ひとりの夜もそばにいようぜ　君と僕の歌を歌う

Looks like Lunkhead really is becoming more and more and more famous!!!

Well you know my opinion on bands becoming more famous... It's always a great and exciting thing... But on the flip side of it, you know what becoming famous means... Anyway, I'm not in Japan, so it's not really that adverse!

Anyway!! It's exciting!!! Lunkhead myspace interview is actually on the front page of the Japanese myspace page!!! Isn't that like totally awesome?????



Well, I had to sign up for a new Japanese myspace account because damn myspace keep giving me the error "this page is not currently available in your language". Wth...
So i signed up to "read" the article... Well, I can't exactly read it................................ so i signed up to look at the article........ =.=




ANYWAY!.... also on Lunkhead being more famous, their last.fm playcount is actually at 160,000 now!!!!!!!!! Last year this time, it was only at 60,000-80,000 if I remember correctly! Now they're up to 160,000!!!! WOW!!!!!



Tsubaki (つばき), unfortunately, is only at 100,000! >_<

The two bands started off at the same playcounts and LOOK!!! Lunkhead is like 60,000 plays more than Tsubaki!! >__<

Oh and shoutout to Ame!!!! Top Listener!!!!! ^___^


Lastly.... I just realized that Art-School's latest Best Album, Ghosts&Angels, cover is a color gradient =____=;; wth...

ALSO........ THEY RELEASED THE DATE OF THE 6th NEW ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOORAY~~~~~~ (I thought it was 7th??)..... 24th JUNE 2009!!!!!!!!!!!! There goes, let's book our plane tickets now!!!!!!!!!!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA~~~!!!

The myspace page also has a preview of the new song 『それでも血の色は鉄の味がした』 from their upcoming album!!! The song's CD can be bought in advance at the 5 shows at Shimokitazawa garage lives! (WHICH I AM UNABLE TO GO, BLOODY HELL)... I think they're also having a special Tower Record sale of the song on Dec 3... (In which, I won't be in Japan either!!! WTH!!!).... Also, apparently, I think it would be available for download at Japan iTunes Music Store on 9th Jan!!!!!!!!!!!! (Screw it, have to get it).

EXCITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS LUNKHEAD!!!!!!!! I CERTAINLY LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEW ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!! CAN'T HARDLY WAIT ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fuuuuuwaaaaa~~~~ This time it can REALLY be called Lunkhead and Tsubaki Icons!!! (Sorta!)

Anyway, here are the icons for the past 3 days~~


Odaka Yoshitaro - Letters to You



Ok... ODK-san, I'm sorry, kinda cheated on this one, huh.... Can't even see his face :(
Anyway, I downloaded alot of textures, and I kinda, learnt something about using layer masking, yeap... just learnt it..... So, wanted to try out techniques more than anything else..... Kinda failure... :(


ISHIKAWA RYO - Everyday Happy!



WOAH!!!!! An icon of Ishikawa-san!!!! woahhhh~~~~~~ Yeah, okay, I know I can't use this icon for the 50 icon challenge count, butttttt.... Ishikawa has really nice pictures, and he always takes really enthusiastic pictures too!!


Okamoto Naoko - I Should Be Your Girl *ahem* *ahem*



Hola! I like to make colorful ones of Okamoto-san!!! Hmmm... However, this icon was really hard for me... took me 6 hours and I'm not happy with the final product.... I don't like the font for the text... I tried redoing it with other fonts too but for some reason, the text just blends into the background and won't stand out...


Isshiki Noriyasu - ROCKSTAR



His icons seems to be really cluttered all the time!!! lol.... Anyway, this was a failure of some sorts... I actually wanted to put the text "Death Cab Rulz"... hahaha.... I got the idea after I looked at Tsubaki's myspace page and their Number 1 Top 20 friend was Death Cab For Cutie ;)
But anyway, I couldn't put that text in the end coz of the way i cropped the pic... there wasn't really any space for the text....


and LOOK! This was how I intended Okamoto-san's icon to be ;)



Muahahahahahha~~~ So, ahem... Yeah........ 「◯◯くん, I should be your girl......」

Two icons tonight...

Lunkhead/Odaka Yoshitaro "I heart you"


Hmmm... This is for the icon competition's theme "Truth"... So I put "I heart you"...... Meaning, the truth is.... "I heart you".... Urm... not really! hahaha... Haih...

Tsubaki/Isshiki Noriyasu "Lucky Cat!"


The cat's damn lucky to be there with him. Muahahahahaha... Wow, I'm jealous of a cat, coz the cat got to meet him. lol.


