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Jasmine You-hime is in poor health!!! =(

Our Beloved Jasmine You, the amazing bassist of Versailles Philharmonic Quintet is sick! He has paused all activity with the band, including the recording of their upcoming album! He also did not perform at their latest live, yesterday, and they are currently only a 4-member band! D= THIS CAN NOT HAPPEN. NOT TO JASMINE. NOT TO ANY MEMBER OF VERSAILLES. This is the worst news I have heard in a very long time, and I have been on the verge of tears for the past hour. I can't believe it, and I won't. He won't return until his health improves, so let us all pray for Jasmine's recovery...Versailles cannot go on without him, I can't go on without him!!!

Jasmine You! We all love you! Please get well soon!!

So, yesterday I officially paid off EVERYTHING!!! Finally! I'm so happy and relieved...it was totally worth it. I paid off & opened my copy of Curse of Virgo (reissue) about 5 or 6 days ago, and of course, it is amazing and beautiful as I had hoped...I listened to it over and over! The instrumentals are amazing, and the booklet includes photos from the rerelease in 2008 & the original 2007 release....and god, Hizaki-hime is so...gah! I'd marry him if I could!

Then, yesterday, I almost finished painting the shed, so I opened Maiden Ritual 2 Disc Special Edition...god, I could never have dreamed it would be so good...I love it so much. It was unopened! The plastic wrapping around it was the nice kind, so after listening to it, I put it back in the plastic. It also has a nice box cover around it, with an alternative cover & back cover than the actual jewel cd within. The booklet is beautiful, the pictures of Hizaki & Fuki are stunning, and the lyrics to Overture, Ritual & Tragic Serenade are included. I cried reading them...it was beautiful, they are such stunning songs. The second disc includes an interview with Hizaki, it's over ten minutes long. There were various other people included in the interview, I believe I heard Yoshi, Maaya, and someone named Koga, or maybe Kyura, from Kisaki Project introduce theirselves. On the back of the booklet, it gives special thanks to many people that are important to my life & the visual kei industry, such as Kisaki, Tomozo, and many others. What's really amazing about this purchase, besides its content, is the fact that it was released in 2004, a special edition, and I found it and purchased it for only $20!! I'm so lucky...

Well, last night after painting somemore, I also took my copy of Monshou out of the box, but I haven't watched or removed it from the plastic wrap yet. I am waiting until I finish painting the entire shed (once I'm done, I have an extra $80!)...The case of Monshou is gorgeous, as is everything Hizaki releases. He looks so beautiful in the photos featured....the front cover is a picture of him from 2008 sitting on a fancy victorian couch (one that Kaya has also been seen sitting on in a photoshoot), and the back picture is a photo of him from early 2007. He is so stunning...I love him, and I can't wait to watch the dvd. It makes me so happy that I now own one of the things that influenced my life so much...that dvd, and all of Hizaki's releases, changed my life...and now...I own many of them...it's just an amazing feeling...

With the extra $80 I will have once completing the painting job, I'm planning on purchasing XOVER - XGATE (CD + DVD), Moi Dix Mois - Lamentful Miss CD, and preordering Versailles - (Currently Untitled Next Album) Limited Edition CD + DVD which will be released in September. I just want to make sure I get first press...

Unfortunatly, I have to wait 8 days until my mother recieves her next pay check before she will order them. Wonderful. >_<

In other news, I'm still a bit tired & sore from being gone for four days...but it was fun. We had alot of fun at Uncle Shawn's house. We all went out at midnight and played in the pool lol...it was awesome! Then the next day we went to The Lake of the Woods, and guess what? We got the same spot we had exactly a year ago! It was amazing, but it's interesting to see how much things change in just one year...there were no crows in the tree this time, and a tree had fallen over and covered our firepit. =( Lol, we had fun anyways though. Mom, Brennen, Kenny, Phaedra, Shawn, Erin, Jason, Amara, Steven, Damaris, Dominique, Dimitria, and Delicia were all there. It was so nice...After the lake, Brennen & I stayed at Kenny & Phaedra's for 3 nights...we all watched Ayakashi Horror Tales, Damaris really like the Bake Neko episodes. But I mean, who the hell can resist Kusuri Uri and the alluring, magical world of Mononoke?

