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I've said this countless times already, and I'm going to say it again here: I'm always more drawn to slower songs. I never cared about Sadie (and I still don't), but I liked Swallow Rain. Same thing goes for The Gazette... A lot of their songs were not really to my liking, but I somehow found Calm Envy, Chizuru and D.N.L. quite engaging.

Oh, this is interesting. The first thing that pops into my mind is 六合 - 宵闇の残光, as this is one of my old favorites and I want you to listen to it and give me meaningful feedback regarding the release. Have you ever stumbled upon it, though...? In any case, if it turns out you already know of 宵闇の残光, another thing that I have in mind is Veni Vidi Vicious' Irie Rackit. It's normally a bit difficult for me to get into neo-garage music, but the band's one of a few exceptions and their debut album's great. I suggest you give it a try.

Oooh, Wes. You made it a bit difficult when you had Ling and 9mm head to head, but when it comes to cinema staff vs アルカラ the verdict is pretty much obvious: the latter. Don't get me wrong; I once liked cinema staff - and very much at that - and for some personal reasons I always got a little bit too emotional when listening to 水平線は夜動く. The feelings ceased after a while, though.. I mean, what happened? I don't even think they could go back to Blue, Under the Imagination era, and don't even get me started on Great Escape. (ﾉಥДಥ)ﾉ︵┻━┻･/ アルカラ, on the other hand, have always been more consistent with their releases... sure, むにむにの樹 was a letdown, but they have such catchy tunes that no one can resist, they seem like so much fun on stage and they're capable of executing the slower songs right (which I believe was what got me into them in the first place. 散らかった部屋とわたし, 扉の前にて and 夕暮れちゃちゃちゃ are like beautiful distractions from which I'll never recover... heh). They're very entertaining, very moving, and they've yet to disappoint me.

...well, to put it crudely, my mother doesn't really appreciate anything I listen to, for she only takes into consideration (and ends up liking) the stuff my brother recommends to her. It seems to me that in a universe of people and their preferences for music, to her, I belong to 'people with narnian taste' circle... although there was one occasion when she was AFK and I offhandedly put Abe Fuyumi's How to Live and Nell's Slip Away on her playlist just to see how she'd respond to it. She didn't even ask how the songs could've been there, but I could tell she enjoyed those albeit them being a little melancholy.

I think my mother leans more towards pop/country-pop and has always been averse to loud music with incomprehensible vocals. Apart from traditional music, as far as I could recall, I grew up singing to various versions of Unchained Melody, Casablanca, anything from Whitney Houston and other classic western love-songs she played on the cassette player... which ultimately intrigued me to learn the language because the lyrics, at that time, made absolutely no sense. I guess it did influence my musical preference later in my pre-adolescent years, in a way. The stuff she listens to now doesn't seem to change much, as she claims she digs those feelings of nostalgia which the music is capable of inciting.

I seem to share my sentiments with some the users here. Well, I'm not a particularly active member myself, since I barely post anything/contribute to the discussions and all I do is check the Download section, go to the chatbox or read topics without actually replying to it to voice my own opinion. I too noticed that there's been a decrease in the forum in terms of activity--which is partly my (and other users with similar mentality) fault--and that there are some of staff members (I've been paying attention to this since the day they were appointed as mods, mind you) who don't appear to carry out their functions as intended needless to say one of them suddenly just disappeared from the surface of the earth and is now probably looking down on us from heaven. Was he still blue by the time he departed? Idk. Oh, I know they have lives and stuff and they can't attend to the forum the whole time, but allocating a couple of hours a week is mandatory, I reckon. I also agree that restructuring is indispensable, but putting users' candidacy aside (I'll leave the job to the admins and mods), to second Mr Bacon's statement, staff members (who feel like this topic's hinting to you being one of the inactive mods/admins) need to speak up for themselves to explain to us how much they still have to offer for this forum.

Hello, fellow Gazette stans. /cackles/

I've been enabling tweekly.fm since I started using twitter, so when it automatically sent a tweet and one of the top 3 weekly artists was 六合, they retweeted it and followed my account, thus I mentioned them and said thanks. They, much to my surprise, replied to the tweet and seemed delighted that someone overseas happened to listen to and enjoy their music - I don't really remember when, but I reckon it was around 3 years ago when SUBLIMINAL first posted some of their releases on the old forum. Loved them, so. きのこ帝国 also sent me a mention when I tweeted a picture of their CD I had purchased, pleasantly surprised that they've gotten more recognized. Pretty sure I have more since miscorner/c+llooqtortion, inthenaMEoflove and KAGERO are following me, as well.

Couldn't find a good icon for lock screen function so I replaced it with that trigrams icon in the middle of the circle.

I like it. And I like it more after watching the MV - makes me want to hop onto my laptop screen to join them cause it looks like they have so much fun. Mentally spazzing over the perfection that is Lee Chaerin.

And um, this is me taking a shot in front of a mirror. A bit too dark.

Decided to take a photo after having a nap just now (but I didn't forget to edit it, heh), hence the look.

Pretty much this. That shade of blonde on Dara is terrible, though.

I'm gonna settle with this one for a little while.

This is how mine looks like. It's compact and simple, though it has no repeat and shuffle buttons.

Hmm. Let's see. X Japan, Luna Sea, BUCK-TICK, MUCC (although I believe I once listened to and liked one track from them, I just can't seem to recall the song...), Moi Dix Mois, GACKT, Kaggra,, Glay, Acid Black Cherry, Janne Da Arc, Siam Shade, Psycho Le Cemu, Dead End, Tokyo Jihen, Dir en grey (only listened to UROBOROS and their latest release I guess, though I don't remember much of it)... that's all I can think of. I'm sure there's a lot more, but I'm too lazy cause they're tooo much to handle.

Looks a bit weird. O__O