Jigsaw9

FUCK IT, DOUBLE POST.
 
Figured since I'm stuck with my old PC now I might as well do a deep dive in hopes of coming up with some funny images from days of yore. Unfortunately it didn't yield a haul as big as I anticipated...but anyway, here are some things I dug up that I found funny (or that were funny at one point in time).
 
While MH closing got us like...
 

 
...let us think of the good times. Remember when Akane from D.I.D. expressed his religious views, even tho nobody asked?
 

 
But he wasn't the only one to be brilliant on social media. THE HAKKIN were pretty lowkey but they managed this whopper once:
 

 
Remember the MOO album from DEG? Or DOGEMA from the GazettE? Or...
 

(ok I know I'm the only one who still finds doge funny in 2020 idc)
 
Anyway, when it comes down to it, love is the answer. Let that special someone in your life know your true feelings.
 

 

 
...or you can just get to the point.
 

 
Sadly I don't have many screenshots from MH itself, but for some reason I kept this gem by @Tokage:
 

 
Closing off, let's remember that through all the good, bad or strange times it has always just been about the music, maaan. We're just a bunch of people going crazy over some (mostly) random underground fan-exploiting-or-worse weirdos who probably don't even know or suspect we even exist. Opinions are opinions, no need make a big fuss over them, but... I think we can agree that visual kei at its peak has made us all feel a bit of what @Shaolan974 once formulated that has stuck with me to this day:
 

 
Adios once again, MH.

Truly the best of times! Can't believe I almost forgot about how fun and lively the chat was here, and of course the Certified Dispo McDonald's Live Reports too, lmao. Already left my remarks in the closing thread but again, thank you everyone for everything, it is without a doubt that from 1st January I'll be feeling a bit like a delirious invalid returning from war without this place (even if we already have other means of communicating)... maybe not the best analogy but whatever, lol.
 
U CAN TAKE JIG OUT OF MH BUT U CAN'T TAKE MH OUT OF JIG ✊

I was initially just gonna make like a tree and leave, but I figured I can't ghost out on writing something here.
Everything I feel for this forum has been stated above, it's been so long that MH is just such a natural part of my life.
It will definitely feel strange once it's gone.

I have, just like most people been here since the TW days so this has very much been a place I've grown up at online.
I'd like to thank all members and all staff members, and then:
 
Shout out to my main nordic gang:
@Karma’s Hat @WhirlingBlack
gang gang
 
OG lastfm crew:
@Peace Heavy mk II @Senedjem Arithmetica/Laura
Can't believe we've known each other since we were teenagers, thanks for always sticking by my side lmao. 
 
My main peeps:
@cvltic @Chi @Jigsaw9  @saishuu @inartistic @The Moon @emmny
you're all amazing
 
thanks and cya on twitter/discord etc 

MH truly has been a special place for a lot of us. I vividly remember the chatbox era and how it was almost like a society on its own with various people filling different roles and social structures and friendships forming and failing due to drama or other things. So much time was invested not just chatting but also just reading and enjoying the conversations. Most of the personalities I remember well from the forum come from this era.
 
Gotten a lot of good and lasting friendships through this forum and I will be forever be grateful to MH for it.
 
Reciprocal shoutout to@Karma’s Hat, we started out on quite bad terms in the early days but became good friends over time, now we have met a lot of times and have a blast every time.
 
I've met a lot of our members IRL and I've almost never had a bad experience. Shoutouts to @Biopanda, @hyura, @Takadanobabaalien, @Jigsaw9, @Seiji, @Tokage, @allisapp , @digi,@spockittyand ALL of you I've talked to or interacted with throughout the years here.
 
Some people have come and gone, others are still a part of my life, but I hope you all know you helped form who I am today. 
 
If anyone else want to drop their appreciations for the forum and the people this is the place to do so!

The chat was what really brought most of us together and was super important. I'm so thankful to have been a part of it. I remember there was a running gag that I looked like Renly from Game of Thrones. 😆 The chat was so much fun. 

It's a been a long ride. I've been on here for 11 years, close to 12. Everything has to come to an end and I honestly can't say where I would be without this place. Without any hesitation I can say that Monochrome Heaven, or Tainted World as it was when I first joined, changed my life. I'm genuinely curious how that makes people like Zess and Ito feel that they've had such a significant impact on a person's life just by making this place and running for all these years. The current trajectory on which my life is on was set by all the friendships I've made in this place over the years, and through everything I went through this place was a constant companion. Zess, Bear/Sumostig, Junna, Shizu, Whirlingblack especially have been significant to me and I'm grateful. Who knows how deep I'd be in normiedom without these people influencing my taste in the way they did. If it wasn't Christmas with the family I wasn't as tipsy as I was, I'd probably have a whole lot more to say about this than I do now. Me and Whirlingblack started really hanging out proper in the beginning of 2017 when I decided to just bail Finland. I stayed at his place for some time and I don't remember what we did together, but what I do know for sure is that it was the kind of debauchery what we would we doing together and independently to this day. Shizu is another person that by his existence has assured me I'm first of all not entirely alone in world with my tastes and interests. 
 
