ive been so careful! ive been planning my next 2 months worth of purcahses, balancing upcoming CD and DVD releases with other things and then BAM! radiohead announce their new album, the only physical version running about $80. this thing is going to be 2 LPs, 2 CDs, and some nice packaging. instead of signing to another label theyve opted to make these through their own company, made-to-order. it doesnt say just how long theyll be available so i think itll be best to preorder or be filled with regret forever if i miss out. but aside from the buy-able…

谷村新司 has become one of my heroes. i usually dont bother with artists websites, but i decided to pop by his and was surprised to find a very lengthy well written bio of his youth and major moments of life in english. so i figured id read through it and write up a wiki for him here on last.fm. man hes had such a life! traveling through canada, north america, and mexico with no money in his college days, recording albums all over europe, and more recently working on bettering the music scene in china and strengthening chinese-japanese relations, and…

just had them ripped out, and this is a pointless list of the music i found suitable for the occasion:

world's end girlfriend (first thing i listened to on the way to the office, to take me away from the situation, and im continuing with him for some healing help.)
hotei tomoyasu (second thing i listened to on the way to the office, to get me PUMPED.)
kazumasa hashimoto (post removal relaxation)
grails (post removal relaxation)
gutevolk (post removal relaxation)
momoe yamaguchi (i dunno shes just easy to listen to)

i managed to fall asleep to some of this, then…

for a long time, ever since i was little really, id really liked carnivals. not so much the sickening and less-than-trustworthy food or the life-threatening rusty rides but more the romantic image of them. like old fashioned stuff. theres just something about it. and part of that has been the music, or any music that brings about a similar old fashioned image. i never really pursued it tho, it was kind of a closet interest. maybe i didnt think id find anything, maybe i wasnt sure how to look, maybe i thought it was too weird. i dunno.

but i…

first off, im growing more and more pumped fo the new 勝手にしやがれ album. the 中島美嘉 collab is nice, even tho i dont hate her i dont particularly like her ethier. shes better then the other generic pop idols but thats about it. but i like this track. i didnt think about it til this track, but these collabs are weird. thier albums on grande papa didnt have any collabs and since theyve joined epic records theyve had 4 collabs, all of which have felt kinda forced to me except the zoot 16. this new one doesnt have a single…

so today (ok techincally 2 and a half hours ago it ended but whatever) is my last.fm birthday! how exciting. all i have to say is ive spent too much time on this website this past year doing absolutely nothing. and i intend to keep doing it for awhile.

edit: so i changed my sidebar cause i was sick of it. ill think of it as a last.fm bday present to myself . its all the same people, just new pics :D except the last two cause akeboshi is hard to find anything beyond the same 3 pics and i…

i was browsing around cdjapan and i saw a listing for a new 勝手にしやがれ album out mid-july:

Tenth anniversary album from Katteni Shiyagare featuring covers of influential and just plain favorite tracks from the band! Includes guest performance from Mika Nakashima for a cover of Cole Porter's "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To"! Limited edition includes bonus DVD with complete live footage from the band's tenth anniversary concert March 27, 2007 at the Ebisu Liquid Room.

i cant believe how excited i am for a cover album. i thought the cover of 'is you is, or is you…

i dont really feel like blogging lately but id like to write this down before the memory totally dissolves.

so i went to the grails/mono/world's end show a few days ago. we got there right when the doors opened and got decent spots (actually, it was almost the exact same spot we had for deerhoof. so even before the show we could dpot the most obnoxious people around us. the audience at deerhoof was collectively annoying in the way they had had this look like 'yea im all indie and obscure and awesome'. this one wasnt as bad, altho there…

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hes been very much in my thoughts for the past two weeks. it really is a terrible shame. im not one to gush over dead celebrities but i cant help it with ozaki. he was an amazing writer and artist, and his songs continue to be covered (nakashima mika released a single covering of 'i love you' just a few weeks ago).

i really dont have much too say..ive just been wallowing in this 15 year anniversary lately..

ive seen several of these around and thought id do one, cause theyre fun to read and ive been very nostalgic lately anyhow.

childhood: i was raised on country music. my father was a country/bluegrass musician and my mother was obviously a fan of such things as well so that is what i knew as a child. not too much current/popular country, more like willie nelson and Kris Kristofferson. that and random ballad and cheeseball artists (which may explain some of my current favs) like whitney houston and rod stewart. if my father hadnt of died when i…