Seimeisen

Whenever Miss Ro'ger who-needs-to-change-her-name spoke, I hit the mute button. She lost me at her little "let's not read this waste of mirror space" nonsense. She was not being clever-bitchy, she was being a cunt. And "needing to give it 200% now that you're in the Top Nine?" That's the most bullshit thing I've ever heard in the history of the show!
 
Yvie's looks in both mini and maxi challenge were my favourite. Everyone else (except Plastique) was kinda bleh
RuPaul: "This is your new home. I'm your new mommy who you're not allowed to make eye contact with, or speak to unless spoken to"
PRAISE ME, RO'GER IS GONE!! I'm as happy as Phi Phi was when Willam was kicked off in S4
 
As for Untucked, the only queen who had my undivided attention was Brooke Lynn; voicing the world's confusion RE: Plastique vs. Ro'ger, hiding underneath couch cushions after another confusing fight breaks out, "can't we just bottle our feelings like normal people?" During the main episode, I was living for Yvie, but seeing her get mad at everyone in Untucked was just annoying! Especially that fight with Vanessa, wtf was that about? I can only roll my eyes so much.

Whenever Miss Ro'ger who-needs-to-change-her-name spoke, I hit the mute button. She lost me at her little "let's not read this waste of mirror space" nonsense. She was not being clever-bitchy, she was being a cunt. And "needing to give it 200% now that you're in the Top Nine?" That's the most bullshit thing I've ever heard in the history of the show!
 
Yvie's looks in both mini and maxi challenge were my favourite. Everyone else (except Plastique) was kinda bleh
RuPaul: "This is your new home. I'm your new mommy who you're not allowed to make eye contact with, or speak to unless spoken to"
PRAISE ME, RO'GER IS GONE!! I'm as happy as Phi Phi was when Willam was kicked off in S4
 
As for Untucked, the only queen who had my undivided attention was Brooke Lynn; voicing the world's confusion RE: Plastique vs. Ro'ger, hiding underneath couch cushions after another confusing fight breaks out, "can't we just bottle our feelings like normal people?" During the main episode, I was living for Yvie, but seeing her get mad at everyone in Untucked was just annoying! Especially that fight with Vanessa, wtf was that about? I can only roll my eyes so much.

Listened to every full-length album/mini-album from the GazettE over the course of the last week since I hadn't done so in a very long time (really never gave a lot of their full-lengths the proper time of day until DOGMA). 
 
I'm having trouble ranking them in my head, but I do like NINTH much more this time around than when it first came out. DOGMA is still my favorite and overall their most consistent effort. MADARA is the best of their pre-"the GazettE" material and one of their best releases overall, really did a great job of capturing multiple genres in a tightly wrapped package.
 
Disorder, NIL, Stacked Rubbish, and DIM had some really standout tracks (the first two being interesting to me as they feel very transitional sound-wise from "ガゼット" to "the GazettE" - I do think there is a bit of a stylistic difference between the two, even if only because of time and growth). Toxic feels the least memorable to me immediately. Division and Beautiful Deformity both surprised me as I felt they ended up being better than expected as a whole. 
 
Whoever said a few posts up that they're consistent in terms of sound, but maybe not songwriting, kinda hit the nail on the head. None of their albums are bad in my opinion, but it's also a bit difficult in immediate succession to judge the strongest output since many of the songs run together and feel similar to one another.
 
DOGMA and NINTH are definitely a cut above the rest, though.
 
Overall I think they're at their strongest when they work in extremes - their REALLY aggressive tracks and their more reserved, ballad-style tracks are their most memorable and the ones I'm most likely to go back to. The stuff that sits in the more nu-metal/alt-rock range isn't bad (and is certainly better than most western bands floating in those genres), it just runs together a bit more than the rest.
 
/end long post 😅

I was just starting to like Scarlet, and now they send her home? And after that lip-sync? Ro'ger should have gone home, I'm just not interested in her anymore, like gtfo already! She's probably fucking a producer if she's gotten this far after being in the bottom so many times and not delivering in the lip-sync.

Scarlet's elimination is a travesty. She slayed Ra'jah in the lipsync, Ra'jah was in the bottom 3 times (and hasn't done anything noteworthy otherwise), and Scarlet was a consistently improving queen from day one (with a win under her belt). Don't know how they even justify that. 
 
I think they're pushing a Ra'jah as villain narrative in the production side or something and will try and find some way to bring Scarlet back from a storyline angle or something. Just seemed off.

I was just starting to like Scarlet, and now they send her home? And after that lip-sync? Ro'ger should have gone home, I'm just not interested in her anymore, like gtfo already! She's probably fucking a producer if she's gotten this far after being in the bottom so many times and not delivering in the lip-sync.

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It's because they were
 

I honestly am able to live my life like I don't know who Frankie is and I'm pretty blessed

it's not like they didn't have Ty**r and Fr**kie Gr*n*e already in the same episode last year...

I don't understand why they keep pushing this narrative that Brooke Lynn Hytes is hot?

not sure if i'm 100% here for the drunk cat rapping but i'm here for the rest of it

KISAKI PROJECT will restart activities with new vocalist ENDIGO (ex-Still Echo --> Overworld --> BaTAAr) as of April 1! Their first single, "And the rest is rust and stardust... " will be released sometime in September, and their first live will be around the same month.
 
"And the rest is rust and stardust" cover art:

 

 

TRAGEDY OF AVALON is a good, solid track, nothing cringe-y, nothing trashy, just a good extreme metal track.
 
