AMBER

The spring breeze makes the uneasy sound as my dreams crumble and my future brakes. I have no more... I want to be with you more. I want to be near you. I try to hide my weak tears behind a smile, but I can't hide anymore. My years of dreaming, at the end, will my true self be there I tried too hard to bear with it. I even put out my hand. But what it all comes down to was now; we are in hell under his control. So this is the end I tell you. Lights will be turned off and the stage will turn to darkness. Let me hear your voice more, I still want to be here. Goodbye to an anonymous girl I loved from my heart. I remember the promise we made, by the spring breeze I felt in my back. My tears mix with blood, and it brings to life my new dream in my heart. Until our voices go out, at last. Lets sing until our voices go out.

Child Prey

Dying a Child Child Prey Hurry & May the reasons why one can't laugh from the heart. It's a simple reason that's life Kiss Me Deadly Kiss Me kill Me Love Me Kiss Me kill Me Love Me Child is Burning Kiss Me kill Me Love Me Kiss Me Deadly

Obscure

How many hangings tonight under the red moon “...” How deep will it sink inside eating skin that doesn't match? The snake makes way through the sheets and goes inside the uterus. It can seem like a someiyoshino; a cherry blossom petal, that dances sadly. The stain is the moon that's fulfilled, and the vomiting at night begins. Don't you remember? Color of faint... the night begins and people start to awe. Color of pomegranate... sting with the prick and disappear far away. How many secret hangings of the premature baby tonight under the red moon "…" Bloody Baby & Sacrifice Don't you remember? Color of Golden yellow... want to be the spider that stings. Color of tears... remembering the memories. Color of faint... the night begins and people start to awe. Color of pomegranate... sting with the prick and disappear far away.

New Age Culture

It's time to escape, there's no time to lose. There's no way to go, for me. Laugh, BANZAI by force, but I can't sing to your expectation... Identity Smash & Smash The guys with just all talk. Dance I say, joyfully la la la. I don't wannna be a pig like you. Identity Smile & Smile Happy & Happy Are you happy? He's simply a fool with no reason. Symbols of malice swirl around. You know, money can buy anything.

Just OK

In the following webs you can check what artists are confirmed to be OK.

· Rock/VK artists at Jpopasia

· Pop/Idols artists at Jpopasia

· VK artists


Gackt's web to donnate: Show Your Heart (in Japanese)

Red Cross

Here is the Red Cross' web to find peolpe in Japan:

http://www.familylinks.icrc.org/wfl/wfl_jap.nsf/DocIndex/locate_eng?opendocument


Hope some of these help you find your beloved ones.

Japan Tsunami

To find people in Japan you can check this websites:


Helpful websites, phone numbers
Staff report

Locating family and friends:

• NTT emergency voice message board: Dial 171. View message board at https://www.web171.jp

• Mobile phone message board services:

DoCoMo: dengon.docomo.ne.jp/top.cgi

Au: dengon.ezweb.ne.jp

Softbank: dengon.softbank.ne.jp

• Miyagi Prefecture has a 24-hour police hotline at 022-221-2000.

• The Japanese Red Cross Society and the International Committee of the Red Cross have a website at www.icrc.org/familylinks (In English, but soon to be available in Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Portuguese)

• Google service in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean — japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?lang=en

• U.S. citizens seeking information can go online to travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_5378.html or call 1-888-407-4747 (toll free) or 1-202-501-4444.

• NHK Educational TV will broadcast messages from victims or those seeking family members. Call 03-5452-8800, 050-3369-9660 or 050-3369-9680.

Language assistance:

• Multilanguage call center Bricks Corp. in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, is offering free 24-hour interpretation services via telephone in English, Chinese and Korean. Spanish and Portuguese services available from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Call 050-5814-7230.

Earthquake and tsunami information:

• Meteorological Agency website (English and Japanese): www.jma.go.jp/jma/indexe.html

• NHK Radio 2 (AM/English and Korean): 693 KHz in Tokyo, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures.

• NHK TV (channel differs by prefecture)

Gas emergencies in Kanto region:

Tokyo: Tokyo Gas — 0120-109-447.

