Well dammit

Look what I went and did, you guys.

I told everyone on GK about this blog today.

DAMMIT.

Now I'm going to actually be held accountable for producing content on a regular basis. No excuses anymore. And I don't even know what I'm going to review for tonight.

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Wish me luck!

I suck, but it's okay

So I didn't post the day after that last post. Or the day after. Or the day after.

Gotcha!

Hahahahahahahaha!

....

Anyway, I do have an excuse. I had been planning to do a review of Sakanaction's single, "Rookie," that was released on 3/16. I even had the thing 95% written! But then I got word from my friends at Gaijin Kanpai that Zer0 will be on hiatus for a little while and I'll be filling in for her next week, and also that our planned single review (move - "Overtakers feat. KAWAMURA RYUICHIxSUGIZO") fell through, so we'll instead be reviewing Sakanaction's "Rookie."

So, woot me! Come listen to me on Wednesday on the uStream if you really want to know what I have to say about "Rookie" and/or you want to hear me trip over my tongue like Gene Simmons with a fleshy jump rope and back-pedal faster than Lance Armstrong moving backwards through time at light speed. If nothing else, I know it'll be amusing.

(UPDATE: Here's the show I was on! It was awesome!

*GASP*

*splutter*

*gasp*

*hack hack cough*

*violent, spasmodic coughs*

*collapse on newfound beach*

Oh my god. I'm back. I'm here again.

*fearful giggles*

(You wouldn't believe what I've seen, the things I've... washed off my hands.)

(My chainsaw. Where's my chainsaw?)

It's been 17 days since we were separated by the tides of time, and in that time the tides of the ocean have been doing naughty things to Japan. I can't say that I would have been here if Japan hadn't been hit by the Earthquake-Tsunami One-Two Punch-Kick In The Face From Nature, so I won't. But I will say that my thoughts and prayers and love and fear and dread and hope go out to everyone over there, as well as to anyone in the world who has someone that was affected.

I'll also say that I'm planning to start writing my reviews again. "Oh no!" you say? Oh yes. OH YES.

I'm sure that many of you are upset, nonplussed, or possibly excited by this news. Good for you, wherever you may be emotionally. I'll be picking up with a new selection of albums and singles rather than trying to go back and cover what I missed. I may double up one some days if I have a little free time, but we'll see how it goes. In the mean time, I apologize for the disruption of service; we'll be back up and running tomorrow.

Kobukuro - Blue Bird - Fly away....please

"Blue Bird" has proven to essentially be just as ugly as the Yuzu album. Blugh. The title track is so sweet it seems to drip with molasses, but lacks any kind of feeling or emotion (like Korean music!). (I hate Korean music.) It also uses cheap production tricks that make it seems even more flat: the "meaningful closing echo," the "repeat the same music with different words" string....Yuck. The instrumental isn't any better - it sounds like the ending theme to a late-90s drama. Then there's "Kimi he no Shudaika," which has this combination of harp, strings, and electric guitar that sounds like it belongs in an 80's Fourth of July celebration. The song itself isn't too bad, but when those guitars come in I just want to listen to anything else - even "Blue Bird" is better than those guitars! Even Yuzu is better than those guitars! "Love Letter" is the only thing on the single that's passable: it has an interesting combination of slightly scratchy audio, acoustic, and whistling that is pretty chill. Unless you're listening to "Love Letter," PASS, PASS, PASS.

Last day for survey

Last day to respond to the survey!

I know....I got it out late this week.

I know....I was very bad last week about writing the reviews. (Though I'm getting them done now - did you see how many I got done last night?)

But I've only gotten 2 responses. Let me know what you want to hear about!