Archive for January, 2009

05
Jan
09

I Love Taiyou & Ciscomoon More

I haven’t done an album review in a pretty long time. I still have last year’s GAME album review backlogged to hell and back, so whenever I have a spare moment on my hands (which is going to be, like, never?), I think I’ll have to venture back to that frame of mind and complete it.

Today, I’d like to cover a four-piece idol group that most of you should be pretty familiar with. No, it’s not SPEED (although I do now have their first album), but Hello! Project’s antiquated Taiyou to Ciscomoon! *applause* Certainly a classic album in H!P’s discographic roster, their first album TAIYO&CISCOMOON 1 is what I will be covering on this humid, foggy Florida evening before I fly on a plane back to frigid Ohio to freeze my ass off instead of write blog posts. Oh, the sadness.

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03
Jan
09

I Might Cry, Though On Second Thought, Maybe I Won’t

It’s been a lengthy absence and it’s going to continue to be one. I find little time in my days to sit down and put some serious thought into a good blog topic, and if I can’t produce something of quality, then I figure I might as well just not produce anything at all. But, seeing as I’ve been on vacation for almost two weeks now (and it’s fixing to end; I return to my hush-hush silence on January 5th, with some regrets that I didn’t immediately focus my ideas on blogging), it would be a damn shame to not write a little something, if not anything, in here. And what better than for it to be relevant to everybody else’s conscience?

I downloaded a “Naichau Kamo” radio rip a day before it was officially Wednesday in my time (the Wednesday where Tanaka Reina would be playing the first official radio broadcast of “Naichau Kamo” on FIVE STARS). I…really was not expecting anything spectacular, and anything spectacular is definitely not what I got.

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