Random thoughts thread

I am sorry hide, I didn’t make the rules.

Amber gris disbanded 10 years ago :smiling_face_with_tear:

解散から10年経ちました。

amber grisを愛してくれたフラニーさん、元気にしてますか?
今日は残してあるライブ映像とかを観て思い返してもらえたら嬉しいです。

10年経てばみんなの状況も環境も違うと思いますが、好きなものを好きなままでいてください。

メンバーみんな元気なのでご安心を👍

— ラミ (@amber_gris_rami) May 26, 2025
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another reunion that i desperately need :crossed_fingers:t5:

two minutes hate but make it yoshiki

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~i luv vk

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That’s absolutely what I am here for :laughing:

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The teddy has VK-PTSD now


hahaha yes my brothers


n-no!!! brothers!!

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What’s that? The stats Dir en grey dreams of? :laughing:

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Hottie-kei :flushed_face: :see_no_evil_monkey:

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Entering my bald old man are hot era

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Kazuma Kaneko leaving atlus and joining an AI start-up really was not the kind of news I expected from 2025 to surprise me with a nice zap in the brain

(there’s a dump of his own original art created for this mess, and it’s great as usual but like… sis… what are you even doing…)

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Someone with a ridiculous logic thinks that to preserve Visual Kei is to keep pirating it, and he even asks for donation for file storage so that he can preserve the entire Visual Kei scene single-handedly. This is nothing but an online beggar to me lmao.

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I don’t need 50 shades of grey, I need 50 shades of history lessons

I bet it’s hard to talk about things like this publicly.

But i’m probably safe to say: i wish labels would go further out of their way to keep things online even after they’re non-financially-viable. The number of times i’d much rather pay $1 or $5 for some 2000s release rather than forget its existence completely is likely high enough to sustain a bandcamp page’s maintenance, if not a dedicated server!

That’s why i get excited when old bands pop their stuff up on Spotify, bc at that point i can finally introduce friends to their works. Whereas before, there might have been about ten years of no legal way to do so.

There’s a couple of albums on my hard disc that ARE OBTAINED LEGALLY, i swear - think like friends handing me discs of their band back when we were in HS - and unless their careers specifically took off, there’s not really presence of that music online.

Or, once when i was headed to a Mejibray show in Nagoya, a small band on the street handed me (legally) a single. Their name was Age Zucation. I think. Looking online, can you find them to stream them? Idk. Well, i’ve preserved that single, at least for my personal listening use!

Long story short sometimes i’ve fantasized about a global agreement that every time a used media changed hands, a simple title transfer tax of $1 would be collected (like when vehicles change hands here in the US) and disbursed to the original copyright holders. I’d happily pay $1 more for every used transaction if it meant used transactions were more fully legitimized and moreso incentivizing media to be made with long-lasting goals considered!

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Wonderfully said!

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i luv vk

EDIT

When you are in a band, there are songs that you don’t play live at all
for various reasons such as they are not exciting or don’t look good
but there are songs that I personally think are good songs.
Please listen to the reworked version.

Translated by deepL

バンドをやってる時って曲出来てライブで全く演らない曲ってあるよね
盛り上がらないからとか映えないからとか色んな理由で
演らないけど実は個人的には良い曲だと思ってる曲ってあると思ってて、俺的にWizardでいうと楓夏という曲もその中。
手直ししたやつ聴いてみて下さいhttps://t.co/nhSFEjVfV2 pic.twitter.com/A3sUpidJmI

— HIRO (@Wizard__HIRO) June 2, 2025

K-A-M-I-I-J-O!

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omggggg I can already imagine every menhera act out there ordering a BATHTUB of this for the halloween live season

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It probably does not look like normal blood and hopefully will not be sold to random people. They can use fake blood or go to their neighborehood butcher for blood, like I did as a edgy teenager, who wanted to write letters with blood :laughing:

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