Memory Fragments

Ken-chan's DVD is here!!! <3333

But do they really have to pack in a so much bigger than necessary box so I ended up having to pay extra to CDJapan for shipping, because, really, there isn't that many things... T^T

The outer box, the all evil to my poor wallet:



The photo book:

Very VAMP-ish actually, reminds me of the scans of the US tour photo book that I have seen.



The smaller version of the lion that I was dying to get my hand on during JITB Summer. I tried to hang it on 2 of my current work bags, but... it just looks so strange no matter what I do... *bursts into tears*



The actual DVD... to be very honest, the packaging is not to the usual standard of Ken-chan's goods/ releases:



The 3 post cards:



The live contains his infamous cover of Laruku's Love Boy and a MUCC song as well.

I just started watching the live. I must say there are times that Ken-chan looks like he is overtaken by HYDE LOL just look at the way he dances and moves LOL. And the really sexy girl who acts as his backstage vocal/ dancer has a beautiful voice, but I feel her voice doesn't mix that well with Ken-chan's... I don't think she is the same girl as the one I saw in JITB though, who looked very western... Can't be sure... She has a very strong and powerful sound, but may not be 100% suitable to the style of Ken's music, at least I don't think so, especially considering Ken-chan's voice can be a bit childish at times. And she looks really S on stage LOL

For those of you are proficient in Japanese, please tell me what the first 5 products are on the first roll. Turning everything into a pic make online translation impossible to use T^T

My greatly anticipated Ken-chan DVD is about to be shipped, however CDJapan has just informed me that they need to up the shipping charge... *sighs* I hope the package is soooooooo gigantic and so full of goodies to justify this! T^T

As some of you may know, one of the senior staffs of Danger Crue had passed away 2 days ago in a car accident. コメットさん had accompanied Laruku ever since their indie days, he had always been a very valuable member of the team. I had heard quite a few account of how he was brave enough to climb onto the high flag poles to adjust the flags repeatedly despite the high wind and pouring rain during the L'7 Tour in Shanghai, because he wanted the fans to get the best possible live experience they could possibly get. He was such a dedicated person, well-known and well-loved by the fans. It was heart breaking to hear this tragic news.

コメットさん, thank you for supporting our beloved boys throughout the years. You will be missed.

Jack in the Box Summer as broadcast on Asahi TV last night. Don't know why, but nowadays actual files are so hard to find.

Here is what I have managed to dug out now, and I'm dying to get my hand on the good quality original file. Someone please share it, pretty please?

VAMPS:



It perfectly captured the scene that HYDE overtook Juken's mic, but found it was set way too high for him, he had to run back to his own mic stand. Thank goodness it was already fixed by the dedicated staff LOL



Super All Star Section:



I actually don't remember them sound that bad together *coughs* It was like they all decided to sing the song at different keys. I was too busy getting a good look of Ken-chan and Yuki who followed Ken aroud like an adorable puppy. But I did think singing the same song 2 years in a roll was kinda of bland.

I was told this is the complete show, but since I never have much luck with tudou.com, the streaming is always very, very slow on my internet. I hope you guys have better luck than me.

Poor Chuck, he seriously would go to the earth and earth for Blair, including seducing a man at her instruction! *is laughing my head off*

Sorry for being so late, forgive me puppy!~~~ Please, pretty please?

Also apologize for my lack of html/ coding skills to make this entry bright and sparkly ^^b

Happy birthday girl! May all of your wishes come true in the new year, and get to see lots of HYDE again!

Here is my absolute favourite at the moment! Yes, it is one of your scans ^^b



BTW, I've been totally obsessed with smoky eye look lately, no thanks to this beautiful man. Next time when we meet up, please let me play make up on you again! You always look so georgous. You have got great facial structure to work with.

Somehow I overlooked this release. Must admit I was very surprised by what I was hearing. It is so un-Girugamesh, but great nonetheless. Their versatility really impressed me.

But I do want to complain to DC, please buy these boys some clothes... if I'm not mistaken, they were also wearing them at the JITB Summer, and it was like 35 degrees back then...

