Tonight was all about sex(x).

Well... in many more ways than one.

I'd had Japanese class for the first time in six days this lovely friday, but it wasn't too bad... we did very simple Japanese I fully understood. All right! I came home, my mom fed me meat, and I got ready to head off to *annoying train lady voice* Shibuya! I'd mis-read my tickets... I'm still not very good with military time (0:00~23.59), so I misread "Open at 18:00" as "Open at 5:00 pm", and ended up waiting along in front of Shibuya O-East for a good two hours (18:00 is really 6, if you didn't figure it out), reminiscing about the last time I went - which was solo live. I eventually got tired of waiting for my friends and decided to be social - amongst a group of people who hate and ignore me? Well, I found some people I'd known from before and offered treats - Halloween candy from America, sent by my mom-mom. I handed them out to a ton of reluctant Japanese hanging around me. They lightened up and listened to me ranting a bit, mostly about the recent presidential election. I forgot how we got on the convo, but they noticed my size 6 gauged ears, one with Iggy still looped inside, and all gasped and wanted to see. I said my friend had her lip, eyebrow, and nipple pierced, and they all winced in terror. One said she thought the tongue was the worst place, and I said I'd seen a tongue piercing - oh, the blood that came out. The woman who'd mentioned it look sickened and put her hand over her mouth in mock-gag. We also discussed English - when I said Kenichi had attempted the "Nice to meet you" at the last terrible banquet, they rolled their eyes at how sad he is. Mwuah.

After that we kinda waited for tickets to start getting called. I then noticed them grabbing each other's breasts. Yes, just reaching out and grabbing and squeezing. They were all doing this at the same time. It was some weird, clothed orgy. One girl in particular would NOT stop feeling up her friend - I watched as he kept squeezing for five minutes. Five minutes, no exaggerations. What the hell was going on! Why don't I understand boob-grabbing Japanese!

I took photos of the GIGANTIC flower display Yohei had given to the whole Max JaMMing crew - this thing was taller than me. It was ridiculous. I sat down behind it then and waited. Finally my friends - cosplaying Takanori and Kenichi! showed up, but had to run in as their ticket number had been called. I went in about ten minutes later, found them about five feet from the stage on Ken's side, and there we met with Haruka and jammed down to the waiting-music. I spilled my chirashi (live ads) all over the floor, and found that there was not only a looooovely full color glossy page of E-Machine, but an advert for Kuroda too! Oh Iceman.... *small sniff* Then I had more boobariffic moments - my outfit was kinda oddly designed, and Kaede started randomly groping my chest, saying "I can't see your boobs! I can't see them!" She looked jealous even. I reign supreme!

It began. I won't talk for too long about the three groups that played before E-machine, since it's boring as hell. The first guy though, was American! His song was in English, but he'd lived in Japan 14 years and his Japanese was perfect. He started telling the crowd about how difficult Japanese is for foreigners to learn and I hopped up and down and waved my arms. He noticed me and said "Ah, gaijin da!". Haha, this guy's totally turned Japanese. He had a bunch of apparently famous guests come out (people with names like... Princess-Princess? I dunno), and they did some pretty good bouncy hyper songs, ended with Born to Be Wild. Nice. After him was this little guy with some really rabid fans in crowd. He sat at his keyboard and played incredibly difficult, incredibly long songs - four of them, each one seeming more difficult than the last. As he played this difficult music, he said very fast lyrics that sounded like a story. That was it! No background track, just him and his keyboard! He didn't say much, but I was very impressed. After him - well after him, Mizue and Mr. Hirakawa (Ken manager) came into the DJ corner and started playing some tunes! Then they started singing rock music from the 80s! Kaede was clawing all over me at how smooooth Mizue is. He's fuckin awesome, and he had one a white shirt with black laces and no sunglasses. Mmmmmm. Plus, his hair was almost totally blond! Whaoo! After he left a band that was like alternate universe E-machine came out... the guitarist was tall and freaky with sticky up hair, there was a bald drummer (Sharkie's almost bald, kinda?), a bassist, and a hyper little black haired singer (but he looked much older, uglier and sweatier than Yohei, who I don't see sweat at all). They were okay. The singer really loved cock. No, really. He kept using his guitar, shoving it between his legs and stroking the long part up and down like he was... you know. YOU KNOW. I saw Haruka and Kaede turn to each other and gasp as this guy was mastur......mastur... bating... his guitar. For a long time. Anyway they left, and the microphone on our side got adjusted to be two feet taller, and we knew who was next!!

They played their intro, which is this roughly 3-minute long percussion-laden fast-beat instrumental song that now, at my third time seeing E-Machine, I've come to know very well. Sharkie came out first, and I instantly, INSTANTLY noticed his hair. It's gotten LONG AS HELL! In the first photo ever of E-Machine, his hair was this tiny stump! Now it's a full blown, gigantic, huge, foot-tall mohawk. He's just becoming more and more my Sharkie!!! Mizue and Ken were next, and everyone around me totally EXPLODED more than usual all at Kenichi. All the build up leading to E-M had really caught up to us. Then Yohei came out, I actually screamed his name, what a cute pie!! I noticed right around now that they were all wearing matching red suits with red-and-black color scheme in general, WHAT THE HELL THAT'S MY FAVOURITE COLOR SCHEME. Get OUT of town, E-Machine!! Why are you too cool!

