Odre de Ciel: Audience Killer Loop IV – Part 2

Delay upon delay, but life is SO unforgiving sometimes. Ah well… Might as well die posting…

The “Ryuusagi Gumi”, Ed, Crescent and oh-so-illegal Al…

…with their mistress not far behind…!

Let us then leave those familiar faces and focus on…

…our new German friends, Timo, Timo and Jan (left to right)! They’re 18 and on their post-school holiday, so naturally, they had to bump into…

…Milk and Louiza! All right, I MIGHT have given the girls …

…just the teensiest push to have them in this picture, but I doubt they regretted it!

Although we would have them over only for the night…

…our new friends were the truly fun sort. They were really impressed that there was such a weekly event in Greece…

…as they have found no such thing in Germany (how odd is that?)…

…and Timo even won a Raijin Comics vol. 1 in the Midnight Lottery!

Well, Ploutonas won something too… Shoujo Beat not being exactly his thing however, he gave it to…

…well, obvious, ain’t it? “Didi-chan daisukiiiii!”

didi made quite an impression on our German friends…

…who went so far as to ask if she was given the Shoujo Beat for being so pretty!

Please people, arguing is useless. As you can see, I was THERE! I heard them!

The funny thing is, in fact…

…didi is two years older than all of them!

Thank God for the music that kept them occupied, else they might have stolen her away!

“Hah, boys and their lolli-toys! Let’s see them shake it hard, yah?”

Milk does have a point (well, many points if you ask me, but anyway)…

…but it seems that, the other Timo at least, with bright red, flaming cheeks…

…is concerned with other matters…!

(Please people, you should know me by now: it was another angle-illusion fer chrissake!).

That said, the party rages on…

…with Timo, Timo and Jan mingling seamlessly…

(OK, Flame and Zauk ALWAYS stand out somehow but you knew that)

…as I find the opportunity to test my – actual – speedgrapher setting and–

Whoa! (Milk: “Coming through!!!”).

Ahem, as I was saying, however unpredictable things are at the OdC parties…

…the speedgrapher setting of the camera worked like a charm…

…recording new moshing friendships (Zauk found a brother soul in Timo)…

…and wild headbanging (which KrizD in fact played – by Metalucifer – my not having noticed notwithstanding).

Estorial: “Wh-what are all those crazed people doing…?” (Aww, isn’t he adorable in scared geek mode?).

Estorial: “Umm, heeeeeeelp..?!!”

No help or hope for you my young fellow, so better get your @$$ in gear…

…and bend it (no, not like Beckam) like a true Otaku!

Well, no use prattling about the obvious.

Be it mutual admiration of the skill in having fun…

…or the tenderness of friendship…

(As I was saying… hrm… friendship)

…and– FRIENDSHIP, GODDAMMIT! (On another note, Louiza, what is your jaw doing that far to the right???).

Ah, there, friendship at lust– err, last and… uh… um…

D’oh, I give up: everything seems perverted with you people!

“And that bothers you… HOW exactly? Hmmmm?”

That’s really not fair, you know. It’s common knowledge that I am prone to nosebleeds!

Meanwhile, didi cannot believe that Timo x 2 and Jan are 18 and she…

…kinda has a rather not so mature reaction (no sticking out your tongue at age 20 young lady!).

Timo: “Hey, what’s with that annoyed face? Did I say something wrong?”

didi: “No, it’s just… you don’t really look 18, not one bit…!”

Timo: “Well, YOU do not look a day over 16 but that’s irrelevant, no?” didi: “Ooooh…”

“I must ponder this over some dancing!”

“I still cannot wrap my mind around it…! I am… their sempai?!!”

*miam, miam, scronch, munch* “It simply cannot be…”

Leaving our beleaguered dollie to ponder the information, let us turn to another rmeeting, where…

*sigh* …where Katia and Sweet Lady With a Tiger Tail are rather… engaged at the moment.

