You all knew INAZUMA ROCK was on TV today, right?

Well I certainly did. And I was looking forward to it but then... it turned out it was on a channel I didn't get D8

BUT THEN
I did some digging and it just happens there is a 16-day trial thing I could order to get all these satelite channels free for a bit.
So I did that and now I am watching Inazuma!

Mostly.

Obviously I'm mostly interested in seeing some acts I missed before (like a.b.s.)
But they are playing the entire thing on TV so I've been checking out the other channels while I wait.

So far:
- heaps of movie channels (I can't find the language change button! They're all dubbed in Japanese.)
- the Takarazuka channel
- More versions of NHK (that makes like 6?)
- WOWOW
- lots of music-only channels
- a channel playing HEROES dubbed in Japanese (weird because I happened on a scene that should have been in Engrish)

And it's all free because I don't intend to subscribe after the 16 days!
Watch forget all that stuff is there as soon as I turn the TV after Inazuma XD


EDIT:

Aw damn! They didn't actually air -everything-.
They didn't show tetsu and Taka's song together D8
It was so GHEI they should have showed it!!! T,T

Oh well.

They did show the Sanma part XD

Today I wrote the KanKen, that Kanji test I have cramming for the past months while.

It went pretty well!
Not perfect, but quite well.

I was kind of surprised to see how diverse the crowd was.
As I expected there were a lot of high school kids (the level I'm doing is good for that age) but also a lot of much much older people (like gray-haired old ladies) and some really young kids too.

I was the only visible bird, and got some special looks when I walked in with the pink and the feathers and the pink feathers. :D

The results should come within a month. Now I can stop studying!!! (for a little while)

I love my DSi.
(Yes it IS the special edition gyakuten kenji one with the Blue Badger on it. 8D)


I also &heart; my pokewalker. I walk a lot, and now I can level up my monz while I do it!
Sweet! 8D

More importantly, and much more geekfully, I am studying for yet -another- test.
This time, it's the KanKen (漢字検定), Level 3.

This is the sort of thing you do when you pass JLPT 1 and think to yourself
"Now that was just not enough studying."


Luckily, I am A GEEK and thanks to this fact I have learned a lot of kanjis through games, of all things 8D

I wonder, if I post a bunch of kanji in groups, will anyone be able to guess what the game was?

( Kanji by Fandom )

Indulge me and guess 8DDD
Prizes are feathers. And maybe pecks. Or something.

...to be a Fruity Bassist.


Today tetsu is 40 years old! That means -all of L'Arc- are now officially old un-young.

Celebrate the day by eating a banana, shopping for shiny things, and PAINT OVER EVERYTHING WITH PINK.

Here's some awesomeness that you might not have seen. Sweet Sweet Banana <33





*raises pink glass of banana juice*
Here's to 40 more years of fruit.

I GET!

I GET A LOT!!
A lot of -stuff- even.

First and most visible, I GET new LJ layout, thanks to asuka_tsuzuki.
You were so quick to answer my request, I'm so grateful :3


Second:

( THE OBSESION NEVER ENDZ )

Come and Geek with me.

UPDATE: Thank you Asuka!!

8D;

As you may have noticed, my LJ layout exploded, apparently because the photobucket account of the person who made it for me died.

Since I have had this layout for years (not even gonna think about how many...)
maybe somebody could make me a ... new one? 8D

PLZ?

I know i have lots of awesome people reading this sooo

Who wants to give a bird a birdful new layout?!

Whoever fulfills this request will get love and feathers :3

I realize only like, one person reading this cares, but I have to say it loud anyway -


HETALIA AXIS POWERS MOVIE

is being made right now and set to be released sometime in 2010.


KESESESSESESESESESESE.
*flaps around the laughing sexy dude*

Yesterday I went off to the edges of Lake Biwa, the only thing in Shiga, to attend INAZUMA ROCK FEST 2009 and thereby watch my second tetsu live of the year.

( Prrouful details follow )

If/When they announce this for next year, I hope more of us will show up!!

Weirdest Pokemon Ep Ever.

Evil! Togepi?
Team Rocket's... Rocket?
Random Evangelion jokes?

In.. POKEMON.


That was fucking crack.


So yeah, the whole thing was a shaggy dog story where the heroes spent the whole ep in a Team Rocket base, only for an Evil! Togepi to hijack the whole thing, revealing that it is really a giant pink rocket. It Charms Pikachu, Meowth, Piplup and that kancho-ing froggy thing, launches the rocket into space, and then Kojiro takes control in Gendo Ikari mode.

