[mood| tired] [music| the GazettE - 「Headache Man」]
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★the GazettE★
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[mood| excited] [music| alice nine. 「アリス九號.」 - 「-Dice-」]
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ミ★alice nine.Photograph collection no.2 SHINY SUMMER X'MAS 2007 • Only available at the club ALICE Only Live WHITE SILENT X'mas premium live vol.4 [2007.12.25] • 80 pages full colour • B4 size • Velvet Hardcover • Pocket Watch included in the back part of the book (1 of 6 versions) ~Brand New~
☆Starting price is $75USD☆ • Shipping is $35USD airmail, if the winner would like EMS shipping I can get a price.
Auction starts December 26th, Ends December 28th at noon. Time zone is Japan (GMT+09:00)
~Payment by PayPal preferred, but will also accept USD very well concealed cash.~
[mood| restless] [music| alice nine.「アリス九號.」 - 「RED CARPET GOING ON」]
First of all, had a great time spending Friday and then Saturday at the cosplay picnic with KiKi and Hino ♥
-Saw Hairspray with them Friday night, it was amazing. I want to go see it again. -Dyed my hair, now it is brownish redish. For a plain colour it isn't too bad. *will horribly miss her colourful hair for the coming year in Japan* (you can kind of see the colour in the above pic) -Did much photowhoring at the picnic with Kevin (solartempest) Can't wait to see how the pics turned out ♥
And here is how my hair was looking, faded and test strip bleached out to see if I could get it to blond on the top with out totally destroying my hair. Answer was no. My hair is still hugely hating me from the double bleaching I did to get platinum blond in Oct/Nov last year. *sigh* ( +2 )
-Currently working on finishing my cosplay for CNA the end of August. -I need to get my ass in gear and start packing shit for Japan (>_<;) -I leave in a little over 4 weeks. *dies* So freaking scary!
After seeing Hard Gay for the first time (not sure why I never actually watched anything by him ever, I've known about him for years) in this video that toubou posted a little while back ... I randomly watched some more. I haven't laughed so hard in a very long time ^^ This clip especially had me in tears and not able to breath I was laughing so hard ... I'm not even entirely sure why I found it quite so funny, but it was great!
[mood| happy] [music| abingdon boys school - 「HOWLING」]
Short update I suppose~
- Hung out with KiKi twice in the span of a week, total awesomeness! ♥♥♥ ☆ 'special' movie night at her place, finishing the rivets in NUMBER SIX. live ver. Tora and looking for elusive fabrics I needed ☆ meeting up in Toronto wearing our NUMBER SIX. cameo ver. outfits and receiving many odd looks and comments. Wearing matching cameo pants would look a bit odd to the casual passerby I suppose, lol. ~Some of the winning comments were some middle aged guy saying something about KiKi and I being quintuplets ... hello ... there were only the 2 of us~ ^^; twins maybe~ ~ Some black guy asking us if we were into Canadian hip hop (ya we really look like we are, lol) and then making some comment about wanting to talk to me and something else that I am pretty sure I am glad I didn't hear ... (>_>;)
- Found the final 2 fabrics I needed for my next Shou cosplay while in Toronto with KiKi, the cosplay will debut at CNA the end of August. I may give you guys a sneak peak soon as I have part of it is done.
- Got my hair cut back into an Asian mullet! ♥ It had gotten so long and grown out and just plain gross. I was scared to death going to the hairdresser to get it done, but it all worked out! So I am glad o(^_^)o
- My package containing alice nine. - WHITE PRAYER, the GazettE - STACKED RUBBISH and the GazettE - DECOMPOSITION BEAUTY live DVD has arrived, I am going to go pick it up really soon.
- Tried to stay up last night to watch abingdon boys school on the Live Earth concert from Japan, but I made it until 3am and then I felt like my eyes where going to burn out of my head and that I was going to pass out ... so no perfornamce for me (T_T) However! They re-streamed the concert so I got to see it this afternoon! It was very good! I really enjoy most things TMR man does ... I don't like him, but I love his music. ♥♥♥
Hmmm ... guess that is all for now. Hope everyone is doing well!
