Slinks back...

[solo]

So, this surfacing business didn't really work out as planned. I had omitted an impending flood of assignments from my calculations. Let me give it another try.

First of all, the -- I hope eagerly anticipated -- reveal: It was the politician.

Comments

[nakeisha]

Wow, the politician!?!?!? How interesting.

I had a quiet chuckle over Yami's new door (we recently did major moving arounds so Lace could have a chair in J's bedroom in order so she didn't have to sleep at ground level - and I mean 'major'). So I quite understand the things we do.

Good luck with getting her to go through it.

[solo]

Yeah, I was fascinated by the politician. Rather... unusual (fortunately, perhaps).

The door thing is turning into a veritable saga. I'll be so glad when it's finally done. :-/

She's already tried to go through it once! (While the flap was locked. *g*) She has a flap on her toilet, so she's used to the concept. But you have no idea how tempted I am to wave her in front of the flap. ;-)

[rheasilvia]

Yay! I knew it was the politician! How very cool. :-)

Yes, there are few politicians that would make a pretty statue... but I am certain that this one didn't actually look like this in life, either (except possibly for the conservative-but-trying-desperately-for-vaguely-unboring hair).

Aha! Look at this:
http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/Enlarged_Pic.asp?ImageID=450
http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/Enlarged_Pic.asp?ImageID=449

Not bad at all, as politicians go, but the physique of the statue is clearly - erm, shall we say, art. ;-)

no amount of waving your cat in front of the flap will have an effect.

LOL! At least, it won't have the effect of the cat flap learning the cat... but it might be amusing. ;-)

(Now I'm picturing a bunch of cat-waving customers...)

[solo]

I also think there aren't many who'd be happy to be immortalized like this. Such a boring bunch, they are...

[rheasilvia]

Hm, don't knwo about that... generally speaking, they do tend to be boring, yes, but they also tend to be vain as hell. Not everyone would go for the "naked" look, but in general?

Let's see. Oscar Lafontaine would be a candidate for the naked statue... hm, who else...

[solo]

The naked look was kind of what I meant. :-)

And yes, how could I forget about Lafontaine...!

[tiggymalvern]

Aha, it was the politician! Fabulous!

So who's the poor wretch grovelling on the floor by the inscription there, gazing up at him adoringly? One of the great unwashed beneficiaries?

[solo]

I guess it would have to be, yes. An unwashed, freshly washed due to his beneficience.

[becroberts]

So he thought clothes were tyrannical and oppressive, then? Does this mean Kame's some kind of revolutionary? God only knows he keeps finding opportunities to wriggle out of his shirts all the time...

Cat flaps have clearly come a long way from the old days. I had no idea they were so high-tech now!

I'm a bit iffy on A Page. I quite like the tune, though I could do without all the weird noises in between the words, but I really wish he'd stop throwing 'bitch' into all the songs. And I need to take him by the scruff of the neck and tell him to enunciate properly. But other than that, happy.

Heart Beat...yeah, like Kimi Michi it's very Arashi-like. I have no clue what Hey!Say!JUMP are up to these days as the poor kids still don't have an album all these years after their debut, so I can't really take them seriously. But hey, if Arashi can still make this music and it works for them, it can work for KAT-TUN, too. It's just that I prefer KAT-TUN doing rock, ballads and jazz... I kind of like the song, but it's not particularly

[solo]

... and his efforts have recently extended to his pants. Of course Jin looked like he had absolutely nothing to do with it.

I'm not that keen on the weird noises in between the words, either - and why do ALL their songs have to have that distortion stuff right now? It's like they only just discovered it exists and can't stop playing with it. But I adore the beat underneath the words and the way the whole percussion/bleepystuff/voice thing comes together and builds - there are bits in this that give me goosebumps, and that was before I'd even figured out the lyrics (and I'm totally with you on enunciation... what happened? He was much better than that in Love Juice and in Wonder).

I have to disagree on the bitch. I think that in this song, it really works, much better than in others where it's just a token 'cool word'. Here, it comes with anger, and that's just fine.

If you spam with official pics, your 'intentions' will be investigated by the thought police. Didn't you read the more recent additions?

[becroberts]

I haven't watched that clip yet, but I do have to wonder why Koki was looking. I mean, it's Koki, so perhaps not, but still...

Hopefully that's just a phase for this single and they'll go back to business as usual afterwards. Sometimes experimental is good, and sometimes it's just irritating. I have no answer for why Jin's English has suddenly gone downhill, but I'd really like to hear him speak it more - unscripted - to see what it's like now.

Oh, I agree it works a lot better in this song, but I don't care to hear it in songs at all, and Jin's English is so fluffy around the edges here that the anger is less effective than it could be. Seriously, I want half an hour with this boy to fix his speech. Thirty minutes, that's all I ask for.

Do you think they're taking their inspiration from the UK, what with people being prosecuted for their intentions and all?

[solo]

AFAIR, he just happened to look at Kame's crotch in passing, as somebody like Koki might. The other thing is, if he hadn't pointed it out, nobody would have noticed.

Thirty minutes with Jin... to fix his speech. Suuuuuuure. ;-)

I think they and the UK are getting their inspiration from the same dubious Place of Paranoia (get yer discount wibbles here! extra phobia free with every purchase!) -- The thing is, I can respect a stance which says 'no icons with more than one guy on them, ever, in this comm'. I may think it's annoying and I may decide not to post any comments there if they want to dictate to me what icons to use, but fair enough. It's their comm. This though... presuming to know that they can tell people's 'intentions' and presumably tell 'harmless' pairing icons from 'bad' pairing icons? Just... WTF!

[cuizy]

i can only comment on the kt portion of your entry

i personally like jin-ified hip hop a lot xD tho a-page reminds me a bit of kanye west's style on his last album..... autotune..... droning on.....etc.....lol

and tsuyaka.....ahahaha they're funny

[solo]

This is totally off-topic but I keep meaning to ask you this, and right now I'm finally remembering while I'm talking to you: is your icon from TattaKoi?

I don't know Kayne West, I'm afraid. (I don't know much at all...)

[cuizy]

yeah..... i took it from a desktop someone made. I'm not sure which scene they screen-capped it from tho

ah it's fine not knowing kanye