ah! good question! i had a vague idea of vk for a long while, being internet-addled and loving a lot of other japanese music, but never really explored it until like... a few years ago when me and my friend ryan* were killing time in 11th grade physics and we'd just talk about whatever, and i'd go through his ipod and see a lot of nightmare, baroque, royz and the like. was immediately attracted to baroque and it went downhill from there haha. first few bands i loved were baroque, dog in the pwo, aicle and yeti, tokyo michael, and i stayed kinda at that place for a bit, plus a few other bands before becoming a full-on frickin' nerd early-mid last year. think honestly as i've gotten older i've only become more a gigantic weeb. it's whatever, lol. i think i just like... love a lot of shit? and also am totally willing to be at least knee-deep in all those things or something
*(hi ryan! he's been on here longer than i have, though he doesn't post much, it seems.)
also yessss.. i love arthur russell so much. he means so much to me