One of the most critically acclaimed animation films ever made.
Cyberpunk, war, nuclear, delinquents, you get it. Plus bike racing =D
AKIRA Sunday, May 18 2008
Uncategorized 8:39 pm
GLAY – survival (PV) Sunday, May 18 2008
Music 8:22 pm
Animation by Studio 4°C
For a Japanese PV, it’s amazingly easy to understand even if it’s still kinda abstract.
Kiyoharu and Ayumi Hamasaki performing a SADS song on Ayuready Wednesday, Apr 2 2008
Uncategorized 1:59 pm
I want 5 inch heels (with platforms, of course, because I have small, inflexible feet) Saturday, Mar 22 2008
Lyrics and quotes and Music and Pencil (complete) 3:03 pm
Why? Because they’re funky. Flat stuff are boring. Even though it’s hell in to walk in, I guess it’s kind of fun to walk funny in funny looking things. Becuase I’m bored like that.
To go with all the cynicism that’s going to occur. Please don’t take this seriously. Becuase I don’t. This thing I drew, I mean.
And just because nilyave brought it up…here I go with the translation of mushi’s lyrics:
I can’t open myself up to anyone I can’t believe in anyone at all
and I can’t see anything the light that shines is disappearing, soon it will be gone
unable to open myself up this is my weakness, my past
I can get what I want, yet if I do, the kindness I’m holding onto will slip away
the typical answer is when you die, you’ll be reborn, come back again
my heart is shattered, soon it will break apart
stifling my tears, I laugh day after day
my heart has shown me that believing is nothing
those hypocrites killed me
my heart is shattered, soon it will crumble away
stiffling my tears, I scream day after day
my heart has left me with a belief in strength
my own heart killed me
It’s an amazing song. Kyo sounds like his heart’s really breaking when sings it. And Kaoru’s guitar…eargasm. By the way, with the way I am, I never really intend on drawing on whatever I draw. See, subconciousness. Surrealism.
I shall comment on Ayu’s latest PV for ‘Mirrorcle World’ another time. Yes, pun. Get used to it. It’s a cool song. The PV…you either hate it or love it. I love it…except for some really badly done parts. How could she let such weird editing slide?! Anyway, now I’m listening to Namie quite a lot. She’s got great songs too. I’m not feeling emo enough to be able to appreciate Kiyoharu or Diru or X Japan or Elliott Smith or even Ayu. Appreciate as in being able to take in the intensity of the song.
People should learn how to appreciate meaningless but not brainless lyrics and songs. And stop fawning over boring songs with mushy lyrics. No, not romantic, mushy. Just plain m~u~s~h~y.
Recently I’ve been into techno…ah…what the hell. Ok.
First, I liked classical music. I don’t know how young I was, but I was definitely still in the single digit range. I still listen to 92.4 before I fall asleep.
Second, it was catchy pop. Yea, I could, and still can, appreciate some Britney Spears. Fwahaha. That was also when I was in single digit. Oh, and add the ballads in too, like that Titanic song.
Third was pop/rock…or something like that. Michelle Branch and blah. I still had only like…3 cds back then? I was in upper primary already.
Next came in the rockish stuff. First, Evanesence (exactly what are they classified under?). I never liked the punk rock of today. Simple Plan be damned!
Then enter the Jmusic that was like, ‘Woah yeah! This is the S**T!’. Lots of VKei, X Japan, Diru…as well as lots of Jpop like DAI and BoA and…that was years ago. I used to listen to more Jpop, but now I only listen to the 3 queens. Namely, Utada, Namie, and Ayumi. Diru introduced me to the world of metal. They’re not technically metal, but man, they’re heavy. X was all that old school stuff. Long live X! (this was when my interest in music sparked) Ayu, Diru, and X Japan sparked the whole lyrics, emotional lives thing. Kiyoharu’s melancholy is…on a supreme level of its own.
Next was acoustic. But it was more like…unplugged/remixed versions of some hardcore songs. Am not a big fan of really soft stuff now.
Then it was the oldies rock n roll. The Doors, Beatles, Neil Young, Led Zep, QUEEN. I never liked anything folk or country till I knew Bob Dylan. I first saw his name in Kinky Friedman’s book. Grunge was there too. Need I mention names?
The hamster introduced me to rap and hip-hop. I used to never be able to appreciate rap, but yea, Eminem’s really it. I hardly listen to this genre though.
Now there’s electronic…like Daft Punk. Yea, well, don’t blame me for liking all the popular guys. I mean, they’re not popular for nothing. Daft Punk’s acutally house…not techno. Crap, I’m new to this. But this will probably fall under the same listening frequency as rap.
Lessee…I kinda like swing jazz, being in band and all. I doze off uwillingly to lounge-y stuff, and I only listen to newage when I’m in some gift store. RnB bores my ears but I can still bob to it…hmm…ah well, that’s all I can think of. Long, pointless thing. Supposedly pointless. Supposedly.
“I will sing without you~~” (Toshi’s got a mad voice)
Lost in Translation. I don’t need fancy, empty words. Saturday, Feb 16 2008
Lyrics and quotes 10:44 pm
The kind of inspiration that can’t be seen. I draw many things, for one reason that cannot be explained in one word.
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No matter what loneliness comes,
no matter what pain you feel,
you mustn’t close your eyes to it.
Because even if you lose all your
words, even if you say it doesn’t matter,
if you stumble
it will be there to help you up.
That’s the kind of thing it is.
-from SURREAL by Hamasaki Ayumi
Supposing life is a momentary dream
It would be like a flower
Even if destined to fall
It is all the more precious for its transience
-from Dolls by Hamasaki Ayumi
If you only look
You will never get it
If you only look
It will never be yours
-from Catcher in the Light by Hamasaki Ayumi
There were
Only a few things
Truly important and necessary
And the rest were mainly decorations
-from alterna by Hamasaki Ayumi
It’s not so simple, I don’t care even if I look laughable
-from until that Day… by Hamasaki Ayumi
I want to live,
I want to give
I’ve been a miner
for a heart of gold.
It’s these expressions
I never give
That keep me searching
for a heart of gold
And I’m getting old.
-from Heart of Gold by Neil Young
Till next time. Whatever.
Feels like cliche (I’m on an old roll) Saturday, Feb 16 2008
Uncategorized 9:44 pm
Colour pencil on black paper. They’re here because they existed. Manifestation, identification, and delusion. Self-explanatory. It’s too corny to say it in words. Old stuff. Boy, have I grown.
Hyde down there was real recently done. Like, just a moment ago. A rather painful moment.
Lyrics next. (Huh. Can’t help it. Had to put them in sooner or later)
Not enough Love to go round this World Saturday, Feb 16 2008
Black and White hyde, Jrock, pastel, sex, white on black 9:26 pm
HYDE of L’Arc~en~Ciel in one heckuvan outift. White pastel on black paper. I confess that I’ve failed to do justice to his cuteness. But for all my faults, you shall never know which is that I’ve commited. Weird grammar. I tried, I can at least say with pride.
