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Karen
09 August 2010 @ 12:25 am
I know it's been forever since the concert, but this song keeps getting stuck in my head! I looked for a version of the lyrics online but the only place I could find them were on this video but with my help I got a pretty good version from the lovely @karavanuemura on this post.
Still, the lyrics didn't match up completely so I spent about half an hour replaying the song over and over while listening closely - I'm thinking I've got the lyrics pretty well down and might do a vocal cover.... when I have time lol ;)

For anyone who might be interested, here're the lyrics I came up with. I don't claim infallibility - let me know if you hear something different than what I do! Feel free to repost with links back to this post. Thanks!
lyrics behind the cut :) )
 
 
Current Mood: tiredtired
Current Music: Akanishi Jin - Yellow Gold
 
 
 
Karen
04 August 2010 @ 02:12 am
some videos for your perusal:




I only have a week left of summer break! Going to a small private episcopal school has its downfalls, *sigh*
How's everyone been? What've you been up to lately?

-K
 
 
Current Mood: indescribableindescribable
Current Music: Mason Jennings - I Love You And Buddha Too
 
 
Karen
28 July 2010 @ 10:25 pm
the image in my firefox profile/persona/thing and the image on my lj are the same, haha.

lol

i can't believe it took me so long, they must have been set like that for like 3 months at least! *is embarrassed*
in other news, i finally installed the arashi mood theme by [info]okimiyage , after probably about half a year of meaning to ;)
yes, i'm relatively proud of myself for finally doing it but.... dammit, why am i so slow?!?!

-K

ps: visit the main blog!
 
 
Current Mood: geekygeeky
Current Music: arctic monkeys - fake tales of san francisco
 
 
Karen
[originally posted on the main blog]

So, guess who finally watched the 5x10 concert DVD?

.... Yeah, I'm pretty slow when it comes to these things.

Anyway, watching this concert made me appreciate Arashi more than ever. I love how genuine and earnest they are, I love how hardworking they are, I love the message that they send through their beautiful song lyrics, I love the fun dances, I love how much detail is put into every single one of their performances, and most of all I love them as people. Seeing 10 years of hard work pay off for them in such a way makes me so proud of them. Words cannot explain how much I respect them as artisans of the highest caliber.

The way that they can so easily engage, captivate, and entertain audiences is so staggering. Even though I can only understand about 50% of what they say in concerts, they never cease to amaze me. Seeing them fly through the air during "truth" [the first Arashi song I ever liked and memorized], listening to Jun's whine while happily snapping along to his version of "Wish," watching the fireworks during "Believe," shouting along with Sho's rap in "Lucky Man" - all of it is the most amazing, unique experience that is Arashi.

Extravagant. Fabulous. Stupid. Talented. Inspiring. All of these words describe the magic of Arashi. Only Arashi would make me will my computer to continue working after three hours of downloading videos. Only Arashi would have me singing Japanese pop at the top of my lungs - in the middle of school. Only Arashi would motivate me to spend hours flooding twitter. Only Arashi would inspire me to shout "do it!" at random times. Only Arashi would have me singing, clapping along, and making a fool of myself in front of the computer on a regular basis.

I can't express how thankful I am to have become part of this fandom. Although it's clearly taken over a *lot* of my time and my level of insanity has probably been taken up a notch, it's opened up doors to learning the Japanese langauge, it's given me a chance to meet and talk to fans from all over the world, it's been a solid source of inspiration, and best of all: it's been a source of pure positivity in an environment that lately has had loads of things ready to bring me down. I hate how cliched this metaphor is, but they really have been a beam of light in the darkness that is our world.

All I really can say to end this post is that it's 2:44 AM, I should go to sleep, but I can't until I say one thing:
嵐, ほんとにありがとうございます!!!

-K
 
 
Current Mood: crazycrazy
Current Music: Crystal Kay - Flash
 
 
 
Karen
30 June 2010 @ 05:15 pm
I know I haven't posted anything here in the longest time, but that's mainly b/c I only post here w/ original work of mine related to Arashi, and that generally doesn't happen [or when it does, I post it to my Tumblr instead, hehe.]

Anyway, last night I finished learning the Monster dance and figured people on LJ would appreciate it~



Sorry that this is so riddled with mistakes! Clearly, I’m no seasoned dancer: it took me ~5 hours just to get this far, and I took a few liberties in changing up a few steps. Plus, I gave up and decided to just post this version after something like four failed attempts, haha. I was also going to do a voice cover along with this, but (a) I don’t have a good voice recording device and (b) when I did try to record, I sounded like an 8-year-old soooo~ Anyways, let me know what you think!

-K
 
 
Current Mood: awakeawake
Current Music: 4Minute - I My Me Mine
 
 
Karen
30 April 2010 @ 11:28 pm
I have so much to catch up on that I vlogged instead:



(btw, if you're wondering what's up w/ my lip, they're scars from several cleft lip repair surgeries - I was born with a bilateral cleft lip)

Welcome to the month of May~
-K
 
 
Current Mood: contentcontent
Current Music: Arashi - Ashita no Kioku
 
 
Karen
17 April 2010 @ 09:06 pm
Well, as this journal has been dead for the past few weeks, and I just posted here:



So I figure it'd be a good idea to kind of introduce myself to any new friends that may come by, so uhm
Let The Party Start! )
 
 
Current Music: MGMT - Love Always Remains
 
 
 
Karen
05 April 2010 @ 10:09 pm
After first seeing this post on the Language Log, I kept finding this image in .jpg form - every time I read it it made me smile - but it bothered me that it was in .jpg form rather than the proper form for text images, .png. Hence, I did a little Google stalk and found the original .png images in an entry on the [info]grammar_nazis page. + pasted them together to form this beauty:

[more under the cut] )
 
 
Current Music: Arashi - Believe
 
 
Karen
28 March 2010 @ 03:02 pm
I feel like this post would be better suited to be posted to my main blog, but anyway....
I'm so tired of life. I've only been back at school for a week now and I'm so exhausted both physically and mentally. This weekend I had a lot of plans, but ended up canceling all of them because of my practically braindead state of mind. To put it simply - it sucks to feel this way.
So many things just kind of piled up at once and I couldn't really take it anymore, and I kind of fell apart at school yesterday. My parents don't know about this but some of my friends do, and I feel kind of bad showing this weak side of me to them (I never tell any of my secrets/problems to other people, they're always burdened enough by their own life, you know?). I'm pretty sure they're all going to feel awkward talking to me on Monday, but anyway - I'm sure w/ time, everything will heal.

Anyway, I just watched Ao No Honou (The Blue Light) for the second time. There are so many subtle little nuances in this film that really capture my attention and kept me captivated with the story. Just as the first, I was astonished by Nino's acting - he really is a "natural talent" like CNN said, haha.
The symbolism, the script, the characters - it's all so well-thought out and done. It really is one of my favorite movies now....

I really don't want to do homework. I have a huuuuge load left, seeing as that I haven't even started on it yet, but I just can't bring myself to do it.

Maybe I'll take a nap.

-K
 
 
Current Music: arashi - blue
 
 
Karen
03 March 2010 @ 06:05 pm
So yesterday at I think it was 12:00 JST (at my house (PST), it was 7 PM) the first wave of rabid twitter fangirls started sending out tweets pimping out our favorite boys. Like 5 hours in and 3 hundred twenty something contributors in and:
screencaps under the cut! )
 
 
Current Mood: weirdweird
Current Music: Big Bang - Number 1