into the void

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.