Memory Fragments

From what I heard, the Japanese fans call the Hawaii Live the VAMPS's honey moon XDDD There were even people already requesting leaves with the excuse of "attending a friend's wedding". XDDD

And am I the only one thinking the latest scandal between HYDE and Gackt is the perfect fanfic material? Someone write it please!

Congratulations for selling out the NYC live. If I rememeber correctly tonight should be the first live in their US Tour. This tour may not be as smooth and easy, I'm sure HYDE knows before making the decision to do it and is fully prepared to accept the outcome. The boys are trying hard to promote the tour, but given the economic condition... I doubt they will make any money from the US Tour, more like the opposite. But the thing that I love about the man is he is a child at heart, however is still a sensible and responsible adult. He know how to balance things to fulfil his own dream and get the best result. I heard there will a be 300 fans only event in Hawaii XDDD He is a perfect leader, definitely someone I would love to work for, even though he's endless ideas and sudden impulses might drive me to an early death XDDD

On the other hand, Gackt is also organising a special event in Singapore? These 2 are certainly very synchronised nowadays...

On the topic of Gackt, I also heard that on a certain magazine, HYDE was said to be at Gackt's birthday party and Gackt kissed him then showed it off to the others, practically saying "aren't you all jealous of me" *mega face palms*

I don't even know why I was shocked when I heard about this, like the last time HYDE lovingly wiping KAZ's sweet off from his forehead with his sleeve...

And thanks to snowdark, I enjoyed a quite time watching 2 Vamps videos last night. Even though I understood virtually nothing, but seeing HYDE's beautiful face, hearing him talk and sing in his sweet voice was a very healing process, especially after a busy week.

As for the status of planning my upcoming trip to Japan: ticket already been bought, JAL fare ended up being cheaper than budget airline Jetstar, which is great since I wasn't really looking forward to a boring/ painful 9 hour trip with Jetstar, with no in-flight entertainment and food/ drinks. After checking with Celga, I won the auction for a Jack in the Box ticket. I also paid for the ticket for the 02/09 Budokan live. And the rest is... TBA *face palm*

One question for those of you had been to lives in Japan: if I'm not a fan club member, but I have a fan club ticket, could I be able to use it? Do they ever check?

I'm interested in getting the FC tickets for some lives, but Celga refused to purchase them for me because I don't have membership.

I know I heard people saying they don't ever check, but just want to confirm again, because FC tickets costs a lot of money... I just want to be sure.

And, are the FC tickets only ever released a few days before the live? Most listings would say whether they already have the tickets, but this one doesn't. The link is here: http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h131875187

Thanks!

I'm so confused with the ticketing system in Japan...
And I can't understand whether people are trying to sell 2 or 1 tickets in yahoo auction listings...

And the fact that some ticket already exists, while others are only generated like 10 days before the lives confuses me to no end... *mega face palms*

2001年にリリースされたラルク アン シエル初のベストアルバムがBlu-spec CD(TM)仕様で登場！
「Clicked Singles Best 13」（Blu-spec CD 仕様）
2009.9.2 Release
Ki/oon Records
KSCL-20004　￥3,200(tax in)

*mega face palms* bad boys, bad boys... if you want to rob us of our money can't you at least give us something new??? T^T

I still haven't work out whether/ how I'm going to get Monthly VAMPS Vol 13 yet... T^T

I've finally managed to secure a promotion as well as a pay rise. Since I promised myself that if I didn't get them I would quite my job and not go to Japan, now it means I finally get to go! It also means I have about a month to plan my trip... *face palms*

I'm interested in getting the tickets to any of the lives below, if you can help me get ticket(s) please leave a message with price including shipping to Australia:

15 Aug 2009 Jack in the Box 2009

VAMPS' lives:

19 Aug 2009 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS JAPAN OSAKA
20 Aug 2009 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS JAPAN OSAKA
22 Aug 2009 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS JAPAN OSAKA
23 Aug 2009 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS JAPAN OSAKA
29 Aug 2009 NIHON GAISHI HALL NAGOYA
30 Aug 2009 NIHON GAISHI HALL NAGOYA
1 Sep 2009 NIPPON BUDOKAN TOKYO
2 Sep 2009 NIPPON BUDOKAN TOKYO
4 Sep 2009 NIPPON BUDOKAN TOKYO
5 Sep 2009 NIPPON BUDOKAN TOKYO

lynch. live:

26 Aug 2009 Electric Lady Land NAGOYA

If anyone who is also going and is interested in meeting up, please let me know ^^

At least the type B has got a bit of plot... not I mind the type A, being nothing but an eye candy for his fans...