Yohei stood there posing VERY dramatically until the opening song ended. And they began THE SUPER STAR!! In the way that American kept speaking.... The SUPERSTAREEYAYYYY! Immediately I felt incredibly happy and like rocking out incredibly hard, because Kenichi, my boy, was fuckin going CRAZY! If you want a good example of "crazy", and you have these particular videos, he did the same hyper-bouncing he does in the start of the TV performance of Edge of the Season, or the music video of Mr. D. He was kicking a lot more though, and in general the other three, like my very first impression, seemed kinda dead. Ken, you make your band look bad!

SUPER STAR was great, they did the strobe lights right before the chorus, god I love that. Next was Element - yay, it's their second single, all in a row! Kenichi made really weird, bug-eyed faces when he sang "Too much bad element!"... like he knew it was horrible English or something. Ahahaha. Good, good creepy song. Kenichi switched from Seeker Glimmer Monkey guitar to his weird, creepy shaped guitar that kind of ends suddenly like the top of the long part got chopped off. It's also incredibly tiny, his huge hands just help it look even smaller. Silly Ken. They talked a little after Element... "Endorphin-Machine DEEEEESU," from little Yohei the cutiepatootie.Yohei and Mizue chatted back and forth, THEN the spotlight went on Ken, THEN the place got nutsy. Everybody loves that former Iceman member. Sigh. He said that he was excited because one of the people who'd played before E-Machine - I don't recall who - was someone who's lives he used to go to when he was in high school. He sounded super happy about this.

They started playing something next and I thought it was a new song. Ken was plucking away at his guitar, and only when I heard tiny little "Be yourself..." voices on the computer track did I realize it was some new opening for Be Myself Be Yourself. I've actually grown to love this song an incredibly large amount. Next - finally and at long last, my sweet baby song, 1~10 Your dream countdown!!! How I love this song. There is a dance we all do to it. Kinda.
 

In the opening, with the hard drum beats, you shake your fist to the lyrics:
"1 2 3 4 5, 6 7 8, 9 10 your dream COUNT DOWN!" (count down)
"1 2 3 4 5, 6 7 8, 9 10 your beat ALL RIGHT!" (all right)
Then the music comes in hard and you BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE to the same lyrics as he sings them again!!! You must BOUNCE! And bounce and rock and bouncebounce. Here Yohei grabbed his mic and spun in circles, making it swirl around his legs, how graceful an angel is he! A little cutiepatootie!!

Oh, the sex act by SEXX - as if I hadn't had enough phallic suggestion and boob grabbing all night - at one point when Kenichi was almost on his knees, on the left side of the stage, jamming down with his legs spread wide open - Mizue came up behind him and shoved the long part of his guitar between Ken's legs, making it jut out like... you know... a big long ...winkle. Ken looked positively scandalized. And hey, it was damned scandalous!!!

They had some more little talks. Ken was basically as such:
 

Ken: We have a live next week, on November 12th, so come then!
Us: ....?????
Yohei: It's on the thirteenth...
Ken: Oh uh.. yeah, the thirteenth! *turning kinda pink*
Yohei: And the next live is November 20th.
Us: Ooooooooooooooh. (in our heads: "That's Ken's birthday!!!")
Ken: Yeah, November 20th.

The last song was at hand. Yohei said it would be their Christmas song. Yay! Aw, it's so sweet they have a silly Christmas song. We all kinda EEEEH'd as usual... and Ken was like, "What! Go to the live next week!" and Kaede yelled "I CAN'T go!" and Ken went "You can't go?!" And Kaede got all blushy and giggly. Silly pie. They did 1224 as their happy finale. Now, I'm sure this will be released as a single or on an album around Christmastime... let's see if I am right. Until then, I quickly jotted down what I think is the Engrish for this cute song... "I feel you in my dream again, I miss you sharing Christmas Eve, I know we'll never chance again, I miss you sharing Christmas, every Christmas Eve." D'awwwww, so cuuute. And stuff.

They finished up and headed off. Goodbye dudes! Sharkie didn't say DA!! Probably because a lot of the place was filled by fans of other bands and thus only half would understand it. Bye bye E-Machine! Until next week! Except that Mizue came back out to jam down in the DJ box with the American dude. You guys rock rock on hard!

For various reasons, most of them being that 1) I'd fallen down my stairs again that morning and hurt my legs and arm, so I was tired out, 2) I wanted my 5 dollar drink (cover charge at every live), and 3) I'm a fucking JERK, we picked up out stuff and hauled ass as the last band started. The singer looked cute but eh. No love. I'm a jackass. We went to hang out by my old conbini next to Shibuya O-West (right across from East), took many photos, discussed Takanori, got cute Ken + Takanori photos, and exchanged money for cell phone bills... ;;;;;;;;;;. We took some hot purikuras and set off home.

Off to E-Machine again next week in Osaka, once more! Then it's E-Machine again in two weeks! November is E-Machine month! Well, we've actually declared it Daisuke month, but how about an exception this year?
 

Set List
01. THE SUPER STAR
02. Element
03. Be Myself Be Yourself
04. 1~10 your dream countdown
05. 1224