Some youtube viewing for yoooou~~~

IE viz, salad of all the sempais when they were but tiny kouhais themselves! Alltogether now, coo, aw bless, wasn’t Kimutaku still a dork when he was a bairn.

It also includes a little most excellent footage of Hikaru Genji. Boo, of course it includes some performances by SMAP (they are just as bad as BEAKS, just when you think you are rid of them they pop up AGANE) and the best of all – something which I must track down in full – a shot of KinKi Kids performing Go West! Yes, that Go West. Tsuyoshi’s face. It would be a great Moment in Pop, if there were more than 2 seconds of it… Undebuted KAT-TUN boggle at the hilarity in video asides. I wouldn’t giggle too much if I were you, bog-brush features… (naming no names of course, my little turtle pears).

In other news, I am considering taking tomorrow off work sick, and scouring London to see if I can find a copy of Hanako magazine which features Jin Akanishi thusly: with a fake tattoo of a butterfly on his wrist (just… confusing), in a suit (flashbacks to Anego, distressingly distracting), even sluttier in a suit and also wearing… Jarvis Cocker specs, which make him look VERY CLEVER and not at all as dumb as bag of rocks. I was so distracted when I first saw some preview pictures that I burnt my tea (honey spiced chicken, if you must know). Oh, I kid, I won’t skive off work just for boybandism… yet, if anyone just happens to be able to get to the Japan Centre or Mitsukoshi and if they could let me know if they may be stocking it, I promise I would thank you when I stopped whimpering. The best thing about photoshoots with just Jin is that one needn’t pretend as if they will bother translating the accompanying articles (which I did do, once, if a four line blurb about Yamapi being ones favourite person to see fireworks with counts).

I like to feel that Jin Akanishi is helping my understanding of the traditional battle of the sexes, as I have never been able to purely objectify someone so much before. So brilliant! He should have a prize, I will make him some cakes (not that he needs any *more*).

On my (1gb, cheap, plastic) mp3 player for the past month: ABBA, NEWS and V6. Do I have a thing about listening to groups who don’t write their names in CAPITAL LETTERS? Anyway! I’m poorly and in lieu of a proper post, I’d love to share a song with you:

V6 – Honey Beat (British Rock Version).

So many posers! What is British! What is Rock! How on earth can this be V6’s 30th single! They’ve released more alBUMS than the Fall! Honey Beat is sort of the best song ever and actually medicinal, but the British Rock version is more… interesting I think! British Rock in this instance appears to mean a bassline that won’t quit (fingers of flame!), sleigh-bells, an interesting plunk on a harpsichord and, an, ahem, “spiky 4/4 beat”, m’lud which would have all the mods grooving in whatever sort of chelsea boots they wear. I love it! If you would like to compare and contrast with the original – V6 – Honey Beat from Countdown 2007, and here is the ubiquitous Hey!Say!7 version. Check out the air-line safety demonstration dance as performed by Yuto “amusing growth spurt” Nakajima and co. LOVE THEM SO MUCH TO THEM.

Now I go eat Chinese food because salt and pepper squid is ALSO medicinal. Cough.