But it wasn't just the few people that one stuck around with all these years that made the place, but also all the characters that've come and gone over the years. There is so much stuff to dig out of the annals of monochrome heaven and tainted world that in my case it'd be a book. 
 
What the new people on here don't know, is that this place had a tremendously active chat back in the days that was integrated into the website. Almost every was there at one point, and during its heydays absolutely nothing was going on my life, so I was there almost every minute or every single day.  In my country you have to take dancing lessons for the prom for like six months, and in 2012 when I went through that thing most of that time I'd be giving live status updates throughout the whole experience. Before and after I'd be sitting in Mcdonald's drinking coffee and it became a running joke that I was always online, always people watching in Mcdonald's. Probably some of my best memories from the board are from the chat years. Shoutout to everyone who was there to experience it
 
So much stuff has happened on this board that new people have no idea, because so much has been lost to chat logs, private messages and purges over the years. The forum as it stands rn is only a tiny fraction of all that had taken place. 
 
I'm too drunk right now to remember any of this stuff, but it means so much to me and I'll cherish all of these memories forever. Here is some of people I've met irl over the years from here in a random order 
 
wb, marcus, jigsaw, shizu, saltofstones, allisapp, panda, pretsy, hyura, slsr, stylelover, 237q, gaz, tokage and many, many others I've met for a minute or two during gigs. 
 
I proofread none of this
 
Those who don't have me anywhere can follow me either on here https://twitter.com/SoderlundAleksi or just add me on fb Aleksi Söderlund
 
Everyone who I've shared this place with. 
 
I love you all. Good bye and thanks for the memories, all those i've laughed or fought with. 

now this club has a totally different meaning
 
also their vocalist looks like my dad with a wig ;o;
 

monochrome heaven dot com

This will be the last haul I will be sharing with you all before MH closes.
 

Ghetto Ghouls got two new tracks out for the holidays, this time based on two slasher flicks. Garbage Day, based on the infamous Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 and Edge of the Axe, based on the movie with the same title. Enjoy.
 
 
 

That sure was an okay track! Can't say I'm in love with it, but it was decent.

I just had to simp for Shuuji and Kozi this time

Book
Rock and Read 83 (Malice Mizer cover) CDs:
芸夢 (Nationwide edition) 続B面画報 (Limited. It's got an absolutely gorgeous slipcase) 舞間的ポリフォニー (Limited)

it's out x (the song that is, the video will premiere a few hours later)
 
 
It's so sad listening to him in such a no-budget production... Compared to this even 8P-SB sounded 'professional' lmao........
 
Otherwise it's an okay song but buried under a weak exterior. Disappointing.

this is like if one of those people from south america who post selfies on the visual kei fb group made a PV

this is what happens when you mess with the yakuza. ''I'm gonna ruin this guy's whole career'' and ruin it they did.
 
I have hope that this is just temporary. It'll get better.

Welcome, cool bands~  

mom can we hire Hora to produce my solo single?
 
we have Hora at home

it's out x (the song that is, the video will premiere a few hours later)
 
 
It's so sad listening to him in such a no-budget production... Compared to this even 8P-SB sounded 'professional' lmao........
 
Otherwise it's an okay song but buried under a weak exterior. Disappointing.

this is soooo last year but Setsuna went on trial a year after his arrest and he only got...3 1/2 years in prison, plus hard labor.
 
tl;dr Setsuna testified that Uran asked him to help her commit suicide, and since that statement couldn't be verified as truthful or not, the court accepted that he killed her upon request and sentenced him to that short amount of time instead of the recommended 13 years in prison.
 
https://www.jpopasia.com/feed/25678/egoists-setsuna/

Looks like ex-MEJIBRAY/8p-sb frontman Tsuzuku/GENKI has a new project called SpelL. First digital single titled "SPELL" will be released on 2020/12/15.
 
You can see a snippet of the music video here:
 
 
And if at least 300 ppl retweet this, he'll reveal the full version:
 
 
Honestly, I feel like I would like the song itself if not for this godawful no-budget ridiculously ass production. Hoping this is not the "final product" but just a taste of the general direction of this project right before recruiting actual band members (cuz then I'd listen to their future releases for sure).

They're too busy TALKING ABOUT THE ESSENCE to pay attention to worldly things like that.
 
That said, if it rly was a free thing on regular Youtube, I might peep it too. Hoping they play some CHEDOARA material in there somewhere.

They're too busy TALKING ABOUT THE ESSENCE to pay attention to worldly things like that.
 
That said, if it rly was a free thing on regular Youtube, I might peep it too. Hoping they play some CHEDOARA material in there somewhere.

I have some SHM-CDs and SACDs but the format is totally wasted on me as I cannot hear a damn thing that's supposed to be better about them, lol. Although reading what some of the replies mentioned here, if extended durability is true then I am glad to own some.
 
I don't mind artists releasing or re-issuing their catalogue on these formats as I haven't really experienced a significant increase in their price (when it's a reissue/remaster of a 'legacy band' sometimes it's the exact opposite actually!) so I guess what I'm saying is uhhhh... I'm like whatever, ok. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