Jarod says my icons all look like those purikura (sticker booth) icons... lol.... Maybe maybe!!! That's coz I don't have enough skills to make really cool icons... So it always ends up looking like something that can be made in sticker booths!!! >__<

ゆらりゆらり流れるような
ぬるい空気を吸いこんで
吐き出して　また吸いこんで

ぬけ落ちそうな青い空は
今の僕にはもう眩しすぎて
目をあけているのさえ嫌になった

だけど僕はまだ
こうして息をしているよ
もう一度目をあけて
またこの足で立ち上がる

もうだめだ打ちのめされた
そこが僕の始まりだった
誰もいないこの場所で
独りきりで誓いをたてた
胸の奥にゆるぎない
ひとかけらの勇気手にしたら
前だけを見て歩いてゆける
僕が生きるべき戦場へ

「おまえはおれを信じるか?」と
自分自身にそう問いかけて
そして僕は自分自身に答えを出した

僕はこの足で歩いていかなければいけないんだよ
どんな遠い道も
僕はこの足で歩いてゆく

笑いながら手をふって
見送ってくれた君の顔を
心のすみにしまいこんで
独りきり僕は歩き出す
胸の奥にゆるぎない
ひとかけらの勇気手にしたら
前だけを見て歩いてゆける
僕が生きるべき戦場へ

僕はこの足で歩いていかなければいけないんだよ
どんな遠い道も
僕はこの足で歩いてゆく

もうだめだ打ちのめされた
そこが僕の始まりだった
誰もいないこの場所で
独りきりで誓いをたてた
胸の奥にゆるぎない
ひとかけらの勇気手にしたら
前だけを見て歩いてゆける
僕が生きるべき戦場へ



Well... I turned 26 today..... and I got unemployed yesterday. So here I am, turning 26, jobless, directionless, clueless....

I didn't remember Lunkhead's "前進／僕／戦場へ　Age26" version today until I heard it...... I wish I could sing the words in the lines with Yoshitaro... I wish I had that confidence, that hope in this life to be able to sing this battle song...

To think, hey, at the age of 26, they were in the band, released Lunkhead self-titled album...

Now I, at that same age, stand here-- what do I have in my hand?

Came across these two status updates on Facebook.... I thought they were so damn poignant.


So typically Luis... ;) Luis, anymore Warped Tour and I think you'll be stuck in CSUN forever! haha


So typically Rages too... Rages was my brother's classmate in MBSSKL... When they first left highschool, that whole bunch used to do crazy things together like drive non-stop to Ipoh just for field trips or like drive to Genting Highlands for Coffee Bean....


It's kinda sad that we all did grow up, after all....

And I realized today too, that I grew up, somehow... It's sad... But I just find myself being unable to just screw it all, and just be irresponsible and just pack and go to Japan, like i did before, and leave without caring about the cost or calculating the consequence... But I can't. I find myself being unable to just..... go... Just do... to just follow my heart without looking anywhere else...

I texted Kaiwen and told him this and he messaged back and said "that's a good thing me thinks"...

But I DON'T.

Because that's how dreams die. That's how you will wake up one day and wonder where is the life you wanted to live. That's how you'll look back one day and wonder why...

I don't want to be someone like that. I don't want to wake up one day and wonder why I am working day to day.

I want to have tried to reach for my dreams.

I want to have lived my youth well lived.

I want to be 50 and be able to talk about the things that made my life colorful.

I want to be able to look back, and have memories of youth that I cherish. Like meeting Taking Back Sunday, like those mad rush to shows, like seeing Odaka-san live..

Superficial perhaps... but nevertheless, at least it's not a shade of pale.

I really liked this episode of Tuntun tsubaki~~~ It's really funny~~ Hahaha... okay, i don't even understand 70% of it but dude, Isshiki-san was really bouncing off the walls on this episode!!! He's like damn talkative and hyper on this episode...!! Usually, he talks alot, actually, but this episode, even more so!! In fact the whole band seem more hyper than usual! hahaha

It's really funny~~ He talks about Okamoto-san's dad during the Hiroshima live being really damn enthusiastic and singing with all the songs at the side of the stage lol~~~ damn funny how he describes it and poor Okamoto-san is like so shy and giggling away... haha...

And then he says like "opps! sorry! sorry sorry~" in ENGLISH to Okamoto-san at one part~!! Damn funny the way he said it hahahaha... coz it was like him making a joke at her hahaha...

Well okay~~ I uploaded the episode~~ hehe...

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=cd9957c11cb351ded2db6fb9a8902bda


They're damn funny... But at least, I can understand Tsubaki better when they speak, somehow... than when Lunkhead speak together... too fast yo~~~~ And damn informal!!! Can't catch a word!! >__<


Tsubaki（つばき）family day out =P hehehe

So... I guess this is as close as I'll get to "seeing" and "hearing" Lunkhead live this year........ Radio show..............

