a while back i made this post and left out a bunch of songs i wanted to add in place of Triple Baka, so i edited a new video with the additions i thought wouldve been either funny or fitting to add in for her. (Some are just for fun so pls dont take it too seriously lol)
Names of songs and honorable mentions after the cut
1. Six Same Faces - Osmt san ED 1
2. Lillium - Elfen Lied OP
3. Join Us For a Bite - JT Music (i looked it up as fnaf burger king kid song)
23. with my dear friend Agus, that's Venus/Kinsei by Susumu Hirasawa and with my dear friend JSA, its Frozen Beach (also Hirasawa lol). they're both very much love songs for people far away from me who i want to be near
30. literally anything. anything under the sun, if i like it and i physically can i will try to sing along to it. a lot of the japanese i know i actually picked up from hirasawa's songs because im fighting tooth and nail to learn them
42. Hirasawa's first solo trilogy are all no-skip albums to me, as are P-Model's Scuba, Fune, Enola and Music Industrial Wastes (most of p-model's no-skip to me). Aurora, Sim City and Blue Limbo are also noskips (the rest of his work would be for me too because i do really like literally everything he's done but every album's got a song or two i'll skip depending on my mood). god i should have put this in bullet points. im doing that with the rest of these cause there is a lot
Manuscript and Blood's Call by Melnitsa
Camel by Camel
Close To The Edge, The Yes Album, Tormato and Topographic Oceans by Yes
In that vein Olias Of Sunhillow by Jon Anderson
Tamahime-Sama and Showa-Era by Jun Togawa
I Am A Woman by Chenchen Bunsungnooen (you're not going to find this searching in english so its ฉันก็เป็นผู้หญิงคนหนึ่ง เจินเจิน บุญสูงเนิน in thai)
Luna, Rosenrot and Midgard by Faun
Shadow Of The Moon and Under A Violet Moon by Blackmore's Night
uh. this list could go on but its way too fucking long already
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★ · Hi! You can call me by my full username, a shortened version (I usually go by "Master" in SPANISH speaking online communities, but I know it may sound a bit weirder to do so in english lol), Lou, Fran, or Franz. I don't have a preference tbh
★ · Any pronouns are fine | ESL, native language is spanish | Mid 20s | Pls no minors | Not into nsfw as I used to, but warning for possible slight nsfw just in case | May post/reblog some slighty gory art from time to time · ★
{🍌} · Some general interests of mine (in no particular order - not into all of these to the same degree):
★ · HxH, Umineko, Ciconia, Fate/Zero, Fate/GO (sadly don't have enough time to play fgo currently), MLP, Homestuck, Ranfren, BL/GL, Danganronpa, Furry, Vocaloid, Oney (didnt know where to include this one), Parappa, Kaiji, Hellsing, DMMd, BL/GL, Houseki no Kuni, Sonic, Lobotomy Corp, Library of Ruina, Osu!, Age of Empires
★ · Prog rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock/metal, Frank Zappa, Genesis, ELP, Jun Togawa/YAPOOS/Guernica, Diamanda Galás, Nina Hagen, Marina, Björk, SOAD, Equilibrium, MSI, Hole, Lemon Demon, Oingo Boingo, metal in general, new wave in general, very into singers who do weird experimental shit with their voices, 70s/80s/90s music in general
★ · Drawing/art, synthesizers, singing, mechanics/electronics/robotics, analog technology, biology, insects, classic/vintage/old cars, architecture, DnD, board games, collecting things in general (toys, cds, magazines, etc), a bit into Warhammer i guess, model building
I will try to keep this more or less updated
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i’ve never started an ask game before, so i’m a little nervous and hope this takes off lol.
