I ♥ Inoue Joe.

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Really bad. Please to listen to these songs. They are only a selection of the ones from the new album (plus one that isn't). He's a fucking magician, a power house. He writes, plays and mixes all his own stuff. He's 6 months younger than I am (and exactly 2 years younger than our beloved Matsujun!) and just so amazingly talented. I really can't rave enough about this kid. His SoCal LA accent kind of is a bit grating at times but it's totally amusing to me whenever he says 'and' in his blog videos. He makes me want to go out and blog about random shit in Japan for the folks back home. The smelliest train in Chiba? Speaking of blogging, I haven't updated my Vox in a while. Not that anyone reads that or gives a shit.

Still no concert information, but I am going.

I am happy that I could finally find the lyrics for 車. I could actually catch most of them but I was like... is this really what I think he's singing about? He wrote about what happens when you don't buckle up. Yep. More to love. Kid even did the infamous Mentos/Coke experiment. He and Aiba would be great friends.



It's amazing--I know maybe 1/10th about this guy (or less) compared to Arashi but I feel more love for him that I (ever?) have for them. That's serious. I'm really in deep here; I have tried to get most of my friends to listen to him. Too bad Andrew and Justin only listen to pop and R&B. Won't even give him a chance. Oh, well. More Joe love for me! ♥

UGH I wish these fucking seasonal allergies would go away! I'm tired of sneezing. I should probably cook dinner, even though I ate 4 breaded goodies after work. Which was a total gongshow. I didn't do anything. Kaneko didn't get fired, but he's not a homeroom teacher anymore. Nakamura is still doing 3rd year and Imai is doing 2nd, Kaneko got demoted to 1st and a new pricipal. There are about 6 new teachers at Toyoshiki and another handful at Ni Shou and a new VP. I get my own desk at Ni Shou this year too! All my favourite teachers are still there. No Watanabe-sensei to look at but 3 or so new younger teachers who I might be able to be friends with. One of them wants English lessons?! So Kaneko told me. I'll see more about that on Monday, I guess. It's going to be a great year. :)

Meeting Blake for lunch before going to Ariel's violin concert tomorrow. I haven't seen him forever. He sent me a message today apologizing for a being a shit lately which I never expected. He hasn't gotten back to me yet about plans though. Smile is on in another hour and a half. I am going to try writing for this Rare Pair Meme to get out of my writer's block funk I've found myself in.

Comments

[taysqueak.livejournal.com]

ahaha i didn't even get to his music yet, but i was sold as soon as i watched the karaoke/tsunami video. "you're one step closer to being a ninja! yeah!" i love a sarcastic man.

[maiaide.livejournal.com]

I know! And he can do that without coming off as a racist asshole. :D Which is hard for Americans to do sometimes.

[iaoiua.livejournal.com]

He's definitely talented — but I just can't get into his voice still. To me, it lacks an expressive element to it somehow. Everything else though, is a style that I would like. I'm sure that he'll have a single sometime that will really catch me :D

[oviparous.livejournal.com]

if he's exactly two years younger than matsujun then he's exactly three years older than me! same birthday!!!! XDDD YAYYY

i visited his blog. hahaha. 'so you're one step closer to... becoming a ninja!'

hehehehehe.

[littlealex.livejournal.com]

I'm SO going to try a few of those rare pairs. Some of them are just BEGGING to be written haha. Also: I can't see the embedded Inoue Joe stuff, can you give me some links that aren't on LJ, YouTube or Myspace? I know it's a bit of a challenge, but China doesn't like them at the moment :/

[maiaide.livejournal.com]

I uploaded some songs to DivShare. Is that going to work for you? I locked them so you can't download but you can listen to it.

I'm trying to write some now but it's not happening.

[littlealex.livejournal.com]

Yep, DivShare works!

I should probably be focusing more on the impending doom of my jentfic_remix story, but... I'm not. :/

[maiaide.livejournal.com]

http://www.divshare.com/playlist/495740-906

Hope that works. I should check that out. Should have some good fic coming out soon!

OMG that is the gayest icon I've seen in ages.

[littlealex.livejournal.com]

It's password protected? You can email the pwd to me if you'd like - alexifer at gmail dot com.

jentfic_remix has already begun posting, but seeing as LJ access is few and far between I'm waiting until I get my Super Proxy set up before I start to read. They're all due on the 26th so you don't have to wait long for all of them to come in. ;)

ahahahahahaha when an Arashi fan says "that is the gayest icon I've seen in ages" YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE.

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Oh you need pw to listen? Whatev. It's worth downloading anyway. Let's see if I remember what it is... tfss03 ENJOY!

Exciting. Hopefully I won't get cockblocked with fucking age flagging bullshit so I can read at work in my spare time. If I have any, that is.

[maiaide.livejournal.com]

Shit. I think you figured out that was me.