Well, what can I tell you: excitement, dance, peculiar meetings and a lump of food have taken their toll on the little lass.

THAT’s what I call ‘J-Rock ’till you drop’. didi: “mmmnnia, mblmblmbl” *drool drool* (Yes, I know you did not but I could not resist writing it…)

“Well, you have to hand it to her. Cute as a button, even when out cold!”

“Huh? Who, Oremo?”

“I SO am not seeing this…!”

Yu-kun: “Why not?” Oremo: “Stop moving! You keep waking me up!”

Big or small, the joys of life are different for everyone and as for me…

…pictures that capture honest fun and honest smiles, even alongside malicious intent, at times, I think I can live with that…

There was nothing in the beginning.

There was only warmth.

And then, a promise was made.

-Spice and Wolf

Think about it…

Speedgrapher

Odre de Ciel: Audience Killer Loop IV – Part 1

It is officially a conspiracy! I mean, I know I have a trouble with time but honestly? The Universe isn’t really helping! I mean, Monday my internet goes all PMS on me (sorry to all the girls out there) and on top of that, last night the PC simply decides it’s had enough of company for the day and equally simply shuts down during the editing, leaving me in a mood to be very unforgiving and hammer-friendly with it. Ah, well…! At least you had some good news to chew on while you waited…

Anyhow, on to Audience Killer Loop IV, which may have started out a bit slow (well, many WERE expecting the next day’s cosplay – so much for that, even though the costumes are deserving of great praise indeed), but from 22:30 until whenever (I lose my sense of time when everyone is having so much fun and I am taking so many pics, nyohohoho!), as always, everything was swept away in benevolent chaos.

Well, you will get the idea…

Presenting our first item: “Hello Ploutonas”! With original “Hello Kitty” accessory. Any–

…bidders? Oh…

Louiza: “Mine!” Sold, to the kind young lady with the, um, generous bos–err, heart!

“Blah blah blaaaaah!” Why, thank you Larva, for that absolutely stunning remark! I think it deserves…

…a nice, green glass of Absinthe! Chiroto: “Mouth… being… sucked in!”

But what lovely high-calcium girl do I see here? “Heey Speed…”

“Whatsa matter? You seem kinda 2% to me today…”

Milk: “Oh, you know, Louiza just bought a new plaything and…” Louiza: “Noooooooo!”

Louiza: “C’mere you silly goat-milk!”

“Mmmmmmmmmmm” (Yay, such a cute pic with Yasunori-chan inside! You’re indeed a baby animal!).

Well, let’s give the gals some privacy and check on the elder Elric brother. What’s with THAT face dude?

Ah, I see, Bunnydragon is giving junior and not you the OTHER look (“eat – you – naked – with – chocolate – and – melon – juice look).

Ah, the heartache of youth. I’ll just wander around. No appetite for drama tonight. Hey Accela!

Hey there… um… Aaaargh, gomenasai, I forgot your name…!

“I ain’t talking to you! You cussed Neon Genesis Evangelion!” Well, it still sucks.

After all, there’s always more intersting people to talk to than some NGE fan, like…

…Martita! Hey girl!

The hour is nearing 22:00 and lo: didi-dollie-doll appears in the first loli outfit I ever photographed her. Always drinking beer through a straw, always do I tell her, that gets her drunk, always…

…she mixes it with anything that will bulldoze her!

“But… But I get all giddy and giggly and other people like it! They call me ‘adowable’ you know…”

“There, see, see…?!” (I am so sorry Oremo but people will be after your life for this…).

I believe that proper words for this one escape me: Milk, Louiza, didi, beer, pink straw…

So let me turn to the “Moshing Gumi”, while “Smurfs With Electrical Saws”– err, I mean, “Koi no Megalover” starts playing.

Zauk, didi, Oremo, The Flame Alchemist, Gina and many others, headbanging like crazy to it, is something you never get tired of…

Of course, SOME variety is always a good thing.

See what I mean?

They dance…

…they shake it…

…and break it!

