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Absolutely love, because yes, AESTHETIC.
I was trying to explain my love for 90s vkei demo tapes and it ended up with conclusion that the main point of this love is nostalgic vibes. 

I'm talking either awful mixing because someone is a shit engineer or the kote kei kind where they deliberately make something sound like it's from the 90's when music production in VK was bare bones like La'veil MizeriA (might not count since Starwave record songs in an empty tunnel or something) or Crucifixion and the Matina label who did such a thing deliberately as it's a part of the aesthetic. I personally have times where I really like it and times when it's unlistenable compared to more well produced bands.

I'm talking either awful mixing because someone is a shit engineer or the kote kei kind where they deliberately make something sound like it's from the 90's when music production in VK was bare bones like La'veil MizeriA (might not count since Starwave record songs in an empty tunnel or something) or Crucifixion and the Matina label who did such a thing deliberately as it's a part of the aesthetic. I personally have times where I really like it and times when it's unlistenable compared to more well produced bands.

I only have my debit/credit card, and never go over my budget and keep my checking at a comfortable spot. I always make sure to have savings as well in case, which came in handy when we had a family emergency and I suddenly needed to fork over 800 dollars almost for housing. 

I only have rent and utilities to pay for right now, and I use transit so I don't drive so that helps a little bit with my saving. I know once I learn to drive and get my own car I'll have to rework it, but I don't see the need for 4 credit cards. 

I've got only one with near $5k limit. No problems with it, I always keep my debt in range of 0-300.

I have just one and I have zero debt because I prefer to buy things when I actually have the money for them so I only use it in emergencies and pay it off the next month or two.
As for the credit limit, I have no idea but I have never gotten remotely near it.

No credit cards. I like to see first hand how much money I'm spending. (here lately they are trying from above to push credit cards and similar non corporeal money, and I imagine that with time maybe they'll succeed, but us italian are culturally VERY attached to paper money)
 
The only card (issued by our postal service) I have is a rechargable one where you cannot go in debt because you can only use the money you have in it, and I use it only for internet purchases.

No credit card and no debt for me. I prefer to pay everything up front and have been lucky to not need to resort to a credit card so far. I'm not good with numbers and finance mumbo jumbo so it's better to keep it simple 😅

Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of England has tested positive. He's asymptomatic and self-isolating for the time being.

Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of England has tested positive. He's asymptomatic and self-isolating for the time being.

After AC disbandment Karma gets much less attention, and it's sad to see gaijins seeing nothing but nazi context of his new look instead of tweet something cheerful, as japanese fans always do...
 
 

Mv spot for a new song will be released tmrw

the boy slit his wrists live, i don’t think he’s really gonna give a shit if a couple of gaijin are using google translate to tell him his hat is Bad ™️

Everything's going to be just fine, a few gaijin on twitter won't mess things up, even if they were crazy enough to protest when they came to Europe or America for a show, but by the time they could do such a thing they'll have moved on to the next injustice. Why westerns expect Japanese, a country of homogeneity with a history of pretty much deleting history from their text books to be as woke as those with too much time on their hands or are using it in less efficient ways (that twitter energy could go to actually helping people in person.) never ceases to amaze me. Seriously, what will it take for you to learn that the Japanese are far different from the rest of the world. That being said, it sounds pretty good and it can only get better, they should cover SLTS for a B-Side now.

I think they'll find a bassist between now and September.

in a mystery school for a decade now. whenever I have met people in "witch" groups or whatever here it always odd to me how they bastardize things or just have a general "at face" /fashion view of the occult. 
 
For "witchcraft" in Japan or any actual mystery school/secret society of merit it is very hard to get any reliable information online, the most famous tibetan tied group that was first persecuted in the past and then hit harder times in it's evolved form during it's cooperation with nazi Germany is most likely still continuing in its former protection area with far right, yakuza top, government etc. 
But it is not like how things like Freemasonry can be easily researched if you actually truly want to learn. The stigma of Nazism also covers any reputable historian from covering the interactions outside of Japan. 
 
If you are looking into hermetic stuff that is the main thing to look into! Find THAT booK

Chapel Goedele in Osaka has been a pretty cool/common PV location. 

Few PVs that comes off my mind but there's so much more
 
 

If I remember correctly most (if not all) VK music videos filmed in church-like locations are actually establishments that you can rent for activities like filming or hosting various types of events. Similar to that big "European" castle seen in some MALICE MIZER and Psycho le Cému vids, iirc.

A lot of them aren't actually in Japan, from the top of my head the church/chapel in Dir en grey's Yurameki and Akuro no oka is somewhere in Europe.

I've always been interested in various forms of the occult, tho not from a 'practicing' standpoint, only reading up on it or watching movies with this theme. I recently started reading a book on the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, seems interesting so far, although a bit dry. I also got a killer book on the history of magical thinking / occult in Europe, but haven't checked it out yet.
 
Stuff connected to the Temple of the Black Light (kinda chaosophic/Satanistic/nihilistic mixture?) seems cool too from what I've checked, but it can all become a bit silly in its seriousness. Anyway, it can be intriguing to delve into when the mood strikes.

I guess I kinda count? I mostly dabble in mixes of different kinds of paganism, but mostly focus on Taoism and Hinduism, so I guess you could say I'm the Southeast Asian equivalent of a Witch lol.

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UK will start a lockdown for 3 weeks.