EDIT: Got my package ... I forgot what a huge rip off customs is ... for the last 8 months I hadn't had to pay any as all my stuff was marked as a gift or I just didn't have to. Also, HMV is stufu and didn't send me anything for my WHITE PRAYER single (T__T) I got 2 GazettE stickers though ... the one is such bright pink (@_@;) I wanted my alice nine. extra (>_>;) boo.
Now to try and wrangle my way into enough free time to watch the DVD and listen to the album. Should be fun, my Dad has been at me all day today each time I jump on my computer to do something. *sigh*
ミ★alice nine. raglan only avaliable to club ALICE Fan Club members. This shirt was first avaliable at the 2005 X-mas live, after which it could be purchased through the F.C. magazine in 2006. Brand new, never opened.
☆Starting price is $35USD (Shipping to Canada/USA should be in the $5-10 range. Other countries will be more expensive. I will determine shipping costs for the winner or if requested) ( F.C. raglan )
ミ★alice nine. tea From their latest tour 「Black Jewel, White Rose」 2 different flavours Band Select and Nao's Select Brand new, never opened.
☆Starting price is $5USD each (Shipping to Canada/USA should be in the $5-7 range. Other countries will be more expensive. I will determine shipping costs for the winner or if requested) ( Band Select ) ( Nao's Select )
Items are up for auction until Sunday June 17th at 12pm/noon CDT (timezone info) Please reply under the proper parent comment with your bid.
♠EDIT♠ I'm really sorry for not replying to anyone's questions about these auctions, LJ decided to take a crap on me and not let me know when I have recieved comments and then wouldn't let me reply/post most of the time for the last few days. Sorry Everyone!
Also! PAYMENT METHODS USD very well concealled cash is the prefered method of payment. I don't really accept PayPal, but if you are willing to pay the fees I am charged by PayPal (It seems to be around 6% as a base fee and then more again if it is from any country but Canada/USA) I can work through PayPal.
Thank you everyone! And sorry for any trouble゚・:,。゚・:,。★゚・:,。゚・:,。☆
[mood| excited & infuriated] [music| Dir en grey - Garbage]
~☆ YAY!!! So I finally got a coat and hat from this lady that makes these amazing pieces! She always has a booth at the Royal Winter Fair, and I have been wanting something from her for about 5 years. Up until this year, the coats I really like always didn't fit me right, and I hadn't been willing to pay the big money she wants for the hats ... but after going to Japan and buying the expensive clothes there, I am totally okay with forking out the money for this combo o(〃^▽^〃)o So on Friday I went to the Royal to watch out breed of horses show, and hang out with my Mom, eat yummy Potatoe Rosti, buy fudge, and just enjoy the Royal, I miss showing our horses there, this is the second year that we haven't 。゚(T^T)゚。 However, I am so happy to finally have these clothing items!!! *dances*
The hat makes me think of Ruki's COCKROACH PV outfit, so I did my hair and makeup inspired by him <333
~☆ My hair is currently bleaching again, I wonder how light it will go? So far some parts are staying fairly gold ( ̄へ  ̄ 凸 Stupid hair. Oh well. It is an experiment ... it won't be staying blonde for more than a couple more weeks. I'm still pondering if I should do the blue in the sides, my only worry is that it will bleed onto the blonde parts and make stuff green, @__@;; I don't want green hair. Also I think my short fringe is going to return, I really love that style, it may not suit me 100%, but I don't care, I'll have it back for a couple months again <333
~☆ Photoshoot tomorrow! Yay! Sucks though cause I have to do my own hair and makeup ( ̄~ ̄)ξ Half the fun of modeling is having that shit done for you. Oh well, should still be fun, the shoot is out in the woods, and I am going to be wearing this outfit and the outfit I wore in my birthday photowhoring session. Hopefully I get some wicked pics back from the photographer *crosses fingers* I know I am going to freeze my ass off outside *shivers*
EDIT: SHIT!!! I totally spaced on getting my ticket to the Dir en grey live in Toronto, and now the site is saying none are avaliable @___@;; What the hell??? I was all set to go ... Hopefully there are still tickets avaliable, I really wanted to go to a jrock concert in Toronto, that would have been so cool! I'm not really a huge fan of the band, but I don't dislike them, and I like some songs that I have been given to listen to, so hopefully I will still get to go!!! *keeps trying the stupid page trying to get a ticket*
EDIT2: Presale is sold out ... crap. Will try again on the 16th.
