A
Flurry of Market Activity
now
playing: La Mule's Climax (2001)
Oy oy oy, went to Machida yesterday and bought stuff, including a
black mailbag (so I can blend in better with all the jrock fans at
lives; a black mailbag with scribbles, doodles, and patches in de
rigeur), the X Japan 3 VHS tape set of their Dec. 30 and 31 live
shows (the 30th of which -i- attended, but i haven't seen myself yet.
Maybe in the closing credits...)
I
also nabbed La Mule's 2001 album Climax, a few more Nanase
Aikawa singles for $1 each (two more and I'll have EVERY one ever
she's released -- and I've only paid $10 or so total so far), and,
oh god how could i forget, L'Arc's Chronicle and A Piece
of Reincarnation on DVD. For half price! I had just walked out
of the loo at Book off, and when i returned to the DVD section, there
they were, every L'Arc DVD release for half price. I picked up all
five or six items, then immediately put down Chronicle 2 (nothing
good on it). A girl came up next to me and saw me put it down and
then grabbed it herself. Then I set down the 1999 Grand Cross live
DVD set, which I have already, and the chick snatched that up too!
So
then it became a game of taunting and teasing... hmm i think i'll
set this down NOPE i'll keep it nah i don't want it oh wait yes i
do! But I actually -really- was deliberating buying the 1998 Light
My Fire DVD; but all the good songs are on the Grand Cross DVD
already, and I wasn't crazy about how Light My Fire was shot
and edited (i have a copy of the VHS at home, and i never actually
watched it all, just bits and pieces). I always found it a bit dull,
with boring seen-it-before-style angles and cuts, lighting and staging.
The
same, unfortunately, goes for what little I've watched of the X Japan
1996 vid, which is pretty dull in it's own right. You get the feeling
they're just going through the motions, and not having fun or caring
about what they do, which is probably not true, but again, the dull
way the whole thing's been put together just doesn't do much for me.
After
all that shopping, Kayo and I went to McDonalds (the line at Caprichosa,
a cool Italian chain restaurant known for big, cheap servings -- but
it's only pasta, which is cheap to begin wit -- had a wait of 30 minutes;
8pm is probably the peak dining time, and that's when we got hungry,
so if you're ever in Japan, eat at 5pm and again at 11pm (Yoshinoya's
open 24hrs, but not much else is!) and you'll be a happy camper.
Whoa,
dude! On TV, some Japanese girl just tried to commit suicide by swimming
into the crocodilicious Nile (she was on vacation in Egypt). It's
only a TV movie though, so she was promptly rescued by some gaywad,
dammit. There's nuthin' more evil than a crocodile, man. They're just
like pure evil, dude! Yowzer! (Loves me them crocs!)
I
talked with Roiyu (from that visual band I met with a few weeks ago).
No singer yet, so I suggested he sing and that we form the world's
first visual kei three-piece. That'd be pretty cool, and less people
means a bigger piece of the door take for each of us! Assuming that's
even how kei bands get paid.)
I
also emailed another band whose ad I saw like weeks ago in Ikebukuro,
finally. That was only 20 hours ago though, so no details yet.
