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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by MistressRoxie [/i] [B][color=#9933ff]I don't think it matters what the horrible gift you got was(unless someone was doing it do be funny, like playing a trick on you by giving you a lumop of coal). The fact that someone went out of their way to buy you, or even make you something, should be what counts. It's the thought that counts. And besdes, you shouldn't worry about the gifts you're [i][getting[/i] it should be about giving gifts instead. One of my grandpa's motto's says: "It's better to give than to receive."[/color] [/B][/QUOTE] Yes. But now, step back into reality and just tell us what is the worst gift you've ever received.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by AnimeAddict [/i] [B]Ugh..... clothes. I hate those little pink, sparkly ones especially. What makes people think that all girls want to be "pretty". It annoys me so. [/B][/QUOTE] You'd rather be ugly?

A lump of coal from my sister. OK, it was funny at least, heh.

About the titles, all Japanese artists are like this and just about everyone is confused why. Song titles, album titles, even names have certain capitalizations. Like hide is always undercase, LUNA SEA is always capitalized, and all the members' names of LUNA SEA like SUGIZO and RYUICHI are always capitalized... when dealing with Japanese titles like "genkai haretsu", lowercase is always used because there is no capitals in Japanese... well there kind of is but it's difficult to explain ^_^; Well, the first song "Junk Story" was one that was found after he died. And so I.N.A. of Spread Beaver who was good friends with hide and his co-producer arranged the song, and how he arranged it may not be what hide had envisioned. So that's my explanation for that. But in songs like "Beauty & Stupid", the nasal voice is clearly intentional. For translations, I suggest [url=http://www.geocities.com/japanesechannel_lyrics/translate.html]this site[/url]. They have a few hide and hide with Spread Beaver (under separate rows) translations. And as a note, the two songs that hide did not write the lyrics to were EYES LOVE YOU and 50% & 50%. hide killed himself. At the time, he was extremely drunk (hide really loved to drink, it obviously inspired his song "D.O.D") at the time. Supposedly, in his next concert, there was a "death" scene where he was to be hanged. I'm not sure if that is true or just a rumor. Well, while he was extremely drunk, hide hanged himself with a towel around his neck and the doorknob to his bathroom. There was no suicide note and nobody really knows why he did it, since he was really at the peak of popularity in his career. If you read the lyrics to "PINK SPIDER", however, there is a lot that suggests hide was considering suicide... maybe it was the alchohol that convinced him to. Nobody will ever know. For a good interpretation of PINK SPIDER, go [url=http://members.tripod.com/~Iguana_matsumoto/pink.html]here[/url]. But I think the lyrics are translated better at the other site I put up. A good quick biography on hide, as well as more information on what exactly happened to him, can be found [url=http://64.26.57.193/hide/info.html]here[/url]. It was written by good friend and fellow ex-coworker kotori for our old site jikannohizumi.net. The only thing that it doesn't do very well is emphasize hide's time in X JAPAN - because X JAPAN is the most legendary rock band in Japan ever and are millions of times more popular than hide was as a solo artist.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Semjaza Azazel [/i] [B]My general assumption with most jrock is that it will sound somewhat like stuff bands from the US played several years ago. I know this isn't true for all of the music (probably not even most), but I can't really help it at this point. [/B][/QUOTE] Actually, it is pretty true for most of it. One of the major complaints I usually get when people listen to jrock is that they think it sounds from the '80s, and really I can't and don't want to argue that. It's a very different sound from what is coming out of America now and I think that's why people either listen to one or another, rarely do they listen to both. And I'm sure you know this already, but it's not as though Japan is "behind" at all, I think they just find they enjoy the "older" styled music more, even though Marylin Manson and Slipknot and similar groups are very popular over there. hide has a lot of strange voices. If you listen to songs like "D.O.D. (DRINK OR DIE)" or "LEMONed I Scream", his voice is very nasal and high. But in "PINK SPIDER", it's much lower and more suited for rock... and then in the heavier stuff like "BACTERIA" or "DAMAGE" he puts that static filter on his voice... so he sort of adjusts his voice for the style of song he's doing. hide has written the music to all of his songs, but there are two (his first releases) that have lyrics written by yukinojo mori. Most fans are displeased with the lyrics in these two songs, as they're kind of cheesy and much more "pop" than the usual that we get from hide (mostly because yukinojo mori writes lyrics to pop songs most of the time). But after that he began writing all his lyrics. On all of his songs, hide does all the guitarwork, and on most of his songs he plays the bass part too. He also arranges and produces all of his songs. As you can see, he also does a lot with the band Spread Beaver. He joined up with these guys at the end of his career, and released a few singles like "ROCKET DIVE", "ever free" and "PINK SPIDER" in which he did all bass, guitars, vocals etc... but since he died before an entire album with Spread Beaver could be released, two songs on the album do not feature guitars or bass by hide, only his voice. This year, a few more songs were made: "MISCAST", "IN MOTION" and "Junk Story". hide wrote the music and lyrics for these songs back when he was alive, and his vocals were used from demo tapes, but the music is all done by Spread Beaver including guitars I believe. "genkai haretsu" is a really great song, that and "DICE" have been my most listened to this week. Oh, one other thing, if you can find some translated lyrics somewhere, hide writes really good ones if you ask me. Granted, some of his songs are a bit silly, but his serious ones have good lyrics. Which is rare for me because usually I don't even pay attention to what is being said...

