VESSMIER

You might wanna improve your sample a little bit. There's absolutely no sense of rhythm or tempo... But how about this song?
 
 

You might wanna improve your sample a little bit. There's absolutely no sense of rhythm or tempo... But how about this song?
 
 

Me and my homie Ai from gulu gulu 

Kamaitachi tapes; two of them are supposed to be live shows and the rest are demo tapes. 
 

Decameron - Merry Christmas for you demo tape
Decameron - 30th Anniversary live distribution
Kamaitachi concert dvd
Decameron PV vhs
 

VA - Face of Soleil II
Cats in Boots - Kicked & Clawed
Cats in Boots - Demonstration
D'erlanger - Basilisk
D'erlanger - La Vie En Rose

can't sleep, so i post
 
pc is just left of memetop + ps3 and ps4 on the bottom two boxes
check out my janky-ass setup w/ my magni 2 feeding into my old receiver, lol
 
the headphones not pictured here (hanging below my desk) are my Mr. Speakers Mad Dogs, SPH9500 w/ my old Alpha Pads, and ATH-M50s
 
*also my mic's pop filter is retracted b/c I don't really use it anyway ;;

So I've fallen pretty hard into HiFi (High Fidelity) audio gear and lifestyle. I've amassed a pretty good setup and a nice collection of gear and was wondering if there was any interest here on the forum. We can pretty much just use this thread to post pictures of each others setups and stuff essentially as well as discuss different gear. I know we already have a headphone thread, but don't be afraid to post headphones/earphones in here as well, I'm aiming to make this a general audio gear thread, so post away.
 
post pictures of whatever you want your full setup or individual gear. Doesn't have to be limited to desk setups either, shows us your living- room setups and movie watching systems.
 
I'll start by just posting some pictures of my current desk setup .
 
 


 

 

 

 
that's enough for now, next time I'll get some pictures of my tv setup and maybe some of my portable gear.
 
 
 

Just a quick post of my most recent haul before I go to work.
 

Holy shit wall of text. Paragraphs are your friend. 😵

My mood has been cratering for the last two weeks and it's getting to the point where people around me can tell. I've untangled some of the reasons why I've been unhappy and it has to do with a lot of the well-meaning things people advise me to do that I take the wrong way. They always come off as suggestions for what to do but how are you suggesting solutions to the problem I haven't explained yet? I'm mentally exhausted when I come home and I do not want to do more programming, fix computers on the side, sell weed, take even more classes after I've finished grad school, earn a license, or start my own business. Those aren't answers; those are distractions. I don't have faith in the capitalist system, so I don't want to look for a "new job".  It'll be the same bullshit as the old job in a different sector for as long as programmers are underappreciated and treated as simple code to caffeine converters. I don't like working to line someone else's pockets, and the assertion that one must work for a living is troubling, and also at odds with the depths of laziness some coworkers descend to daily. You can't tell me work harder to find purpose and be happy when business analysts are laughing their asses off on their third Starbucks break of the day. I just gave a 40 minute presentation I didn't feel like giving and certain team members fell asleep, and I got so dejected the secretary at the front sent an e-mail to my manager and her boss because I couldn't find it within me to bother. In fact, I find the assertion that one must better themselves to find happiness at all is full of troubling assumptions about my values. I work hard and I'm not happy, working harder makes me unhappier, and when I come home I'm a zombie and I don't want to do anything. I haven't listened to new music outside of the mix tapes I've been given. Haven't played any new games since I bought em. My Switch is docked up to my TV and remains untouched. Don't even want to watch YouTube videos and that requires me to only pay attention. I'm kinda just walking through life trying to make it to the next day waiting for it to end. Depression is a bitch. If you are wondering why I've been quiet these last few weeks and not writing or doing much of anything, that's why.
 

Just a small selection from the collection that just arrived in the mail today. I'm too lazy to take a photo of the rest rn, but couldn't resist with all these DEZERT goodies.

