Heh, it has been a while since I’ve written but last night was so noteworthy I have to put this on here.  Of course one of my lifelong dreams was to attend a Dir En Grey concert, and finally I can say that I have.  I have never been able to since they never come to Hawaii and I’ve been in Hawaii for 3 years.  They were making a stop to Orlando which was the closest to me and I had some friends there so I decided to drive there from Ft. Walton Beach.  Shoots it’s worth the trip but it didn’t go without its setbacks.

After leaving Rin’s (Katie) house, I ended up getting pulled over by some pig in an undercover car for speeding which I’ll say I didn’t and got hit with an $180 ticket.  It’s my first ticket so I’m not sure how expensive those are but $180, shit I’ll play NWA on the way to the show and walk in all gangster out.  Another setback was that the folks close to me couldn’t make it.  Jules and Mallory had something come up on Friday and decided on the Atlanta show instead, Gakuti ended up going to jail last time I heard, Arielle had bellydancing practice (though she referred me to some folks that I could give the extra tickets to and decided to hook me with with Disney passes later), and Katie had to work that day. :-(  Finally, as soon as I got to the checkpoint, they told me I couldn’t bring my Nikon in, (hell to the fuckin’ O) Nikon’s don’t take video. What’s so harmful about a professional camera?  So now I had to take shitty pics on my iPhone so I’ve got to wait til I get back home to use photoshop to enhance them.

Most of that didn’t matter anyway because the show was absolutely beautiful.  I couldn’t believe it in my own eyes that I’m actually seeing Dir En Grey.  Some memorable moments is me in my Sephi EX Overdrive cosplay doing some hippy dance when they were singing Glass Skin.  I think I was finally moshing when they were singing Merciless Cult and the best session was when they were singing Obscure, I almost wanted to leap onto a dogpile.  I knew I fully become part of the visual movement when I got baptised by Die, now I’m ready for Izumicon all fired up…speaking of.  I was surprised that a couple of folks I’ve talked to over there recognized my outfit and told me about an old friend I used to know, which kind of freaked me out because I don’t want that person’s mentioning to poison what I loved since Y2K and that is J-rock. Small world I guess.

The Human Abstract was indeed metal as the opening act and I’m so proud of them for opening of Diru.  They were ok but it was hard to judge because my mood was killed, although when Diru came out, I was one happy Warumono-chan.

Well that’s all I can write for now, I’ve got to get going since Katie’s anxiously waiting for me.  To everyone, much love and I will see most of you at Izumicon!

Shoots right now it’s 4:00 in the morning. I should be sleeping or something but it was the awesomeness.  Finally after being in the panhandle for 6 months I’ve had my first rave marathon here.  I come back and I just realized, shoots I’ve missed the debate.  I needed to see that because I sure as hell don’t know who I’m voting for. x.x

Ok. I don’t know if I’m watching too much (or not enough since I haven’t watched TV for a couple of months) anime lately or if I’m not sleeping right since I’m going on 4 hours of sleep each day, but I ended up having another crazy dream that really screwed me up.

I drempt I was right outside either a convienence store or commisary with a bunch of scene kids and I guess it’s the usual shooting the shit talk or whatnot. I think we were talking about DDR but something about that conversation made me want to get out of retirement and sign up for the DDR Northwest Florida League.  All of a sudden, I see thie computer-generated dragon just run amok throughout this town that we were in and we were running like hell.  I saw it smack around more scene kids and they went all flying and I guess I was fighting it because I think it tried to smack me around and bounce around me but it didn’t seem that I was phased…but for some reason I felt like I was really in pain because I felt my sides bruised, my kidneys failing, and my lungs collapsing.  I looked up and I could of swore I saw this emo-goth dude that looked like the Level 2 Sasuke from Naruto and then felt this immense rage.  I woke up with a WTF look again so my emotions were probably drempt, but I still felt like I was in physical pain.

I’m not sure if it was hot flashes since my A/C was dead but it’s been out for 2 weeks so why now? O.o  I should take a psych class or something, this is fun to figure out.

Well, really quickly to catch up on what’s been going on, I’ve been so busy with school and prepping for Izumicon that I haven’t had time to make any web updates, plus I’m prepping for any hurricanes that happen to come my way.  It sucks that after all the hard work I’ve been doing, I can’t get a decent chance to party.