It was a fun weekend, but I was ready to go home by Tuesday...I was sore, tired, and the little girls (and even Dominique) were starting to get on my nerves lol.

Hmm...what else?

Well, in March I started making a video to a remix of Do As Infinity's song "Heart", I only had about 30 seconds finished, and I started working on it again Tuesday night. I'll probably be finished by tonight, and I will upload it to youtube.

Update, watch my new video below:

Do As Infinity - Heart (3SV Remix) English & Romanji Lyrics 

Also, new music video of the week! The song is RITUAL OF COURSE! =)

God I love Hizaki...

Today I uploaded a special video to youtube, it is a preview of Shaura (Juka) and Kouichi's new band, XOVER! Enjoy:

XOVER - XGATE PREVIEW

I hope everyone enjoys the preview. Their first release is in 5 days!!!

Hello...

So, I got Windows Movie Maker to work last night. Guess how? I made a whole new user account on my computer. And seriously, WMM runs PERFECTLY on this new user account, I swear, it's crashed once within the hours I've used it! How nice =) It runs & saves so much faster....so, the question remains, what the fuck is wrong with my original user account?

Anyways, last night I got 3 new videos uploaded to my youtube account, I hope you enjoy them:

Delicia Modelling My Boots - Darkwave Surfer

Too Little! Oww!

A Day At The Park: Swinging & Sliding

And today so far I've uploaded one new video:

2009.07.03 Fireworks

2009.07.04 Fourth of July (Part 1)

2009.07.04 Fourth of July (Part 2)

I will have another new video up tomorrow, I've finished it, but I think tomorrow will be the best date to upload it.

Uhm, other news...

I paid off Type C of Ascendead Master yesterday!! So, I took a shower and listened to all 4 types of Ascendead Master, and of course, the songs & soundtrack music are superb! Then I watched the Ascendead Master DVDs, and they are beautiful! The film is shorter than I thought, but oh so beautiful...and so is the pv. I cried. I cried so much...ahh, it was so amazing...I love Versailles!!

WE ARE VERSAILLES!!!

Also, like I mentioned in a recent blog, I have become totally obsessed with Nat (Community Channel)'s videos. She's so funny, and so cool...I think I'm going to burn some DVDs of her videos. One of her 2007 videos, one of her 2008 videos (and of course once this year ends I'll be burning a DVD of her 2009 videos). But yeah, she's totally awesome, once again, you should check her out. I provided a link to her page in the blog I mentioned her in, but if you can't find it just get on youtube and search for "communitychannel" I'm sure you'll find her.

I've updated the Calendar with a new event.

I HATE WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER.

It is the biggest pile of shit I have ever come across in my existance, I despise everything about it and the people who developed such a worthless, glitchy, faulty, and unfinished tool. I have wasted so much time using this shitty program and to no avail. I have tried everything to fix it, and it is just fucking broken. What the fuck is wrong?

I've always had problem with this pile of slime, but about a month ago it just totally fucking broke. It will randomly freeze and say shit like "The Operation Has Completed Successfully". What fucking operation?? What the fuck are you doing? Spreading viruses around my computer or something? This stupid program takes up 100% of my computer usage when it freezes, and I can't do anything but sit there and get fucking pissed! Then, when I try to save a project it will say "There is not enough space available to complete the operation" but it saves anyways. What the fuck?! And bullshit there's not enough space, there's 308 fucking gigabites! That's more than the average fucking computer has! Then, when I try to save a video, it freezes up after I pick where I want to save it and what the file name will be, then once it finally unfreezes it shows this weird "HIGHMAT" icon that doesn't even exist on my computer and never appeared before I started having these dumb problems, and it stays at 0% forever, never progressing, and the minutes remaining just keep adding into the billions and then trillions. Usually, restarting my computer and reopening the project fixes all of this until I start a new project, but today it DID NOT WORK. Now, no matter what I do, it will never save my videos. This highmat shit never goes away, and there's nothing I can do. I've wasted my time. I even wasted a fucking half an hour trying to find a link to movie maker, and when I finally did and downloaded and reinstalled the shit, IT DIDN'T FIX ANYTHING! I restarted my computer and the shits the same!!! Fuck! I'm so pissed...what I waste of my life. If I ever meet the fucking dickholes that made that fucking crap program, I'm going to ring their fucking necks one by one until they're all dead! Fucking useless assholes wasting my time.

