Hello! Store USA part 2

It should be no surprise that I was pleasantly surprised to find that the Nine Smile merchandise would come up during a time that wasn’t surprisingly inconvenient for me. Lol… I seriously wrote “surpris” 3 times in that sentence. At any rate, I camped out for the raid on Hello Store last week. Originally the plan was just to get 1 order. That ended up becoming 2 orders… Surprisingly, I got the second order first before the other one seems to even be near completion. I’m going by the information reflected in my Inbox. Not too long ago, I saw H!S tweeted that they’re bogged down on the high volume of orders. Well, I guess I have a while to go before my other order comes. For the spoils of war, read on!

Airi wants you to read on, she promises you won’t leave unhappy ^_~

Hello! STORE!!! USA

I wish I could say I knew it was coming, but I certainly didn’t. I was quite surprised at the announcement of Hello! Store USA a while back. But I was determined to check it out and buy something to support my favorite girls. So about a week ago, was the midnight opening (PST) of Hello! Store USA. And I waited for it… to 3am in EST…

Miracle in the Hole: Kusumi Koharu

If you’re reading this, you probably already know. Kusumi Koharu of the 7th generation of Morning Musume has been slated for graduation, come this December. This comes hot on the news of the eldest C-ute member, Umeda Erika, graduating next month. Well, I don’t really know what to think. I’ve had a complicated time with Koharu from her Iroppoi Jirettai debut to today.

Mediarite flow

I like variety. I really like variety. That’s why I have a variety of likes and dislikes. But I find myself very hypocritical in this sense. Because while I do like variety, change, and experimentation; there are lots of times where I am frustrated that someone/thing is changing beyond my likes.

The term “bootstrap” apparently means to start a calculation and use this result as a basis for the next calculation (which would’ve been impossible without the first calculation) and continue this until you are at the desired answer. At least this is what it means according to my Chemical Bonding professor. That’s one crazy guy man… At any rate, while I was sitting bored in class I thought of “Musical Bootstrapping”. And from there I just thought of a lot of stuff… but that’s typical of me. By the time I was nearly finished writing this, I just decided to change the name of the post to the current title to better reflect the subject at hand. It also has a nice ring to it that sounds like what I’m trying to convey. But “bootstrap” is too good of a term to pass up.

A lot of my preferences in music and entertainment come from this kind of bootstrapping. I want to call it bandwagoning but I really don’t know the “proper” term for it. It’s like when you wiki “Theodore Roosevelt” and you end up at “The Battle of Jabiim” (Star Wars event, for those who don’t know). Or like when you youtube “Morning Musume Joshi Kashimashi Monogatari” and somehow you end up watching a Pokemon battle from the latest episode of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl. All those intermediates between the beginning and the end are what sprout out to be my web of interests. And I am fascinated that this is the case with music.

NO!!! ERIKA!!!

So this news was brought to my attention in an extremely anticlimactic way. First I noticed that the subject of the night at wotachat was Erika, when I was scrolling by what I missed during the night. I ignored that, and then noticed much later what it was really about, thanks to the Wotachat subject line.

For those who don’t already know? And who doesn’t? Our lovely Umeda Erika has been slated for graduation from C-ute and officially all of Hello! Project on the last day of their concert tour for this coming fall, October 25th.

Ch’yea, I’m out of the crazy Tsunku farm

Kenya believe Kanna is gone?

Where can you see lions (and tigers)? Only in Kenya…

Where can you see Kanna? Probably not in Kenya, but certainly not in Hello! Project. And for that we must dedicate  a moment of silence for her. -SILENCE-

Incidentally, this kind of reminds me of Michael Jackson (kind of being a VERY far resemblance). So let’s also have a moment for the King of Pop. Although that’s extremely old news and overplayed at this point.

Per an official news release from H!P, Kanna has left Hello! Project as of the 9th of July, which is only a couple days ago. So back in February she was taken out and now it’s July. And now she’s taken out for real. Well, my previous stand still stands. I never really noticed too much abouta Kanna with the exception of the whole lesbian thing. But I will say that it’s sad to see a girl go in Hello! Project. Supposedly, the higher-ups had some play in this, there might have been some scandal?, and it’s not really fully her choice to going back to the regular life of Jane Doe.

Well, now C-ute is a 6 member unit. And now my ranking is a little bit easier. If either Airi, Maimi, or MaiMai get kicked out, I’m gonna be very mad… VERY mad… cause Airi is the best, Maimi is hot, and MaiMai is getting hot.

~Siggy, who will go and rewatch some old C-ute stuff when he gets time~

Ringtones!!!