Anyway, what I’ve been meaning to write about is that I’ve had a couple of dreams that were like, WTF?  The first one was last weekend when I drempt that DMX did a remix with Gackt.  It kind of sounded like a Bubba Sparxx lyrical verse melody from the song “Ugly” mixed with some sounds from the song “Redemption”.  I thought that was $$$$ right there but yea dream on I guess.

Now one that I had about Friday night kind of weirded me out.  I’ve recently became friends with this girl so I didn’t know much about her yet we started getting along great, but it felt like I knew her all my life when I drempt her, probably has to do with the settings.  I remember us hanging out with my old friends back in Coral Springs.  We were walking along the Royal Palm/Publix shopping center and then the two of us spilt with the rest of the group as we were walking back to my house.  Next thing I know it,  I saw her get swallowed by the earth and I tried to go after her.  I tried digging into the ground, screaming for help, calling for her.  I would think someone was trying to take her, but I had this feeling like I’ve lost her.  I remember I was crying hard in my dream.  A party had come to dig where she sunk and found a miniture cavern with a broken doll looking like her.  That was pretty much the end right there.

When I woke up, I didn’t really feel any sadness as I did in my dream, I was like…WTF?  I don’t remember the last time I’ve cried; it’s been a really long time.  I didn’t even cry when my grandmother passed away when I was 16.  I was sad of course, but she seemed to act like she was expecting the end and watch over us in Heaven.  I’ve tried to look for situations where I could let it out whether it’d be stress, heartbreak, tragedy, so I would know what it feels like again, but no avail.  Hmm, I guess it’s a good thing.  Among my friends, I’m among one of the toughest and fearless men among them (excluding fearing failure and disaster for my friends), so it’s good that I can’t cry anymore, but I guess I got my fill that night.

Finally I’ve got a moment to sneak a blog post in between school, work, and the Kamen Rider BLACK marathons (that show is so addicting).  I’m sure most of y’all have noticed that I’ve been attending a lot of concerts recently since its hard luck getting some good bands to come to Hawaii. Since The Emeralds concert at Kawaii Kon, the first one I want to talk about is the Saving Abel concert that I went to right after I came back from Oklahoma.  I started listening to their music when I was working out in the Special Tactics gym and the song “Addicted” was indeed very addicting.  I felt all sorts of pissed off with stuffs when I came back so I needed a night out even if it was the middle of the work week.  Hotaru ended up getting me hooked up to see the show there but there were 3 other bands that were there as well.  The show started up with new faces to me called Carlotta, who I thought was very dynamic with their movements on stage.  The vocalist pretty much busted up dancing while he was singing so he kept it exciting.  The next set that went up was definetly a kick-ass slice of life band Meriwether.  They were also new to me but amped up the crowd a lot more and definetly touched some hearts.  I know I want to try to see more of their shows often, hope they break total fame.  The next band was actually who I was originally looking forward to see, granted I wanted to see Saving Abel, but this band actually snaged me to the show, ENDEVERAFTER.  Now this band is actually full of the smexy and definetly warmed some faces, the only disappointment is that they didn’t play “No More Words” (Jeff Hardy’s theme music), but they still rocked it out.  Finally came the main event, Saving Abel.  I keep hearing that they were going to melt some faces, and I guess I knew what they meant.  It was interesting that Jared Weeks reminded me of WWE’s Chris Jericho before he became an asshole, love the scruffy Canadian rockstar voice.  I think it was the first time that I felt that I was flowing in some ether when they started singing addicted.  If I didn’t know all the words yet, I did when they played it.  I’m glad I had a kickass night, there was more too it since I was pumped up and was still jacked up through work but that was some good medicine for me.

A couple of months later, Hotaru, Deanna, Solar, and I went to the fye Animania event in Panama City where I ended up meeting Edgar who cosplayed Gackt at the event, who is now generally known as Gack-T (Gakuti).  We ended up being really good friends (not as good as you fangirls hope to be if you watched the S-ENT episode), but we got along pretty good.  On the way back, I caught an add that Alter Bridge was coming to Panama City.  I got hooked on Alter Bridge because of one of their songs “Metalingus”, which was used as the theme song for WWE’s Edge.  Although I think Edge sucks and he’s half a man the song is freakin’ dynamaticness!  It’s one of those songs I play on my car radio and start zooming on I-10.  I invited Gakuti with me since he lived there and we hung out at Pier Point before the show.  We were all dressed up J-rock that we made some kind of impression at the scene.  This lady actually asked us if we were in a band but I told her I DJ Japanese pop and trance, although I am technically in 2 metal bands where I play keyboard in one and sing in the other, along with a solo act that I’m working on.  I ended up getting a venue called the Secret Book Garden so I may host a anime rave there as soon as I finish getting settled in Florida.

