06.30.06
Mimori Yusa fansite started
I just got Photoshop yesterday (I've been making everything in paint until now...you may see the difference)
Anyway, I decided to try making something more professional looking and adult, and so I translated some lyrics, made the backgrounds (in photoshop!!!), layout, etc, and put everything together into the basic framework.
It took about 5 hours to do so I do hope you'll like it, though I am quite aware no one knows who Mimori Yusa is.
Kotori reminds everyone of Kaya's "Corroded Cage" too; Kaya fans might want to read it...and there's a song sample in "Kuro."
We have the government checking the site every once in a while, so I'm not hosting it. Still, if you don't hear, how can you like her?

....oh who am I kidding!? I'm just doing this because I don't have a job yet ;_;
But once I do, I'll probably update a whole lot less and be a whole lot happier~is that a good thing? *laughs*

06.28.06
Kaleidoscope Romanizations, etc
I'm sorry it took so long to update.
I'll have a gothic and lolita timeline up soon...I've been really busy though, confused....
You know how it goes, maybe.
(I also still need a job; I found a great one, but they seem to want more experience than I have)

06.18.06
Malice Mizer Song Updates: Gardenia, Garnet, and I finally finished Illuminati
Over the past couple of week I received two...well...put simply,
two absolutely amazing emails thanking me for doing the Malice Mizer song translations (laughs)
I wanted to thank the people who sent them for their encoragement as well, and after thinking about it for a couple of seconds,
I soon realized that the best way to do that was by translating more perhaps...(even though I said I'd not anymore)
If you're reading this right now, then I'm sure you know who you are. Thank you (;_;)

06.14.06
Hora update! There will be another CD
More basketball and etc, some good news, Kocha....his family sounds a bit like mine, strangely.

06.13.06
An explaination of the Velvet Eden lyrics
Dada wrote it. Yes, it does mean that the songs now make some sense, for which we must be wOotiful.

06.12.06
A comic on good management skills that even non-managers will appreciate I've been told
It's not a lot, but the main character (me) is wearing gothic lolita clothing I randomly made up for the occasion.
Other than that, I've been going through something pretty difficult lately (part of it is the fault of amniotic fluid and wada ben...oh! not that I'm pregnant or anything >_<)...and not updating much. Sorry

06.04.06
A personal diary entry on pets, my own love issues, and some bad poetry in Japanese (it's kinda personal)
It's long, but I added pictures and tried to make it interesting. Oh, and I just graduated.
If anyone knows of any positions in global communications, marketing, publishing, television, radio, consulting, product research or...*shudder*.....finance, accounting, or economics *preferably in Japan*.....

.... please let me know. Actually, I can, have already probably done, and will do just about anything but politics and law so....probably nothing medical, as I've not had the training (laughs) Plus, although I know it makes sense, I'm not becoming an English teacher as a main profession. That will always be a side thing for me.
In orther news, this is my impression of Kaleidoscope, in picture form
I'll update my personal page with my new drawings and fanarts soon

06.01.06
Hora diary entry translation up and talk of new CD
My friend said he was talking to me on the phone (he so coerced me into it....) and when he mentioned him my voice completely changed. Well, whatever that means....
this is one of those bad things, isn't it (bitter laugh)
Visual Kei Readings
Two of them are good and one of them is silly. Still, it gives you an idea of what the visual kei bandgirl world is like.
And we edited out the static from Kaya's radio debut of Kaleidoscope with MSN and Soundforge (>_<)...msn....
Major kudos to Ngeh for figuring out it could be used for that by accident. They must have some built in filter....

5.31.06
A Diary Entry on Japanese and foreign bandgirls called......
Kayaswife, Circk, and the Ominous 'Specting' Deathwish on my Person
Now as anyone who's read this site before knows, I truly respect Kaya and Hora, and do everything I possibly can to support them. I even read the manga Kaya suggested because it looked interesting and translated some of it for you~ that means that when I get messages from bangyaru telling me to die for insulting one of them....

I FREAK OUT

Let this be a warning to thee; if you do something rediculous or rude that truly bothers me, I will make you a research subject and broadcast you as a bad example to the world~

And Kaya appeared on radio with his first solo single debut! It was beautiful and gothic and techno and yo-check.

