Wait For It

Your faithful Not Greatest Translator Cayce is in the middle of relocating, and is therefore not currently connected to the internet (shock!) Therefore, if this blog has been silent for a while, do not despair. I swear I am moving to the 13th Floor of the Diana building in Asylum Garden Ward, Dead Cyber Tokyo, Japan, so you have no reason to worry about me! I promise more goodies and madness in the not-too-distant future.

寿記 09.06.10 Wait a sec...

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Today, it's been one year. Since I started this blog, that is.

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I learned it in a fan mail a few minutes ago.

Thanks, guys.

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...yeah, and it's perfect timing.

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IMAI 18:09

We remembered, Mr. Imai. It was the Memento Mori tour show at Oomiya Sonic City...the fans all found your blog on their cell phones, and then they thought it was a hoax. But we knew better. Happy anniversary.

Kisses

Buck-Tick's second single of 2010 will be entitled "Kuchizuke" ("Kiss") and will be released this summer!

"Kuchizuke" was written as the opening theme for the anime "Shiki," slated to air starting July 8th on Fuji Television's noitaminA program. More details will be released as they are decided. NoitaminA airs Thursday nights starting at 1:15AM on Fuji Television, Kansai Television, Tokai Television, and BS Fuji. "Shiki" was based on the manga by Fujisaki Ryuu, which was based on the novel by Ono Fuyumi. Please check the Shiki official website for more information.

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Information taken from Buck-Tick's official site.

寿記 02.06.10 GTR ~Rec~

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My guitar recording is starting today.

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...and by that I mean, I totally forgot about the existence of this blog.

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I have a feeling I'll probably forget about it again in the future, but just bear with me, okay~~

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Anyway, going to the studio now.

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Search Phrases

Some lovely phrases that internet surfers typed into Google that yielded up This is NOT Greatest Site. Honest to god, I did not make these up. Not one of them. They were all given to me, fully formed, by my web stats analyzer. Maybe I don't say it often enough. I love you people.

are buck-tick satanists?

seileen devil worship

who's going to seileen tonight?

concert edicate is bad

how early do you get to a concert to be first in line?

does kiyoharu drink?

improper use of the word go

not for the claustrophobic

flight radius unladen swallow

takoyaki maker - electric gas

vowel sounds

eat your make up death rock

what techno song has a ticking clock at the beginning?

dir en grey is it true that kyo masturbates onstage?

buck tick live moan sexy

sakurai atsushi without a shirt

glistened with sweat leather pants concert

nude countertenors

sexual tacos

people who think atsushi sakurai is god

And what have we learned from all this? What we already knew, of course: the internet is for pr0n! But just for the record, Not Greatest Site is most definitely NOT Not Greatest Pr0n. And I suppose I should let you all decide what I mean by that.

I Love B-T

To all the fans who bought the "I Love" tour goods designed by Sakurai Atsushi from the 2009 tours & the Fish Tanker's Only lives, we extend our deep gratitude.

We have donated the proceeds from the sale of the tour goods to Unicef.

"I love fan of B-T"

~Sakurai Atsushi

(Taken from Buck-Tick's official home page.)

And an FYI: Sakurai Atsushi is openly anti-war and makes public anti-war statements on a fairly regular basis at live shows, especially rock festivals. He has also participated in at least one charity show for earthquake relief funds.

Gifts from Buck-Tick

What's your most prized Buck-Tick-related possession? Maybe it's a first press CD, maybe it's an ultra-rare poster from some year when they were famous and you weren't born yet (fans born in the 90's, we're looking at you!)

Maybe it's Imai's stabilizer-model guitar, in all its glory, or maybe it's that pink and purple tour t-shirt that your online girlfriend who lives in Japan sent you, just to force you to choose between questioning your fandom and questioning your sexuality (Imai has never been ashamed to wear pink and purple with pride. Whoops, no pun intended.)

Or maybe, it's merely a collection of fabulous old stickers you never could bring yourself to paste on your guitar, theremin, toilet seat, or anywhere else, really (one of them might look especially familiar to readers of this blog!)

Cool, ain't they?

But if you talk to enough fans, especially fans who have been following the band for a long time, you start to get some really weird answers to this question.

For example,

"My favorite Buck-Tick possession is my collection of Sakurai Atsushi's cigarette butts! My friend went drinking with him twenty years ago and rescued them from the ash tray, just for me!"

Or,

"I scratched him at a concert once when he stuck his hand in the audience. Now I have his DNA!"

Please, let's remember that no matter how advanced the genetics lab in your basement is, non-consensual mass cloning of sovereign individuals is classifiable and prosecutable as identity theft and/or sexual assault. Also, scratching people is mean.

But short of disturbingly fetishistic acts of experimental science, there are plenty of lucky fans whose prize Buck-Tick possessions are those special lottery prizes from the various interesting promotional campaigns the band has had over the years.

A custom music box that plays "Jupiter"? How delightful!

Or how about these gorgeous "Gensou no Hana" flowers delivered directly to your door, complete with a signed note from the band members? Surely nothing could be more beautifully symbolic of elusive romance than a bundle of perfect blue roses.

But if flowers aren't your style, how about the more recent 13kai wa Gekkou-themed ipod that was a lottery prize around the time of the band's 20th anniversary celebrations? No ipod could be better than this one for stuffing full of all of Buck-Tick's albums, plus all those pirated concert tapes you made by entering the venue with miniature recording equipment cunningly disguised in your bosom, courtesy of your best friend's boyfriend who works for the CIA.

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I know, I know. These tamer gifts, despite their beauty, may not entirely satisfy your rabid fangirl needs. While it's possible that needs like these are unfulfillable, over the years at least the band's promoters have made attempts to feed the cravings of fans the world over who long desperately for bite-size band members that they could put in their pockets and take home. Thought the Dokudanjou Beauty figurines were the first of their kind? Well you thought wrong. Buck-Tick have been lovingly rendered in vinyl multiple times over their long history, and never so spectacularly as for the Sweet Strange Live Film. All colored and properly proportioned, your super-hero rock stars the Kick-Butt-Ticks (tm) are ready to save the day! Just kick them into hurry up mode, and here we go again!

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If you have any seriously cool, rare Buck-Tick items you want to share, leave a comment or drop us a line and maybe we'll post some more.