But... Isn't that the girl from VAMPS' Evanescent PV...?

Just saw this on youtube:



Has anyone watched the second episode of Mr Brian where Gackt appeared as a guest star playing a man-eating serial killer? I must admit he did a fabulous job, I was a bit scared by his beautiful insanity... then I watched this... my brain just froze...

If his song, Ghost reminds me of heavier version of the Perfume songs, this one is like something taken straight from a Perfume album ^^bbb And the dance he did with the bunch of hostess background dancers was very Perfume as well...

Actually I'm not very surprised by what the song is like given the single cover looks like this...



I still can't quite decide whether I'm saddened or grateful that he decided to forgo the dress. But I do know one thing for sure... HYDE-sama really should use his Ageha magazine appearance to do something more grant... like getting into his gal gear. If he and Gackt ever team up they would put all the girls in the world to shame.

Credit: 蒲喵 @ --+ 虹盏 +--

This got to be the sweetest thing EVER!!!! *dies 500 million times*

I can't believe any one is capable of making Acid Android!Yuki laughing like that! I mean that Acid Android!Yuki, no Laruku!yuki! HYDE-sama really isn't human after all <3333



And has any one seem this yet? When I first opened the pic, it was in its full size, so I was rewarded with a very close up to HYDE's face, and I'm not shamed to admit I was totally mesmerised by his beauty. His eyes really are his most attractive feature! Then I shrank it to see the whole pic... then I thought... wait... there seems to be something not so right about this pic... why does HYDE has a figure that resembles a slender, flat chest girl, and these 2 totally look like the female head of the gangster and her his body guard... oh wait... isn't HYDE looking a bit too tall as well? *gets kicked*

Get the full size pic from What'in? Web.

And the special guest of this month's Monthly VAMPS is... Aki from Sid.

Today Yesterday (as I'm 23 minutes late ^^bb) marked the anniversary of the Hong Kong stop in L'7 Tour, the one I had the enormous pleasure to participate in.

THANK YOU LARUKU, FOR GIVING ME SUCH A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE!!!!

I can still vividly rememeber the day: the crowded hall way before the live; the endless and ever expanding queue for tour goods; the wonderful fans that I shared the precious one and half hour with; the mother that walked in with her 3-4 year old child that I later on heard had a great time together; vibration of the floor when we jumped and screamed (I thought it was going to fall apart under us and it would have been a wonderful way to go); the lovely Cantonese girl next to me who was kindly enough to translate the boys' mc to Mandarin as I don't understand Cantonese, the human waves that we created during encore.

And, of course the boys:

hyde: incredibly beautiful, with a voice of a god... who nearly tripped over when he jumped from the stand during Killing Me XDDD who also comforted us for the devasting earthquake that took place in China.

ken: smexy long legs and talented fingers, messy hair and hilarious mc <333

leader-sama: bouncy and genki

yuki: ... in his track suit again... when I saw it I knew immediately this show wasn't going to get recorded, at least not for the main part of a tour DVD T^T

And their boss, who looked at us with a look of approval XDDD

They must had been quite impressed with the number of male fans turned up that night, they accounted for about 2/5 of the audiences, and most them were not there to accompany their girlfriends. Many were there by themselves or as a group.

THANK YOU FOR A NIGHT THAT I WILL NEVER FORGET!!!!

VAMPS was on Mujack a couple days ago to promote their Evanescent single. Yes, the same show yasu was previously on and admitting his undying love for HYDE repeatedly XDDD

VAMPS, obviously have to share a love seat.



( Love, love under the cut )

It's so shiny, bright enough to blind my eyes XDDD



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I'm surprised the talk part is soooo short!!! I was expecting some epic interview. Those Laruku interview in MF had always been fantastic. HYDE was again declaring his undying love for soba in the talk part??? LOL

NEEDS THE HQ DOWNLOAD!!!

Latest news:

Apparently, you didn't need to kiss your fake lover to prove your authenticity and get in the venue. But there was a notice outside stating this requirement and caused some panics XDDD Oh, HYDE-sama!!

In the MC, HYDE asked the fans whether they came as couples. Then someone asked, "What about you?" He answered, "I'm KAZ's" = =bbb

Then they threw presents that can only be used between couples (condoms?) to the audiences.

One of the fans wanted HYDE to kiss KAZ, then HYDE said he would only do it if they do it too! So he picked 2 girls, and he in fact picked 2 girls who didn't even know each other by mistake. The poor girls... everyone there expected them to do it, unfortunately they were too shy. But in the end, he did kiss KAZ on his cheek.

He also showed off his tattoo today, they are in the shape of thick thorns. They seems to be quite thick.

