2008/05/17＊Takuro
「I told you」
Yes! We’ve announced our appearance at NANO-MUGEN. We have a lot of appearances for the summer. So it’s finally that time of the year when you can grab a straw of wheat and think up counter-measures for fighting off summer exhaustion.
Now then. We have a show at Shinkiba tomorrow. I heard our guitar riff ringtones and they’re pretty funny. Fufu.
2008/05/07＊Takuro
Today’s a commute day for us, but we’re still in Tokushima. You can see a mountain from the window of our hotel. It’s really green! It’s so green, it gets me fired up. There’s no clouds and the sunlight feels warm as if it was summer. Tokushima’s awesome! So vibrant with life!
I was thinking I felt real sense of accomplishment with yesterday’s show. That must surely be thanks to everyone’s Awa Odori. The Awa Odori at the live house. Fufu. Thanks JITTERBUG, we’ll come again. And next time, I want to do some sightseeing. At least I managed to have some ramen!
2008/04/19＊Takuro
Shibuya AX today!
Yoyogi Park’s just thriving since it’s Earth Day.
Our show, too, is linked with Earth Day.
These are a variety of flowers I received over there.
Looking at them on a glimpse, they kinda looks like matches.
I think I’ll try letting them grow.
2008/04/17＊Takuro
We have a PV shoot today so I had to get up early! It seems we’re going to have those kinds of scenes and these kinds of shots… Look forward to it!!
Pictured here is Takuro Sugawara, regretting his use of half-hearted words of gratitude in his last post.
2008/04/13＊Takuro
Walking outside yesterday, a foreign man suddenly greeted me.
As I was thinking if he was going to enquire about directions or something, he turned out to be Scott, the drummer from J.
He started the conversation off with “How are you? You guys sure are working hard～” I replied, “We’re going to Matsuyama tomorrow(?) and after that we’re off to Osaka～ We’re super busy!” And so our chat continued, all smiles. But, even though I could understand what he was saying, I could only open my mouth to say “yeah～” “yes!” “thank you～”. That was the regrettable end result. Next time when me and Scott talk, I’ll try conversing with him a little more seriously… is what I decided in my heart that time.
As we were parting, I gave him a 9mm sticker and he said “Thank you! I’ll stick it on my pedal!” which again made me smile. Stomp down on it to your heart’s content please～. The next time we’re doing a show together, I think I’ll stealthily have a look and see if he really did stick it on. Fufufu.
Pictured here is Sugawara Takuro, silently swearing revenge over at the EMI lobby.
2008/03/27＊Takuro
「Parking lot, you fu@*=(‘$～I#(“!!」
Descending the Nagano mountain recesses, it’s already spring here.
Because of that, I’m experiencing a little phenomenon of time dilation. It was a mere week ago when we left behind all the trains, the CD shops packed with people, the music stores and the Mister ◯nuts. My (already lacking) sense of time completely disappeared. It’s similar to the feeling of meeting a relative for the first time in years, and here you are thinking he was still in elementary school but oops, he’s graduating from senior high school this spring. I wonder if you know what I mean.
We’re going to be busy until our vacation starts. We depart for Osaka tomorrow.
Two days of consecutive shows! Looking forward to it～!
2008/03/22＊Takuro
「C/M」
Today 9mm’s lodging together in Nagano to do some songwriting. Though there’s no reception here, the composition work is going all right. Yesterday my cell phone wasn’t working for some reason and I couldn’t get any calls through. Well… that’s all it was.
We heard the sakura are already blooming in Tokyo, but over here the sky was all cloudy yesterday. Today it’s finally a sunny, beautiful day though.
It’s enough if the air is clean, isn’t it?
2008/03/17＊Takuro
「Soup curry induced injury」
We’ve returned from Sapporo. Thank you to everyone who watched us play. Everyone at the event was really excited and the audience was all smiles. It’d been exactly a month yesterday since our last show, so there were some spots where we were a little rusty. Next time we play in Hokkaido, 9mm’s going to be in top form. Definitely do come and see us then as well.
As we made our way back to Shibuya station in the evening, it was a little louder than usual for some reason. “A street performance perhaps? Or maybe some actor…” is what I was thinking as I walked towards the noise, when I saw that it was a propaganda truck for the new Maximum the Hormone DVD. (lol) It was showing the footage while blasting with loud volume. It was just waiting in the lights so when it turned green it obviously drove away, but I’m somehow thrilled to know that it’s been going around the metropolitan area throughout the day. Made me grin to myself, hehehe.
The picture was taken at a ramen shop we went to after our party.
2008/03/15＊Takuro
「We won」
Discommunication won the “BEST NEW ARTIST” award at the Space Shower TV Awards. And so, up until now we were at Budokan where they held the award ceremony. Thank you to everyone who watched the live broadcast. Ahh, we were really nervous! And I thought it’d be a piece of cake. To explain just how nervous we were… when being asked to give our speech to everyone for winning the prize, all we could say was “we’ll do our best!” That’s it. After coming back from the ceremony and trying to remember what it was like standing up on the stage, pretty much all I can remember is the shape of Seikou Itou’s glasses. Anyway, because of those circumstances, I couldn’t say all the important things I wanted, so I’ll write them here. “The fact that the video won a prize is all thanks to Mr. Shimada, who directed our video, as well as all the staff at the studio. All we did was go there, grab our instruments and get filmed while playing them. During that one take at the filming scene, everyone was yelling words of encouragement like they would during a middle school baseball club match, but I remember that the people who first started shouting were not the band but the staff. The band — who like overdoing things — got in really high spirits because of them and were able to get in a nice swing of things. I look forward to working with them again one day. Thank you very much.” And, of course, all the people who voted for us. Thank you.
Tomorrow I’ll have to get up from bed at half past four, get on an airplane and fly to Sapporo where we’re playing at an event called Yumechika that same evening. When you’re high up there, the plane makes a rather dreamy sound, don’t you think? Crossing over the Japanese islands, you can sense the dynamic movement of time. I wonder how cold we should expect Sapporo to currently be. We’re also looking forward to the show itself. We’ll see all of you coming there later!
