Japan Tour ahead!

You said, "I miss you so much"
"Everynight thinking of you
and facing loneliness"
But when you feel sadness
never can I stay with you

(X Japan - Unfinished)

No need to comment that quote from one of my favorite X Songs now.
It follows me.

It's been some time since i wrote the last entry. One week? Wakanai.
So time 4 a new one ^^ It's Sunday night, Saturday's just left. So is it called Saturday night or Sunday night? O_o It's Sunday. But ok. Who cares.
Today was Teaceremony lesson. After we spent the Saturday evening in Shibuya and in the Park between Harajuku and Shibuya with some Malibu, it was pretty hard to get up this morning xD but I arrived just in time. Yokatta.
Teaceremony was like always, I still can't remember the steps xD Affi help me.
After that I went to Harajuku with Diane, shopping. But just looking, be didn't buy anything. It's always so cool there >_< you always explore new little stores.

So now I can't sleep again. Like every night since two weeks O_o I'm tired, but when I go to bed I always stay awake one more hour. Sometimes two. I should get up earlier xD That's it.
This Sunday will be good, you can read then afterwards why and if it really went good ^^
Right now I'm a bit pissed O_o because of Mario. But I hope he'll give me a reason to forget the anger tomorrow.
He promised to come with me tomorrow, but some hours ago, he suddenly changed his opinion, saying that he has to pack O_o for the Japan Tour, that starts... on Tuesday?!
It will be soooo great >_< I'm really lookin' forward to it. We'll go by bus, all around Japan. Except for Okinawa and Hokkaido -.-"
We also won't go to Kyoto, because everybody has been there xD

That's it. Denni told me that she doesn't read all of my blog, cause it's too much ^^
She's right. I should stop.

one last thing: did you ever hear the last "mix" of "Forever Love"? it's kinda cool with the acustic guitar O_o I like it. very much.
Lala

Dark dark dark ...

The topic has nothing to say. I'm just sitting here in the Living room in front of the TV and it's dark. No light on and the Screenlight of my Laptop makes me blind O_o
But ok ^^
I didn't write for a week now - record?
So what happened in that time... Last saturday Aubrey's Parents from America came over and we went singing Karaoke together xD really funny... Especially when the dad and Mads sung AC/DC together. Yay ^^ I'm looking forward for the next time.
On Wednesday, Mario and Mads came over to my house to visit the poor sick Lala ^^ because I catched a baaaad cold >_< It was so funny ^^ They played XBox the most of the time, but at five my Japanese Teacher came over and we had a lesson together, lol, she talked sooo much. And tought Mads how to say watashi xDD he always says washi *lol* cause he talks so fast and with Danish accent ^^ Later we made Sushi by ourselves, we drunk german beer, and my hostdad offered them Whiskey O___ò Mario was kinda scared then xD They didn't drink because they had to go back to their own hostfamilys who don't allow that. So my dad said "next time you stay here over night and we drink together!" my god...
Next day I met Momoka from Finland in Shinjuku and we went to a VisualKei/HeavyMetal CD store, which was soooooooo cool O_O They had a lot of rare, old Stuff, and luckily discount that day ^^ The highlight was obviously the 20 cm-high doll of Yoshiki xD
I bought two old Shoxx (music magazine) from 1993 ^^ yay. They had a box with AutographCards, 1000 yen for each O.o I can't remember which bands, but a lot. Ah, and they had the NIL-Album by Gazette in dark red fabric, which I have back in Germany. It's a limited Edition and sold out in general stores.
After that we went to Ochanomizu, the town of the 100 music stores ^^ Momoka never went there before, so we really had to go! ;)
She plays guitar and was looking for Plecs (i don't know how they're called in english, maybe pics... those small triangles u play with xD) from Dir en grey, and of course we found some.
I bought an X Japan Ballad Collection book for all Instruments, so when I'm back home I can play piano and my brother guitar from it ^^
He had birthday some days ago, and i sent him a plec/pic from hide, and wrote under it "it would make me proud when you play with it a lot" and he DID xD
I talked to him yesterday on messenger, and he sad, that the print of hides name and face on it was already gone after two days. Yay. But back to today!
I also bought a picture book of hide, which is really cool =)
Miau.
Ah, and I forgot to tell about the Metal-Music store there ^^ There was a CD-Store that sold ONLY metal. Three floors, heavy metal, dark metal, trash metal, speed metal, ... everything you need.
Momoka entered the Store and was like "Oh my God! This band is from Finland!!! AND THIS ONE TOO!" She didn't know that Finish Metal is so popular xDDD Then she took pictures of the Children Of Bodom and Sonata Arctica CD's and another Band that I don't know but in which a relative of her plays O_o She said "Finland is so small, I think somehow we're all related to each other there, so it's not special when you say, that a member of your family plays in a famous band" xD The shop was so small, but sooo cool. I have to go there again with Mario. And everybody else who wants.

