”女の子, 男の子!” *sexydancesexydance*
Holy crap, sloth around for a day and watch tons of Dog Whisperer and you will have Cesar dreams all night. ALL NIGHT. XD Ahahahha. My brain wins.
I was going to go to Kobe today to break up the monotony a little bit, but I slept so late this morning I can't justify the bus fare for only a few hours' fun. So I will let my poor hormonal body rest and enjoy being geeky instead.
So yeah, Japan sounds like cool stuff. It sometimes looks like cool stuff, too:
I forgot to post this earlier... this is my keitai. I wouldn't think this is terribly entertaining except that the one I got is from a special Pantone series done for Softbank... this will probably be interesting to design types and no one else, but I think it's so fitting that I have a Pantone phone. XD Naturally, I chose the obnoxiously bright matcha color. You can see Luna Jr. there looking up at you, too. ;_; And yes, I have Alucard wallpaper. I am still trying to work out how to make customized ringtones, but the twinkly ones that Japanese cell phones come with are SO CUTE compared to the boring American ones. Take note, Verizon.
Other cool things about Japan are things you can hear here (har har) that you don't elsewhere... I like sounds a lot, so I have been "collecting" them lately, especially on my way to or from school. I like hearing the gong of someone ringing their altar bell for morning prayers. I LOVE the "tengtengteng" sound that the railroad crossing gates make here. And while I used to wonder why crows and their noises were often showing up in Usagi Yojimbo (at least, compared to other birds), I do not wonder any more, because those birds are LOUD here. They're usually hanging out in the rice fields in front of my school and I could swear they're louder than crows at home.
And music...yeah, thanks to the interweb now being on in my apartment, I am now able to binge on music at will, and I have been prowling around for cool JRock that I have been missing out on and for some of the popular stuff that I like as well (of which there isn't an awful lot).
Since I got into Trinity Blood I have been poking at Buck-Tick music, and it seems not only are they nifty in ways I enjoy (gothy rock), but they've been around FOREVER compared to the rest of the music industry (since 86?). "Dress" is actually a 15-year-old song and the remix for Trinity Blood is from 2005. So while many people are saying "oh, Atsushi (the frontman) sounds like Gackt," it may well be the other way around. But I love them both... Gackt is still yummy. I love the samurai look he has in his more recent stuff; it's pretty sexy and relatively masculine for him. Oo; RETURNER Yami no Shuuen is highly, highly recommended.
I also like some of the stuff by コブクロ (Kobukuro; they use katakana for their name), whose "Tsubomi" single is HUGELY popular here right now. It's not a bad song; kind of grows on you. Their sound is more Jpop-ish than I usually go for, but they're pretty good.
And here is Buck-Tick's Speed video, which I have watched about 100 times now. It's pretty entertaining. Atsushi's hat makes him look like Alucard fronting his own band. XD The song rocks, and i'm cranky cuz I can't find an mp3 of it, although I might go buy some CDs if I get desperate (they're expensive here, y'know).
Click to view花になれ~~~~~. ..I love Atsushi's little maraca dance at the beginning. --;;