Wow. Apparently DBSK is big with the nine year old boys.

So, yesterday I was teaching Kawashimo 4th graders. In the first class, several kids squeed "Tohoshinki!" when I started the squishy-passing music. I giggled, but figured that it was due to the fact that I was using Share The World. They're right about the age to be entranced by One Piece.

But then, in the next class...wow. One boy actually bounced in his seat. I raised a bemused eyebrow, but it was teaching time so I couldn't ask questions. After class, however, this kid came screeching over at a manic pace, and asked me if I had any other music. He actually started bouncing when I said yes, so I showed him (My ipod has nearly their entire discography on it). As I was scrolling down the song list, どうして君を好きになってしまったんだろう came up.

I have heard a lot of fanscreams in my life. NEVER one that loud. From a forth-grade boy, no less. Who then started hopping around and glomped me, hard, when I decided it would be ok to play a bit of it before I went to my next class. I actually thought he was going to hyperventilate for a bit.

So, yeah. That was interesting. And adorable as anything. I was laughing my ass off, while various classmates stared confusedly at both of us. ^^;

Edit: And now I just had about half the boys in my 6-3 Atago class crowded around my iPod singing along with Share The World. ^^; This is hilarious and awesome.

Avex is offering personalized gods once again*


Gah. There's going to be Tokyo Dome photobooks like there were for the 3FCE, where they have a pool of photos and you choose the ones you want.

I'm scared. I spent nearly $100 on the fanclub event ones (well, including the ones for other people I ended up with well over that. But gifts and crack dealing don't count). If the pictures from the Dome one are nice, I don't know what I'll do. *cries tears of shame because she knows she has no self-control to speak of* Especially if they have multiple ones like last time. Because god and the devil know that I'm a slave for each and every one of the boys. Perhaps all the pictures shall involve the nightmarish outfits of clashy doom. I could probably control myself then, even with legs and aaaaaarms and up, etc)

Seriously. I predict by the end of this year that I will have spent more on DBSK than I have on the anime/game figures I have. This is ridiculous.

*the website name is Goods on Demand. Their url, however, is "god4you.jp". My first thought upon seeing this was "Oooh, hey. You can personalize your own god!" You know, decide if it's a vengeful god or a benevolent pimp god, omnipotent or not. Part of a pantheon. All sorts of fun stuff. Make-your-own-religion, man. ^_^

Woke up this morning, opened up my computer to discover the screen was upside down. Could not figure out how to fix it. Was unsure why it was.

Ended up having to do a google search (man, it's hard to navigate a keyboard and mouse when things are going the wrong direction) with said upside-down screen. Luckily, the fix worked. Not sure WHY it flipped itself upside down in the middle of the night, but as long as it's fixable I don't care.

Still. Freak out. oO I am sick of having problems with my computers, and was kind of terrified it was the baby's turn. ^_^;

this secret from f!s kind of makes me want to invoke Godwin's Law, sort of. Not comparing the OP or any of the respondents, but one on the subject matter itself. there is a very large list of people who I can think of who deserve to be criticized after death. And the subject of said law is the first one that comes to mind (followed by several others, but he's notorious).

Saying this over here because, well...I've said my share of stupid things on f!s already. I'll limit them to over here now. You guys already all know I'm an idiot. --;

Huh. Apparently Avex has decided that putting DBSK up against Johnny's E is the new thing to do. I'm rather wondering if it's a popularity experiment or they've just decided that they're obviously going to sell anyway, so it doesn't really matter if they take the actual #1 slot.

Still, Survivor was against KAT-TUN and, while I didn't realize it, Stand By U went up against Arashi. Oddly, they fared approximately the same with both groups. The difference was a bit over 50k for KAT-TUN vs Survivor, and a bit more than 40k for Arashi vs Stand By U. This makes me sad, actually. Between the two Johnny's groups, Arashi is, in my opinion (no offense to the K-T fans on my flist, for I know there is a lot of you), the more talented. >.>; .

