Festivities

[PeachFan]

Really? I'm glad, since Hakobune is my favorite song from Atobe. I was waffling between liking my version and and going "argwhatwasIthinking" about every 10 minutes. =P It seems no one can resist the power of the meow mix!

My giggle makes you think of Hazel? XD Kevin+Hazel=Me! That's one heck of a combo, and it's giving me crack ideas. *Uhoh*

Saiyuki's music is definitely great, I'm currently stuck on ID and Fukisusabu Kaze no Naka de. As for Moon, on a scale of 1 to 10, for me I guess it'd be a 4 or 5 now. The notes aren't really hard to reach, but I have to learn the right spots to breath in. Then it might go to 3 or 4.

I propose we make a karaoke thread. It would be a nice way to hear everyone's voices, we won't get flamed by idiots, and we get to belt out our favorite songs. ^__^ (Also, it'll stop me from spamming this thread. Haha...)

[Raiden]

The thing is, I don't have a mic. >.> Or actually I have one, but I don't know how to make it work. XD;; I've tried sticking the cord everywhere in my computer, but it still doesn't work.

[PeachFan]

Awww, I was hoping to hear you sing. May I ask what kind of mic you have? Is it a plug in type or a USB? Most of the time, the computer has a mark on it that tells you where to put it in.

The other thing it could be, is the program you use to record things with. Mine was a bit weird and I has to mess with the settings a lot to find out how to use the mic. -_-

[Raiden]

Plug-in. And I've already plugged it in everywhere I could think of. Behind the computer, in every little hole there is. And behind the speakers. Nothing works.

And yup, there is the mic image there. But when I plugged in the mic and actually tried to record a sound, the sound clip did play but there was no sound. o.o

EDIT: And btw, I can't really sing without hearing the original vocals in the background. XD;; I can't keep up with the rhythm otherwise.

For example it's really easy for me to sing along with this song. It's pretty awesome... and I was pretty surprised that I was actually able to rap along with them (usually I can't keep rapping EVEN while hearing the original vocals! XD;; ).
...Tatsuhisa's high vocals still awe me. He's amazing. And actually when he sings "Kiite~", he sounds a bit girly... plus at one point he even MOVES like one. XD;; The lyrics are pretty yaoi-ish and at one point Tatsu and Hatano start to sing 'to each other' (so to speak)... well, Tatsu's movements confirmed which one tops. XD;; Oh... and Tatsu makes the DJ scratches with his mere voice.

[PeachFan]

Ah, I see. That sounds exactly like the problem I had. My suggestion is to get Wavepad from NCH Swift and try using it to record. It's totally free and works really well.

Once it's running, click "make a new file" and then press the record button. Make sure the "Input- mic" option is selected in the "recording" section of the box that comes up. When you're done, drag the little arrow bar at the bottom back to the start and press play. Hopefully it will work.

EDIT: I usually sing along to the original too. It does a great deal with timing issues. XD I'm pretty bad at rapping, I couldn't get through 15 seconds of * (Asterisk) without biting my tongue. =P Strangely enough, I can handle the speedy mix of Catch You Catch Me from the AnimeToonz album without a problem.

[Raiden]

Btw, here are the lyrics of One Night Stand (the song in that one link). It's pretty easy to rap along to, believe me.

"Song on Morning" is a lot more difficult. >.< At first I couldn't even keep up with them for 3 seconds when they started to rap. Now it was a bit easier... o.O

[PeachFan]

*__* God, that song is goregeous! The voice scratching and melody.....sorry, I can't think properly right now. It does seem pretty easy to do the rap part. Song on Morning on the other hand, would take quite a bit of work. @_@

[Raiden]

^ Seriously, listening to Tatsu sing his "Kiite~" part makes me feel like crying for some reason. ...I have no idea why, though. o.o

[hakuryu]

lovux said:

peachfan said:

O__O Oh my GOD, that's simply awful Mashou! I can't begin to imagine how you felt, but I can say this:

Even though you felt like you didn't do anything, just being there is very important. Also, your friends were probably caught in an undertow and if you'd gone in after them, the odds are you'd have gotten swept out too. Thank goodness everyone came out alright.

^ I was going to say something along those lines, but Peach beat me to it. Mashou, tell Haku that Lovux admire her deeply for doing what she did in that alarming situation!