Looks like our favorite android drummer is about to be out of his secluded life! Acid Android is about to be active once again! Yuki did say he liked to surprise his fans. I wonder what he has in store for us. Maybe a new album??? A new tour??? That would be beyond fantastic! I think Ken-chan also mentioned that he would have another tour towards the end of the year during JITB???? Since I'm not suppose to understand Japanese, did I imagine it myself? But if it is true and AA does decide to do a tour roughly at the same time, someone would seriously need to take away my passport and chain me to my office. I'm afraid I'm going to jump on a plane straight way!!! My mum had already threatened to send me to a shrink because of my obsession with the Fabulous 4 T^T

Ahhhh~~~ Yuki~~~~ *can't stop the insane fan girl screams*

I still can vivid remember how awkward these 2 boys looked during the all star session of the Jack in the Box. They were close to each other on stage for quite a bit of time, but always had someone in between them, somewhat acting like a buffer (I think it was Morrie, if I remembered correctly). It was like they wanted to reach out to each other but don't know quite how to. And now only a few months later, they are obviously close enough to be rubbing shoulders and getting drunk together. I bet we will see HYDE calling Kiyoharu Kiyo-chan or something equally ridiculous very soon LOL

Now someone please fill me in on what happened at last night's live!!!!

OMGOMG!!! Kiyoharu!!!

I wasn't expecting him to cross dress at all! Because I didn't think it would look that good on him. I had always thought his working-at-a-host-club works best for him, but I was so wrong! He makes a stunning Oiran (similar to Geisha, I think)! OMG!!! And did I say he looked STUNNING??? And those pink eye shadows and pink lip colour, I wasn't dare to wear them when I was 16. And he pulled it off when he is 41!!! OMG!!!! *drools*



Talking about how jrockers messed up my taste and fashion sense.

I strongly suspected Mao jumped the guy as soon as he got off the stage.

From Mao's blog:



Being surrounded by both Kiyoharu-san and HYDE-san, I felt like I was in a dream like state, I no longer knew what I was doing! This is the treasure of my youth!!!!


From Kiyoharu's blog:

I can't say whether I was dressed to be a lady or a Oiran, regardless this was how I looked when I performed on stage. Sorry for doing this when I'm 41 years old, but it had been a great pleasure participating in this live. Thank you, HYDE-san. Let's go and celebrate.

Apparently, Anis from Monoral also dressed up as a Oiran at the Monoral's Halloween live. I had seen fans raving about how beautiful he looked. Can't wait to see a pic!

Sorry HYDE-sama, I kinda ignored your presence.

Now I need to go and find out what had happened at the live!

Credit: 蒲喵 @ VAMPROSE ADDICT

Must say reading the few reports that I came across so far I'm not that enticed and excited about this year's VAMPS Helloween lives. Maybe because the last year ones were way too spectacular and fans all had higher expectations. Plus this year's ticket were super hard to get, they moved to a much smaller venue. I heard a ticket is priced around 40000 yen on yahoo auction OMG....

Being a shallow fan, Helloween lives means the opportunity to see HYDE-sama in a dress/ skirt/ fishnet stockings etc. something extraordinary, so far I'm not being impressed *coughs* The only thing I want to see was HYDE doing a copy of 分岛花音 (Kanon Wakeshima)'s doll like dance in his super cool rocker clothes LOL

It does make me wonder how he made acquittance with this girl. All I know about her is she is trained/ produced by Mana, who as we all know is/ was acquitted with Gackt.

And on the second night, the special guest who all the fans were so excited about was actually a magician, who performed at the live... *has fainted* HYDE-sama, I sometimes do wonder how your mind works.

And this year no Yasu's insane fanboying... so sad...

No matter! The only one that I really care about is the last live that will take place tonight! OMG!!! Kiyoharu!!! My ultimate dream of seeing him performing with HYDE is about to come true!!!! And I won't be there to witness it T^T The unfairness of the world. Just imagining them singing songs like Strawberry and Pornostar is enough to send me to hospital. In fact, I hope the Japanese government has reserved a couple ambulances for this live, the fans are going to need it!

