(03-12-2011, 04:48 AM)Tokio Wrote: FuckedGaijin forum says explosion at Fukushima #1 nuclear plant.

http://www.twitvid.com/LICNU

Yep, top news story at the moment. They say bad news travels in 3s. First the earthquake, then the tsunami, and now the nuclear concerns. This craziness needs to end so the cleanup and reconstruction can begin.

I was a mess yesterday. I had to spend all morning checking facebook and otherwise trying to get a hold of my friends still in Japan. I'm so glad that my hometown (Yokohama) wasn't too heavily damaged but all those images of Fukushima and Sendai break my heart. I'm trying not to think about it too much because I start to cry when I do. I love Japan SO much. I have felt useless sitting here in Missouri because I'm a nurse and I speak enough passing Japanese to be able to help and I can't :(

Prayers for the entire wonderful and strong nation of Japan!!!

(03-12-2011, 11:13 AM)harumi Wrote: I was a mess yesterday. I had to spend all morning checking facebook and otherwise trying to get a hold of my friends still in Japan. I'm so glad that my hometown (Yokohama) wasn't too heavily damaged but all those images of Fukushima and Sendai break my heart. I'm trying not to think about it too much because I start to cry when I do. I love Japan SO much. I have felt useless sitting here in Missouri because I'm a nurse and I speak enough passing Japanese to be able to help and I can't :(

Prayers for the entire wonderful and strong nation of Japan!!!

I feel your pain. I am surrounded by people who really don't care yet I keep feeling the tears trickling down my cheeks. No one around me during the day can understand how I feel. This has affected my soul and emotions terribly in ways I cannot begin to express.

I watched the DVD from the Twenity set last night and cried through most of it.

Japan is a strong nation and it will heal. I keep praying for no more disasters to happen there now.

(03-12-2011, 11:13 AM)harumi Wrote: I was a mess yesterday. I had to spend all morning checking facebook and otherwise trying to get a hold of my friends still in Japan. I'm so glad that my hometown (Yokohama) wasn't too heavily damaged but all those images of Fukushima and Sendai break my heart. I'm trying not to think about it too much because I start to cry when I do. I love Japan SO much. I have felt useless sitting here in Missouri because I'm a nurse and I speak enough passing Japanese to be able to help and I can't :(

Prayers for the entire wonderful and strong nation of Japan!!!

(03-12-2011, 03:34 PM)cathb Wrote: I feel your pain. I am surrounded by people who really don't care yet I keep feeling the tears trickling down my cheeks. No one around me during the day can understand how I feel. This has affected my soul and emotions terribly in ways I cannot begin to express.

I watched the DVD from the Twenity set last night and cried through most of it.

Japan is a strong nation and it will heal. I keep praying for no more disasters to happen there now.

I know how you both feel. My best friend's grandmother is Japanese (although she still lives in the US) and she probably still has relatives from Japan. It would break her heart if anything happened to them and I can't stand to see her hurt, you know? I was talking to her not too long ago, and she said she was visiting her grandmother when she saw it on the news and she was very saddened by it.

I was watching the BEAUTY AND THE BEAST performance for the umpteenth time last night and felt like I just wanted to hold each and every member of VAMPS and never let them go. Time and time again, they've given a reason to take on the challenges of each and every day when I could hardly think of a reason to even wake up in the morning.

I was watching an interview with Ozzy Osbourne from last year that I apparently missed and he was discussing the feelings he felt when he discovered that John Lennon was assassinated. He said he thought something along the lines of "What did this man do other than make a bunch of peoples' lives more worth living?"

HYDE made not be as world-renowned or as respected as him, but HYDE will always be my personal John Lennon. His music and lyrics make my life all the more worth living, and I don't know where I'd be had I never discovered him. So if something were to happen to him, I have no idea what I would do.

Oh wow. Sorry about that. Didn't mean to get all over-emotive and shit, but these events have really left me in such a bazaar mindset. I can hardly think straight, what with every news channel in the world covering every second of the story.

For some odd reason, my ipod insists to put me "Hoshizora" every time I turn it on since Friday.

And like I wrote on Facebook [aside all the links of the American Red CRoss to make donations..like I'll do now--> American Red Cross Disaster Relief for Japan

And believe that without artists like HYDE and the guys from L'Arc en Ciel...I wouldn't appreciate things in life like I do now. A lot of people around me keeps asking of why I feel so affected by this and mostly about the safety for those who sing another language. I just respond that they have done more to me than any other role model...they music moved me to no end.

But instead of keep watching videos and photos of the disaster [I don't want to be a masochistic] I decided to donate to the Red Cross and ask if the local version in my country will collect things to send to Japan.

