CAT5

19 minutes ago, secret_no_03 said:

 

I do not like this look. Please shave, SUGIZO.

nah, I don't trust niggaz over 30 without facial hair. 

Yoko Kanno always brought the best out of Maaya Sakamoto #weeblife

Nice!

I was talking to someone today about their dead-beat "baby daddy", and they started making excuses for them... saying, "well, they never learned how to be a dad"...

I replied, "the only way to learn how to be a dad is to do it"...

They had no choice but to smirk in agreeance.

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Why is it that people have this disembodied belief that you can learn something without actually having to do it? Or that you have to scale some arbitrary benchmark of knowledge before you can do something?

i mean...you can't learn an instrument without actually playing it.  No more than you can learn how to drive without getting behind the wheel.

As heady as coding is, you still gotta type that shit out.

Hell, even in spiritual matters - action is still required.

I didn't start believing in "God" until I experienced him. And funny enough, it took me having to be humbled to the point where I realized my own intellect was no longer sufficient.

As I began "to walk with God", and actually do what the bible says, then that's when the understanding came to me. And the more I continue to do, the more the bible continues to prove itself and confirm its truth in my experience. It often freaks me out in the most wonderful way imaginable!

But I digress...

It seems this disconnect between thought and action is endemic to Western culture in general. We've fallen so deeply in love with our own intellect that we've lost touch with the sheer magic of our own reality and experience.

However, the Eastern/African culture of the Bible is rooted in functional action. In fact, each word in the Hebrew language points towards a concrete action.

Surely, they understood that true knowledge and understanding only comes from "doing" and actually acting things out. From reality. Not endlessly wanking our intellects.

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Well, that went from 0 to 60 in no time. I'm sorry y'all. This is just how I think

2 minutes ago, ghost said:

Plant-y green-y things

 

 

On 4/1/2020 at 5:04 PM, ghost said:

Been working on this one since the beginning of this year. The scales on the fish took forEVER.

 

 

 

Some close-up details on the plant and koi:

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ahhhh, these are gorgeous!!!

You don't have to like somebody to love them.

I wonder if österreich will actually release an album this year? Either way, it's great to see AI Kamano still active.

On 4/6/2020 at 12:59 PM, Jigsaw9 said:

 

@CAT5 Damnnn, I wanted to skip choosing a weakest track from this flawless album but the poll makes it mandatory, how rude! ;(((

oh shit! My bad, man. I had no idea this is how the polls operated. I just added an option for "none". Hope this helps!

As for me - when I first got into J-rock (2004/2005-ish) i had a bad habit of downloading albums, and just skimming through them and keeping whatever appealed to me at the time. LUNA SEA was one of the bands I did that with, so I've liked a random batch of their songs for a while (stuff like "sweetest coma again", "into the sun", "be gone"), but I got caught up in so much other music that I just never bothered to go back and actually give their albums a full listen.

It wasn't until I saw soko ni naru's cover of "Rosier" that I got interested in hearing the original:

And so I literally just got around to listening to this album maybe a month or two ago, and it's a great listen! Obviously, I'd be lying if I said I considered this album a classic (as I clearly don't have much of history with this record), but I can definitely see why it's considered one. Sugizo's guitar work and composing has even been a huge influence in younger, non-VK bands like Ling Tosite Sigure and soko ni naru. So it's clear that LUNA SEA has had a far-reaching impact.

Imma definitely have to dig into some of their other albums now!

^ It seems they dropped the new album for free due to COVID-19 and all the resulting madness. A friend on my social media wrote the following:

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Please consider buying music from their Bandcamp page, as the band has been hit really hard by the restrictions and safety concerns brought on by the coronavirus. Firstly, all their shows been cancelled until the virus lets up (which most likely means they won't get to play the scheduled release shows for this album). Plus, their ability to distribute the new album and make a bit of money back from it has been seriously undermined because the band is completely independent and they only sell their music at live shows (which are cancelled), at the Throat Records store (which is closed), and through online orders from their website. So two of their only three distribution methods have been closed off, which is part of why they're selling the new album digitally now. Also, the closure of Throat Records cuts Takahisa's income down as he owns and operates the store, and Takuto owns and runs a cafe/bar that can't take seated customers right now and is resorting to selling take-out boxes.

Takahisa also wrote a really earnest blog post explaining the sudden release as well as reflecting on the current situation and its impact on him and the general community. It's pretty good read to go along with the album. https://hostage.hatenadiary.org/entry/2020/04/06/193316

Nice! Given the look of the album cover, I wonder if they're gonna go for a harder sound this time?

Looks like österreich (Kunimitsu Takahashi ex. the cabs) released a new song! It features cinema staff's vocalist! Very nice~  (@saishuu)

35 minutes ago, secret_no_03 said:

I think a good majority of people take up their coffee drinking method from their family, for better or worse because a lot of us have been drinking it since we were children in some form or fashion.

I believe it. I started drinking coffee as a kid too, but i'd often overload it with sugar. As I got older, I just added less and less sugar until I did away with it altogether. I guess I'm slowly becoming my dad, but that's cool, cuz that n!gga was a G

one of my all-time fav. anime OPs. Maaya Sakamoto + Yoko Kanno was a legendary combo.

I'm a coffee drinker, though I enjoy tea as well.

Typically, I'll make my coffee with just enough creamer to get a nice golden brown-ish color. I don't add any sugar or sweeteners.

Coincidentally, this is the way my dad used to make his as well.

1 hour ago, Peace Heavy mk II said:

BANNED

New downy, new TK, and now new stuff from THE NOVEMBERS? At least the end of the world will have an awesome soundtrack 🤣

I thought they'd disband, but maybe DIMLIM can actually recover now?