I'm listening to "Cultural Mixing" by Kaqriyo Terror Architect. It's been a long time since I've actually absorbed the brilliance of this album. Every single song is perfect. Not one bad note in the entire album. That's so fucking rare these days. And of course, it figures that this group in their prime were three girls who w...
2020-03-04 17:12:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all of you! I've been kind of quiet lately, but take a look at Idol Underworld now, and you'll see why...
I JUST ADDED SIX BRAND NEW GROUPS! And if that wasn't enough, I also have merchandise added from other groups as well, and lots of restock items, plus some announcements about what is coming up! So buckle in.....
2020-03-03 17:31:47 +0000 UTC View Post
You know, Moneyball, that movie with Brad Bitt, about Major League Baseball... it might be one of the best-looking movies I've ever seen. I've been working on colors for grading the documentary and this money kind of jumped out at me. So, I think I'm going to try for that look... and coincidentally, a long time ago, back when...
2020-02-23 15:47:07 +0000 UTC View Post
You know, I decided to use Patreon to give an update for everybody as to what's happening at Idol underworld this past week. It's SO much that to put it all on Facebook might be really difficult to do, given how much there is to actually discuss. So here you go. This post is FREE and open to the public, so there is no need to...
2020-02-13 20:38:39 +0000 UTC View Post
I'll get to the reason for the title of this post in a moment. Trust me, it's funny!
Anyway, I haven't posted in awhile because I've been beyond busy with doing a million idol related activities. I figured now would be a good time to relate all these activities to you, my fellow supporters, since I want you to know what...
2020-02-07 06:54:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, I ate that spaghetti by myself.
It wasn't meant to be anything except another late night tweet, or post, or whatever, from my heart. Just something I felt at the time. Nothing too much to worry about... I wanted to eat spaghetti with somebody because I didn't want to go through all that trouble of making a b...
2020-01-27 20:27:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody! Yeah... I got some MAJOR news. So let's just jump into it...
For starters, I have to tell you all a huge THANKS for making 2019 a great year for me. I mean, personally, it was one of the worst years of my life, but professionally and business-wise, it happened to be a year that changed a lot ...
2020-01-20 16:17:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hamidasystem's new album, Down, has been playing seriously nonstop for me these days. It's really the soundtrack to me going out of my fucking mind. These late nights are becoming slow exercises in mental stability. Like... I have so much to do, I am so overwhelmed by everything I've lost here, and I often stare off and get p...
2020-01-17 23:22:19 +0000 UTC View Post
That's an old Beastie Boys reference. Not sure why I am thinking of them at the moment, but... yeah. Bonus points for you if you are actually old enough to catch my switch in the song title there.
Anyway, how is everybody doing? Been a minute since I've did one of these posts. Not that I've lost interest or anything; ju...
2020-01-15 20:37:35 +0000 UTC View Post
The fancy title just says, "Happy New Years" in Japanese. Or something like that.
I'm sitting here in my apartment on the last day of 2019 eating a half pound Reese's chocolate peanut butter cup. It was a gift sent to me by a fan of Idol Underworld and also of me, which is humbling to even write out here. I feel like he...
2019-12-31 12:18:25 +0000 UTC View Post
My Day Yesterday:
So, yeah, went to immigration in the morning to basically make sure I don't die a lonely death someplace other than Japan, which I'm sure to do here the way my life has gone since coming to this beautiful yet haunting country. But it all went surprisingly well and more easier than expected. Thanks Taka...
2019-12-21 14:48:30 +0000 UTC View Post
When it comes to God, there are two things I believe:
1. There IS a God.
2. I am not that God.
I used to believe so much more about God, and Jesus, and all things religious. This time in my life every year, as a child, it was so special. Not just because it was Christmas time and all that goes with tha...
2019-12-19 16:26:14 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a minute. December is here, and that means Christmas will be happening soon, though here in Japan, it's really not that big of a deal. It's more like an excuse to line up for a ridiculously over-priced bucket of KFC and yeah... cute lights everywhere put on trees and buildings and everything you can possibly attach ...
2019-12-01 20:47:40 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a minute, hasn't it?
So the last few weeks were a whirlwind of both happiness and shit all mixed together and slung at my face with the speed of a Nolan Ryan Fastball.
I was able to secure some more interviews, including a very easy and fun interview with the members of Kiss Hug XOXO (Picture...
2019-11-24 23:51:28 +0000 UTC View Post
4AM is super dangerous for me. Mentally speaking.
I spent Saturday basically taking chekis of idols. All fucking day. It was so much fun, despite being tired from only getting about two hours of sleep Friday night after Miyakos seitansai show. Two new groups joining Idol Underworld, one of which whose chekis are a...
