Sakura Seven

It's actually hilarious.

BREAKING NEWS: When a guy actually knows what he's doing, bottoming is great. Even if he breaks up with you through a FUCKING TEXT MESSAGE.
 
Changing vote to Top/Vers. Thank you. I am delighted. 

Femme Fatale - GLADSHEIM (both types)
 
Was really pleased.

THE SAME WIG! IN TWO BANDS?! HOW GAUCHE!
 
rme

tbh
 

incredible.

Nana is iconic. Fight me.

mh stays sleeping on vk bands that are actually talented 

What makes me angry is his lack of foresight - why join a band as an official member, a serious band - if you know you can't commit due to your other projects? Why not just take a support role? Kaya and the rest are committed to Femme Fatale. Tana makes it work even as he performs with Gekijou Tenor. Kaya has his solo shows and Schwarz Stein activities. Iori wanted to quit as a performer after cocklobin but decided to give it another shot. All of what I've seen on the western fandom might make one think that this is just a side-project, but it's not. Iori, Kaya, Tana, and Toshi are all treating this as something real.
 
He shouldn't have been part of the band to begin with. Fuck him. I liked his drumming, but this reflects so poorly on his character.
 
I'm pissed that this had to happen to Femme Fatale so early in their career. Right before their first album. What an asshole. It's so apparent that he had to bow out once the band became something that he'd have to actually commit to, and I am like two beers away from telling him off on Twitter. 

Art-kei lives! 

short story:
 
 
 
for sale: baby shoes. never worn.
 
(baby died)

I have a blog for my own stuff.
 
aromatelevision.tumblr.com
 
Mainly write poetry and prose - still have a long way to go. I like to take photos (not necessarily photography) to illustrate my work. Check it out if you want.

Art-kei lives! 

Art-kei lives! 

Art-kei lives! 

I'm sure you're not taking a diss at me on this for no reason or anyone else who doesn't agree with your opinion. 
 
I'm glad people disagree though.  I don't think Mejibray does albums well as a whole and I actually hated Silvers.EXE. I think they shine with their singles mostly but Nepenthes was an alternate theatrical blue black with bland B-sides and Eiki was creative but really hard to tolerate with those vocals plus the B-sides were not that great. Other than the singles and Mr. rain wa shindafuri, I just didn't like the album as much as the first one though (which isn't saying too much). I'll take a standard good V-Kei album over a creative endeavor that leaves bland results to me (other than the songs mentioned from it above). I shouldn't have to say IMO, but since I'll probably get a slick diss, these are just my opinions. 

I still keep playing 420 on a regular basis and it has grown on me exponentially since its release. Outside from godzette it's my favorite vk album in a long time. 
 
I didn't care for slivers.exe or the first lp at first but those too have snuck up on me and I'm at the point where I can probably count all the songs I don't like from this band with two hands and don't they have like a few hundred by now. I hope they keep doing what they're doing and the h8 keeps a' comin' from every navel gazing self-appointed music critic on the world wide web.

It would be lovely if this thread was actually taken seriously. 

i.
 
                en in het wakkerende licht verliest hij de tranen van ons dageraad
                als zij opkomt in het oosten, een land vergeten
                door zijn jammerend verloop van zonden die hij pleegt en
                daardoor niet langer een almenum ziet voorkomen,
                zoals het zonlicht dat op zijn snuit zal schijnen in een
                deinum dat hij vergeet door de dauw zijn druppels, de knikkers
                van zijn ogen, die nu samentrekken als het pluis
                van uitbloeiende paardenbloemen ook gevolgd zal worden.
 
         ii.
 
                gij, verlaten wolf, zal u nu treden in verzonken
                voetstappen van uw voorgangers en huilen naar een maan
                als eenzaam als dat u bent, vanaf momenten dat uw vader
                u verliet, zal u eens weten van zijn angst en zwaar
                verlatenheid, als ook hij het goud neerslaat op pas
                geboren jongens die zijn naam niet zullen dragen in
                vereniging en samenhorigheid als een sprei van eeuwig
                sneeuw waarvan u nu uw poten optrekt als het ons is.
 
         iii.
 
