Hate
me if you must, but I've given up on finding the other Dir en grey
videos I need (the other ~If Trans~ one, with Unknown... Despair...
A Lost, and the Gauze videos, mainly). So I ordered a rather
bootyleggy Deg Video Collection DVD off eBay. Gomen ne! I am weak.
After
I paid for it, I had the thought, "Oh, I shoulda waited til after
my visit to Chinatown, bollocks!" Because the thing only cost $11,
but with shipping and the online payment fees, it hit $23! Which,
if it were in Yokohama`s Chinatown area, would probably be the price
it's selling for there. Although, who knows, maybe Yokohama`s Chinatown,
unlike New York's, sucks for J-Rock stuff -- I dunno yet!
The
reason I'm holding off on going to Chinatown is because my spousal
visa should be ready to pick up soon (seeing as how my tourist visa
will expire in mere hours, I hope Immigration contacts me fast...)
and I'd need to pick it up in Yokohama -- just a few blocks from Chinatown.
It's amazing how much of a pain in the ass government agencies can
be though -- I'd SOOO much rather have dealt with a private company
authorized by the government to issue visas.
Private
companies are fast, friendly, and usually cost less in the long run.
Government agencies are slow, dumb, mean, and inefficient. They're
not free either -- all those tax dollars they eat up, jeez! And then
they still charge you fees for the privilege of dealing with them!
So wouldn't it just be simpler to privatize EVERYTHING?!
Oh,
also, I went to karaoke. And was disappointed to see that the X Japan
songs I did were accompanied by cheap crappy karaoke videos, and not
the actual real videos, as I had hoped. I mean, in New York, all the
karaoke videos (except Pierrot's Creatures and a handful of
Luna Sea songs, as I recall) sucked ass at Neo Tokyo, Sing-Sing, and
Village Karaoke, but in Tokyo, shouldn't the videos be legit?! I guess
not -- or maybe this was just some cheap dive that couldn't afford
the "real" versions? I do not know.
But
anyway, the happy news: I did "Forever Love" all the way
through! Nailed all the words, more or less! And I don't have them
memorized, I was just reading them off the screen! And using all the
furigana I could! (Furigana is the hiragana that appears over the
less-well-known kanji, to help Japanese people pronounce it properly).
In New York, I couldn't do that so well... I'd get some of the words,
but this was the first time I got 'em all!
Also,
I drank too many Calpis Sours. And didn't even think to take pictures.
Nor did I do any Dir en grey, although they had 10 songs available.
And Pierrot had a bunch. Plastic Tree had five, including Sink
and Slide.
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