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| Lady Gaga, again. ;) |
[10 Jun 2010|05:49pm] |
The other day we went to see Lady Gaga - I was quite close to the front and at times I couldn't see a thing through the sea of raised cameraphones, that weren't lowered through the whole concert. At some point she, herself went "Put those phones down. Grab a tushie - make a friend." It was ridiculous. And I have no doubt where all these pics were being posted - possibly even right then and there. Cause they can't just fucking enjoy the concert, they have to post the pics on facebook! Immediately. So that everyone can click "Like". Yay.
The concert was good but since I'm more interested in her aesthetically, my favourite part was the video art in the costume change intervals. It was all made by Showstudio and it looked just stunning. Some of it was pretty extreme, like Lady Gaga biting on a real, blood dripping heart, or dressed in fetish gear. It was all very beautiful.
She did sing wonderfully though, kindof funny how she's so tiny and she has that huge voice.
The one thing I didn't like was that nearly after every song she'd go on and on about how much she loves her "little monsters" and how she wants them to be themselves and how she wouldn't be there without us and how we shouldn't let anyone tell us we're not good enough and did she mention how much she loves us, over and over. It was great, really, but it became a bit too much at one point and it caused too much of a lag between songs. I just think the whole thing should be a little tighter.
I didn't take any pics. ;)
By the way the new video by Stevcen Klein, even though it's completely irrelevant to the Ace of Base sound of the actual song, has some gorgeous moments, I especially love the steampunk headpiece.
But WHYYY did they have to put the men in heals??? Nothing grosses me out more than a man in heals. And the Mireille Mathieu hair isn't working for her at all, as much as I love bowlcuts.
I've been trying to convince my chinese friend to get a bowlcut for ages and he refused. Now that he saw this video he suddenly wants one. *eyeroll* Expect a new flow of hipster Lady Gaga haters to emerge now that she's making their haircut a new trend.
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[09 Jun 2010|04:36pm] |
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The decline of livejournal started years ago but now with facebook status updates providing people with utter fulfillment for their communication needs, it feels like nobody's on here anymore. When did that happen? When did people switch "making friends" to "networking"? Everyone and their dog is so into "networking" now and tell their friends they love them via their facebook status. How can anybody be happy with that? Have people completely lost their souls or what?
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| おかねがぜんぜんありません! T_T |
[24 Jan 2010|02:36am] |
Lately I feel like all I do is pay for bills. Just paid for Japanese second term and I have rent coming up next week, council tax, and I also just booked some plane tickets to visit my family.
Japanese is getting harder now that we're starting to learn kanji, the chinese characters that represent meanings as well as sounds. For example 日 means sun, but also represents the sounds hi, bi, ka, ji, ni and nichi depending on what's around it. T_________T
So basically you just have to know every reading and every possible combination to make sense out of anything. It's an entirely different logic from european languages which you can only read one way even if if you've never seen a word, and that's realy the hardest part - getting used to that very logic.
They are interesting though in the way they are combined. For example 人 means person and 木 means tree. If you put a person leaning against a tree like this 休 it means to rest. :D Also two trees together 林 make wood and three trees 森 make forest. So cute.
Btw you need to know about 2000 of these for tasks like reading a newspaper.
Screencaps from 哀しみのベラドンナ (Kanashimi no Belladonna)
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| Tokyo V.6 |
[08 Nov 2009|03:02am] |
I'm in Tokyo. Again. Not that I'm complaining.
I got my hair cut by Charlie Le Mindu btw. I usually style it in a quiff though sometimes it just does this insane scientist thing.
I should have bought some of this product. (look at the floor)
This was my first meal.
This udon has a huge piece of delicious, juicy abura age on top, thus it is called kitsune (fox). Abura age is the fox's favourite food.
This is my handwriting.
And this is the love of my life NINO-KUN <3. Always in a massive billboard near me, to make me melt and die.
( Read more... )
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| Olympus Pen E-P1 |
[01 Oct 2009|03:07am] |
I have fallen MADLY in love with this hot number.
It looks like a high end vintage camera, but it is, in fact, a compact "DSLR", the smallest in the world at the moment.
I like it even better in beautiful retro white x beige.
It has gotten rave reviews on its quality, 12.5mp, beautiful colours, no noise, image stabilisation and it even goes up to iso 6400 and still doesn't look terrible. The 14mm-42mm kit lens is excellent and ingeniously retracts to half its length. The only catch is the lack of flash (which I couldn't care less for personally) and the lack of a viewfinder, which is however what it owes its small size to (and the quotation marks around DSLR).
I've always used cute vintage cameras, toycameras, polaroids and film for my personal work, but that don't cut it for today's publication standards..so a switch is inevitable and I have found it so hard to deal with the bulky, ugly, plastic-looking DSLRs of today. This camera has everything I want so I think the lack of a viewfinder is a compromise I can make... otherwise it's THIS:
ぶさいく！
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