stolen colours

So MUCC has announced that they’ve pulled out of the Singapore leg of Taste of Chaos; but they will be playing with the same three bands in Japan on November 11-13.

I’m really devastated.

Hopefully I can change my leave.
Maybe sell my tickets.

It was a great day out. It’s really rare to have an off-day, so I made full use of the opportunity to stay out late last night.
Met lynn at Kino, bought pretty things and magazines (OMG why is Neo Genesis so expensive!), saw a cute guy in the paper shop upstairs with very aerodynamic hair, and rushed off to watch Smilers. And had supper at TCC after that. I haven’t been out till midnight since….the last concert I attended, lol.

Smilers is a fantastic movie. It’s a crying shame it was shown in the tiniest theatre ever, which was 30% full on a Saturday night.

A brief synopsis: Shuhei Sano (Mirai Moriyama) is a tap dancer and child psychology major from Tokyo who hurts his knee and has to give up dancing. He moves to Hokkaido to marry his flame, Shizuka Yamaguchi (Rosa Kato, impossibly beautiful because of mixed parentage), figure skating coach and daughter of the resident cranky elementary school principal. The girl’s father will let him marry her only if he coaches the junior ice hockey squad and wins the championships.

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You Are a Glam Rocker!

You put the “show” in rock show with your larger than life self. No doubt, you are all about making good music… But what really gets you going is having an over the top show. Glitter, costumes, and wild hair are your thing - with some rock thrown in!

What Kind of Rocker Are You?

Okay I cheated. The first time I got punk rocker; but it’s all in the name!

Update: CDJapan is kindly going to mail me the Plastic Tree poster. Would anyone like a SMAP poster?

Plastic Tree’s Utsusemi has finally arrived at my home; to my dismay, they gave me a SMAP poster instead of a Plastic Tree poster! *dies* And had the gall to label the poster “No. 129 Plastic Tree”.

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Just some short inklings before I do full-blown posts:

Plastic Tree’s Utsusemi: very listenable album; though the songs are just too similar, with only a few standing out. Am loving Tetris (really want to see this live), Shayou, Fiction, GEKKO OVERHEAD (every time I see the word GEKKO I think of Eureka Seven), Melt and the album version of Replay. More later.

Mi Lu Bing’s sophomore effort, 三角行: they composed six out of nine songs on this album. I love their compositions, which are very different from anything you hear in the Chinese music scene. The other three are pretty meh. *skips*

Okay, today was rather fun.

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I cannot stop listening to Ageha. Initially I didn’t really care much for how the song sounded like different blocks stitched together, but after repeated listening, it works really well. Initially my favourite bit was the chorus; but it’s now the intro/ending with the killer riffs and growling that I can’t get enough of. I really hope MUCC plays this when they come in November. (rie: this single is produced by Ken! *will say anything to get rie to listen*)

Waiting for the Plastic Tree single to arrive in the mail; mainly because I want the acoustic live performance.

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