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Semjaza Azazel [/i] [B]Well, I am checking them out now. Would have earlier if I didn't go to bed so late. I'm not usually into j-rock, but it's worth a shot. Anyway Happy Birthday to him, it must have been quite a loss for that music community. [/B][/QUOTE] I didn't want to come off as a total a[i][/i]ss in my last post, but it frustrated me when absolutely nobody responded... especially to something that not only I, but a lot of people, really feel is an important thing. I realize most people here have absolutely no interest or experience in jrock, but maybe this can be what does it for them... in fact, the only way I've managed to make "converts" out of people is to have them listen to hide. Even if you don't like what you hear, that's one thing, everyone has their opinions obviously... but, for example, Transtic Nerve is not hide's biggest fan... he really likes a few songs (especially PINK SPIDER, which most everyone likes..) but there are quite a few he's indifferent to. Despite that he realizes the contribution that hide made to the scene, and is always willing to try more hide. I hate to make this comparison, but hide's death probably relates almost to that of Kurt Cobain's, but that I don't think is a very fair comparison for either of them. But that's just so you can get an idea of how huge of an impact hide really had...

Currently I'm not old enough to drink, so I don't really have much choice. Beer is not very accessible to me. But sometimes I scare myself. You always grow up thinking "I'll never drink, I'll never smoke, I'll never swear..." and then one by one you start doing all those things. Thoughts are starting to enter my head that make it seem as though alchohol has some plus sides...

I'm just getting money, because that's what I asked for and my relatives know it's what I need... so no surprises there.

...hide sama! [img]http://64.26.57.193/banners/hidedahlia.jpg[/img] hide, the most legendary figure of jrock, celebrates his birthday today... or at least he would if were still alive. Let's not forget :) Some samples of my favorite songs if anyone's interested: [url=http://64.26.57.193/hide/junkstory.rm]Junk Story[/url] [url=http://64.26.57.193/hide/rocketdive.rm]ROCKET DIVE[/url] [url=http://64.26.57.193/hide/everfree.rm]ever free[/url] [url=http://64.26.57.193/hide/pinkspider.rm]PINK SPIDER[/url] [url=http://64.26.57.193/hide/tellme.rm]TELL ME[/url] [url=http://64.26.57.193/hide/misery.rm]MISERY[/url] [url=http://64.26.57.193/hide/genkaiharetsu.rm]genkai haretsu[/url] [url=http://64.26.57.193/hide/dice.rm]DICE[/url] [url=http://64.26.57.193/hide/damage.rm]DAMAGE[/url] [url=http://64.26.57.193/hide/hurrygoround.rm]Hurry Go Round[/url] ---Thanks to all zero of you who took a little time to just maybe listen to a song or look up a little information on hide, and respond with a few thoughts.

