I'm judging you.

Sherlock Holmes was amazing, LOVED IT and now I desperately need some Holmes/Watson fic stat >_> I shall embark on a search later (unless some of you know of some already :DDDDD)

Also, according to this entry, BuriMyu's changing rehearsal halls. This is good, cause I didn't recognize the previous one as being at Shinjukumura, and if Iwashita-san's pic there is from nearby, I know there's a bridge over a stream/river right by the halls soooo...chances of it being at Shinjukumura and thus stalkable are v. high :D darksprite, wanna make another trip?? XD;

Yaaaaay! I should've guessed this was what the big announcement was :P Totally slipped my mind that it was almost that time of year again~ :D

hughes_maes, imma_holiday? I'm sure even though it's a Monday they'll take into account all the people who WORK and have an evening show (and maybe an afternoon one as well), which is probably the only thing I could make >_> Interested in going? Anyone else? It'll probably be the only KG event Sue's in for the rest of the year 8D And even THAT'S not a given >_>;;;;; Leaderrrrrrr wtf are you doing.

Also: I totally went for a ride on my new bike (I'm thinking Leader-san-gou :D Because like hell am I calling it Gaku) to see what was down past Higashi-Shinjuku station towards Shinjuku, and found out it's all of a 10 min bike ride to Koma Theater XDDDD Or well, what's left of it ;_; Also god but there were a ton of host guys :P Tomorrow I think I'll go up towards Ikebukuro--if it's only a 10-15 min ride between stations, it should (theoretically) only take me 30 min at most to get there o_O Guess we'll see! wonder how far a ride it is towards the rehearsal halls...

Perhaps I should invest in a map before I get lost :P

SO...

Gaku's big announcement is that...he's shutting his blog down. Effective immediately. Just...stopping. He doesn't say why, just thanks everyone for playing.

...AND MOVING TO AMEBLO.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOhttp://ameblo.jp/manabugaku/OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I'm torn about this. When this popped up at first, I thought, "OH MY GOD YAY. No more posts popping up on my Google Reader and flist alerting me that, once again, my husband has forgotten to zip his pants before leaving the house, no more posts of him showing the world exactly what he had for lunch by showing said lunch in his mouth, no more pictures of Mini Gaku's Ass (well, I guess his brother isn't so much a Mini Gaku...)"

...and now I just get to go to a NEW blog and stalk him :P

Yay.

(also, if you didn't see the subject line: it's my baby's birthday <3 He's a big boy at 29, so wish him well and hope he doesn't fall down the stairs and hurt something in Osaka ♥)

So, stalking has reached a new low (or a new HIGH??)

I finally went through the batch of shots of the guys at rehearsals to compare with all 40-something halls in the Shinjuku Mura rehearsal hall park XDDDDD My results??

TWO MATCHES. Well, better than none, yes? Making me 99.999999% sure that I now know exactly where BuriMyu's No Clouds and HappyPani 5 were rehearsed! ( Proof? I don't need no stinkin' proof! )

Think you have a good shot of the guys at rehearsals? Want me to figure out where, when rehearsals were? HIT ME UP! I'm gonna have a lot of fun with this >)

Also, while I didn't figure out where they were, I did find out that Secret Box and Dark of the Bleeding Moon were rehearsed in the same place! (not Shinjukumura, though--some other place) Freaky XD

ETA: DUDE IT GETS BETTER. ( LJ cut #2! )

Went to see Shima e Oide yo again yesterday with daiki_dansu (and we're going to maeraku and senshuuraku today XD), and our dreams of spotting someone we knew in the audience came true when TECCHAN showed up (in the cutest little hat).

After the show, we wound up by chance leaving at the same time as him, and walked towards the station about 10 feet behind him most of the way before he took a shortcut XD

Also, there was a short (15 min or so) talk event with the guys and two of the girls. Everyone was of course wearing merchandise (hoodies and tshirts, in various colors), and looking at the lineup, I was a little disappointed not a single one of them was wearing the color hoodie *I* was wearing that evening (the teal blue one).

That is, until Meg poked me and leaned over and whispered, "Courtney! Your husband!" And yeah. I actually acknowledged Gaku's presence on stage (guess I'd been ignoring him), and he was the only one wearing the same color as me. Yaaaaay.

Off to the show again!! Nagayan's finally done with rehearsals, so there's a HUGE chance he'll show up at either the afternoon show or senshuuraku! AAAAHHH. And AFAIK Tuti hasn't come yet, either...

DATE-O Y/Y????

Soooo I was bored and decided to see if I could find rehearsal halls online that, on an off day or when I wanted to kill time, I could loiter near...and found this

http://www.shinjukumura.co.jp/place/

The rehearsal hall yellow pages. Any of those look familiar? :D Cause chances are the guys use these all the time!

It's like God hates me.

It's like He's saying, "Well, you can either have a family or a fake!Husband. You definitely can't have both. And since you've chosen family for the holidays, how about we see what you'll be missing? Courtney, THIS IS YOUR POTENTIAL LIFE!"

At the KG Christmas event:

--signed KG tumbler given out to 2 participants @ afternoon and evening shows.
--photo with KG given out to 2 participants @ afternoon and evening shows.
--LUNCH WITH YOUR FAVORITE MEMBER given out to 1 participant @ afternoon and evening shows (I COULD HAVE POTENTIALLY SEALED THE DEAL HERE)

;_;

;_____;

This ALWAYS happens when I leave. It's no wonder I get depressed >_> *sigh* My plane just better fucking be on time -- apparently it was 3 hours delayed yesterday...

