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DIR EN GREY - THE IIID EMPIRE

Toshiya on the first of Dir en grey’s Studio Coast Final Days (day 73), HD scans from the VIP calendar that were extensively reconstructed in Photoshop. 

DIR EN GREY - Chain repulsion (Shot In One Take) - 2014

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Wikipediaによると、2月2日はDIR EN GREY結成日らしいのですが…結成日、実はメンバー誰もいつなのか覚えていないという事実。

まあ、結成日がいつであれこの5人が集まった事が奇跡なんで、いつでもいいや。

そして、本日もBASS RECしております。

Wikipedia says DIR EN GREY was formed on Feb. 2nd… but the truth is that no one of the members remembers the date.

The formation date doesn’t matter as it’s a miracle that the 5 of us got together.

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COAST 1日目、楽しめたかい？

そして、今日はいよいよUSEN STUDIO COAST 最後の日。

楽しみたいと思ってます。

んで、話題の衣装ですが…全貌が見たいのなら迷わずイイネ押すがよい。

気が向いたら見せたるわ。

Did you enjoy the 1st day at COAST?

Today is the final day of USEN STUDIO COAST.

I want to enjoy it.

As for my stage costume, if you want to see the full photo you should leave a like.

• hydrate it by drinking lots of water

• eat dark chocolate and blueberries and walnuts and salmon and other foods high in antioxidants!!

• play little brain games on your phone; I like wordconenct! anything that makes you think!

• read books. It’s simple but necessary. Even better - join a book club, or read with a friend, so you can have discussions after. This will improve your reading comprehension.

• do puzzles - it doesnt have to be sudoku, I love playing Beat Saber on the Oculus Rift because it makes my brain have to match colorful patterns to physical movements very quickly!

• learn a new dance - even a tik tok trendy dance. Learning new dance moves are proven to strengthen synapses!!

• go bird watching, or foraging, or anything outdoors that requires you to explore pattern recognition and visual searching

• watch a movie with the intent of analysis - this is best done with a cinephile friend!! talk about tropes and symbolism and character growth

• cross stitch, or sew, or do anything that requires matching nimble hand movements to patterns

• play or learn an instrument!

• develop a consistent sleep schedule (or as close to consistent as you can get!)

• when eating, try to identify the ingredients and flavors you’re perceiving!

I trained for years to be a con artist. I told my friends and family that I wanted to be a magician, but that was just a cover for why I was constantly practicing sleight of hand. 

In junior high and high school, I would shop lift a bunch of candy on my way to school, sell it to kids at the morning break, and use that money to run a crooked poker game at lunch.

Finally, when I was 19 or 20, I felt I was ready, and I picked my first pocket. I was on the bus, bumped a guy as I passed down the aisle, got his wallet, super clean.

In the wallet was several hundred dollars. A huge first score, I had been hoping for a couple twenties. I sat there looking at the, like, 400 bucks, thinking.

That was my rent at the time. We were both on the bus. It was likely his rent too. Lord knows the only reason to carry that much cash on the bus is you’re on your way to pay a bill. We were both on the bus, you know? That’s not someone I was comfortable stealing from.

I tapped him on the shoulder and told him “hey i think you dropped this” and gave it back to him with all the money still in it. It was the first and last time I ever picked a pocket.

Picking a rich person’s pocket is a loosing game. They probably have credit cards and not cash, those credit cards probably have the best anti-theft measures their bank can provide, and you probably can’t get close enough to those people to pick their pockets unless you’re already rich yourself.

The people who’s pockets you can reliably pick are the people around you. The people who are also on the bus, who are in this same shitty situation with you.