Tuesday, February 22, 2005

   Holy shit...
I've pre-ordered the 1st press of L'Arc~en~Ciel's upcoming single, "New World," and my credit card is feeling the first blow of many to come in the near future.

...I might actually get to go to the L'Arc~en~Ciel live in Seoul. If it doesn't conflict with my uni graduation, I'll be dying from happiness in Korea 4 months from now.

However, I'm almost expecting something horrible to happen that'll prevent me from going. Right now, I'm not really optimistic like I was for Baltimore because I was pretty sure I was going to go to that one, and I got super disappointed when plans fell through. So right now, my hopes aren't floating too high.

Whatever. I'm just glad that L'Arc~en~Ciel is going to be pumping out the singles and a 10th album in the upcoming months. If I'm able to see them live in Korea, good shit, I can die soon afterwards. But if not, meh, it's not like I really expected to see them at all in the near future. The chances of that happening are really slim unless a few drastic things happen...which also depend heavily on...more things that I cannot reveal.

A friend of mine is on the business side of things in terms of JPop/JRock, and I'm helping him with research on...a certain band's US fanbase (no it's not Laruku...but hrm...). The other night, my friend revealed a few business things to me that I swore I wouldn't say to anyone, but all I can say is that he's pretty damn connected.

More connected than I thought possible.

While I can't say a lot of stuff, I can say...his prized posession is the first press of Driver's High because that's his favorite song. And he told me it became even more precious because it recently got altered.

With a Sharpie pen.

...with four distinct scribbles on it.

And the lead vocalist of this particular band gave my friend a pick he used when recording his solo albums.

You know how it's said that everyone is connected through 6 degress of separation? Apparently, those four particular guys and a certain ex-Malice Mizer member/Moonchild star are within 3 degrees of separation from me.

It's enough to make anyone go all fangirly and shit, but I guess I'm sort of looking at things from a more 'this-could-benefit-my-future-career-plans" type of perspective.

Even with that connection though, I'm not expecting anything to happen. I am guaranteed to meet a certain band in the v. near future (3 months from now if things work out), so I'll just have to make the best out of that meeting, and hope for things to take off from there.

Whatever happens happens. If nothing happens...Cool. Just gotta go with the flow. I'm almost quite happy I didn't get into the JET program...seems there's another path forming right before my very eyes. Not going to think too much on it though.

Cuz it all seems way too surreal.

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