5.29.06
Shoujo Jigoku Novel translation (pages 1-15) - gothic lolita and gothic recommended reading
This is a novel I decided to translate because it would look impressive. What? I'm being honest~(laughs)
Nah, that's not the only reason. There's a surprising lack of Japanese fiction that has been translated, and I feel that it's somewhat of a shame to have foreigners only interested in manga and anime. Not that there's anything wrong with anime,
but I do sometimes feel that people have a tendency to see Japan well...simplistically. It's more than simple pop culture fun.
That and I got a sugar rush off of taro flavored things (I love taro) and ran around so much I got sick....
...and thus had to do something quiet. I'd been meaning to translate a novel for some time now anyway.

5.27.06
Schwarz Stein and all other Related Bands History Page
Includes basic info and a completely survey of their projects from the beginning until the present.

5.22.06
Last of the E-typ songs translated over at Dadaland
Prei and Lady Meister are new.

5.21.06
Soft Ballet lyrics and romanji up (Escape-Rebuild, Engaging Universe)
Does anyone even care? (laughs) Soft Ballet's pretty niche it seems....
Well, as for them, I also added some pretty silly comments to everything, as I suppose is my trademark in a sense...
.... which is probably bad but can't be helped. I've been getting into Soft Ballet pretty heavily recently. Their lyrics are extremely warm and fuzzy, and I do highly recommend them, especially if you like Schwarz Stein and Velvet Eden and Horasolo.
Also:
Today, for the first time in 4 years, I remembered the password to my guestbook account and logged in...
and realized that people can leave private comments!!!
In fact, more than 1/2 of the comments were private and I had no idea they were there (;_;)
If you asked me a question, or offered to help, said something personal and were hoping I might change something on the site or write back, anything whatsoever, I'm sorry.
I'll try my best to make the site better, add sections, and email everyone back eventually (if you'll still talk to me)
I'm graduating tomorrow though, and so until I find a job things may be a little befuddled with the site *vanilla-drop*
That and I'm a natural hikikomori who's kind of bad at human interractions so (and you're an anthropologist why, you ask? *laughs* Researching people is different from talking with them...kinda like fanservice is completely different from...)
...well, at any rate, please have patience with me. And please believe me when I say I truly am sorry.

05.20.06
Hora updated his diary and so I have accordingly updated the Horasaito. Now this time was his cat's birthday and he included a rare picture in the update! So even if you have no idea who Hora is, if you like cats, please read the translation and go to his diary and then worship him according to the laws of the universe. OTZ. For worshipping Hora is necessary for the scheme of the universal working, even if signing my BITZ with a swear is not. And if you like my silly photoshopped pictures for some reason, you may want to go there too....
Horasolo diary entry 05.20.06
...and thank you for the email ^_^ It made me really happy to hear that...

05.18.06
A lot of updates, huh? *laughs* I'm sorry. These are all things I meant to get around to doing but forgot about, didn't have the time to do, etc....plus I found out there are some other anthropologists out there studying gothic and lolita and....and I was here first. So I wanna get everything I know out now.
translations and explainations on visual kei culture
new links in research section
these were translated from the website of a very intelligent visual kei fan. They're a bit outdated, but I've still heard a bunch of the terms while at lives in Japan so....I owe a lot to this girl. Look for more translations of her stuff soon enough. And here's a picture I did of Kaya in MSPaint....because I haven't bought a drawing pad yet. I will though. For now it's just cute ^^ I did it because I don't feel comfortable taking band's pictures without their permission, and I figure tacit permission to translate their diaries is more than enough for now.
Kaya picture

05.17.06
I can't believe I have to even say this but...
If you do sign the Bitz thing on the gothic and lolita or SS random page, for heavens sake don't sign it with a swear. Not only is it about the most un-original thing you can do, but the only person who will ever see it is me and I will simply laugh at you. And then if you ever visit the site again it will forever say "welcome &$*#-san", which is probably suitable enough if you're in the habit of signing things with swears, but rather unnecessary in the scheme of the universal workings.

*lol* my brother doesn't like washing his hair, and so I was teasing him about it and he finally did...turns out it's cause he gets a phro...... ... . . .

