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Still working on getting pictures from the Tokyo show. Here is a shot from last night, though, to hold you over.

The show went much smoother, owing partly to my finally beginning to get used to wrangling all the machines in my arsenal. People danced, fun was had. We also had Kita and Inoguchi on the scene filming the event with their immense cameras. The footage will be used in a promotional video that is currently in the works.

Whew, I’m exhausted. I still need to fix the image on the front page, but this site should now look mostly correct on Firefox, Camino, Safari, and OmniWeb. Opera is pretty darn close. Every time I fix something, I seem to break something else, but I think we’re getting pretty close. On the down side, I have to deal with Internet Explorer and the rest of my to-do list now. But there are some new buttons for you to play with up yonder. I spent at least five hours getting them to work, so you all better enjoy them! This has certainly been a learning experience, if nothing else.

Since we were gypped out of our encore, we debuted the latest song, チョコレイトミー (Chocolate Tommy) downtown at Paiyama last night to very little fanfare. We did have the opportunity to perform it for the person who inspired it, so no complaints. Tomorrow night we will be playing at Kobe’s Backbeat if you’re in the vicinity. As always, you can make a reservation by shooting us an e-mail and save yourself a few hundred yen.

Back, and strung out from two overnight bus trips in as many days. Not recommended.

The concert was… a little rough. I managed to fail spectacularly at the relatively simple task of pushing buttons in the correct order several times, which is not such a good thing. We were also robbed of the encore (debuting a new song, no less!) not by a lack of enthusiasm on the audience’s part, but what appeared to be a lack of basic organizational skills on the part of the venue and whoever was supposed to be running the thing. It didn’t help matters that one of the openers decided to play a few extra songs and make things even later. Long story short, we were rushed off the stage so the DJs could set up for the all-night dance party. Understandably, there’s a rush to get these things started, the inexorable twisting of the Earth no doubt looming large in their minds, precious moments of potential OOM-phap-OOM-phap eking slowly away under the relentless approach of that giant, wretched, plasmic inferno and goddamn buzzkill, the sun. It is hard not to empathize.

Anyway, at least we can stop being stressed out for a while now. I spent all day today setting up a photo gallery, so as soon as I can find someone who took pictures, I will post them.

Ah, the journal. This part of the site will serve as a blog/journal/tour diary/whatever.

Captain’s log, supplemental. Stardate 43-2 mark 12.

Right now we’re trying to throw things together in time for the show in Tokyo on Saturday. It’s an important event for us, because, well, it’s all about us. The record company put it on to promote the new album, 「ヒダリのしっぽ」, which was released this last December. I’m not quite sure exactly how big this is going to be, but I suspect there will be a decent-sized headcount. Tomorrow night we take the night bus so we will get there in the wee hours. Wish us luck!