This was a lot of fun — Flip’s “Kaatoniago” live video.
Came across a PV of these girls last year, but they didn’t seem quite as energetic as they do on stage. Checking out their new album now…
“Enough Korean Hookers in Japan to Fill a Stadium” might be the best headline in the last five years. :)
Bad news for those of you looking for a Japanese BF/GF at school…
Notoriously insular, corporate Japan has long been wary of embracing Western-educated compatriots who return home.
Discouraged by their career prospects if they study abroad, even at elite universities, a shrinking portion of Japanese college students is seeking higher education in the West.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/business/global/as-global-rivals-gain-ground-corporate-japan-clings-to-cautious-ways.html
…but it’s okay, lots of cool Japanese artists and musicians and actors still come to America. Who wants to marry a boring old wealthy investment banker ANYWAY?!
I BELIEVE IF DIR EN GREY WANTS TO BE A RESPECTED BAND IN THE METAL GENRE, THEY NEED TO SHAKE OFF THE FANS WHO RUN AROUND IN CAT EARS/TAILS YELLING KAWAII AND SUCH. I KNOW BANDS SHOULD BE BASED OFF THE MUSIC AND THE MUSIC ALONE. BUT I KNOW PEOPLE WON’T GIVE THEM A CHANCE BECAUSE OF SOME OF THE FANS. THEY DON’T WANT TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT TYPE OF PEOPLE, AND THEY DEFINITELY DON’T WANT TO GO TO SHOWS WITH BOYS/GIRLS IN COSPLAY OR LISTEN TO THEIR SHITTY “JAPANESE” WHILE THEY TRY TO GLOMP THEM.
I agree with this more then I should but omg just like, kill all the weebos kaythanks
If not for the girls in cat ears YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE HEARD OF DIR EN GREY because they would have released one EP that no one bought and then moved on to careers as clerks at 7-11.
geekout.blogs.cnn.com’s Colette Bennett asked me for a couple quotes on the phenomenon that is YOHIO…
http://geekout.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/29/how-a-swedish-teenager-brought-japan-to-its-knees/
Yohio could be the next Gackt once he develops his own sound.
ps - his dad was in some melodeath band, Constucdead or something like that?
Dir en grey TOUR2011 AGE QUOD AGIS Vol.1 [Europe & Japan] [TRAILER]
In Bluray, limited 3DVD or standard 2DVD editions. The bluray and 3DVD appear to have identical content, so you superfans only have to decide if ya wanna to buy a bluray player or not.
The bluray and 2DVD have identical content, the 3DVD has seven extra songs on the third disc — according to CDJapan and direngrey.co.jp
I’d still get the hi-def blurays — but probably not the ones with the redemption ticket for the unnamed bonus crap, unless it’s the “Bir en grey” beer I blogged about like two years ago… ^_^
~or~
(via abandonhopesp)
Big whoop, Luna Sea’s doing more shows that are gonna be just like last year’s shows that you still haven’t watched all the way through because it gradually became clear that while they’re still excellent, they are no longer the SUPER-EXCELLENT band that brought you Lunatic Tokyo et al…
LUNA SEA LIVE 2012-2013 The End of the Dream
2012年12月23日（日）大阪府 大阪城ホール
OPEN 16:00 / START 17:00
2013年1月11日（金）東京都 日本武道館
OPEN 17:30 / START 18:30
2013年1月12日（土）東京都 日本武道館
OPEN 16:00 / START 17:00
2013年1月13日（日）東京都 日本武道館
OPEN 14:00 / START 15:00
2013年1月18日（金）東京都 日本武道館
OPEN 17:30 / START 18:30
2013年1月19日（土）東京都 日本武道館
OPEN 16:00 / START 17:00
2013年1月20日（日）東京都 日本武道館
OPEN 14:00 / START 15:00
料金：全席指定9000円
チケット一般発売日：2012年9月1日（土）10:00
And hooray, another large file to fill your hard drive:
WOWOW「日曜スーパーライブ『WOWOW Presents LUNA SEA TV SPECIAL -The End of the Dream-』」
2012年7月8日（日）20:00～
three day weekend: no good new torrents, now what
(CBS/AP) MIAMI - Police in Florida have identified the naked man who they say officers fatally shot after he refused to stop eating another naked man’s face on a downtown Miami highway ramp.
Amazingly, NOT in Japan.
Throwing a dart at the map … and just GOING! It’s hard to think of anything more ill-advised than blindly heading off to a travel destination selected in this manner. You could end up in strife-torn Aleppo, lawless Somalia or, worse still, Reading, England, the town I grew up in. It was dubbed “a cemetery with lights” by Oscar Wilde when he was imprisoned there.
INORAN 10th Album「Dive youth, Sonik dive」
2012.06.27 (wed) Release!!
＜15th anniversary first limited Edition＞
KICS-91787
CD (10 tracks) + DVD (Lead Track “Get Laid” Music Clip + Special Video) + 30cmLP
※The same contents with CD will be included in 30cmLP. (some tracks will be original version)
6,500yen (tax-in)
＜Standard Edition＞
KICS-1787
CD (10 tracks) ※The same contents with first limited edition
3,000yen (tax-in)
thx evan!
Sounds a little like he’s trying to be J trying to be the Beatles or something. Me no likee. It lacks BALLS.
“As soon as I saw past the fact that in front of me happened to be two penises fused together at the base, I realized that I was looking at the only category of consumer product that had yet to be touched by design,” Imboden said. “The category had been isolated by the taboo that surrounded it. I figured, I can transcend that.”
The Appleficiaton of Sex Toys.
If your job requires the wearing of primary colors (http://youtu.be/5A8mI_FeM2c), you should QUIT IT.
Mao Sugiyama, a self-described “asexual” from Tokyo, cooked up, seasoned and served his own genitalia to five diners at a swanky banquet in Japan last month, Calorie Lab reported.Once again a Japanese wins the “That’s the Most Fucked-Up Thing I’ve Ever Heard” Sweepstakes.