2019-11-02 19:22:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hanako and me were trying to decide what would be best to film that is outside of a live show. She suggested her ritual of buying stickers for her fans and for herself, plus other assorted goods. So we met up and I filmed her while she just did her thing. But true to Hanako's wonderfully engaging self, she couldn't resist but...
2019-10-30 17:08:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm literally going crazy.
Like, I've been going nonstop the past week. NON. FUCKING. STOP.
It's not that I don't have time to myself or time to sleep. I just CAN'T be alone. I CAN't sleep. "My nerves will be the death of me... I know. I knoooooow." So said somebody a long time ago (bonus cheki to you ...
2019-10-23 18:34:34 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the best memories I have of this past year is coming home from shows and HER shoes would be there, in the genkan of my apartment. She had got off work and surprised me and waited for me while I finished up doing the idol thing. It's these kind of things that really will never leave my memory, I think, even when I'm muc...
2019-10-16 16:54:40 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been buuuuussy. As usual. Tomorrow, oh man... got two interviews lined up, and I'm working on my biggest interview yet. Ricky's helping me with that one. I'm so grateful he's actually saying he'll find the time to make it happen, since I know he has his hands full. We had our Balzac Two Man live last night and, well... y...
2019-10-14 14:59:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Everybody is fucking freaking out here in Japan because of the typhoon coming our way. Everything got cancelled today, which when I say today, I mean like later today, as in 12 hours or so. Necroma was going to serve goat soup to people during our season of the witch promo event to kick off Necroma's annual October festivitie...
2019-10-11 18:08:06 +0000 UTC View Post
NOTE: DO NOT SHARE THESE PICTURES OR POST THEM ON SOCIAL MEDIA! They are ultra private and Hanako does not want these shared. Please respect her wishes!
What's up guys!
So I just sent all of you a message but to reiterate... I have updated my Patreon pledge tiers and now all of you need to rejoin at the leve...
2019-10-09 22:14:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Here I am again.
Had to film Kiss Hug tonight. I totally was not on the right side of the stage to do this... plus I had a ridiculous overhead light in some parts that was so fucking blinding, for me to get anything to focus, I would've had to increase my aperture to some ridiculous number that would've basically ...
2019-10-02 18:18:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Literally woke up after two hours of sleep exactly. I have no idea how the fuck I managed to do that. Usually when I try something like a two hour sleep quickie, I fuck that up so bad that I end up having to cancel whatever I had planned and do a restart.
I couldn't do that this time. I was scheduled to film Lilii...
2019-10-01 18:26:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Monday started off like a Monday... you know, every fucking thing going wrong that could go wrong.
The space I wanted to rent in Ikebukuro to do the interviews pulled some bullshit with me and said they couldn't rent the room that I reserved anymore because it had already been rented. Though it wasn't last night w...
2019-09-30 18:18:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Fell asleep so late last night after Kunogi's graduation show. Tried working and ended up just zombifying in front of my computer. I literally fell asleep with my head on the keyboard.
Woke up late and wasn't sure if I was going to make it all the way to Roppongi to film Nanomoral at Varit. I love Varit. The guy w...
2019-09-29 12:51:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Last night was Kunogi Kenbishi's final performance as a member of Necronomidol.
I was upstairs at Shinjuku Marz doing some filming for my documentary. For Necroma, it's tricky for me to film them in Tokyo because of the fact that Kunogi is leaving and also because it's hard to really focus on Himari, Rei, and Kaki...
2019-09-28 21:55:49 +0000 UTC View Post
My GOD, have I been busy! I mean, so busy I have literally slept maybe six hours in the past two days! Just... holy fuck me all to hell!
So, here was my day today....
Woke up an hour before I needed to be at the interview with Mizuho. If you don't know the Mizuho I'm referring to, and if you are blind and can't se...
2019-09-24 17:40:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, that was interesting.
Hanako San invited me to come film her recording today. The brain on this girl. She knows me putting that out there is going to get people excited about her upcoming music that she will be releasing, as well as capture a moment in time that shows who she is and what she's doing in idol. Soooo...
2019-09-20 14:48:24 +0000 UTC View Post
The documentary keeps rolling.
So this time, I filmed Nanomoral's very rare acoustic live set. It was at Shinjuku Dues. I had so much fun at this live, and felt so many great emotions. It's weird because there is kind of an underlying sadness in Nanomoral's songs, I think, yet you can't help but feel like it's at ...
2019-09-18 17:59:45 +0000 UTC View Post
First, all of you who gave me such beautiful words of encouragement in the last Patreon post... THANK YOU. Also, didn't mean to sound like... I guess not understanding... when some of you mentioned I seek professional help. That just blindsided me... because I didn't think I was sounding that far gone. Honestly, I am in...
2019-09-16 17:16:35 +0000 UTC View Post