05.15.06
I now have an "answers to reader's questions" page (upper left). I don't get a lot of questions because I never get any emails (laughs), but I'll do my best to find the answers to the ones I am asked.
translation to Isola's "kajutsu no tsumi"
translation to Isola's "cruel"
on the Schwarz Stein page.
and a new diary entry in the gothic and lolita section
As always, thank you for signing the guest book! And just randomly, since we had discovered Hora's CD smelled like mushrooms last time, and Kaya's did too this time...I have decided that is just the way new CD's in Japan are, and not them. Kinda fungusy.
And fine, car *laughs*

05.07.06
So from now on the site will have one big update page. It's a step I was kind of wary to make, but I think it's important. Like, I know Hora doesn't mention his connection with vis kei or Velvet Eden (everyone knows anyway), lolita and bandgirl have issues with one another...there are a lot of problems with relating some of these things. But somehow I think they're not all that unrelated and it's okay to blend them now. Besides, this is my site, and I am me, and as such it is also unavoidably an expression of me....in a sense. And I like SS and VE and lolita and Minna no Uta and drag queens and electronic music and making and writing silly things no one understands and I can't help if it steps on toes. And it's annoying changing multiple update pages. And therefore...
New diary entry..about a Japanese lolita I met and angst and please read anyway
I'm sorry, I'll write useful things eventually. But this explains briefly why lolita is so compatible with Japanese culture.

05.03.06
New diary entry....about how I ended up cross dressing...
I'm very much aware of how strange my diary entries might seem, but they're also leading up to something. Some of them are recognition of certain events or people (?)...but they're also getting at what my reseach of lolita and Japan has lead me to believe. It'll all become more clear in the future, if you have the patience to wait it out. This site's like a Shonen Jump manga or something. Weekly installments, only without the cool pictures.

05.01.06
Two new articles in the Ideology Research section
One is an ad hock paper on gothic/lolita and Aum Shinrikyou (if you are Japanese, I apologize for the touchy subject matter)
The second one is a what may be a skathing but oh so accurate disassembling of the widely read Morbid Outlook article.
So I realized I do still have a lot I could put up in the Schwarz Stein page after all, and did some of it
All of the lyrics for "Another Cell" are done and I have an interview I'll get done eventually (thanks to Rin). Other than that, I looked in the Randoms section and realized it was all about Kaya mostly. And so I added some Hora stuff...plus it was a good way to express my neverending adoration for Soft Ballet >_>
And I'm thinking of doing a Soft Ballet fansite called "Symbiont Solitude"
I'm really proud of the background *lol*....I always have fun with the backgrounds though so...if interested, please look.
They're one of my favorite bands, along with Mimori Yusa. Oh, and I might start a manga soon, so those at all interested, please wait for it. And lastly, everyone who's signed the guestbook so far, thank you! ^_^
I was thinking of starting a forum or something but I don't know...

04.23.06
I wrote a diary entry out about music, dreams, and an interpretation of Hora and Kaya's "The World" and "Another Cell"
This naturally does not represent an offical reading of the CD though so (laughs) take what you want from it...

04.20.06
Just because it it was a major update, I've gotten the Schwarz Stein site up and running more or less.
The site's more or less finished. For those of you who want more, I don't really have anything else I can put up so... I will update when somone gives me something or I have a revelation of some importance that I feel is suitable to share with you. And of course, I'm always accepting contributions yo'z.

04.14.06
I wrote a diary entry on children and my experience as a lolita in Japan, with children.
And I don't just write these to talk AT people...if you have any ideas or critizues about what I write at all, it's still
bejente-at-hotmail.com
If you write something interesting I'll put it up too, if you so desire.
And my friend and I are making a CD, maybe. This is the cover.

04.07.06
I took the liberty of explaining the origins of the term "kodona" and why I will not use it
Oh yes, and there is a show called "Gothic Lolita" airing.....it's bad though. Really dumb and her chest is rather too...prominent.
I liked "Heaven a Go Go!" better because it was amusing and had silly Malice Mizer references.
http://lolita.netcinema.tv/

04.06.06
Another diary entry. This one is about a type of song I think lolita would like, links, translations, etc.
And even if you're not lolita, they're awesome. My friend likes Manson and Punk and even he thinks they're cute.

04.04.06
Expect a rather large update in a month or so....as in a 50+ page dissertation on Gothic and Lolita.
But for now, I wrote out a rather personal entry about my experiences as a lolita in Disney World. Please read...

