GROAN OF DIPLOSOMIA 01 @ OLIX

Good evening! This time I wanted to talk about the first of the two the GazettE OLIX (オリックス劇所) shows on 10/10, since it's the only one I went to, haha. So, after The Predators the day before, I went home, slept, and prepared for the show the next day. I have to say, this week gave me the most ridiculous shoulder pain for some reason.

Derpin' about and getting ready. This day I finally got to pull out my BIG T-shirt (haha, tour good names). This thing is huge and wears like a choir robe in more ways than one. I expect the tour final will just sells us full on priest cosplay. But anyway, I'm in love with this shirt and I would wear it every day of my life if I could. ♥

The pants I am obssessed with as well, from GAL STAR at Rakuten (that took forever to receive for some reason). I own two pairs of these and a solid wine-colored pair. The fit's a little strange, since the waist is far too big and I need to wear a belt, but the legs fit quite nicely. Guess I just have fat legs? Hahaha! 

This pair is great, though, and super versatile with all kinds of outfits. The solid colored back is supposed to give the illusion of thinner legs as well (guess I need that, ha)! 

Anyway, when I was ready, I left and headed to the park to wait in the goods line in another vain attempt to get the bear speaker that had been sold out at Yokosuka. I thought it would be ok, too, but when I got up to the counter, the girl in front of me got the last one, I kid you not. She stumbled off with it and I stepped up and asked and the lady just point blankly told me in was done. I was so upset! Especially since there was an open box with one sitting right on top behind her. DX

K grabbed it for me in Shiga, though, so now my life is complete! XD

But since I had nothing to do after that disappointment, I headed off to wait for hall opening in a Freshness Burger with this sexy hunk:

I think I just instagrammed for like two straight hours what.

Anyway, finally it was nearing hall open, so I wandered back over to wait in the park outside taking emo pictures and watching some Reita and Ruki cosplayers assaulting one another.

Even though I can't say Yokosuka was a bad show, this show was soooo much better. The mood was better, the crowd was better, and the music sounded a little more together, imho. Even though I was 3rd floor, I had a great view of the entire stage and all the people in our section were really excited and into the show (because there's nothing worse than being at a good show and surrounded by shitheads who wanna stand and gape motionlessly, sorry if that's you).

I also got seated beside the great girl from Tokushima who was there on her own too! It can be super lonely at concerts alone sometimes, so I was super excited to meet someone really nice and friendly like her. We chatted lulzily all the way to the station afterwards, too. ♥

The set list:

[Diplosomia]
[XI]
DERANGEMENT
GABRIEL ON THE GALLOWS
VENOMOUS SPIDER’S WEB
VORTEX
CLEVER MONKEY
THE SUICIDE CIRCUS
DRIPPING INSANITY
余韻
影踏み
籠の蛹
[Depth]
歪
ヘドロ
VERMIN
SLUDGY CULT
HEADACHE MAN
ATTITUDE
REQUIRED MALFUNCTION
[Melt]

{EN]
Ride with the rockers
TOMORROW NEVER DIES
SILLY GOD DISCO
SWALLOWTAIL ON THE DEATH VALLEY
COCKROACH
LINDA ～Candydive Pinky Heaven～

[WEN]
関東土下座組合

Now. If you run through the setlist of the Yokosuka live for a sec, you might notice something similar here. Namely, that they're the same damn setlet, even through the encore. That was a little bit of a let down, honestly, but as I said, this live was so much better that I can't even really complain since they legit seemed like different lives. I was so excited to hear SILLY GOD DISCO again too, so whatev. 8D

This time too I could actually see the video on the screen, which turns out to be mostly clips from the [Diplosomia] PV, but I feel kind of like they're finally put into context with the live happening around them. They were a bit still on the stage this time, but Uruha was working up a storm. Actually I feel like he was doing work over there, for some reason, kicking up dust and dancing. I notice that all of the big solos are his with this album, which makes me a little sad, since I would have liked to see some more Aoi (I worry about that guy).

Back to Uruha, when it came to his solo in SILLY GOD DISCO, he ran up for some attention from Ruki who ignored him and immediately went to get some water... So Uruha followed him back there, and Ruki just kinda looked over in Reita's direction until he finally gave up. It was so sad and hilarious I died a little. ♥

Oh yea, at this live jumping was not allowed. Apparently if we all jump, we disrupt the neighborhood around the hall, so we were supposed to not jump. I'm pretty sure we all did anyway, though. XD

As mentioned before, I didn't go to the second day of OLIX (didn't have the cash moneys, haha, the week before payday sucks). But Jiroko and I went out for dinner and dropped by the venue to grab the special wallpaper from psmobile. And as we wandered the back streets, what should roll up but THE GAZE BUS.