Thank you very much, Lovux-seme *huggles her* And Peach Fan yopu're right.
Mashou dear, you were not useless at all, you did your best and I already told you that. You suffered too besides her in the ambulance, and she should be very grateful, cause you kept calm and helped her giving her all she needed, and you were extremely responsible. You did what you must have done in the exact moment you must have done it, and you helped not only her, but all of us. I'm also very proud of you, and I admire you even more than before.

And Lovux-seme! Sorry for not being there to make your Valentine's Day the sweetest, but did you remember what we told you? I hope you hadn't feel even a little bad cause if so I'll know it and I will make you forget it...(not only with smex xD) also with smiles and all the good feelings that are left in my little heart!

My Valentine's Day was pretty awful. But just at the afternoon, cause the rest of the day we were dancing Valentine's Day Kiss along with Mashou and Van.Heartnet and spening a wonderful time with our beloved friends in the beach.
But then it happened, and it all went perfectly well but I will never forget it. I wont ever be able to forget that moment in the sea, watching desperately the horizon, hoping to spot at least one of my friend's heads. But I couldn't see them. I felt I was diyng of horror for a second, until the lifeguards came after my waving and swam to get them all out of the sea. I knew lifeguards would do his job perfectly, but I couldn't help to be awfully afraid. Besides, I thought I was an enormus shit of a person because I had swam quickly to the shore and I hadnt stayed there to save them. I knew I couldn't do anything to save them, but anyway I felt like selfish crap. Was I only thingking in my own survival when I swam more than I had ever swam before to reach that person who I knew that was safe? Cause an enormus strenght came out of my fear and my survival instinct when I was swimming...and in that moment I thougt about them...I thougt there would be able to swim as fast as myself, I thought it weren't so difficult. But then I turned they weren't there besides me. I couldn't see them. And I knew two of them were small and skinny girls...one of them couldn't even swim well. So...I actually knew they were not going to be able to follow me when I shouted "To the shore! Swim towards the shore!" and although I continued swimming...to save my own skin.
Was it my selfish instinct or my reason what kept me swimming?
Did I knew I would help them by reaching the shore alone?
Could I deduce that I wouldn't be able to save them by my own?


Oh, sorry...I shouln't be boring you with my pointless mumbling...sorry...
I'm glad to be back...

[Lovux The Great]

First of all, Haku, your story is definitely NOT boring. Lovux gets that sad, worrying feeling in her belly when she reads it... Really, it must be this "putting herself in another person's place" thing she does sometimes.

AND. You shouldn't feel sad about "not being here" on Valentine's Day. Actually, it's me who should feel ashamed for wishing for people on vacations for the purpose of having a genuinely fun and relaxing time, to stay in front of a dead, zzumming computer to comfort a... a... no, I don't wanna call myself awful names, that would only lead you to think Lovux is just chasing for compliments and "No no no you are not a [awful name]!", like many other girls usually do.
The other girls... FCK, school starts again tomorrow. I feel sick only thinking about being back, because that means I have to confront THEM. I can't stand them anymore, they've gotten worse during the last months. I LOATHE them and their ways of always making fun of other people and brag about how much sex they've had with their boyfriends and blah blah blah BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH STFU.
Plus, right before the vacation, I learned that HE has a girlfriend... since four months back. Not that I would expect him to love me back or something if I confessed, I'm way too negative about things like that and ever since November 2006 when I discovered my feelings, I have been nothing but PREPARED to be turned down. But it's not exactly something that makes me smile, the fact that he has a girlfriend. I guess that's why I keep on holding onto my fantasies about Atobe, because I know that he won't dissappoint me - nor will he make me happy, since his whole existence is just fictional.

*sigh*

Pointless rant.

[Raiden]

...You know, I've been friends with my guy friend since we were 6 years old. During my grandpa's funeral service when we were 12, he suddenly told me that he had a girlfriend and "hoped that I wouldn't mind". I really wanted to be happy for him, but for some reason I had a lump in my throat and it felt like my heart was about to burst.

We were supposed to be just friends, but I THINK I might have had a crush on him back then (although perhaps the fact that he told me that at my grandpa's funeral had something to do with it...). But not anymore. o.O Now, even if he told me he had a girlfriend, I know I wouldn't feel anything. He's just a really nice guy and one of my best friends...