Oh, and to make things fucking worse, just two nights ago I was playing the Sims 3. It was getting late, so I shut it off. I had had iTunes playing while I was playing the game, and the playlist I was on had ended awhile before I quit the game. Well anyways, I quit the game, and closed iTunes. But it didn't close, a stupid message popped up "iTunes is currently being used by another program". Uhm, excuse me, what fucking program? 'cancel'. I wait a second. Forget this. 'close'. "iTunes is currently being used by another program". Fuck you. 'close'. I went to close my pictures, and before I do, I realize that the entire folder has become a music folder, and I can't change it because it's My Pictures and it doesn't let you customize the folder. FUCK. Moved all the files into a new folder, deleted My Pictures, made the new folder a pictures folder, arranged all icons by modified, then renamed it My Pictures. The fucking thing changed to a fucking music folder! Oh, lucky me, the customize this folder options are still there. Changed it to a pictures folder. Right clicked to arrange all icons by modified, but guess what? IT WAS STILL A FUCKING MUSIC FOLDER! Screw this. Undo rename.

So guess what my fucking "my pictures" folder, err, my substitute my pictures folder is named now? "There's No Such Thing As,"   (Meaning, no such thing as my pictures on my fucking computer.) God, I'm going to throw this load of shit into a ditch.

I finished homeschooling today! Not even 3 full days of it and I finished, and passed with a C. How nice that I got that done fast.  And Mat was really funny all day today, he's such a tard...

I also paid off Ascendead Master Type B and now all I have left is Type C! (And then of course 3 Hizaki cds...) I mowed the lawn today also so I've already paid off $5 of Type C so only $11 left until I open them all! I can't wait to watch the movie...I heard it's wonderful.

In other news, still really thinking about vlogging, and I've decided to continue my Shadows Temple Sims 2 project I started about 2 or 3 weeks ago.

I'm also thinking about starting a series of videos with The Sims 3! I'm not sure what they'll be about yet, possibly a series of stories or something, we'll see. I'll be thinking about it more over the next few days, and working on Shadows Temple. The only thing with Shadows Temple is that I've really gotten used to working with the Sims 3, and the Sims 2 feels so foreign to me right now...it's so slow and ridiculous. I'd use the Sims 3 for the video, but currently there's not nearly enough custom content to create what I'm envisioning in my mind, so I guess I'll just continue with the Sims 2...

And here's some info about Shadows Temple:

It's inspired by Shadows Temple, by Moi Dix Mois. The video will basically be my music video for the song. It's going to be very artsy, dark, and beautiful. I've put in visual elements in the set and characters very similar to Mana's style, very gothic and aesthetic, with crosses and gravestones, old buildings, and mystic looking plants. I built a stage ("You have been chosen on this stage by a stroke of fate), and plan to have romance/'woohoo' scenes (at least one) (a play of madness blending together at midnight, illuminated by moonlight, thus we melt together)...I'm not sure what I can do with this though ("I still love your body which has grown pale... for all eternity" and "the proof of my crime is engraved upon your pallid body")...maybe the song is about him killing the one he loved? I don't know if I'll be able to make this or not...but we'll see.

Anyways, I'll definatley be make my series with the Sims 3. Like I said, still developing what I want to do with it. I'll update again tomorrow...

Today, my friend Omnisoldier introduced me to two bands, Megaromania and Metis Gretel. I love them both, it's always nice to find new bands, especially visual kei ones. Both bands have very gorgeous music and visuals, and have vocalist Sui & guitarist Misery.

I also found another band last night. Former Himeyuri vocalist, Mashiro's new band Oyuugi Wagamama Dan x [PaRADEiS]. This oshare kei band has a very cute visual image and a very unique and interesting musical style.

I've put Megaromania's PV, God of Megaromania -junketsu no kokuin-, as my Music Video of the Week. DAI - Yesterday & Today Live has been moved to the MVotW page.

Also, I haven't been leaving entries much. I'll try to post new blogs more frequently.

