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Re: http://jrocknyc.tumblr.com/post/10527657215

kytrax — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:35:40 -0000

No booze? No attend! And 9/24 is a Saturday.

Re: jrocknyc: review: apple | ipod touch 4 (4th generation) (2010)

kytrax — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:35:06 -0000

I picked up a Kindle for Christmas. It's funny, I balk at paying up $9.99 for a paperback. I think about the space it will take up and the trees and just about anything else to persuade myself not to buy it. But I have no problem forking up $4-8 a night on books I haven't flipped through, going solely on the little reviews from amazon.com. I also seem to be purchasing more risqué novels and random things I'll never read (cause they're freeee).

Re: Cabbage Patch Jack

kytrax — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:28:42 -0000

Cabbage Patch sumo wrestler!

Re: The Apple Cymbeline

kytrax — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:03:59 -0000

LOL, it's called the iPad. I immediately thought "tampon" when I saw the name. With a base price of $500, I can get a netbook.

Re: How long will it take YOU to realize?

kytrax — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:28:48 -0000

It's kind of scary.

Re: Securitybots; or, Japanese Media is Japanese

kytrax — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:59:50 -0000

I just find it to be a huge disservice to the fans of the music and also to labels who are thinking of marketing their artists to Europe and the Americas. They will come to us (US companies) and talk about these numbers. And we will have to tell them we think they're lies. I've got a dozen eyewitness accounts and there were definitely not that many people over on the left hand side. Most folks were crowded by the screen, since you could only see the bottom of the stage from the street.

X Japan had a great opportunity to interact with fans and get excellent shots if they just actually performed. Much like how U2 did that free concert in Brooklyn (and yah, that was freakin' awesome).

Re: Did "In My Dream" Have Album Art?

kytrax — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:28:18 -0000

Un-center the title and remove whatever weird shadow is on the bottom right and I'd call it a good deal for free.

Re: It's Official, Dir en grey's "The Final" is the Best J-Rock Song of the Decade

kytrax — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:56:33 -0000

YES, Secret Garden is so much awesome. Who the F voted for Merry?

Re: with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff

kytrax — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:47:27 -0000

I have folders for each band and just shove songs in. I don't really organize by album anymore. I just delete the songs I don't like. If it's a band I really enjoy, I keep all the songs. If it's a band with one song I enjoy, then it's just one song in the folder.

I used to have a folder labeled singles with various artists in it, but it got too big to sort.

The nice thing about data is that it is virtual, so it's not taking up shelf space. Might as well have it, since you may never be able to find it again.

Re: The Best Albums of the Decade Part 8: 2008

kytrax — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:46:07 -0000

I love Heart Station at karaoke.

Re: The Best Albums of the Decade Part 8: 2008

kytrax — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:39:03 -0000

Gaga all the way in 2008. I also have to add in Vampire Weekend for some really cool summertime music and Taylor Swift. WHY I like Taylor Swift, I have no idea, but they're infectious tunes.

Re: The Best Albums of the Decade Part 6: 2006

kytrax — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:17:29 -0000

I started listening to alot of non-Japanese music while printing purple SKY. Muse's Black Holes and Revelations, Girl Talk and the Yeah Yeah Yeah's were in heavy rotation.

On the J side was D's Tafel Anatomie, an album I tend to listen to all the way through without skipping tracks.

Re: The Best Albums of the Decade Part 5: 2005

kytrax — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:05:59 -0000

Withering to death. What an excellently disturbing album that mixed the ugly parts of DEG with a painfully beautiful aesthetic sound. I could still tell all the screamy songs apart at this point.

I was listening to alot of Coldplay and Depeche Mode in 2005.

Re: The Best Albums of the Decade Part 1: 2001

kytrax — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:58:14 -0000

I didn't even read the text as I was hiiighly distracted by the bondage-y photo for 2002 picks.

Re: The Best Albums of the Decade Part 1: 2001

kytrax — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:57:11 -0000

I would've put Rebirth in there too. IMO - I see it as the climax of his musical creativity before he starts spitting out a million sound-alikes.

Re: AUGH Not Another Top 10 Movie List!

kytrax — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:41:26 -0000

I liked Hero much better than CTHD. There was another good film, Red Cliff which was based on the 3 Kingdoms heroes.

Re: The Best J-Rock Songs of the Decade Thread

kytrax — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:27:11 -0000

Yay for Gaia! Man, this Disquis thing isn't letting me like anything.

Re: The Best J-Rock Songs of the Decade Thread

kytrax — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:03:26 -0000

I don't know if I could vote for Luna Sea in the decade of 2000. To me they've always been from that last generation of greats, like Kuroyume and Malice Mizer.

Re: The Best J-Rock Songs of the Decade Thread

kytrax — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:28:35 -0000

Right? I used to buy his music religiously and now I can't even get the enthusiasm together enough to check his new stuff on youtube.

Re: The Best J-Rock Songs of the Decade Thread

kytrax — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:53:29 -0000

Shiina Ringo
Yattsuke Shigoto (Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana Album) 2003
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: The Best J-Rock Songs of the Decade Thread

kytrax — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:35:06 -0000

Gackt
Secret Garden (Rebirth Album) 2001
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: James Hetfield & Dir en grey

kytrax — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:23:10 -0000

There were reserved seats in the back, so maybe he was there. Most everyone's attention was focused up front. I doubt half the kids there even know what Hetfield looks like.

Re: review: exist trace | "ambivalent symphony" (2009)

kytrax — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:26:16 -0000

Ouch, much harsher than my review on pSKY. I really like the second track and Forward. I just wish there was more. More oompf, more songs, more everything. They've kind of plateaued on this album.

Re: Better and Better

kytrax — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:10:15 -0000

All jaaammed up with...sexual feeeeling. Sexual. FeeEeEeeeling! Yah, she just fell on my dick, yah.

Re: review: "askew magazine vol. 3" (2009)

kytrax — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:49:59 -0000

I interviewed her at Otakon and she was interesting as a person. She's completely a Mana puppet in terms of music. You get more of her personality through her cello solos and her artwork. Quite knowledgeable about classical baroque style (down to the gut strings and different bow for her modern cello).

That picture of her in Askew is freakin' terrible and I blame it all on her management's wonky request to have every photo of her photoshopped so that her nose is narrower and her chin is smaller.

Bravo to whoever designed the Sugar report. It's the best layout in the mag.