So I finally stopped being lazy and went looking for my microSD card adaptor/adapter. Spent like 2 hours organizing stuff (I wound up deleting 75% of the ringtones I had previously done ages ago) and then cutting songs for new ringtones!

A lot of the ringtones I make are based on what I think would sound cool for a ringtone or if its quirky. There’s a pretty good variety of artists featured in the ringtones I’ve done. I love little audio bites! You know like in commercials for albums and stuff, TV-Size stuff… those short snippets are what highlight the song. Like a really good movie trailer for a really bad movie!

Airi + Yo-Yo’s = <3

I was bored and didn’t want to study so…

My friend showed me a picture of Reon Kadena (go look her up) which coincidentally looked a lot like a yo-yo picture I was looking at.

So I got this GREAT idea!

Airicandy in itself was already like an evolution of eyecandy (Lv 25)

Now this… Airicandy relating to yo-yo eyecandy… it’s like a fusion of 2 of my favorite things! For those who don’t know, I’m a fan of yo-yoing and also like to (even though it puts a great dent in my wallet) collect rare and pretty yo-yos. The pictures ahead are of my own personal collection. Don’t know how many other yo-yoing enthusiasts there are out there… but believe me they are pretty!

So without further ado, picspam!

 

YoYoJam Speeder
I don’t have caps on it and it has some battlescars, but it used to be one of my mains.

 

Airi Speeder
To be honest, the hotpants combined with the top are what really make her co.no.mi.chi outfit resemble my Speeder. But I like these pics ^_^

 

OneDrop YoYo’s Agent Orange Fade Project
This is a very rare yo-yo. Though I no longer have it, I still have some pictures. It was hard if not impossible to find pictures that would match this.
So a little imagination and appreciation is needed.

 

Airi Project!
I included the Buono 2 pics because I LOVE her hair.
Who cares if it doesn’t match the pic. Airicandy is good in any flavor ^o^.

 

YoYoJam Aquairus
The rims are a bit yellow, they were originally white…

 

Airius!
Whoot! Bye Bye Bye and Sakura Chirari.
I love Sakura Chirari, I listen to the first 30 seconds over and over again just because of Airi <3

 

YoYoJam Meteor
One of my favorite yo-yos produced by one of my favorite yo-yoers, Mickey!

 

 

Airi meteor
She’s 3x cuter than a regular C-ute member (points if anyone gets the reference)
It was hard to find her in something that matched the magenta of my Meteor…

 

YoYoFactory Skyline, Eye of the Tiger special edition
This is a rare edition of the Skyline that is in orange, my favorite color!

 

 

Airi Skyline
I would love to see a skyline of Airi. I love her Rottara Rottara outfit!

 

Duncan Freehand Zero
Hand painted and modded by Takeshi

 

  

Free Airi Zero?
I love that princess picture. So cute.

 

YoYoFactory Plastic Grind Machine
Two colors!

Airi Grind Machine
LOL… I can’t believe I just wrote that… ughhh clean thoughts, clean thoughts…

 

SPYY Pistolero
This is the beta release for a very special and beautiful yo-yo. Just look at it…

Airilero?
Geez, these names are starting to get weird…

 

44:recreation Stargazer
This yo-yo is amazing… outperforms all of my other yo-yos… precious >w<

Airigazer
Something we all certainly are for making it this far into the post.
Massara Blue Jeans!!!

That was fun… I burnt like an hour preparing this…

Geez… got to go back to studying… ugh.

P.S. Happy Belated Birthday Airi!!!

[REVIEW] Morning Musume – Platinum 9 Disc

Whoot! New Momusu album! ^.^
For a while I actually forgot that Cover You was technically not a REAL Momusu album. Don’t get me wrong, I liked Cover You, but now we’re off to serious business, Momusu’s 9th major album.

In short, I liked this. I liked most of the singles. And I liked most of the album songs. Read on for details.

KANNA! KANNA! KANNAAAA!!!

On my daily runs of intlwota today, I run into the news that Arihara Kanna is out of commision. At first as I read it, I thought Kanna had some horrible scandal that just broke her membership in a day. She was in a scandal-ish kind thing in the summer, if we all remember. But as I read on it was about bunions. I vaguely knew what this was about but for times like these, Wikipedia is your friend ^_^. For a normal person, just stopping and “treating” it would be fine. But considering this is an idol we are talking about, I have no problem believing that they get next to no sleep/rest from their busy schedules. Did you know that some of the girls do radio shows? It sure didn’t occur to me what kind of schedule they had until watching Mechaike’s field trip special with Momusu way back when.