Going out yesterday made me ill again. My cold is back, stronger than before O_o iyada.

Now something apart from this all ^^
I'm going to have guitar lessons when I'm back O_o
I always wanted to play, and always gave up again too fast. And so I thought, I even gave up becoming a Make Up Artist, so at least, I have to try make THIS dream real. miau miau miau...
Seize the night ~

the ball climbed the right mountain ^^

Wow, that was faster than I thought... I think it was necessary, that I wrote this down last time...'Coz I matched to find the right answer ^^I carried it with me over have a year... and now it's FINALLY over. I'm through the wall, got out of the valley, jumped over my shadow, let the bird fly, cut the rope, ... ... ... opened the bottle of beere ^^ by the way, I have to get some... some of the Beck's, that I received from Nobu.
No, I'm drinking the "Köstritzer" which I bought by myself. It's kind of poor, sitting here at 1:15 at night in the kitchen of my hostfamily in Japan, thinking of my mexican boyfriend, drinking german beer alone and listen to american music during talking to a danish friend on MSN. I should clean up, i ate three oranges xD there's no delicius Kaki in winter -.-" Why not? There's always anywhere a hot place on earth where it can grow ^-^
Ok, that's all for today...
love,happy Lala

How unknown Bands become very very fast very very popular, and how myself makes a jump back in time...

Whou, I'm breaking writing records...
Excuse my Stairway to Heaven - Entry yesterday >_< I was just... in that mood.
Yesterday night, I couldn't sleep, I had a terrible "I'm a loser" trip and had to think the whole time about one special thing, about which I can't write here, because it's too personal. And it's pretty taihen >_< One of the hardest solutions I ever had to make. And I didn't find one yet... I'm still stuck on this thing and I think, I can't find the right answer before the Japan Tour...
I have it since the summer camp was over, and it's getting worse.
I'm not worried, I'm angry about myself. And I'm lost. Very lost. I'm kind of 85% close to a solution, but with only one sign from the other side, it could jump back to 50 or even 25%.
I'm talking in signs, gomen ne >_<
Normally, I'm not an Emo person. I'm more happy than sad. And even IF I'm sad, I won't let YOU see it. No. No reason why and I can't imagine, why you should be interested in my problems, so I keep everyone away from them.
I think, it's also the first time now, that I write sth like that O_o
Kya.
So I'm like a ball in a valley now. I role up the one side, and when it get's too high, I roll back to the other side and back and back and back. Sometimes I'm stuck in the middle, but then a Storm comes over and blows me to one of the two sides, and then it goes on with back back back back back back back back back back back back...
And of course, there's not only left and right, I also roll forward in time and space all the time. Soon the Valley will be gone, and before I was able to climb ONE side, they are BOTH gone and I fall down the Waterfall at the end of the Valley.
I'm writing nonsense. No I don't, but I should stop now.

