urn:lj:insanejournal.com:atom1:kaika_kaika kaika_kaika kaika_kaika 2008-04-19T03:19:22Z urn:lj:insanejournal.com:atom1:kaika_kaika:6500 2008-03-19T00:17:04Z 2008-03-19T00:17:29Z Today the <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/ayumi%2Bhamasaki%2Bmirrorcle%2Bworld/video/x4rdg8_hamasaki-ayumi-mirrorcle-world_music">pv for Mirrorcle World</a> surfaced online, and people are "disappointed" with it. I like it, but by no means is it a Free & Easy or RAINBOW pv. People seem to be expecting that, but she had a different director during that time. Her videos as of late have been 'normal', just her singing and walking, or with a band, that kind of thing. What's wrong with that? Frankly, I usually don't like pvs (well, American ones), and I do like hers, even the 'boring' ones. It cracks me up how people say she needs to rest, and then they gripe about her more simple videos. XD Although, I'm not sure there's really any plotline that could've been put to this song. Free & Easy was a song of struggle, and the video had a Joan of Arc type plot. RAINBOW was about a best friend, and the video fleshed it out into finding out that your best friend is yourself.<br /><br />She's so cute in this pv, a bit overly dramatic. She's walking down this walkway (in Paris), doing her hands around while she's singing. I almost laughed. XD Then towards the end she's in a clear phone booth surrounded by agents dressed in black. She looks back and forth from each one with this crazy faces. XD <br /><br />Ah, an english translation of an interview with Ayu was posted at Divine Ayu. *reads it now* I like what she says here:<br /><br /><blockquote>I have carefully done alot of soul searching regarding the issue of "feeling guilty, but still life has to go on" whenever I was composing or performing. No matter how people feel sinful, since we are alive and kicking, then we should continue living on the best we could whether we are sad or happy.</blockquote> urn:lj:insanejournal.com:atom1:kaika_kaika:1190 2008-03-15T07:08:41Z 2008-04-19T03:19:22Z <font size="-2">I've listed what resources I've downloaded here, I may or may not have used them. Once this stuff goes into my resources folder it often isn't labeled, so... ~_~<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><a href="http://www.k10k.net/pixelpatterns/">Kaliber10000</a><br /><a href="http://firefly.starszz.com">Firefly</a><br /><a href="http://fractured-sanity.org">Fractured Sanity</a><br /><a href="http://www.lemonbirdy.net">Lemonbirdy</a><br /><a href="http://madzia.ircx.net.pl/icontable/">The Icon Table Generator</a><br /><a href="http://www.shatterheart.net/textures/">Shatterheart</a><br /><a href="http://www.namienewsnetwork.blogspot.com/">Namie News Network</a><br /><br /><b>Deviantart.com</b><br />~Ruthenia-Alba<br />~Scully7491<br />~env1ro<br />~Axeraider70<br />~MujerSuenos<br />~x-cielogris<br />~sparkling_eye<br />~Kiho-chan<br />~redshane<br /><br /><b>Livejournal</b><br />alchemyblack<br />acme_graphics<br />juiciness<br />yarinige</font> urn:lj:insanejournal.com:atom1:kaika_kaika:1001 2008-03-15T04:30:56Z 2008-03-15T04:30:56Z The default site scheme here is ugly, imo. I found the page to change it, and I like "worksafe (sidebar)" best!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.insanejournal.com/manage/siteopts.bml">http://www.insanejournal.com/manage/siteopts.bml</a>