Lost in the Night, Out on the Street

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Cayce found something nice in Shimokitazawa today.

FYI, this is the original vinyl recording.

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Buck-Tick 2: the review

A review of Buck-Tick 2 : Can't Stop the Phenomenon is now up at NGS!  Please comment or I'll regret having spent so much time writing the damn thing.  Oh yeah and for the record, it's not perfect, but I'll be going to see this one again, too, before it leaves the theater. Not perfect doesn't mean, not a lot of fun.

Review here.

News news news!

Three bits of news.

1) Yagami Toll will be playing an "Its a Now +1" birthday tour of Osaka and Tokyo, around, but not on, his birthday.  The rest of Buck-Tick will not be joining him onstage.  He will instead be joined by the members of the New Blue Sky.  No word on other bands yet.  So tell me, can you dig a hole?

2) A live DVD of the Cosmic Dreamer Fish Tanker's Only 2013 show held at Tokyo Dome City Hall on March 2nd will be released on October 18th.  The limited edition will include a special slipcase printed with your name and fish tank ID number, two live CDs, and a photobook with pictures taken by the Hubble telescope, in addition to the actual DVD.  The limited edition can be preordered up until August 9th.  This DVD is only available for purchase to members of the fan club.  Note: this live DVD contains the first-ever public footage of Buck-Tick playing "My Baby Japanese" live.

3) A Tour in Question will be coming to the Noble Northerners of the Fallout Zones this December, hitting Sendai, Miyagi; Morioka, Iwate; and Kooriyama, Fukushima, before finally arriving at the Nippon Budoukan on December 29th.  Radioactivity is in the air for you and me.  Note: it's highly unlikely that a day spent at a Buck-Tick concert in Fukushima will shorten your lifespan by a statistically significant amount.  The tickets for this tour are not yet onsale so you have a while to decide.

You heard it here first.

If you got the hole joke, please comment, dammit.

Copy Right

In case you're deep in a period of unbearable Buck-Tick withdrawal and just can't take it, I give you, the best Buck-Tick copyband YouTube channel of all time (these guys ought to pay me for giving them this promotion.)  Of course it's nowhere near as good as the real thing, but you know...you could think of it as a sort of blow-up doll.

View Here.

Buck-Tick: The First Movie

We are pleased to announce that our review of Buck-Tick: The First Movie is now up over on Not Greatest Site!  We hope you'll applaud our industriousness at making it happen so fast!  Please leave your comments here.

For those of you who are in Japan, a few notes on the logistics of the movie-going:

1) Not to encourage the consumption of alcohol by fans or anything, but there's a bar at the movie theater.

2) The movie times are displayed on the web pages of the individual movie theaters.  Each movie is only running for two weeks, so take care you don't miss them!  The second movie opens this coming Saturday.

3) If you bought advance tickets, either through Pia or Fish Tank, you need to physically go to the movie theater in advance of the movie and exchange them for a same-day ticket with a seat reservation for a specific time.  I have a feeling the theaters won't be so full during the weekdays, in the mornings, especially, but for weekend showings, if you don't go at least a day in advance, I think you're going to run the risk of either having to sit way down front or not getting a seat at all.

4) The schedule for Buck-Tick 2: Can't Stop the Phenomenon has not been announced yet. Buck-Tick: The First Movie is showing in theater 9 at Shinjuku Wald9 all week at 11AM and 6:30PM. We saw it in theater 6.  Get it guys?

5) Not to encourage the fans to consume alcohol, but there's a bar at the theater that serves green cream soda chu-hi.  (Actually not really.  But they do have all kinds of other boozes.  In their pain boozy style.  Not to encourage fans to go to pot boozy night.  But, y'know.)

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Don't HIDE your love away!

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"Hey girl"

"I am why the little mermaid wished she had legs."

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Happy 46th birthday to Hoshino Hidehiko.

Tickets to Buck-Tick: The Movie

Tickets to Buck-Tick: The Movie were delivered to our door yesterday...and look what a surprise they came with!  A free pair of stickers modeled after the ones that Buck-Tick's management used to deface all of Harajuku during the promotional campaign for the original BUCK-TICK PHENOMENON concerts, back before BT had ever made their major debut!  (This story is featured in Love Me, if you're curious, read it here.)

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Incidentally, these are the same stickers on which we modeled the banner for Blog-Tick.

Shucks, guys.  What a nice present.

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Integrating Hairy Differentials

And now for a very important notice.

It appears that Mr. Sakurai's hair has grown approximately four centimeters since March.

An impressive growth rate, but the man's been demonstrating his remarkable follicular velocity on a constant basis ever since he first grew hair.

Too bad the hair on his face doesn't grow at that speed, but that's another matter entirely.

The point I'm trying to make here is: Acchan-chan is 4cm longer in hair.

As I'm well aware that the relationship between the exact number of centimeters of hair on Acchan's head (call that x) is directly proportional to the quantitative measure of starry-eyed hysterical fangirl adoration for him at a given time (call that y), and the relationship between the two is best modeled by the linear function y=x, I felt that this news merited a post of its own.

Blog-Tick estimates Acchan's current hair length at about 20cm, with a 10% margin of error.

Given the above information, tell me how much you love him now.

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Exrtra credit. Tell me how Blog-Tick readers misread one of the above sentences as containing the word "4chan."

The Buck-Tick Phenomenon: Now a Major Motion Picture!

For those of you who didn't know, the premiers for BUCK-TICK: THE MOVIE and BUCK-TICK: THE OTHER MOVIE were held back-to-back in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture on June 1st, that is to say, last Saturday.  For those of you who didn't know, Fujioka is Buck-Tick's home town.  The director of the movie showed up to make a speech, as did the Mayor of Fujioka.  I hope this gives you some idea about how much goes on in Fujioka on a daily basis.  According to a friend of Blog-Tick who attended the screening, both the mayor's speech and the director's speech were boring and went on too long.

From left to right: Imai "WTFOMG" Hisashi, Toll "Swank" Yagami, Higuchi "Sweet Valley Junior High" Higuchi, The Mayor of Fujioka, The Director of BUCK-TICK: THE MOVIE, Sakurai "Glazed as a Donut" Atsushi, and Hidehiko "Buttoned Up" Hoshino.

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But see, at the end of the movie, when the credits were all done with, the Buck-Tick members themselves came out for an interview.  Apparently, Mr. Sakurai reached sketchily inside his jacket and pretended to pull a Revolver (get it??) on the audience, just like James Bond or something, but maybe that was just the picture.  Disney afficiandoes note that Imai's t-shirt appears to picture Mickey Mouse.  Extra ten points for those fantastic furry leopard print boots.  Hidehiko, please unbutton that shirt and show us some curly black chest hair already.

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In the words of our on-the-ground-correspondent: "Buck-Tick were supposedly having a small party after that, but I had so much beer I thought I might pass out, so I went home."

Well then.

Why wasn't Cayce at this screening, you ask?  Because, just between you and me, we had a tip-off that the mayor's speech was going to be hella boring and we decided to skip it.  That, and it's a three hour train ride from Tokyo to Fujioka, folks.  It is with extreme excitement that we prepare to give you a review of the movie, once we actually view it with our own eyes, so stay tuned.  Next time you want to send us to a faraway place, send us donations first.  Coming soon.  

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PS. Do any of you think Yutaka is way too close to that Mayor?