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I won a Konata ^___^
If you ask me, everyone should have their own Konata *lol*

Anyway XD
New hardware a.k.a. Xmas pressies (apart from the last one)!

External DVD writer (Pretty and fast as hell!)

DVB-T stick (... which I haven't gotten around tor eally testing that much yet XD)

Additional handset (... because the "big phone" is two rooms away and usually, the answering machine picks up before me ^_^;;;

Also...

I found a better quality version of "Cosmos dream"! Yes! Yes! Yesss!!!

God, so beautiful... Also, it's verifiably the first Japanese song I ever heard. Back then, I think I was still in kindergarten. I thought I'd forgotten how it went, but when I played it again, it all came back immediately... *chokes*

Nicked from rdyfrde :D

1) Have your music library ready.
2) Choose one song from your music library whose title starts with the first letter (or number) of your screen name.
3) Repeat this process with each successive letter (or number) in your screen name until you run out of letters (or numbers).
4) Post up your results.
5) BONUS POINTS: Upload your mix (whether it's individual songs or a .zip of all the songs) and include the mix in your post.
6) MORE BONUS POINTS: Add the line around the 1:10 mark of at least five songs.

So, now, you too can explore the horrifying world that is my music taste XD As you can see, it is all over the place, like it's always been...

(J) Judas at the opera - Edguy [Superheroes EP]
(E) Everlasting song [Japanese edition) - FictionJunction ASUKA [Erementar Gerad]
(S) Spirit of the night - Daniel (SEB 188]
(S) Sign of the cross - Avantasia [The Metal Opera Part 1]
(Y) You only tell me you love me when you're drunk - Pet Shop Boys [Drunk single]

(B) Before dawn daybreak - fripSide [Split Tears]

And, because I just can't seem to get enough, I did the same with what's officially become my second nickname:

(Q) Question at me - HAYASHIBARA Megumi [Fuwari]
(U) Upstairs - Wolfsheim [Dreaming Apes]
(E) Eagle - Gamma Ray [New World Order]
(E) Edge - access [Best selection]
(N) Nur einen Kuss - die ärzte [Jazz ist anders]

(O) Out of the dark - Falco [Out of the Dark (Into the Light)]
(F) Fallen to pieces - Helloween [Gambling with the Devil]

(G) Gas gas gas - Manuel [SEB 181]
(E) Egao - WADA Koji [Digimon]
(E) Escapist - Nightwish [Bye bye Beautiful single]
(K) Kimi ga tame - Suara [Utawarerumono]
(S) Sprial galaxy - HAMADA Mari [Reflection ~Axiom of the two Wings~]

Ah, that was fun. Actually, I could've easily posted two songs per letter. Maybe I'll re-do this thing some day...
Anywho. Downloads. I've put all the songs in one file because I'm a lazy bum. You can grab it here (right click + "save as") (.zip/86.8 MB, all songs in .mp3/128 kbps).
If anyone just wants any one of the songs without having to get the whole archive, just tell me. I'll gladly upload it for you!

... No, I'm not doing the 1:10 mark thing. Even I am not that crazy ^_~

PS: Be glad I spared you "Belleville rendez-vous". And that's just because I forgot :P

The new (fourth) Slayers TV series is just around the corner.
And already, we got a few small sneak-peaks of the new music. Guess what? That's right, I uploaded them for you!

Click here! (zip/6.85 MB)

( Contents of the zip file... )

BTW, in case you're curious, I got all of those songs from the new "Slayers Megumix" CD. It's a nice compilation of all the songs Megu-chan has sung for the classic franchise. Highly recommended for both old and new fans ^_^
Also, how do you like my Lina icon? I usually don't like it if a picture looks washed-out/blurry, but in this case, it fits.

Yesh. It seems like my Munich plan is finally taking shape. I just need to hear back from Soulbrother once more. Guess I'll keep you posted, eh? :3

And now... soccer ^^

Mainly for my own reference - some of the CDs I'll want to have a look at!

(CDs are albums unless otherwise indicated)

2008-04-23 TAMAKI Nami - Don't stay
2008-04-23 GRANRODEO - Not for sale / Gumbit (single)
2008-04-25 Ayreon - Ayreon vs. Avantasia (EP)
2008-05-07 Super Eurobeat Vol. 187
2008-05-14 GRANRODEO - Detarame na zanzo (single)
2008-05-21 KOOROGI Satomi - Ouchi ga ichiban (single) (Chi's Sweet Home OP)
2008-05-30 Sabaton - Art of War
2008-05-30 Nightwish - The Islander (single)
2008-06-04 Super Eurobeat Vol. 188
2008-06-06 Revolution Renaissance - New Era
2008-06-11 T.M.Revolution - resonance (single)

I wonder whether I forgot anything...

Claymore INTIMATE PERSONA ~Character Song Shuu~ [VPCG-84863]

01 Kioku - KUWASHIMA Houko (Clare)

Boring much? *yawn* Also, who the hell had the glorious idea to put the rap on there?! This is a medieval-styled fantasy show, not some urban skating shit! Gah, I can't believe it >:O

02 Henbou - HISAKAWA Aya (Priscilla)

Weird intro but turns out to be somewhat interesting, music-wise. Still, it doesn't manage to blow me away, even though I like HISAKAWA-san's voice a lot. I guess it's just too... strange.

03 Hangyaku - ORIKASA Ai (Galatea)

God, I wish they'd stop doing that rap thingy all the time. How does it fit to a ballad like this? Exactly, it doesn't. Bleh. The track itself is slow with nice guitars. Too bad it's barely catchy enough to strike a chord. Next.

