huge myriad of stuff

30 icons
3 aoi yuu
3 queenadreena
5 mucc
1 hermione
1 manga (voiceful)
3 jdrama (1 my girl, 2 uta no oniisan)
2 daisy chainsaw
10 plastic tree
1 fashion
1 random art

( huge mess of icons )

14 cell phone backgrounds/wallpapers/whatever works. I was especially lazy with these because they look better on my phone than on the computer. all 240x320.
5 Plastic Tree
2 MUCC
2 Aoi Yuu
2 Guniw Tools birdies
3 random

( just for the hell of it )

And a truly random assortment of graphics. Sorting this is scary.
4 Friends Only banners
- 1 pixiv art
- 1 miku of an cafe
- 1 heidi.
- 1 bob from my chemical romance (most random of all!)
6 Plastic Tree things
8 MUCC things
1 Ao of M (or just OMG LOLITA!)
3 pixiv art
2 random

I don't even know what half of these were supposed to be for, so use anything for whatever you want. feel free to alter (cause these suck)

( yikes )

So I was googling around looking for more scans from a certain shoxx (failed), and ended up here. FUCKING JACKPOT HOLY GOD. I got like 15 magazine scans with Plastic Tree in them that are pre-bucchi era. THERE WAS EVEN ONE THAT WAS PRE-TAKASHI. WE'RE TALKING 90'S HERE. IT'S AMAZING.

In a '98 Vicious, there was some ongoing interview with Ryutaro, which I could surprisingly read in its entirety. OBVIOUSLY THAT MEANS TRANSLATIONS ARE REQUIRED. Too lazy to look up the few words I didn't know, but I swear it's still a reliable translation. They were all in the interviewer's portion anyway.

( I wouldn't be surprised if this has already been translated )

Yeah, run-on sentences abound. If I wasn't so lazy I would have broken those up, but for now just take them as they are. And apologies for the awkward intro translation. It's not that important. And it's 4AM. gonna look through the rest of these magazines and then sleep maybe. Please point out any mistakes if you see them!

I just made 3 banners from pictures I took of an upside down rainbow in June, so I thought I'd share them:

I've only seen a translation of this in Spanish, and though I know almost no Spanish, it got me curious enough to translate it into English and helped immensely with "Halcion".

Actually, it's mostly my obsession with this video that made me want to translate it, so feel free to watch and read or watch then read or read then watch!


Anyway I fucking love this song! It's also about pills!(or perhaps teenage angst - which is fascinating since I believe Ryutaro was around 30 when this song came out) And is very choppy and doesn't make a lot of sense, which isn't entirely the fault of my translating skills. Enjoy!

Barrier
I always think in black and white
I like what I like
I hate what I hate
After school
The cracked chiming
It echoes
My eardrums are going to burst

Aspirin
Fake laughs
Tears of frustration
A classmate
Chameleon
A barrier stood
Am I alive? Am I dead?*
A lump of gelatin
A lump of gelatin

My palm
I cut the line of fate
My fingertips look kind of nice dyed red
Reality
Through a mosaic
The afterimage
Is going to break one of my eyes

Halcion
The smell of water
Blind piano
An act of redemption
Distortion
A beautiful aria
If my flowing blood
Were to disappear
My heart would be transparent

I can live, without feeling anything
Right now, everything I believed in so much
is collapsing

Aspirin
Fake laughs
Tears of frustration
A classmate
Chameleon
A barrier stood
Am I alive? Am I dead?*

My transparent heart
Go ahead, touch it

I can live, without feeling anything
Right now, everything I believed in so much
is collapsing

*This is the only line I had trouble making sense out of, which I'm quite proud of. Doesn't mean there aren't other mistakes in there though, so do point them out if you notice any. Not that the song will make any more sense, but, well.

a lovely entry

Edamame.
Teruki death.

It was rainy today, huh? I drank alone at home for the first time in a while. The best part about drinking at home is listening to your favorite music as long as you want. I think I've written about this before.

When I used to live in Okinawa, I rented a house with the band I was in at the time, and all 4 of us lived there together. Since we didn't have the money to go out drinking, we always drank at home. But it was really fun; music sounds completely different when you're drunk than it does when you're sober.* By the way, it's also really nice to burn incense at the same time. Even though I'm now able to go out drinking, sake tastes best when I'm at home listening to my favorite music.