Also ... apparently re-bleaching my hair was a bad idea, like getting gangbanged and then ass raped with a rusty metal pipe ... It made my hair so weak that when I was washing the bleach out in the shower about a handful of hair came off my head o___O note to self ... not allowed to bleach hair again anytime in the semi near future. Guess I won't be trying the silver that I was wanting to do ... My hair would never handle it. And I always thought my hair was tough @_@;;
[mood| curious] [music| Horie Yui with UNSCANDAL - Scramble]
Okay, so I really need to find a bunch of black lace. I haven't seen black lace around the few stores I have gone to, haven't made it to Queen St. yet to look, but thought some of you might know where was a good place to look for lace, and where it might not rape my wallet too badly.
And as long as the weather holds and doesn't rain, I will be making a Queen St. fabric store run on Tuesday, so if anyone is interested in joining me, feel free o(^-^)o
These are pics of the basic idea for the kinds of lace that I am looking for. ( ~pics~ )
Also, if anyone would mind giving me some pointers for making ruffley poofy loli style skirts I would be in much appreciation of tips! As far as I can guess you would just gather it all in on the elastic waste and then it does the ruffle/poof *has no idea what you call what happens on those skirts* on it's own? I know some of you do the loli thing, so I am guessing you know (o^-')b
heki I was interested in doing an order with you, but any of the laces that I liked didn't come in black DX
[mood| amused] [music| ガゼット 「the GazettE」 - The Murder's TV]
Hahaha, finally got the video we took on Halloween. Your one friend decided he really wanted to make a costume once he got to school, and we came up with the Mario World Question Boxes that you hit to get stuff~ *can't think of their actual name if they have one* Haha, and then this video ensued, while getting music and the box sound from someone's Nintendo DS that they had there. I was just standing off to the side to watch, and next thing I know Casper grabs me and slings me over his shoulder and procedes to do the video. I am laughing hysterically the whole time cause I was totally unprepared for it @_@
Oh the crazy fun things we Animation students do in our Studio ヾ(@^▽^@)ノ
And here are a couple random Halloween pics that I got too ... And I'm gonna post them cause I can! My Kiba cosplay that I half assedly wore, cause I didn't wear my wig or butpouch or shoes, or my fangs cause we were going to be eatting lots, but it was to a casual Halloween party, and I just wanted to wear the coat XD *loves the Kiba coat* ( puppy luff )
And a hot Shou pic from the dance sans-coat!( (≧▽≦) )
Bad news is ... that my eye is messed up after wearing the lense for 5hrs ( ̄~ ̄)ξ It made my vision from that eye kind of blurry from the start, but I hoped it would go away, and I was late for class at 9, and had class till 3 ... but had to leave after an hour of my 12-3 class as my eye was really starting to bug me ... so came back to my room and took it out ... and my eye felt even more irritated after removing the lense ... suckiness! So I took a nap, hoping that resting my eye would help it, but it is pretty much still just as bad ...it is kind of itchy and irritating as hell ... I really hope I didn't mess my eye up *is a little worried* (´┏_┓`) But I know I've had my eye feel like this before and it is fine the next day, but that hasn't been with contacts.
Makes me so sad ... I've been wanting these contacts since grade 9 ... and now, almost 10 years later I finally get them, and they mess up my eye 。・゚゚・(≧д≦)・゚゚・。 FRIG! Oh well, after my eye is better I will try wearing the one again in a couple weeks and see what happens then.
