As you already know (and if not, will find out soon enough) Megaupload and Megavideo were taken down, and probably for good. You can read the details here on BBC NEWS' page. The article mentions American regulation documents Sopa and Pipa, but apparently Europe ain't any better - we are about to enter the so called ACTA, and Poland is supposed to ( Read more... )

In case this post managed to gain any actual attention from anyone: this is my personal point of view. It is sarcastic at times, realistic for most part, and rather far from fangirling ( Read more... )

Harakami Rei is gone. It happened on 27th, around 7pm.
First bice, then Nujabes, now him... somehow, sickness takes an awful lot of great musicians lately... I hope he passed away happy, but... what else can I say than "rest in peace and fly away"?

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Creating this amazing music live.

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Recording magic pieces like this one.

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And gracing us with ( Read more... )

Life without TV has it's ups and downs. One of the down sides is that you don't get the news unless you actively search for them. Today was the day that I just happened to need something about bice, and this is what I found out:

bice's official pageFor those of you who don't understand Japanese and haven't heard the news when it was actually news ( Read more... )

First, Se7en. Woke up and made a PV.

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Honestly, it's not that bad, he's had it worse on occasion. But still, it looks like he just got out of bed, and this is a friendly interpretation. oj Stefan, Stefan...

Then, Wheesung. Anne of Green Gables meets Digimon hunter?

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"Dear future-not-husband of mine, who did this to you?" I cried out loud when I ( Read more... )

I'm gonna do some music talk, after all it's been awhile since I did so for the last time (and I'm not referring to johnny's-related babbling ;) ). However, it's not only music in itself. Actually I hope you guys will tell me how does it look in your countries, do you maybe have similar thoughts. Under the cut not to trash your friendlist, but I'd ( Read more... )

...that is today. It's both Jin's and Gackt's birthday which means it should be finally recognized as International Pervert's Day. And no matter what I think of Gackt's current job, or what has become of Bakanishi lately, I'm still gonna celebrate ( Read more... )

Remember that Akanishi fanvideo to Beyonce's song "Naughty girl"? The one that makes less accustomed people blush nervously ( Read more... )

While looking for several versions of a jazz standard for tonight's jam session I ended up not going to, I stumbled upon a few other nice (actually nicer) things and ended up downloading some western music ( Read more... )

  After NEWS came back this year with a new single, fully-developed princess Yuya and a concert tour, we were all excited about one of our favourite bouncy, poppy, kitsch but still lovely Johnny's group performing yet again together. Even if some of us felt somewhat bitter about Kusano and Uchi not being there anymore (I must say it wasn't that ( Read more... )