What country do you live in?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by DarkOrderKnight [/i] [B] What three-word headline appeared on the April 13, 1945 edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune? A Cyber cookie to anyone that can figure this out. ;) [/B][/QUOTE] Wasn't it "Dewey Defeats Truman"?

I'd like to meet Hakuei. Hey, he registered here - who says it isn't the real one?! ...other than that, just Transtic Nerve.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by gokents [/i] [B]Except I would imagine a women with creative control over the series making those skirts just a bit longer. [/B][/QUOTE] She's just trying to make a few bucks like everyone else in this world, can't blame her.

I think America's aaaaaaall right.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Sara [/i] [B][size=1]But we wouldn't care about the strawberries...[/size] [/B][/QUOTE] Yes we would. Because they are food that we need... and I'm not talking about complete apathy, only what is presented in the quote.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Endymion [/i] [B]I mean, isn't "Otaku" supposed to be an offensive word? [/B][/QUOTE] No... not really.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by sage [/i] [B]I don't like separating people under titles, bu8t let's face it: there has to be SOME words we can use to say someone "fancies his/her own gender", or has darker skin, or is from different race. Yes, it would be IDEAL if we'd just stop defining each other by appereances, but hey, this is not an ideal world![/B][/QUOTE] There's certainly a time or a place though. Let's say you're describing a person to somebody so they'll be able to recognize them when they see them. "Yeah he's also... um... his skin... it's... well... er... it isn't... the usual kind of Americans..." "What do you mean?" "Well, you know... it's like... not very... bright"

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Valen [/i] [B]Think about it... without them two around, who would be able to ban the annoying spamming n00bs, besides TN?[/B][/QUOTE] You'd have to make me moderator. THEN the boards would be cleaned up.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Juuthena [/i] [B][color=deeppink] [size=1]Juuthena is pronounced, 'Juu-ten-a'. ^_^;[/color] [/size] [/B][/QUOTE] Oh. Well, I can't be sure, but juuten'a is probably written as: \?V?? or \?V?¢ In either case, the first symbol means ten and the second means heaven... the third is simply a phonetic 'a', no meaning really. Those are the only two symbols I know of pronounced as 'a', and so I assume it's either one of those. However, names can be tricky... I'm making the assumption the 'a' is also a ON reading, like juu and ten. Oh, and I fixed the quote, sorry.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Juuthena [/i] [B]Juuthena, is my japanese name, and I think it means something like 'tenth angel goddess'...or something like that. ^^;[/B][/QUOTE] Well considering the sound "th" doesn't even exist in Japanese, I doubt it means anything... [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Yu Yu Hakusho! [/i] [B]My friend wants to name her next dog Inuyasha. She even wants to have her daughter's middle name be Kagome.....I mean, if you were Japanese that wouldn't be wierd at all, even if I am part Japanese....but still, who would really want their kid's name to be Bulma or Vegeta???[/B][/QUOTE] I've heard of people wanting to name their kids after an anime character... really, that's just the dumbest thing anyone could do. A pet is one thing, but naming your kid kagome or something... that's just retarded. Oh, and just as a side note, I've never seen or heard of a Japanese person with the name "kagome"... so it is rather strange. I checked with a names dictionary, and it didn't show up there either.

I'm not an otaku and never have been... As for the boards, I just joined because Transtic Nerve comes here... so it gives me something to do when I'm bored.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by july [/i] [B]hate to tell you this, but why does it matter what anyone else thinks or cares or does to you for that matter?[/B][/QUOTE] Because if nobody cared, we'd all be living in anarchy and killing each other over strawberries.

I like a lot of Morning Musume songs. What can I say... I also enjoy the Mentos song.

There's no R in seiyuu.

I'm really nice on these boards, but in real life I'm an as[i][/i]s.