03.31.06
I wrote a short response to my thoughts on lolita and people who make fun of the style. Please read it before you decide you don't care what I have to say. If you don't find it interesting, then I don't mind if you don't read any of the other ones I write. But just try it out first please.

03.24.06
bio of myself...no, no, I know no one's interested *laughs* But it's there, if you're wondering whether or not to trust me, etc
And a new layout.
Fushigi No Kuni no Alice
translation up in the VE lyrics. It's my birthday today.

03.18.06
translation and personal refutation of Chapter 32 of "Soreinu"
translation and interpretation of Chapter 22 of Takemoto Novala's "Soreinu"

03.17.06
translation and in-depth interpretation of Chapter 1 of Takemoto Novala's "Soreinu"

03.14.06
A response to the Morbid Outlook Article on Gothic Lolitas Part 1

02.24.06
translated "Utsukushisa wa Tsumi,"
This is a Velvet Eden song, which is actually the ending theme to [Pataliro!]...and then I thought about translating [Fushigi no Kuni no Alice] and did not....gomen. It's the most AWESOME song ever though.

2.19.06
Added a Schwarz Stein page..
it doesn't look like much either because it's not done, but check the lyrics pages! Yo-check desu!...desu....

1.31.06
added something about me on the VE main page
like an about me thing that tells you nothing about me in Japanese~I suggest babelfish *lol*

1.14.06
VE downloads section
Dada's old band, E-typ samples. Ueda liked Steve Richt ^^
There's also something where I chew you out.
For being weird about Velvet Eden. And a Dada fanart...kinda...not.
Actually, that's the guy from Mizonokuchi, who just reminded me of Hora for some reason. Like, the hair and everything else I guess.

1.3.06
Happy New Year and I added 4 pictures to the VE gallery
and 2 new Observances...as usual, they are useless (or are they? *hyuck hyuck*)

Old Updates: Links not Working anymore.

06/30/04 - Cali Gari's Ningyou no Ie up. Aaaand...a rough translation of the Velvet Eden TV interview from Shinjidark's site! Yay.

07/04/04 - Cali Gari's Kusatta Sakana up.

06/30/04 - I've recently realized that what I translate and say affects how people think of bands, especially since there are a bunch of new Jrock fans who don't know a lot about some of them. So I translated Cali Gari's Mama ga Boku o Sutete Papa ga Boku o Okashita Hi. And remember, Velvet Eden started off in the Cali Gari Basement Event.

06/28/04 - Tentative translation of Cali Gari's Oyasumi Nasai. I've been trying to figure out just what's up with them. I mean, demented babies are okay; I like demented babies. But then some of their other songs...are...improper, a little. And they're all really hard concept-wise. So I'm gonna try doing everything and see if I can't get at least ONE song straight on.

06/10/04 - Translation and romanization of Kozi's Grottesca. Flowers kinda typed up the Japanese so it'll probably be on scape and I didn't feel right putting it up here...that's where I got the original lyrics for my translation.

06/07/04 - A few quick announcements. First, Jrock Weekly News is not "The Jrock Weekly News." It is "The Jrock Weekly News Occasionally." Secondly, I have an important message here. Please understand.

05/03/04 - Sooo busy! I'll update jrwn again soon but for now I just added this because it's short; a really odd Japanese vocab list and some fanart in the lolita identification guide. But is it really a fanart, I wonder?

05/07/04 - Jrock Weekly News update. Article by flowers of night *it's GOOD*

05/03/04 - New article up on JRWN. Not the most interesting, but it's just filler for what's going to happen in the next article I think. Oh, and I know NOTHING about any bands that aren't featured here so if you'd like to see an article you'll have to submit ^^ I'm really sorry...

04/29/04 - Jrock Weekly News up. Looking for some good journalists and stuff, so email me if you're interested. Unfortunately I only know about Malice Mizer, Schwarz Stein, and Velvet Eden : (

04/27/04 - I updated something.

04/15/04 - I don't know if I've ever mentioned it, but I do occasionally update the Observances section of the Velvet Eden page. Like now. I just did that. I'm also thinking of redoing the website and making it into 5 or so separate sites since it doesn't seem to be so much about Malice Mizer anymore. I will also have a Rolly interview up as soon as it gets warm, cause Rolly is meant to be translated when it's warm out ^^ Oh yeah, and answered a few questions about Japanese lolitas.