Also they fit the same way around my pupil as my violet ones, so you can see my iris colour through the center of the lense >__> crapola .. guess I'm not going to be getting the other pair I really wanted ... at least not for a long while *sulks in the corner*
Now I'm off to bed and will pray that my eye is magically better. If it isn't better tomorrow, it will be a good excuse for me to buy an eyepatch (^O^)v
[EDIT:] Thankfully today my eye is pretty much back to normal *huge sigh of relief*
★On Friday we met with the music students from UofT who will be composing music for us for our films o(^-^)o There were 2 asian guys who did the exact type of music I had in mind for my film, so hopefully I will be able to work with one of them *crosses fingers*
★ Saturday~ I felt like complete shit all day. I was ridiculously tired feeling, despite getting 10hrs sleep, and just didn't feel right *can't really explain how I felt, but I get that way every once in a while* So I pretty much slept the whole day ... yay ( ̄~ ̄)ξ And since I didn't get any school work done due to feeling like shit and sleeping the day away ... I was unable to go to the harajukuesque meet on Sunday T.T After they took my suggestion to go out for Korean BBQ and everything ... how sad!
★ Sunday~ was spent finishing FFAC and all the extras on the DVD, doing some housekeeping things (laundry/dishes) watching the NANA live action movie after having it for pretty much a year (so disappointed with the guys they cast, seriously .. Nobu and Shin need to be way hotter!) and then I took a nap at supper time as I was still not feeling great ... then started my project that was due today around 8pm ... I figured I was going to be up all night, but thankfully it came together rather quickly, even if it looks like shit currently, so I was in bed by 1am or so ... Really gald I didn't have to pull an all nighter! I need to do serious work on that project for the next critique on next Monday though @__@;
★Today~ Dressed up girly today ... finally wore my outfit I bought in Beijing ... I love the skirt, and the top goes well with it I think! And I got KiKi's gift which went perfectly with the outfit! It is beautiful KiKi, thank you so much!!! <333 My hair made me think of Cloud ... lol. I can't wait to change it, the colour is gross, and doesn't suit me ... and I kind of doubt that the thing I plan to do next will suit me any better, but we will find out this weekend! I look sick/dead in these pics.
★ Was really tired early again today ... I wonder what is wrong with me .. maybe my not taking my iron pills finally kicked in ... good thing I finally got somemore on Friday.
★ The NANA anime is so amazing!!!! I love all of the characters so much!!! Episode 27 made me so happy at the end ... I was yelling at Nobu/my computer ... gah .. I love Nobu so much!!! And Shin too ... he is adorable. I really have to get the manga to read <333 It is torture having to wait for the inconsistently released subs of the anime.
★ I really REALLY want to get rockinghorse shoes .. but the biggest size they come in is 25cm from Double Decker ... and I highly doubt that will be big enough to fit me *has big feet* But I want to get them anyway on the off chance that they would fit ... as I am ordering my white Creepers for Christmas ... so they have the deal 2 pairs for $100US ... If they didn't fit I could probably resell them to make my money back ... Now I need to decide which style I want .. the ballet slipper style (305-1) or the "KILT" ones .. I am leaning towars the KILT ones, as they would suit my wardrobe better .. the other ones are really much girlier *flails*
Went out for a friend's belated birthday party last night ... we went for sushi, I'm not a huge fan *gets shot* but I had liked the salmon roll that I had in the summer at work ... so I figured I would get that again. I was starving, so I got another one that I got mainly because of the name ... 'hanabi' I had to get it because I'm a huge nerd and hanabi is and alice nine. song .. lol ... it was deep fried salmon, roe, avadado, cucumber and cheese ... sounds okay right? Wrong .. made me feel really icky ( ̄~ ̄)ξ So that I didn't even eat the plain salmon one that I actually kind of like .. blah ... brought it home to eat today, and it made me stomach turn eating it ... so ya .. no more sushi for a while. I did really enjoy the soybean pods that are salted and you squeeze the beans out into your mouth *can't remember what they were called* those were really yummy!!!