After hanging out at Pier Point, Gakuti and I went to Club La Vela for the Alter Bridge concert.  It pretty much marked a moment for me as it was my first time at the largest night club in America, and of course, what a way to start a show with none other than da-da-dada….Meriwether.  These guys just need to tour with everyone they can because their shows = LOVE and pWIN.  I had to fall harder for these folks as I ended up catching Steve’s beer cup and sweat rag so yea I got some band mojo now.  That’s not all but I’ll explain later.  The greatest thing about them performing is that I was able to recognize some of their songs hearing them a second time around, especially “Aye Julian” which is a really sweet tune, had to feature it on my myspace at one point.  Finally came Alter Bridge after a lot of hype.  For those that are wondering, Alter Bridge is actually Creed with a new vocalist so it’s not that strange that their music may sound somewhat similar.  I pretty much raved for every song, but when it came down to “Metalingus”, for some strange reason I ended up singing and headbanging through the whole thing.  Stuff like that makes me want to blow my load or something, I dunno! :-P.  But yea, the concert ended with all of our worships.  Afterwards, we walked to the merch stand to chill with Meriwether and the guitarist Steve noticed my SephiEX goth general shirt and wanted it.  I was like, holy shit, Steve wants my shirt so we ended up trading shirts.  I wonder if there are any pics out of their new concerts so I can see if he’s wearing it, but yea that was just awesomeness.  After that I ran into Marcel Willis which was another streak of luck.  Apparently he toured Family Values ‘06 and became friends with Dir En Grey.  Interesting enough, he taught Daisuke how to say “I’m a Fuckin’ Rockstar Bitch”  Besides the whole getting kicked in the dick thing, it would of been awesome to be there.  BTW, wish Marcel Happy Birthday since it passed this month.  This would of been more kickass if I didn’t have college though since I could of stayed longer to mingle with the band, have a few shots of Hennesy, hook Gakuti up with some bitches, shoots we’d tear Panama City up like rockstars since it’s become a huge party, but had to take care of business. :-(.  Hopefully after my film class is done we could tear up Destin or something, bring South Florida up to North Florida and undo this bible belt up here.

In terms of future parties and concerts, I’m not sure if I’m going to check out the Nightwish one in New Orleans as I’ve got a lot of events going on this fall but a concert I’ve been waiting to go to since I first heard them in 2001 is Dir En Grey.  I told my supervisor that even if I had to go Japan just to see them, I will; although, I am working on going to Japan hopefully sometime next year, if not vacation, then getting stationed in Yokota.  I missed their first US tour since I lived in Hawaii and I got really jealous that everyone else, even my closest friends got to see them.  Hearing Jules, Pockets, and my ex-girlfriend telling me about these shows just make me wish I can give the finger harder than the Mooninites, not that its any reason to hate y’all of course ^.^.  Hopefully Hawaii will someday have some J-rockers out there.  They really need it for an island that thrives on Japanese culture, I almost feel bad that I’m actually going and Hawaii’s missing out, but its of course the mission of Sushicrowd to bring that shit over there and all over.  It sucks though that Apostrophe disbanded because they are a force to be reckoned with, but it’s cool that Jules (Pi-face), and Pockets are going to the Orlando show.  I’ve also invited an old friend Arielle to take her to her first J-rock show but hopefully she can make time for it.  Dir En Grey seems to happen once every hundred years, even if it was 2 years since their last tour.  So yea it’s like an old school Sushicrowd reunion, and I’m taking Gakuti with me.  So yea, this is going to be one helluva concert.

Wow, I had no idea I wrote so much, I guess this is what happens when I hold of a blog for such a long time.  Well I’ve got to do my Film Studies papers and powerpoint presentation but I’ll make sure to listen to some tunes.  Hopefully someday, I would get to see myself and my friends up in the limelight bringing new feelings to the crowd with my associated acts, I’m trying to remember how they put this…one to get us lost in transliteration, and the other to cry out the blood that will put an end to the fight.  Well anywayz, time for more Kamen Rider BLACK ^.^