And if anyone is going to donate stuff instead of money, I suggest a lot of blankets, jackets and stuff like that....temperatures dropped in the affected areas due the lack of electricity.

(03-13-2011, 06:54 PM)vegetapr69 Wrote: For some odd reason, my ipod insists to put me "Hoshizora" every time I turn it on since Friday.

And like I wrote on Facebook [aside all the links of the American Red CRoss to make donations..like I'll do now--> American Red Cross Disaster Relief for Japan

And believe that without artists like HYDE and the guys from L'Arc en Ciel...I wouldn't appreciate things in life like I do now. A lot of people around me keeps asking of why I feel so affected by this and mostly about the safety for those who sing another language. I just respond that they have done more to me than any other role model...they music moved me to no end.

But instead of keep watching videos and photos of the disaster [I don't want to be a masochistic] I decided to donate to the Red Cross and ask if the local version in my country will collect things to send to Japan.

And if anyone is going to donate stuff instead of money, I suggest a lot of blankets, jackets and stuff like that....temperatures dropped in the affected areas due the lack of electricity.

Hoshizora has been the song that keeps running through my head since this happened, too.

I wonder what influence this will have on L'arc's new music? If any.....
Hyde was already in the recording studio or composing when the quake hit...if I remember correctly.

Many artists are saying that they will donate the profits from their upcoming lives to help with the relief efforts. This is great, but it is also Japan helping Japan.

Many of us are already giving to the Red Cross with the money ear-marked for Japan. The thought crossed my mind that it would be nice to see a CD with a compilaton from all of the big artists. No matter who you liked, you would buy the CD to hear them and it would reach out to a broader audience. It would be released world-wide and all of the profits go to Japanese relief efforts. The world helping Japan. This would be for the people who needed an extra incentive to help out. But it would also be perhaps difficult to organize and promote. Just thinking out loud, I guess..................

(03-12-2011, 06:24 PM)VAMPkito Wrote: HYDE made not be as world-renowned or as respected as him, but HYDE will always be my personal John Lennon. His music and lyrics make my life all the more worth living, and I don't know where I'd be had I never discovered him. So if something were to happen to him, I have no idea what I would do.

Do NOT apologize for that! I feel the exact same way and when someone else says it, it makes me feel way less crazy. I had a birthday lunch last month and some friends came over who'd never really listened to any Japanese music before and I was playing a bunch of Hyde (hey, my birthday, my music, right? haha) and one guy checked out my playlist while Hyde's cover of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was playing and he asked who the band was and I answered without hesitation, "The love of my life." And my exboyfriend/best friend was in the room too lol. Hyde has been with me since I first started writing my book when I was 13 (though it was a pretty terrible book back then lol). When I started getting away from the teen angst stuff I was channeling and started thinking more seriously about real character development and complex plots and the human themes I wanted to address in the book is when Hyde's solo career got started. It seemed every new song he wrote was just for me and my book. Just as I was writing about something new, he would release some new single that EXACTLY mirrored what I was writing about. Back then I was a bit more resistant to it, calling it mere coincidence. It's only recently I've come to acknowledge how eerie the synchronicities were (At the core of these is the fact that my real life name is Heidi which is the best female equivalent for Hyde I can think of haha). It was like he and I were linked somehow artistically; like we were tapped into the same muse.

Hyde's music has always been there for me. When my first love let me down, Hyde's music was there. When I finally got over my first love 8 years later, Hyde's music was there. When I found new love I never thought I'd find and then lost it, Hyde's music was there. I never really acknowledged it until very recently. When I FINALLY saw him for the first time at the Avalon last year--even though I didn't get to walk up and introduce myself personally--I knew I wanted to make great art just the way he did. I wanted to inspire people the same way he did. Over the last few months I've covered my bedroom wall with L'arc and Hyde posters so every which way I turn when I'm in my room, when I go to sleep, when I wake up, I can see Hyde. His face reminds me that I need to wake up and write every day. Even if it's just a sentence, I need to write so that I can get that much closer to making art that Hyde would be proud of. Then I know I will have created something everyone can love and enjoy and be moved by.

(03-13-2011, 06:54 PM)vegetapr69 Wrote: For some odd reason, my ipod insists to put me "Hoshizora" every time I turn it on since Friday.

Hoshizora is L'arc en Ciel's BEST song in my opinion. I reference it in my book, but I call it "Starry Sky" instead. I've listened to that song so much over and over, especially over the last 6 months or so, that my sister was getting sick of it after awhile and she generally likes L'arc even when she's not too terribly fond of many other Japanese artists...

Sorry, lol! You got me going all emotional, too, and made me dig way deeper into my Hyde love than I've ever done before. It's all stuff I knew at a visceral level, but I've never actually written it out or said it to anyone.