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the joy that is l'arc~en~ciel

got my new l'arc~en~ciel cd, 瞳の住人 (hitomi no jyuunin)!!! お姉ちゃんが買ってくれた！！maribile-oneechan got back from japan on thursday and i dropped by her house on friday to get my cd. i have found out (through regular visits) that if you are in the masaki house, you will find it hard to leave...the place is just so...happy that you'd want to spend every waking time there. the kids are fun to have around, especially jun-kun; they probably take after their mother. ^_^ i don't know, the house is just full of sunshine. anyway, i was there until a little before 10:00 pm, playing with jun-kun, and teaching him how to write and draw.

tita cat,ここ、寝るの？
いいえ、今晩だめ。来週よ。約束だよ。

when i left, it was pouring! i didn't care if my shoes were soaked or if my pants were wet up to the knees; i just wanted to make sure that hyde-sama and the rest of l'arc were safe and dry inside my bag. ^_^

the cd has five tracks:
瞳の住人
瞳の住人 (instrumental)
ready, steady, go (ken ready version)
ready, steady, go (tetsu ready version)
ready, steady, go (yukihiro version)

hitomi no jyuunin ranks as one of my most favorite l'arc songs ever. i just love the way hyde does those vocal acrobatics of his in this song. the lyrics are so tender and touching and it just lulls me to sleep every night. *sigh*

i also love "ready, steady, go". of course, before i bought this cd, i only knew of the original version. but i was pleasantly surprised with the way the other versions turned out. i especially liked tetsu's deep voice in his version. ken was awesome too...i really liked the way the chorus sounded. as for yukihiro's, i didn't like the version at first. i thought he drawled too much. for me, this was sort of the hard rock/bad boy version among the four. but the song grew on me as i listened to the song every night before i go to bed. ^_^

so there. my lullabyes for the month. ^_^

what if i buy the "ready, steady, go" maxi single too?? five tracks, all "ready, steady, go" in different versions: the original version, hyde-less, ken-less, tetsu-less and yukihiro-less. that's going to be crazy...
"are you ready?
ready, steady, can't hold me back
ready, steady, give me good luck
ready, steady, never look back
let's get started, ready, steady, go!!"

the annoying thing that is labelgate

my cd says "labelgate cd is a copy control cd. it will not play on macintosh. it will play on windows pc, after the music player "magiqlip2" is installed. it will not be copied on pc without the internet id authentication which is only available to residents of japan. labelgate cd is a trademark."

...which means, i can't listen to hyde and tetsu and ken and yukihiro at work. good job, sony. thanks a lot.

so sorry, mae-chan and herb-chan...i'll lend you my cd when i get tired of it...which isn't soon, hehe :P

Posted by Unknown at 17:47