ひとりの夜もそばにいようぜ　君と僕の歌を歌う

I SERIOUS SERIOUS SERIOUSLY think that Tsubaki's Isshiki looks ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT like Arashi's Sakurai~!!!!!

"But things always work out perfectly. They just do. Generally, when you let go of your vision of how something is supposed to be, the universe hands you exactly what you need."

FINALLY DONE!!! Three days!!.... I will never be a good editor like my brother :(

SOOOOO... here's to the tune of Kinoshita Riki's Raspberry!....... IMA SO SORRY!!! I had to EDIT the song!!! waaa~ I don't think I have enough videos for the whole song :(

Anyway, here goes~





These are some videos I took of New York, LA and Boston.......

I wanted to practice using Final Cut, so I've been trying to cut some music videos from what I have... I really like Kinoshita's song raspberry... I feel it's like a driving song... haha! But it's kinda weird isn't it?? America with a Japanese song!!

But anyways.... I realized that I only take videos from cars, trains and buses... and I don't take videos of people at all :( And I think I lost a lot of videos... I think the WHOLE WHOLE WHOLE folder with the videos of the last time I was in New York were in the Hard Drive that my brother LOST. WTF. Shit.... Sigh...

Anyway.... The other songs I am going to ATTEMPT to do next are:


神聖かまってちゃん (Sinsei kamattechan) - ちりとり (Chiritori)
- This song is kinda DAMNNNNNN long...................... and there's a whole part where it's really slow...

LOVE LOVE LOVE - カナカナ (Kanakana)
- This song is also DAMNNNN long but fuck... I love love love (haha!) the ending bits of this song, it's so damn inspiring!!!

パウンチホイール (Paunchwheel) - 長電話
- I think this is the MOST doable of all the songs... It's slow and SHORT! lol~ I had an idea of just having it be about Tokyo/Shimokita... We'll see...

LOL!!!!! EXTREMELY SKEWED!!! lollll~~~~

A caution, this band is definitely NOT for everyone but damn! I love them!!!!!!!!!

What can I say about their style??????????? The SEX PISTOLS meets happy-keyboard punk!!!!! DISTORTED screeching vocals overlaid with catchy keyboards, punctuated with a tinge of electronic stuck together with punkish guitars and percussion. AWESOME!!!!

This band is DEFINITELY weird. The whole damn band is weird led by the weirdest of them lot, only named "no ko" (の子). Except for the drummer (YES, who is an INCREDIBLY CUTE girl), no one knows their names. However, there's a proliferation of homemade videos and documentaries of the band doing weird shit, not excluding a webcam of noko naked in a tub, sexually hugging his bandmate (YES, the incredibly cute drummer), them sitting in messy rooms, noko talking streams of endless gibberish (does he stutter?!), webcams chats from the drummer's bedroom, and all with noko screaming his head off most of the time, which really lead me to really believe that there is something SERIOUSLY WRONG with that boy! lol~

Which is why, I think, their music is the way it is and needless to say, yes damn, I LOVE IT.

I guess, 神聖かまってちゃん (Sinsei Kamattechan) is DEFINITELY a very, very different, different take on the Japanese indie rock sound these days. They definitely don't play Western sounding rock music like most Japanese rock bands (Tsubaki, Art-School, Ajikan, andymori), they're also NOT at all like the usual Japanese-sound indie rock bands these days (plenty, Any, S.R.S, Love Love Love, Co.In, colors department, Prof. Moriarty & Smiley Todd, the court), nor are they like the other types of Japanese-sound rock bands (serial TV drama, butter butter, e-sound speaker, Galileo Galilei, the local art, People in the Box, Setsuna Blue Star) or the heavier Japanese rock types (lego big morl, Multi Colored Vox, syrup16g), or the Japanese post-rock types (lostage, the Novembers, the telephones), or the electronic rock types (hare-brained unity, Ogre You Asshole, Starboard, sakanakusyon) or the more Japanese indie-rock (Merenge, Sekaiichi, Otonamodo), and of course, the recent rise of Japanese indie piano-rock bands (andop, Sekai no Owari)..