Dinner was really fun, there were some funny stories, and it was fun being out with people. We went out to another place called Demetri's (not sure on the spelling) anyway, basically a dessert/coffee place. Got an expensive, really dissappointing strawberry milkshake, and shared a crepe with 2 friends .. crepe was pretty good .. but not nearly as good as the ones in Japan <333 I miss them!!! So good. Anyway at Demetri's there was insane laughter, I'm surprised my stomach didn't hurt like shit today, we all laughed for pretty much an hour straight XD yay for making the word 'splurge' only ever mean sexual things to me ever again. The waiters are mostly all kind of ripped guys @_@;; it was weird.
Manditory photowhoring ... none of the pics turned out good ┐(´~`;)┌ But I did it after being dressed for over 15hrs ... I was halfway undressed when I was like "shit, wanted pics of this outfit!" \(*`∧´)/ So I got redressed and took pics, and then they were all either blurry or dumb looking .. gah.
Today was pretty average ... got my roomate to cut my hair so that the top back area isn't so long, so now I can style it properly again without it looking retarded from the side. Looks pretty much the same from the front though XD I need to decide what to do with my fringe @_@;; I've been wracking by brain for weeks ... I'm so torn, I can't decide if I like the shorter or longer fringe better on me.
Now back to trying to plow through work that I need to have done for tomorrow ( ̄へ  ̄ 凸
*:..。o○☆゚・:,。*:..。o○☆ ~To all of you who are going to Youmacon tomorrow, have an awesome time!!! Wish I was still going with you guys <333 I'll be there in spirit!!! Hopefully I'll make it to an American con sometime!
EDIT: Just got confirmation on my first photoshoot of the term too!!! *dances* I'm excited, I like modeling o(^-^)o I sometimes wonder if I should try to pursue it seriously at all ...
Photowhorage Once Again!!!*:..。o○☆゚・:,。*:..。o○☆ Well ... I was going to wear Shou today ... but last night my roomate said we should wear our super long wigs that we bought to do a Tenjou Tenge cosplay of Aya and Maya that we never did ... so ... I ended up as ... a Princess? lol ... complete 180 from yesterday ... I don't think I could have done more opposite costumes back to back ...hahaha
And thus ends my Halloween dress-up ... got to wear Shou for the dance on Friday, Kiba on Saturaday for a friends Halloween party, cool ass get up yesterday, and then 'Pretty Pretty Princess' today ... not bad, 4 costumes in 5 days XD hahhaha. Haha, my one friend has a hillarious video that I will have to share with you guys when I get it ... truly priceless it is!!!
Photowhorage!!!゚・:,。゚・:,。★゚・:,。゚・:,。☆ ~2 parts Rebecca with 1 part Ruki meets Allan Walker from D.Gray-man~ Needless to say, I got many looks, and behind the back comments from people ... but I really don't care ヽ(´ー`)ノ I think it is a hot look, and would wear it any time, but with Halloween one day away, it was a good excuse. ♪(*^ ・^)ノ⌒☆ It is fun to draw attention to myself, lol.
And tomorrow I will probably just wear Shou, because I technically don't have class at all ... and if I go to school, it will be for a 10am class that I will be going to for extra life drawing help ... So I don't want to spend 2hrs doing hair and makeup and figuring out an outfit that early in the morning ( ̄~ ̄)ξ
Wow, that was a close call, Firefox crashed after I had just finished typing this entry, I freaked out at it, but thankfully LJ's autosave option actually kept everything that I had type *very thankful*
So my stay with KiKi was basically a daily cycle of me sleeping a lot durring the day to get over my cold while KiKi was at work, going to the ¥100 store, 7-11, the grocery store and the 24hr supermarket. Hahaha .. and then me cutting, dying, styling her hair each night. For my first attempt at ever cutting and dying hair, I think I did a pretty good job o(^-^)o and I'm glad KiKi liked how it turned out! I also ended up dying KiKi's friend Ayumi's hair when she came the night before the alice nine. live. So apparently I am now a capable hairdresser!!! hehehe.
August 22nd:Second Last Day Didn't really do much ... depression about having to leave was kicking in, and KiKi had to work, so I just bummed around her place and slept mostly.
