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[04 Jul 2009|09:49am] |
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Kinnuku Shoujotai - Heartbreak Angel |
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This is the first performance part of a recent King Show tv appearance and the first song is from the new album. Wow! O Ken is full of the fiyah! And his voice getting deeper has made him even more imposingly masculine. MMMMM! He even gets out the nunchuckers at the end. XD
AND speaking of the UNDEAD, it seems DEAD END are going to do a reunion gig! WAH! I hope it turns into more than this, because they were a great band. It wasn't just all about Morrie. I think they lifted him up out of his darkness, which otherwise tends to consume him.
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| techno samurai |
[30 Jun 2009|06:47pm] |
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UNICORN - PTA ~Hikari No Network~ |
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Addicted to Pta ~Hikari No Network~
THE Dance Track of the Nineties IMO
Even more amused by the fact that it seems to be about schoolboys, female PE teachers and dancing, though I haven't seen a proper translation. Which must be why Yoshi-kun is singing like a little boy. First he sings, then Tamio sings, alternating verses. They are both SO good and the chorus ODORU YO ODORU YO etc works so brilliantly. Odoru is a much more musical word than "dance".
I just keep listening to the bastard thing over and over again. Of course all this started from watching the awesome performance on the dvd, the great final act of the first half, which culminates in Yoshi-kun smiting the rapper boys with his samurai laser sword, and then...LOL!
Sadly there isn't a video of this song on the tube, except for a really silly one of Tamio and Yoshi dancing to it.
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| ABE B |
[25 Jun 2009|09:44am] |
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Waiting to go to the dentist. :B Distracting myself from the horror of it all by posting a bit of Uniporn. Still hooked on that dvd. I've watched a lot of concert videos in the last 8 years but that was by far the most entertaining. By far. And they are by far the best musicians I have come across too. Listening to the albums over the last few days and they are all perfect. At least as soon as Abe arrives, because he is the fire starter. There's no doubt about that. Anyway I'm going to have to write something on my blog about it all in the next day or two. Suppose I better get a move on. *sighs* |
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| R&R NO DEAD |
[22 Jun 2009|06:48pm] |
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Just finished watching Unicorn dvd and I have to say I was totally and utterly wrong about this band when I complained about the rest of them singing. You only really understand how it works when you see them live . Now I think the others are all just as cool as Tamio, and I love all of their songs and personalities and I love the chemistry they all have together. I really hope they keep going together and make another album. They are on fire. :)
Both Abe and EBI were amazing vocallists. Abe sang most of R&R no dead. Does he do this on the cd? I could swear it was Tamio but I'll have to check tomorrow as I am about to pass out. He does a great job anyway. Abe is a crazy man and very hot. I loved the laser sword bit!
EBI is special! I am too tired to say exactly why, but I'm sure I'll return to the subject. I am a fan of ALL of them now. Scary! :D
Every member of this band can and does do everything brilliantly. They swap roles and instruments continually. It's so impressive. What they put on is a total show, in which each one is showcased so spectacularly. Even the drummer is a natural front man.
WOW!
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It's also extremely funny and silly.
And the most amazing thing was the feeling coming from the vast crowd. It was a really potent love helix they had going down. You could feel all the happy memories awakened by familiar songs, peoples lifetimes coming around again, all the emotion of it. They generated so much warmth and affection.
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| Kiyoshiro Imawano - OH! RADIO |
[21 Jun 2009|06:27pm] |
Going to let Kiyoshiro sing in the solstice with his new PV. It's very beautiful! He is in God's Garden. :)
Also it seems Marcy and Hiroto will be participating in a tribute performance for him at Fuji Rock festival. And Chabo too of course. Mmmmmm... two tigers one stage... ;)~~
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| Happy Solstice |
[21 Jun 2009|09:40am] |
Sun begins to return today which is always a relief, especially as this year has been unusually soggy. This is a strange country...either it doesn't rain for ten years, or it rains continuously all year.
I have been reading a fictional Magdalene X Jesus novel, and it's very moving. Really this is the greatest and most tragic love story in human history, even more so for the fact that it has been so systematically repressed and denied. That guy Dan Brown is an illiterate stooge, who popularized the story in order to discredit it, but since reading his dreadful book I have read a dozen others, much more scholarly and interesting, and I know there are hundreds more out there. There is literally a sea of Magdalene writing now, and in the history of art she is also everywhere, mostly in allegorical form of course to avoid the Inquisition. She is the single most inspiring character in human history from an artistic point of view. She has certainly inspired me. Learning about her has changed my whole life work, that is no exaggeration at all. And I am the least churchie person you could ever hope to meet. I'm not even baptized. But there is a strong streak of mysticism and spirituality in me, as there is in all artists.