but... 2022 faves! :)
favorite books: mary jane by jessica anya blau, gods of jade and shadow by silvia moreno garcia, horrorstör by grady hendrix
favorite movies: pearl by ti west, crimson peak by guillermo del toro, brad bird’s tomorrowland
favorite songs: 1955 by billy cobb, buddy holly by weezer, holland 1945 + in the aeroplane over the sea by neutral milk hotel, suki suki daisuki by jun togawa, archie marry me by alvvays
favorite shows: netflix’s wednesday, apple tv’s severance, the cw’s gossip girl
favorite memories: catching fireflies, fourth of july, ice skating, valentine’s day, 1920s-themed party
feel free to rb this with your favorite things of the year if you’d like :) tagging @wireless-telegraph , @little-dark-age-limits, @sharkneto, @candiliam328, @apocalypse-friend, @cemeteryklaus, @oskarwing (no pressure to do this though)
and tag some more people if you do rb it so we can all talk about cool stuff! here’s to many more years of great times ahead <3
Allegedly the title comes from a phrase for sitting in a cirlce and drinking. So we're making merry over resigning yourself from personhood. Translation notes at the end and personal commentary too because fuck it, a blog's a blog.
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English
Far beyond the sky float the clouds
Oh, in the name of my love
Such acts of atrocity
No more can I resign to forgiveness
You may kill me
Like a cow
Or like a pig
It’s alright
I am merely a piece of flesh
Lala lala la
Lala lala lai
I am merely a piece of flesh
Into the sky fades the midday canon
Oh, for my love has ended
Both love and hatred
Are no more, poured into nothing
In a single moment of disgust
I begin to rot
I am merely a piece of flesh
Lala lala la
Lala lala lai
I am merely a piece of flesh
Far beyond the sky float the clouds
Oh, in the name of my love
Such acts of atrocity
No more can I resign to forgiveness
You may kill me
Like a cow
Or like a pig
It’s alright
I am merely a piece of flesh
Lala lala la
Lala lala lai
I am merely a piece of flesh
Japanese
空の彼方に 浮かぶは雲
嗚々 我が恋愛の名において
その暴虐の 仕打ちさえ
もはやただ 甘んじて許す
牛のように
豚のように 殺してもいい
いいのよ 我 一塊の肉塊なり
ライラ ライラ ラ
ライラ ライラ ライ
我 一塊の肉塊なり
空に消えゆく お昼のドン
嗚々 我が恋愛は終止せり
あの泥流の 恩讐が
もはやただ あとかたもなしや
愕然とする間もなく
腐敗し始める
我 一塊の肉塊なり
ライラ ライラ ラ
ライラ ライラ ライ
我 一塊の肉塊なり
ライラ ライラ ラ
ライラ ライラ ライ
我 一塊の肉塊なり
空の彼方に 浮かぶは雲
嗚々 我が恋愛の名において
その暴虐の 仕打ちさえ
もはやただ 甘んじて許す
牛のように
豚のように 殺してもいい
いいのよ 我 一塊の肉塊なり
ライラ ライラ ラ
ライラ ライラ ライ
我 一塊の肉塊なり
ライラ ライラ ラ
ライラ ライラ ライ
我 一塊の肉塊なり
ライラ ライラ ラ
ライラ ライラ ライ
我 一塊の肉塊なり
ライラ ライラ ラ
ライラ ライラ ライ
我 一塊の肉塊なり
ライラ ライラ ラ
ライラ ライラ ライ
我 一塊の肉塊なり
ライラ ライラ ラ
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我 一塊の肉塊なり
Translation Notes
泥流 is the flow of lahar/volcanic mud when a volcano erupts and 跡形もなしや (written in hiragana as あとかたもなしや) is like "without leaving a trace", I thought saying literally saying left without a trace was too basic for such a powerful song, so I went with "poured into nothing" to maintain the original imagery and meaning.
Personal Commentary Nobody Asked For
Many lifetimes ago I ran the Jun Togawa Forever fansite with my friend Pat, he translated all of the songs and I did the website... stuff. Because of it, Pat got to meet Jun's manager and it was basically the thing that set me off onto wanting to study Japanese to begin with. The sadness I was experiencing at the time couldn't be expressed in my own language because I was barely fresh off being a teenager, and I was treated poorly by almost everyone around me. Real "nobody understands me" type shit. So, i'd listen to this song on repeat a lot and read my friend's translation, because it felt like somebody understood me.
