That
was one heavy posting yesterday, eh? Christ!
Anyway,
I'm recharged now; did nothing all day, except lots of guitar playing
and CD ripping. Specifically, I've backed up a bunch of B-side material
I've collected over the last two months, and I've been thinking of
maybe selling CD-Rs of the stuff. Only rare stuff that's hard to find,
because I know if I was still in America and wanted, for example,
the Luna Sea song With (not Wish, With!), I'd
have a damn hard time getting it. Maybe a shitty-sounding mp3 is online
somewhere, but screw that, I'd want hi-fi all the way.
So
if anyone wants the following songs, let me know. I can either do
it as an audio CD or as an mp3 data CDr, whichever you prefer. I figure
$20 covers everything pretty fairly, including postage, ne?
The
track listing:
1
Be Gone
2
Be In Agony
3
Inside You
4
Into the Sun
5
Kono Sekai no Hatede
6
Looper
7
My Lover
8
Until the Day I Die
9
With
These
are all the b-sides released in connection with the albums Shine
(1998) and Lunacy (2000). Frankly, I think some of these tunes
suck, but there are several tracks that are quite worthwhile, and
what the hell, it's Luna Sea, man! So, yanno, whatever. No pressure.
:)
I
was thinking I might do this for other bands (notably Pierrot and
Dir en grey) but I'd feel guilty: Luna Sea's a bunch of rich bastards.
Dir en grey (and to a lesser extent, Pierrot, who seem to be more
popular) still need a few more years to secure their positions and
earn their millions, so for now I'm not gonna rob them of any royalties.
But fuck, Luna Sea's Ryuichi is just an obnoxious bastard, so screw
him... the last thing he needs is more money. (Have I delivered this
rant to you guys before? Typing it seems familiar!)
What
else did I do today? Played a lot of guitar, even though my nails
are kinda short (because on the train ride home this morning I seem
to have bit them all down to the bone, like a dork). And I watched
"Ripley" (aka The Talented Mr. Ripley) on Wowow.
Cool flick; I love evil characters that get away with stuff by relying
on skill and other people's stupidity.
Assorted
minutiae: there's a traffic light near my house, at a street crossing
which I use pretty much every day. You know how, in the U.S., there's
a "Push to Cross" button that you can push, and after waiting
for a minute the light turns red and the walk sign turns green? Well
at this one intersection, there's no waiting. You push it and the
light immediately changes to yellow. I've been observing this for
a couple weeks now, and I've been wanting to tell you all, but what
the hell, it's so trivial! So I never got around to sharing it til
now. Just another cool example of how nice life can be in Japan, if
you needed one.
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