He~llo.

My 4th album's finally done!
The title's [VENOM]. That's "benomu", hm?
I'd been making it all throughout last year, but I was having a hard time
and couldn't do it too easily. I finished at last though.
I have a feeling it'll surpass all my albums up till now in its wonderousness
(to sing my own praise).
It has a recording of one of the phantom-like songs that we'd only done once during our times as Schwarz Stein, and once at our first Rudolf Steiner live.
I wanted to release it with the same feel it had to it during those days, so I haven't arranged it much at all.
I have a feeling it's one of those rare songs just about nobody's heard before.

The CD's a compilation of 11songs in which I've progressed more than even before.
I guess it's also got more in terms of volume on it than anything up till now too.
Perhaps. Well, I did my best.

This time it's also gonna be a "me like" album.
I'm sure you'll like it, so please listen.

Reservations start now.
Go!!!!

02.18 Hora (Pocketbell ga Naranakute)

A "Pocketbell", in Japanese, is also known as a pager.
Of course now, in the midst of an age of great and fearsome consumer cel phone battles, pagers have no doubt fallen out of fashion for cel phones which can expand in all directions and let you watch movies, make cute little sounds at you, and let you take awesome pictures of that salaryman who fell asleep on the subway and rolled off the seat and onto some little old lady. In this case though, "Pocketbell ga naranakute" is a drama and theme song from 1993. The drama is about two people who have an affair by means of their pagers and the troubles it causes.

here's the opening
here's the song

And here are the song lyrics.

Pocket Bell ga Naranakute (My pager won't ring)

A crowd of people rush along the twilight street
All hurrying home to a place where love waits...
I felt so sad watching that kind of scene
As I stood at my window alone

Though my friends scold me and tell me nothing but pain
is sure to come from this goose chase of love
I don't care, I don't care, I want to be with you

My pager doesn't ring, I'm waiting in vain
What are you doing? Where are you now?

My pager doesn't ring, I'm waiting in vain
I can't be the one to call, I love you more than reality

Speaking of cel phones, today my car overheated on the highway
and my cel phone wasn't charged for some reason (like it ever is...)
so I had to get out of my car and run to the nearest town to call AAA.
After I'd gone about 1/2 a mile a car pulled up and a lady got out.

She let me use her cel phone and offered to give me her gloves,
and although I was wary it turns out that in the end she really was
just a very nice person and not trying to kill me. Her name was Tanya.
She restored my faith in people and religion just a bit.
Still!! Those who value their lives, NEVER get out of your car!!! Safety 101.

On the flip side AAA said they'd send a police car to wait with me,
but for some reason he messed up and ended up waiting
behind another hapless car that was a way down the road XD
I hope he scared the daylights out of them because I'm grumpy.
It looks like repairs will be about $500 and my boss had to drive me home...
Lol. I moved my brother's cheerios just out of his reach
and have forgotten my plight in watching him paw forlornly at the bag.

He's too lazy to get up from his chair you see.