Total Saikou

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Indeed! I'm assuming it will be similar in sound to Date You or COTD given how the songs he composes in Plastic Tree sound. Though I wonder if he's gonna lean more to the shoegaze side or flirt with a more metal sound with this project... Or maybe he'll show off his passion for PC/Denko stuff! I kind of hope he keeps it diverse, I think that's one of his strengths as a musician.

Good news, Kurage! Plastic Tree's longtime guitarist will begin his first ever solo work under the name AKIRA NAKAYAMA (all caps, Romaji). Took him long enough, huh? He will officially launch activities with a debut live called "Jester : Fractured after chasing a sheep" on January 16th of 2021 (his birthday!) More details can be found here: Plastic Tree official website statement Vif statement His socials: AKIRA NAKAYAMA Staff Twitter Akira's Twitter

Yay, thank you so much for getting a new trade-off poll ready for us Christmas themed VK songs are probably my favourite weird VK niche, I've got a few bangers up my sleeve that I'd love to sprinkle into a mixtape! Though I'm torn between Christmas and the cold theme, I also like the idea of songs that could either bring to mind the idea of having fun in the snow or freezing in the cold. I could end the mix with songs that imply warming up, or dying from the cold... It allows for so much...! Well, I'm excited to see what everyone else thinks either way

So that's why Kyopoggers got replaced

Adding this on the "reasons to keeping living" list, thanks homie 👍

I honestly don't get the hate, it's pretty bangin' imo

CULLUCOO VISION (and its PV) always cheered me up when I'm feeling down. It reminds me that I gotta stay strong for the end of the semester and for Christmas!!!

I guess it's a rumour but I always heard from other people that it's because he was treated unfairly by the rest of the band (as they said, "bullied/picked on") and eventually he got sick of it and left. I remember seeing this subbed interview where they made fun Bou's looks and he laughed in this sort of resigned manner, I should've watched more but that one sealed this rumour as real to me. That being said, the idea that he left music because he was sick of it could be true. I imagine that it might be like a cross-roads situation, wherein Bou was sick of dealing with the rest of the band and left because he didn't like the band life itself. The attention, the huge crowds, etc. I champion shyness as the #1 reason why Klaha exited stage left and never came back, and I feel like that may be the same for Bou too.

People have too much time on their hands, good Christ

Me and the three other people who still listen to Ryu's OROCHI weep silently

I wanted to talk about this as a reverse take from the CD sorting topic, so I figured it's better to necro than repost. I keep my small/medium-ish CD collection within two separate boxes, one up high on my bookshelf and the other on my floor (because my shelf is out of room for it). Originally, when I was getting into VK around 15, I kept my CDs in this emptied, old Christmas chocolates tin. I only had about like 10 CDs total because I didn't have a job yet and therefore no disposable income. All my VK CDs were gifts from my parents or western ones I bought at the record shop for cheap. After I saved up enough money from my job I began buying some because the collector love had been planted in me. After fleshing out my faves selection and my MM collection, that old tin was dangerously overflowing. The CDs even tipped over and hit me on the head one time (My only Rouage CD nearly took my fucking eye out) which made me realize that I had to upgrade. I noticed a nice, big soft box at my work for sale a few days prior so I decided to go with that one. What an upgrade that was, if CDs could talk I bet they'd thank me for taking them out of that cold old tin and into the cozy soft box. My collection grew slowly until quarantine this year, wherein quarantine spending made my collection triple and get too big for the box. So I bought another, less softer one that was smaller, yet managed to fit more CDs in it, somehow. To point where I could just put all my normal CDs in the small box and all my other VK stuff (books) and awkward shaped CDs (collector boxes, 8cms) into the big one. TL;DR: I put my CDs in a small box on my bookshelf, and my books/collector boxes/8cm singles into a bigger box on the floor. The small box has officially been filled up, and I've transferred the end line of my collection (for clarification, the "end line" of my collection is as designated by my current sorting status, which can shift from being my western CDs, my Kanji artist-name CDs, etc.) into the big box but I wonder what will happen when I manage to fill it up too... I guess it's another box for me! Though I am thinking about investing in a CD rack at this rate.

I'm going to try a new sorting format I just thought of for my collection, I will write it here so I don't forget about it later. By release format: Single -> Maxi-single -> EP -> Mini-album -> Original full length studio album -> Best album/Compilations -> Misc. (Gonna throw my Collector Box and 8cms in a separate box, fitting them in with the rest is such a hassle). Order within each category shall be done by artist name, purely phonetically.

My new cover image happens to be my desktop background! It's nice to see two of my favourite musicians and greatest inspirations together like this Way more cooler than a sunset background or anything like that, I'd say 😛

Well, enough people call me Saikou these days that I actually respond to it, so this would be my VK/band nickname, I think! I'd spell it like サイコー to keep the punny ambiguity between 最高 (best, greatest) and サイコ (psycho, psychopath).

I just found out today about Lovecraft's cat's name today and... That's all I'm gonna say

My favourite phrase is "Why am I still here?". I often say "Did I forget (something) last night?", "Fuck", "Why does my (body part) hurt?" or "Yeah, I'm fine" as well.

That went from R-Shitei to real-shitty in just a few seconds. Ngl though, I kind of felt it when Mamo said "Water closet now" 🙌😩💞

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After reading the message, this doesn't appear to be a threat of disband for a ransom of X amount of Yen, it looks more like them testing the waters under this COVID thing. Some people read this as self-aggrandizing but it looks more like telltale hairline fractures in the band's congruency to me. I don't want to be that guy, but you really can't call this a conditional disband. They never actually threaten doing anything or having any specific goal, it's just "Let's see what happens if we get on stage again". I hope that what happens is Lime realizing that live streaming is the way to go though 🙄

It's supposed to be lol ecksdee funny to make fun of a taboo topic (specifically mental health as it's been painfully taboo in western society for a long time now. Even saying the word "therapist" makes boomers instantly recoil in terror as they fear that you are a deranged psychopath or something. However, many mental illness are somewhat common and need treatment such as clinical depression) but tbh a lot of these millennials fail to stick the landing with these jokes. In fact, a lot of them just make this shit up for the meme (usually a garden variety basic white bitch who thinks that she has PTSD from the Starbucks barista writing her name wrong). Ngl Scott nailed that joke though. That being said, I've always found it strange how being yourself is never present on any E-dating sites, other than Christian Mingle and sometimes OK Cupid. It's always some silly, over-the-top joke they stole from Reddit. If anything, these attempts at being "unique" and "quirky" just make them as monotonous as everybody else.