August 15th, 2008 0:00
Posted by Chihiro
『You listening…? What I mean by a crooked chin is,』
Yes yes. Yep, it’s me.
More in love with Maya than Alena when it comes to DQ4, this is Chihiro.
Alena’s really strong, but it’s like, how should I put it. She’s not wearing a loincloth. That’s no good. She doesn’t have enough sex appeal, she’s not showing enough skin. Ms. Diapers… err, I mean, princess…¹ Please study how to become proper woman and come again!! Rather than Killer Pierce, I like Merazooma and Ionazun better.²
Umm. The ROCK IN JAPAN FESTIVAL at Hitachinaka the other day was really fun. I got to talk with Chihiro Onitsuka a little. “Ah, your performance, it was so wonderful. I’m sorry, but hat fascinating restlessness was so lovely, I may have fallen in love. …Somehow my name’s “Chihiro” as well, really sorry about that.” I told her that and got to shake her hand afterwards.
But oh man, it’s just like I thought. The name “Chihiro”, it sure is awfully, exceedingly, extremely great, right? There’s people like Chihiro Iwasaki, and Chihiro Onitsuka, and, you know, that one guy. The drummer from 9mm and so on… right?
That guy, he has an evil look in his eyes, but he’s actually a surprisingly nice of a guy… He looks after his juniors and as for a strong point of his that merits a special mention, it’s above all that evil look in his eyes. He has a weakness for women, and rather than men’s penises, he prefers the female genitalia. He’s such a pure and honorable man.
Get him now while he’s cheap. Let me tell you all about him. Somehow, he also comes with a chopping board, and moreover! He also comes with a kitchen knife!! You can pick from a variety of 5 colors!! And despite all that, somehow! With tax included, he only makes for an incredible grand total of 9999,900,000,000,000 yen. How nice. As expected. We’re waiting for your orders!!
Japanet Japaneeeeeeet.
Ugh, I’ve had too much to drink. My bad, my bad….
¹ The Japanese words for “diaper” and “princess” sound similar. Kind of.
² Names of Dragon Quest spells/weapons/I don’t know.
August 14th, 2008 0:00
Posted by Takuro
It’s already been four days since Summer Sonic.
Thank you to everyone who watched us play at Makuhari. You weren’t hurt or stricken by summer exhaustion, yes? I see. Let’s be careful.
As to what 9mm’s doing today, we’re visiting graves. I’m visiting the graves of the Taki family, Taki the graves of the Nakamura family, Kazuhiko the graves of the Kamijo family, Kamijo the graves of the Sugawara family. We shuffled it like that. Everyone’s ancestors will be confused!
Yes. What we really did is get out of bed early at 5 to start off on our commute towards a certain sand dune. As to what we’re going to do there, we’re using Pro Tools to touch up the vocals we recorded. I suspect there’s some among you who don’t know what Pro Tools is so just to explain it briefly, it’s a software for audio editing. You can use it to chop up songs, put them back together and edit things to the smallest detail that the human ear can’t even hear. We’ll be working with it to the point that everyone’s just going “That’s enough already, stop it. No one’s going to pay that much attention, they’ll never know. Let’s go back.” (or rather, that’s only the beginning). It’s going to be audio editing with everyone completely on edge. We’ll be doing micro-scale work in completely barren surroundings with absolutely nothing around us. I’m getting dizzy just thinking about it. Which is to be expected as it’s mid-summer.
Okay, fine. In reality we’re going to shoot a video for “Living Dying Message”. The director is the same Mr. Shimada who also did the videos for Termination! It’s also true that we’re going to a sand dune. I’ll upload a picture as proof later.
With that, let’s all be in high spirits today! We’ll be sleeping inside the bus until our arrival! Good night!
August 9th, 2008 0:01
Posted by staff
Lots of people came over.
Thank you.
We’re hoping for your support tomorrow at Summer Sonic Tokyo, too.
August 9th, 2008 0:00
Posted by Takuro
「Summer Sonic Osaka!」
Thanks for coming to see us! It’s nice how it got a little cooler in the evening. I think I heard it thundering before 9mm went on but I’m not sure if it really did. Those of you attending tomorrow as well, be careful of heartstroke and such, and go see Death Cab For Cutie in my stead, please～.
We’ll do our best tomorrow, too!!
Wait for us, Tokyo!!
※ Pictured here is the fire ladder at the veranda of our dressing room. Take note of what it says in the bottom right¹. What awesome naming sense.
¹ Could be translated as something like “it’ll save your life“.
August 8th, 2008 0:01
Posted by staff
Summer Sonic Osaka!
The picture is from their rehearsal yesterday.
Sure is lonely with no one there.
We’ll do our best so this place will be packed tomorrow!
August 8th, 2008 0:00
Posted by Takuro
「Summer Sonic」
We’ve arrived at Osaka.
We spent yesterday rehearsing.
We’ll do our best～!
We’re the main act, you see!
August 6th, 2008 0:01
Posted by Takuro
In the middle of mastering!
Everyone’s fighting like champs!
Sitting on the sofa are Taki, Kazuhiko and Kamijo. In the white shirt is director S.
August 6th, 2008 0:00
Posted by staff
Today we’ve just about completed the 2nd album, going on sale 10/15!
Only thing left is the final touches on the sound!!!
Amongst all that… I’ll show you a bit of the memories we made when visiting Taki’s parents’ house after (ROCK IN) JAPAN.
↑ Kazuhiko picking up tomatoes in the garden.
↑ Saying hello to the chickens… and receiving their eggs.
↑ Taki family’s basket of memories.
We got to eat something really delicious!!!
Everyone from the Taki family, we feel much obliged～.
August 3rd, 2008 0:01
Posted by Takuro
Thanks to everyone who came to the Lake first thing in the morning!! I think we played a good one today. Our shows at summer festivals have only just begun, so we’ll give ’em all we’ve got.
There’s been an announcement on the album and a variety of things, so check out the website for details～.
Right now we’re at Taki’s parents’ house.
Cheers!!
※ Pictured here are straw sandals knitted by Taki’s grandma. We received them as presents.