04/02/04 - I'm quickly losing interest in Mana and Gackt...you can tell, and it is sad. Romanization and Japanese for Honey Vanity up.

03/29/04 - Uck uck uck. Finaid. But the long, grueling process has produced something of great beauty: my child, the Noseycarrotpanman. He's not unborn or gay, but he will still do nicely. He will stand guard with his 2 eyes over the new Velvet Eden fanart section. 2 isn't 1000, but they're enough because he can't close his eyes or he'd burn off his eyelids, so don't even bother trying to put him to sleep and steal stuff.

03/26/04 - I couldn't help myself; I wrote a dumb story about Moi Dix Mois's formation here.

03/20/04 - translated [...............] by Velvet Eden. It would be worth it to check it out I think...but I've gotten 20 hours of sleep in the last 8 days so that's all for now. Got some gorgeous fanart coming up though, and a wallpaper if I ever figure out how to get it up on the site...

03/11/04 - *cries* I translated DOOMED LOVE ALL WRONG! But I caught myself and fixed it...here.

03/10/04 - Doujinshi uploaded to the long forgotten doujinshi page! And...I've created a mascot! Cause every page needs a mascot. Now I just need a scanner and possibly some bodygaurds. Some lovely fanarts to come soon too (and finally NOT mine)

01/21/04 - I had a dream yesterday that everyone thought I was dorky. It happened in Dream Castle *tanoshii toki...* but none of us were ponies. I need not say what I thought of that. I've comemmorated my castle dream by translating Velvet Eden's Kumo no Sujo; it's a very different type of castle *fufufu* but not all that different really.

02/07/03 - A new picture of Dada in the Velvet Eden gallery.

02/03/04 - I thought it over, and from now on the site will be quite different.

02/01/04 - It sucks when the only way to get new information about your favorite bands is to translate it yourself -_- Really, really sucks....But you know what sucks even worse? Waiting for me to translate stuff, cause sometimes I don't put it up even though I have ^^.No malice, just laziosity.

Well, I took a short break from Vis Kei and added a pretty detailed outline of the different lolita types in the Gothic Lolita section. Enjoy ^^ Most of you've been getting it all wrong, if you think you're anything like Japanese lolita I mean. But then I hope you knew that.

01/21/04 - Before I rant, I translated Velvet Eden's Tsuppari Visual Rock n Roll and Silk (special request from a real sweetie). Ranting now.

Serena, beer, sunglasses, mummies?!? That IDIOT. ... k, nuf of that. It's okay, it's all okay. Cause I have lettuce...

01/26/04 - It's been decided; Gothic & Lolita Bible it is then. I'll do an article a week...someweeks. And then on other I...won't.

01/24/04 - AHEM!!!!! Alright. Here's how it works. I can translate either

1) an interview with Dada, Ao, Onan, and Yasu
2) an interview with Cali Gari ala Shuuji #2
3) some articles from the Gothic & Lolita Bible
4) the remaining Velvet Eden songs (they will be very different from Kurai's translations, perhaps I will write some so you can sing along in english)
5) a Malice Interview, but only if someone has a specific one they want done
6) Kagrra songs
7) Schwarz Stein lyrics or interviews, if someone provides me with scans

Email me to tell me which one you want. If no one emails me I will do NOTHING. I will sit on my fat butt and draw pictures of Dada as a cow. To email me, use Bejente*at*hotmail.com.

Oh yeah, and Khaos is done.

01/21/04 - Just a quicky. I actually heard Promenade, so I romanized it, typed up the Japanese lyrics, and FIXED MY TRANSLATION (just a few minor things, but it's a lot nicer a little more accurate now). I also learned how to spell Promenade. Woot ^^ And I uploaded two of the characters from my comic book to the fanart page. The comic book will come later.

01/20/04 - Finished the lyrics to Kinema. Gonna finish Khaos too soon, but my heart's just not into it. I was thinking I should become Kozi, just so we'd have lovely carnival music forever and ever. Then I realized I could only do so visually, not musically. Everything I write ends up electronica...only it's not electronic. It uses pianos and violins, and might be kind of cool I guess except I WANNA WRITE CARNIVAL MUSIC INSTEAD. *fu~n~* lol. For my first song I wrote something with the same chorus as "Dead Man's Child", and that was before I'd even heard of Velvet Eden. So that's the kind of stuff I do.

