Sleep is the greatest gift of all

First! A picture from the live on the day after Osaka. It was actually Tomoyas birthday...

It is Japanese culture to smash the birthday cake in the birthday boys face... don't get me wrong, it's hilarious, I just can't help feeling that it's a waste of cake^^;
Tomoya was a little miffed at having to play the last song with a face full of cake, but it worked out alright.
We were all so tired on that day that none of us managed to stay for the afterparty to continue the birthday celebration. I think going to sleep was the best gift any of us could think of that night.



This weekend was Alcohol Maria vol.4, arranged by Rayto and Yukki from Stand Maria. And we were on the list:

I was thinking I'd wear short pants, for old times sake, and then this happened...

I figured it was fine for stage though, punk rockness up!!
But then the others were like "Inger, why are you not wearing skinnypants! The Gekirock people are here!!"
Ofcourse I'd brought pants to wear for the night, so I gave in and changed, though I personally trust that the Gekirock people don't mind people who wear shortpants :P

In the background are my friends Alex and Cat.
Cat is my best friend and she's finally come to Japan again! She's also staffing for us (and she writes our English twitter: https://twitter.com/SALTYDOG_staff ). Alex is an old classmate who's been living in Japan for a while, but he's been pretty far away. Lately though, he's been coming to Tokyo a lot more and I'm so glad we get to hang out again!

Cat and me backstage at Headpower:

Enter Tomoya:

The live was pretty good I think, though I did fuck up at the end of the ballad.
Rayto complemented me on hiding it pretty well. I always thought I was pretty good at covering when I screw up, but maybe that's just 'cause I don't really care so it doesn't have a huge impact on me.
Anyway, Rayto called me out at my tendency to laugh when I screw up, and said I did really well this time when I just pretended it was part of the song (actually, the only rule we have for the performance of this song is that we're not allowed to smile. If you smile you have to buy doughnuts for all the members, so it's pretty serious business).
Let me mention that I also down right dropped the mic on the floor on the last chorus of Meltdown, and Tomoya didn't even notice ^-^b
See? I'm good!

Here's me dressing for autumn yesterday. Today i was wearing the exact same outfit only with the sweater in black. I just want to stay warm, ok? That's all I want.

Nevertheless, I managed to cath a cold on the night of Alcohol Maria 4, when I was going home. It's the real nasty throat scraping type T_T
I need to knock it before our event, Dog Pirates Banquet vol.2 on December 6. It's not only our own event, but also our last live for the year.

So I'm eating apples, like my friend Anouk always advice me to do to beat the cold.
It's got to be gone within two weeks, right?
I'm gonna eat an apple a day (keeps the doctor away, you know?). Japanese apples are hugenormous too!
Wish me luck...


At the end, let me add this:

It's a picture that Kento posted of his bunny, Rum-chan, watching a Crossfaith video. This pic went kinda viral among our twitter followers for two days^^
If you don't know Crossfaith, do check them out!

My favourite is still their cover of Prodigys Omen. I was obsessed with that song.

Well, I've got school tomorrow!
Goodnight, Cruel World!

Some decisionmaking and changes!

Hi! I haven't updated in a while, and today when I was in the car coming home from our first gig in Osaka, I made a decision.
First of all, I'm going to be writing this blog in English from now on (most Norwegians understand English anyway) and secondly, because I don't have much free time lately I'm going to prioritize writing about band stuff. Not exclusively, but mostly.
Both these things mean that mean that my blog will probably be a little less personal than before (which might be a good thing anyway) but I will definitely take the opportunity to keep writing things that I can't put in my Japanese blog or on twitter.
I really hope that you will keep following me, and also hope to make some new blog friends in the future!

Hilsen Inger

Here's a few little clips from the live at Osaka Club Drop:

This is us right before going on stage... these are the guys' go to-poses :P
It's stagetime!!

It was a pretty good live, even though we were all a little nervous. It wasn't just the first time playing in Osaka, but also the first time performing our new song THE BALLAD (　ﾟдﾟ)
That's not the name of the song, it's just kind of a scary thing to do the first ballad ever. It's called Phantom Pain, and I'll post the lyrics later, we're not sure if they will be changed a little bit^^
It actually went really well and everybody loved the song.

 There were, of course, a lot of other cool bands playing as well. Amongst them Phonicline, who are now on the tour for their first single, Daydream.

They were great, as always!

The boy who drew our fanart came to the live. He had originally said he might not be able to make it, I'm so glad he did. We signed his drawing, and then he gave us these laminated little cards that he'd made of the drawing.

 This is now in my wallet (^-^)
He also brought some chocolate cake thingies for Tomoyas birthday.

Lol, Kentos chewing face.
I know he won't read this, but thank you so so much!

Ofcourse we had to get some Osaka specials while we were there. It seems like Osaka is kind of famous for just any food being delicious, but I always hear about takoyaki. I don't like tako(octopus), but fortunately okonomiyaki is also an Osaka special, so we got one each with different fillings and ate it outside the live house. It was so good!

 I know it doesn't look very delicious XD It looks like a mess, but it was really good!

Afterwards we went inside to catch the last performances and see Dj Tekken end the show.
Everyone were so drunk, including the DJ XD

And then it was the afterparty.
We were all pretty exhausted, plus we had a long car ride home, so we couldn't party as much as we wanted to, but I think we made some new friends.
This guy who works at Club Drop wanted us to come back and play at his birthday event. It made me so happy, 'cause it's the first time he sees us and he liked it so much he wanted us to be one of his personally chosen bands.
Unfortunately it's in January, and I will just be back from Norway with almost a month without practice, so we had to decline :(
But we are planning to go back next year, probably after the new album is released.

I just made so many good memories this time, it's too bad we have so little time. The car ride is truly a bitch, even for me who doesn't drive, but it was really worth it! Can't wait to go back!

Now I have to get ready to go to Headpower, because we thought it was a good idea to have another concert on the same day we came back from Osaka.... Have to gather some streanght. And put on some clothes.

Peace!