So. Yep. Silly gods, to be defeated by a storm. Not that I'm SURPRISED. Still, I want to see them beat Japan's pantheon of gods at some point. It would just have to be once. Because while I'm sure they Johnny's boys are very nice, and they obviously work their butts off, there's only one group I would face down the very hounds of Hell for. ^^;

Only vaguely related: Honestly. Four days since I saw it, and I'm still trying to figure out "why YOOCHUN?" in regards to Xiahtic at Bangkok. Honestly. WTF? Someone explain to me who the hell decided that Yoochun was a good person to put in choreography that requires, uh, whatever it is that Xiahtic requires. Not particularly fond of Xiahtic but with Yoochun in there it became entirely ludicrous.

Right. Hair is not important. It's silly to be o.O over it. But...but...



It's like Yoochun's Mirotic and Doushite styles got together and had a shaggy sideswept alien lovechild.

Looks like they trimmed Changmin, too. Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad. He also had a skull-pattern scarf. WTF? Jaejoong, on the other hand, continues to get shaggier.

Now, I know that it's pretty standard at concerts to offer some sort of foodish substance. Usually imprinted cookies or cakes for properly-behaved Japanese folks to buy as omiyage for their coworkers.

But the food item for The Secret Code: Final in Tokyo Dome?

This:


Yep. That's nori, dried sheets of seaweed. Korean nori, at least, but still. Seaweed. "Random" doesn't even begin to cover it, at least in my perspective.

I do admit a fondness for Korean-style nori, I'll admit. However, this does not change the fact that it makes no sense.

Well, I guess I'm going to jump on the "RIP Michael Jackson" bandwagon. I didn't care for his music, and I think he was well crazy by the end, but he was the face of an entire genre of music for much of the time that I was growing up, and that deserves some respect.

So, yeah. Bye. Whenever I'm really tired and looking in the mirror, I will admit Man in the Mirror pops into my head so...obviously he meant something to me, if just an eternal earworm.

Apparently Big Bang had their Japanese debut yesterday. Hirakawa-sensei, the uber DBSK fan at Atago, was less than impressed. Now, being not being a fan of pop music them myself, I kinda agreed with her. (Sorry, BB fans on my flist. I just don't care for them).

It did get me thinking, though. These poor Korean bands. It must be a bit hard to have bloody DBSK/TVXQ/東方神起 as the standard for what you have to live up to during any international debut, especially Japan. It's the pop music version of...having an art exhibit next to Leonardo Da Vinci's workshop. Or something like that, for I'm sure that'S a bit of an exaggeration.



Also, one of the Johnny's-centric magazines had the entirety of Hey, Say Jump nude on its cover. I may also not be a fan of most music that comes out of JE, but that's still highly disturbing to me. WTF?

You know, from time to time I end up sitting about staring at my life, wondering what the fuck I think I'm doing with it. Doing it right now, in fact, largely to the conclusion that even though my respiratory system is healthy for the first time in what's practically been years, my health continues to decline. Unfortunately, I know exactly why. I'm becoming more and more detached from life, even online. Much more of this and I'll just become a blob of Jabba the Hutt proportions, except without his ambition or a girl in a metal bikini by my side unless corellianroguewould like to volunteer. Well, more likely my heart will give out at 30. This is definitely something I need to fix.

That said...my life seems to have entered what is actually a pretty good place right now. I mean, I adore my work, even with all the stupid bits that have cropped up due to the douchey bullshit that they're calling the curriculum, and think that I'm probably at my happiest when I'm in the classroom (excluding moments of uber-fangirling. Those things are downright euphoric). And, as for real life...um...

The biggest mystery in it is "how exactly does a two dimensional stick-man get that much air into his lungs?", because that doesn't make sense. Nevertheless, it is a pretty tame mystery.

Now, I'm sure this will all change in about 9 months, when I'll be getting ready to go back to America for good with absolutely no goddamn idea about what I'll be doing but...yeah.