Here's some of the items I got in the past weeks 🦄✨
 

 

 

 

Crucifixion photosets
らせん - 狂
らせん - Nightmare
La'veil MizeriA x Crucifixion - 蛇影
La'veil MizeriA x Crucifixion - 暁鴉
MaRiLL - 09.01.25.19.01.12 (mail-order version)
 

 
glamscure - Baptisma
Balsamic - 小夜時雨
rephit - ～cure～
Marvelous Cruelty - 素晴ラシキ残酷
Aliene Maφriage - Les Soirée ル・ソワレ～完結篇
Creadoll - Sins Blue
Dears - -yourself-
SHIVA - DayBreak
Agnus∻Dei - valse
V.A. - 闇鍋一丁上ガリ
the bullet & LOGiQ - 『共鳴』～白華蒼影～
 

 
A bunch of LuLu CDs XD
이병우 - 헨젤과 그레텔
GPKISM - Iudicium

Here's some of the items I got in the past weeks 🦄✨
 

 

 

 

ahhh, man

let's be honest.

The idea of visual-kei is to sell a perfect image of somebody that doesn't exist.
Same with all of the pop-idols. This is an industry, first of all, music comes secondary. We have a target audience of 18-year old Japanese girls, most likely obsessed with androgynous male image and who read a lot of josei and shojo manga.. They are not gonna buy music in general - they don't give a shit about that. What you can sell to them is an image.
 
as it was once put:
"No, they’re sexy, but they don’t exist in the same universe as the fans. They don’t have chlamidya, they don’t worry about child support payments, they don’t have girlfriends or baby-mamas. They don’t have a stinky van. The fans don’t want to think about that! They want a dream, (not a man or a woman), they want a higher being, a look out of a fairy-tale. That’s why we do all the makeup and hair. It’s not about the guitars or playing A-flat in a Lydian mode."

In case you didn't notice - it's the same thing with anime. It will always cater to the male audience, because we tend/are willing to spend whatever money we have on our obsession - be it motorbykes or fuck-pillows. And if you take socially awkward males who had no success with women and life in general, and sell them over-sexualized image and play on their instincts - oh boy, you get a really good chunk of revenue. So you can see the similarities with the visual-kei approach here.
 
So, the visual-kei's target audience just does the same - spending whatever they have on their obsession. The difference is that visual-kei found its small (really small) niche of fans who are ready to do that. If we take population in general - it will not work. But it just takes whatever mental image/ideal the fans have, wrap it in a nice way, add a little bit of consumer psychology/evolutionary psychology and neurobiology (yes, it's the thing, I highly recommend reading material on how the last two infuence what we buy and how much we are willing to spend) - and you get your revenue =)
 
Hence, we have a situation, that mostly females go to visual-kei gigs (because it was created for them), mostly (hungry/semi-virgin) males go for female pop-idols' gigs (because it was created for them), and etc. Which is fine.
It's all about money, not the art.

The cover art for Queen Leech has been released
 

The cover art for Queen Leech has been released
 

The cover art for Queen Leech has been released
 

Got some Boris shit. Download cards for the records would have been nice, now I gotta digitise them.

Tracked down a copy of Sigh's Gallows Gallery in swirl vinyl. Good stuff
 

So happy with last month's hauls😍

Very happy I finally got VENOM, one step closer to a complete Hora collection 😅

Here's my newest haul.
 
First off, all of my factory seal buys.

Genkaku Allergy limited live dvd
Lareine - Blue Romance
Eliphas Levi - 冷たいアトリエの魔術師
Shulla - XII [tweleve]
 
The rest of the haul:

Various Vasalla and NéiL CDs
 

Various Madeth gray'll CDs
 

Some more Lareine CDs
 

VA - Face of Soleil
Mazohysteria - Tight. Deep and Violent
Gauzes - 揺篭 + bonus DVD
Seamonkey - ちょうちんふかし (First Pressing)
Sleep My Dear - ReMIRAGE
GLAY - 灰とダイヤモンド (Extasy Pressing)
With Sexy - Colours
 

A bunch of La'Mule photosets

Japan trip loot

last month's purchases
I'm happy to get more  distributed CD of Hannya band 

So happy with last month's hauls😍