[ voice | Japanese ]

[ There's a sound of rustling paper and someone muttering about how Kuma-chan is wrong that kanji SO not the one for horse does he need glasses? for a moment of two. Then Ryuichi is speaking directly at the communicator, his Japanese is - as usual - a little slurry as if he is permanently drunk. ]

So I got a bunch of stuff written up but not really have the melody all worked out. That's okay though cuz that's how music works - you don't just throw stuff out and expect it to suddenly be all ready to go! Unless you are really that desperate to sing something like winning a bet or something!

Anyways, I think this work, what does everyone else think? LET ME READ IT TO YOU!


A small bird with closed eyes says "Even like this I can still fly"
Because straining its ears, if it listens to the wind, it has nothing to fear.

A raising voice in the news says "Lies are wrong"
A kitten with hidden claws holds its belly and laughs.

Knowing the meaning of loving, while I get frightened of loving.
Even if it's unnatural, without the filthiness of my heart
I can't walk now.

Seeing dreams about you.
But still tomorrow will come.
But still...

I will be able to get to somewhere.
But still tomorrow will come.

In the dream known as "Eternity", feeling giddy,
I covet for the rotten fruit.
Taking the way to survive and throwing it away,
I wait for tomorrow.

I guess that's it!


[ooc; OOPS! I forgot to mention that the lyrics are from the song Chaos by the band SCARECROW. It is a pretty song even though the words are a bit bleak. I feel that it fits with how things are in the city right now. ]

Looks like Reiji has gone home. I can't find her anywhere and her link's gone dead. Pretty funny, ain't it? I mean after all the wishing, the only people who leave are the support members. Managers, producers, backup...

I'm gonna miss her spying on me every minute of the day.

pure love, true love, get tonight!
chikatetsu no arai toki midasareru iki
faky, lonly, break tonight!
kudake sou na omoi daki kimi ni mukau
hajime no yokan wa tayorinai hodo fushizen ni
DOA ga tojite me ga atta

Hey Tohma! No fair in making the hospital staff keep us out!

[ video ]

[ There's a flash of pink and some muttering and then the camera is fully on. What stands before is clearly Ryuichi, but he doesn't look like his usual self. HE managed to clean up and was wearing make-up, his hair styled in a tousled manner to make it look like he just got out of bed. But what was really interesting was what he was wearing - outside of the bright pink rabbit on top of his head.

That's right boys and girls, Ryuichi is dressed like a school girl. And not just any type of school girl, but one that had taken a trip to punk land and came back with a few baubles and torn clothing. He has a short skirt on, and biker shorts with holes on under that, and fishnet stockings with holes under that. There is the white dress shirt and a tie, but the tie was half undone and the shirt totally undone. There's a torn tank top under the dress shirt and yes, it looks like he is wearing a padded bra. And let's not forget the clunky unlaced boots and the torn knee high stockings, or the ripped-up gloves and fuzzy arm warmers.

At seeing the video is working properly, he puts his hands on his hips and poses. ]

So, what do you think? Should I hit the stage in this next?

[ voice | Japanese ]

So I've been working on a whole bunch of songs with Tohma! It's been really cool and interesting and say, here's some lyrics!

Take apart my love through this silent pain.
Slowly melting within a collapsed star, forever entangled
Light sucking sound I draw closer forever connected in this endless void.
Your voice pressing deeper I cannot pull away...

Cool right? Well, I think it's cool. So it's cool!

OH! Souji! Hang in there and don't let the doctors poke at you too much!

[ video ]

[ Ryuichi is sitting on his very big bed, playing his guitar and wearing a mis-matched outfit that's a rock star's idea of comfortable in fur and torn jeans, and with a pink rabbit sitting on top of his head. He looks a lot more healthier then he has been thanks to Tohma's mother-henning nagging, but it's clear that he isn't eating as much as he should. Not that he really cares. After a minute or so, he starts singing this song.

Once he's done, he puts the guitar down, picks up the communicator and grins at the camera. ]

Cheer up, everyone! The world hasn't ended yet and spring will be here. We'll make it, right? RIGHT!

\ video end

[ video ]

[ It is late but still the two boys from Nittle Grasper are working on music. The communicator first shows the high plain ceiling of the high school's auditorium and then it swings around, showing the floor and then the cleaned top of the piano and then there was the slightly less clean surface of the stage. The communicator is set down and we see that the person holding it was none other than Ryuichi, who goes to sit at the piano. ]

Okay, I think we're good to go.

[ Tohma is sitting at the piano, his hands in his lap. He shakes his head but he still starts playing. First comes this song, and once he finishes it, he turns to his synthesizer sitting on a nearby table while Ryuichi swings his legs around and straddles the bench. ]

There, it's set.

[ Tohma leaves the snyth and turns back to the piano. When the music starts, both him and Ryuichi start performing this song. When done, they both wave at the communicator. ]

Merry Christmas!

