The Other East

I’ve been mostly asleep for the last 5 days. I’ll be back soon.

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Hey internet, I’m in Japan until January and looking to go on some unique hikes and adventures. Money is tight so day trips from Tokyo are preferred, unless you have a really awesome idea then I’d definitely try to swing it. I’m trying to find two things; places to adventure(hiking, abandoned stuff, unique stuff, etc), [...]

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The five most commented posts in the 3 years I’ve had this blog up are:
1) V-Rock Live Blogging
-Where we complain that the V-Rock feed sucked
2) Swedish rapper “Danish” rips off X Japan’s “Crucify my Love”
-Where commenter crucify the rapper, [...]

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I’ve received a reply from Norris Blaxall, he says he is going to help us get our tickets. But note, he says he doesn’t have much to do with Yoshiki since the completion of the study, so this is not a guarantee you will get tickets. However, he says participants in the study deserve their [...]

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I just emailed one of the Yoshiki Discovery people about potentially getting your promised tickets. Hold tight and lets see if we get a response. If I don’t hear from them by the end of next week I’ll email X’s manager and Yoshiki’s manager. Maybe I’ll call the guy who set up the website too. [...]

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This monkey can be yours for about 1,600 USD. Which is cheaper then a puppy at this Roppongi pet shop.

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Recently it was suggested that Hiroshi Matsumoto and his company Headwax was suing not only with sound legal reason (Trademark and Right of Portrait enforcement) but also out of revenge. I had a vague idea of why Headwax would say Yoshiki bankrupted them, but I wanted to do some investigating and double check some facts [...]

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Here they are.
Meh.

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A post on Cloud Nine’s Myspace confirms that Taiji is going to be appearing with X Japan in Yokohama and also confirms Heath is still the bassist. This is also interesting because it implies Taiji might still have something to do with Cloud Nine, which is a really great band. Taiji was supposed to rejoin [...]

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