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Stockholm-based Austrian advertising student Hugo Gstrein has created a tongue-in-cheek ad campaign for European budget airline Ryanair that basically tells disgruntled passengers to “shut the f**k up” because “beggers can’t be choosers”. 

Oh, how I wish this was real…

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sadie, daizystripper, defspiral, heidi, machine, matenrou opera, Hitsugi (Nightmare), etc…

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r-shitei, screw, d-out, born, etc…

 

 

 

jimi-electrick:

I just wrapped up another tour with Steve Appleton yesterday, along with the usual suspects JJ, Thomas, and Taiki.

Rehearsal day was very long. We only had a handful of new songs, but we were also adding in older songs we hadn’t played before.

The first show was at Shibuya Duo Music Exchange,…

Always good to see jimi’s still performin’ some!

“Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon!” continues through June 2 at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theater, 66 East Fourth Street, East Village; (212) 475-7710, lamama.org.

http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/theater/reviews/deadly-she-wolf-assassin-at-armageddon-at-lamama.html

“STAY ALIVE AND WREAK HAVOC”

Whatever the war, the 11th Armored is always the pretend enemy. Their current role as Afghan rebels is widely envied: they receive specialized training and are held to “reduced grooming standards,” while their mission is simply to “stay alive and wreak havoc.”

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/in-box-tour-through-simulated.html

Amazon Cloud Player isn’t an iTunes replacement. It definitely ain’t a Zune (software) replacement.

It capitalizes artist tags! It won’t let you organize stuff in common sense ways (like by date). It feels five years old.

Get it here! http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?ie=UTF8&docId=1001067901-

PS - I would like to point out my nice Blitz 5 Days album art :)

How are you all?
First time in a long while here on LINE.I’m about to leave the hotel near the venue.
We have a live in Omiya today. 
So. The reason why I’m updating LINE after a long absence is the
article on FLASH that was issued yesterday.
Do you know FLASH?
Well, it’s a tabloid magazine…They reported that 
I imprisoned, battered, and raped a female hostess several years ago… 
Their idea is… what should I say, eccentric….?
I can’t believe how much they can fabricate a story.
I was beyond angry, so appalled that my jaw almost came off.
Their content reads like an erotic novel. <== GACKT reads erotic novels!
They came out with their story to go against my tour.
Clearly they’re trying to sell a lot of copies.
But there’s nothing more disrespectful than this.  <== Child slavery?  Terrorism? …?
I can understand that using me leads to selling many copies. 
I know that tabloids are desperate because their sales are dropping.
But isn’t this just a bad cycle spiraling down? 
To sell, they keep reporting exaggerated lies. People stop believing them.
They have to write even more hurtful things in order to sell more copies. 
That ends up in less sales, and ultimately their cancellation. <== Not unlike releasing  multiple versions of a single, to make up for reduced sales, which leads to even less sales because “fuck you, I’m not paying $50 for four songs.”
So uncool………. <== YES.
In the first place, if it’s true that I battered, imprisoned, and raped a woman several years ago, wouldn’t the police have made a move right away and arrested me?
And this woman that calls herself the victim….
Well, to go back a little, she suddenly demanded that I pay her 10,000,000 yen 
by handing us a letter riddled with lies. Isn’t this so-called racketeering/blackmailing? <== Why didn’t you tell the police you were being blackmailed and trap her in a sting?
There’s really a limit to how far you can go. 
I answered her through a lawyer, “Why on earth will I pay you for such complete lies!!?” 
There was no further contact from her… 
But then it turned up through the tabloid…. What in the….? 
The article states that she’s simply asking for an apology, but hey hey,
the first thing you did was demand money, was it not? <== Who, me!? I’m just reading this! 
Listen. Since there’s this convenient thing called LINE,
I’m gonna say this loud and clear, so all of you in the world, 
clean out your ears and listen to me well, OK? <== I am upset at your implication that my ears are unclean, Gackt-sama.
“I’m doing just fine with women, I have no need to tie up a resisting woman and satisfy my need~~!!!!” 
Do I seem like such a despicable man? <== hmm, little bit, actually!
If I do……I will polish up on being a man a bit more. Ahahaha.
What in the world is this fuss anyway? <== something about publicity for her book and your new CDs, mebbe?
I decided to fight them by hiring 3 excellent lawyers this time. 
Even I couldn’t let this one go.I can endure a whole lot, but being accused of brutality is…. 
Give me a break, really. 
I wrote the details of the truth in my blog, so you can read that.
I’ve also included a portion of the response letter from my lawyer (to the woman).
This is just way too dumb…… 
Well, I’ll go stake my life on the live again today.
See ya. Adios!!! <== JA NE!
GACKT 

I thought the wax sugizo was the real one for a min. 

I like how yoshiki insisted his wax figure be several inches taller than reality.

HOW’S THAT SUMMER 2011 RELEASE DATE FOR THE NEW X JAPAN ALBUM LOOKING, YOSHIKI?

thx nui!

http://natalie.mu/music/news/90967

I have a bunch of random mp3s from the 80s, 90s, & 00s that need album art. 

Rather than google-image every song for album art (there’s hundreds), I’m just gonna use:

  • Patrick Nagel’s “Michelle” for the 80s stuff
  • I DONT KNOW WHAT for the 90s stuff
  • Takashi Murakami’s “Gero Tan” for the 00s. 

Anyone got a good suggestion for that 90s stuff?

It has to really scream “THE NINETIES!” — but also not be UGLY (so no “Myra 1995” but maybe Hirst’s “Physical Impossibility of Death” dissected-shark thing, except it’s not a painting/2D!)

Any of you art majors got any ideas?

You guys have no fucking idea how excited I am for this shit.

NYT

The board of Yahoo, the faded Web pioneer, agreed on Sunday to buy the popular blogging service Tumblr for about $1.1 billion in cash.

Nice workin’ with ya, Tumblr.

[Benedict Cumberbatch is Jon Turturro in Star Trek: Barton Fink]

star trek: into darkness (2013)

WOW.

Several times during this movie (seen in 3D), I thought to myself “This is the greatest movie of my life!”

Not that it actually is exactly, but it was pretty spec-fuckin’-tacular.

There’s this one particular shot of a ship crashing into a city. SPECTACULAR. 

There’s a scene between Kirk & Spock that echoes a memorable scene from another Trek film. SPECTACULAR.

People violently ejected into space, a whole bunch of times: SPECTACULAR!

And there’s plenty of fun and jokes and pretty visuals and god damn.

Only during one scene did I seriously introspectivize the notion that “this is not trek!” and that was when…

[vague spoiler]

…Spock went to town on the villian, like Indy wailing on the big airplane wrestler Nazi in the face that time…

[/vague spoiler] 

…and I was thinking then, Hmm, this seems vehemently anti-Trekky. Anti-intellectual, even.

Other than that, GOOD FUCKING MOVIIIIIEEEE!!!! Action and violence and all kinds o’ hijinks.

:)

Deg vs Deg: “Macabre” 2001 & “Macabre” 2013

Whats scary about this is that I felt like the new Macabre was a vastly different song — like verses and chorus weren’t in their original places, and whole sections were either elongated or missing. 

A valuable public service by vergilnel0angel0. 

thx saishu!

All-girl VK/power-metal groupthing ALDIOUS new albamu! DISTRICT ZERO! Vaguely zombie-esque titleage! 

Listening to the video: “who produced you, a barn?!