I guess... the philosophy of noko and consequently the music he makes can be very, very well summarized with the words he wrote in the song ロックンロールは鳴り止まないっ (Rock and Roll sounds forever). I really, really like this song, not just because it's an amazing representation of their sounds, but also an encapsulation of their (and noko's) music philosophy.


Ima try to translate it!
 
ロックンロールは鳴り止まないっ
昨日の夜、駅前TSUTAYAさんで
僕はビートルズを借りた、セックスピストルズを借りた
「ロックンロール」というやつだ
しかし、
何がいいんだか全然分かりません

do da
turatura
oh yeah!yeah!yeah!

夕暮れ時、部活の帰り道で
またもビートルズを聞いた、セックスピストルズを聞いた
何かが以前と違うんだ
MD取っても、イヤホン取っても
なんでだ全然鳴り止まねぇっ

do da doda
tura tura
oh yeah! yeah!
yeah!

今も遠くで聞こえるあの時のあの曲がさ
遠くで近くですぐ傍で、叫んでいる
遠くで見てくれあの時の僕のまま
初めて気がついたあの時の衝撃を僕に

いつまでも、いつまでも、いつまでもくれよ

もっともっと、僕にくれよ
もっと、もっと、もっと、もっと、
くれよ！

遠くにいる君目がけて吐き出すんだ
遠くで近くですぐ傍で叫んでやる
最近の曲なんかもうクソみたいな曲だらけさ！
なんて事を君は言う、いつの時代でも

だから
僕は今すぐ、今すぐ、今すぐ叫ぶよ
君に今すぐ、今、僕のギター鳴らしてやる
君が今すぐ、今、曲の意味分からずとも
鳴らす今、鳴らす時

ロックンロールは鳴り止まないっ

Last night, at the Tsutaya store before the train station,

I am the rock and roll guy who borrowed the Beatles and the Sex Pistols.
However, the meaning of what is good, I still don't understand.


do da doda
tura tura
oh yeah! yeah!
yeah!

In the evening, on the way home from club activities,
still listened to the Beatles, listened to the Sex Pistols,
Something is different than before,
Holding my MD, Holding my earphones
Why is it that it totally goes on always. (THIS IS PROBABLY WRONG!! I don't understand the sentence!!)


do da doda
tura tura
oh yeah! yeah!
yeah!

Now the distant song of that time that can be heard
is screaming in a distance nearby by my side.

In a distance my mother of that time that can be seen,
the first time she noticed at that time, she was shocked at me (THIS IS ALSO PROBABLY WRONG!)

always, always, always, give me

more more more more more to me, give it to me.

The you at a distance, eyes are.... (I DON'T UNDERSTAND!), I vomit,
Far away and nearby and right by my side, cry

Music these days are just like shit (HELL YEAH!)
The things you say even in any period.


That is why,
right now, I scream,
To you, right now, my guitar is ringing,
Even if you don't understand the meaning of the song.
Rings now, this is the time it rings.

Rock and Roll never ends.

(Inside me, which summer... If I hear that rock and roll, I remember a little)

DUDE, CHECK THIS ONE OUT: http://klmosher.blogspot.com/

This girl is awesome!!! hahaha... reminds me of the whole gang back in LA!!!! She's like the Malaysian version of Luis&co!!!!! Goes for a BILLION GIGS in KL (well, if there are a billion gigs!) and incredibly insightful into the whole local gig scene... Has been a really really really entertaining and enlightening read!!!!!

check the blog out! AWESOME!!!! Would definitely be something i WISH I could have written myself! But alas~ I'm too damn lazy hahaha!

But dearrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr GOD... how I wish I could be LOST in Shimokitazawa and I could start a frigging blog for EVERY DAMN SHOW within the grasps of Shimokita!!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!! それはそれが私の本当の夢だ！！！！！！！！！

YESSSSSSSSSS~!

