Shiina Ringo – Ringo EXPO 08 DVD!

I received an email notification from CDJapan today informing me that Shiina Ringo will be putting out a new concert DVD! It is called “Ringo EXPO 08  DVD” and will feature footage from concert she held late last year. Here is their official info:

“Ringo Shiina/Ringo EXPO 08  DVD

4619 yen US$51/90.48  Release Date:2009/03/11
Description:Live DVD release from Ringo Shiina featuring footage of live performance “(Nama) Ringo EXPO 08 – 10 Shunen Kinen Sai -” at Saitama Super Arena on November 30, 2008. Features selected songs from her debut album to latest album including unreleased songs. Played with orchestra, band, and more for 68 people total. Features plenty to see such as daring stage design, varied costumes, footage, and dancers.

bonus:10th anniversary “Manajiri” box, 10th anniversary sticker, “Mikan no Kawa” musical score,”

I’m really excited for this. I am a sucker for visuals so I’m glad that they mention the “daring stage design” and “varied costumes” but I’m more excited about all the performers. “Orchestra, band, and more for 68 people total” = one hell of a concert! Here are two images I found of the concert that will give you a taste of the crazy visuals:

The Last Shadow Puppets – New Single!

The Last Shadow Puppets just put out a digital single and it was quite the little package! It is called My Mistakes Were Made for You which had already appeared on their first album but it’s the B-sides that make the package. At first, I was a little disappointed because the two new songs were on different packages, one was on the vinyl (which I have no way of playing) and the other was on CD. The digital release has both new songs AND a live performance of an old one AND four acoustic versions of their old songs. I was quite surprised to see the acoustic ones since they will not appear in any of the physical releases. However, the digital release will also have a physical release but only in the US. It’s due out November 4th.

This is the tracklist for the various versions:

• CD RUG 309CD and digital

1. “My Mistakes Were Made for You” – 3.04
2. “Separate and Ever Deadly” (live from New Theatre, Oxford) – 2.58
3. “My Little Red Book” (live from New Theatre, Oxford) (David/Bacharach) – 2.42

• 7″ RUG 309

1. Side A “My Mistakes Were Made for You” – 3.04
2. Side B “Paris Summer” (Guest vocals by Alison Mosshart, (live from The Olympia, Paris) (Hazlewood) – 3.38

• 7″ RUG 309X

1. Side A “My Mistakes Were Made for You” – 3.04
2. Side B “Separate and Ever Deadly” (Live from New Theatre, Oxford) – 2.58

• EP (US only)

1. “My Mistakes Were Made for You” – 3.04
2. “Separate and Ever Deadly” (live from New Theatre, Oxford) – 2.58
3. “Paris Summer” – featuring Alison Mosshart (live from the Olympia, Paris) (Hazlewood) – 3.38
4. “My Little Red Book” (live from New Theatre, Oxford) (David/Bacharach) – 2.42
5. “The Age of the Understatement” (acoustic)
6. “Standing Next to Me” (acoustic)
7. “The Meeting Place” (acoustic)
8. “My Mistakes Were Made tor You” (acoustic)

(source= Wikipedia)

For this single, they recorded a music video for the title track. It’s a cool video, not much happens, it’s mainly Alex walking around and you see Miles leaning on a car and playing guitar. They do show the girl of the song a few times. The ambiance and the visuals are really well done and makes it worth watching (not to mention the great song!). You can see it here:

Final Fantasy XII Wallpapers

I’m sorry for the lack of updating, I’ve just been really busy this summer. Anyway, here are a few wallpapers I made of Final Fantasy XII scans I had.  The widescreen and non-widescreen versions are in this zip file:

Sendspace link

Here are thumbnails:

New Shiina Ringo Performance!

There are a couple of videos up on Youtube now where she performs three songs with new arrangements. The songs are Honnou, Ishiki and Yume no Ato.  Also, part of SOIL&PIMP SESSIONS are the guys playing behind her but I’m not sure. The songs are in a laid back jazzy style. It’s nice to see her performing again! I can’t wait til we get to see her performances in August! Here are the videos (they also have high quality versions available so make sure to click on that!):

Honnou:

Shiina Ringo – Watashi to Houden Review + Wallpaper

Today I received my copy of Shiina Ringo’s 10th year anniversary B-sides and rarities compilation Watashi to Houden. I had ordered the limited edition version and it comes in awesome packaging. The whole thing is a thick sort of cardboard, very solid feeling. There is no jewel case here. The cover  has the picture of Ringo without any words so it looks really cool. This is the cover:

Love the tazer~

Here is the album tracklist:

Tracklist (Disc 1)

1. Suberidai
2. Unconditional Love
3. Remote Controller
4. Memai
5. Rinne Highlight
6. Aozora
7. Toki ga Bousou Suru
8. Sigma (Σ)
9. Tokyo no Hito
10. 17
11. Kimi no Hitomi ni Koi Shiteru

Tracklist (Disc 2)

1. Mellow
2. Fukou Jiman
3. So Cold
4. Aisaika no Choushoku
5. Sid to Hakuchuumu
6. Ishiki ~Sengo Saidaikyuu no Boufuuu Kennai Kashou~
7. Meisai ~Sengo Saidaikyuu no Boufuuu Kennai Kashou~
8. la salle de bain
9. Karisome Otome (HITOKUCHIZAKA ver.)
10. Sakuran (ONKIO ver.)
11. Ichijiku no Hana

When you open it up, you are greeted with another picture of Ringo and you find that the booklet is glued onto the case.  This is what you see:

I like the picture of her but I don’t like that it’s much like the picture on the cover except that she doesn’t have her weapon. As you can see, the booklet doesn’t have anything on the cover, and the inside is all grey but it has several different pseudo-blueprint electric designs all over it that are white. There are no pictures of Ringo in the booklet which equals =(.

the electric designs are comical, though =)

Mika Nakashima Wallpapers

These are a bunch of wallpapers of the Japanese musician, Mika Nakashima. I made them from images from her Sirens photo book. She was dressed up as some sort of angel in one of them and just glamorous in the other two outfits. I really like the pictures, there weren’t too many of them but most of them were wallpaper material =). I made them in both widescreen and regular screen sizes as usual. I put them all (both sizes) in one zip file. You can get it here:

Sendspace:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/mnrf9j

Here are thumbnails of them before you download:

Welcome to Slash&Sl@sh!

I finally got around to starting this! The spring semester ended in early May but it wasn’t until now that I was able to free up some time to start a blog. I will try to keep this thing updated properly so check back often!

Ayu, Shiina Ringo, and Final Fantasy Wallpapers

Here’s to the first wallpaper post of the blog!!

It’s only a few, varied wallpapers for now. I’ll usually be coming with batches of a similar subject in the future. There will be both widescreen and non-widescreen versions of each wallpaper.

First up is a couple of Ayumi Hamasaki ones I made. I’m not sure if the second one really works but I wanted to use the image that is on the left but I didn’t want to have it on it’s own since most people keep their icons on the left side of their screen. I think it’s a bit cluttered but it’s pretty =).

Widescreen:

Non-Widescreen:

Widescreen:

Non-Widescreen:

Next up is a Final Fantasy wallpaper. This one features Cloud and is from the Advent Children movie. I remember I got a really high quality scan of this from, I believe, AnimePaper a long time ago and recently found it on my hardrive.

Widescreen:

Non-Widescreen:

Last but most definitely not least is my favorite musician, Shiina Ringo. This is from a screen capture I took of the Just Can’t Help It! concert. I had to blow it up from a small image (you’d think DVD would have awesome resolution) and did my best to make it presentable.

Widescreen:

Non-Widescreen:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!