So, I just spent 90 blissful seconds alone with Gaku.

In a bathroom.

With the door closed.

( I'm just not the same person anymore♥ )

If you haven't seen it on pnish already, Sono Tettou is up on the StrawberryWine tracker, so go get it! You know you want to see Tuti cry like a baby ;_____;

And I want to see posts from you people about these plays! I've written nice, long, in-depth reports about every one of these, so you can't say you don't have any thoughts since you can't understand Japanese :P These are plays that should make you explode in fangirl-y glee or weep for days ;_; SO POST, PEOPLE! :P It at least lets me know that it's even worthwhile to rip these, and that people appreciate them.

In other news, I stayed up til midnight last night to check Gaku's blog because he teased everyone saying, "omg I have some biiiiiiig news but I can't tell anyone til midnight 8D SO CHECK BACK!" the whore. Unable to handle the curiosity, I stayed up, and it turned out to be a Gaku+Iwashita KittyGuys party event thingee! FOR 30 PEOPLE 8D (and Gaku and Iwashita are really popular--that's like *pnish* having an event and only inviting something like a couple hundred people, when their tickets already sell out in seconds when there are THOUSANDS)

Guess who's one of those 30 going now? XD I nabbed 2 tickets, actually, and invited hughes_maes to come with me, because that girl needs more taiin in her life ♥ It's on the 26th of this month, and apparently there's going to be a second "party" repeat of the first later on that evening since they wanted to let more than 30 take part. While I could go to the second one as well, I don't really WANT to that much (if this were *pnish*, now...) and, umm, I'd kinda stick out and be creepy XD;;; So one show it is! Even Nagayan doesn't go to Tuti's shows twice

Also, Wasshi's Live DVD came last night!! It's ripping, too, and hamykia and I did indeed manage to make it onto some of the offshots XD;;; Haven't watched the actual show, gonna do that after GANBARUing for more room tickets with Paula on Saturday ♥ The torrent for it should be up tonight ^___^

SO! Today was a holiday for the entire country. Except for me. Because my job is amazing except for the parts when THE BOSS ASKS US TO COME IN ON NATIONAL HOLIDAYS. Seriously >_> I understand that the main reason he asked us to come in is because there's a project we're trying to get done by the end of the month, so he needs us in whenever we possibly can spare a moment, but still ;_;

This also meant I had to play sly-like in order to get an hour off to run to Shibuya and stalk Gakustalk Gaku. As many of you know, the Husband made some hats. They're nothing really special, and I actually have one just like them already that has the Gain logo (some of you may also recall this drabble in which Nagayan got "We're Fucking" stitched onto the hats ^___^)

But I'm me, and as part of my wifely duties, I have to buy all Gaku's crap. Plus he was gonna be there >_> soooo I DRAGGED myself out of work to go to Gain and make him think his crap's worth $50 :P

I was kinda worried that there might be a line (HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA) so I made sure to get there early, and sat around outside of Gain (which wasn't open yet) around 11:20, when the hat was supposed to go on sale at 12, and was the only one for a while. About 15 minutes later, another girl showed up, and another one after her 10 or so minutes later. By 10-til-12, there were five of us waiting altogether, which was pretty good since there were only 9 hats XD

Gaku showed up a little after Tenchou and headed inside while we waited, and a little after 12 Tenchou and Gaku came back down to tell everyone they could come inside now. Gaku kind of led everyone up the stairs, and since I was the first one there, I kinda got to be at the head of the line and stare at Gaku's ass as we went up the stairsgo up behind Gaku. As we're walking up, he's engaging us all in small talk, and he sees the shirt I'm wearing (a pink 3/4 sleeve with GAIN written on it in big letters...seeing as it came from Gain :P) and says, "I've got a shirt just like that! I love it, I wear it aaallll the time :DDDDD" (Me: "...I know, I saw 8D")

Let me stop to take a moment here to let you all know how much of an awesome loser Gaku is ♥ He was wearing an Anten shirt (the triple collab with Gain and Blossam) and had a strange dark bar going diagonal across his chest, looking like he'd spilled something. When one of the other girls pointed it out, asking what it was, he flailed about, embarrassed. "...It's sweat, from wearing my bag..."

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA. OH GAKU. OOOHHHH GAKU. I really wanted to just, die laughing there. But I maintained some semblance of tact XD;;;

When we all sardine'dassembled inside Gain, Tenchou asked us to gather round, because there was a little problem. As we could see, Gaku was wearing a black cap like the ones going on sale. There were 9 caps total: 2 red, 2 blue, 2 orange, 2 yellow, and (originally 2) 1 black. That meant one person could buy the black cap that "matched" Gaku's.

Understanding that many would probably want the black one to match Gaku's, they had decided to draw lots. Two of the girls admitted they were just there to see Tenchou (hahaha XDDDD), one of the others withdrew, and so it was down to just another girl and me :P

Tenchou handed Gaku two playing cards (from this naked-guy deck [imageshack seems to be down at the moment though :/], which Tenchou admitted to having provided XDDDD), one of which had "atari" ("winner") written on it, and had us pick.

Well, with a 50/50 chance, it was kind of hit or miss, eh? I WON XD The Hat, in all its glory:



After making my purchase I explained that I'd LOVE to stay and chat, but unfortunately I had to return to work. Insert much Gaku spazzing about "wtf work on a holiday and WTF WORK? LIKE IN TOKYO? OMG MINAMI AOYAMA? THAT'S. LIKE. CLOSE. WOW."

*digs hooks into the guy some more* >D