1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal

And kanarae, being the nice person she is, gave me the @#$%^ letter "X"!!! X! OK, so I did kinda deserve it, but STILL! *long story*
I pretty much begged her to help me out, as I...have like absolutely nothing with the letter "X". *is pathetic* But that's a different story...~ANYWAY, she kindly gave me the letter "R" instead. MUCH, much better!
Here are my five for right now (not necessarily my favorites, but ones I really wanted to pick):

Read My Mind~The Killers   My favorite off of Sam's Town, even though Hot Fuss is sooo much better.

REDEMPTION~Gackt  Love. Pure and simple.

READY STEADY GO (ken READY)~L'Arc~en~Ciel   I have two words for you: "ken desu."

Rewrite~ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION   After all that Fullmetal Alchemist talk, I had to post this---the fourth opening.

Revolver~BUCK-TICK   The last song off Tenshi no Revolver, and so I figured it was a fitting end.

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OK, I have a major plea for help for you all---I want to make my journal "friends only", but I don't know how, and I want some kind of a "Friends Only" banner thingy (whatever it's called). PLEASE HELP ME! And I'm thinking about changing my layout...*cough hinthint patback409 cough cough* ^__^;;

I think that that concludes this entry, so I apologize for taking over your f-lists, but that seriously made me MAD! LJ cut out things not from the end, but from the MIDDLE of the entry. But complaining won't solve anything...*le sigh*
Thanks for your undying patience~

This entry will have absolutely no rhyme or reason to it. But there will be much ranting, pic spam, much ado about nothing, and lots of love!♥ And took me several years to type...
WARNING: THIS ENTRY IS INCREDIBLY long and quite pic-filled. Not for the faint of heart, or illiterate. Although there are quite a few pretty pictures....
You have been warned.

Whew. Hey guys! Jeez, I'm so sorry that I have yet to comment/reply to a lot of your entries and comments, but I want to go ahead and thank everyone who has been concerned about me. Luckily, I've been doing a lot better since my last entry. Yes, the stress level is still high *twitches unconsciously* but graduation will soon be here----May 30th! Whoo! *throws confetti* The worst part is that I have to give a speech, and me and public speaking don't get along. Give me a ten-page essay to write and I'm fine, but put me in front of hundreds of people...ugh. It'll be alright, though. I don't mind reading in front of a small crowd, so...I guess I'll just pretend that it's just my closest friends out there. ^___^;;;

I'VE DECIDED ON A COLLEGE!!!!!!!!~
I'm SO happy that it's over and done with. I thought that I would NEVER decide. Now I just have to go through the lovely paperwork and all. No, but seriously, I feel good about my decision. The change and work will be be hard, but it's just another one of those things!

Oooh, and another thing to look forward to---this weekend is the Animazement anime convention in Durham, NC! :-3
It'll be my first one, so I'm definitely looking forward to 7-foot long styrofoam swords and pleather abounding. XDDD I myself will not be cosplaying, but I will be wearing my NEW BUCK-TICK SHIRT that I got off of cafepress.com! I stuck some pictures in the lovely fake cut below!! ;-)

( The Atsu-shirt goodness... )

Anyway, that's all for now, I suppose. Just wanted to let you all know that I am, in fact, not dead, and to apologize for being so slow in my replies. I *still* won't get the chance to reply for a while, but I will do my best to get to it soon!

LOVE!!!! <3333333333

I haven't been on lj for almost 2 weeks. I haven't been able to read anyone's posts because of the enormous stress I'm under, and for that I apologize.

I just listened to "Mushi" by Dir en grey and started sobbing. That's all. This is all starting to become too much to handle at once.

I have FINALLY finished my college trips! *collapses*
SOOOO glad it's over...it's been a long, strange journey. O___o

This post really doesn't have anything major or earth-shattering. Just wanted to let you guys know that I'll be out on my LAST college visit from tomorrow (Thursday) until Saturday! Whoo! *throws confetti*
So if I don't respond to your posts or comments, it's not because I don't love you---which I most definitely do!!!---but rather because I'll be several hundred miles from my house. And yes, *this* is the trip where I'm going to fly by myself. I'm running around now doing last-minute packing and writing an English paper...O__o.
Wish me well on the trip, and talk to you soon I hope!~

To all on my f-list: Sorry for the cross-posting...I love you all!!! XDDD

OK, so I have never had a major post on gacktxhyde or any community, let alone of fan art, so PLEASE be gentle on me!!! ^__^;;

( Gackt behind the cut... )

Hey guys!!~
Well, this is to let you know that I'm going to be gone for a while from lj because---you guessed it---more college visits. Whoo. <<<no sarcasm
Yes, I'm leaving at 4 AM on Sunday morning. I'm looking forward to *that* part especially...
I don't know. There's just something about all of this that makes me really uneasy. Since the last college trip that I took last weekend didn't go as well as planned, I'm really nervous that I'm not going to find anywhere that's a fit for me, or find any friends with my interests, or fail out, or....O___o
~*Downward spiral*~
Whew. Hopefully this one won't be as bad because I'll be with my mom and friend! But on Thursday I'm flying *by myself* to visit another college...and I've never flown by myself before. The college is giving me a travel grant to fly out there and then take a train to the college. I just feel really vulnerable right now or something. *cuddles with her toy moose* Mom keeps saying that she'll drive me, but I know that we can't afford yet another hotel room plus gasoline for the trip, so I tell her that it's fine, I'll be fine. I don't really mean it, though.

