Peace Heavy mk II

I can now send Mana that picture I drew of him directly. This is my moment!

Maybe I'm actually less of a self-entitled cunt than I let on

http://psychcentral.com/quizzes/narcissistic.htm One of those silly psych tests. A score of 12~15 is average, 20 is what celebrities tend to score, more than that and you're full of yourself etc. I got 6, so.

I dug this single. The opening track gave me some late caligari vibes, mixed with the influences they had on their song "雨上がりの憂鬱." I really wouldn't refer to this as a ballad, however, but it is a slower and more melancholic song than their discography typically holds.「君ノ存在理論」 has pretty strong structure as well--each passage flows well into the next with enough variety that it never gets boring, yet remains cohesive. Granted, this should be a fundamental aspect of song writing, but a lot of vkei bands have that as their Achilles's heel. What's always fascinated me about this band is that they like to use multiple personalities in their song writing, often having lyrics using different forms of "I" in Japanese to refer to a different person throughout the same song. What 「君ノ存在理論」 solidifies for me is that they are also able to extend that idea into the kinds of songs they write as well--not everything can be about demons eating fetuses or how tasty brains are, so this stroll in the rain is most definitely welcome. 「生ト死」 itself is a piano melody that repeats again and again with mumbling and a very pronounced drum pattern on top of it. It's hard to make out the words he's saying, but he's definitely mumbling "早く...死んでください (shinde kudasai)", or "hurry...please die," for one of the more audible phrases. Which of course leads up into the crazier song. 「僕ノ自殺理論」 is akin to "脳内妄想薔薇薔薇DOLL," but replace "BURST!" with "I. WanT. To. DiE". I really like the rapid chugging at the beginning of the song, as well as the really warped descending scales that happen in the lead guitar throughout the first verse. Like the first song, 「僕ノ自殺理論」 excels in having great structure. My only qualm is that I wish the break down around 1:40 was a little shorter as I don't particularly care for them. Here they also bring back the manic laughter and a bit of kyopera to accent the craziness that's already going on. In a sense, this is kind of a throw back to their first album for me--had they not made Oni to Kage a tribute album, I suppose this is what they would have sounded like. All in all--strong single. What worked well is that both songs are solid and very distinct--their second album really suffered from a lack of diversity, so even though most of it was good, I had trouble picking out a track that really stood out (aside from "雨上がりの憂鬱," which literally came out of no where). I suppose I'm a bit spoiled because I'm disappointed that it so short. However, since they have a mini coming up in October, I cannot help but feel like had these song been included they wouldn't have stood out as much. So, based on the official MH rating scale, I give this a

Has anyone even mentioned a good thing yet? Shumai are awesome.

all the people who are complaining about the serum being developed only because white people got it tho

They haven't played Raison D'etre since 2003? Dark times...

Ask him if he liked 50 shades of grey

I suppose you can't get more dystopia than late 90's kuroyume-core with breakdownz. Props to them for going from ripping off 10 year old Luna Sea ideas to 10 year old GazettE ones.

qt homage to マグロ at the beginning

A visual-kei artist releasing legitimate gender queer / agender artwork--amazing.

can't wait to give preliminary hate :-*

gross

Normal vehicles often end up smashed to pieces there: delighted he was fine.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/04/health/experimental-ebola-serum/index.html This seems to be a bit more promising.

From what I read, only one strand is super fatal with the "as much as 90% fatality rate" and most of the cases that have been fatal were due to being in highly undeveloped areas with extremely limited medical expertise. With that being said, the only "cure" for it right now is to be hydrated and on a liquid diet until you get better (or die).

freaking out tbh

This is more upsetting than when Inartistic found the stock footage site that UCP used for all of their album art.

ahhhahahaha

SCREAMO / EMO SCREAMO / EMO SCREAMO / EMO S̢̥̱̘̼͓̯̤̹͒̓̕ ̡̲̤̓́͊ͤ͗͠C̺̳͎̮͖͉̠͕ͥ͘ ̵̟̻͍̣͕̩̹̹̲̀̐̈̅͐͐ͨͯR̰͕͔̆̓͌͞ͅ ̞͔̫̎̈́ͩÊ̙͍͙̲̗̔͢ ̢̩̝͕̝̤̣̭̄̓͘A̖͚͈͙̘̥ͭ̀ͭͬ͂̄͠͡ ͍̖͎̪͛M͍̙̦̬͔̯̐͐̓̓̄ͯ̒͂͟͡͠ ̵̵̭̩͍͙͎ͩ̄͡Ọ̵̥̤ͥ͗̒͟͢ ̤͔̞͕̙̩̫̠̓͐͑͒ͅ/̷̢ͭͭͧ̀ͯ҉̘̝͈̞̰̺ ̶͍̱̦̳͇̋ͬ̈̓̽͋̒ͮE̸͓̺̩̘̮͚͐̈̐̀ͅ ͓͙͙͉͑̌ͫ̔̃͌́M̵̡͙̙̹̰͚ͥͤͯͪ ̝̹̓ͧ̂ͭ̒͝Ỏ̱̫̹̫͍̤̱̼̄̋͘ͅ This just keeps getting worse. That's a weak attempt at trying to pretend they're not visual-kei while simultaneously trying to sell this crap to the same fan base. Isn't the mishmash of metal-core with synth-pop called pico-core or something? I thought there was a special name for bands like Newbreed or My Eggplant Died Yesterday.

The Vodka 2, perhaps? Consider me interested.

Ever since I made that Hide animorphs, the X jokes have gotten real weak

(I wouldn't exactly refer to them as "nobodies" at this point, at least not from a domestic perspective: http://weloveucp.com/blog/arlequin-sold-out-in-3-minutes/ . Plus, they have two ex-UCP members, even if CindyKate / Cu[be] weren't all that popular, but it got them an obligatory initial following).

Don't follow them at all, but I thought I read somewhere that Headache Man was about someone's abusive father?