Anyway that is pretty much it ... I will cover my stay with KiKi and the live report in the following posts! I will try to get them done in the next couple days! Haha .. it has taken me so long! *fails* It's over 2 months since I've come back *dies*
[mood| touched] [music| the GazettE - Miseinen (piano version)]
Finally made it to the dance, a solid 2hrs+ late DX after being over an hour late to pick me up, there was then crazy ass traffic on the way in, plus shity ass rainy weather ... so slow slow driving, estimated 40min drive turned into more like 1.5hrs ... gah. Oh well, I made it there, and I didn't have to face the rain and public transit on my own, so it isn't so bad having to be late I guess.
As soon as we had got there and used the bathroom, we had some random chick ask us to be filmed for some documentary?? lol .. I have no idea ... they wanted people over 18 or 20 or something ... we said sure, lol. They wanted us to act like we were in a natural conversation about anime/manga while they filmed us @__@;; It was kind of awkward at first, what with the camera in your face and it's like "make up a conversation on the fly!!!" Thankfully my friend Mel is a real talker, so she got us started, and then it started to flow naturally, haha, interesting times.
As far as the dance itself goes, it was probably the crapiest one I've been too (this was the 8th anime/jpop/jrock dance I've been to I believe) The music was just really average, and not nearly as energetic and dancey as I like ... I want a really strong beat to dance to ... and there is so much japanese music out there that is great to dance to .. but ya, this dance seemed to be severly lacking in it.
It was cool as they had some videos projecting onto a huge screen, so that was wicked ... and the most wicked part??? THEY SHOWED [FILTH IN THE BEAUTY]!!!! *spazes* I saw it on the screen when they started playing a video section, it was like a DVD chapter selection pages, and I was all "Gazette, Gazette,Gazette!!!!!" They started with something else and each time a video ended I would repeat the chant to myself for Gazette ... lol, They played Nightmare's new song [the WORLD] and everyone was all "Eeeeeeeeeeeee!!!" because it is the Death Note anime OP, but I was all "EEEEEEEEEeeee Naito!!!!" even though I'm not a huge fan of that song, for sure I prefer other works of theirs, lol ... When they finally played [Filth in the beauty] I screamed XD hahaha it was like dead silence and I screamed rather loudly ... but I was SOOOOOO happy to get that song played while I was there ... so needless to sey ... I headbanged my little brains out in sync with Ruki's crazy circular headbanging way <3333 It was so great ... but it made me dizzy @__@;; lol ... but I made it through the song XD it was pure love, Gazette on the big screen ... only thing that sucked is the music needed to be WAAAAAAY louder ... it was so quiet >_< and there was a part in the middle of the song where there is some guitar solos and the sound cut out T___T but it was love none the less!!!! Haha, after this I was having some light headed episodes and my neck was messed up and my hair was totally flat >_> hahaha, I need to get better at headbanging so it doesn't destroy me x__x and figure out how to make my hair stay magically styled like the jrockers do @_@;
They also showed a ton of Ayumi Hamasaki ... can't say I'm much of a fan at all ... but whatever ... I know a lot of people really like her.
Then they showed this video ... and seriously ... it is something else ... you must go watch it (ノ´▽`)ノ It's pretty special ... lol
Then the dance ended suddenly with no warning, and over 1/2hr earlier than what they had posted .. sucky.
I saw lotus___six for a grand totall of like 30seconds when I was on my way in, she was on her way out @__@;; Then I never saw my Saga again T____T
I was very happy to see all my friends <333 I miss all of you so much!!! And I am so very sad that I had to back out of Youmacon *cries* That would have been so much fun with you guys!!! But seriously, I couldn't have been happier than when ochika started singing me Happy 'Early' Birthday, sicnce I now wouldn't be with them for my b-day ... and then everyone that was in the hall who were leaving the dance joined in singing ... it made me happy beyond words ... I am so incredibly happy to have found awesome friends like you guys!!! *many hugs* We will all need to hang out sometime soon again <3
Gah .. so my ride to the freaking dance it well over an hour late ... we are 1/2hr late for the dance already ... I am so angry!!!! I knew I should have just gone on the stupid public transit to get there ... *flails*
Photo whoring makes me happier ...
Vampire Shou <333
EDIT: They are on their way now ... about freaking time DX