Jacques is in their bridge troll era (純粋; derogatory)

しろくろ双子こうさぎ

Yesss!!! It’s such a fun space too at Japan Village. Great way to spend an afternoon.

Thanks for all the reposts! Better photos and more decor build out coming soon but for now~~~

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

Flyer for LIVE BAIT. The background is pink and it features the logo of LIVE BAIT and Japan Village. It reads: LIVE BAIT AT JAPAN VILLAGE 2nd floor Loft, across from BookOff Follow for more updates! At the bottom is a cartoon skeleton fish.

I HAVE A SHOP

It’s a secondhand & select alternative j-fashion shop. We stock secondhand finds pulled by yours truly on trips as well as local indie brands. Check us out at Japan Village in Brooklyn!

2nd Floor Loft #202
934 3rd Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11232

And follow live.bait.apparel on IG~~

TWO-MIX30周年記念「ガンダムW」主題歌アルバムの内容を発表、効果音入りも聴ける
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#ガンダムW

「スレイヤーズ」30周年コンサート記念イラスト、あらいずみるいがリナを描き下ろし
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#スレイヤーズ #スレイヤーズスペシャルコンサート

Genuinely I’m flattered folks remember what I’m into like that.

But yeah funny to have to be like. “Um no and uh. Tread carefully cause the entire organization has been rancid for 20 years.”

And to be clear, the person talking me up does Not Know The AM Lore. Like they’re pretty disconnected. This was a “you do work for an anime con? I have a colleague who does a lot with the NYC j-fashion scene and they do con stuff sometimes” kind of thing. Completely benign friendly chat.

Particularly in my specific niche (Lolita + j-fashion more broadly).

Tfw someone has been talking you up to a con programming organizer in a completely independent space (work; not fashion related) and that’s all chill and good and hey, maybe you could do a panel, except the convention is…

AM.

Yeah I’m sure they’re willing to fly people out to do panels.

Thank You For Smoking and Speed Racer. Heck yeah.

LA doesn’t seem like a “5am” kinda place.

Anyway I said when hide made it to streaming, we never had to wonder who my top artists would be ever again. Dir en grey holding strong on that second spot though.

The Kuroyume hyper fixation has hit hard and fast.

Surprised to not see Pierrot’s ID Attack or Luna Sea’s MOTHER re-record on the top albums. Same for Dahlia cause it’s still very much in my rotation.

Overall I’m trying to do more album (or best of comp) listening again, so I am reverting to CDs

**I’m surprised by a few placement things.

I really didn’t listen to that much L’Arc this year, but I did have SMILE and HEART on while driving cross country. But it’s not a song from either that made it into my top tracks.

Kinda surprised to see a Kamijo album on there.

Screenshot of a YouTube recap listing top artists as Hide Dir en grey Luna Sea L’Arc~en~Ciel X Japan And top songs as LOVELESS (Luna Sea) The Fourth Avenue Cafe (L’Arc) Neogrotesque (Pierrot) PSYCHEDELIC LOVER (Pierrot) The Devil In Me (Dir en grey)

Screencap of top albums on a YouTube recap. Kuroyume— EMI and 1994-1998 Best Or Worst Hide— Best ~psychommunity~ Dir en grey— Macabre Kamijo— Oscar

I get that it’s really just trading one evil corp for another but! Here’s my YouTube Recap.

No one is surprised**

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Real talk I long for the Taco Bell at Makuhari. What a cursed place.

a combination urgent care and taco bell

I'm at the combination

I was working 80 hours a week, drinking 60, and maybe got 28 hours of sleep in a week.

But that didn’t matter because you know what existed then? 5 hour energy and 4loko.

I know it’s partially me being fascinated by the revisionism and thus feeding the algorithm that then feeds me but also…

Y’all think Mountain Goats, Metric, Mother Mother, and Antlers enjoyers were “optimistic” when we were doing this the first time?

I think the youth misunderstand the millennial post-indie sleaze hipster period as “optimistic” when we were just black out drunk or on hard drugs ~most of the time.

amuro: we're not the enemy, char!!

char: [squinting, clouded by doubt] u sure u silly bitch

sayla: YOU STUPID FUCK REMEMBER WHERE YOU CAME FROM I SWEAR TO GOD

char: oh damn u right [picks up rocket launcher] THE STREETS

Of my other junk bin finds were Zi:Kill’s Rocket (not perfect but v nice shape) and uh. Too bad that band was such a mess (as in seemed to personally be quite messy). Really consistently fun stuff.

I am just kinda Like That in any language.

In retrospect, my formative music being like…

L’Arc, hide/X, Dir en grey, Malice Mizer on the Japanese front probably makes too much sense. Definitely explains my current Kuroyume & La’Cryma Christi crash out.

For anglophone stuff, I have Queen, Blondie, Bowie, and ELO which is also def a genre.

To answer this legitimately—

You can do this with a crepe silk and a few layers of resistance dyeing. It looks like there’s a layer of silver, then navy, then black. Maybe a dark dark brown or even deep orange to get the lower tones towards the bottom.

L’Arc was one of my early music fixations, like back when I was 8 or 9 and became aware of music as a thing people were into. The erasure of their vkei roots has always annoyed me.

And I get it, circa 1997-2005 or so they got very boring looking. But we all have our depression eras.

Photo of the inside booklet of L’Arc~En~Ciel’s debut album, DUNE. One page has a sepia toned image of three men in black, one in white. The opposite page has photos of the same men in blue tones. It is very moody and 90s goth. The editing is obviously very early digital and leaning into that aesthetic.

Photos of L’Arc~En~Ciel from the interior of the DUNE booklet. The black and white images are edited to have a blue tone to them.

Photos of L’Arc~En~Ciel from the interior of the DUNE booklet. The black and white images are edited to have a blue tone to them.

So I found a nigh perfect copy of the first pressing of L’Arc’s DUNE in a HardOff junk bin and I gotta say both musically and image-wise, it’s kind of remarkable how we let them convince us they weren’t a vkei band there for a while.