Hot damn, it looks like Dir en grey is going to supercede Lifehouse as the band I've seen the most times come November. Unless something unexpected happens I should be able to see them in Chicago and Milwaukee. Not looking forward to waiting around in the cold, but at least I know I'll have rad people to wait with ( Read more... )

I wish I had played some CLOSE at that Jrock fan meet-up. I bet at least one person would have asked if it was [old] Dir en grey. As it is, no one seemed to realize that they were listening to GLAY when I put SPEED POP on.

Of course, before even one song had finished playing they had usurped my boombox and were defiling it with Sadie.

Okay, so I actually bought it the weekend before last, but...

( ...Isn't it beautiful? )

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So apparently Die speaks limited conversational English. (Eyewitness report @ Visual Shock Therapy Forums.)

So FYE is as stupid as I thought. More so, actually. I still don't think language really enters into autograph sessions, but it's not even a valid reason for denying autographs at the meet and greets.

So the FYE people make you spend $20-$30 on a CD, but don't tell you that you can't have it signed. I mean, yay, I touched Kyo, but meeting him would have been worth more to me if I could have gotten an autograph ( Read more... )