Ibaraki Prefecture: Tobu Gas — Mito 029-231-2241, Tsuchiura 029-821-1107, Moriya 0297-48-1354.

Saitama Prefecture: Shin Nihon Gas — Kitamoto 048-592-2411, Kuki 0480-21-5626, Okegawa 048-786-7480 Daito Gas: 049-259-1111 Bushu Gas: 049-241-9000 Tojo Gas: 048-473-2111 Tosai Gas 0120-1031-24

Chiba Prefecture — Keiyo Gas: 047-361-0211; Otaki Gas: Chiba 043-291-1807, Ichihara 06-24-1225, Yachiyo 047-482-7236

Kanagawa Prefecture — Atsugi 046-228-3211

Electricity emergencies in Kanto region:

Tokyo Electric Power Co. Tokyo: 0120-995-002, 03-6374-8936, 0120-995-006 or 03-6375-9786

Ibaraki Prefecture: 0120-995-332 or 029-387-5056

Tochigi Prefecture: 0120-995-112 or 028-305-5006

Gunma Prefecture: 0120-99-5222 or 027-898-3406

Saitama Prefecture: 0120-995-442 or 048-638-5016

Chiba Prefecture: 0120-99-5552, 043-370-4586, 0120-99-5556 or 047-729-1716

Kanagawa Prefecture: 0120-99-5772, 045-394-2176, 0120-99-5776 or 046-408-5996



source: JapanTimes

Why & Origins

Is visual kei really a style of music? Or it's more a clothing style? Where we find the origins of it?

To try to answer all these questions and clarify a bit what Visual Kei is I'm going to write a series of articles about different aspects of Visual Kei. I have written these articles with the information I've read, see or listen in the web along all my years as VK fan. So the articles shows my conclusions and opinions. To fully understand the articles you should have some general knowledge of western rock, metal music.

Origins

At the end of the 70's, with the boom of glam metal, a group of Japanese designers open a boutique called Visual Scandal. These guys adopted the glam fashion, at the beginning they focus on clothes, wearing extravagant outfits, and later on they started to create their own make up designs.

In 1979 they formed a music group, also called Visual Scandal. They called their own style 'Beautiful Elegance', but then, in 1980 other bands with similar looks and influences start to used the term Visual to identified themselves, as Murbas which motto was 'Visual Violence'.

Drain Away

I reminisce under the late afternoon sky of the pressed flowers I miss so dearly. Back then, I counted down the days with my fingers to the day I would see you. The sky was blue, the good old days when my dreams were shattered. It brings sadness and sorrow. The sin is endless. Not a single sound to be heard. Tonight it is spring. One cold evening I saw her as she stood under the cherry blossom tree, with petals that bloomed too early. This story goes way back. She was beautiful and pretty but there was something about her. She had a very sad face. Her long hair hid her tears of late afternoon. Through the forgotten seasons, this place still reminds me of her. Time has made her disappear, as she was so delicate with her black and white scar. The sky was blue, the good old days when my dreams were shattered. The sin is too deep to bear, as I hear the sound of darkness. Tonight it is spring. The show booth. It was a cold late afternoon and I remember seeing her being colored by people. She couldn't do anything but cry as her tears bloomed like the petals. I reminisce under the late afternoon sky of the pressed flowers I miss so dearly. Back then, I counted down the days with my fingers to the day I would see you. The late afternoon sky lights the shed. The cherry blossom tree grew in back of it. And underneath the tree, she lies hiding her scar with the sleeve of her shirt hoping it would disappear just for that moment. The sky was blue, the good old days when my dreams were shattered. It brings sadness and sorrow. The sin is endless. Not a single sound to be heard. Tonight it is spring.

R to the core

You're the one that's stupid. You're a pig; acting all honest but you hide your true self. Can't hear anything, Can't feel anything. This is a place of contradiction. My heart screamed out, you make fun of me like you make fun of my deaf left ear. I know everyone isn't like that, but I can't accept everything. So I still, even now scream out in a hoarse voice to all you rotten people... There is an answer, so writhe in agony and let your will to live come out. Everyone's the same once they sin.