And the writer in me is itching to try writing my own version of her story. Of the most famous Hieros Gamos, of this terrible human tragedy that is now everyones' tragedy. That such a beautiful and evolutionary moment in history could lead to all the carnage and destruction that has come since. It's totally shocking really.
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| LION |
[17 Jun 2009|07:44pm] |
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Okuda Tamio - LION |
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Been listening to LION a lot lately. It's a great album, really seems to hang together brilliantly. When I'm listening to Tamio singing I find myself doing that thing with the top lip he does XD. Reminds me of my pet donkey I had when I was a kid. He's a very strange man. I love the way he dances too, gyrating on the spot. He's so snakey, vocally as well as physically. Serpentine. I'm sure I've said that before. Probably said everything before at some stage, poor flist!
Still reading about the history of death and honestly it's quite cheering. Makes you grateful you live in the modern age. Human life has been hell for most of history. No wonder they had to invent an afterlife. Interesting how predominant this belief has been right through history, up until very recently. I think it will always be impossible to prove or disprove, much as the rational materialists would love to do it, even they have to bow in the face of such an awesome mystery. Maybe you keep going, maybe you don't. I tend to be a bit of a fan of re-incarnation, because I get a lot of deja vu. When I find someone like Tamio, he just seems so familiar straight away. Hard to imagine him not Samurai-ing his way through the centuries. And when I read about dying of the plague in the 14th century, that kind of rings a bell too.
Most of all it is the shere force of the human personality that makes me think it is possible to find your way through into another lifetime. Some people certainly have more of this force than others. Maybe that's because they've been around the block more times...
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| Rolling Samurai |
[12 Jun 2009|08:02pm] |
This is the coolest and funniest video I have watched all week. They are so exuberant and silly and mad. :)
Unicorn have come back better than they ever were, I suppose because the qualities that made them great in the first place, were timeless ones, that just keep getting better with age.
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[08 Jun 2009|04:38pm] |
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Chabo - Dreams To Remember |
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This photo is from the special Rockin'On Japan Kiyoshiro Imawano tribute issue, which you can see more pics from here if you are on Mixi. Looks like a very nice magazine to have.
And I found an unusually candid Ryohei Shima photo...
Gimme dat cardigan.
He ALWAYS makes stupid faces when he's not hiding behind his hair. :S
He is almost ALWAYS hiding behind his hair. Fuck knows why seeing as he's supernaturally beautiful. It's kind of charming though as is his taste in woollies. I have a fetish for cardies and that is a supreme example. He also wrote a really sweet and sad entry about Kiyoshiro. <3
Been doing hard labour in the garden all weekend and now I can hardly move...every muscle is so sore. But it feels really good. I think I was getting pretty unfit, and when I stop exercising enough I get gloomy (endless soggy rain in winter didn't help...thankfully we are back to the usual glorious blue skies again now).
Man, you should see my mulch pile...it is VAST! :D All swept in by the last flood. The econazi would be Green with envy. Haha.
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| heart break angel |
[05 Jun 2009|09:43am] |
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Kinnuku Shoujotai - Season 2 |
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New King Show album is good! :)
I am so impressed I had to steal a recent pic of Oken from his blog. He is such a live wire. Interesting how these reformed bands seem to do a much better job the second time around. Makes you wonder if Unicorn will do a second album. Though of course they did it properly the first time around. Apart from letting anyone but Tamio sing, but I guess if they didn't do that they wouldn't be Unicorn. And it is rather cute watching him bounce around with a cowbell.
I digress. The King Show album is interesting because they are breaking out of their metal confines somewhat. Doing things a bit differently this time. Which is really what made them so special in the past...their total defiance of genre. That and Okens' take no prisoners stage style. Really Oken is an old punk, not an old spandex/big hair man. Though he did have him some hair in his time, he never bigged it up. He was never a squealer either. I can't stand metal squealers in tight pants. :D
Anyway I can't say much else till I give it a second listen. No prizes for guessing where I found it. He's going to have a hard time wrenching me away from Miyata Kazuya though. Who is a label mate incidentally.
And I have realized the TOWER is a good card. All artificial structures, physical and psychological are prisons. The sooner they are destroyed the better. So back to work.
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