「KEIKO Billboard Live 2024 “Yuuyami no Uta” K015~018」 Merchandise Now Available Online
A couple of items from Keiko's official merchandise for her Billboard Lives is now available for purchase in her online shop. Unfortunately, the venue specific omamori are not part of the line-up. If you are interested, be sure to make your order quickly because this is just the remaining stock from the venue sales so not a lot of items are left.
【Order period】 2024/4/5(Fri)12:00〜
【Scheduled shipping】 Within 5 business days from the order date
Shop: https://tristone.co.jp/shop/KEIKO/
※Overseas credit cards accepted
Keiko at Mezamashi Classics
On April 5th, Keiko attended Vol.100 of Mezamashi Classics. She took a picture together with the concert's main vocalists, Eri Ito (one of YK's many guest artists) and Sakoto Yoshioka. Kalafina appeared as special guests on the Mezamashi Classics Summer Special back in July 2016 (July 29th).
Kalafina’s setlist
storia
Kimi no Gin no Niwa
また会う日まで (Mata au Hi made) collab with Shinichi Karube
ring your bell
If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)
At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.
Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.
J. K. Rowling and Neil Gaiman are such a funny contrast to me, like
Rowling: Oh, and by the way, I put gay characters in my books.
People: Is there anything... showing that?
Rowling: No. Also trans women don't deserve respect
People: wtf
Gaiman: Here are some immortals that transcend all human concepts of gender and attraction who use a variety of pronouns, and also some clearly canon human queers.
People: Are the immortals queer?
Gaiman: That is an entirely valid way to view them.
Other people: Ugh, pushing a modern woke agenda. It used to be-
Gaiman: Fuck you
if you're about to get top surgery, you may hear a voice in your head telling you to make a joke about getting something off your chest even though it's overplayed. im here to let you know it's your imperative and sacred duty to not only make the joke but to tell it to every person you talk to. and that you are right it would be funny as fuck. this is not sarcastic if you tell enough people one of them will have never heard it before and also it's still funny to every person who has heard it listen to me this is a once in a life time opportunity— [i start getting dragged out by the palace guards] commit to the bit!!! if you don't you'll forever wish you had!! heed my warning or forever suffer the cons— [castle door slams shut behind us]
the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"
just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible
just found out my cousin (who lives in England) is in the art department of a bunch of shows??? And she worked oN DOCTOR WHO? AND HAD LUNCH WITH DAVID TENNANT???? and she just told me so casually because she's interested in the art, not the show? I mean, excuse me? She worked on SHERLOCK???? FOR A WHOLE SEASON?? She worked on Peaky Blinders and Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones??? And probably other things because she has a shitty memory and according to her everything is a blur?? AND AT ONE POINT SHE WAS LIKE: "oh and have you ever heard of Neil Gaiman?" And I was trying not to scream, because yes, of course I've heard of Neil, he's only my favorite author, I've only read like all of his books multiple times, and if you say you worked on Good Omens or the Sandman I'm going to lose it completely. So I said "yeah I've read a couple of his books," -you know, like a liar- "what about him?" and she goes "well I worked on one of his shows and he's brilliant i just can't remember which one" and i go "w-what do you mean he's brilliant? You're.. you're talking about his writing... his writing is brilliant, right?" And she cheerfully says "oh no I don't read books, I ment he was really nice and brilliant when I talked to him" and i go "WHAT DID YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT DID YOU TALK ABOUT" and she thinks for a moment and goes "oh! BRICKS" WHAT IN THE WORLD YES NO THAT MAKES SENSE YOU GET TO WORK AND TALK WITH NEIL FUCKING GAIMAN AND YOU TALK ABOUT BRICKS? NO THAT'S TOTALLY NORMAL I'M NOT MAD ".... it was what I was designing at the time, I needed to know what vibe the bricks should have. Anyway want to see the spinning fireplace I made for doctor who" WHAT THE FUCK.
@neil-gaiman do you remember any brick conversations by any chance
Broadcasting Schedule of “NHK WORLD – JAPAN MUSIC FESTIVAL” on NHK
Below is the information on when the “NHK WORLD – JAPAN MUSIC FESTIVAL” program will be aired, which was filmed on October 28th (Saturday), 2023 at the NHK Hall in Tokyo. The event can be viewed in 160 countries and regions around the world. It will showcase Japan's latest and cutting-edge artists to fans overseas.
NHK WORLD – JAPAN MUSIC FESTIVAL
NHK WORLD – JAPAN Channel:
Part 1. 9:10 – 9:59 AM, November 19th (Sunday), 2023 (Broadcasted again in accordance with each country’s time zone from 3:10 PM, 9:10 PM, and 3:10 AM of next day)
Part 2. 9:10 – 9:59 AM, November 26th (Sunday), 2023 (Broadcasted again in accordance with each county’s time zone from 3:10 PM, 9:10 PM, and 3:10 AM of next day)
NHK G Channel: 10:35 – 11:35 PM, January 3rd (Wednesday), 2024
Yuki Kajiura: Celebrating 30 years since her debut, Kajiura Yuki is a legend in the Japanese anime music scene. She performs a special medley, including the main theme of Kimetsu no Yaiba, and (!!!)Magia(!!!) [featuring Hikaru!], the theme song to Puella Magi Madoka Magica, along with SOUKYUU NO FANFARE, the 10th anniversary theme song for Sword Art Online featuring special guests ASCA and ReoNA.
Hikaru ch. 1st Anniversary Event
Official merchandise has been revealed for Hikaru's upcoming anniversary event on November 11.
◆Official Event Goods
・Acrylic stand (~6cm)
・Photocard Set (2 types)
・Logo Badge Set (32mm)
◆Original Drink (2 types)
Comes with a random coaster (3 versions)
◆B-day LIVE Goods [remaining stocks]
・T-Shirt
・Cap
・Sicker set
Title: 『Hikaru 1st Anniversary Event』
Date: 2023/11/11
Venue: Akihabara TALK LIVE BAR from scratch
Day: open 13:45; start 14:30; Night: open 17:15; start 18:00
Ticket price: ~4000 yen
Ticket sale: 9/23 21:00〜10/07 23:59 ※first come, first served
↓↓ https://t.livepocket.jp/e/cm7zu
for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal
before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"
and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"