Tsubaki FINALLY is on twitter~!

Hoorahh!!!! 一色さん！岡本さん！

Please follow!

http://twitter.com/noriyasuisshoku

http://twitter.com/okamoto_tsubaki

This time... It's for good... FOREVER. ZERO% left in the band.... (;_;) Ryou Ishikawa has officially left Lunkhead. His last live with Lunkhead is on 8th April 2010, in Shimokitazawa Garage...

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11年間活動を共にしてきたメンバー、石川龍がLUNKHEADを去ることになりました。

この一年間、新しいスタイルでLUNKHEADとしての音を追求してやってきましたが、やってみて初めて解った事、変化した事がたくさんありました。正直、4人の最高の音を出し続けられないジレンマも感じだしました。
LUNKHEADというバンドの事を考えた時、このまま今の4人でこのスタイルでやっていくのか、それとも龍以外の3人だけでもやっていくべきなのか、という事について真剣に話し合うようになりました。
そして俺達4人は、小高芳太朗、山下壮、合田悟の三人でもLUNKHEADとしての道を進むという結論に至りました。

LUNKHEADはこの4人ではなくなりますが、俺達4人が繋いできた絆、創ってきた音楽はこれからも変わりません。
これからも俺達4人は一緒に泣いたり笑ったり酔っ払ったりして、共に歳をとっていく仲間です。
俺達の決断はメンバー各々が一個人としてだけではなく、LUNKHEADがLUNKHEADとして選んだ正しい道だと確信しています。

これからもそれを信じて、俺達はLUNKHEADとして更に精進していきたいと思います。


LUNKHEAD


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石川龍です。

突然ではありますが、４月８日に下北沢GARAGEにて開催されるワンマンライブ『W0RLD IS MINE』を最後にLUNKHEADを脱退することになりました。

バンド結成からこれまで、応援してくれたファンの皆さん、支えてくれたスタッフの皆さん、仲間、友人、そして三人のメンバーへ、オレと出会ってくれて本当にありがとう。
心を込めて、本当にありがとう。

何を語ればいいのか、何から語ればいいのか、正直まだ整理ができていない状態です、実は。

まず、この一年間、オレはある企業に就職し、会社員として働きながら、バンド活動を続けてきました。

去年の２月にホームページで「目標のために」という理由で、活動の一部停止を発表しました。その説明が不透明かつ不十分でファンの皆さんには疑問や疑念を与えてしまっていたという話を耳にしました。

そういうことがあったとしたならば、本当にごめんなさい。

当時、脱退という決断はオレにとって自己実現のための最良かつ唯一の選択肢で、精神的にも肉体的にもそうしなければ笑顔で音楽やドラムに向き合うことすらできなくなっていたんです。
そこに可能性や希望を見いだしてくれたメンバーのおかげで、この一年間、オレは音楽やドラムに対して、それまでよりも、もっと誠実に真っ直ぐ向き合うことができるようになりました。
会社員として働くからこそ伝えたい思いやメッセージもたくさん見つかりました。
この一年間、ライブやメンバーとのリハーサルはめちゃめちゃ幸せな時間で、生きていることを心から実感することができました。

そんな中で今回、正式に脱退を決意するに至った理由は、一言で説明できるほど簡単ではないけれど、最終的に会社員を辞めるか、LUNKHEADを辞めるかという自分にとっての究極の選択肢に答えを出さなければならないタイミングがきてしまったからです。

ハゲるほど悩みました。

もしかしたらこれからもずっと悩みながら生きていくのかもしれません。

一緒に歩んでいくことが出来なくなったこと、本当にごめんなさい。
これからもずっと、心はともに。

LUNKHEADのメンバーと楽曲をこれからも愛し続けます。
人生最良の時間をどうもありがとう！

『あなたに会えてよかった』

感謝の気持ちを込めて、４月８日、オレ達のルーツである下北沢GARAGEでワンマンライブをやらせてもらいます。
オレが愛するLUNKHEADの楽曲達をオレが考えたセットリストで時間が許す限り、全力で演奏させて下さい。
突然の告知ではありますが、是非遊びに来て欲しいと思います。

