Happy Girls' Day, everyone! Today, Hina Matsuri, is also known as the Doll Festival in Japan, when everyone drinks sweet sake, eats sugar stars and pink mochi, and everyone who can afford to celebrates the daughters of the household by busting out their expensive sets of empress and emperor dolls. Even if your daughter is a Gothic Lolita, that doesn't matter! Just tailor your hina dolls to her tastes, like this:
Wow! Much Goth, so Loli!
But even if you don't have a set of Girls' Day dolls for the occasion, who cares? Necessity is the mother of invention, so why not improvise by putting that teeny-tiny Acchan sex voodoo doll you made yourself together with your favorite American Girl doll, and playing a sexy version of Attack of the 50-foot Woman? You can't claim you haven't fantasized about this at least once. You can try to deny it, but we know you're lying.
The future is ripe with possibility!
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After all, just look...there are a whole horde of them to choose from, all begging in tiny voices for you to come "play" with them!
"Play with us..."
"PLAY WITH US!!!"
This one even has its hand on its...what has it even got there? On second thought, please don't tell me, I don't want to know. "Dolls" and "balls" are two words I don't need to hear in the same sentence.
And this one even has a scarf on its head!
With dolls like this, who needs real people? He even has sculpted veins and muscles! You can mold him to your will. He will never betray you. He's your coin operated boy. He will love you forever.
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But that's neither here nor there. The main point is, if you, like us, prefer real live humans, you're in luck. It is not yet Mr. Sakurai's 50th birthday, and we have, true to our word, gotten our ...drumroll...
*** LIVE REPORT of The Mortal's virgin tour ***
all up on the interwebs before the big day, so go read it! And if this inspires you to order a copy of the Immortal DVD through us, you can still do that - we're taking reservations till Sunday, just send us an email. As always, if you enjoy the live report, we ask you to please leave a comment here.
*** LIVE REPORT of The Mortal's virgin tour ***
all up on the interwebs before the big day, so go read it! And if this inspires you to order a copy of the Immortal DVD through us, you can still do that - we're taking reservations till Sunday, just send us an email. As always, if you enjoy the live report, we ask you to please leave a comment here.
As for the album review, it isn't quite finished yet, but we aim to get it up within the next few days (that's what he said.)
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In the mean time, would you like a cookie?
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Happy Hina Matsuri.
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Happy Hina Matsuri.
Thanks for the live report! I am shocked to know that there are fans that were acting so viciously. What a shame :( To be there in person and yet not fully immersed in such a beautiful, dark performance. They ought to be booted out.
ReplyDeleteThis truly made my day and possibly my week too, Cayce, so thank you very, very much. Everything was so vividly described that I had to stop once or twice to calm myself down,lol. I don't know if I would have been able to resist the urge of slapping some fangirls if I was there though. I already expected that few fans will show up at The Mortal tour (and I suspect even fewer at Schaft's) since apparently they don't even know their idols' influences but also don't have the tiniest bit of curiosity left in them. What's wrong with B-T fans there I wonder. I personally don't have any trouble enjoying both B-T and the members' side projects. Is it that difficult for others?
ReplyDeleteThank you thank you for the live report, wonderfully highlighting each day for those who couldn't follow the whole tour! Sakurai-san portrayed a completely different character with the Mortal, it was amazing, and he seemed to be enjoying himself as much as in 13 kai.
ReplyDeleteThank you. A great report as usual, can't wait for the live. Attack of the 50-foot Woman though? This is going to give me nightmares.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your live report, so vivid, so incredible, so dark! While watching the trailer it really feels somewhat incredible that the whole atmosphere did not manage to sweep the annoying fan girls away into goth (im)mortal land. And cheers for jake cloud chair as well, always useful to have fan artists around :D (not in the least because they don't shy away from sharing stuff via facename in a quite friendly way, somehow eluding annoying fan girl trolls)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the Mortal live report! Wonderfully written, as always.
ReplyDeleteThough I, too, have to wonder about the 'fangirls'. This was a great rock concert, right? So... why did someone even feel the need to 'shush' you for cheering!?
It is sad and unbelievable, this kind of behaviour. And here I thought that for a maybe-once-in-a-lifetime-kind-of live, you would cheer madly and enjoy the whole thing as much as possible if you're lucky enough to have the chance to really be there!
Therefore, I really hope that the real fans were at least twice as happy and loud!
Be assured that some of us who were within eye-line(r?) of the band did try to compensate for the sourpusses!
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