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Everything posted by Himeaimichu
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I'm at a weird point where I know a super basic amount of Japanese words and grammar that I'm able to pick out a lot of words and context from Vkei songs.
Maybe there is hope in me learning Japanese. Just gotta find the right program to work with. I tried Duolingo but I didn't like it too much.
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Who the fuck decided that for architecture or design to be "modern", it has to have no curves or intricate decorations, and has to be completely made up of straight lines and right angles?
Bruh if the future is jut a bunch of squares, I wanna live in the past
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I'm mostly just disillusioned by seeing so many old homes being taken down and replaced with really ugly looking ones. Like, I get that cheapness and efficiency is importance, but I wish they would figure out a cheap and efficient style that you can add on, and I wish they would at least keep the artistic vision of the buildings they're replacing. Especially with old Victorian homes. I fucking hate seeing Victorian homes get replaced with bland, gentrified squares.
My problem with a lot of modern exterior and interior designs is, there is no room for adding on, because they're made in such a specific way that anything added to it would look oddly out of place.
Take this victorian home for example. I could easily see myself using this as a blank canvas for interpreting my artistic vision on the house. While it's very rooted in English styles, it's neutral enough to where a change in color scheme and the addition of decorations could turn it into any style I want. That's the ethos a lot of colonial architecture in India and Vietnam take. They take a British or French base, and add on traditional elements to their liking. However, if you wanted, you could totally turn this into something modern or even futuristic looking, with the right know-how and artistic vision.
But then you have houses like this, which you can't really do much to without it looking weird. I can't add any "old world" decorations to it because it would look massively out of place. The style is kind of forced to me minimalistic.
And yes, I get that with buildings, function matters more over aesthetics, but I do feel like there should be a balance between efficiency and artistic design. And I would at least like to see some curves and shapes that aren't rectangles. I mean, not every house can have a completely flat roof, that just doesn't fit for the climate of every place lol.
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Plus, one thing I've noticed, ironically, this this new "cheap" style of architecture, is actually mainly a thing of the rich. Most of the towns I see with old-school architecture, are often the poorer parts of town (I mean, I am poor so I have lots of experience in those places lol).
But then you go to where the rich people live, and you see these people paying out the fucking ass for buildings that look so... square. So while theoretically it may be cheaper to build, the people commissioning them can afford to actually have some artistic taste.
I actually find that poor people who save up to add on to their old houses, put more effort in making it look tasteful than the rich people who just plop a fucking square anywhere, even if it looks out-of-place.
And look, if I were rich enough, I would just have my own house built in whatever architectural style I want, but sadly, I'm not. I'm disabled and lower class, so if I ever do get lucky enough to own a home, I have to work with what's given to me. All I ask is for a neutral style that I can actually work with lol. One that I could make as minimalist or as maximalist as I want.
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Is it just me, or does the chorus for "Carnation" by Kamaitachi go "Thank you for your kindness, I must die by suicide"?
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Did 舞-mai- ever release the version of Kaos ~貸せ殺せ埋めろ~ heard on the Image 漆黒 ii VHS on a CD? I like the organs in that version
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I'm considering making a blogspot for Visual Kei downloads, a-la evil-en-lucifer, because I'm gonna be real, MH is probably gonna die and those 10+ years of hard to find vkei downloads could disappear.
So I was wondering if any old-school collectors would want to help with my project.
I have a lot of Vkei CDs I inherited from my ex who doesn't like Vkei anymore, so I can start it off, but this is gonna have to be a group project.
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@Axius you may not remember but we spoke back and fourth on here a couple of years ago. On R-shitei, Awoi, and Amber bullet and possibly other topics lol.
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@Axius I added you on discord! My username is Fairy Aimy
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Alternate universe where X Japan is just left where it ended, and COLOR is the one promising a new album and milking MARRY's legacy
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Maria Cross would be a higly talented musician, and Mejibray would make good music.
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Did Kamaitachi ever release the song "Neurose" on a CD?
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I think it was only officially released on cassette tape with Free Will (as opposed to their Toy's Factory CD releases)
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So I guess I either have to deal with the crusty tape rip on Chan Macky's channel on YT or hope that someone uploads a rip that I don't have to take from youtube lmao
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Is it just me, or do Jesse and James from Pokemon look like the kind of people who'd listen to Visual Kei in the early 90s?
I could imagine Jesse listening to X Japan and COLOR while James listens to D'erlanger and Zi:Kill.Also my headcanon is that they met at a Kamaitachi concert
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Imagine if outdoor Visual Kei concerts were still a thing
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Marvelous Cruelty had a show outdoors semi-recently
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Wow facebook's new layout is fucking shit.
Seriously, the old layout had nothing wrong with it! Why does everything got to look like a mobile app now?
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@Enki You're right lol. The only reason I even use it is because all my friends are on there lol. If it were up to me, all of my friends would use FriendProject (a clone of old myspace with all the old HTML editing)
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It's funny going all these years assuming Kamaitachi sounded like The Dead Pop Stars and Genkaku Allergy,
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Man I forgot how much I enjoyed Aya Hirano's music. I wonder what she's up to these days
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Doing stage musicals nowaday, for the most part, following her scandal in the anime world. Her voice has gotten more polished:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=平野綾+mozart
First vid. had a lot of Japanese people who previously knew of her really surprised (mostly in a good way).
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Thanks to the power of Classic Shell, the Wayback machine, and Seamonkey browser, and my evergoing quest for a nostalgia trip, I have made this cursed but blessed screenshot
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@Ikna It's both awful and awesome for me lol. Blessed but cursed.
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It's really crazy listening to proto-kei bands like G-Schmitt and BOOWY, playing melodies and riffs that would become cliche in Visual Kei, many of them still cliches today.
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Their music and aesthetic did influence early Vkei bands though. Like, listen to the song Catholic. Visual Kei literally partially grew from Japanese Goth bands. Obviously G-Schmitt pre-dates Visual Kei, but their music was definitely an important step. Many of the first Visual Kei musicians were goth, and probably listened to Japanese goth bands as well as your standard western goth bands.
Obviously G-Schmitt isn't full on Visual Kei, but to say they didn't influence Visual Kei at all, is really stretching it.
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And then there's the great Auto-Mod, who had Tomoyasu Hotei on guitars before he moved on to Boowy. I always considered Auto-Mod/Genet to be the secret grandfather of visual kei. It always felt like Kiyoharu got his early warbly voice in Kuroyume more from Genet than the obvious Robert Smith. The Tribute to Auto-Mod album really drives that home with Kiyoharu's epic Deathtopia cover.
And then there's Libido who I've gotten into recently who was connected with YBO2 and the Transrecord scene of krautrock. Their songs definitely had gothic moments both aurally and visually. One of Libido's early guitarists actually was one of the founding members of G-Schmitt before moving on to other projects.
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Because WiL Francis is.. well.. you know, I'm gonna steal the song "Knife Blood Nightmare" from Aiden. It's now called ナイフ・ブラード・ナイトメア, and it's by Kitsunetsuki (狐憑キ) and it's turned into a Kote Kei song