これからも、オレはオレのスタンスで、音楽とドラムと共にあり続けたいと思っています。
メンバーとはいつまでも、一緒に酒を飲んで笑っていたいと願っています。

これからも、LUNKHEADを、そして石川龍を、どうぞよろしくお願いします！

愛を込めて。

LUNKHEAD 石川 龍

Ok... Have not been updating... Had not checked out that many bands in the interim... Not the 3 a week I promised anyway, since I was quite happy with my playlist.

Anyway, here are some bands in the past weeks!

the court (Love love love their song, 524! AWESOME AWESOME song!)
More Love Love Love
Any
ほたる日和
androp (DAMN NICE!)

Recently Checked Out:
世界の終わり (DAMN NICE YO!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really hope I can get their new album next month!)
Weaver (For some reason, just as I was searching for their album online, someone uploaded it a week later! Awesome~)
□□□ (Finally)
AFRICAEMO (gotta listen to this more, not checked out much yet)
神聖かまってちゃん (their album was on Disk Union's top 10 Indies album le!)
Hi-Fi CAMP (I didn't even know this but apparently, I HAD checked out their song exactly a year ago ahahaha)

Going to check out:
Natural Punch Drunker
ラジオボタン
plane

Hmmm... if possible, I'd like to find more stuff by My Autumn Rain and anything by リリィノート (my two usual last.fm neighbors had this band on their list!)


English:
Motion City Soundtrack (Woot!)

NEW STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think the worst feeling a teacher can feel is to feel that he or she has failed his or her students.

 want to help them, actually. I really want to help them to succeed.

And I am sad, I am sad because I know, sometimes, there are a lot of things I still don't know. Not the class material, but more of like the method to deliver the content in the best way possible that fits the students. But each session is different, each class has different dynamics. That makes the whole thing even harder. A method that may have worked with one class may completely fail in another, because every student is different, and every class is different.

Still, I want to do my best for them. I think, that's the only thing I can do for them. That is, to try do my best. To read the dynamics of the class, to learn from them, to learn from feedback and analysis of the class' progress, and with that, to adapt my teaching style, the method of delivery and the class content to fit the class.


Of course, this is still easier said than done when each session only lasts 32 contact hours or just a month.


I want to do my best. I want to be a good teacher. A good teacher where... my students can truly learn and grow in class.

I wish I will one day become such a teacher.

人間の善良を信じたい。人間が悪より善良に向かって傾くと信じたい。人間の固有の善良さを信じ続けたい。人生で新しい人々に会うとき、私は彼らに疑わしくて、また敵対的に欲しくない。皆を愛したい。皆に微笑みかけたい。これが、よりハッピー な人生であると思います。

I still love Tsubaki, and Isshiki is still damn cute. ahaha



Look at that... even a cut of pic... so cute~ lol..

Actually, no.. I really like Tsubaki and no, it's not coz of Isshiki =) (although, imho he's very cute indeed, albeit getting old, ne! ^_^ )

I'm really, really, really glad I love 花が揺れる... It's a really incredibly great Tsubaki song... I think it's my favourite newer Tsubaki song. Really good. One of those good blends of the usual Tsubaki-punching rock songs with newer Tsubaki sound and styles. Very nice blend.
And Isshiki's singing is just amazing here too.. Really strong and powerful, nice range and very awesome styles... Mannnnn I just can't get the tune out of my head!!!!

I want this dream because...

Because I want to live this dream.

because.

I want my parents' sacrifices for my life be worth it.
I want them to have something to tell their friends, at least it wouldn't be the sad tale of "She's a part time teacher".
I want all that they have given for me to mean something to them. To let them feel that it was all worth it.

because.

