must love rainbows

My Scenery

I allowed myself to start listening to the new album today. And someone's solo totally owned everything else. I don't think I have anything else to say except gush over repeatedly in my head everything I've already said on twitter today:

• holy shyte am at Nino's song now I'm super excited!! It's the one I'm itching to hear. The only one I was wanting to hear

• SOUNDS GOOD KILL ME NOW *flails*

• fav song of album. I'm not even done. But his voice his voice ahhhh *melts* HE MADE THIS? <3 *melts more*

• I love you Nino <3 Once I read the lyrics I'll probably love you more <3 You can kill me with your voice. #scenery

2 hours later:

• I feel like a complete marshmellow but when I hear him singing, I can't stop thinking inside ILU so. much. Nino's voice = everything's ok

I just felt so happy after listening to his song. Everything about today was...happy. The work I've done up at level 8 The Attic, the Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice-cream -induced sugar high with friends... I'm so happy :)

The dangers of no sleeves

Finally came back and caught up with the MSta performance but I must admit I haven't fully watched the performance properly.

Because I was so distracted by someone...

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...and his ARMS! XD ahjskdjksflafhjfhshljdsdksjhdskdjsdjlsadjsdksa

Haven't got to the talk yet but I'm thoroughly satisfied with the perf ♡

I must say that I love Troublemaker so much; it's so infectious and fun (su-wee su-wee~!), the boys look great and kinda youngish in those jumpsuit things... I mean, already loved the previous perf and was looking forward to a good heartbeat moment for this one - which I did get but then I got so distracted..XD

But really. I think the heartbeat moment is seriously cool. Kinda like a real heart beating...if you minus off Ohchan who's singing in front, it was like a four-chamber heart. Or who cares, a five-chamber heart is fine too :D

This Is Us

This Is Us

Backstreet Boys down - one more band, and I'll probably die the happiest person on Earth XD Anyhow, I managed to get ONE decent photo of the guys last night :)

I think I'd been waiting for this concert since December and to just wake up today to realize it has already happened and that I saw BSB live... it feels like a dream that I don't want to wake up from.

I cried XD The tears sort of just welled up when I heard them go, "As long as you love me..."

Really didn't expect to cry (at least not at that song) but I think the lyrics, especially the first verse and the chorus, played a part. My sister was telling me afterwards how she felt rather sad to see them grown up, that they used to play to crowds much more enthusiastic than this, bigger than this. But I guess I'm an optimist, because I felt really happy that they're still able to stand on that stage, as long as there are still so many fans around the world who love them and support them.

I also teared a bit at Incomplete because I always refer to it as the "holey" song, haha. I don't like it as much as I do Inconsolable, but somehow that made it endearing...

What I really loved was the SOLO VIDEOS <3 This is why I'll support this boyband all the way. I LOVE GOOFBALLS and all the parodies of movies were so HILARIOUS!! XD Brian was especially GAY as the prince in Enchanted, Nick was SOOOO funny as Neo in The Matrix ("You underestimate the powers of the Backstreet Boys, Trinity")!

I was pretty far from the stage so I spent a lot of time trying to figure out who was who and they kept going backstage to change outfits once I've figured out who was who...so I'd have to do it all over again haha! But I managed to get the hang of it soon: Nick is tall, so it's easy to tell; AJ, just look for his posture and his hair; Brian is SHORT (and very adorably so haha); by elimination I'll know who Howie is, lol.

They said they'll be back next year, so I'm gonna save up and get better seats next time around...so there'll be no need to guess who is who anymore XD Although I'm certainly not the core group of fans that have been following since the 90s or in the early 2000s, their big hits have been part of my younger days.

I guess when I see them dancing and singing, I just really admire them for still being able to do that after 17 years. I think when I see them like that, I'm also thinking about how I want to see Arashi like that too.

All right, I have to get back to work :( It feels like I'm hardly on break at all when exams ended on the 25th, and ever since, I feel this pressure every day to make calls and send out emails. But then I think about the Hanamaru Cafe Sho was on, about how he didn't have any time to rest at all - I guess me at home with calls to make and BSB on loop doesn't seem that bad a deal afterall.

