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why is he so attractive it hurts me in my soul

Ooooh, interesting. My scrobbler still works for now but I'm thinking of buying an new computer over the holidays so I might try the new scrobbler out then.

Here's some old Miya caps I had for a mood theme a while back. The king of silently judging you.

Non-Japanese musics

Mid-thirties here and still don't want kids, or even a serious relationship, tbh. Everyone in my family looks at me like I'm an alien because I don't give a shit about marriage or children. I also get tired of people insinuating I'm selfish for not wanting children, like living my life for myself is a bad thing. The world is scary, not to mention over populated as it is. I don't feel compelled to add to it. 

This post makes me wish I had the patience to scan my magazine collection, I have a shelf of old vk/j-rock magazines I bought from 2001-10 when I was obsessed (and it was a lot easier to get because some local shops were importing them). So a lot of Cure, Arena 37c, Shoxx, zi:, and Fool's mate. But to do that I'd have to destroy them to get them flat in the printer. I know people used to do that, but I don't think I could bring myself to do it unless I had a duplicate copy. I used to meticulously track down every image I could of bands I liked when I first got into VK, especially when I made a lot of fan-oriented graphics back in the livejournal days. After a while I lost interest though and pretty much only kept my folder of Mucc scans.

I have a handful of photosets and cheki's. I don't actively collect them but if they're a easily accessible I buy some (like when I see a band at a convention) to help support the band if there aren't CDs around. I could probably get those in at some point but they aren't nearly as old.

This also makes me miss old fansites/blogs where the group members used to work collectively to scan in images, translate interviews, and share uploads of the bts content centered around specific/single groups. I don't see VK groups like this around much anymore. Not on the English side of things anyway. It's sad.

Yeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssss

I was a little worried after the last album they might be moving in a different direction but this is 🔥🔥🔥.

I'm liking the switch so far. Good luck to them!

2 hours ago, Furik said:

Boiz deserve a break. Much needed. Maybe they’ll take the time to consider their future musicial directions. Or start side projects. 

Still waiting on that second GeKiGaKutai album. 

6 hours ago, chemicalpictures said:

I really don't get why japanese bands feel like they need to disclosure every single break they have. Western bands often go radio silence for very long periods of time and nobody could care less... really, what's 3 months to a band so accomplished as MUCC?

I was laughing thinking about this when I read the announcement too. But, especially in Mucc's case, they've never really gone quiet before, even when they went a while between releases, they still had blogs, social media, radio appearances, DJ gigs, tours, announcements for upcoming things... complete radio silence would probably make some fans worry. Or at least they're worried the fans would worry? lol.

Not crazy about his vocals but I was enjoying the song otherwise. 

I'm really curious to hear a good number of these.

風と太陽 / cali≠gari
謡声（ウタゴエ） / 氣志團

最終列車 / THE BACK HORN
大嫌い / THE ORAL CIGARETTES

ガーベラ / sukekiyo

Mr.Liar / ヒステリックパニック
流星 / Plastic Tree

アイアムコンピュータ / POLYSICS

all look like cool picks and bands covering that can put their own flavor on it. 

Agree about the break being well deserved. Hope they get to live it up, enjoy the fruits of their labor for a while and get some rest too.

Happy to help, it's nice when these old magazines are still good for something lol. 

Both ideas sound cool! Would love to see how it turns out. 

The photo is about the size of a business card in the middle of an empty page, so I don't think I was able to get much more quality out of the scanner, but I did try also taking a regular photo of the image and was able to tone down the grain, though you end up with some slight glare and distortion from the page not being quite as flat. But maybe one of these does the job for you.

(if you open the image in a new tab/window they will be larger)

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Bonus version where I played in photoshop merging and painting a bit trying to get some shading details back into the scan.

It's from Cure Magazine Vol.32. (May 2006). I have the magazine, I'll see if I can get any better but the picture is pretty small to begin with. And my scanner isn't very good.

So many guitarists with the same names getting my hopes up only to be the wrong Tsukasa. x_x

11 hours ago, AwesomeNyappy said:

Now that I'm in full on JRock revival mode, I also decided to give Mucc another chance. I've never disliked them, but I never really got into their music. But I have to say, my teenage self was WRONG. Listened to Gokusai on youtube, and it's a great album indeed! I kind of like the way it'd set up, every song is unique, and it seems as if it follows some kind of concept. I just added another CD to my "soon-to-buy" list.

Awesome! I'm happy you decided to give them a second chance! 

I would have been a lot more interested in this band with a different vocalist so I'm hoping they press on with someone new. But I'm not gonna hold my breath for it.