[hakuryu]

Thank you, Lovux dear.
But I really like being here with you, making nonesense and having a good time. And if in any time you REALLY need somebody...I wouldn't like for me to be impossible to be there, I would hate it actually. Cause watching...or reading you sad is aghhh horrible, even more if I can't do anything to get a smile from your lips.
And girl, show your feminist spirit! Guys generally suck. Only bishounen can be admired completely. They are persons just like us, so we don't have to idolize them (at least they're Atobe, of course). So if this guy has a girlfriend...WHO CARES! You're a wonderful woman so if you open yourself to the world, if you don't hide behind those awful things you think you are, tons of guys will fall madly in love with you, trust me.
Well...boyfriends aren't such a big thing for me. Men aren't happiness. Men are NOT what makes us feels like real women. Remember that. Men are for fun...and maybe for a little romance. Like toys
Wait...did I just sound like a bitch?

[Lovux The Great]

It's just that this guys is everything I'd ever want in a guy. He has a great sense of humour and has an open and laid-back personality, he is a splendid debater (you just can't TALK him to defeat, if you know what I mean), he has brilliant grades in all school subjects (YES, BRAINCELLS ARE SMEX), he is good looking and is an athlete without being an over-built macho-muscle-man, and he likes B-movies.
I have never felt this way about a guy before. At least not as far as I recall. I've been watching him for more than a year now, always looking around when I arrive to school to see if he's there or not, always hoping for a chance to sit beside him in the sofas when we're waiting for the next lesson to start... you name it.

If you still don't think that's friendship-feelings, let me tell you what I did last year, in May.
I heard from a few girls when I was waiting for the bus that they were talking about him and said that "Aaaaw, he's so hot!", and this was from a girls that is really good-looking herself, so I imedeatly felt that something had to be done from my side. So the first thing I did when I came home was to look up his mail adress. It went smooth, took only two hours. THEN I copied a song down to an empty CD I had; a classic, swedish song with lyrics that goes like this, We've been in the same class for almost a year, I've been hiding my feelings as good as I can, but whenever you look at me, you tear down the image I have bult up (...) If I can't make you mine right now, someone else will take you away from me, and it all fits in on my situation PERFECTLY (even the last part about being taken away). Okay so I copied that song and then I wrote his adress on the computer and printed it out on a piece of paper and glued it on the envelope, because I CAN'T write it with my own handwrting and stay anonymous, since my style is very distinctive and easyv to recognize. I also gave the letter a little spray of perfume and put down a little note with the words "I Love You"
... in Hebrew.. Otherwise it would've been far too easy.
So when I had posted the letter, my legs felt all shaky and my breath faltered. I was so excited (and shocked?) over my action, I spent the rest of the hours on my room, telling my stuffed animals what I had done, because I had no one to talk with that day and I really really really ahd this urge to tell somebody about the event, it felt like I was going to blow up any minute.

Is THAT's not at least a CRUSH, I don't now what is. I haven't heard him say anything about recieving a strange letter though, so I might've gotten the adress wrong...XD
I'm planning on confessing to him the day we graduate though, so I won't end my High School years with a regret. Besides, if it's on the last day, I won't have to return there, EVER, and have people commenting my emotions BECAUSE I KNOW THEY WOULD. Especially those girls I told you about before, those who always make fun of everything and everybody.

hakuryu said:

So if this guy has a girlfriend...WHO CARES!

Hmm, perhaps Lovux does?

hakuryu said:

You're a wonderful woman so (....) tons of guys will fall madly in love with you, trust me.

... I'm just going to laugh and pretend that joke was funny.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

WTF do I have that would make people love me for the one I *shudders* AM? Just look at this forum:
Raiden speaks (writes) better english than me (for a non-english person)
Aibacchi and Saro are both better artists.
Saro also has a waaay crackier imagination than I have.
Same goes for PeachFan.
You, Haku, and Mashou are generally nicer and better fangirls -without being retarded!- than I could ever be.