Louiza-chan is in a different mood however… (Picture taken by Milk-chan. Bravo!).

“Ah,ffllll kanna dzzzy…” Take the straw out of your mouth, you make no sense!

“Ah said I feel kinda dizzy… Must be the dance and Chiroto’s glasses” (No but I don’t want to say I warned you…!)

Usually, this is a good time to turn my head upwards, towards our resident Tiger-lady but…

…what I see is a more… disturbing resident! (This will sooo be a [ru-mu] favorite, I can wager on it).

Oh, did I mention that UNDERWORLD now has a lazer-show gizmo?

This is what the club looks like under my flash bulb…

Ploutonas: “Speed, get down from there you monkey!” Shaddup, I am conquering a vantage point!

Ahem, where was I…? Oh, yes! And this…

…is how it looks…

…in the eye of the casual beholder. (No Larva, NOT the monster!).

However, the difference in the speed of the eyes and the camera sometimes produces hazards… Bio-hazards! (Another [ru-mu] favorite).

View from the decks: cold, industrial…

…or very near punky-funky!

Kyoshiro says we are rapidly approaching…

…a very rave-ing mad mood and style.

Well, if not in decoration…

…certainly in psyche(-osis)!

Under either the light of technology…

…or a simple, wide space (as you will see in the BIOS chapter, later on)…

…tension runs high…

…with good mood…

…mad energy…

…and shameless fun!

Um… well… you DO get the idea…

OK, not exactly what I meant by “shameless” but…

“Speed, aren’t you one to ruin the perfect opportunity for fornication?”

Speedgrapher: “Well, I… uh… sorry…?” Louiza: “Oh, never mind, you just don’t get it. Go on Chiroto, I will join you shortly…”

“…after our nosy photographer takes some more pictures of me…”

“…and my favorite milky girl. Yum!” (So very, very wrong…)

“Nyu!” (Just when you think you have very nearly seen everything…)

In time, of course, the hour has arrived for the fabled Dirty “GO” Dancing!

Though I am not sure how, we SHOULD make an event out of this…

“Come one, Flame Alchemist! GO–”

“OOOOOOWWWWW!!!”

Somehow, in some unfathomable way, didi always manages to keep pace without being swept away for even a second. Must be one of the 10000 Secret Loli Techniques.

Milk and Louiza however, need no Naruto to get up close and physical…

“So? Don’t you think they’ve grown?”

“I just knew devouring all those chicken was worth it!”

Milk: “So how about THESE babies?” Louiza: “No fair, it’s your trademark…!”

“BEEP! Wro-ong! My trademark is not ‘what’, but knowing ‘how’!”

“Right, Speedy dear?” (I profess total ignorance about what you are discussing but I am not really in a mood to contradict you!).

*whisper-whisper*

“Ha, come and get me then, sista!”

“Ha, you did not really think I would play fair, now did you?”

“What? It’s not like I TRIED not to be caught!”

“Less talking, more shaking!”

“Heeeelp! I am being exploited!” (Would I be mean if I said: “Yeah, right!”?)

Well, that’s finally it for, today, tonight, whatever! In any event, seeing how I got so much out of schedule, I will be posting every day until Friday (probably, including Friday), until I have exhausted last weekend’s material, so check back often for updates. You must understand, I really have no choice, since Ordre de Ciel are inaugurating their “Let’s Get Visual” this Friday and if “visual” doesn’t go with *click* !FLASH!, then I do not know what does!

Morning,

Speedgrapher

Japanese Music Scene of Greece in International Webzine

This is it people! The article on Greece’s Japanese Music Scene is finally up on the JRock Revolution Webzine! Read and be proud and try to ignore the irony of recent events.   JRock Revolution is an international J-Rock Portal, with  staff members  all around the world, focused on spreading the Japanese musical culture in every possible country.  However, if you want to know more and be sure that it’s all devoid of mistakes, go here.

Omedetou!

Speedgrapher