He was like parked on a side of the street for a nice while when we finally got to him, and then it was like as soon as we started trying to take a picture he kept driving off. We ran after and he kept stopped, letting us catch up, and then running off again. If he woulda' climbed out of that bus I woulda' fought him, haha.

Anyway, there was that adventure.

Tried this manicure style this week. I liked it, but I'm about the messiest nail artist you've ever seen.

I love days off. ♥

Starbucks and The Nail Lady

Hi, there. I'm heading into it. It being the hell of the last week of class + extra week of finals. Luckily, I've already taken the only really concerning final, and from here on it's just... essays and remembering a bunch of Greek names. Woo hoo!

Exciting, exciting. Die.

I think it was the week before I last posted, but I got to hang out with my lovely former roommates, miss waaaaave, and Kelly, when they came into town. We had a lovely day of food, walking around downtown, and Starbucks-- where they had this amazing rice crispy treat of awesome.

It wasn't too sweet, but was nice and sticky in that kind of way that falls apart in your hands. I love, love, love rice crispies like this-- only I can't stand the smell of the store-kind.

It was surprising, though, because I realized I haven't really been into a Starbucks since I got back from Tokyo last summer. I was overwhelmed at how cheap my tall caramel macchiato + rice crispy was. $5ish compared to the near 1000￥ I would fork out for both a pastry and drink over there.

The point of it is really that I just really missed when the three of us lived in the apartment together, eating pokey sticks from Gumby's and singing Leona Lewis in our most obnoxious voices. We had some damn good times. (9_9)

I went home once to pick up my broken computer and attempted a raid of TJ Maxx, but the only decent items I picked up were a cute shirt for layering and a new fedora.

The shirt is very loose and more of a dark grey in person, and will look cute over a loose tank dress, I thought. Something white with a dark grey print, kind of the shape of this Uniqlo dress I own (in my poupee closet here). Or even just over a tank top with skinny jeans (and ankle boots and huge hoop earrings, y/y). The fedora was completely impulsive.

I love hats.

It actually pisses me off that Americans don't wear enough hats, but I won't go into that.

Actually, right now I'm really coveting a cancan hat a lot like the black one here, from Yumetenbo. Or a beige hat with the black ribbon.

But with my lack of income and saving what little I have for my trip to London-Paris-Amsterdam in May, I've taken to watching youtube tutorials for cute things to do with my hair instead. And a great, great how to girl I've found is bubzbeauty (whose actual site I've just found is here). She's got a lot of really great, super simple and easy to follow how to's on hair, make-up, and nails (including a nail tutorial on strawberry nail art, th

at I completely intend to try).

My favorite, however is the poof-at-the-front pony tail style found here (like my technical terminology? :D)

It's difficult for me since my bangs are short and my longer hair is still considerably shorter than hers in the video, but the result was nice when I tried it out the other day. Not a good picture, but:

Still tarted up from class.

The other weekend at my mum's house, I also gad my nails done for the first time in my life. Yeah. I'm a professional-manicure virgin like woah. And the lady who did them was this wildly disoriented Asian woman who looked completely white and wore a whole weeks worth of eyeliner while yelling past me at her husband. Our conversation went kind of like this.

Me: Hi.

(long silence, yelling, triming nails, soaking nails)

Her: What color?

Me: Um, blue. And a leopard print design, if that's ok?

Her: Blue? No art?

Me: Um... Yes, leopard print?

Her: What?

Me: Um, animal print? Like in Africa. It's on clothes a lot.

Her: Zebra?

Me: Leopard. Like jungle cat.

Her: Cheatah?

Me: Sure. That works.

(nail painting, yelling, acetone burning out my brain cells, finish)

Me: Thank you, it's very nice!

Her: This cheatah. Not zebra. Not zebra print.

Me: ...Yes.

Her: Next time you say cheatah, not zebra.

Yeah. I'll never make THAT mistake agai--oh. Wait. The result was nice, though.

It held up for a sweet 6 days before crumbling from my fingers. An outstanding world record as far as my nails are concerned. I want to call them pussy nails, because they're so weak they bend with the wind and tear rather than break. But the idea of "pussy nails" conjures up something bizarre and terrifying and completely irrelevant to cats.

Anyway, I also had this awesome cookie made by some people celebrating their Celtic heritage:

Whatever. As long as I get cookies.

Anyway. As you were.