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meimichiwake up: 4:35 AM
first train: 5:16 AM
arrival: 6:18 AM
left at: 1:25 PM
this is not faiiiir, last year i got there at nine thirty and yet made better time
my body feels like one gigantic heatstroken sunburnt bruise
i know and understand the entire boyband cult marketing strategy and am aware i am just playing their evil psychological game by doing this, i wish i were ignorant since knowing just makes it more embarrassing
why can't we buy this crap on the internet as god intended
last year i swore i'd never do this EVER AGAIN EVER EVER EVER, venue-limiteds be damned, NEVER AGAIN, it was the worst experience i ever had as a fan. last year it took five hours and forty-five minutes
this year it took SIX hours and forty-five minutes and i got there at six-thirty in the morning this year, the ONLY reason i might rate it as a slight improvement was that this year at least i wasn't all alone and it was cloudy in the early morning (but i still got sunburned later on)
i don't see how anyone could do goods in the morning and go to the con in the evening at that venue, i was sooo wobbly on my feet getting out of there and felt sooo sick.
The goods are cute but like the Diet Coke of last year, like they just recycled everything. Last year was adorable so there are worse things, but I'm not that impressed - they followed through on the *~SEXY!~* photoshoot vs casual and cute photoshoot concept from the album shoot, but the album did it way better (and my idea about using the sunglasses shots for the mini-uchiwa would have been way cuter than what they ended up with ;w;).
Jun looks really amazing on everything, but Nino is in that "get a fucking haircut" stage again.
I shouldn't have bought the penlight given it's almost the exact same as last year, but I did against all better judgement just because I ALWAYS buy the stupid penlight. :(
Feel SUPER spoiled on mini-uchiwa second year in a row. Is it okay for Jun fans to be that spoiled two years running?!
When we got near the first row and could see the street, someone near the street walking out of the goods area held up their uchiwa set for everyone still in line to see, and everyone was freaking out and squealing over that, but I looked over towards the street and could see a nondescript van turning the corner across the way with curtains drawn all around the windows.
Practice started inside Kokuritsu a little while after that, so my exciting story of the morning is I totally saw Arashi's van. *~thrilling~*
The beginning songs they rehearsed were impossible to make out from across the street. We were trapped waiting a really long time on the steps once we crossed over, though, and you could hear really well there. We could make out Yurase, Ima wo, the intro for Troublemaker, 1992*4##111, and (surprisingly) ROCK YOU.
My friend and I were like, "It's THAT song! What's it called?" and started singing along to Yurase, Ima wo until we hit the chorus and were like, "OH RIGHT." I was like, "How do we know the lyrics but not the title?!" Same thing happened for ROCK YOU, except the lyrics were no help with that one, and we were sooo frustrated trying to remember what the song was called.
Me: "I know it's what's-its-name from Time!!" My friend: "It's the one that's not Love Situation!"
Surprised that's on the setlist, though, so random. If I remember correctly, I think Kotoba no Chikara's finale encore was the only time they ever sang it live... I'm always happy about Time songs making reappearances since it's my favorite album, and to keep its songs in the mix so much I think they like it about as much as I do.
SONGS WISHLIST:
+ SUPER FRESH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+ Tokei Jikake no Umbrella (I think this would be super cool-looking live)
+ Attack it! to be made a standard song forever and ever
+ basically, SUPER FRESH
I kinda want to keep unspoiled for the setlist but I don't think I can hold out two weeks...
ugh and now I'm going to bed and not coming out for YEARS, I am so so so glad I am not going tomorrow so I can recover from this ;w;
first train: 5:16 AM
arrival: 6:18 AM
left at: 1:25 PM
this is not faiiiir, last year i got there at nine thirty and yet made better time
my body feels like one gigantic heatstroken sunburnt bruise
i know and understand the entire boyband cult marketing strategy and am aware i am just playing their evil psychological game by doing this, i wish i were ignorant since knowing just makes it more embarrassing
why can't we buy this crap on the internet as god intended
last year i swore i'd never do this EVER AGAIN EVER EVER EVER, venue-limiteds be damned, NEVER AGAIN, it was the worst experience i ever had as a fan. last year it took five hours and forty-five minutes
this year it took SIX hours and forty-five minutes and i got there at six-thirty in the morning this year, the ONLY reason i might rate it as a slight improvement was that this year at least i wasn't all alone and it was cloudy in the early morning (but i still got sunburned later on)
i don't see how anyone could do goods in the morning and go to the con in the evening at that venue, i was sooo wobbly on my feet getting out of there and felt sooo sick.
