allisapp

I still think this is the best one ever:
 

 
I still miss sai's best of chat from her Last.fm. 8<

I still think this is the best one ever:
 

 
I still miss sai's best of chat from her Last.fm. 8<

I still think this is the best one ever:
 

 
I still miss sai's best of chat from her Last.fm. 8<

I prefer to travel alone as well because most people aren't interested in the same kind of things. Anyway I have a few amazing though somewhat random memories of the time I was living in Japan:
 
1) Cycling 20km just to see Japanese pampas grass. I was dead beat at the end of it but to witness the expanse of golden lights dancing at dusk when the grass is in season was something special.
 
2) I found myself in a very rural part of Ise because I had visited the shrine in the morning and didn't want to return to Kyoto so early. There, local trains run once every 2 hours. While waiting for the train I met a high school girl who approached me to ask for the train schedule, whether the next train stops at every stop, and a bunch of other strange questions (for a Japanese at least). From our conversation that followed I found out that was her very first time taking the train - she cycles to the next village for school every day but that morning her bicycle had died so she had no choice but to take the train. I remember teaching her how to pay for the train ride and the priceless look on her face when the train started moving =D
 
3) I wandered into this small ramen place in rural Gifu when I was in the area as a stopover between Takayama and Nagoya. They had no menu whatsoever. Apparently the shopkeeper knows every single of her customers, and she would get their orders ready the moment they step into the place. Obviously they were excited seeing someone they've never seen before, so everyone gathered around me and we chatted about random stuff from Japanese politics to the dog next door (they much preferred the latter topic).
 
4) Going up to the Japanese Alps was fun, but unpleasant because I forgot my jacket.
 
5) Among my closest friends were a freelance translator who had probably been to half the countries in the world, a Japanese with rainbow hair who had gone to Paris to study fashion, and a somewhat popular host(!) in Osaka. There were other less quirky but no less amazing people I've met as well.

I FUCKING DON'T WINE!
 
I SIMPLY DID MISUNDERSTOOD THAT BAD RIPS ALSO WILL BE LABELED AS TRANSCODES.
 
And the answer is simply: YES, everything with LQ = Transcode, including the WMP rips etc.
 
 
But I'm so fucking done with MH.
 
goodbye. I will never speak a word nor contribute something to this forum.

I don't think I have shown my baby on this thread before? Twix is almost 2 years old, mixed breed. Other breed is pretty much European Shorthair, her father's breed is unknown. She and her mom, Napsu (my sister's cat) looks pretty much identical. But anyways, this is my sweetie:


 
And this is her when she was about four months old~ :
 

As far as I know, wrongfully declaring customs is illegal, so they might have gotten a notice about that(or stopped because they don't want to get in trouble).
 
I got my first American customs fee, but avoided it like a boss :v I guess if you order things with FedEx, then they'll charge you a customs fee. For some reason they sent the fee payment notice to Santa Fe Tobacco Company instead of me, so I had some guy calling me from there a few times wondering who the hell I was, but I just didn't answer the phone and he gave up eventually.
 
This is how 'murricans handle customs fees. DON'T TREAD ON ME.

One kittyafro coming up ~ I now think that you look better with a bit longer hair, CAT!

It is done. My greatest life work is complete.
 

Rofl Cat! XD
And sai, nah, I am most certainly a blonde, it is just the light (though there is a little bit of red in my beard). See?

Haven't visited this thread for a while! It's time to change that;
 

Haven't visited this thread for a while! It's time to change that;
 

Haven't visited this thread for a while! It's time to change that;
 

Wait wait wait stop the train. Is this an option? How much do I need to donate to hear CAT read me obscure VK news?

The CDs I bought arrived safely today. No complains, as they were in really good condition, expect from one thing, which most likely was due to the shipping - it's easily fixable though.
 
Paid for the CDs on the weekend, Mr Bacon sent them on monday, so there was no problems with that either! I'd definitely recommend him and his CDs!

The usual:
Tatsurou (MUCC)
Daisuke (the studs & kagerou)
Gara (Merry)
ryo (9GOAT BLACK OUT)
Takanori Nishikawa (Abingdon Boys School & T.M.Revolution)
Atsushi Sakurai (BUCK-TICK)
Hyde (L'arc~en~ciel)
And also Taka (ONE OK ROCK), Takeshi Hosomi (Ellegarden & the hiatus) and the best: Ta-ma (ROACH)

I agree with this topic, I've at lengths discussed the problems I've seen and experienced as a user of this site with several other regulars. From the POV of a user, it seems that a few members of the staff, namely Zess, CAT and sai, seems to carry up the large majority of the duties associated with being a moderator/admin, while the contributions of the rest can be seen as sporadic at best. 
 
It seems like some members of the staff stay purely on past merits, good graces, nepotism, etc. and I think this is an issue that must be taken into consideration; If you don't have the proper time to invest in working on the site, should you really hold a position of power? If someone is consistantly so busy with real life that they can't put down a couple of hours a week at least (in my opinion a couple of hours per day would be preferable), they should be asking themselves what they really bring to the site. The administration should make a regular review of the moderators performance and if they don't make the cut, they should be relieved of duty immidately. Inefficient members of the administration should also consider giving up their positions to people more suitable for the task.
 
This place needs a shake up, and I'm not convinced that the current staff line up is up to the task. If the whole team showed the same dedication that the previously mentioned people do most of the time, then this place would most likely be heading towards major improvement, not just in activity and administration, but also in terms of order.
 
Finally, perhaps a bit controversial as its just a theory, but, I've heard several good suggestions come from certain mods and admins I've talked to, but fact seems that the majority is too busy clinging to status quo out of sheer laziness that none or very few have been implemented successfully. 

I'll probably get shot for this, but now that there's a thread for these I'm going to give it a try anyway.
 
I simply do not understand people who claim they love MEJIBRAY for the vocals. That is mainly because in my ears the vocalist sounds awful. I know there are two kinds of awful, as in "I don't like the sound of his voice or the way he uses it but technically he can still sing" and then there's the "there are so many things wrong technically that it just sounds like shit" option. For me, MEJIBRAY's vocalist falls in the second category. His screams are awful, his regular vocals are weak and usually can't carry the music and he's out of tune about 99% of the time. Like I said, I'm probably going to get some angry replies to this but this is MY OPINION. I'm not stating it as fact, nor am I trying to shit on your favourite vocalist/band. I just can't listen to him.
 
also guys hating on Gazette is so 2007. Idk I'm not even a Gazette fan but I feel like quite some people hate on Gazette because it's popular to hate (while actually listening to tons of indie versions of Gazette themselves, GOTTA RAISE MY INDIE-CRED).