So let me start again, with today's topic!
The Band I was talking about last time xD The one I met in the Elevator.
I found out who they are.
And............................ lol.
Is there any European here, who doesn't know.... ... ... Take That????? xDDD
The band, Robbie Williams used to sing with.
Fuck.
They're like... the most popular Popband/Boygroup.
Arg.
I don't like them, so it's ok that I didn't know their faces xD
I'm neither angry with myself nor do I think "why didn't I know????"
Lol, even my dad knows them.
I asked him on messenger before, whether he knows them.
His answer was
"yes, did anyone of them die??"
xD ... ... he was in a quiet good mood today.
I cut my hair. xD
At the Salon, I thought It looked good,
then outside and afterwards during hanging out with Kei and Nobu,
I thought it looks terrible.
Now I like it again xD I changed the Style a little bit.
I had the Webcam on when I talked to my dad, and his first comment was:
"If you had a frontbound on your forehead, you'd look like Axel Rose some years ago..."
Thanks dad xDDDD
So what happened to my hair? I have a little pony... I didn't want that, I said that, and the hairdresser said "ok, i won't cut so much in the front".
But he DID cut xD
The rest, he cut a little bit shorter (i didn't want that neither, but it was necessary... my hair was so sick >_<).
So when I now brush my hair, I always think "Eh???? Already over? where's my hair gone??"
Actually, I looked after he styled my hair like many other japanese girls xD terrible.
this cute pony and the curly hair-pointed sides... What you can see on every second poster here.
But when I went home, I took a bath at first and now I styled it MY way, and i'm contently happy with it ^^ I can do so many more things now. Yay.
After getting the Haircut, Kei and me met Nobu in Harajuku, and he had a present for me O_o
He actually told me, that he bought "that" before, but NOT, that he bought it for ME xD
He went to Germany for two weeks and came back last Friday - and what did he gave me today??
THREE bottles of Beck's!!! (german beer ^^) One Beck's Original, one Beck's Gold, and one Beck's Green Lemon.
Whooo... Thank you so much ^^ they are right here next to me now.

Yay, my hands look so scary skinny right now when I see them writing...
Today during havin' lunch with Kei, I thought "wow, they're so fat..."
But when it's getting evening, they always seem to become skinnier xD
I have a ring on my left thumb, and when I forget to take it off in the evening, I can't
do that in the morning xD scary scary scary. But now I can take it off so easily, nearly without any resist.
How interesting, Lara xD

Hm... so i got my haircut today in Harajuku together with Kei, had lunch with her, then we met Nobu, hung a little bit around in shops and then went to the Ginza Street, where I bought a CD of the Musical Chicago, and then I tried some ePianos in the Yamaha Shop, because.....
My father shocked me so much yesterday xD
He said, he's going to build a little record studio in our house *lool*
We don't need that.
But my brother got Turntables for his Birthday on Monday, and he also already bought Mixers and an electronic Drum-Table. O_o
I said, it would be cool if we could also record piano, instead of just guitar and bass and so on.
My dad said "actually your mum wishes an ePiano for Christmas... why don't we look for one??"
So that's why I went to the Yamaha store today.
But I don't like any of their ePianos. Their sound is so bad. Not beautiful at all.
I already said from the beginning on, that I think a "Kurzweil" is the best one. Amanda Palmer from the Dresden Dolls plays one, and I heard it live on Stage and more than enough on CD to know, that it sounds really good.

I guess that's it for today.
Playlist:
Apricot Spells ~ Led Boy
Luca Turilli ~ Deamonheart
Imperanon ~ Shadowsouls
Nirvana ~ The Man Who Sold The World (unplugged)
Queen ~ Bohemian Rhapsody
Robbie Williams ~ Angels
Stratovarius ~ I'm Still Alive
Slipknot ~ Vermillion Pt. 2
Söhne Mannheims ~ Und wenn ein Lied
The Cure ~ Boys Don't Cry
Thin Lizzy ~ Whiskey in the Jar

And I'm sorry for the last time, I wrote Angus Young with a "d" in the end xD I shouldn't rush in the end...

Stairway To Heaven

There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.

Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.
There's a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook
There's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.

Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get
When I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who stand looking.

Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And it's whispered that soon
If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it won't go
In case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow,
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How ev'rything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

A lot of French, an unknown band, more unknown musicians and no money

Hello ~ I'm dead xD It's the 6th of March and I already have no more money. Until April ^^ I shouldn't have gone to Harajuku with Diane today.But it was my own Idea and at least, it was fun ^_^ wasn't it? And I think, I'm allowed to do things like that, because i'm a girl 笑 Actually I'm not sure O_o not here in Japan, sorrounded by all those beautiful women. I always feel so wrong and big when I enter a store xD they're so... fragile. I feel like the Elephant in the Porcelain Store. Yes. Even the boys here are skinnier than me O_oKowaii. But I try not to go down, instead I hear what my friends say. Beeing skinny is not womanlike. I guess ^^ I hope. I know. What else can I expect? Back home, I'll be the small Lala again ^^ Always the smallest. After Saskia. Here I feel more like Lara than Lala. Stupid? No, just what I think. Ok, back to the main topic. No money. The day after tomorrow, I'll have my first haircut in Japan! Wish me good luck. The problem is, that I don't have money. I hope that they take my Credit Card (what I don't believe) or that I get some money from my hostfamily. If not, I have to get some money from my bank account with the emergency found. I don't want.Ok, stop talking about money (whoooooooo, whe have this big Japan-Tour in the End of March, how will I survive???). About the Haircut ^^ I still don't know how I want them to cut it. I want to have longer hair than now, so I pray that they won't cut too much. But on the other side, I want something to play with, something to style easier than just long straight hair. You can do a lot of cool things with long hair, but that's nothing for daily life ^^I could copy "the lion king" :P Or better, old X-Japan stuff ^^ (I like Yoshiki's long hair more than the short version... And I like hide's short hair more than the long xD)blablabla... So it will be a surprise on Thursday. Whou... I want to color it, but I can't because of the strict Japanese School that I go to... I hate being just blond, and sometimes it looks like dirty, light, mose green with a touch of gray, instead of blond O_o I want the upper hair on the top to stay blond, and down under that, I want read or black. Actually I wanted Orange, pink or blue, but maybe later, when I'm student. Aarg, I have to many Ideas for what I want to do when I'm back in Germany with my hair, like Rainbowcolour-Extensions on just one side, twisted from the face to the back of the head. I just want it to stay long, and not to be only blond. But I have time to think. And I shouldn't bother you with this topic, I guess you want to read more interesting things as "hm... what haircut should I get...?" So stop this topic now too.
And write more about the Topic.
A lot of French?
Affi told me, that we probably can't quit French-class when I'm back in Germany *screams* That means, that I have a big Problem. Since I'm in Japan, I forgot how to speak and write French completely 笑 And my class in Germany starts reading the da Vinci Code by Dan Brown this year O_o I already had problems with children's books last year xDDD So what did I do yesterday?? I went to Kinokuniya in Shinjuku, a huge Bookstore, and bought a french book xD Guess which? Riiiight, Murakami Haruki's Kafka on the shore in French xD It's called "Kafka sur le rivage". I tried to read a bit already, and it's not so bad as I thought. I also try to read Diane's Blog in French.
And now I take a bath.

