, which include (Q144 was already all in English):

Q144.i've got a question about mizuki and kei. they look like love each other.
　　 is that true? are they a couple?
A.I don't know. Please ask them.

闇の途中で火花を探してる。
I've been crawling in the dark, looking for the spark. <-- I wonder if that one was written in English first. The rhyme seems oddly cutesy. XD

Well. I'll take a listen to them tomorrow, I guess, since if I am going to glom onto Aki at all, I should at least do that. And I can see glomming happening, albeit for really random reasons, such as his labret chain (which I wanted early on, just for kicks and possibly Halloween or scaring new people >.>) and his self-translations of his blogs. I'm sure Iris has mentioned it before, but... is there a history to that? Like... is it just randomly for fun, or did he live/study somewhere English-speaking before, or...?

And speaking of blogs... Ameba has this new thing that is kind of reminiscent of Pet Society on Facebook and other similar Sims-like things, where you can create an avatar of yourself and you have a house (okay, a room with a table and two chairs) and I think you can then go out and wander around. I made a pixel me, and can't figure out how to leave my room, but it's okay! She's cute just running around in the little box. XD

Because my class was cancelled today, I spent the afternoon marathoning RH Plus, which is refreshingly fluffy for a vampire show. Of course, it has its angst and woe and blood, but it's generally quite cute. Tochihara Rakuto is the most adorable vampire ever, too, and his character was my favorite. I mean, his name is Ageha (a swallowtail butterfly), and he's NOT all emotastic about being a vampire, and he supplies most of the ghei moments that survived the un-shounen-ai-ing of the original manga.

Halfway through, I speedwatched the Aquarian Age live action that came out last year because Tochihara was also in that and I like wings. I am usually pretty easy to please with movies and things, but man, that was a horrible movie. XD Takeru and Keita Kimura (Tsukasa, the ickle angel boy) were the most interesting characters/parts. Though I was amused by Tochihara once again playing a character with ~special intuition~.

Erika and I also started watching Boys Before Flowers last night, and the boys are quite pretty (especially Hyun Joong). XD And since I still haven't watched Hana Yori Dango, the story is shiny and new for me, too. It's sort of weird to actually phsyically watch a drama with someone else, but it's a nice change... we both laughed at the random English ("Oh... my... god...") and when the F4 getting-dressed-in-the-morning montage abruptly started (though, hello! *hotlinks lazily >.>*).

I've been using dramas as ways to broaden my musical horizons, so I'm giving KELUN and SunSet Swish a listen, and currently YouTubing SS501 (thus continuing to untintentionally avoid DBSK :P)... I couldn't remember what I thought of them when I caught that episode of Music Core. So far, I like KELUN more consistently than SunSet Swish, and SS501 PV watching was momentarily stalled by listening a clip of their English skillz/fail. XD And weirdly, the UR Man PV made me tear up a bit because I think I was doing a massive generalizing thing and associating it with Jonghyuk, who I'm sure would hate that since he doesn't understand why DBSK/Big Bang/etc. are popular. :P

Oh. So, tomorrow is "Snow Day" on campus. Eight tons of snow is going to be trucked in and dropped in front of the event center. Hilarity. I feel like the associations sponsering this could spend their money in better ways. >.> On the other hand, free food!

Baby needs to grow up!