I wish I could say the rest about this mini, but the rest is, well... SHET (ba-dum *tss*). The music videos for COLLAPSE and COCYTUS are so fucking terrible, the songs themselves have been rendered unlistenable. To be fair though, COLLAPSE would be much better if instead of those horrible vocals they'd just stick with your average typical black metal screeches. I'm convinced that COLLAPSE has no lyrics and the vocal track is just a microphone test (what the fuckity-fuck was he doing at 1:24? LMAO). Whoever directed those videos should be legally prohibited from owning any type of camera. CALL MY NAME was decent until the chorus. REVELATION started off bland and got worse in the middle with the fucking annoying pig squeal.
 
Whenever I hear the pig squeals or gurgling, I wanna shove an ice pick in my brain

TRAGEDY OF AVALON is a good, solid track, nothing cringe-y, nothing trashy, just a good extreme metal track.
 
I wish I could say the rest about this mini, but the rest is, well... SHET (ba-dum *tss*). The music videos for COLLAPSE and COCYTUS are so fucking terrible, the songs themselves have been rendered unlistenable. To be fair though, COLLAPSE would be much better if instead of those horrible vocals they'd just stick with your average typical black metal screeches. I'm convinced that COLLAPSE has no lyrics and the vocal track is just a microphone test (what the fuckity-fuck was he doing at 1:24? LMAO). Whoever directed those videos should be legally prohibited from owning any type of camera. CALL MY NAME was decent until the chorus. REVELATION started off bland and got worse in the middle with the fucking annoying pig squeal.
 
Whenever I hear the pig squeals or gurgling, I wanna shove an ice pick in my brain

Here's what I can remember about this week:
Joel McHale looks good for a 50 year-old Joel McHale annoying Michelle was great It was weird to see a straight man be a guest judge on the show, going from "oMg yAasss GUuUUurL slEIGh" to "WHOOOO, YEAH," I kinda hoped that appearing on the show would have "gayed" him up a little~ I didn't immediately recognise Tiffany Pollard That dance instructor was a limp-wristed cunt lol I haven't mocked a 'gay voice' so much since 2012 For the second time, Ro'ger should have gone home Nina's college horror story omg (it was Nina, right? There's still too many people to keep track of) It's recently come to my attention that Vanessa Vanjie Mateo has been using chest glitter on every runway look I forgot what the preview showed for next week, nothing to look forward to I guess Can we please bring back double eliminations? Or maybe some idiot at WOW Presents can leak the Snatch Game episode?

They are in a dire need of a hiatus, for a year, at least, because this is getting worse and worse. The new Youtuber bullshit is just a cherry on top of all that trashpile. It feels like BPR wants to milk out every last yen, 'til Mahiro actually goes blind.

I saw Dir en grey in Portland in 2008.  I was so stoked to finally see them and they were my favorite band at the time.  The show was really mediocre though. Aside from the crowd being filled with a lot of hardcore weeb girls, the band themselves just didn’t seem that into it.  After the show, Shinya and Toshiya were signing and bc of where I had been standing, I miraculously ended up being first in line.  At the time, I’d never had a CD signed before aside from handouts at local shows in my hometown that came in paper cases and I didn’t realize that I had to unwrap the CD before they’d sign it.  The bouncer told me to go to the back of the line, so I very quickly scrambled to open the wrap.  I managed to do it p fast, and Toshiya was laughing a little bit.  Idk if he thought it was funny or if I was an idiot.  Shin ya didn’t seem at all interested in anything.  I tried to thank him for signing the CD, but he just looked away and snubbed me.  After that, I kinda stopped liking Diru.  It felt like the magic was gone.  Tbh I’ll listen to their new music, but I always feel like I’m just not into it now.

I don't give a shit about X Japan. I've never listened to them and I have no desire to start.

I want ryohei instead of yumehito

I've given ANGELS a few listens and it is spectacular! My favourites are BAD DREAM, DOWN TO HEAVEN, and Close to me (although the chorus sounds like Kobayashi's singing "colostomy, colostomy" which is weird). My least favourite is Everything, as I expected, but it's still a decent song.
 
The truth fact is this:
Hallelujah < Rhapsody in beauty = Elegance = ANGELS < zeitgeist
 
Hallelujah wasn't a bad album by any means, I'm just almost never in the mood for it. The album's saving grace was 黒い虹. Still though, zeitgeist is still their best album to date. Rhapsody was also great, but the one thing standing in its way of perfection was the last track.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/674125306/gba-game-boy-advance-256-gb-retropie
 
so apparently selling bootleg nintendo consoles (bundled with pirated games) on etsy is totally fine
 

Team Brinty was great, I thought Vanessa should have won, she was more entertaining than Nina. When I saw that an entire team had to lip-sync, I was hoping more than one queen would be eliminated so we'd get to Snatch Game quicker. The gospel bit in Team Maria was breathtakingly terrible. Scarlet Envy's existence was less obnoxious than last week. I would have sent home Rah'jah (or however you spell it) instead of Honey.
 
Wow, untucked is fucking awful why am I watching this, it's just Yvie vs Silky ""drama"" and it's desperate filler
 
Also, Vanjie x Brooke? I mean, Brooke? Really? ...... That's not a pairing that I ship.
 
I'm looking forward to next week's episode, to see Joel McHale on the judges panel and the possibility of Ariel going home (could just be a promo fake-out, though). I hope Shuga Cain steps his game up, but I think I only say that because he's the cute one; whenever he appears in the challenges I don't even notice.