I want all the stupid choices I have made in my life to be proven to be the right ones.
I want all the wrong choices that I have made regarding my career to be worth the mistakes.

because.
I want to be able to lift my head and not doubt in my belief in life.

that life is infinite. that life is beautiful. that you can make your life into anything you want it to.


I want to be proven right.

To be proven that there IS power in dreams, in believing, in learning to dream and to want more in this life.

That's what I want to be, you know, to let my friends know, that..

that those stupid songs we used to listen to as kids, those songs we heard and were inspired by in life... that they are real.

life can change and you're not stuck in vain
the impossible is possible tonight

It's funny how your dreams
Change as you're growing old
You don't wanna be no spaceman
You just want the gold
All the dream stealers
Are lying in wait
But if you wanna be a spaceman
It's still not too late

Well it's alright
And It's alright
Who are you and me to say
What's wrong and what's right
Do you still feel like me
We sit down here
And we shall see
We can talk
About common ground
And we can just forget
About feeling down
We can just forget
About life in this town.


I want to believe in all that. And I want others to believe in all that.

To believe in the power of their dreams.

And not to surrender them in growing up.


I want, Lord, I wish for my dream to come true for all these selfish reasons.

Because it's part of who I am.

To give up, to ask me to give up on this, is to ask me to give up all that I've ever believed in life, about life...

and I can't do that.

And I want so much for this dream to happen,

because, I need to know that my belief is right.

That this world, this life, can be just so much more...

and I'm not just a daydream believer fool.


I'm not saying right is wrong
It's up to us to make
The best of all things that come our way
And all the things that came have past
The answer's in the looking glass
There's four and twenty million doors
Down life's endless corridor
Say it loud and sing it proud
And they...

Will dance if they want to dance
Please brother take a chance
You know they're gonna go
Which way they wanna go
All we know is that we don't know
What is gonna be
Please brother let it be
Life on the other hand won't let you understand
Why we're all part of the masterplan


Maybe I will never be
All the things that I want to be
But now is not the time to cry
Now's the time to find out why
I think you're the same as me
We see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever
We're gonna live forever

Eternal Loop Playlist!
つばき - 花が揺れる
LOVE LOVE LOVE - カナカナ
Mari! Mari! - Фотографии


New:
ほたる日和
Any
I'm REALLY happy with finding these two bands... Will definitely be exploring them more this week!

スケルトンズ
Lyu:Lyu (song only)
androp (song only)
チュール (song only)
Silent Sprout (song only)
Want to check out more...... but kinda hard to get their stuff...

Replays
D.W.ニコルズ
OCEANLANE


Can't find anything =(
Synchronized door.
Centirental.
センチグラム

Really happy with the amount of bands and music I checked out this week.

Had been an INCREDIBLY international week! Well... international coz there were Korean bands, Russian bands (DAMN GREAT), Chinese bands (whereby ROCK MUSIC doesn't exist in this language), British bands, American bands and of course, Japanese bands =)

Will be sending in the ones I liked.

=)


That said though, looking for music is an incredibly daunting task because it's just a neverending gargantuan endeavor looking for more and more and more bands because one band will lead you to 10 other and the 10 others will lead you to another 10 others each. And then you realize "oh wow, there's a whole other country's indie rock bands I could check out" and then you suddenly realize, oh damn! there is just an infinite number of bands out there! Japanese, English, Korean, German, Russian, Swedish, French, EVERYTHING... It's just IMPOSSIBLE to check them all out!!

But I want to at least try the best I can to check out as many as I can.

I probably have 10 tabs opened to 10 different websites with listings and links to hundreds of bands... AND ACTUALLY though, most of the time 9 times out of 10, the bands actually SUCK.... BUTTTTT BUTTTT... just for that one tiny little chance, you just won't know, there's just this one INCREDIBLY amazing band out there or just one INCREDIBLY amazing song out there that would just blow your mind and take your breath away, you just NEVER KNOW.

