Love Me Tender

Sorry for the lack of posting. My trip to Asia was great. I got to have a lot of family time and spend time with my grandmother. I enjoyed it very much. Big thanks to Kazuma for posting while I was gone.

So someone tried to leave a comment on my seemingly popular post about Tiffany from SNSD by leaving a link to an online petition for Tiffany anti-fans for SNSD to disband. What the heck? Seriously, people need lives. If the commenter is reading this, your comment went into my spam folder where it belongs. I personally don’t care about Tiffany or SNSD and while I am an advocate for free speech, I do not want to endorse childish stupidity or bullying when there are so many more serious issues that need the efforts of petitioning.

In other news, has anyone else noticed the increasing reunion tours/concerts/album productions by old disbanded groups? First it was the Spice Girls, and then it was Jewelry (yes, I’m jumping across nations here), then it was X-Japan and now it’s New Kids on the Block. When the Spice Girls first stated that they were going to have a reunion tour I thought to myself, who would be stupid enough to go see them. Well, I found out that there were many stupid people in the world including some of my friends. All I have to say to that is oiy! I didn’t care much for Jewelry and I found their debut song really annoying and sickeningly catchy. I was looking forward to the X-Japan tour and I was hoping to see them in New York if I could get tickets. So much for that. NKOTB…I actually came to Canada just after their craze had died down so I wasn’t really there for their initial hype. Their song Summerdays is really catchy (damn those catchy pop songs!) and I wonder if they will have the same success as the Spice Girls. Anyway, that is all. =)

The previously announced international reunion tour of X Japan will be postponed indefinitely due to Yoshiki, leader of X Japan, experiencing medical problems. He has been suffering from chronic disc herniation, and his conditions have worsened during the memorial concerts held in May, in honor of former band guitarist, Hide, who passed away on May 2, 2008.

This announcement will affect the concerts scheduled for Paris (July 5), Taiwan (August 2), and New York City (September 13). All ticket sales have been stopped, and neither cancellation nor rescheduling of the shows have been announced.

I’m sure there are many disappointed fans out there, but Yoshiki health comes before the concerts.

Source: Sankei Sports via Tokyograph

High and Mighty Color (HMC),a J-rock band, recently released an album called Rock Pit. My favourite track so far on this album is their cover of Rosier, originally performed by Luna Sea. Give it a listen over at imeem.com. I actually like the cover more than the original. The female vocal really worked for this song.

I recently stumbled on some videos of a band called Show Ya on YouTube. They are an 80s J-Rock band from Japan (duh). How I’ve never heard of them is beyond me.

Anyway, the few songs I heard from them are pretty cool. From what I’ve read, they got back together in 2005 an released a 20th anniversary album, and also did some concerts.

Check out one of their live concert videos. Pretty sure this was from one of their reunion concert.

I’m going to be going abroad for a few weeks so I won’t be posting on here until late June or early July. I am hoping that my guest bloggers will step up and keep this site alive during that time. Yes, that was an overt hint you two. =P

To my readers: Don’t give up on me! I’ll be back soon. Take care of yourselves.