In other news, I only have $1 left on Ascendead Master Type B, then all I have to pay off is Ascendead Master Type C, Hizaki Grace Project - Monshou DVD, Hizaki Grace Project - Curse of Virgo CD, and Hizaki - Maiden Ritual Special Edition 2-Disc CD. I'll have Type B paid off by tomorrow since I'll be taking out the trash & mowing part of the lawn, and probably doing the dishes. That'll add up to AT LEAST $7. Then, this week I'm painting the shed. If Brennen helps me I get a whole $100!! If not, I get $200!!!! That will pay off everything I still owe on PLUS more! =D

I also only have 6 more assignments/quizes left on my Aventa Learning Earth Science summer school session. I've only gone 2 1/2 days (the half day I left because the didn't have my log in ready), and I worked for about an hour or two at home today, and I've already pretty much finished. It's so nice to get things done quickly...it's really relieving. Now, if I did all of my high school classes through an online program...I think I'd already have graduated!

Also, check out the new videos I've uploaded in the past 2 weeks:

Darkness - Empress Mless (Reupload from 2006, my first ever edited video!)

Empress Mless & the Piano (Reupload from 2006, my second ever edited video)

A Family's Story (Reupload from 2006)
Eeyooma Mana Muki Vop (New ForestBalrog-style Sims 2/3 Music Video!!)
??????? - ???? (Malice Mizer - Houkai Jokyoku with Lyrics) (With My Special Ending & More, uploaded only 4 days ago!)

I also had a new download update for Heaven's Territory on the 2nd, with 2 new outfits, one for adult females and one for teen females. I'll update it again this week.

Latley I've been watching more videos on youtube. Found some old videos I used to watch 2-3 years ago. I also found a really awesome v-blogger named Nat, or "communitychannel" on youtube. Oh my god, this girl is amazing. She's so funny! I mean, the things she does and says, and her little skits, holy crap she makes me laugh so hard! If you have the time or are interested (or haven't seen her already, she's actually incredibly popular), take a look at some of her videos!

Community Channel

Watching her videos and thinking about how many people vlog makes me kind of want to start vlogging as well. I mean, I was going to like 2 years ago but never did (thank god actually, I was such a douche) but I mean, nowadays, it would probably be pretty interesting. Definatley nothing like Nat's though...I'm not that entertaining =/ lol

Today I updated the site with an entry about Farrah Fawcett's death. I deeply apologize about it being so late, but I've been gone for a few days at Damaris and Dominique's.

I also updated the site with a new song of the week, "Yesterday & Today" by Do As Infinity (DAI). In a way, I'm using it as a tribute to miss Farrah...just because, while I was writing the entry about her death, the song began to play, and it really reminds me of her, and the strong person she was.

Today, the beloved and beautiful Farrah Fawcett died.

Today, Farrah Fawcett passed away at 9:28 in the intensive care unit at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. Her lover Ryan O'Neal and friend Alana Stewart were at her side. Many of her movies and television shows were re-aired after her passing, including her documentary about her struggle against cancer, "Farrah's Story", which I watched with my family at my grandmother's house. (If you ever get the chance to watch it or purchase a dvd copy, I suggest you do. It was absolutely one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen...)

Her death was caused by anal cancer. She was diagnosed with it in 2006, and struggled with it all the way up to her death. She recieved multiple treatments and had to travel to Germany various times, but nothing cured her...and yet, she survived for 3 years, and continued to fight against it. She was a strong, beautiful, and courageous woman, and a real inspiration. Actress Kate Jackson stated, after Farrah's passing: "She was a selfless person who loved her family and friends with all her heart, and what a big heart it was. Farrah showed immense courage and grace throughout her illness and was an inspiration to those around her... I will remember her kindness, her cutting dry wit and, of course, her beautiful smile...when you think of Farrah, remember her smiling because that is exactly how she wanted to be remembered: smiling"

Like Kate Jackson said, that's exactly how I will remember Farrah Fawcett, smiling. She had a gorgeous smile, and a great personality, everything about her was beautiful. I think the world will miss her, I can't imagine the pain it has caused those around her, because I, someone who didn't even know her, is even in pain accepting the fact that she is dead...

We'll always remember and love you, dear Farrah.

