I don’t wanna feel Blue anymore...
I didn't forget... It's the 2 hour time difference. Still the 15th here.
четверг, 15 декабря 2011
I don’t wanna feel Blue anymore...
Seriously though, since I stopped hating myself and feeling that my life is shit I feel even more alienated. Now I can't even connect with all the rest of self-hating, continuously angsting and comfort-seeking young population of the net communities.
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Lol)) Sad but Trufax
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Thank you Shou for once again providing me amusement through Twitter. Somehow though I barely use the tag ToraxShou here because whenever I have something to say on that I always end up posting it at the community. Which makes sense. That's why I made the comm in the first place.
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Check disk was working hard for about half an hour and I was sort of hopeful it's fix at least something, but in the end it decided that disc G has too many errors and now it doesn't see it altogether. Bot even in Device manager. Just great. 
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"Tora often sleeps with an amazing sleeping posture in front of us. He looks like King Tut (laughs)." Arena37c, vol. 336
He even sleeps like a King lol. So graceful.
He even sleeps like a King lol. So graceful.
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Tried to hear more of the Nico singers. Not the electronic fake ones, the human ones. Not surprisingly I'm mostly interested in boys. Somehow I only found out live videos of 3 of them on YouTube and I'm to lazy to actually go on NicoNico.
赤飯 At first I didn't really like him but now I'm rapidly changing my mind. The boy has an impressive voice but he's also confident and charismatic.
ピコ Well, he's a really cute boy and I like him. The only one of the 3 that has his own Vocaloid. Debuting as a proper singer sure gained him enormous success but he remains as shy and humble as ever. As for his voice it is kind of cool but I wouldn't say it's that impressive. Also I don't like the songs he sings, I wish his potential was better used.
I really like the two of them collaborating. Their Magnet duet sure is a hit on its own. It's basically a fanservice-parody. I like that. Sekihan's voice doesn't really sound like a girl's though imho. It just sounds really weird lol.
蛇足 Dasoku was really disappointing. There's this one cover of Honey he did with Sekihan and it was pitiful. The latter ended up singing most of it even though he obviously tried to give Dasoku some space. He can't sing live at all. And he doesn't know how to act on stage. Also I personally don't find him attractive. Somehow I didn't like him from the start but honestly for the sake of Shou I was hoping that he's at least a good singer.
Overall verdicts: From what I've heard Nico Nico has some really talented people, but the thing is in this age you can't really tell much just from the recording. And the live performances I've seen are quite raw and don't live up to the recordings at all. Obviously these people have potential but they could use a few years of voice training before actually doing tours and stuff. The range thing is also somewhat questionable. I mean Gackt has reportedly a 4,5-octave voice and I believe it because I've heard him with my own ears. He could really do the whole 2-voice thing better than anyone and yet he never brags about it.
Basically this community is a lot like anime/seyuu one. It would be really cool if it were a bit more professional but basically I quite like it.
赤飯 At first I didn't really like him but now I'm rapidly changing my mind. The boy has an impressive voice but he's also confident and charismatic.
ピコ Well, he's a really cute boy and I like him. The only one of the 3 that has his own Vocaloid. Debuting as a proper singer sure gained him enormous success but he remains as shy and humble as ever. As for his voice it is kind of cool but I wouldn't say it's that impressive. Also I don't like the songs he sings, I wish his potential was better used.
I really like the two of them collaborating. Their Magnet duet sure is a hit on its own. It's basically a fanservice-parody. I like that. Sekihan's voice doesn't really sound like a girl's though imho. It just sounds really weird lol.
蛇足 Dasoku was really disappointing. There's this one cover of Honey he did with Sekihan and it was pitiful. The latter ended up singing most of it even though he obviously tried to give Dasoku some space. He can't sing live at all. And he doesn't know how to act on stage. Also I personally don't find him attractive. Somehow I didn't like him from the start but honestly for the sake of Shou I was hoping that he's at least a good singer.