And for that ONE band, that ONE song, I continue to search in HOPES and ANTICIPATION that I will be lucky enough to score a chance of finding a band or a song like that!


--
"but eventually, they must push forward because so much awaits them."

Love is just an abstract concept. It can't knock down stuff.

English - http://goodbyetracy.blogspot.com

Japanese! - http://goodbyetracy.jugem.jp/

Well, today, my last.fm neighbors had 1 band in common androp. So decided to check them out. Nothing available online except myspace music and someone did some tracks on mp3tube.

Anyway, quite good but I thought they sounded TOOOOOO much like People in the Box though, who, by the way, it seems, just released a new EP today, Sky Mouth. Have got the album will check it out soon.

Pure Love.


My top top top Art-School songs:
君はいま光の中に
水の中のナイフ
僕が君だったら
rasberry (This is not an art-school song, it was on Riki Kinoshita's very first solo demo album before art-school)

Forever love, any time, any day, any mood, any feelings... These tracks are almost unskippable. PURE LOVE!

OTHER AWESOMELY LOVED TRACKS!
Love Letter Box
Missing
Hikari to Karada
Lovers Lover
Flower
Close Your Eyes
Ghost of a Beautiful View
Scarlet
14Souls
Roller Coaster


I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY love Mizu no Naka no Knife... I think it's like the most kick ass song ever!!! REALLYI It's like a..... ride, you know? listening to that song! Seriously! AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!

But I think the Art-School song I love the most is Kimi wa Ima Hikari no Naka ni... I feel it is a song that is very very very different from art-school's usual music repertoire. Simple amazing amazing amazing amazingly beautiful and perfectly made.

That said, it's weird but Riki Kinoshita's raspberry is also one of my overall favourite tracks. It's very rare I'd skip this track, not just coz it's art-school or whatever but like in overall general sense of all the songs I have... I just has a really really catchy and rocking out tune to it, you know!!

YEAP!

Sorry, no new bands checked out last week.... Was checking out manga instead.... ahahhahaha...

YEAP!

So I was TRYING to get a hold of English Blade of the Immortal beyond Volume 22... it was IMPOSSIBLE.

Then i ended up reading Samurai Deeper Kyo... It's quite cool but it's like so mysterious and stuff and the story progresses a little too slow.. So I just stopped halfway... I mean, it's good but not compelling... I couldn't stop reading till volume 14, of course but... the fact is that... I DID stop. Which, if it was an EXCELLENT A++ manga, I wouldn't have stopped, right???

Like i ESPECIALLY remember reading Rurouni Kenshin... DUDE, I practically sat a 48 hour session finished the entire series. I STILLLLL remember, I was reading over the weekend and came monday, I was at like volume 24, and I really didn't want to stop but I had my California Politics class!! SOOOOOO I HAD TO STOP and dragged myself to campus for that 50 minute 10am class... After which I rushed back home to continue the story to the end before my next class in the afternoon!!!

THAT is addictive! And an EXCELLENT A++ series!


Black Cat too was read in one whole session.

ANOTHER Excellent A++ series.

There are some albums where we like say 4 of the 10 tracks.. And then there are some albums where it's just PERFECT all the way. I think in my life there's been some albums that are like that, where every track is a favorite track! By no means they're like my favourite album of all time, but these are the albums that I can listen from track 1 to 12 and NOT SKIP a single track. Where every song is awesome, and at the end of the 12th track it makes me go "Damn, that was a great album! In its entirety!"

Wholesome albums.

I'll try to list some =)


Nirvana - Nevermind



No arguments here ;) I think this is the album that changed my life. From girl to GRUNGE/ALTERNATIVE ROCK GIRL. lols... FOREVER!

lols.

I think this was truly the first band, album, music I had ever ever LISTENED TO. you know what I mean?!