04 Kakusei - TAKEDA Hana (Deneve)

Finally, something with a little substance. A Rock-ish song with a halfway decent riff but unfortunately, a rather bad chorus. Aw man.

05 Zouo - SHINOHARA Emi (Ophelia)

The first song that somehow manages not to bore me to tears. Okay chorus, good guitar work. And then, it's SHINOHARA-san, making this thing look more and more like a Sailormoon class reunion *lol*

06 Shippu - TAKAYAMA Minami (Irene)

Yep, that TAKAYAMA-san, the singer of Two-Mix. And her track actually sounds a bit like II MIX DELTA do these days. Heh. Needless to say, it's pretty nice.

07 Eien - TOYOGUCHI Megumi (Sophia)

Another Rock ballad. Here, the instrumentation is very convincing, everything sounds really nice and clear, I have to give them that. The song itself is alright at best.

08 Tensei - PAKU Romi (Teresa)

This is probably the second most important song on the CD, but people who watch(ed) the series will know that. Which, of course, makes it even more tragic because they royally fucked up by giving PAKU-san a nondescript and not exactly challenging ballad. Ow. I mean, the basics are there, if only they'd made it a tad more spectacular. What a waste of such a unique voice.

09 Doukoku - NAGASAWA Miki (Helen)

No idea how to call the genre/stlye of this song since it has some Latin elements scattered throughout. This one has some great parts in it, but somewhat fails to string them all together and make an awesome track. Instead, it comes off as okay, albeit a bit confusing.

10 Gen'ei - Inoue Kikuko (Miria)

Starts of very promising but then dissolves into another half-assed effort at a slow ballad that just flows by without being noticed.

Final words: *sigh* I had really been waiting for this. If you consider the masterpiece that Claymore the series is, it would have been cool to back it up with some great image songs. But no. Instead, we get a bunch of boring, uninspiring songs, some of them with totally out of place rap parts thrown in (WTH?!). There's nothing remarkable on there whatsoever. It's a bit sad, really.
If you want some truly good Claymore tunes, check out the OP single (
"Raison d'etre" by Nightmare) and especially the amazing ED (
"Danzai no hana ~Guilty sky~" by KOSAKA Riyu). This character album, however, is mostly a waste of time.

There's a rather funny typo in #nipponsei's release of "Blood queen" (Kaibutsu Oujo OP single).
Since most of you won't have it, I made a screen shot of the unpacked directory's content, unaltered from the original file(s), all I did was unzip the thing.



Can you spot it?

Filed under: Things only I find amusing O_O;;;

Why didn't anyone tell me that HAYASHIBARA Megumi has had a new single avaliable since last summer? I missed her so much and didn't even notice she's been back for so long ;_;
Anyway. Review, review :3

01 Meet again
A completely new song that celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Slayers franchise. It could have very well been written during the days of the Slayers series. It's catching and totally charming. Her vocie didn't change a bit, it's still cute to die for <3

02 Get along (Self-tag version)
Slightly modified re-make of the originals eries' opening. I love the improved backing vocals!

03 Give a reason (Ballade version)
Well, I didn't exactly have doubts about whether my favourite Slayers track (and second-fave anime song of all time) could work in ballad form. But actually haaring it is still... wow. It's simply spectacular. And you have to admit, Megumi's vocie is pretty powerful, despite the chibi edge ;)

04 Don't be discouraged
The original song, nothing new here.

05 Meet again (off vocal)
For anyone who cana ctually sing ;)

All in all, a great single, three wonderful additions to my library of Slayers tunes, and it's a shame that I overlooked when it came out =_=

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This afternoon, mum came in when I was watching last night's Colbert Report (to be precise, The Wørd - "Second Opinion"). She said she wanted to watch some of it, too, so we did and I translated for her. Seems she liked it =)
I also got to tell her a bit about both shows and their relevance. Not bad!

I was wondering where the new music from #nippinsei was.
And about an hour ago, it came. 23 releases. All. At. Once.
My connection is already melting. At least it seems to work normally again.

Apart from that, we just checked the parts for Horation and they're all there.
Unfortunately, the fan had no thermal compound packed so they need to buy that, as well as a second SATA cable since the motherboard only came with one. Damn computer equipment manufacturers. Greedy bastards >:O
Still, the delay isn't all that terrible because they're going to build the guy at the weekend anyway. When I'm at yamasagis. Well, can't be helped. Maybe I can force them to at least take a pic or two. And I'll see him in action later anyway.

*off to watch some more c't and wait for her snail DSL to give her her TDS, TCR and music!!*

Wow, another nice anime music release list for tomorrow (today):

• Asatte no Houkou OST
• Busou Renkin OST
• Galaxy Angeru~n OST
• Gift eternal rainbow OST
• Gintama New OP
• Hidamari Sketch OP
• Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori OST
• Koi Suru Tenshi Angelique OP2
• Kyoushirou to Towa no Sora OP
• Les Miserables Shoujo Cozette OP
• Master of Epic OP
• Shinigami no Ballad Drama OP
• Soukou no Strain OST
• Sumomomomomomomo OP2
• Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu Character CD Vol. 6 - 7
• Venus Versus Virus OP

Guess I'd better hurry and get last night's TDS and TCR so that I have an unused 'net connection once the stuff becomes available...

Okay, so, after the disappointing Futari wa Pretty Cure Spash Star vocal album Vol. 1 comes... the disappointing Futari wa Pretty Cure Spash Star vocal album Vol. 2 =_=
Now, could someone please remind me why exactlyI spent half of the day downlaoding it?
I have no idea.
Well, I do, but it's not exactly nice. I believe it was something about wanting to have it no matter whether I actually listen to it or not.
Oh my XD