01/09/04 - Perhaps I should change my web page name to "Obsessions are bad" and put little dinosaur Manas and melonpans all over it, and then delete everything but the section where I compare Margaret (that's how his name's spelled) to a My Little Pony, and then write a long rambling thing about how Dada shouldn't make dolls. I found out on some messageboard that he DOES make them, of jrockers nonetheless! *cries*...yes, I should do all that. But it's not like I did or anything. In fact, I typed up the newgrave interview for someone and did something or other to the Velvet Eden section of the web page.

In other news, the guy on JrockNYC said a hurtful thing about My Little Ponies. He's a meaniehead.

01/01/04 - So I was sitting in the living room and my brother came along, said "key," and then threw my house key on my butt. I burst out laughing, cause it reminded me of Velvet Eden. Now Dada interview. Enjoy ^^ ...oh yeah, and, um, the site's not Dadaland; it's "Obsessions Never Die" cause, well...Dadaland?... -_-

12/12/03 - I have discovered something today. We have liquor, but I didn't know until now cause we moved and I found it...oh yeah, um, friends, I moved. Anyway, I also found out I can hold me alcohol ^^ I have this thing for amaretto, so I kind of had a shot or two today on an empty stomach. I weigh about 46 kg, but I didn't get drunk at all! Caffeine makes me high though. Well, it was exciting. Translated Velvet Eden's Operaza no Kaijin...so can't I please hear the tape now? *cries*

11/08/03 - I was thinking about where the Mizers would be 30 years from now...

11/27/03 - New pics in the Velvet Eden Gallery, more pictures of Dada in a futon and as a Delashocker (no connection to Kamen Rider *lol*). If thee be interested in Art Marju Duchain, you'd best be lookin' at them too. And happiness and rainbows and flowers, because we all be friends. I'm having a hard time reconciling the pony with the pirate part of me...perhaps I'll just stick with the pony, and go learn to climb ropes and fence. Yes.

11/24/03 - I got a new obsession. No update, just a comemmoration of the occasion. And for those of you who wonder what it's like to talk to me on aim and such...(F = me, J = daddy)

J: Because you want a turkey I'll make a turkey on Thanksgiving to eat around 3:30 PM when mom comes home from work. Will this make you happy?
F: !!!! I JUST got back!
J: I know
F: Na~a~a~rg!
F: I wanna be a pirate!
F: AND a my little pony
J: You missed "talk like a pirate day" about a month ago
F: NAAAARG!
F: oh yeah, well that doesn't matter.
F: from now on, I call people "poppet"
J: I'm daddy poppet?
F: no, you're not. well, I call WOMEN poppet
F: you can be scurvey dad
F: ...don't worry. I won't do that on green friday though
J: Good!
J: Did you get my turkey message?
F: Hee hee ^^ "Hi! Have shopping bags, scurvey dogs!"
F: *bwahahahaha!*
F: oh yeah, the turkey thing. thank you ^^ I'll help make it for sure
J: Good. It will be the smallest turkey I can find.
F: k, that works
F: I am happy
J: What made you start thinking about pirates?
F: I saw pirates of the carribean again
F: Jack is very cool. And he has eyeliner
J: Great movie.
J: I might pick you up on Wed about 8 or 9 PM.
F: K. That be nice
J: I want to stay longer at the store and organize the games. or I won't find them fast enough on black Friday.
F: ...okay, that be nice
F: I need time to do some homework anyways. gotta do homework now too though
F: sooo....baibee
J: Baibee. Naaaargh.
F: yeah!
F: NAAARG!
F : I love you scurvey dad
J: Me too you bucket of bat wings.
F: ?
F: are you a witch?
F: or just a weirdo?
J: Best I could come up with.
J: : I'm not an experienced pirate you know.
F : yeah. I SEE
F: : P
J: baibee again
F: yeah, baibee ^^

And that's why no one talks to me anymore besides Scurvey Dad, I suppose. I got about 2/3 the way through a Dada interview, and that'll be up soon.
If you want more translations, go to http://newvoguechild.kichigai.info/nvc-new.html and click on the translations. I did Kaya's diary.

