Berryz工房, post-Ishimura Maiha
So I’ve been thinking about this group a lot lately — so much, that my past two entries have been such messes that I would like nothing more than to just delete them and concentrate on getting my thoughts stabilized and in a clear, understandable format in one post, but certain things prevent that (namely, the fact that they took time and I’m not one to just throw away time), but that they are also good posts in themselves, just not up to my usual standard. I blame this on the fact that they were written on little-to-no sleep.
Blogging, to me, is a fickle activity. Once I write one post and get all my thoughts out, they tend to change some time later, making the post invalid. But is it truly invalid, or does it just mark a point in time when I was a little too ignorant of what I was talking about and didn’t have full opinions before I went and spouted off my thoughts? I ask those in the audience right now to take everything I’ve ever said with a grain of salt. This isn’t like my LiveJournal (BTW if CJ is reading this you need to comment on the friends-only post before I’ll even consider adding you back; sorry, it’s how things roll) where I don’t usually have to worry about making sense because I just don’t take it that seriously. My LJ is a journal to me — my blog is public space where I get up on a pedestal and voice my half-unique, half-recycled bullshit ideas and have to do it in a certain way that makes some sense, while also captivating the people reading by including images and keeping my writing as non-boring as possible. Don’t want to be the Takahashi Ai of blogging, here.
(…ooh, damn, another jab at her. I didn’t even have to try, it came naturally to me.)
That entertaining factor comes naturally to some people. Vulpi, for instance, and also that wise man Broomhead whose Ongaku Gatas post probably earned him a shitload of traffic. But me, I’m lazy more often than not — I generally prefer to write insightful, boring entries that mysteriously place too much importance on idols, and separate it here-or-there with some pictures. Mayhaps this is where I fail at blogging.
But I don’t want to steer too far-off target here. I feel like talking about Berryz Koubou and the nature of being an “idol” right now. More specifically, Berryz and this girl:
…who has inexplicably stolen my heart from this girl:
(Don’t worry, wu-san, I won’t skimp on any of the Hi Minnasans.)