Being content is weird. Now I just need to stop trying to kill myself through passive means. If I'm going to bloody kill myself, I might as well do it when I'm NOT happy. ^^;

The "photo select" shop for the Secret Code tour opened for online sales today (literally various 3x5 glossy prints of the boys from various places in the tour). It included a few shots from the helicopter/airplane pad shoot that didn't make the pamphlet. Most of them are similar to the stuff in the pamphlet. Decent shots of the boys standing against some sort of large gray mode of transportation.

Well, MinJaeSu are standing. Yoochun is adorableazing and Yunho is...apparently being arrested:



Seriously? I can't be the only one who looks like he's about to be patted down? Also wondering what is up with the expression. Awfully vulnerable for him. It's very weird.

Now, I am going to make dinner and contemplate why the photographer was telling Yunho to look like someone had just thrown him against the side of the plane.

I can't decide if I'm amused or horrified. Since the beginning of the year I've been slowly (or not-so-slowly) working my way through Star Trek, from the original series onwards. I started on Voyager last Saturday, and with much skipping of boring episodes, am now in the middle of season 2.

As I watch and reacquaint myself with the characters (I watched both DS9 and Voyager religiously during their original releases) I am gradually realizing that poor Tom Paris seems to have honestly been created as a bicycle. Not a man-slut or playboy, the way Kirk and Riker were, but a genuine bicycle. I swear a good fan could make a decent case for him and just about any member of the crew, man or woman. The man is walking, talking fanbait.

Now I wonder if anyone told him that he was going to Lt Fanservice, or if it was RDM's take on his roguish assignment. It's weird either way. oO;

Sitting next to an extremely hot, and tall, boy on the streetcar in Hiroshima. After a week of being able to poke and then leer shamelessly with Plague, this is not nearly as distracting as it should be.

Today, I had a conversation in which it was discussed whether pop music or a Bernese Mountain Dog puppy was the better item for saving the world from a totalitarian state. ^^;

The ultimate decision was that the pop music needed cell phones in order to work, whereas the puppy succeeded simply via its tongue. Therefore, puppy wins.

We decided not to discuss that delinquent!Junsu was about as cute as the puppy. It would skew the results.

So, sitting here trying to distract myself from the fact that corellianrogue has returned to the States (and is hopefully safely on her plane to Chicago. She had a very short layover in Incheon airport).

Found this:



While not entirely distracting, because nothing really would be because she's my Plague and I like having her around (and we probably could have aww'd over it verbally and together), it's hella cute. Or maybe I'm just weird because, uh, it does seem a little strange to find pictures of boys sitting on top of one another while looking at a computer to be fucking adorable.

The Osaka staff reports in general have been cute, though. Everyone seems pretty healthy and happy. Which is the way I want my boys.

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEfucking SWORD manEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEbeachball jacketEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEE EEEEEEEEE EEEEEEholyfuckingshitguuuuuuuuuuuuhEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEE EEE EEEEE>...baby molestation is apparently a pastimeEEEEE.

...Right. More later. Bye!

Well, last week I uploaded my 100th video to Youtube. Almost all of those
videos have over 500 hits, many over 5000 and a third over 10000. On
approximately the same day my first video reached over 50k hits (the one of
Yoochun and Junsu speaking, uh, English at the the Bigeast fan event). There
have been 553,000 views total on my videos (and none of this is including
the parts of the FCE that I uploaded to my fake account after Youtube
removed the one DBSK video), I have nearly 550 subscribers.

This is very weird.

Also...I am being hit with random moments of "SQUEEE" over the upcoming
arrival of corellianrogue and the Tohoshinki concert that will
occur soon after. Eeeee! >.>;;;

Pretty fucked up day today. today's xkcd made it all better.

Also, I want to see Up so bad it practically hurts. ^^;

Well, I remembered to say "rabbit rabbit" on the first of the month for the first time in, uh, a very long time. So this means that all should go well.

Of course, by saying that I've likely jinxed everything. Because that's how these things work. Time will tell.

But, yeah. Here's hoping. I want my Plague, and I want her to have a fantastic trip free of any goddamn mutated piggy viruses.

That is all. You may return to your regularly scheduled programs now.