For those of you that are not familiar with SADS/ Kiyoharu, here are the MVs of the above 2 songs. Just a word of warning though, they are not very work/ or watching with mum & dad safe ^^bb





Please darlings~~~ Please don't disappoint me like you two did at the Jack in the Box Summer! That was mean!!!! I didn't even get to see that legendary hug T^T *kicks the camera men for not picking it up on big screens*

= =bbb

Ugly as hell, someone give me a reason to buy this thing... What is the unreleased live footage that will come with it? It's better not be Hurry Xmas...

The only thing I'm looking forward to is Ken-chan's DVD now who has shocking resemblance to HYDE on the cover.

SOMEONE PLEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAASE TELL ME WHERE THIS PIC CAME FROM *drools*

For a single girl like me not spending my Saturday night out drinking and dancing and flirting with anything that is male, instead, choosing to stay at home, staring at my computer screen and drooling over a guy who is already married and has history with a long, long trail of males it really can not be healthy...

BUT HE IS JUST SOOOOOOOOOO ADORABLE!!!! YOU CAN'T BLAME ME!!!!

The whole show (or most of it) of the US Live is up on youtube! And the quality is great!!! To be honest, I was greatly surprised to hear that it was to be aired on paid TV instead of being released as DVD (my wallet is certainly being thankful), but the fact that I still can't find the download for the whole is driving me INSANE!!!!

And my prediction about straying heart = even more inflated wallet is certainly coming true. Just got an email notification from CDJapan, Kiyoharu will release a new live DVD called The 41st Birthday. Considering his last live DVD was called The 40th Birthday, I spilled my tea from laughing too hard = =bb

... who the hell did his make-up on that day??????!!! I know the whole dark trend is hot nowadays... but... *groans*

And how did they manage to shrink his eyes to 1/3 of their natural size???

He looks like ken-chan from sakura era!

*runs off to bed now*

Yes, unlike the previous two I had (the first one I had was lost within like 10 days = =bb) this is authentic. And it is beautiful!

I had always thought Alex Streeter jeweleries could only be purchased by going into their stores, or buy it off from yahoo auction, and they are usually horrendously expensive (like 80000 - 90000 yen =[]= ) because they gave out no email address for oversea inquiries etc on their website. It was purely chance that one day when I browsed the Angel Heart Collection on their website, I clicked on the ring, then a inquiry page popped up. So I was able to get in contact with them. The girl I spoke to was really nice, she answered endless questions for me, also set up paypal account because I was concerned with providing my credit card details over email. I paid on last Friday, and today I have the ring on my finger!





The only thing I was slightly disappointed with was the fact that it didn't come with a wooden box as I had seen in Japanese listings, only a red pouch, but then again, they do charge so much more.

*Looks at my bank account balance and winces*

This, apparently is the cover of Ken-chan's upcoming tour DVD...



OMG... He looks like the love child of Kiyoharu and HYDE a cross between Kiyoharu and HYDE... He looks hawt but... *mega face palm*

And Tetsu had a drummer who styled like hyde in Jack in the Box, what has the world become???

It's not like I hadn't cried enough times when I watched the live performances of this particular song when I was in Japan... I'm just so hopeless... = =|||

2009 VAMPS USA LIVE - EVANESCENT

Dear F-list, has the full file of the show surfaced yet? Either I'm blind or gone insane, I can't seem to find it everywhere.

I strongly suspect that he knows my heart has started to stray recently, so he throws this pic at me. I'm so speechless! Look at those mega beautiful eyes, the smoky eye look at its best. And how the lips are kept classically nude but thank goodness matte not glossy, I don't think I can take that yet. Tell me what I have to bribe his make-up artist with so she would upload a tutorial on youtube about how to achieve this look. The Libra in me is mess of endless fangirling, it's in our nature to be defenseless to all things beautiful T^T

BTW, I have watched the very, very, very short digest of the Jack in the Box in Summer... I just want to say I'm so glad that I'm not a die hard yuki fan... I love him dearly, just not at the same level as HYDE yet. But seriously, what is wrong with that boy???? Showing his face once in a while isn't going to kill him! He purposely eliminates himself from appearing in so many magazines/ shows etc. Sometimes, the fans only wants to know whether the person they love so much is doing well. It is a such small wish, but so difficult to fulfill in this case. I feel the pain of all yuki fans out there.