Srsly. The only thing I do is speaking about myself in third person. Unless I'm being serious. Like now.
I've been walking around with a sad pressure in my belly for weeks now. When at school, I just want to go hiding somewhere so I won't let myself soil the people around me with my presence. I feel utterly useless and can't afford to do anything any longer. There's just this voice that keep on telling me that "Whatever you do, you'll always be a loser". When I look into the mirror I want to shatter it so I won't have to see my own face. When I'm in by bed, trying to sleep, I have to bit my own arms all the time to prevent the tears to run freely and soak the pillow.
I JUST HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT MYSELF. I am unworthy. Your words, your attention, anyone's words or attention. I am a bastardeous retarded attention whore like that.

FCK, writing emo stuff like this in a thread that is supposed to make me happy... now I feel like I'm letting Mashou down.

EDIT: Post 2,222.

[Raiden]

lovux said:

Raiden speaks better english than me (for a non-english person)

*headdesk*

I might write better than you, but... I once recorded myself talking in English. I hated that track the first moment I listened to it. My voice sounded horrible enough, and there was that horrid accent, too...

Seriously, you don't want to hear me talking. My voice might be deep and all that, but it's not hot or anything by any stretch. ...Besides, it's nasal. If you think about the toot of an elephant... well, that's what I sound like.

You know, I spoke English on a history class trip to Poland two years ago. X3 I was so proud of myself afterwards. I do hate my accent, but for some reason this one 2nd-year-student thought my pronunciation was the best when he reviewed my English talk (we had to give speeches about something during an English lesson. We were 1st-years and there were some 2nd-years there, too).

My reaction was a bit "o_____O":ish when he told me about my pronunciation. Since I don't think it's that good.

PS. I don't know if it counts as modesty or indifference, but every time someone compliments me or I get a good grade from something, I never feel like bouncing and/or screaming like some girls do. I just look at a grade or think about the compliment, go "Oh. Not bad..." and shrug it off and just walk away. o.O

I tend to act calm and collected, and I'm pretty rational, too. ...So freaking out like that is pretty much impossible for me. I couldn't scream out of joy even if I wanted to. XD;; Since I may want it, but my mind tells me it's embarrassing to scream and that causes me to let out a short squeal instead.

PPS. Lovux. You have THE voice. X3 It's enough to make even ME melt, and you know how rational I am most of the time. Kind of like Camus from Saint Seiya, and trust me when I say that he's colder than an iceberg and has never smiled in the whole show.

[PeachFan]

;__; Life is really kicking everyone around lately isn't it. I haven't been on since I got sick messing around in the snow a little while ago, and I come back to read this. Hakuryu hit it right on the head. The worst part about all this is I can't say what I'm about to in person. It would mean so much more that way, but I still have to say this:

The day I found these forums, I was excited because they were full of lively, friendly, fun loving people. Little by little my goofy/cracky side started to come out and to my surprise, it was encouraged. Most of the time, it's a bit hard for me to be silly and not be self-conscious about it but here it's no problem. On top of that, no one fights here. The most you get is playful bickering once in a while. This place really is more like a close knit family than a forum and I love everyone here because of that. So it really gets me when you guys are down, and I want to try my best to make you guys happy again. (I've always been more of a listener than a speaker, so getting this all out is difficult for me.)

Lovux, I know you don't think you deserve hearing these words from us, but we will continue to say them until they get through! There are many, many things we love about you. You are a very talented artist with both traditional and digital media, your voice makes us giddy when we hear it, you have such pretty eyes, you're always kind and considerate to us......there's so much to list, it would take up a page to type!

Now I know I've been spamming this thread with my karaoke, but I'm putting this one up because it has a lot more meaning and effort in it than the others.

www.mediafire.com/?gkx2dxem0ya - Yes, it's Ryoma and not Atobe.

The reason I put this here: If there's one thing I HATE to half-ass (Yes, I didn't censor myself,) it's my singing. Back in my old school, I was the one who took music class most seriously and I usually caught crap for it from my class. Especially, the boys. But, I didn't care because music is my passion! If I sing I want to make sure people remember it, or at least feel the way I do when I'm singing. Happy! I love it down to my bones, it's my favorite thing to do!

I've been going crazy putting this together, because the karaoke and the vocal tracks run at slightly different speeds. Practically all day I've been mixing and remixing it down to milliseconds, until I thought it was good enough for you to hear it. I really want this to give you a spring in your step, or at the very least a little smile.

Lovux-sama, you brighten our corners of the world, we want to do the same for you too. =^__^=

EDIT: I forgot to say, this is from Maria's heart. Not just Peach.