Later, for some reason I got a call from my old manager. I wonder why, it's been so many years. He was the manager of a bar I worked in when I lived in Sendai. It was nice to hear from him~☆ He told me about some of my coworkers, like "◯◯ is also living in Tokyo~" and things like that. Ahh, I miss them.

Good night.

*He didn't specify the subject so he could have meant listening to people when drunk is different than when sober, but since most of the paragraph was about listening to music I went with that.

I've been getting less and less direct with my translations because I've realized that's not very practical for preserving the tone of how someone's writing. Kind of an obvious thing to do..

Anyway, I want to be Teruki when I grow up. This is a man who knows how to live.

only half of them are in this post though

56 icons
- 12 An Cafe
- 32 Plastic Tree
- 12 Misc.: 1 LM.C, 1 Natsume Yuujinchou, 2 cats (Ao's and Tatsurou's), 1 Hourou Musuko, 1 Perry Bible Fellowship, 2 Moyashimon, 1 Ao no Exorcist, 2 Don't Laugh At My Romance (Matsuyama Kenichi), and 1 Jack in the Box 2008 (Hyde chokinghanging on Tatsurou)

Preview:


( these are WAY better than last time, I swear )

It has issues and I don't think I preserved the mood quite right but you get the gist of the song. So please, listen, read, and enjoy!

I like the Hanamoete performance of the song best, so I uploaded it to youtube. Here is a rip of the song, unfortunately wma because I hate windows movie maker, and here is the video(which I wanted to actually subtitle but I couldn't find a program that works with vista):

High up in the atmosphere, a man-made satellite found me and laughed. It laughed.
Be with me forever!
In the nuclear shelter I'll give you bread and water and love. I'll give you love.

Even if time passes, even if we're going to forget, we have to save it
Silly laughter, tearful voices - if it's not you, it's no good!
The sky with a broken ozone layer. It's beautiful,
So let's get in the fridge, just you and me.

"Hello~Goodbye."
Without confidence, I sent you mail. I sent mail.
A boy made in Japan. His carrier pigeon's eyes roll and it falls. It's stopped. It's stopped.

If time will pass, if I'm going to forget, I have to go get you.
Even if I do the impossible you ignore me, you don't want someone like me!
Even if we sink underwater, what's wrong with that?
It's just the two of us inside the fridge

Even if time passes, even if we're going to forget, we have to treasure it
Wherever I go, wherever I am, if we're not together, it's no good!
The sky with a broken ozone layer. It's turning pale.

Let's get in the fridge, just you and me.

why am I doing this instead of writing my political science research paper
WHO CARES LET'S GET IN THE FUCKING FRIDGE

This is why:

The Power Of Goodbye
2009/04/01 12:50
Teruki death.*
Today was a live in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires.


I checked out the new drum set and was surprised by how thick the frame was. It was so thick I couldn't do my usual settings (^_^;) But there's some good to that☆

After rehearsal ended this evening, I told a livehouse crew member through our translator, "I'd like to take a picture from the rooftop", and he brought out a ladder. He put the long ladder against the wall and I climbed up. It was kind of scary, but no matter what I wanted to see the sun start to set so I didn't hesitate. The crew member was climbing with me, and he asked, "You need more?" so I requested "Yesu! Mo-a! Mo-a!"** and we started climbing yet another ladder that was just grips stuck to the wall. There were other tall buildings around, but it was still a pretty good view☆ It turned into a great memory.

The live was also a lot of fun. I could hear the cafekko's voices very clearly, they got so loud. Thank you very much, Argentina cafekko!

*"Death" is pronounced the same as "desu" in Japanese so read aloud, he's saying "It's Teruki."
**"Yes! More! More!" He wrote "You need more?" in English and what he said in katakana. I just preserved it so you could read it properly in his voice C: OH the blog title was also written in English, if you didn't go to the original entry and see that already, haha

he wanted a picture of the Argentina sunset so bad he climbed a scary ladder to get to a roof ♥

FHAKHSLFH god. I finished translating Sora to Ito. I'll post it public, but I am not confident in my translation and so will not post it to the MUCC community. I just wanted to know what the song is about and if you're impatient like me, this is the gist of it.

( Sora to ito )