So August 4 was the release date of Arashi's newest CD, Boku no Miteiru Fukei. So far, it's gotten lots of different responses from exuberant to underwhelmed. Most people seem to enjoy it, though, so that's good. I don't know if it still justifies $50 for the CD, but the way I see it I'll buy it as a fan and just dl all their other shit. lol. This ( Read more... )

My dad just had a heart attack. Again. He's in the hospital running tests right now, and I'm trying not to dwell on it too much. So I've been surfing the Internet all morning. And this brought a huge, huge smile to my face:

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One of the best school concert band performances you will ever see in your entire LIFE. haha. It's an epic medley working in ( Read more... )

Finally got around to watching "Tokujo Kabachi!!" (the exclamation points are in the title lol) and it's really cute. I've never really been fascinated by law, but put crazy manga/anime-style graphics and Sho Sakurai on top and I am all over that shit (this method can probably explain the success of News Zero in Japan) XD Seriously though, this is ( Read more... )

It's still the twenty-fifth where I am, so yeah, Sho's birthday. I don't want to get too bopperish about it but I really am happy for him. Twenty-seven was a very good year for Sho in general, and this is the year that I really started to pay attention to him (due to Yatterman, Quiz Show, News Zero, his general awesomeness, his supreme fail, etc.) ( Read more... )

Face, meet palm.

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I watched this in the Philippines with my cousin Mayeth and was just facepalming the entire time. As an anime fan, as a Janis Joplin fan, as a singer, as an American, as a girl - I am embarrassed. I've been vocally trained since childhood and I'm a huge J-culture fan, but you don't see me making an ass of myself this way... well, ( Read more... )

Just finished watching "Yatterman" (after SO long lol) and in lieu of a review I will post the Facebook note I put up when I first heard about Sho showing (haha) "Yatterman" in New York, with some things changed to reflect the fact that I watched it.

( Ah screw it, I'll post a review too anyway )

Finally found a fancam of "Ashita no Kioku," for which besides "A.Ra.Shi" in the plastic suits I have been avidly waiting ever since I read the Kokuritsu con reports. I... kind of want to die from the awwwwwness of it all. I would say cry, but I don't really know these people and I'm not that much of a fangirl to cry over strangers (except during ( Read more... )

Today I shot a sequence for a school project in which I played a newscaster - suit, hair, glasses and all. It was funny trying to read cue cards (after the school's TelePrompter failed) in a deep, official voice while trying to keep my eyes in the same place (and then looking at it afterwards, because it was just like WHY SO SERIOUS JOANNE). My ( Read more... )

Happy St. Paddy's Day! And now, a picture that has nothing to do with Ireland:


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"To-morrow is Saint Valentine's Day,
All in the morning betime,
And I, a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine."
- Ophelia, "Hamlet"

On this page the members of Arashi share a few tips on becoming a possible girlfriend of Sho's. I've been crushing on Sho a bit lately, and somehow I found this whilst looking for "serious" news about him lol... ( Read more... )