Wow, this is becoming angsty and remarkably rant-like this from the girl who promised no rants anytime soon... Oops. Sorry...it's just been so crazy and I need to vent, I suppose. *sobs* That and I haven't been feeling that well lately. All of this stress is getting to me. And the worst part of it all is that I know that it will get worse before it gets better...

Hopefully these trips won't be as bad as I'm thinking they will be. Maybe they will be magical lands where love and happiness abound...and maybe Hyde will shave his head and change his name to Alejandro. I actually like the name "Alejandro" XD

To reward you for your patience and kindness, there are some pics behind this lovely fake cut:


Thanks for putting up with my constant rants, and wish me good luck PLEASE!!!!
...I'm going to need it. ^___^;;

I just seriously went on an icon frenzy---8 icons in 8 minutes. *bows at nonexistent applause*
So now all of my icons have been made by yours truly *brags about what was obviously ridiculously easy work*
Anyway, if you want to check them out, they have now been uploaded as userpics! XD

...I'm way too excited about this...

I *really* am going to sleep this time. Honest.

To quote missykitty0115 ,from whom I got this:

"This meme amused me too much to pass up.
From </a></b></a>xenylamine.

Go to Urban Dictionary, and type in your answer to each question in the search box. Once you get the definition, copy and paste it under your answer."

( My results... )

...That was unique. To say the very least. XD *dies laughing*

I need sleep. But I don't want to. Decisions, decisions...

ARRGHHH!!! Sorry for screwing up your flists, but I screwed up the cut! *sobs* Please forgive me!!!

I love Dir en Grey! ^__^ And this song!

*Update---take 2* This now has the ACTUAL pictures in it, thanks to patback409  's lovely help, but they are now under a cut as per request of voodooxdolly  *End of update (take 2)*
OK, so I recently re-watched all of the BT live clips that I could get my claws on, and I watched Longinus for about the fourth time. Honestly, I think that Longinus should have been about an hour longer. I was pleasantly surprised by Atsushi's acting. And he was definitely great to watch.
When it comes to BUCK-TICK...they are just amazing. I'm at a complete loss for words. Just....whoa. It's weird how you can be completely in love with something, but still have moments where you just sit back and think, "Man, this is incredible." As if no one knew how mind-blowing they are. Good grief, they've only been around for like 20 years. No big deal, right? Yeah, and I'm about to gnaw my foot off. I think that BT will still be around for another 20 years, especially at this rate.
Atsushi's voice live is incredible. For some songs, I think that he sounds *better* live, which is crazy because I generally prefer the album versions of songs to the live versions. But BT defies all logic for me. They just keep getting better, and Atsushi just gets sexier and sexier. Here are some glorious pics of Atsushi. He just---and.....
( Follow the cut to Atsushi glory... )
It has now become my mission in life to go to Tokyo. A ticket alone costs about $1500 according to the great people at American Airlines. I'm just going to depend on study abroad---I start college in the fall (gasp!) and so I'm going to see what I can do. My obsession has actually gotten to an almost scary level. I want to learn Japanese. I want to learn more about the culture. And I most definitely want to go to a BUCK-TICK show.

And what is this I hear about Gackt retiring in 2010?!?!?!?

And can anyone explain to me how to a.) actually stick pictures into a post, and b.) how to do that cool thing where you can cross words out. I always see people doing that, but I have no clue how. *hangs head in shame / embarrassment*

I'm done now. Honestly. Thanks for sticking with me! XD

OK, patback409 is officially the greatest human being to walk the planet. Except for Atsushi. And Gackt. And Hyde---Ok, ok, she's still awesome. She created my lovely banner for me and helped me with my layout!
*claps and jumps up and down excitedly*

End of excited rant.

PS~See how many random BUCK-TICK references you can find! ^__^

Ever since I heard the song "Dress" from Trinity Blood, I have been in love with BT. I have since realized how deeply my obsession with them truly runs...I think I need to seek help. Maybe I could start a group, like "BTAA" or something---Buck-Tick Addicts Anonymous.

But then again, I'm not sure if this is an addiction that I want to cure...

My true mission is to learn how to speak Japanese. Wish me luck~

YAY!!!! After seriously about an hour, and thanks to the wonderful patback409, I have managed to change my mood theme! Whoo! Now on to my layout...

WINTER BREAK!!! *angelic chorus plays*
So incredibly excited! I get Friday, Monday, and Tuesday off! I've been so stressed lately with tests and papers and college courses that I'm about to burst, so this couldn't be better timed. My cello teacher is seriously going mad with the power. I'm in a class with one other guy (who's creepy beyond belief, by the way) and that guy can't even read sheet music, and our teacher had us play a song for the first time. No explanation, no help. He just counted us off and said "Go". I actually can read music, and I was completely lost. Needless to say, creepy dude was past confused and somewhere on the road to self-destruct mode. Luckily the class wasn't too long, but it was scary. I guess that's what I'll be doing this weekend...And sleeping. ^__^
Lots of sleeping.