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I went on a walk this afternoon. Don’t really remember exactly what I did, I just stared at the skies and at the dogs as I prayed silently. I was at a park, you see. Was a sunny Tokyo today as well. I think you know this already, but our planned appearance at Rock no Gakuen on the 21st has been cancelled. Very unfortunate. I was looking forward to our first performance in over 3 months as much as you guys were. I look forward to playing Rock no Gakuen the next opportunity we get. Right now we just don’t have the means to. Can’t be helped for the time being. There’s nothing we can do, even though we’d really like to perform because at the end of the day, the best thing a band can do is to play live. Although I talked about saving our strength for later and all that, I’m also itching to play live. What “saving our strength” means in essence is, for example, practicing both slow tempo and fast tempo picking, and for me as the vocalist, well, doing my situps, practicing playing while singing, etc. The new album is going to have a whole new set of challenges as far as all that physical stuff goes. My body needs to be prepared, too.

As it got completely dark, I prayed for those working at the Fukushima power plant. This is a good chance for those who’ve never prayed before. Let’s pray together. You can do it whichever way you’d like, it’ll be fine as long as you think good thoughts. Probably. I’m constantly thinking about the people who were at the disaster areas and how we’ll definitely meet one day. Both the people who’ve been to 9mm’s lives before and those who I haven’t come across in my life. In the surely not-so-distant future when you’re all ready to stand up, when you’re thinking you’re short of a few really loud guys who’ll make you get you in a crazy party mood, please let us perform for you. Our power on stage is our only redeeming feature. I’m certain we’ll cheer up everyone. Let’s meet there for sure. Time for me to head off to sleep together after a few silent prayers. Good night.