Might up videos later, if they make any sense, lol. I know I shook the cam and screamed a lot while I was taking videos :x

メリークリスマス〜！

02 Hark The Herald Angels Sing

Corrinne May

Merry Christmas & belated Happy Aibamas~!

to my vox neighbours, friends and family (:

Recently, well, this year I got more attached to this Christmas song sung by Corrinne May. Her arrangement and vocals are soothing. I remember reading somewhere once that Aiba-chan used to listen to Corrinne May. I'm not sure about now but I was really happy to find out anyway (:

*incoherent babble* <3

I'm Yours(ukulele)

TOTALLY. MADE. MY. DAY. :D

He also did a cover of Obladi Oblada. Haha he's just too cute! He looks so happy performing, especially in the video of his original tune Ma-i-na-ku-ma-na

ukulele ma-i-na-ku-ma-na

ukulele the beatles - obladi oblada

On Love, In Sadness

On Love, In Sadness

Jason Mraz

Sing about that oh love it's brittle madness, I sing about it in all my sadness

Not falsified to say that I've found God so

Inevitably well it still exists

Pale and fine I can't dismiss

And I won't resist and if I die, well, at least I tried

The latest song I'm hooked onto. A little gem hidden behind 8 tracks in Waiting For My Rocket To Come. Strangely the slightly sad lyrics paired with the upbeat tune reminds me of (500) Days of Summer. In the same way, the movie is funny but sad too. The song would be nice in the soundtrack if it wasn't so indie. Then again, a song in Mraz's first major record label album isn't very mainstream either, haha.

I watched Paper Heart yesterday - another movie about love XD I didn't like it as much as I thought I would because when I first knew about it I loved the concept of it. But while watching I realized I liked the documentary part of the show better than the fictionalized bits and in my opinion they could have shown more docu than fiction.

Still the documentary part is touching and real with a bit of humour because they used puppets to illustrate the true stories told by people they've interviewed.

Apparently 嵐 boys are so pretty...lol

Went karaoke today with (most of) the poly gang. Matsumiya friend and I were searching for Arashi in the Japanese Male and Group categories so that I could sing A.RA.SHI but we couldn't find any Arashi; there was SMAP, Kinki Kids, and KAT-TUN plus Yamapi (Daite Senorita) even!

I was kinda sore at that. So I went flipping through all the artists in the Japanese Female category to look for stuff I may be able to sing and I found this:

Japan-Female 43/45 嵐

I'm still a bit miffed...apparently our Arashi boys are too pretty, they end up in the Female category?! XD

 

Oh well so I got to sing A.RA.SHI in the end ^^

I even tried Shiina Ringo's ここでキスして and BoC's 天体観測 - I mangled them of course. Couldn't even remember how to sing V6's Darling properly :x

I'm worried because I think with the lack of exposure, my Japanese is deteriorating (I know it's not even a very high level). Need to buck up and work towards JLPT3 at the end of this year!

All The Best guesses

HAHA I tell you now this "all the best" phrase is cracking me up...unintentionally I'm finding appropriate places to put it at (refer to title, lol!).

Okay, idea from doki-doki to guess who chose what and I'm dying to know also, so here are my guesses plus comments:

1. ONLY LOVE - Aibachan - it's the remix on Recomen! This was my first favourite in the How's It Going album!

2. 夏の名前 - Aibachan

3. 素晴らしき世界 - Shochan - My favourite ONE song!

4. Yes? No? - Ohchan - I disliked this song at first but the ONE clip changed my mind; now I love it loads!

5. COOL & SOUL - Jun - I'm basing this on him using the song in Jun Style.

6. Oh Yeah! - Jun - This is more like a hope? But I read that he really likes this one too. Fav Time song. One of my fav Arashi songs like ever ever ever.

7. Be with you - Ohchan

8. Still... - Nino - <3 this song especially after the AAA 2008 performance of it.

9. Re(mark)able - Shochan

10. 僕が僕のすべて - Nino - <3 this song too!!

Okay I'm really bad at this. I think I'm taking a blind whack, actually XP I had trouble trying to place my guesses between Nino's and Aibachan's XD

Anyway on the whole I'm quite satisfied with the selection ^^

Finally they drop the bomb on us

I'mtryingtobreathe

omgomgomg ok im going insane here spazzing

Out on hmvjp - GO GO GO!! All The Best, lol!

椎名林檎 rave

I am dedicating an entire post to Shiina Ringo :D

Aside from the guitar at the start which I love, how awesome is it that they had this whole bit of (electric?) guitar that was so Shiina Ringo after all the singing...and then they bring back the guitar from right at the start to end the song! Haven't got far in Smile, but I hope the drama is something like that too - going a full circle.

And I love the I Won't Last a Day Without You cover she did with Utada Hikaru, especially at the end when they put in street sounds & bicycles ringing at the end..and the beats somehow made it seem to me like it was raining and I pictured this scene in Tokyo where everyone had all these umbrellas up while cyclists were ringing their bells. They actually added that crackle effect to the entire song, actually...something like a filter...made it seem like the whole song was coming from an old radio or tv set.