So I am lame about forgetting my camera when I go to photogenic places -- hence no pictures from the harrowing field trip to the American Shakespeare Center in Virginia. I also forgot my camera last weekend when my college friend who lives two hours away expressed an urge to visit the "Open Barn" event at a llama farm outside her town ( Read more... )

I don’t actually have any free time anymore, it seems, but it’s really hard to convince myself that I am not allowed to do anything other than go to work and go to sleep (for a considerably shorter period than I work). So I let myself watch a couple of SP promos recently. And what do you know, it’s Okada’s birthday, so I’m taking the opportunity ( Read more... )

I’ve been lurking shamefully, and I have no real excuse other than the tons of stuff I am supposed to be doing before moving. Which I’m not particularly doing, so I look forward to being bitten by my procrastination in the near future. But I will emerge from lurkhood this evening for a little birthday salute, because it’s Nino, and I enjoy the ( Read more... )

I love it when I arrive home in the evening, look at LiveJournal, and find the new Shukudai waiting for me. I always have a moment of, ‘Oh! It’s Monday!’ - which makes no sense when I’ve just spent all day doing Monday things. Still, the surprise is nice, maybe even better than actually looking forward to it.

But today is not just any Monday! ( Read more... )

Because I really can’t control myself. I have no time for this. I meant to just grab a few caps from a concert and a couple of variety shows. And yet my exasperating fondness for this boy led me down the primrose path of ignoring all my work in favor of watching way too many old Arashi shows, and this is the monstrous result. Besides the ( Read more... )

... including one of his bandmates.

Arashi + food may be the ultimate OTP, but Arashi + animals runs a close second. In honor of flange5 ’s birthday, I dug into the archive of grainy D no Arashi footage for one of the few episodes of that program that takes all five of the guys outside the studio together. D no Arashi #38: Arashi goes to the zoo!


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And I am guilty of a lame play on words.

The ‘Guilty’ PV is in black-and-white. They’re wearing sharp suits. They dance. No one has stupid hair. There’s a giant ‘V6’ logo floating in the background. Okay, I kind of don’t get that last one. But all in all, I can get behind this PV.


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Following links on a wayward path led me to some of the weirdest variety TV I’ve seen yet: an episode of Gaki no Tsukai from 2002, which I guess is/was a variety show hosted by the comedy duo Downtown. Thanks to Hey Hey Hey and Arashi and V6 variety shows, I’ve gotten so I recognized most of the players here, and the initial premise was also ( Read more... )

Okay, so Arashi often wear strange outfits. And so do a lot of the other celebrities making promotional appearances. It's a hazard of the job, I guess, having to don 'fashion' in the name of spectacle ( Read more... )

Why have I had to eject five fireflies from my living room this evening? I really didn't think the drafts were that big. Where are they coming from? Well, at least my area has them -- I learned that there are no fireflies in the San Francisco area. Sad.

( Why is the vealcake tag getting so much action? )