Overall verdicts: From what I've heard Nico Nico has some really talented people, but the thing is in this age you can't really tell much just from the recording. And the live performances I've seen are quite raw and don't live up to the recordings at all. Obviously these people have potential but they could use a few years of voice training before actually doing tours and stuff. The range thing is also somewhat questionable. I mean Gackt has reportedly a 4,5-octave voice and I believe it because I've heard him with my own ears. He could really do the whole 2-voice thing better than anyone and yet he never brags about it.
Basically this community is a lot like anime/seyuu one. It would be really cool if it were a bit more professional but basically I quite like it.
среда, 14 декабря 2011
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Saga: I want to try it only once on the tour, but I'd had all the members dress up as females.
The Other Four: (Silence)
Saga: Huh? (laughs)
Neo Genesis, vol. 47
Lololol XDDD Not sure I want to see that. Ok, maybe on Shou and Hiroto but not the others.
Hiroto: If you delve too deeply into that kind of thing, we'll end up talking about it for days.
Nao: Like how you can't ask too many questions about why people in Visual Kei don't have underarm hair (laughs)
Tora: That's true.
Lololololol)))
Done with Neo-Genesis. I did most interviews, but there's still quite a few. Yosh!
The Other Four: (Silence)
Saga: Huh? (laughs)
Neo Genesis, vol. 47
Lololol XDDD Not sure I want to see that. Ok, maybe on Shou and Hiroto but not the others.
Hiroto: If you delve too deeply into that kind of thing, we'll end up talking about it for days.
Nao: Like how you can't ask too many questions about why people in Visual Kei don't have underarm hair (laughs)
Tora: That's true.
Lololololol)))
Done with Neo-Genesis. I did most interviews, but there's still quite a few. Yosh!
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It's good to see Jae finally starting to look like himself. His very pretty self. Except that the sadness in his eyes makes my heart squeeze a little.
But oh so beautiful~
But oh so beautiful~
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I find it hard to imagine two Korean guys married, but ok, let it be so. The times are changing. Even Mpreg doesn't bother me that much. But for the love of God, don't ever use the word 'wife' in it! What the hell is wrong with you, people? Sheesh. 
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Looks like I'm totally smitten. Honestly I've heard guys who can sing like girls, but I haven't really heard a girl sing like a guy. I think it's fucking amazing. Is there anything this woman can't do? Seriously, that's some fucking range there. I really love the song too. 
え?あぁ、そう。
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUgAxkb-Zsk
え?あぁ、そう。
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUgAxkb-Zsk
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Finally got the helm so my out fit is now complete. Smokin'!
вторник, 13 декабря 2011
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So this is it. Any minute now my Golden Week shall end.
I was going to say time flew fast, but it's not true for once. This week seemed quite long and there was a lot to it.
It started a bit bleak as my mental and therefore physical state plummeted for reasons unknown to me. So the first 3 days or so I tried to get a grip on myself with varying degrees of success. I suppose the most important thing I learned about this kind of occurrence is that: no matter what you do this will happen from time to time. So the best thing you can do is try to deal with it in your own way, but whatever you do don't dwell on it.
On Thursday I got a visit from a friend or should I say the friend? Anyway things began to look up. The Friday lesson also went well and there was something special to look forward to.
The sleepover weekend. The whole of Saturday and up to Sunday morning I spent with a friend. We had a sleepover farewell party. There was drinking, talking, watching concerts and shows and even some singing on my part. I really wish we could do more stuff like that. It's kind of a shame that it won't happen any time soon since I feel like we just got to the most interesting part in our relationship.
The rest of the time was spent rather randomly. I mean on one hand I wanted to make the most of this time, but on the other I didn't want to pressure myself. For one I finally gave in to my urge to draw. Actually I felt kind of sad that my drawing drive seemed to have died down almost completely after I graduated. So now that I gave it a go and realized I still have quite a bit of potential I felt relieved. I really love it. Surely I'm not that good at anatomy so I raided some anime galleries and saved all the good pictures. Then I used those to made outlines but they transformed a lot from the initial shape. I did three sketches and they're pretty good. Sadly now it will be hard to find niches to work on them.
There were other minor things. I had few plans of what I wanted to do in this time. I didn't felt like watching the Tempest and it's a shame. I did watch True Love though and it's a nice film really. Lately I really like these 'slice of life' films.
