Blog Monologue Garden 2 - Return to the Mystery Zone

[flowersofnight]

patrons were encouraged to stuff as many yen bills as possible into the costuming of a lady

L-look, I'm not like that, I'm into clean stuff like cooking videos, cayenne pepper, and overpriced socks

I can confirm that when I went to a concert at the Budokan at the end of last year, singing along and cheering were both strictly forbidden.

And really, I'm surprised "singing along" got its own mention. Is that really common outside of "audience participation" segments where they point the mic out at the crowd and say "YOU KNOW THE WORDS"?

 

[memento-mori]

And really, I'm surprised "singing along" got its own mention. Is that really common outside of "audience participation" segments where they point the mic out at the crowd and say "YOU KNOW THE WORDS"?

Yeah, the band has a bunch of songs where the audience sings along, plus it was their big 35th anniversary “play all the old favorites” set list, so… kinda? I know I would’ve been singing along to every-frickin-thing, mask or not, if the rule wasn’t explicitly in place. But I had to make do with the weird choreographed hand movements everyone else was doing. (It was a lot more fun than it sounds, although I’m sure I looked like a total fool.)

 

[flowersofnight]

"Teamster calves" is my word of the day

 

[sanctum]

https://mobile.twitter.com/M_d_M_official/status/1633439145619255297

Looks like meat is back on the menu.

and by meat I mean decagram pendants.

and by menu I mean available for sale via the online store.

 

[flowersofnight]

Looks like meat is back on the menu.

Not just meat, but potatoes to go with it!

 

[faith]

Hanachan has asked me to explain that "purée" is an exclamation kind of like "damn" in french.
First time I've seen someone add the "de pomme de terre" after it but why not.
They must be really sincere XD

 

[flowersofnight]

So it's like saying "hot damn" but instead it's "potato damn"?

 

[faith]

I don't think it's even that because it's not a common thing to say
purée de pomme de terre = mashed potatoes, in the literal sense.
So for me this person used 'purée' in the familiar sense, and then added the de pomme de terre after it for emphasis and humor.
Personally, I think it's a fun way to say it

Edit: tbh saying "Oh my mashed potatoes!" in English would probably have the same effect, except here there's a generally recognized term starting it off

 

[flowersofnight]

Dude-a-ronomy, I get it now.

 

[flowersofnight]

Mana baits the collective thirst with a nightshirt shoot:
https://nitter.moomoo.me/M_d_M_official/status/1634007555444981761#m

Can we get some Spanish-speakers in here to discuss "jamones"?



Can you actually say that in Spanish? XD In English it would be used only as a comical insult.

 

[sanctum]

The guitar gimps at the ESP craft house have been hard at work and a new Jeune Fille has emerged from the depths.

https://nitter.moomoo.me/M_d_M_official/status/1634534566361980929

I can almost picture it with a few goldfish swimming around inside.

 

[flowersofnight]

There's a lot to unpack here (as they say in the barbarous pseudo-academic argot of 21st-century internet), but I want to focus first on "sal de mi huevo". Or "huevito".... bleah XD



Apparently "el huevo quiere sal" is an extremely Latin American way of saying that some man is attracted to some woman. Like, maybe in English you could say "She's the sugar in my tea" or some such, but this has a more active connotation. (Would it be too crude to mention "wanting to get some sugar"?)

Also worthy of note... "dueña de mis quincenas"
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/la-dueña-de-mis-quincenas.891403/
A "quincena", it seems, is one's biweekly paycheck, and so the "mistress of your paychecks" is your lady friend.
That is to say... the translation here is "husbando"

A little musical accompaniment:

 

[Js_klaus]

I feel embarrassed

 

[flowersofnight]

I feel embarrassed

Anything you want to confess?

 

[flowersofnight]

Oh, also: did anyone recognize this guy?

https://nitter.moomoo.me/pic/orig/media/Fri2PrMaYAEUvi7.jpg

It's that same guy who interviewed Malice Mizer back in 2001:
https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=bkg7ZQ8knL0
(at 1:24 you can hear the lady call him "Hoshiko-san" which is also the name of the guy who runs the account: https://nitter.moomoo.me/visualkei_oyaji )

 

[flowersofnight]

The Mr. of our paychecks is back with some media attention: a 4-way "Japanese Visual Metal" leadership summit in Billboard Magazine.
https://www.billboard-japan.com/special/detail/3905
In which he gives a tip of his small, frilly top hat to the Musical Services Subcontractors. He's still the Master of Moi dix Mois, but the current crop of subcontractors has been around for a long time so it feels almost like a band.

Also a bit more on the reasoning behind the "Japanese Visual Metal" branding - it seems there was a general sense that "visual-kei" (as currently understood) didn't really capture what they were doing musically, but they still get lumped into that category for being makeup-wearers. Thus the need for a new category.

 

[Phantom Pabulum]

Thanks for sharing the link! I'm excited to hear what the collaborative piece would sound like.

 

[sanctum]

it seems there was a general sense that "visual-kei" (as currently understood) didn't really capture what they were doing musically, but they still get lumped into that category for being makeup-wearers.

The truth is that they needed a word to convey the fact that their noses are now present in photographs, instead of being lost in the photoglaphic process.

 

[flowersofnight]

Today's word of the day:



"cásate conmigo" simply means "marry me". What an unusual word though, "casar", apparently derived from "casa". It seems only a few Romance languages elevate "shacking up" to official verb status XD

Musical accompaniment:

 

[flowersofnight]

Finally someone who gets Mana:



In Super Mana Fighter 2: Hyper Fighting, Blue Mana is the regular and Red Mana is the palette-swap