                dat blauwend maanlicht waar ginds u naar ijlt, een lach
                verborgen onder een aamborstig en ook deerlijk wenen
                van de stem die hij niet langer hoort als zijn gelaat dan
                ook vertrekt bij dit geluid, dat volgens u zwaarmoedig
                valt en de keel een rapaille van beknelling geeft, weet u
                zeker dat zijn oren niet meer spits staan als uw zoekend
                grienen naar uw broeders langs een horizon fluit, als
                geroezemoes door de morgen haar bloemend glorie.
 
         iv.
 
                een vader sterk naar zijn zoon, hij die nu zonder kracht en
                passie is en hij die alleen zijn gedrag van een aantal open
                boeken kiest, hij beantwoord niet zijn roeping in de naam
                van de Heer, hij zingt niet langer een ‘heilig, heilig, heilig
                is de Heer van de hemelse machten’ als in een tijd van
                eeuwig broederschap, gevleugeld zes keer en gewaad
                in het wit van hemels pracht en praal in sterrenlicht.
 
         v.
 
                u blijft enigszins een eendelijk kind verstoten van de
                vader, hoewel zijn borst nu open staat voor zielen zoals
                de uwe, zelfs verbrand en verkoold door het zwavel van
                de hellenacht, zelfs nu staat hij nog in vuur en vlam voor
                een morgenster gevallen door de gouden poorten van zijn lieflijk hemel. 

I kind of like it - the preview is just alright, but I appreciate how they're going this route instead of the vampire stuff that got old for me back in the mid-00s - some of their best work comes out when they stop with the Anne Rice nonsense. Genetic World had the least of it, so it is still my favorite D album.
 
I think it's cool how all of them are well into their 30s/40s and still going all out on their visuals. They are the only band (that I can think of at the moment) that jumps from subdued looks to outrageous ones like this with each release. Respect. (And the look is fabulous.)

I kind of like it - the preview is just alright, but I appreciate how they're going this route instead of the vampire stuff that got old for me back in the mid-00s - some of their best work comes out when they stop with the Anne Rice nonsense. Genetic World had the least of it, so it is still my favorite D album.
 
I think it's cool how all of them are well into their 30s/40s and still going all out on their visuals. They are the only band (that I can think of at the moment) that jumps from subdued looks to outrageous ones like this with each release. Respect. (And the look is fabulous.)

I kind of like it - the preview is just alright, but I appreciate how they're going this route instead of the vampire stuff that got old for me back in the mid-00s - some of their best work comes out when they stop with the Anne Rice nonsense. Genetic World had the least of it, so it is still my favorite D album.
 
I think it's cool how all of them are well into their 30s/40s and still going all out on their visuals. They are the only band (that I can think of at the moment) that jumps from subdued looks to outrageous ones like this with each release. Respect. (And the look is fabulous.)

when it comes to music, art, literature, etc., your excitement is fully justified by your own subjective experience of the aesthetic object itself. it doesn't matter that you can't find anyone who feels exactly the same way as you (even though that might be nice), because your excitement shouldn't be contingent on their excitement in the first place. why should that be the case? there's also no such thing as not being allowed to be excited (what does that even mean..?).
 
when people who reasonably differ from your position explain why they don't like something, it's always better to take what they say as an invitation to understand why they don't like x, instead of why you are wrong to like x. this distinction is important because for most intents and purposes, aesthetic statements remain in the realm of the descriptive and don't enter the prescriptive (e.g. "so-and-so ought to like/dislike x"). (an interesting digression: the Emotivists were a group of philosophers who collapsed this difference and asserted that all moral statements such as 'murder is wrong' are effectively nothing but statements about personal taste--needless to say their arguments weren't taken very seriously at all.)
 
alternatively you can ignore everyone who disagrees with you and resist the temptation to engage with them.
 
honestly if i'm only allowed to get excited over releases that have been "approved" by other people i'd be out of this forum long ago. and if there's one thing i've learned it's that agreeing to disagree is one of the most important skills of surviving the Internet without risking a severe stroke.
 
 
p.s.: i like the song!

My my my. It's as if people will kill for music nowadays. Is it that hard to save up some money and buy what you want?