I RSS Lunkhead's blog on my google reader and erm... check it.... almost every fifteen minutes (if I'm in front of the comp)..... So came back from tuition today at 6.... And went to check google reader for updates from Tsubaki or Lunkhead.... ODK-san posted something, so went to check it and it turned out to be a live online radio show~~! Starts at 6:45pm Japan time... that'd make it 5:45 Malaysian time~~~

So~~ I got to "watch" and "listen" to the last 15 minutes of the program~~ It was a radio program of Odaka-san and Yamashita-san with Waikiki Records. I'm sad I missed the first 15 tho... But I guess it doesn't matter, since I can't understand anything anyway! wth.... That's so pathetic.....

I think they were talking alot about live..... And talked about the upcoming live shows in december as well as the tour in Spring.

Oh, and Odaka-san mentioned Isshiki-san too..... I didn't quite understand what they were talking about.... But it was something about Odaka-san and Isshiki-san... <3 I think it's about them being really popular and sought after in live by the ahem.... fans.... hmmm lol!

Anyway~ with the handy media ripper, I managed to rip the live stream of the show~~ well, the last 15 minutes of the show i managed to catch anyway~~

I've uploaded it on mediafire if there's anyone who's interested in listening to it~ ^__^

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=cd9957c11cb351ded2db6fb9a8902bda


Here are screen caps of the show~~~



I wanted to capture one of Odaka-san smiling..... Yoshitaro has such a cute and nice smile ^____^ And I got the cap~~!




Dunno what they were doing here after the show ended.... (there was no audio, guruguru (from Lunkhead's Fuka album) was playing. They were just standing and chatting before they left)



Was really sad to watch ODK-san and Yamashita san walk off screen..... It's like that sinking feeling when the show ends, and the bands walks off the stage..... THAT has to be the worst feeling ever.

Was quite sad to hear Odaka-san live and somewhat seeing the images live too (no thanks to streamyx, there was alot of delay and buffer) but not actually being there, like a live =(


erm... Yamashita-san doesn't talk much, does he?!

Okay.... I got 4 new Icons~~~

Odaka-san "Don't Look Back"



I was quite indecisive about this one..... Wasn't sure about the text and also the cropping for t his picture.... I wanted to put the text "don't turn around", or "don't look back" or, "please don't go"... etc... etc... And I admit, it's a really simple i con huh??? Sorry~~

Isshiki-san~~! Music Star~~



The texture I wanted to use at first was completely different from the one I ended up using. COMPLETELY different.

Okamoto-san.... TSUBAKI QUEEN~~!!



Was thinking... I'd put Okamoto as Queen, Isshiki-san as prince, and Ogawa-san as Knight!! hehe


And FINALLY....... "I like you the way you are"...... Isshiki-san....



I wanted to make an icon with this text for a long time... But wasn't sure which pic to use... Couldn't decide to use ODK or Isshiki's pic.... One of the Odaka's pic was really great, but Yoshitaro was toooooooooooo cute there... i mean it TOOOO cute.. it was the perfect picture and I just couldn't do anything with it... It was already perfect the way it was....
Then when I was scanning Tsubaki's pictures, I saw this pic of Isshiki-san.... I had a feeling I'd use this picture... I like the tone and expression in the pic and I thought it was suitable for the text =)

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Icon dump for Lunkhead and Tsubaki icons...

I joined the LJ 50 icons challenge for Odaka Yoshitaro and つばき (tsubaki). For Odaka-san, I made the claim at Jmusic50 community and Tsubaki was at Japan50.

I chose Odaka-san (duh) because... urm... I like Odaka-san??? hahaha.. Maybe I should have claimed a band for Lunkhead also, instead of just 50 for Yoshitaro.... Let's see, maybe I'll ask the moderator if I can change my claim. But Jmusic50 is quite strict with their icon rules, I think that's why I didn't claim the whole band, because if I claimed the band, every icon has to have 2 or more members, and it can't be just one band member... and there aren't enough pictures of the whole band... Yoshitaro has alot of pics on his own... hehe....

But... that's why, for Tsubaki, I made a band claim at Japan50 instead. I don't think I even have 50 pictures of any one member of Tsubaki, much less 50 pictures that can be made into icons. But Japan50 is not so strict and for band claims, the icons can have any one member of the band or the whole band. I think I'll have enough pics for that...

But anyway, right now.... I don't even have 20 icons for Odaka-san or Tsubaki yet :(

Still a long way to go :(


Err.... And here are the old Plastic Tree icons:




Eh... Yeah, okay, plastic tree icons won't be posted in repeat dumps after this one...