This is what I have gathered from reading 2 different live reports on the Vampires v.s. Android live. It was beyond awesome!

Apparently, the news about Acid Android making an appearance was leaked somehow, there were lots of Acid Android fans. The Citta was very, very packed.

The start time was 6:66 pm usual, but the stage background was the giant writing of 人造人间 = Android. And Acid Android was up first. Vocalist!yuki was a totally different creature from the drummer!yuki who seems to be obsessed with wearing track suits. He wore a very low back tank top, with a see through shirt, so his back was basically visible. And very sexy with his blond hair!

Set list:

ring the noise
perpetual motion
imagining noisese
relation
double dare
unsaid
amniotic
chill
let's dance
chaotic
ego
daze
enmity

yuki didn't make any MC at all. Acid Android was on stage for about a hour.

VAMPS came out about half hour late.

In the first MC, HYDE recounted yuki and his 1100km long distance love story how yuki drove from Tokyo to Fukuoka all the way by himself just to see HYDE. HYDE complained that yuki made such an effort but refused to even stay to have dinner with him XDD He probably had in his mind about doing this live from that time.

When they played SEX BLOOD ROCKIN' ROLL, Jin started the song off, but no one followed him, he repeated quite a few times and kept looking at Ari strangely because Ari's drum was suppose to follow him, but Ari ignored him. Then HYDE lead all the audiences into sing Happy Birthday to Jin. Before the live, everyone had received instructions to create a surprise for Jin. Then a staff pushed out a cake and Jin blew the candles. Then they shared the cake. HYDE really semed to enjoy it, he wasn't ready to get back to performing even after everyone else was already back in their positions until he took one last bit straight from the cake. XDD

Then after SEX BLOOD ROCKIN' ROLL and Midnight celebration, VAMPS left the stage, but no one was ready to leave, despite it was already about 30 minutes longer than previous lives. Everyone was screaming different things, range from encore to VAMPS, to yuki, to Acid Android.

In the encore, yuki started singing It's a Fine Day, and later on HYDE joined in, but singing Revelation instead. They kept switching around. And somehow they moved on to sing The Beautiful People. At the end HYDE hugged yuki from the back, yuki's adorable and shy smile killed many fans.

Credit: ──・╋虹色の青春╋・── & -+-with hyde-+-

The VAMPS album is fantastic! My personal picks are:
Evanescent
Time Goes By
Cosmos
Sweet Dreams
Deep Red
I Gotta Kick Start Now
Secret in My Heart
Redrum

Unfortunately, I still don't see how SEX BLOOD ROCK N' ROLL beats Midnight Celebration.

The rumour is to get into the venue, the couple must kiss to prove their authenticity =[]=

HYDE-sama, you are really having fun, aren't you? XDDD

You better make a really worth while for the poor fans who have to team up to pretend being couples.

Sorry about doing 1 post after another ^^b

But I bet you want to see this!



( More pics from What's In? under the cut )

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vampire v.s. Android, and the Android is really yuki!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *dies a million times*

Edit:

Latest development-

yuki and hyde sang Revelation together! yuki started with the AA version of It's a Find Day, then hyde came in with Revelation, they switched around through out the entire session like this. In the end, they hugged each other!!!

HYDE-SAMA, THIS BETTER BE IN YOUR NEXT LIVE DVD OR ELSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

I said I wasn't going to do it, but... I did...

I bought a 1500 yen Japanese iTune card from http://www.jpopmp3s.com/ It provides similar service as to the site http://www.jbox.com that aalenchan recommended, but I don't think jbox.com has the 1500 yen card in stock available at the moment, only 3000 yen one, and I didn't want to get the 3000 yen one because I don't think I'll buy anything other than the VAMPS songs from iTune. http://www.jpopmp3s.com/ also takes paypal, so if you don't have a credit card you can still set up an account with your normal bank account. 1500 yen is good amount, I was able to buy all the non single tracks that I wanted:

3. COSMOS
4. SECRET IN MY HEART
6. VAMPIRE DEPRESSION
7. REDRUM
8. DEEP RED
11. SWEET DREAMS
13. SEX BLOOD ROCK N'ROLL

The service was quite good, the code arrived in my email in about 15 minutes, and the instruction was quite detailed. Highly recommended.

Since I had never brought from iTune before, and I was a bit worried about its copy right restriction, but since the songs play on my ipod as well, I'm quite happy.

Still listening to the songs, but... OMG, I just can't get over how beautiful COSMOS is T^T

Congratulations, VAMPS. On the second day of selling, EVANESCENT has moved up from the 3rd position to second.