Overall conclusion: I think I'd really like to try living alone. I do think it's a little lonely, but the current 'full house' state is not exactly a cure to that. I really think it would make my life so much more pleasurable. Yet currently there's no chance of that happening any time soon.
I was going to say time flew fast, but it's not true for once. This week seemed quite long and there was a lot to it.
It started a bit bleak as my mental and therefore physical state plummeted for reasons unknown to me. So the first 3 days or so I tried to get a grip on myself with varying degrees of success. I suppose the most important thing I learned about this kind of occurrence is that: no matter what you do this will happen from time to time. So the best thing you can do is try to deal with it in your own way, but whatever you do don't dwell on it.
On Thursday I got a visit from a friend or should I say the friend? Anyway things began to look up. The Friday lesson also went well and there was something special to look forward to.
The sleepover weekend. The whole of Saturday and up to Sunday morning I spent with a friend. We had a sleepover farewell party. There was drinking, talking, watching concerts and shows and even some singing on my part. I really wish we could do more stuff like that. It's kind of a shame that it won't happen any time soon since I feel like we just got to the most interesting part in our relationship.
The rest of the time was spent rather randomly. I mean on one hand I wanted to make the most of this time, but on the other I didn't want to pressure myself. For one I finally gave in to my urge to draw. Actually I felt kind of sad that my drawing drive seemed to have died down almost completely after I graduated. So now that I gave it a go and realized I still have quite a bit of potential I felt relieved. I really love it. Surely I'm not that good at anatomy so I raided some anime galleries and saved all the good pictures. Then I used those to made outlines but they transformed a lot from the initial shape. I did three sketches and they're pretty good. Sadly now it will be hard to find niches to work on them.
There were other minor things. I had few plans of what I wanted to do in this time. I didn't felt like watching the Tempest and it's a shame. I did watch True Love though and it's a nice film really. Lately I really like these 'slice of life' films.
Overall conclusion: I think I'd really like to try living alone. I do think it's a little lonely, but the current 'full house' state is not exactly a cure to that. I really think it would make my life so much more pleasurable. Yet currently there's no chance of that happening any time soon.
понедельник, 12 декабря 2011
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Blondes will be blondes lol.
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Been meaning to write about it for ages.
I heard about Hatsune Miku a long time ago but at the time it didn't really interest me at all. Back then it seemed just another weird Japanese cultural phenomena. Yet these days I'm becoming increasingly interested in the world of Vocaloids.
I still have a vague idea of how the whole system works, but it's all very much user-driven. There are people who create songs and people who sing these songs and upload them on the site. Kind of like YouTube. Then I suppose the most popular are chosen to become Vocaloids and donate their voices for this software. Actually I don't really like the sound of Vocaloid-recorded songs. What I've heard so far sounded very unnatural.
Yet there's more to Vocaloids than just program-generated songs. After all behind the electronic voice they are real people. Well, maybe except for Gackt who's obviously an android.
Anyway, I first became aware of these people earlier this year, when I found out Shou is close friends with Dasoku who's a vocaloid. I don't really like the guy and I always get jealous for some reason, but that's not the point. I started to learn more about this phemonema and I found it quite interesting in many ways.
A lot of these guys are quite attractive and charismatic and surely have very versatile voices so it was no surprise when Piko debuted as a singer. He's marketed as a singer with two voices since he can sing in both male and female pitch. I don't really like his music, but the boy sure has talent. Vocaloids also do small-scale performances and often collaborate with each other. This is quite a famous video. The glory of fanservice) I wondered for ages where these butterfly headphones come from.
But lately there's been something more substantial that picked my interest - it's the music. I happened to stumble upon this blog with a playlist many songs from which I instantly liked. Later I found out these songs were originally from the nicosound site meaning all of them are sung by non-professional singers. The songs are cover-versions or versions of songs written specifically for the vocaloids so there are many versions of each song. I really like this girl by the name 鳥子. She's got great voice and some of her songs are really good.