11/14/03 - Damn...*whistles softly* I didn't know it'd been that long since my last good update. Niisantachi, yurushite kure yo ~ ne? ^_~ Really though, it was probably worth it because...I've done a mad update on the Velvet Eden Gallery!!! Go check it out; I'll have even more as soon as I go back home again. I kind of forgot to scan in a page. And to those who have emailed me, and I haven't emailed you, I'm SO sorry. I know I depend on people too much...

Well, anyhow, it was Halloween last Friday and for some reason no one's mentioned it. But I had a great time. First I went trick or treating, kind of, but everyone was slow so my new friend Super Lolita (*lol* pictures to come) and I tried to find Pumpkin Babies. Or any type of weird looking baby in a costume I guess. Then Ari used some random dye she had on my hair and I had to leave for Rocky before I saw what it looked like. Only thing was I had to get there late, since I know almost the entire cast and the host, and they know I'm a virgin, and that means I would have been hazed. I hate group hazing; it's so impersonal.
When I did get there absolutely no one recognized me but Nadia, who was like, "ah hahaha! You look like Mana! Hahahaha!" Aparently it's a sort of consensus that I look like him/am trying to look like him/it's fun to tease me about trying to look like him. I hate it. It's MY HEAD. At any rate I immediately became the post-show attraction (along with a proposed trip to IHOP -_- )

And now I shower. Later I'll put up the none so flattering picture I did of Mana, just cause I was mad at him.

10/14/03 - Update! I translated the theme song to Anpanman!...*what*...I'm having a hard time with Dada's column. He's talking about weird things again.

10/05/03 - To anyone who actually cares about this site, I'm sorry I haven't updated in so long. But I've been having some troubles. I keep staring at my hand it's so cool. I'm also in a really good mood cause Nadia got me a My Little Pony shirt! I don't remember the name of the pony on it, but when I was about 6 I had a dream that the other ponies beheaded it, and then they tied ropes through the sides of its head and paraded it down the streets...

09/14/03 - Yoi yoi yoi! I did it! I translated something! It's a rediculously funny dialogue transcript between Dada and someone artsy named Tomo, who designed the photos that accompany it. I'll get the scans in a bit. I also tripped and scraped off the outer layer of my skin on about 1/4 the back of my hand. You would not believe what you look like under there...but I won't take a picture of that cause it's not entirely pleasant. Instead I'll simply think of people as giant onions from now on and go do my homework.

09/05/03 - To anyone who actually cares about this site, I'm sorry I haven't updated in so long. But I've been having some troubles. I mean I'm bleeding pink blood right now and all I have to eat is a really creepy can of anko (bean paste) and I'm HUNGRY!!! *sniffle* But things should be better in about 2 weeks. By then I'll have everything scanned and might have started a Jrock comic book based on The Velvet. All I need is a scanner and some time ^^

08/09/03 - Back from Japan *bawls* I just can't take it. But I think I went too far this time... ... ...'a run in with a cabinet' *snort* Anyway, I've translated Velvet Eden's "Kumoonna" and Cali Gari's " Hakkyou Channel". I'll be adding a lot of pictures to the VE gallery and starting a new one for Cali Gari et all soon. And translating Mana's journal and writing up some stuff about Japan, melonpan, and lolitas. Oh yeah, lotsa interviews too ^^ Chotto matte ne?

07/10/03 - Translated Velvet Eden's "Arachnophobia," "Energishu Hansamu," and "Fan Letaa Kurenai." I was also surprised to find that my site had climbed to the top of the google search pages. I have no idea what happened.

06/21/03 - Oh yeah! Dude, doki doki desu yo~ I've got some translations of Velvet Eden's "Paraph" and " Kanashimi no Bara Shouzoku." You have no idea. I was ready to stalk Dada for them, for goodness sake. Now I can just quietly live out my life in peace or kill myself soon or something (after I do the rest of the translations of course). I also got mad and wrote something about Kami's death.

06/16/03 - Translated "Shi no Butou" and a bunch of Scanch stuff. Thank you to Julia for the scans!