The goods are cute but like the Diet Coke of last year, like they just recycled everything. Last year was adorable so there are worse things, but I'm not that impressed - they followed through on the *~SEXY!~* photoshoot vs casual and cute photoshoot concept from the album shoot, but the album did it way better (and my idea about using the sunglasses shots for the mini-uchiwa would have been way cuter than what they ended up with ;w;).
Jun looks really amazing on everything, but Nino is in that "get a fucking haircut" stage again.
I shouldn't have bought the penlight given it's almost the exact same as last year, but I did against all better judgement just because I ALWAYS buy the stupid penlight. :(
Feel SUPER spoiled on mini-uchiwa second year in a row. Is it okay for Jun fans to be that spoiled two years running?!
When we got near the first row and could see the street, someone near the street walking out of the goods area held up their uchiwa set for everyone still in line to see, and everyone was freaking out and squealing over that, but I looked over towards the street and could see a nondescript van turning the corner across the way with curtains drawn all around the windows.
Practice started inside Kokuritsu a little while after that, so my exciting story of the morning is I totally saw Arashi's van. *~thrilling~*
The beginning songs they rehearsed were impossible to make out from across the street. We were trapped waiting a really long time on the steps once we crossed over, though, and you could hear really well there. We could make out Yurase, Ima wo, the intro for Troublemaker, 1992*4##111, and (surprisingly) ROCK YOU.
My friend and I were like, "It's THAT song! What's it called?" and started singing along to Yurase, Ima wo until we hit the chorus and were like, "OH RIGHT." I was like, "How do we know the lyrics but not the title?!" Same thing happened for ROCK YOU, except the lyrics were no help with that one, and we were sooo frustrated trying to remember what the song was called.
Me: "I know it's what's-its-name from Time!!" My friend: "It's the one that's not Love Situation!"
Surprised that's on the setlist, though, so random. If I remember correctly, I think Kotoba no Chikara's finale encore was the only time they ever sang it live... I'm always happy about Time songs making reappearances since it's my favorite album, and to keep its songs in the mix so much I think they like it about as much as I do.
SONGS WISHLIST:
+ SUPER FRESH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+ Tokei Jikake no Umbrella (I think this would be super cool-looking live)
+ Attack it! to be made a standard song forever and ever
+ basically, SUPER FRESH
I kinda want to keep unspoiled for the setlist but I don't think I can hold out two weeks...
ugh and now I'm going to bed and not coming out for YEARS, I am so so so glad I am not going tomorrow so I can recover from this ;w;
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Date: 2010-08-20 10:13 am (UTC)I'm kind of looking forward to Nino's new drama ♥
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Date: 2010-08-20 10:48 am (UTC)I feel so stupid because I moved here while Time was going on, and I just got tickets for the Dome finale since I wasn't really that into Arashi at the time. But I could have gotten tickets for arena shows if I'd been on the ball, and I'm kicking myself since that was my one shot, and at this point I have to accept that they may very well never do an arena tour ever again. :( SO STUPID
I'm happy but kind of like D: that Jun just got his getsuku and then Fuji sends Nino to Tuesday. FUJI, GET YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT, THAT IS NOT THE ORDER THIS SHOULD HAVE GONE IN :(
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Date: 2010-08-20 04:53 pm (UTC)did u hear about mao & shun having some drama that's resembling dr. dolittle?
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Date: 2010-08-20 02:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-20 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-20 04:52 pm (UTC)my friend said that she got there around 545 and made it into the 3rd line, and got in around 1030 to get her stuff, i dunno what time she got out though. then i read other reports where the people who bought goods at night only had to wait 1 hr. at this point, u cant even tell when it's the best time to go. :/ at least ur resting and not standing up after that insane waiting time...
thank u for sharing ur experience. it's always fun to read :) ill look forward to the concert one as well.
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Date: 2010-08-24 06:44 am (UTC)All because I wanted to have a penlight for the concert...
They didn't do "Tokei Jikake no Umbrella" on Sunday, did they? I knew I couldn't get my hopes up.
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Date: 2010-08-24 11:10 am (UTC)They don't change the setlists in recent years between cons (aside from encores), unless they start out with a setlist that is a total trainwreck. Jun was sick the day they picked Dream-A-Live's setlist and the other four picked one that went over like a lead balloon; the first show and the second were two days apart and Jun did a total rehaul in the interim. But the setlist seems not so popular going off fan reaction, and that combined with how the staging may have to be changed for September due to the hanabi taikai at Kokuritsu means the setlist could change around a bit by next time, idk.
Tokei Jikake can't just be added in randomly though, that's a song that really needs dance choreography. Oh well. Maybe next time.
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Date: 2010-08-24 11:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-25 09:13 am (UTC)