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Wow the video is so professional. Welcome to the forums - hope you enjoy your time here

Awww I love your slippers CaRaN! I recently got myself a vistlip shirt - there was a vistlip x Tsutaya collaboration for their latest album:

Good book, but not as good as Snow Crash imo.

I think they meant EVE is planning to release 2 new singles

Lol. Yes there's some truth in that. Sometimes I can't make up my mind as to whether they are intentionally doing it or are so clueless that they don't realize it =.=

Yay!

Wow, I wish I have half your talent at drawing x.x

Omg Ray actually came back to perform at Shuuta's birthday live?? So awesome ;_;

^ I love Murakami in general, and I hope you enjoy your read Although I must say 1Q84 was rather underwhelming and disappointing.

Well, I hope these are better than their last single.

The songs aren't too bad, but I really wish they deal with those moments when the vocalist goes glaringly out of tune ><

I just finished Andre Gide's The Immoralist. Probably going to move on to a novel or play by Sartre.

Citizen Kane (1941) - Lol, I'm VERY slow I know. I dunno if it's because I walked into this without any expectations whatsoever, but I ended up really liking it. I find that themes of lost innocence, vanished childhood, etc. have become somewhat cliched thanks to how they have been overworked by SO many artistic productions. This film captures everything perfectly though, and with just the right balance of artistic endeavor and melodrama (just to keep things interesting). 8.5/10

lol, yeah XD I like yazzmad's recent album, but not as much as their self-titled which I absolutely loved. Naoki's voice works for me though, so I'm still looking forward to this release (track 3 especially sounds promising)

Nice titles! Philip Dick is one of my fave sci-fi writers. Pynchon is interesting too, though Gravity Rainbow and Against the Day took me a couple of attempts to finally get through lol.

I've finally switched over to foobar!! Here's a screenie, I used centered strings for the song info in "Now Playing", which looks a lot neater imo

Welcome! I'm not from HK but I can understand a bit of Cantonese. Hope you enjoy your time here!

Am I the only one here who doesn't like the covers? There isn't any semblance of continuity across the different editions (I'll cut them some slack on the anime cover since they prob have less control over the design of that one). I can't help but be reminded of A9's shooting star cover when I look at the LE A. The LE B has a somewhat dubious and distracting combination of color to say the least. Finally they try to be creative on the RE instead of plastering their faces all over it, but (i) the colors spoil it again, and (ii) it looks like what someone half-heartedly comes up with and goes 'now here's my creative effort, make what you will out of it'. I'm sorry if I'm being too harsh, but I always appreciate artists who put some effort into their aesthetics and design. I guess my disappointment also stems from how ViViD used to have covers I really like, especially "Across the Border" where you could juxtapose the two limited edition covers to get the entire eagle design. The only thing I like about these new covers: I'm relieved they have not decided to reprise their hideous hair from INFINITY.

To be fair, I haven't seen any official announcement that they won't disband. I took a cursory look at the members' blogs and some of their latest entries sound as if the band's gonna disband anytime o.0 We'll see. I still stand by my point though. If I'm a TRUST fan, I would not want them to disband. If I'm not a fan, I don't care. They can continue, or disband, or change their sex and join Golden Bomber - I simply don't care. Lots of bands have probably questioned if they truly wanted to continue at various points in time (with or without publicizing it), it's all part and parcel of the scene. *shrug*

Unfortunately, a lot of bands in vk sound terrible live, so I usually prefer studio versions. For a few bands like SID and vistlip, I occasionally watch their live performances either on youtube or DVD, but I rarely download the live versions because it just feels weird to have a handful of "live" versions in a entire playlist of studio recordings, lol. Very infrequently there are those artists whose voice are too huge for the studio and sound way better live. Adele is one obvious example for me, as well as most operatic performances etc.

I have no idea who this band is or what they are all about. Of course, this might just be a publicity stunt for all I know. But it seems just as likely that it's what Champ said - a direct way of assessing how many "fans" out there take your band seriously. I don't see why this isn't a legit way to do just that. Either way, I'll never say stuff like "Dang, I hope they disband". This might be an insanely unpopular opinion - but I really really hate to see bands disband (even as I know how frequent those stuff happen in the scene). Personally I'd rather invest my time/energy into supporting bands I like, instead of fervently praying for bands I don't like to disappear asap.

Album art I shall reserve my comments.

I think that's 3 new songs in addition to the digital singles released over the past few months. They've done this in the past - in fact "GUILDED" was entirely a collection of their live-limited singles before (iirc). In any case I'm delighted they're finally coming up with another album - can't wait for it

YAYYY~ About time.

Omg, my poor wallet ;_;