Bought
TourPuffyTour! (with their good, early stuff, live), a short
video for Min, a short video for Sung, and a Kill=Slayd video called
Tempest, because it was only Y100... and actually, the green
price tag that said it was Y100 actually meant it was half-price --
Y50! (Disk Union uses different color price tags to indicate percentage
discounts.)
Apparently green tags indicate crap, because the Kill=Slayd video
(or at least the two minutes I watched of it) was horrible. The singer
cannot sing beyond all reason. A lot of j-rock guys can't sing that
great, but this guy was really bad -- they even had the guitar and
bass mixed really low, just do reduce the contrast between in-tune
guitars and the singer. I had seen their stuff lying in visual rock
sections of stores, but they weren't visual either, just crap! OH,
crap! But the Puffy video was cool, so the day wasn't a total wash.
At
Book Off (this is all in Machida by the way) I spotted another Gauze;
that's now three total that I've seen at all, new or used -- compared
to my 1000th Luna Sea Singles. Still no Missa, of course.
THe KR Cube on the single is different than the album version, but
not in any serious way. Jealous (Reverse) is cool, just a more
laid-back version of that song. KR Cube (Vomit Mix) has some
cool stuff going on, but it's nto worht more than the Y350 I paid
for the single. Mostly I got it just to say, "I have all the
Dir en grey 5-inch singles now." <flicks up polo shirt collar,
puts on shades, does that finger-gun "bang" thing>
Also
at Book Off, where they have every Luna Sea 3-inch single for Y50,
I got it in my head that it'd be cool to buy all the singles and frame
them all together. But that's more of a project to do after the in-laws
move out and I've got a nice big desk to work at!
Also,
some dude brought in tapes 1-56 or Uresai Yatsura (sp?), that old
Rumiko Takahashi anime series... so there was just this gigantic shitload
of tapes, which (at $12.50 each) I can't imagine anyone ever buying,
it's take a lifetime to watch them all (4 eps per tape!)
Kayo
and I finally started working on the Spousal Visa paperwork we got
last week. Not sucha big deal, we're already halfway done, it's just
the hassle of explaining how you met, why you married, how you intend
to learn the culture, pay the bills, and all that. I said to Kayo,
as we sat at the kitchen table writing, "I doesn't matter what
you say, just that you say something; they're weeding out all the
people who don't really want the visa, or who are trying to con their
way into a visa. Plus if we ever do an interview with 'em I'll just
charm my way through it no problem, they'll love me!"
Kayo:
Say anything, huh? <pretending to write> "None of your
fucking business how we met! Just interview my husband, you'll ~love~
him!" <stabs pen into my eyeball>
So
that's how the visa thing is going.
Also
(and sorry for the crypticness) Hasami called and wants me now! (Hey,
I can't publish -every- detail of my diary online!)
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