And now I'm back. Ten Minutes before one o 'clock am. Yay xD How interesting. Gomen.Let me go on with the Topic. The unknown Band. On Sunday, we went out for dinner. My Hostparents and me. We went to the Hyatt Hotel in Shinjuku, where "Lost in Translation" played =D We ate at the same place, where "Mistel Hallis" always sat in the evening, where the Lady with the fire-red hair sung and so on. The Piano was still there, but of course some other band playing. Which made me want to learn Bar-piano xD I remember, that my mum has some books about that at home... omg, i have too many plans for the summer holidays, when I'm back ^^ The restaurant is the highest place in Japan where you can eat! Of course, you can climb the Mount Fuji and eat there, I mean the highest located restaurant in a skyscraper ^^ Delicious deshita.
When we got out of the Taxi in front of the Hyatt Lobby, there was a crowd of Japanese Girls, stalking some foreigners, asking to take a picture with them and write autographs. I entered the Hotel with one of the guys the same time, and he smiled at me, but I didn't know his face at all! I guess he thought that I'm also a fan of his band xD How did I found out, that it was a band? My Hostparents and me went into the elevator, and they joined us - together with two huge bodyguards and a hysteric manager ^^ On the way up, one of the guys sung sth, i guess a song of his own band.We got out at the same floor, and one of the "musicians" said smiling "after you", and another one "Hello!" when I looked at him, trying to find out if I ever saw that face before. I really don't know who they were xD But there were so many half-crying Japanese girls downstairs... and the bodyguards... I've been here too long, I don't know what's going on in Europe's Music Scene 笑 And according to the song that one of them sung, it was Popmusic, one more reason why I don't know them. But i guess, when they even have fans in Japan, they can't be so unknown at all. K, those were the first unknown musicians.
Here the next ^^ There was a Classical Concert, organized by Rotary on Saturday. It was quiet cute ^^ At first the "Orchestra" of an elementary school played a madley of "Sound Of Music" and some more classical pieces. It was really cool to see those little girls and boys with their violins and all the other instruments. It looked like a real Orchestra, just that the people became children. They were quiet good for their age O_o bikkurishita.Then two young women played a Piano-Duett, A Sopran sung some french classical pieces, and last but not least there was a really good transverse flute playing girl (I don't know how to say "Floetistin" in English...). I had to think of Juli the whole time >_< How is she doing? How do her Flute-Lessons go on? Which pieces does she play at the moment? Is she better than this girl? Arg... I couldn't stop, I had a terrible sad backflash of so many things we did together... makes me wanna go home. After the concert, I talked a bit to the "Sopranistin". I asked her which pieces she likes to sing the most, and she said that she likes to sing Brahms (was it Brahms? O_o I forgot...) very much. Then Mario and Bulut came, and the asked us where we come from. When Mario said, that he's from Mexico and Bulut from Turkey, she asked, if Mexico is next to Turkey on the Map .
O_____o ................................................ 死んだ.
We died.
Did I mention, that I will take piano lessons when I'm at the next hostfamily? I played a little bit last week, and couldn't believe my eyes and ears. It looked so mecha mecha not elegant, so ungracefully. And it sounded even worse. The Piano isn't tuned and the little room has a quiet bad acoustic, but that can't be the only reason. So I asked my next hostmum, and because her little daughter also takes piano lessons, she agreed ^_^At first the little daughter ran towards me, screaming "than we can take lessons together! You can use my books with pieces for piano!" Ahm.... actually I wanted to learn a piece from Yann Tiersen and try Choplin, and not one-handed-children-songs ála Haensel and Gretel 笑 But I promised her to play together sometimes after the lessons =)Whou, it's going towards 2 am...I'd better close for today. Even If I can sleep deep into the day tomorrow.Today's Playlist during writing:
G n' R ~ Double Talking Jive
Yngwie Malmsteen ~ some madley on Youtube (His guitars are scalloped, but he's still a god. Even if I normally prefere Alexi Laiho, Angus Yound, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Slash and his Majesty Mr. Hendrix)
Childred Of Bodom ~ Hellion
Hide ~ Doubt '97 (Mixed Lemoned Jelly Mix)
The Who ~ Behind Blue Eyes
Metallica ~ Whiskey In The Jar
The Dresden Dolls ~ Neccessary Evil
J. S. Bach ~ BWV 565: Tocatta und Fuge
AC/DC ~ She Shook Me All Night Long
the Gazette ~ Filth in the Beauty
Meat Loaf ~ Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are
Don McLean ~ American Pie
Garth Brooks ~ Callin Baton Rouge
Hide (again)~ Pink Spider
Nightwish ~ Phantom of the Opera
Gary Jules ~ Mad World
Beethoven ~ Moonshine Sonata

