I didn't sleep last night. Again.
I think I'm becoming a bat.
That's bad.
Went to church this morning with plenty of time to get ready~ I could take a long bath, choose my clothes.. I could even wear accesories :)
But then, I was falling asleep in church :S
I managed to download Haiiro no Ginka Vol.1 a couple of days ago.
Haiiro no Ginka is Dir en grey's [aKnot] newsletter of sorts. Oh, [aKnot] is their fanclub. I recently found out why it's called Haiiro no Ginka~ Dir en grey (according to Kaoru) means 'a grey coin' or something like that (I've heard somebody say it means 'to say in grey'.. 'Dir' is German, 'en' is French and 'grey' is English, Lord knows why they decided on a name with THREE languages.) Anyway, Haiiro no Ginka is 'a grey coin' in Japanese.
How brilliantly creative.
Okay, whatever.
In the first volume (this is actually the second volume, there's a Vol. 0 ._.) they had this column called 'Dear ~ Dir en grey' and the fans send in messages to the members. Stuff like 'Kaoru-kun, my prince on a white horse' (Almost literal translations of the Japanese, sorry) and alot of other very 'full of love' messages were there. It's nice to read it knowing that AT THAT POINT they had so many girls in love with them. But then I remembered the whole incident (before the release of Vulgar) when they started to change their image... and how they lost practically HALF their fans just because they no longer cross-dressed/wore leather/kissed on stage. And I just wonder how many of those message senders are still buying their albums and going to their lives.
I just thought of it because as I know, Haiiro no Ginka is now at Vol.30 over. And the fanbase they had in the first volume and thirtieth volume is almost completely different.
When I first heard of the whole fiasco with the IMAGE change, it kinda pissed me off. It's JUST their look. Okay, so Toshiya and Shinya were no longer wearing skirts, Die was no longer wearing his bondage leather outfit and Kaoru lost his purple hair... SO WHAT?! -.- They were finally focusing on their music~
I was thinking, they were reaching their mid-20's or so...
At 25, as a guy with pride, I don't think I really want to prance around in a mini skirt and kiss my bandmates. I don't see why fans go all 'I liked Dir en grey when they were VK! They were so much better then!'. If you ask me, after Vulgar, they started sounding like a real rock band. I love Missa, Gauze and Macabre just fine, but most of those songs were quite pop-ish. Anyway, with Kisou, their music was changing anyway.
Talking about that...
Lyd: I'm gonna get married in a red cheongsam at sunset :) If the groom is Toshiya, he'll wear a tux, if the groom is Syn, he'll still wear a tux.
Steph: Whatever it is, it has to be a tux, right? -.-
Lyd: Yes~ And there's gonna be four bestmen and as many bridesmaids as I want.
Steph: *speechless from this point on*
Grandma: Still to early for you to be thinking about this.
Lyd: No! It's called planning for my future. I have to plan!
Steph: *turns to grandma* She's dreaming for her future. She'll never meet SynGates or Toshiya.
Lyd: I will!! Just you wait!
Steph: Ahma's laughing at you.
Lyd: Don't laugh.
And that's about it for today's ranting. I have to go eat dinner and figure out stuff for my IAC class tomorrow.
I wanted to upload the page with their Christmas and New Year wishes (mostly because the contrast between Toshiya's cute and Kaoru's edgy message is very funny) but Blogger is being an ass at me again.
