Friday :: 14.7.06 :: 1055 hours
current music: Silly God Disco // Gazette
current mood: =D
Hm. Silly God Disco. When i first heard this song, I was majorly surprised. I didn't think it was
Anwyho...gawd, what happened to them!? I loved their 'hard rock' sound. =/
OMG, now Paris Hilton's in the music business. I bet her album will suck.
This is one of my drawings. It's Riza Hawkeye, the hottest chick from FMA. She doesn't get enough love. x_x
Finally, a jrock band feature - Tokyo Jihen! ^^
Tokyo Jihen is the vehicle of iconic singer/songwriter/guitarist Shiina Ringo. Aggressively billed as a "real band", and including Shiina's accomplished touring musicians Mikio Hirama (guitar), Seiji Kameda (bass), Masayuki Hiizumi (keyboards), and Toshiki Hata (drums), a lot of the buzz about Tokyo Jihen is still Shiina herself.
Shiina quickly matured into one of Japan's most iconoclastic and creative artists, the first stage of her solo career culminating in the landmark Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana - her third and last solo record, and arguably the most compelling major label musical statement of 2003.
Although critically and commercially successful as a solo artist, the concept of working in a more collaborative band format was not foreign to Shiina, and she had reportedly already decided on the idea of moving in this direction as she worked on her last solo album.
With a history of naming her backing bands (Momoiro Spanner, Hatsuiku Status, Gyakutai Glycogen, Zetsurin Hectopascal), Shiina named her touring band for her Suguroku Ecstacy tour - Tokyo Jihen - debuting it under its own name at the Fuji Rock Festival in August 2004 to strong approval from fans and the media alike. Tokyo Jihen released two maxi singles - Gunjo Biyori and Sonan - in autumn the same year, with their first full-length, Kyoiku,appearing in November.
Shiina Ringo's name appeared nowhere on the first single, reinforcing the idea of a band and letting the songs speak for themselves, and strong sales of both singles and the album, accompanied by heavy hype and widespread acceptance, proved the gamble to be a worthwhile one. Tokyo Jihen's sound retains many key elements found in Shiina's solo work - surprise hooks, loud soft dynamics, jazzy chord progressions, and traditional Japanese melodies - but delivers them through a traditional band framework.
info copied and pasted from here and edited (a bit) by me. (They spelled Shiina 'Shena' =/)
Tokyo Jihen official site.
And here's a joke... ((I'm not even gunna TRY to explain the joke i posted last time! ^^;;))
Young Justin has a cursing problem, and his father’s getting tired of it. He decides to ask a shrink what to do. The shrink says, “Negative reinforcement. Since Christmas is coming up, ask Justin what he wants from Santa. If he curses while he tells you his wish list, leave a pile of dog poop in place of each gift he requests.”
Two days before Christmas, Justin’s father asks him what he wants for Christmas. “I want a damn teddy bear lying beside me when I wake up. When I go downstairs, I want to see a damn train going around the damn tree. And when I go outside, I want to see a damn bike leaning up against the damn garage.”
On Christmas morning, Justin wakes up and rolls into a pile of dog poop. Confused, he walks downstairs and sees another pile under the tree. He walks outside, looks at a huge pile of dog poo by the garage, and walks inside. His dad smiles and asks, “What did Santa bring you this year?”
Justin replies, “I think I got a goddamn dog, but I can’t find the son of a bitch!”
later!^_^
love,
TaNi-chan