\end transmission



[ooc; Borrowing a couple more songs for the amazing duo's performance. As a special note for those people who didn't know, the guy playing the piano in the second video is Daisuke Asakura who is the real life inspiration for Tohma. So, yeah got to pick stuff that he has worked on for Grasper stuff. Also red= Tohma and blue = Ryu.]

[ voice | Japanese ]

I had a lot of fun, Tatsuha! Thanks for all your help! I'm sorry I dropped that last bag on your foot though, but the bat thingies were being really mean about my hair. OH! And are we on for moving a few things from that one apartment? I think we can really use a different table and it's too much just for me to carry all by myself. Anyone else want to help out? I promise I won't drop anything else on people's feet!

Umm, scientist guys? I would like to have a chalkboard and some chalk and maybe a guitar? That way I'm not always wasting paper that should be used for more important things.

Tohma! I finished the song! Let's find a piano and play out the harmony!

[ voice | English ]

I guess what they say is true. Talent can be found in the weirdest places. Thanks again everyone that came to our little talent search. If anyone is still interested in joining us, please inform myself or Tohma about your interest. We're still on the look out for people who can manage those with more talent than common sense. Because rock and rollers don't always know what's best for them, and managers do! Even if it includes getting the star up at five in the morning using a bazooka smack to the head!

So anyways, if you need a listening to or a showing off, just leave one of us a message, and we'll arrange a face-to-face cuz those work better than over the communicator thing. Also! Newly arrived and still a performer of some kind? Give me a jingle here and I'll get Tohma involved.

Thanks for listening!

[ He repeats it in Japanese before signing off. ]

[ voice | Japanese ]

[ First there's the sound of a beat, probably a foot tapping hard against an empty can. Then a guitar joins in - nothing too great in the line of guitar playing, but it is obvious that whoever is playing is using the music as background for the singer, who is going over the words, changing the melody, changing the words. And then it stops, there's a sound of paper cracking, and then the song is back. ]

nijuuhachi-ji no yoru wo kiritoru
mado wo toshimetara hajimaru
ichido shikaketara tokenai wana wo
ma ni awanai PROTECTION

tatoeba kimi wo kizutsuketai
jiorama ni tojikomete
tataitemita tte sakendetemo
kikoenai sa PREDILECTION

iki mo dekinai
joukyou shita de wa
sugureta ai wo musaboru

can't get enough
kotoba yori mo motto
don't let me down
tashika ni misete hoshii
one more night
kusuka ni kizutsuita
kimi wo mitsumeru me sono saki ni ...

[ The music stops and there's a soft sigh. ]

Are we done yet, Tohma? Can we go back to the room and near the fire?



[ooc; Predilection comes from the Gravitation Song Story and is a Nittle Grasper/Ryuichi song. For anyone in the music audition log/auditorium, Ryuichi decided to work on his own song, which this is a piece of, so feel free to have heard him singing it/commentlog or whatever!]

Tohma is here! He's a nice guy and one my best friends from home. We played in a band together until I went to the States and he started his own company. Be nice to him, okay? Although he still gets up way too early. Evil evil cold feet.

Sorry about the surprise Tetsu! I didn't think it would be that bad.

Tohma! I wrote some songs! Shuichi, did you sing that one we made for Eiri? I wanna hear it!

[ voice | Japanese ]

[ There's a rustle of paper and then you hear Ryuichi singing. ]

yasashi sa yori tsuyoi chikara wo
suketa ai ni kanjiteru
doko demo yuku nan ni demo naru
kimi no yami ni furesasete

OFF kara ON ni kiri kaeta machi ga yoru wo te guri yoseru
akke nai kyou no ketsumatsu wo tsuki tsukete

So what does everyone think so far? It sounds good, right? Course, we'll need to work on the arrangement first to really play it... So back to work we go! If you wanna hear more, you'll have to wait until we're done, but I can sing other stuff.


[OOC; The song's by a nice little J-pop group called Iceman.]

Anyone have a request? I'm dying of boredom here and no one has blown up a building or tried kidnapping Shuichi and myself and there's no American manager waving guns around or any keyboardist being his fluffy evil self to keep me occupied.

How many people are doing a band thing here? I haven't heard or seen one around, though I have heard a couple people over these fake phones doing stuff like that. Wasn't this place suppose to have one? I was just wondering...

[ voice | English ]

HEY DISCEDO! Does anyone own the High School Auditorium? Can anyone use it or are there scheduled events there? Would it be okay if a group of people used it to stage a couple things?

THANKS FOR ANY ANSWERS IN ADVANCE!

[ Ryuichi repeats the questions in Japanese and then hangs up.]

[ voice | english ]

So, I've heard there was some kind of band around here, although it's missing its key ingredient. And then the whole chorus thing was okay, but man, I guess it's not my thing, you know? I'd quit that scene ages ago after we'd gone triple platinum.

Anyways, I was wondering what do other people do in this place besides running around crying about monsters and no food and no lights and stuff? How many people are in a band? Are there doctors and repairman here? And why do I think this is a crappy episode of Gillian's Island?