On the other notes, my second top fav Nirvana album would be In Utero, folllowed by Incesticide.





Green Day - Dookie



Yeap.. I think this is the second album I listened to in my whole life... Lols. PERFECT album dude, EVERY DAMN SONG IS GOOD!


Hole - Celebrity Skin



Ok while I think Live Through This definitely shaped me wayyyyyy more than this album did. In fact, this album was just an album. But of the Hole/Courtney Love album, this was the best one because it was a really, really good rock album. From the first song to the last song, each song was great. And this IS one of those albums that I do like each and every song, from first to last.

Seriously.






Smashing Pumpkins - Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness



Ok, this is a 2 CD album ok... Like the first of its kind wayyyyyyy back then when 2 CD albums are unheard of... So there are one or two tracks that I skip lolsss...

But this was my first forage into.. music with thought. lols.

Great album, I don't think I can listen to this album without feeling 16 again.

Had my share of my bouts of depression with this one lols.


Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?



I think I have three copies of this album. Gosh... LOVED LOVED LOVED Oasis... Changed me from grunge girl to rock girl... lols.

But as equally awesome an album is Definitely Maybe... It's just that, I think Morning Glory is just more... radio friendly and more "progressed" in its sounds than Definitely Maybe.





Ash - 1977



Flawless album. Dude, even the bonus tracks, T. Rex and Everywhere is All Around is KICK ASS!



Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill



Another FLAWLESS amazing album. Damn. One album wonder, though!


Blink-182 - Enema of the State



Sooooo this album changed me from a rock girl to a punk girl! lols...

I can't decide tho which album I like better... Enema or Dude Ranch coz I think Dude Ranch is also awesome, but I think the album that I will go back to it at anytime and still love the songs, it'd be Enema.





Finch - What It Is To Burn



I mean it, track 1 to 12. NO SKIPS. ALL LOVE. T O T A L L Y.

So this album changed me from punk girl to emo girl! lols~



Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends



What can I say about this album? TIMELESS. Stayed with me before leaving for the States, while I was in the States and even now, when I have left the States.

Their first and their best.


Something Corporate - Leaving Through The Window



yeah I know, weird pick, but I really loved this album and I thought it was a solid album. Every track is great. Well written, well arranged, well made.


Asian Kung-Fu Generation - Sol-fa




OK, I chose Sol-fa not only coz yes, IT IS AN AMAZINGLY AWESOME ALBUM from first to last! But also, I guess, it represents the epoch of Ajikan's "rock" brilliance.

I love the previous two albums too, Kimi Tsunagi Five M and Houkai Amplifier... SOLID albums too! LOVE LOVE LOVE every single one of the songs on those 3 albums! Incredible..

And yes, it was these albums that changed me from an emo/scene girl to a Japanese rock girl... LOLS!





Tsubaki - Portrait+



Yes, this is an absolutely amazing album and yes, while the other Tsubaki albums are also wonderful and I really love them too, in my opinion, this is their finest work yet.

This album like those other perfect album, I feel, is the pinnacle of their brilliance, an album where solid rock sound is constructed perfectly with studio work. Flawless marriage of the both that resulted in an album that is both rocking, yet incredibly well crafted.

I constantly look for albums like those. Sometimes a band can not progress beyond the edgy raw rock sounds and sometimes bands can go from really good but raw rock songs only to release an overly sound engineered/enhanced album the next that totally takes the edge off their songs.

Portrait+ is neither. A perfect Tsubaki balance. IMHO.

My SECOND FAVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV Tsubaki album! ALSO INCREDIBLE, every song is KICK ASS from first to last, IMHO.




Radwimps - Radwimps 3



YEAP. I LOVE THIS RADWIMPS ALBUM BEST. When I first checked out Radwimps, this was actually the first album I got and it was perfect. Every song in it was great! Thus, from that first perception, this is a perfect album from first to last.


