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    15 hours ago, Peace Heavy mk II said:

     

    -Aruba

     

     

    Ooooh... headed there in about two weeks actually. I'd ask what's good to see, but I'm pretty much headed there for the express purpose of lounging on the beach for a couple days.... not sure how much tourist-ing I'm gonna do.

     

    15 hours ago, Peace Heavy mk II said:

     

    Domestically*, I've been to: New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington DC, Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Illinois, Arizona, California, Oregon, and Washington.

     

     

    One of my goals is to visit all 50 states. I'm missing: Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, North Dakota and Michigan.

     

    I think North Dakota will be the hardest left.... because I've been to all the states around it. I would basically be going just to North Dakota, and I'm not sure what would really convince me to do that.

     

    (I will admit a couple of those are tenuous "I stopped and got lunch while passing through Iowa.... that counts right?" type visits)

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    22 hours ago, DarkWater said:

    V/A
    (A) 「妖幻鏡 -west- Vol.3 Survive as an Innovator」

     

     

    I didn't listen to this until like five months after it came out but damn! There are like 5 or 6 awesome (exclusive to this V/A?) songs on there. It's weird to say but that omnibus would definitely be in my top 10 VK albums of the year.

  10. Posted · Edited by The Reverend

    So it's end of the year best-of list time, and I wanted to get involved... but I realized with more and more streaming of music rather than mp3s, and more and more me being lazy and not really listening to as much new stuff as I should: my best of 2016 list would be incomplete and hard to make because what I've been listening to isn't as easily organized by year in Spotify.

     

    But I'm a narcissist who still wanted to get in on the fun and write *something* so I decided to highlight some of my favorite, or at least notable for one reason or another, looks from the VK world in 2016. Visual is in the name after all! I know hipsters, such as myself, say that the looks don't matter and it's all about the music, man... but I'll freely admit even though I'm not looking at a picture of the band for 98% of my listening to them, the aesthetics matter and part of the reason I like VK is that I enjoy looking at pretty boys in elaborate costumes rather than bearded dudes in black tshirts.

     

    With that in mind here is my partially tongue-in-cheek but also I seriously thought about it 10 Notable VK Looks of 2016:

     

     

    RevLooks1Garak'sVocal.jpg?dl=1

    Garak’s Vocalist ジュリ


    I call this the James Dean x Jesus.

     

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    Insanity Injection Vocalist Kyouka


    Because of that YouTubers react video, this look may be the VK shot heard ‘round the world. “Looks like Kerrigan” is pretty accurate shorthand for Kyouka’s possessed crab/snake cannibal spirit costume that is almost elaborate enough to explain what the hell he’s been doing for the last ten years.

     

    RevLooks3PentagonMinpha.png?dl=1

    ペンタゴン Bassist Minpha


    The kawaii-ness is undisputed around these parts… I’m embracing dark Minpha and his crown of demonic scallop shells.

     

    RevLooks4OtomeKokkaBand.jpg?dl=1

    乙女国家 Band


    I know it’s a VK trope, but I seriously like it when band members all pick a different color and just commit. I’m never going to learn their names, so it helps to just be able to reference “the yellow one who borrowed some gloves from Ensoku’s This is a Pen PV”. Also for anyone else who’s been there: was this photo taken at the ramen ‘museum’ (read: food court) in Yokohama?? It kinda reminds me of that spot.

     

    RevLooks5DoakBand.png?dl=1

    Doak Band


    As a rapidly balding dude, I appreciate when even fake-baldness gets some shine in VK. Shout-out to the dude from Codoma A!

     

    RevLooks6AvelcainVocal.jpg?dl=1

    Avelcain Vocalist Karma


    I bow at the altar of Avelcain… and I’m on the record as loving black-suit-wearing VK looks. Add some fucking palpable *zetsubou* and a sword for no real reason!?? I’m sold.

     

    RevLooks7ElysionBand.jpg?dl=1

    Elysion Band


    They get my vote for best golden age Matina cosplay of the year. I saw them in June and there was just tons of vinyl and straps and lace and bare thigh and a frilly white dress and… there’s no joke here they just had an awesome/classic look. I don’t even remember what they sounded like, but I remember thinking their outfits and makeup had to take hours to get right before the show.

     

    RevLooks8LackCoVocalist.jpg?dl=1

    Lack-co. Vocalist Tenten


    What you thought I wasn’t going to include this transcendent “it’s coming in nice” puberty mustache dyed red?? You don’t know me very well. He’s got some sort of black sequin freckles happening too for some Annie vibes.

     

    RevLooks9NihilizmBand.jpg?dl=1

    Nihilizm Band


    Just a look that I think really kills. Those red lace blindfolds are just cool IDK. The member with the bob is a cutie.

     

    ギャロ Vocalist Jojo


    I always love Jojo’s extremely sparkly lipstick…. And in this video (and others this year) he wins the award for most dangerously low-rise pants in VK. Got them side abs! I also don’t really understand his fork hat, but fuck it if you can’t get weird in VK where can you?

     

    Close but no cigar: Hollowgram's grown up/understated black looks, vocalist from More's curls and one satyr horn, Plastic Tree vocalist pushing the bounds of how cool he can make cutting his own hair look

    Purposefully Omitted: The Black Swan blackface, any boring not-quite Kamijo look

     

    Let me know why I'm wrong and what should have been on this list!

     

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  11. Posted · Edited by The Reverend

    I mean, I'd much rather buy another mini-album than three separate releases... but good news anyway! (as long as they're available in stores...)

     

    (Somehow Iggy became my pet band and I'm not quite sure how haha)

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  12. Posted

    Awesome work @hiroki!! I think our tastes only overlap sporadically... but I'm definitely going to check out some of these releases based on your recommendation.

     

    Some thoughts about what made the cut:

     

    - Vistlip is coming up on a decade!? Wow.

    - Again, what a shame Blesscode is disbanding. In addition to Imperial City being great, I find myself spinning their cover of that Morrigan song a lot too... they were on a roll in 2016.

    - Agreed Pentagon's 絶叫！ was a nice comeback after the lackluster Ghost Hotel.

    - LOL. I like that the Garak's dude decided a crown of thorns was a good look. ;)

     

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    I've had the chance to listen to RTJ3 a couple times now...

     

    And now that they've got three good albums under their belts, do we start talking about RTJ being one of the best hip hop duos of all time??

     

    Off the top of my head I've got:

    Eric B & Rakim

    Mobb Deep

    Clipse

    Outkast

     

    ahead of them. Is that it? Are RTJ top-five already?

  20. Posted · Edited by The Reverend

    Alright! I love the reviews and lists this time of year... and we're starting off with an album I really liked.

     

    Agree with @emmnyI do think Silence made their full-length debut a bit more accessible than past works. Some of the songs on those minis were so weird/dense they could put you off. They still experiment, but also write some killer tunes.

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  22. Posted

    Hi there! I was a lurker for a couple years before posting anything too...

     

    1 hour ago, Lawrlia said:

     

    I like to read pretty much whatever seems interesting to me, write, practice kanji, watch cat videos and take photos. So yeah, I'm not really an interesting person,

     

     

    Ha, those things sound more interesting than what I do in my spare time!

     

    (I'm also a sucker for Jin's bands, we'll get along great)

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  25. Posted · Edited by The Reverend

    Nice thread!

     

    Geez, the 'scraps of Pierrot' bands have been around for a decade now!?!

     

    Shame Earl Grey didn't really do much, that look in the thumbnail is A+

     

    Didn't know Sleep My Dear would've been 25... they should've done something for the reunion!

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