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It's been a long time since I looked at any of the Arashi shows except the occasional episodes of VS.
I watched one episode of Himitsu tonight. And have a few comments:
Jun's hair is gorgeous right now. I want to run my fingers through it. >.>
Leader's tan has mellowed out or the makeup artists are doing a better job of covering it. Which is pretty awesome.
Nino is unchanging, but obviously still more awkward on Himitsu. I do love him in VS, he just has the strategy down and is so much fun to watch.
And Aiba... is pretty much still just generic. It's sad that he doesn't get more hosting duties, but he's not as eloquent as Sho, and since the new Himitsu format, they have that taken care of with the ladies. He's a sweet kid, but there's a level of strange awkwardness to him in some of these eposodes that just... confuses me a little.
Sho, Sho, Sho... is just Sho. Expert host, great at hamming it up at appropriate moments, and still looking sweetly embarrassed by the concept of girly things of any sort.

Anyway.... sleep now, and more love for Arashi later. There's always a later.

A story of the color-shemes of my DSlite and new DSi... just so I don't forget it. This probably will have no significance to you unless you are entertained by things which are only vaguely related to Arashi.

My first DS silicone cover was blue, it changed color when you held it for a long time or it got warm. The stylus I bought to go with it once I lost my first one was yellow. >.> Yes, it amused me.
The second cover I bought to replace the blue one was orange, it was also heat-sensitive and turned yellow when warm. With the orange cover, I went through three styluses: a blue one, a green one and a red one.

I have just procured a new DSi. The hinge on my DSlite was breaking, I have justification!
The case I found for it it a lovely shade of purple and I have pink styluses to go with it.

I AM AMUSED, OK? Don't look at me like that.

I got a little less done today than I'd hoped, but I did FINALLY watch AAA2009 in Tokyo. *_* I am in love ALL OVER AGAIN. As much as I can tell muself that I'm over it, it wasn't anyone else that I listened to to calm down and sleep when I was panicing over costumes last week; it wasn't anyone elses concert that I watched on my iPod Sunday at work to keep me from crying or murdering someone. Arashi never cease to entertain me. Watching them perform, in concerts and in varieties (AND dramas) are all fascinating to me. Plus they're beautiful. The biggest dissapointment of the show was probably Nino /not/ singing Gimmick Game, but the rest of it (like "Hip-Pop Boogie") very much made up for the lack. ALSO, the costumes were much much better this time around... even the first two super-neon outfits weren't that bad.

Progress:
-White sleeves cut and edges melted (will have to do the body for mouse out of a different fabric, since there's barely enough for Corina's size, maybe >.>)
-Yellow sleeves lined and finished
-Yellow body lining cut and assembled (needs sewn to body and then turned and finished so neckband and sleeves can be attached) [[Note to self that neckband should be sewn on to the inside first, so that the horsehair braid ends up closer to the outside than the inside. Learned that on Tomomori.]

Considering apping Caboose on Paradisa now. I should probably sleep on that before I start to think it's too good of an idea. XD

First off - someone used the LJ Writer's Block prompt today. It was about explaining your least-used icon. So I'm using mine. Because... when I made it... I felt that it was absolutely necessary for me to have a TimeCon skirt!Jun icon. (Also because it was the costume set that I most wanted to make of theirs.) But then I realized that I almost never have an excuse to use it. So sad.

In other news, I unfinished a costume tonight. I took Saku's sleeves off. Now I just need to make and line new ones. This is a good thing, since the old ones didn't really fit right to start with. Once that's done with I need to make collar inserts for her inner layer. After /that/ we see if I get really ambitious and try to make Benkei a new cloak in like two days.
>.> <.< Maybe.

Anyway. That's not what this post is for. This post is because I have two burning desires to cosplay in the near future.
1) Persona 4. I don't know who would be who. I kinda just want an excuse to pipe a jacket with reflective tape piping. >.> Really though, I love these characters and I'd love the chance to play something semi-recognizable for once. Something I can talk about with love and understanding. <3
2) Arashi "Right Back to You" costumes from Taipei in 2006 (the half-kimono ones). They're shiny. They're brocade. They'd look stunning on stage. AND, the first verse worth of choreography is totally doable and almost exactly 1 minute long. We could even pull stuff from the instrumental leading up to that. And I can rip straight audio from the concert itself, so it'll sound awesome. We wouldn't even necessarily need all 5, we'd just have to adjust choreography to look good. Who's with me?

