wasshoi

only awesome bands do trad. jpnese stuff together

toshikoshi

Gotta eatcher end-of-the-year soba!

C ar P enter S

We are listening to old music and singin' real loud

treasure!

Look what I found!

(Buggles' Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes joined Yes for 1980's 'Drama', which was awesome and had Machine Messiah and Tempus Fugit and a song making fun of Gary Numan.)

(Also Elvis Costello and Dead Kennedys and Clash and Sting and Tears for Fears records in our office for some reason)

towel

cps towels!

undercode event

Today's the Undercode event. We go on at 3 in the morning.

Support guitar today is Yukimura/Jun from Karakuri/Hibari.

No sound check today, so just finished last check in the studio.

We play in 12 HOURS ugh

i am the bassist

Here are some clips of Steve 'n' me at Liquid Room.

First we played "Rule the World" ...



"Seeing Stars" was somewhere in there...



Also a Michael Jackson cover...



And then a blues jam that turned into an Elvis cover.



That was a fun tour, with good memories and good new friends. :)

New pics so far

How was Christmas for everybody? Thanks so much for your comments over the last few days as I'm getting over whatever bug I had and getting the urge to write again, FINALLY.

I go pick out the rest of them tonight.

Oh I got a new bass and a new wireless so I'll have to show you that soon. :)

a short run

Almost Christmas!

If you've emailed me and I haven't responded, I've been busy but mostly deathly ill so I'll respond soon. Real sorry.

The real pics go up on Saturday. :)

sweets

Saw Up yesterday; very sweet and funny.

Also, yesterday Joe, Dancho and Shinno played an acoustic version of Nogod's 道 at a friend's wedding and that was also very sweet.

Colds are not sweet.

I AM

SANTA KURO-ZU

digest

hm what is this thing i put here i dont even



Lineup was me, Tenten, Joe, Schwarz, Masami.
0:31~2:05 = Reincarnation; you know this one
2:05~3:25 = Yamusora; an older version of this was floating around on youtube but I can't find it anymore
3:25~5:00　= Subarashiki Imaimashisa
5:00~6:58 = I wanna get away

drum

I guess I can say exactly who the drummer is.

CPS/Chemical Pictures' new drummer is Shiun, formerly of Scissor and MiU.

Whee〜

Some news

-From January 1st until March 13th, Trick Master, Strange Guitarist, Cosmic Boy (me) and Rhythm Geek will be performing under the name CPS. This is ostensibly a temporary measure as we're have activities and everything planned but we're not quite ready to be like BAM hey sup chem-pi is back

Check out the pop-up on the homepage to see the new doodles; pictures will be up at a later date.

-We're changing the venue of our 2nd one-man on 3/14, "Science", from Shimokitazawa Mosaic to Ikebukuro BlackHole.

-Tenten has a pendant and ring for sale on the fujipro website that he helped design.
 

That's all for now!

Recent images

Official pics from the BtSSB/AatP event

Rehearsal yesterday. Please note that Joe is standing right in front of our drummer, obscuring him from your view. You'll find out in 3 days.

swoonin' hard guys

You guys REALLY need to see the pictures of Meekster in next month's Cure. I cannot emphasize enough how much of your observance these images require. If scans one day showed up in my email randomly I would most likely not be displeased.

That's all.

Oh, the event went well; lots of people crammed into a tiny room, lots of Polaroids taken with lots of nervous girls. It was fun to dress up all gawfic, like the first batch of VK I ever heard way back, for one day (and doubly fun if you're sponsored!), but I'm pretty thankful that I'm not in a band that does that sort of thing.

I do have to say that Baby/Alice employees are some of the coolest gals I've worked with. Helpful, friendly, and magnetic.

So yeah. January Cure. O_O

uh what

hahaha oh geez

TV

-The Office remains awesome, shut up

-The kid that plays Kurt on Glee is from my hometown, and I like the show enough but you know what, I don't know that it deserves to be a whole hour long.

-30 Rock is spectacular. I really do think everyone is amazingly strong.

-On a whim, checked out some Community; haven't heard much about it but I'm enjoying that too.

-Daily Show and Colbert Report I have my minor complaints about, but sometimes they still manage to hit it out of the park.


-Tomorrow is our big Baby the Stars Shine Bright/Alice & The Pirates event, hahaha i will post a picture tomorrow

hahaha

Coupla new things

1. Chemical Pictures short message on J-Rock TV

2. Steve 'n' me (and Toma and JJ) in this month's INROCK Magazine.

ちっす♪

Re: ha

Me and Tenny in the studio.

We're writing a lot; at least six or so songs since last month, and lots of flotsam melodies and jetsam riffs.

There's really not much to report these days, so I'm sorry I've been so quiet. Iwill say that we've auditioned 5 or so guitarists recently, each worse than the last. It's really surprising and frustrating. I could do better. Heck, Tenten could do better. YOU could do better.

Can't wait to show you how I look on the 22nd. It is so un-cps, haha.