Lunkhead - Tsuki to Tenohira



Hahaha... ok, ok, ok... I chose this album because the PERFECTEST song is on this album ;)

Guess which track =P

My other Lunkhead Favs... Albums where every song is a good song and every other song is a GREAT song!




Other really coooooool perfect albums?


Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind



Oh c'mon... if you were a teenager in the 90s, I bet this album's on your list!


Gin Blossoms - Congratulations I'm Sorry



YEAP!! I LOVE THIS ALBUM! I think it's brilliant! Almost every song is absolutely amazing!


The Stone Roses - The Complete Stone Roses



HELL YEAH! Dude, if there was ever the BEST BEST OF album, this is it. lols.



Days Away - The Feel Of It



I really heart his band :)


New Found Glory - New Found Glory



One of those perfect melodic punk albums that's a great listen from first to last.



A New Found Glory - Nothing Gold Can Stay



This is a VERY VERY raw albums, thus, not for everyone but I really really love every track on this album!


Plastic Tree - Chandelier



Yes, TOTALLY. THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE, BRILLIANT ALBUM. Totally love this band, dude.. Yeah.. STILL :D lols.
 



Ok I think I better stop here coz I'm beginning to list!!!!! There's just soooooooo many incredible albums out there!!!

Goshh... ima just stick the album covers here lols.

HOLYCOW! Can you believe it?! I watched Inuyasha again!! After how many years?! Man... And there's no difference! I mean in like the background music and all that. TOTAL NOSTALGIA!

Anyway, I decided to check out this episode of the new Inuyasha episodes. They started the anime again to pick up the last arc to the end of the manga... I guess that's a good thing huh? After all, it was a very, very popular series. (Killed by lengthy repeats and wth-die-naraku-NOW)

Anyway, I bothered to follow the manga (back then) only because I wanted to read about Sesshoumaru and Rin... My favorite storyline in the whole series.. And this part of the series was the MOST MOST MOST MOST MOST MOST touching and wonderful part of the entire series (lols)!

So, it was nice they animated it!

But... It was kinda dissapointment actually... I didn't think it was as powerful being adapted into the anime...


I really like this part of the series because, I felt, it signified the progress and process of Sesshoumaru's character... I mean, he had always been a hard-ass, but you always felt there was more it him than that... in that he actually did care for Rin, a very uncharacteristic thing for him to do.

And I felt that these chapters (4 chapters in total in the manga), really showed how much he has changed and show his "true heart" that being with Rin has made him become....

I always loved that part where he catches Rin and Kohaku as they fall and then he says to Kohaku, "Don't make me have to look after you. This hand can only wield a sword"... And he said it with such sadness, I feel, inside, he desires to be compassionate but he knows his fate has been assigned that he can only use a sword to kill..

And I think the part that signifies his change the most was the part where he realized that Rin is dead and he can't save her and he actually DISCARDS the Tenseiga (Sesshoumaru throwing away his sword to carry Rin), and says that it is not worth it, to exchange Rin's life for mastering the sword or anything... I thought that was absolutely absolutely touching... MORE THAN INUYASHA CAN EVER BE WITH KAGOME!! wth!


MEANT ONLY TO WIELD A SWORD.

MISSING IN THE ANIME WHAT THE HELL!!!






RIN DIES.

It totally wasn't emotional in the Anime at all!! It the WEIGH and SIGNIFICANCE of Sesshomaru's feelings and words were just LOST in the anime!!!








RIN REVIVED.

This part was quite faithful... But... Still, I feel Sesshoumaru wasn't as...... touched and caring here in the anime as he was in the manga!!!








I didn't quite like the way Sesshomaru said "mou daijoubu da" to Rin!! Wasn't soft and caring as I think it should have been!!! lols





Anyway, it's kinda like "wth" watching Inuyasha again huh? But anyway, I can't deny Inuyasha... Because it was because of Inuyasha back in 2003 that I got to know and became interested in Japan, so... I won't deny my Inuyasha FAN-NESS! lols