05/15/03 - Translations and scans of Mihara Mitsukazu's "Cut the Angel with a Scythe" manga. I also found out, maybe, something about Gackt, added some pictures to the Malice gallery, and put up my paper on gothic lolitas. It's kinda academic and written the day before it's due though so you might not want to read it. And...there are, oddly enough, usually 29 leaves on the average brussel sprout. And I think this site's being monitored by the government *oooh, spooky*...and other people >_< And I'm done now. Go read my boring paper.

05/04/03 - I added a few Velvet Eden pictures from Newgrave magazine (how much you wanna bet the race car thing's a DR2000 reference ^^) and a new Scanch section! I also added a fanart of Amouthia from "The Last Unicorn" that I did for Jenn's birthday, in pencil and watercolor.

04/20/03 - I'm back! This time it's nothing major, just a translation of Malice Mizer's "Claire ~ tsuki no shirabe ~" and "Premier Amour." I also, being me, went online and found half a dozen or so melon pan recipes and translated them all. Normally I would have written a musing, but as I already stated, I am dead. So suffice to say that Jenn and I found you can write secret messages on banana peels with highlighters because it takes 5 min. or so for the oxidation process to kick in enough to see them. We were excited, and I drew a face on one and the three of us had a nice little tea party together (minus the tea).

03/30/03 - I romanized some Scanch! Who are they, you ask? They're good. Email me for more info. Also realized some more things about the Mizers and put them in my revelations.

03/24/03 - Today I translated an interview where Dada acted as the interviewer, and found out that Rolly was the lead singer for Scanch. I also died.

03/21/03 - Happy Birthday me! Although this isn't really my birthday; I just decided I liked today better than my normal one, so I'm saying it is on everything but applications from now on. I finished more of the Malice Mizer Q&A, put up something about Dada in the *new* Velvet Eden Interview section, and added translations to Kagrra's "Yume Izuru Chi" and "Kotodama", and Cali Gari's "Maguro". I was going to put up some Plastic Tree translations, but now will not for mysterious reasons. I also changed something else. Can you find it?

03/08/03 - I added...um...I'm not sure what it is, exactly. But it's here.

02/14/03 - Wrote a musing about my saggy butt pants.

02/06/03 - Meant to do more translations, ended up writing a musing instead. I have, like, 6 half finished interviews now with Mana and Mihara, the Psychos, Dada-ish...ness, Yuuki, Kozi, and someone else, and I'm trying soo hard to finish one. Just one...i haven't yet though. Sorry.

01/30/03 - Put some pictures in the Malice Mizer gallery the Velvet Eden gallery section and changed the layout around. They're actually of Dada before he joined Velvet Eden but, well...he is Velvet Eden, all things considering. Added a musing for good measure too.Was gonna add an interview-ish thing with him but am going to go cry over the loss of my reality instead. Turns out I'm still a stupid American after all...

01/24/03 - Added a musing...why do people read them I wonder...

01/21/03 - Added a translation and romanization of Syndrome's "Uzuku Nodo." It's soo creepy...and a couple fanart/art.

01/19/03 - I actually went and found out what the date was today...see, I love you all. However, not enough to stop me from making this page annoying colors. I've updated my explaination of Merveilles to include Illuminati and a small but detailed explaination of the references Gackt makes in it, along with Brise, Agean, and Au Revoir.

01/16/03 - finally finished up the interview with Vivid; it's really cute. Added translation, lyrics, romanization of Excalibur by Psycho le Cemu, and a nifty little apology for hating them unreasonably, and the translation and romanization of Syndrome's "Sad Mask." Wrote another entry under musings and finished the Gothic & Lolita Go World translation.

01/14/03 - added a fanart, of sorts. Still pondering "Illuminati."

01/09/03 - well, this page is pretty new for starters. I finally realized I should have one. Added lyrics, romanization, and translations of Velvet Eden's "Suteneko," "Karesusuki," "Doomed Love," "Girl Fiend," and the intro from "Street of Alice." And then I had to change the Velvet Eden intro page around a bit to accomodate them and translate the original "karesusuki" sung by Sakura and Ichiro, which can be found as a link from the similarly titled V.E. song. Added a new translation of an interview with Mana and an entry under my musings. Also wrote up a partual explaination of Merveilles instead of the self-conscious rambling I had before, but had to stop at Illuminati in order to read up on Nimrod.