Today, the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, died. He was 50 years old. He had been planning a comeback, with a series of tours in London and Japan, but early today the Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics recieved a call from his home. He had gone into cardiac arrest while at his LA home. When the paramedics arrived, he was not breathing. They performed CPR and took him to the UCLA Medical Center, where he died. A source from the hospital said it was chaos when they brought him there, people were screaming "You've got to save him! You've got to save him!!"

It's a tragic end to one of the greatest celebrities of all time. He was beloved by many, and hated by others for scandals that (in my opion) probably never even happened.

Regardless of the negative people out there, Michael Jackson was a great individual, full of talent. It's horrible that he died...when I first heard about it this morning, I couldn't believe it. I guess my miniscule brain is incapable of understanding how people like him could die. It was the same when Carradine died. I just can't believe that all these amazing people are passing away...

***Update, 2009.06.26***

Today, they discovered that his death may have been caused by medications and drugs.

I just read this...this is from Michael Jackson's former wife, Lisa Marie Presley's blog:

"Years ago Michael and I were having a deep conversation about life in general.

I can't recall the exact subject matter but he may have been questioning me about the circumstances of my Fathers Death.

At some point he paused, he stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, "I am afraid that I am going to end up like him, the way he did."

I promptly tried to deter him from the idea, at which point he just shrugged his shoulders and nodded almost matter of fact as if to let me know, he knew what he knew and that was kind of that.

14 years later I am sitting here watching on the news an ambulance leaves the driveway of his home, the big gates, the crowds outside the gates, the coverage, the crowds outside the hospital, the Cause of death and what may have led up to it and the memory of this conversation hit me, as did the unstoppable tears.

A predicted ending by him, by loved ones and by me, but what I didn't predict was how much it was going to hurt when it finally happened. The person I failed to help is being transferred right now to the LA County Coroners office for his Autopsy.

All of my indifference and detachment that I worked so hard to achieve over the years has just gone into the bowels of hell and right now I am gutted.

I am going to say now what I have never said before because I want the truth out there for once.

Our relationship was not "a sham" as is being reported in the press. It was an unusual relationship yes, where two unusual people who did not live or know a "Normal life" found a connection, perhaps with some suspect timing on his part. Nonetheless, I do believe he loved me as much as he could love anyone and I loved him very much.

I wanted to "save him" I wanted to save him from the inevitable which is what has just happened.

His family and his loved ones also wanted to save him from this as well but didn't know how and this was 14 years ago. We all worried that this would be the outcome then.

At that time, In trying to save him, I almost lost myself.

He was an incredibly dynamic force and power that was not to be underestimated.

When he used it for something good, It was the best and when he used it for something bad, It was really, REALLY bad.

Mediocrity was not a concept that would even for a second enter Michael Jackson's being or actions.

I became very ill and emotionally/ spiritually exhausted in my quest to save him from certain self-destructive behavior and from the awful vampires and leeches he would always manage to magnetize around him.

I was in over my head while trying.

I had my children to care for, I had to make a decision.

The hardest decision I have ever had to make, which was to walk away and let his fate have him, even though I desperately loved him and tried to stop or reverse it somehow.

After the Divorce, I spent a few years obsessing about him and what I could have done different, in regret.

Then I spent some angry years at the whole situation.

At some point, I truly became Indifferent, until now.

As I sit here overwhelmed with sadness, reflection and confusion at what was my biggest failure to date, watching on the news almost play by play The exact Scenario I saw happen on August 16th, 1977 happening again right now with Michael (A sight I never wanted to see again) just as he predicted, I am truly, truly gutted.

Any ill experience or words I have felt towards him in the past has just died inside of me along with him.

He was an amazing person and I am lucky to have gotten as close to him as I did and to have had the many experiences and years that we had together.

I desperately hope that he can be relieved from his pain, pressure and turmoil now.

He deserves to be free from all of that and I hope he is in a better place or will be.

I also hope that anyone else who feels they have failed to help him can be set free because he hopefully finally is.

The World is in shock but somehow he knew exactly how his fate would be played out some day more than anyone else knew, and he was right.

I really needed to say this right now, thanks for listening.

~LMP"

I'm sure her saying all that will clear up plenty.

Alot of people hate him for things he supossedly did, but from what I know, all the people who knew him closest knew that he really was a good person.

Rest in Peace, Michael.