...the reverse side of beauty..//..Mantified

Am I the only person who thinks Uruha is beautiful? I honestly feel ashamed as a woman when I see a man who is way sexier and way more gentle feminine than myself. Then again, I set my eyes on Ruki's style initially before I actually settle on Uruha. I swear, those thighs are so hawt. Sorry Rukster. But you're still the fashionable one in my book, hahaha.

Warning: Image intensive.





When you look at the hair, it looks really touchable, especially when he feathers it up into gentle spikes. Or maybe it's the way his cat eye style make up makes it look like his gaze is more intense than it actually is. (I've tried the eye make up, and while it looks absolutely scary in real life, it really works in photos - and definitely on stage.) I suppose it's also the gentle facial expression that makes Uruha quite attractive while exerting a semi-masculine pose that makes the whole outlook very androgynous.

Ruki, on the other hand, has more of a bad kid look. Or delinquency. Actually, he's probably the kid that everybody wants to tame, but I doubt pinning him down will be successful. Then again, he's also probably the most stylish one in the group (considering the fact that one of his favourite past times is shopping) and as the vocalist, the projection of the band image is considerably heavy weighted. I'm still amazed at the image make overs where he can look totally different while maintaining his style. But I'm definitely not a fan of his Reila and Cockroach looks - a bit too Halloween.






He's probably the only person who looks good in gold pants (which I don't have a clear image of at the moment, but I've seen it somewhere). He also does the feathery hair, but he could resemble a lion at times, which was more apparent in Guren.

I'll add more on the other members later. Right now, I'm just too pissed off with life (and the fact that the Great Firewall of China has decided to block Blogspot). Why oh why must everything have to happen now?

Sometimes, when you're forced to design something, nothing comes out. No matter how much you rack your brains, it seems that all the cells have decided to go on strike. Not inspired, nothing good, absolutely nothing.

It's a bit like demanding my brain to throw up, except there's nothing to throw up. You know how you get air sick or car sick or sea sick, and you feel like throwing up yet you didn't eat anything for your stomach to regurgitate? Well, emotionally, in the artistic sense, it's exactly like that. Really tiring, bothersome and so twisted to the core, you just couldn't force anything out no matter what.

I think that's what happened lately. Then again, when life gets in the way (read: "shitty landlord problems"), just trying to mentally relax is difficult. And only when the brain is relaxed can you do something interesting with it.

I'll just pop some alcohol open, not think and watch some the GazettE/Miyavi videos. I'm thinking too much.

The famous act that Ruki was supposed to have done: lick Uruha's guitar. I couldn't quite imagine it until I stumbled on this .gif file.



Imagine the scene...
Uruha: "Here! Treat it like candy!"
Ruki: "Ok!" *long lick*

Uruha, you're such a wicked girl...uh, man. Hahaha.

If there is one man who can wear pink and still look absolutely fantastic, it's Miyavi. Seriously, he could easily pull off the shocking hot pink without looking like he's a gay man.





Ok ok, I agree he looks very feminine. But he still looks pretty in his own way. I guess he can compete with Uruha in the more feminine colours. Hahaha. Pink vs. Purple anyone?

Personally, I don't like MySpace. But seeing as it's one way to keep up to date with some of the music groups I follow, I've decided to sign up. But after signing up and verifying my email etc etc, I get logged out automatically after 5 minutes of surfing on the website.

Why does this happen? I have no idea.

So the only logical thing is to log back in, ya?

But no, I'm unable to log in for whatever reason.

After several attempts, I decided to try the "forgot password" function. And I got to a page where it says "No such email exists". What the fuck?

So I decided to sign up again. And I went through the same process and verified my email, etc etc. And again, after some minutes of surfing, I got an automated log off. And I get the "No such email exists" page again.

What the fuck?

Yes, I've pretty much repeated myself over and over again, so I've sent a complaint note to the monkeys uh...technical assistance section. And they say that they will look into it in the next working day. Right...

But seriously, this already makes MySpace sort of ghey, right?

I don't have much eye candy on Miyavi, but he truly is musically talented. His songs are not as hard metal as typical J-Rock, but some have some hip hop and/or pop edge sounds, which makes them easier to listen to. Many songs also feature simple guitar playing with the same guitar slapping noises, which has become a sort of trademark sound that identifies Miyavi. Obviously, being a VK artist, rock and metal still need to be the dominating sounds.

I'll see to embedding some Miyavi stuff at a later time.

Not the GazettE related, but also working for the same record company PS Company and another visual kei artist, is Miyavi. Presenting Selfish Love.


Selfish love - Miyavi

The instrumental 1st minute was totally original. Guitar and bongo style combined into one. I have yet to meet someone who can actually play guitar like that (other than Miyavi, of course). And the PV (promotional video) itself was pretty amusing - the foot stamping in the water, the eccentricity of Miyavi's behaviour, the simple melody, the catchy tune, the "I look ridiculous, but I don't give a damn" look...genius!

I have yet to see other Miyavi videos, but Ruki was certainly right when he said that Miyavi's really talented (to the point where Ruki actually envies him). And after watching this video, I believe him. Miyavi could easily run a one man show.

I wrote fan mail to Uruha on the official MySpace site. LOL.

But yeah, fat chance I'll ever get a response, let alone personal.

Though, I did write a gentle reminder that "Amantis" will appear eventually.

This is my 2nd fan mail. The first was to Leil Lowndes - and I did get a personal response from her!

Now what was in my lame-ish message again?