In the end Rayquaza smacks the rocket and they all get blown up, heroes and Rockets alike.

I haven't lolled so hard in ages.

PokeCrack 4 Evar.

I just got home from Chiba, where I attended JACK IN THE BOX SUMMER 2009, held for the first time ever in Makuhari Messe.

This long post is a live report with details heavily slanted toward the obviously more interesting bits. I'll let you guess what those are from the list of artists 8D

In order:

Zoro
Girugamesh
cali≠gari
MUCC
Kinniku Shojotai
acid android
Kiyoharu
Karasu
Ken
BREAKERZ

(Intermission)

tetsu
DEAD END
Sid
VAMPS
44MAGNUM
MAVERICK DC SUPER ALL STARS


Bias? What Bias?! 8D
Sadly there were no surprise guests or sessions this time, but it was still an epic awesome show.

( JAAAAAAAAAAACK )


Executive Summary: It was epic, but the lack of surprises and sessions made it a little... underwhelming. Luckily, there will be a regular xmas JACK, at Budokan, this December, so all is right with the world, yez?

Oh and there's going to be a 2-hour televised version in a few months. Look forward to it~

The UK is taking over Oricon!
Seriously! http://www.oricon.co.jp/

Number 2 on the daily chart?! That's just bloody brilliant.



Yeah, I bought a copy on the day it came out. 8D

I failed at posting and put a gocha ep here instead of on the comm where it belongs. This post is just staying for the comments ^^

Gocha post: Here

MOAR UPDATE -

This time a new song!

Darkness in the Heart has a nice long sample. This one is a darker, more moody sort of song.
Please take the time to listen ^-^
----

The band myspace has a better version of Brand New Day up for sampling!

You know you want to hear it. http://www.myspace.com/luminescenteye

(Just to warn you, it autoplays.)

It's time for more PROMOTIONS!!

Remember LUMINESCENT EYE?
Of course you do.

The band now has a MySpace! Barely.

It just got built, somewhat out of the blue, but I can promise that there WILL be music samples uploaded to it sometime -soon-

What we want right now is Friends, on the myspace of course, so that when songs and news goes up there will actually be people around to notice 8o

Now I know at least some of you have been on MySpace since a little before the Paris live, for reasons concerning a vampire smurf, yes?

Won't you consider adding a less eye-bleeding band to your list? :3

Please spam around and get your friends to add the band too.
Feathers for everyone who does!

I saw the Ken! He is sexy! And METAL!

Now I'm sore, but damn it was worth it.


I went to both Namba Hatch lives, but I remember the second day more. Like it was yesterday. Mostly because... it was yesterday 8D
So, this report is mostly about the 19th.

More importantly, on Friday's live, I had ticket number 12. That's right, two digits. 1-2. TWELVE. !!!!
Best ticket luck I've ever had, and it wasn't even an auction. @.@


( FRONT ROW IN PHYSICAL!  )

( Goods! )

Just got home from the first Ken live at Namba Hatch.

It was awesome! He really practiced hard. His stage presence is immensely better than it was at JITB las Xmas, for one.
Dancing, smiling, sweaty, Ken. Yes.


Too tired to report, so I'll maybe do it after the 2nd live, tomorrow night :3

6/9 has come again.

Happy Mukimpo Day to all~

I celebrated with a chocobanana parfait and then a chocolate cake with bananas. <3



In other not-news, it's been a year since the final of L'7.
So much has happened since then it feels like longer. Mostly because of the people I met for and because of that tour.

I'll still be here when you get your butts back here in 2011. :3

Just finished watching.

T.T 8D ^.^ o//o

Thanks for the memories.


(And yeah, I'm on this one too)

Or, What the Bird has been up to the last two months.

Long story short, just go here : http://luminescent-eye.com/index.html
(English site doesn't have much yet but the Japanese version is mostly in English anyway so don't worry about that)


( Long Story Long, Read On )

Now go on the site and check them out for yourself!
Be sure to check out the music demo! And tell me what you think! It will get passed on 8D

If anybody knows a good (read: active) j-indies comm where I could do some PR, please let me know!

(cross-spammed wherever I feel like it)

May 8, 2008, was an epic day of awesomeness (and pain) that has actually already been documented but still needs to be commemorated.

That is why I will be having a parfait at the one and only Cafe L'Arc-en-Ciel (note the -, it's supposed to be the cafe that inspired tetsu) with My Bunneh, and we will reminisce.

L'7 Paris Live - A day of Win

*Feathers to all who I met there, however briefly*