Happy Jul, people!

Hi! Merry Christmas!
Sorry for the delay, the last week in Japan was soooo fucking busy, and then I got on a plane and well... I guess I've just been in hyper relax mode since I got here. That' an oxy moron for you right there ;)
I know it's the holidays, but in my experience I never know when someone's gonna start to nag me, so I'm trying to relax as much as possible!

I've got a few things I want to write about, so I'm taking a break in my busy schedule of horror movie watching and willpower battles with the gingerbread.

First of all, the last week before Christmas I had my two last days of recording. The last one was the hardest. On both the other days we got two songs down with a good margin, but we saved the longest, most difficult and least practiced song for the last day. The title track of the album, "Goodnight, Cruel World". Very describing for my feelings throughout the day btw. We've only had one practice with this song and only one live, and it's like five minutes long and had THREE full sheets of lyrics. That's my fault though :P
Here is the whole team after we finished.

I do feel that we've made kind of an epic punk song though. It's a bit juvenile, but in spite of it's title the lyrics are definitely more punk and less emo than any of the other tracks on the CD. I'll try to make a lyric post sometime during the holiday, and then we'll just have to wait for the release in March to hear the song ^-^ I'm pretty excited about the whole album actually! We're so much better now than the last CD we made!

Naturally, some celebrations were in order.
This time yakitoriniku... don't tell me that's not a real type of food, have you been to this restaurant?

Since we had to sit at two different tables Tomoya entered competition mode and suddenly it was all about who could eat the most meat before our time was up... All so healthy ^^;

Kento ordered this grotesque shit. I've seen a lot of intestine looking like intestine in my life, but this one takes the cake.

Who could eat this??
Just thought I'd share, you know :D

Takaji, self acclaimed Party yarou (party bastard), hadn't really celebrated for a while.

Being a responsible contributor to society can take it's toll on your alcohol tolerance. Just a warning to you people out there who are thinking of taking the step and actually grow up soon :P

You're never too old for purikura though, are you?

Beautiful. There we go.

We also filmed a new SALTV that day. Finally!
And it's not just another SALTV, it's the one all in English that I promised the international twitter readers a loooong time ago^^; It'll probably be up sometime during the holidays, so please look for it! I'll ofcourse post it here!

The very last two days before going home to Norway for Christmas I went to the town office to take care of some long overdue address changing business, and then I had a Christmas date with my guy on the last day.

We started out with some Christmas shopping in Shibuya, bought each other presents, and then moved on to yakiniku....
It's Christmas, ok? You're allowed to stuff yourself like a pig, right? ;_; Right?

We ended up inviting Cat to have dinner with us too, so I got to spend a little time with my two favorite people in the world before getting on that plane the next day.

Bye, Japan. Bye, Pirate Puppies. See you again in a few weeks hopefully!

Hello, Norway. Hello, goat cheese.

Goodnight and merry Christmas, Cruel World.
I'm so jet lagged lol

Winter greifs and nabe-party

Yesterday the band had a nabe-party at Kentis apartment.
For the uninitiated, nabe is basically meat and vegetables cooked in a pot with soup or stock of some sort, and you keep the pot on the table and make more as you eat. It's kind of a Japanese winter tradition.
Because we're SALTY DOG, we ofcourse did salt base. We didn't eat dog meat though, but Tomoya tried to convince Kentis bunny, Rum-chan, that the pot was a bathtub for her:P

She didn't go for it.
Of course we used the day to do some work on the newest song too, before the recording next week, and we also had to make some slightly overdue decisions about the new band logo and some stuff, and then Tomoya gave each of us our to-do lists^^;
And then Kenti brought out some yukke!! 

Yukke is not just the name of the bass player in MUCC (I'm actually curious why he chose that name), it is actually a type of raw meat dish. I think it's originally Korean, but I could be wrong.
Might seem a little weird to some people, but all though I can't stand raw fish I love raw meat! It was so delicios!

I've also started making some ideas for out band t-shirt...

I'm not sure what we're going to end up with, as some of us have very different taste when it comes to art and design, but I'm really liking this character. If it doesn't end up as a band t-shirt I might make t-shirts anyway^^


Today I've taken the Saturday off, pretty much. Except for cleaning the house and doing some shopping. Need to rest and stay warm to try and beat this beginning throat cold that I've had since yesterday. Gahh I have a super weak immune system and I usually spend the entire winter battling a sore throat. If I can just stay healthy until the recording is over next week that's all I ask!

Finally got the opportunity to steal my bfs Coldrain hoodie! Today was definitely hoodie weather, which is quite the compliment for a December day! Tomorrow is my birthday and I'm really excited! I refuse to be sick!

My guy also made me a huge batch of okayuu that I could eat throughout the day, with garlic and stuff, 'cause that's how he rolls *^-^*

Okayuu is kind of like rice porridge that for some reason it's really good for a sore throat.
Lots of food facts today, huh?:p

Photoshoot, recording and first day of Advent!

Yesterday we had a photoshoot in Shibuya!
We got our new clothes at the Gekirock Shop.

I told you last time about the importance of skinny pants, well I think everyone is a bit of a brand whore, at least everyone in Japan :P So we decided to get some new clothes for the photoshoot, and the Gekirock shops manager Nico gave us an amazing discount, and was also nice enough to lend us some stuff! Amazing people.
Speaking of amazing people, the Rockaholic people had no problem letting us use the bar, free of charge!

Rockaholic is a bar that's kind of in the center of the whole screamo hardcore rock scene in Tokyo. Asides from always playing awesome music (and taking requests), it's also been the hangout place for both a lot of the kids and a lot of band people.

I got my hair colored pink the day before. I always loved having pink hair, but haven't had it for a while now. I felt so good about it this time though! Too bad it's going to fade soon....T_T

Had to wear a looooot of make-up, since make-up often doesn't show up as much is pictures. I know this might be totally normal amount to some people, and that's completely fine ^^ I'm not used to it, so I kind of felt like I was wearing a mask at first :P But I soon forgot about it!

At first we had to take pictures outside! It was fucking freezing! And I felt like an asshole (and a snowman) since I was wearing a tank top, and people were walking by and stuff.
It felt so good to get back inside!

Lol, what's wrong with my body?XD
I got to borrow these awesome shoes from the Gekirock shop:

Wish I could buy them!!
But I don't have the funds at the moment :P Also, there is no way I could wear these on stage, the soles are really heavy f^^;

I know I suck at posing and I'm not comfortable in front of the camera, but I hope the results will be good and I can't wait to see them!

Today was the first day of recording for the new album, and we started with Takashi:

 I wasn't there, because I was instructed to stay at home and cure my cold. Even our record company rep., Dai-san told me I really didn't need to be there.

Takashi told me they got all the songs done, so it seems like everything went fine!

I'm feeling a lot better right now. I did cheat a little bit on my treatment though, I feel like fresh air is good for my healing, as long as I keep warm, and todays weather was great. I actually overdressed ^^
I did sleep a lot! And drank a lot of water and my own cold remedy, and ate an apple and had a really hot bath.

Oohh, and today was the first day of Advent, so merry Christmas, everyone!

I actually found an advent calendar this year. They've been pretty hard to find in Japan, but I've seen them more and more every year.
Why don't you check out my advent calendar on my art blog?
http://osharekid.blogspot.jp/2013/11/sa-tenner-vi-et-lys-i-kveld-med-en.html
I'm posting a new monster every day until Christmas!
Gotta sleep now, I have school tomorrow!

Goodnight, Cruel World!