What a Mix XD

and last but not least: The Dir en grey Withering to Death Album. I got a Backflash -_- I love this band so much....... ............ ............ The first Japanese Band I ever heard, and still my most loved. Especially this Album. Shinya had birthday two weeks ago... isn't he the most adorable drummer alive? ^_^ He was so... "All I wanna do is to play Drums, to feel my Music and to be here". Like that. And I still have my Toshi(ya) Wallpaper right now on my Laptop. *chrm* I don't really like it when Kyo starts scratching his body on stage... But I look forward to see them this August in Germany again!!!!
Oyasumi

life is live and live is life

Aloha!
I have some good news! Most of u may already know it... I'm going to Wacken this year!!! I'm soooo happy >_<> http://www.wacken.com
There're are quiet a few bands, that I'd really like to see ^^ Such as In Flames, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Blind Guardian, Dir en grey (!!!), Stratovarius, Schandmaul, Norther, Moonsorrow, Iced Earthed, J.B.O. ... ... ... and so on and so on.
Actually, I'm a bit scared xD last year, there were about 65.000 People O_ò and little me between all of these big Heavy Metal Fans xD
I prefere small live's... That's why the best concert i've ever been to, was from the Dresden Dolls. They played in a small Circus-Like tent, and the atmosphere was soo familiar and nice. I was able to stand in the first row without getting killed by the people behind and next to me ^^ Like Metallica and G 'n R was terrible last year... I don't like taking pictures of the big Screens next to the stage, because I can't see the Artist in the REAL Stage xD That sucks. I spent most of my time next to the beer tent, where a lot of nice drunken people came by and asked me to share their food with them xDD It's nice to be there, and of course nice to say that you saw a band like Metallica live ^^ but actually, I didn't enjoy it very much.
My father and little brother are going there this year too. But there won't be Metallica, neither G n' R. There'll be Velvet Revolver.
So little Lala goes to big Wacken xD Three days after I came back to Germany ^^
When I first asked my dad, he said "no, it's too early and I don't want you to go there without me".
Next day my mum wrote: "Are you crazy??? Going to a Metal Festival three days after U came back?? Dont't even think about it... ... ... I'm joking, Once I was young like you, too, so go for it and have fun!" xD My mum. THX!!!
Enough about Festivals, lets turn the speed a little bit down and talk about what happened today...
I went with Mario and Mads to Shimo-Kitazawa, a cool little place in South-West Tokyo. We came there to see Nana's (Ex-Exchange Student, she went to Austria) Band playing at a Livehouse. It was so... great >_<>_<
Then there was another band, which wasn't bad too, but not my fav. Style, and finally Jeepta went on stage. MFG, Nana is so damn cool when she plays drums. She's like smiling all the time, singing all the songs, and just looks sooo happy, after the Gig she's always so different than before.
Jeepta changed a lot since I saw them the first time last year... They became so professional. Last year I thought "ok, he could have sung this part a little bit higher and this deeper xD"
But today he was kind of perfect, and they built much more Guitar Soli into their songs. They also played my favorite song, what made me happy, so I can sleep well tonight ^_^
When they finished, the vocal said "Danke", what surprised me, cause it's German. (Means Thank You) When Nana passed us some paper to write our opinion about jeepta after the live, I wrote "Danke" too ^^ and passed it to Nana, saying "Bitte" (you're welcome/dou itashimashite).
A really cool evening ^^ After Jeepta, Mads, Mario and me went to a restaurant to eat something. I wasn't hungry at all, but Mario drunk too much Beer, and you all know, how much you love the place called toilet after drinking xD So we just searched a Restaurant for Mario and ordered some stuff for not being unpolite gaijin/foreigners. I don't feel like a gaijin, but I am one...
The Nigiri (Riceball with Seeweed around) I ordered was sooo huge O_o I can't eat until Next Monday, I'm sure.

K, I changed the setting of my blog, so that now everynbody can write comments. After Rich told me, that he wanted to write some but wasn't able to. He's sorry for writing to all the people who got the Mail from me *bows*

Ah, something wonderful, what I nearly forgot: from Today on, I have holidays until April 10th!
Yay ^_^ I love to wake up at 5:30 in the morning, caus my body is used to that time, to think "shit, i don't wanna get up now..." and then realize a minute later "wow, i don't have to get up!!!"
So let me sleep now xD I'm mecha tired and my eyes hurt so much...
Oyasumi Nasai!