U I vethed na I onnad.

Smelly foods, lost porn videos (borrowed ones!), and the staff writing out what's on Aiba's food-presentation cards so the other members can read it before he can. Also Aiba brought back the 'sing this phrase in this style of song' game. (Does that thing have a name?) Oh, Shukudai-kun, never leave me.

FNS Music Festival 2009 - Live update.

I missed about an hour. But um. The Domoto Brothers finished up singing to be surrounded by oiled men in thongs. (At least, they all came out on the balcony that rings the stage. I think it counts.) Oh Japan.

PS - Love those blue pants, Tsuyoshi.

... Official: I don't like NYC boys.

AHA! I see now what they were doing with those oiled men in thongs. Hot little song you got going there, Go Hiromi.

I know none of these songs from the 60s and 70s. My Japanese musical knowledge is horridly flawed.

Oh wait. I know this Wada Akiko one at least.

D'awwwwwww lookit Arashi in their surprisingly un-shiny suits. Boys. Where are the sparkles? Bowties are not enough! Nino's doesn't even reflect the light.

Oh man. I love the accordion player getting down there with them.

The rest of this collab is a very strange collection of women.

Superfly is very retro. I would like to know what died over her shoulder though.

Totally unrelated to music, but the CM was just on; I really, really like the winter Melty Kiss flavors. They're seriously good!

YAY V6. Though they're not particularly sparkly either, the lapel pins are quite nice. Go. What's with the blond hair? Ew.

...And Arashi look bored out there in the audience. XD

TOKIOOOOO. 8D Mabo, where did your hair go? T^T

I love Sabaku no Bara. Especially the PV. HARDCORE OLD MAID FTW.

Tsuyoshi has angered his boyfriend. Oh Shingo. XD

Woah, Gackt's 2002 Christmas song made a VTR appearance. Things that were not expected.

I'm quite confused by the nature of these collab songs here. Ayaka and Hirai Ken was a pretty good match. These next two have just been weird. ... I can totally get behind this one though. Nagase makes anything good.

...If I look at him quickly, I keep getting the non-Atsushi singer of EXILE confused with Daigo.

Merry Xmas (War is Over). Things that were not expected.

XDDDDDDDDDDDD Taichi bein' a dork is what Taichi does best.

Dude. Light-up pants, wire-works, and an uber-fake Mars. 1980 was clearly most awesome in Japan.

This 80s VTR medley was starting to worry me, but then they played X-Japan. All is now right with the world again.

MABO WHERE DID YOUR HAIR GO?! T____________T

I love Taichi's XD face.

Did somebody turn down Tohoshinki's mikes? I can barely hear them over the piano. Individually at least. As a group it's loud enough.

It's the Tokyo Dogs song! 8D ...I mean. It's EXILE. 8D You know. I can really only name three people in EXILE, and not all by name. I know Atsushi 'cause he's got the sunglasses, and the Daigo-look-alike singer, and Hiro. I don't even know why I know Hiro.

Aaaaaaand we have Arashi. Finally. With Ashita no Kioku, no less. Excellent. ... Sho's hair has been flattened oddly to the left side of his head. ...Jun's pants are pulling oddly. Methinks they're a bit too tight. Koichi looks decidedly unimpressed.

SMAP on Kohaku? Normal.
TOKIO on Kohaku? Noraml.
Arashi on Kohaku? Fucking awesome.

NYC BOYS ON KOHAKU? WHAT THE FUCK? They just became a unit. Seriously, wasn't it enough that you shoved Hey!say! akegh;a;spio!300029193! into Tokyo Dome months after their debut?

Has anybody seen the new Josei Jishin cover? Nino looks like Higashiyama-sempai. XDDDDDD

According to Shukudai-kun last night, by the way, Nino was also a girl in his past life. Show of hands, who's surprised by this?

Also, in 10 posts I will have reached 1000.

Holy crap. I just remembered that Kokuritsu is this weekend. Half of me thinks I should go to the arena just to buy the goods. The other half reminds me that I like to eat, and the cost of going into Tokyo by itself takes away from that.

We will see which side wins out.

Also, does anybody know if they released the dome tour winners yet?


Lastly.

The Bucket List.
Place an X by all the things you've done and remove the X from the ones you have not, then tag your friends. (Not gonna, do it if you want.)

( The 'I'm so bored' meme of taking up time. )

Man, this week's Himitsu is like Matsujun's Day From Hell. Sho's face is twenty kinds of awesome though.

My awesome weekend was awesome and productive. Ikebana was done Saturday morning, and then capncosmo and I spent the rest of the day on a trip into Tokyo. Since her computer died, the main purpose was to visit Akihabara and get her a new one. And since we were thus going to be in Tokyo anyway, we decided to hunt down Surya - that Indian restaurant that was on Himitsu last week, since the guy's chosen dish looked amazingly delicious. We found it via the Himitsu website and google. The restaurant is in Minato-ku (Sailor Moon fans giggle here) and within walking distance from Zojoji and Tokyo Tower.

There is a reason why Zurya is that guy's favorite restaurant. (They've also been featured on Hanamaru Market, and Ousama no Buranchi twice.) The food there is amazing. On the expensive side, but amazing. If the other celebrities have as good taste as this, I definitely will have to start a food tour of the featured Himitsu restaurants.

I came home to find the Early Summer special Arashi fanclub thing and my ballot for the Kokuritsu concerts. I have no idea how it works. 8D

In the last few weeks my wardrobe has become bigger than it ever was in the last 20 years due to the increase in my working clothes. I have my first ever proper suit. I also have more pairs of shoes than I ever have had in my life. It's mind boggling to look at.

Grant is booking me a hotel for the days that I'll be in Utsunomiya prior to the training. Apparently we train in the next prefecture over, but they collect all the new recruits as close to their headquarters as possible to make that move easier. At the end of training they ship us out to our apartments - still no word on where I'll be shipped to, though. I'm thinking that 2 suitcases is the absolute maximum I want to take with me on the plane, and I don't think I want my parents to have to ship much of anything, so now I have to spend the next few weeks parsing out my room into the Things I Can't Live Without and Other.

HMV shipped my CxDxG no Arashi vol. 1 & 2 today, with my Arashi calendar. Yes, I know. I'm a dork. But the DVDs were on saaaaaaale orz

I could have done my own review of my weekend, but why do that when there is an epic review of epic right here, including pictures already?

So I will say instead that I have spent far too much money this weekend, and have eaten more than I usually do in a week in three days. Also this: Sho. WHY SO PRETTY?!?!?!?!