True Life Seek

I take for granted that people will upload media to the Interwebs. Hello!Online and jpopsuki, amongst other places, have existed for a while now. I just assume that where one uploader fails to upload a piece of media, another one will step up.

When it comes to idoling!!!, I am making a mistake with that kind of assumption. That’s because nearly every single piece of idoling!!! media can seemingly be traced back to Silverbolt.

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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under Eyecandy, Links.
Tags: AKB48, Idoling!!!, Interwebs

Better late than never! I spent all that time reading and gathering responses to Misa’s J-Music Survey that I never got around to answering it myself.

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Posted on July 1st, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under Links.
Tags: Bonnie Pink, FLCL, Perfume, the brilliant green, the pillows

Looking at Perfume City today, I saw that there is a preview of Perfume’s next single, “Love the world.” It is definitely more light-hearted than the more popular songs of GAME, specifically the title track “GAME” and “Secret Secret.” While this will only empower the people who say that all of Perfume’s songs sound alike, I get a “polyrhythm” vibe from this song.

But then again, it is expected that people will think all of Perfume’s music sounds the same. I remember an Idolizing St.Anna entry, and this dates back to 2006, about Perfume at a live concert. I’ll never forget what Kashiyuka said about Perfume’s music:

“If you like techno, this album will be interesting. But if you don’t, all the songs sound same.”

(Edit June 19, 2008 4:18AM): The Youtube link is dead. If you want to listen to the preview, there is this post at the Perfume City BBS.

Posted on June 18th, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under Links.
Tags: A~chan, Kashiyuka, Nocchi, Perfume

This is great. Perfume City, which has always been my favorite place for Perfume news, converted to Wordpress and has a RSS feed. Apparently they did this at the beginning of June. I wish I kept up to date. Well, I’ll be able to now…

Now I can easily respond to Perfume news as well! Like to the covers of their next single, Love The World.

Regular Edition:

Limited Edition:

Kashiyuka is in the middle of both, which is fine. It’s not like she dominates the cover despite being the focus (See: Risako Sugaya and Yuke Yuke Monkey Dance covers).

Love The World is coming out July 9. That may seem like it is rushed. Perfume is incredibly hot product right now, so I see it is at capitalizing. This is only the 2nd single of 2008 for Perfume. 2006 and 2007 both only had 2 singles, and that was too little each time. I look forward to a third single released later on this year.

Plus a July 9 release means a new PV is soon.

Posted on June 15th, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under Links.
Tags: A~chan, Kashiyuka, Nocchi, Perfume

My freaking Visual Editor is not working under Wordpress. Others using Wordpress have had this problem and have posted solutions - none of them have worked. I can’t spend much longer working on this. I’ll probably be disabling access to the site on and off until it is fixed, like it was up until now. This is all very confusing to me since my WP install is the exact same for Nocchi Drives Me Wild, yet Visual Editor works on NDMW (very close to NSFW) and not TLS.

Then again, Visual Editor ain’t that important.

Posted on June 14th, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under Links.
Tags: blogging

Mibbit

Rizon IRC Network

If you ever listened to one of the podcasts from pengie, you’ve probably heard her talk about #wotachat. I’ve told all of you to visit the chatroom before. I’m telling you again. Go to #wotachat. I’m going to some name-dropping to further entice you to go: pengie, Ray, wu-san, Julia, maiZe, johpan, Second Blossoming, Misa, Charmy☆Renai, Kirarin☆Snow, Henkka, CatchFiveBats, IndigoSkies, Craig, myself and non-bloggers are usually there at different points during the day.

However, these people are boring, so you should come and entertain me.

Use one of the web clients above, get on the IRC server irc.rizon.net and join the fun in #wotachat. If you use Mibbit, it’s pretty easy. On the drop-down list, scroll to Rizon.net, put in #wotachat as the Channel, select a nickname and you will be right there! If you don’t want to use a web client, use an IRC client! I use Konversation myself.

Posted on June 5th, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under Links.
Tags: wotachat

C-ute to release 6th Single (2008-07-30) « Totally Hello! Project

For those keeping score of releases this year:

C-ute: 5
Berryz Koubou: 2
Morning Musume: 1

And the sales from those singles combined won’t equal Perfume’s GAME, which has now crossed 300k into 303,638.

Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under Links.