Awwgh!
-- <brain explodes>
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You-ya
-- La' Mule's drumma.
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Nao
-- I don't know either!
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Isuke
-- On one of those ugly hide-guitar-shaped basses... bad taste!
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Ouch
-- Look how widely splayed his pointer and middle fingers
are! That really looks like it actually HURTS! Skin ripping
and all that!
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Wriggle
-- "It's not an official visual kei video without a straight
jacket shot!"
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La'
Mule'
-- The song Inspire, I failed to mention, really kicks
out some cool jams. One of their best.
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Slab
-- Ah, the obligatory surgical gurney shot!
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Gooood
Eeeeevening
-- Alfred Hitchcock? Look at those cheeks! <squeezes 'em>
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Messy
-- Nao always did have trouble eating Spaghetti-O's.
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Gloomy
-- The Wrath of Kon
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Who
Is This?
-- I don't even remember snapping this screen capture, yet
here it is... who is that?
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Operation!
-- "You're the doc-tor! Collecting all your pay!"
"Don't touch the side, or... NRRRRNT!" <nose
lights up>
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December
20
Thursday
La'
Mule? "The Mule?"
now
playing:
La' Mule's Climax (2001)
Well, as a substitute for my extremely-dull-lately existence,
here's some vidcaps! From La' Mule's Inspire PV, which they
put out a few years ago, selling for Y1800 (for the one song, plus
a little live-clips montage at the back with the credits). I saw it
for a few hundred yen and decided to pick it up, and I'm glad I did,
it's pretty cool. The camerawork and performances are eye-catching,
the sets are better than your typical stand-in-an-empty-field "sets"
promulgated by most indie video directors, and the lighting has a
cool surrealist cache.
The editing is the only real drawback to the video -- it's rapid-fire,
but in a bad way, like the editor was young and eager make the video
speedy, but didn't know exactly how (like, dude, it's important to
MATCH the shots you're cutting between... a cut will seem more jarring/drastic/cool
if you cut from a close-up to a long shot, for example, or from a
blue-tinged set to a yellow-tinged one. The editor seems to have had
ample footage to work with, but decided to just do jump cuts from
the same shots over and over again like a putz.)
So the vid ain't perfect, but it's one of the more interesting
indies PVs I've seen. And more enjoyable the half the stuff on X Japan's
Clips II, which is a bit of a snooze.
Oh,
hey, La' Mule's gonna be doing a gig at Cafe le Psyence (the Hide
Museum's club) in early January. Wanna come?
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Woohoo!
-- "I'm at my wit's end!"
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Pata
and Heath
-- Having a good time for once!
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Toshi
-- "I hear a knock on the door..."
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To-kyo
Do-mu!
-- Look at all the people!
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Hide
-- The Weekend Live 1996 video -- and both Hide and
Pata are very shiny happy people, smiling all over the place.
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Let
Me Drain!
-- Shots from X Japan's Drain video. If the band
were in it, it'd have been -really- cool.
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