There days my favourite song is Circus Monster which is an original song by someone who goes by the name of DoofusP. It's really catchy I fell for it right away. There are dozens of versions on YouTube, both in English and in Japanese but this seems to be the original one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPYV9tGaFSU
Even though the voice is so obviously robotic I think it's pretty cool to write a song in this way. Personally though I still prefer Toriko's version that I heard first.
Anyway before the popularity of Hatsune Miku seemed disturbing to me, but in the end I'm relieved no matter how advanced the technology is the software is but a pale copy of the human voice and I don't see it replacing real singers any time soon.
I heard about Hatsune Miku a long time ago but at the time it didn't really interest me at all. Back then it seemed just another weird Japanese cultural phenomena. Yet these days I'm becoming increasingly interested in the world of Vocaloids.
I still have a vague idea of how the whole system works, but it's all very much user-driven. There are people who create songs and people who sing these songs and upload them on the site. Kind of like YouTube. Then I suppose the most popular are chosen to become Vocaloids and donate their voices for this software. Actually I don't really like the sound of Vocaloid-recorded songs. What I've heard so far sounded very unnatural.
Yet there's more to Vocaloids than just program-generated songs. After all behind the electronic voice they are real people. Well, maybe except for Gackt who's obviously an android.
Anyway, I first became aware of these people earlier this year, when I found out Shou is close friends with Dasoku who's a vocaloid. I don't really like the guy and I always get jealous for some reason, but that's not the point. I started to learn more about this phemonema and I found it quite interesting in many ways.
A lot of these guys are quite attractive and charismatic and surely have very versatile voices so it was no surprise when Piko debuted as a singer. He's marketed as a singer with two voices since he can sing in both male and female pitch. I don't really like his music, but the boy sure has talent. Vocaloids also do small-scale performances and often collaborate with each other. This is quite a famous video. The glory of fanservice) I wondered for ages where these butterfly headphones come from.
But lately there's been something more substantial that picked my interest - it's the music. I happened to stumble upon this blog with a playlist many songs from which I instantly liked. Later I found out these songs were originally from the nicosound site meaning all of them are sung by non-professional singers. The songs are cover-versions or versions of songs written specifically for the vocaloids so there are many versions of each song. I really like this girl by the name 鳥子. She's got great voice and some of her songs are really good.
There days my favourite song is Circus Monster which is an original song by someone who goes by the name of DoofusP. It's really catchy I fell for it right away. There are dozens of versions on YouTube, both in English and in Japanese but this seems to be the original one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPYV9tGaFSU
Even though the voice is so obviously robotic I think it's pretty cool to write a song in this way. Personally though I still prefer Toriko's version that I heard first.
Anyway before the popularity of Hatsune Miku seemed disturbing to me, but in the end I'm relieved no matter how advanced the technology is the software is but a pale copy of the human voice and I don't see it replacing real singers any time soon.
воскресенье, 11 декабря 2011
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I wonder if Shou fully realizes he's encouraging slash among his fans in more ways than one. I mean within the last few months my list of ships has been restocked with two more pairings all because of him.
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What would Tora-kun be like?
Tora: I would like a relationship with equality, so anything above or below that would be deplorable.
So if there was a domineering husband or an overbearing wife you'd change the balance in the relationship?
Tora: (laughs) Not that kind of thing, like the feeling of a friend of the same age.
Neo Genesis, vol. 30
Please have my babies!XD Damn, Tora, I begin to worry I might start liking you too much.
Tora: I would like a relationship with equality, so anything above or below that would be deplorable.
So if there was a domineering husband or an overbearing wife you'd change the balance in the relationship?
Tora: (laughs) Not that kind of thing, like the feeling of a friend of the same age.
Neo Genesis, vol. 30
Please have my babies!XD Damn, Tora, I begin to worry I might start liking you too much.
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When I got into this fandom I almost began to think it's pretty much wank-free but there's no such thing. Normally I don't really care about the rumours, but this time it pissed me off. I've come across some really nasty dirty rumours and all of them about Shou of al people. I just really don't understand it. He's one of the sweetest nicest people ever, why would anyone spread all that shit about him? Fucking bitches.
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やっぱり、朝日はすごいだね。。。