I tried to sleep in. I made it to 10:15.
So I'm running lanudry and going to settle in for several hours of dramas and applique before work.

I also downloaded the PVs for "Believe" and "Kumorinochi Kaisei".
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Speaking of Leader. UtaOnii. &hearts &hearts &hearts
Though I have to admit it was him climbing stairs in sweat pants that inspired at least one of those hearts. >.> And Giselle's "demo" song? I cried. Seriously. I love this show.

[EDIT: LOVE SHUFFLE 6!! I love you and your sneaky sneaky plot twist. OMG. The opening of 7 was also fabulous. I will squee over every moment for the rest of the series. Even though I'm sure it will come back to kick us in the ass later. :D *dead*]

Tonight I tried to pick up VS Arashi at 39. Which is, of course, a review of the special. SOO... I ended up decideing to go back and download the special after all. Watching it, I am back in love with this show all over again.
( VS嵐 New Years Special '09 )
Nnn. Mmkay. My Arashi love for the moment is fulfilled. And I should really really sleep before I go to work in... 7 hours. Oh crap.

Also... Meme from nympholepsia.
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Merry Christmas again to everyone!

Today I learned that "Truth" was the Oricon #1 single for 2008. "One Love" was #2! Also, "Beautiful Days" was at 10 and "Step and Go" was 12.
( And more of my artists were in the top 100 too! )

Also, speaking of the love(s) of my life...
If I tried to keep track of all of this, I would die.
Arashi MCing Johnny's countdown again this year. I know what I'll be spending the 1st-4th on. ^__^
And where can I get that Jan issue of Non-No? I neeeds it, precious.

Anyway.... >.> I'm supposed to call Arella and see about going out for brunch. Should shower and do that.

Watched episodes 3-5 tonight.
Which was somewhat foolish given the nature of my morning plans involving being at sensei's house at 9 am.
However, I have random comments.
( In which the plot thickens... )
Am now caught up to the current and think that I will keep watching.
After I finish Maoh. >.> Though I may not have time for another big chunk of episodes until

I case anyone missed me, Damien has gone to the scary land of manufacturer repair via Best Buy and Maya has very very limited access to the internets.
Instead, I have been spending stupid amounts of time at work (new overnight tonight, hence day of pseudo-off-ness) and playing a lot of Pokemon Diamond.
I completely missed wishing happy birthday to Tomomori and my step mother on the 23rd. And then to Shirogane on the 24th, though for him I did at least go fabric-swatch-shopping.
Today I hope to eat, get all my pokemon to level 15, and do some test dying of my ivory wool before I go to work at 9.
I would also like to call said work and see how our various nefarious plots worked out and who I am actually going to be doing the overnight /with/.
There may be some Arashi Time Concert in there... more likely some poorly-subtitled TenniPuri.

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Music Lovers
The performances were good. But the best thing? Sho's fake Jeans. Seriously! best idea EVER. ^___^ Dork.

I could go on about Maoh 7 and how much I just wanted to give Naruse a big hug and pet him... but that would be silly. Anyone with feelings about this episode, please comment, I need me some Maoh fangirling.

Costume Progress for today
-four more designs done. Finishing off the back of the kimono. We learned that Maya should /not/ try to reformat the flower part of the design. (pictures of failure to come later)
-also took lots of progress pics and hopefully didn't mess up my wrist too bad. It was really hurting earlier.

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We moved Hokuto today too (they're repaving the parking lot, so we had too), and got the stereo out. She's on the street now, so hopefully I'll call the junk yard people early next week. I'll miss her sometimes. :3

Also! Jess finished Avatar tonight! The ending is just as awesome the second time around.

I failed to do laundry tonight though.... which means I have no clothes to wear to work tomorrow... crap.