The reason I stopped running the website, posting throwbacks and setlist updates etc was because I actually hated most of the English fans. Pat was working very hard at a critical time to translate information and whenever I had a question, I would ask. But people kept jumping to assumptions about what Jun's art was trying to convey. It sounds almost cliche, but the perspective of dudes with no knowlege of Japanese language or culture was dominating the discussion about a Japanese woman's work, stripping it of time, place and it's author. One person's self expression through art became a talking point for being anti-pop culture - because it was antithetical to the norm, that's all it could be, or that became the main focus. I hated how our work was just being consumed by people who's reaction was just "cool" or "thanks", and the voice behind the lyrics was stifled for the sake of making hamfisted commentary about pop culture, from a society and culture that the authors themselves had sparse knowlege of.
It is extremely petty. This was also before Suki Suki Daisuki blew up on Tiktok too. But, the phrase "anti idol" just screamed fake deep to me lol. Once I actually started speaking Japanese and explaining the perspective of non-Japanese people about things to Japanese people, they were mostly confused. BiS' producer also called it "fucking stupid." I think about deleting all of the translations sometimes out of spite.
I wanted to come back and translate this song myself because... fuck it, why not. I'm not in the same mindset as when this was the one thing keeping my head above water, but I did have some poor experiences with people at university recently. I thought about this song because it feels like it's fine for terrible things to be said and done to me, but everyone else is seemingly allowed to do whatever they want. Be it emotionally or sexually as a friend or as a coercer. But i've resigned myself from caring because hey, life goes on.
In the meantime, I’m going to share some things about myself to see if that will boost me a bit lol.
About me
I’m a high schooler who likes to draw/paint, write, play around with music/sound design, basically I just like to create!
I have 4 pets: 1 dog, a shih tsu, named Gizmo, and 3 cats named Sammy (white ragdoll), Tormund (orange), and Jasper (grey [and fat])
Games
Pikmin is my favorite game! I played pikmin adventure on Nintendo land in 2013, and then I was hooked.
Animal crossing is another series I like, specifically new leaf. It gives me many good and nostalgic memories.
Some honorable mentions are tomodachi life, project sekai, project diva, Minecraft
Music
Kikuo is my favorite music producer. My favorite albums of are is Kikuo Miku 0 and Kikuo Miku 5, and First Cry and Moon Demon are my favorite songs!
I listen to a lot of music, but my favorite genres are jazz, vocaloid, j-pop, and silly stuff.
Others I like are: mushi-p, babuchan, dennoko-p, ghost and pals, mitski, oingo boingo, Jun Togawa
Activities
Like I said, I like drawing and painting, character design being my favorite area. When it comes to writing, I create a lot of stories. My favorite genres to write (and read) are fantasy and horror.
I got asked out on a date for the first time in my life these past few days (last Friday to be exact) and it feels so weird!!! Aaaaaa
He’s very nice and we’ve been talking for a while! He’s a film student and our interests overlap so much! Like anime (he likes osomatsu-san!), visual novels (higurashi and umineko too!!), animated movies/series, lost media, the same kinds of music (city pop, jun togawa, yukiko okada, shinsei kamattechan, j-rock, emo bands and mitski lol)
I introduced him to Villainous and I’ll introduce him to Vocaloid too! He’s introducing me to some bands I didn’t know and to some asian coming-of-age movies I haven’t seen before! I’m gonna watch the ones he recommended this week
Anyway, I never thought I’d find someone who’s into all of this so close to where I live!! It’s so weird aaaa this is all so new like I’ve never been on a date date before I’m so nervous ajjsks
I hope everything goes well!! And that I don’t act weird or anything aaa