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Hi everyone,
 
Some of you may have known me as tachikomatic on Last.FM long ago. I used to help run jsalad, which was something like a rival forum to Monochrome Heaven for a while back when it was Tainted World.
 
A lot of what I listen to these days is Japanese new wave/electronic music from the 80s like YMO, Togawa Jun, and P-MODEL + associated acts. But, I do love vk (especially heavier stuff like Aikaryu and vellaDonna), and angura kei. The first few Japanese bands I really got into as a teenager were Kagrra, cali≠gari, and metronome (メトロノーム). Here are some notable faves:
 
shinjuku gewalt / 新宿ゲバルト
pinokiwo / ピノキヲ
COSMO-SHIKI
dagashikashi / 駄菓子菓子
FLOPPY
himitsu kessha kodomo A / 秘密結社コドモA
sandwich de 120 pun? / サンドイッチで120分?
DENTAKU
matsutake works / マツタケワークス
idenshi kumikae kodomo-kai / 遺伝子組換こども会
hyper pocket / ハイパーポケット
anokoroido / アノコロイド
mamono / マモノ
kuusou kakumei / 空想革命
Proxyon / プロキシオン
HONDALADY
Plastic Tree
recoride / レコライド
shinsei kamatte-chan / 神聖かまってちゃん
goatbed
COALTAR OF THE DEEPERS
guruguru eigakan / グルグル映畫館
ningen isu / 人間椅子
onmyouza / 陰陽座
urbangarde / アーバンギャルド
 
Anyway, my tastes are mostly stuck in the past. I’ve been apart from the community for some time and I’d like to get back into things. I hope that I’m able to provide a valued presence here.
 
Thank you for reading.

AOT soundtrack is too fucking insane. Hiroyuki Sawano couldn't have made a better OST
 
 
 
 
 

Sawano's music is always a treat to listen to~ Love his works! I really enjoy the music he made for the Xenoblade Chronicles X game.
 
 

ahaha, you ALREADY know! There's a lot that could be said here, but I'll try to keep things concise:
 
Essentially, I agree with what the author is trying to say. This new-age, "positive vibes only" / positive psychology nonsense is simply not functional. I see this type of stuff parroted in so many different ways on social media and people are just eating it up. It's like sure, it's good to be positive, but you also have to be sober-minded. Being positive does not mean you should just ignore the negative. No, not at all. Being positive is about being able to recognize, assess, and deal with the negative and still be able to move forward and grow inspite of it. In fact, if you can't do that, then you're not really being positive at all. You're just deceiving yourself.
 
In order to heal, you must first correctly diagnose the ill. And if you're reaping bad fruit in your life, you have to go back and look at the seeds that were planted.
 
Doing this takes honesty, humility, bravery, and compassion. You have to be honest enough with yourself to even recognize and admit that you've reaped bad fruit in your life. You have to be humble enough enough to take on the responsibility of dealing with that bad fruit (instead of pridefully claiming victimhood). You have to be brave enough to take on the daunting task of searching for and plucking up all of the roots that bore this bad fruit (cuz it can be painful and hella uncomfortable). And you have to be compassionate enough with yourself to realize that this is not an overnight process, and not beat yourself up for it.
 
But the people who have allowed themselves to be possessed by this "positive only" stuff are doing themselves and others a huge disservice because they negate everything i just mentioned in the last paragraph. As a result, these people are usually the opposite of honest, humble, brave, and compassionate. How can they be honest with you when they can't be honest with themselves? How can they be compassionate towards you when they can't be compassionate towards themselves? If they can't deal with the discomfort of dealing with their own selves, what's gonna happen when you come along and inevitably make them uncomfortable simply by being human? --> These are the same kinds of insecure, feeble-minded, and bitch-hearted people that will cut you off just for having a difference of opinion or a different perspective than they do. The kinds of ppl that get anxiety attacks when you tell them the truth about themselves.
 
So yeah, that whole positive-only nonsense disarms people from being able to competently deal with negativity, or rather things that make them feel negative or uncomfortable. Which is really just disarming ppl from dealing with reality in general. It doesn't help that this bitch-made attitude is being increasingly supported here in western culture. It's like so many people are trying to make the world into one big "safe space", but there's way more of the world than there are any of us individually, so the more functional idea would be to simply get comfortable being uncomfortable.
 
That wasn't necessarily concise
 
 
 
 

It's been A few days but im currently on chapter 130ish of one piece. Kind of amusing to think this would have been something I'd 100% gush over and be obsessed with as a kid/teen but here I am barely experiencing it for the first time in my mid 20s and I still think it's been fantastic so far. 

Indeed. Actions > words. Always. You'll know them by their fruits.
 
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On a brighter note, a brief bit from a conversation I had earlier:
 
my future wife: ...so when you were a kid, you taught yourself how to ride a bike?

me: yeah, basically.

my future wife: so..."by-cicle-ly???"
 
me: ....
 

 
...and I thought my dad-jokes were unrivaled until now.

this is the "everyone is getting old except uruha and the drinking is catching up with them so time to hide their faces" look 

This lady dropped 20 dollars in walmart, i tried to get her attention but i guess she thought i was trying to hit on her? Whatever, i just got 20 dollars. ❤️

October: saw my kpop boys (A.K.A. Pentagon - no, not that one)  
 
 
January: saw Miyavi and I can't really explain my picture in any way other than "I suddenly remembered I didn't pay to get close to him, breathe his air or shake his hand but to take a picture"  

shalom ✌️

Excuse  me, where is the yellow cap? 

Had the time of my life in Seville (Spain) with these lovely folks.

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took on the streets before deg /w @WhirlingBlack

This album rocks my socks off rn

Thought I should share this review which I wrote of Yuragi's album from 2018. I also shared the album in the download section if you haven't listened to this yet. Highly recommended!
 

Indeed. Actions > words. Always. You'll know them by their fruits.
 
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On a brighter note, a brief bit from a conversation I had earlier:
 
my future wife: ...so when you were a kid, you taught yourself how to ride a bike?

me: yeah, basically.

my future wife: so..."by-cicle-ly???"
 
me: ....
 

 
...and I thought my dad-jokes were unrivaled until now.