FOR SALE

I have a bunch of stuff that I need to get out of my closet! 

Brands under the cut- Algonquins, Alice and the Pirates, Angelic Pretty, Bodyline, Demonia, Metamorphose, and Sexpot Revenge!

My Little Pony Exhibit at the Toy Art Gallery 5/5/12

5/5/12 was the opening of the My Little Pony exhibit at the Toy Art Gallery in Hollywood on Melrose. I think pretty much everyone grew up having at least one MLP pony, and I was the same. Though, I can't for the life of me remember what color they were. XD

I started watching MLPFIM sometime early last year because I kept seeing so many memes on memebase taking about it, and I wanted to see what the big deal was. 

I ended up pretty much becoming one of the memes that depicts the college students- ROFL. Staying up late watching MLP episodes, putting off doing work, etc. 

Anyways, I was pretty much up to speed in terms of the series before going to the gallery, but what I was really interested in seeing was all the pony mods, because I've seen some pretty cool ones on tumblr, and original art on DeviantArt (like this 'My little Baphomet'.).

My parents left to a friends house to go watch the boxing match that was on, and as soon as they left, I started getting dressed. 

We left early, but ended up being late, like by a couple of hours, because Anya didn't notice that our driving instructions were WRONG. So we ended up driving to this address, that was nowhere near the gallery, and then I asked her what's the address of the gallery? And she's like '____ melrose' And then I'm like WTHHH??!! HOW CAN THIS BE THE PLACE WHEN THIS ISN'T MELROSE?! HOW DID YOU NOT NOTICE THAT?!

We didn't get to the gallery till about 9pm, and the event page on FB said it was running till 10, and there was this huge ass line in front. Finally got in a little after 10, which was okay because it turned out the event ran till 11pm. 

This one had like a stone texture!

Cut for more ponies and derpery on my behalf!

RAMMSTEIN @ The Honda Center (5/17/12)

I feel like I'd been talking about greatly anticipating this show for a while now. If you remember from my last entry, I said that on the day of the show, I had my last final and then I had jet over to the Honda Center for the show. 

The day before, I was telling my sister, I felt like the whole ending of the semester and seeing Rammstein in one day felt surreal- like it couldn't possibly be real life! So dramatic, I know! XD But that's seriously how I felt! 

In case you didn't know, last year's show ended the 13 year absence of Rammstein live in the U.S., so what seems completely normal to German fans, or any fans throughout the world, is completely new for us. Exactly like seeing your favorite jrock band in your city. Like you can't believe it's happening! 

ANYWAYS, YOU GET MY POINT. 

The day of, or before, however you want to look at it, I went to sleep around 4:50am after finishing my paper and video for my class. I set my alarm for 11AM so that I could review my paper again and make any final edits, and so that I would have enough time to get to my 5pm  final on time.

YEP. I HAD TO WAKE UP AT 11 FUCKING AM TO GET TO MY 5PM FINAL. 

Actually, it wasn't too bad, I thought the lack of sleep was going to get to me, and that I'd need to buy a 5 hour energy once I got to school, but I was pretty much golden running on pre- concert adrenaline. 

So, you might be wondering still why I got up so early for a late final. Well, like last time, I was accounting for my mum to get ready, and myself, which is at least 2 hours for me get gothed up, and then leave around 3:30PM. Normally it takes me around 20 minutes, but the stupid freeway (405) going south around that time is sooooooooooooo congested, with average speed about 10mph, stop and go all the blasted way. We got to my school around 4:20- and that was using the carpool lane. 

My final was supposed to be from 5-7pm, but we didn't start watching videos till about 40 minutes late, and when it got to 7pm we still weren't done, so I left, sped walked to my car in 12 minutes (yes, the parking lot is super far away), and with legs burning and all hot and bothered, we left and got to the venue around 7:59pm!

It took us a bit to actually get to the parking lot because the streets to get into the place were packed with cars waiting to get in as well! 

My mum was offended that my bag was more thoroughly searched than her purse, and that I was wanded. XD 

For real though, I was wearing my demonia boots, sheer black stockings underneath my ripped tights, my skeleton dress, and a of couple slinky sweaters! It's not like I could exactly hide anything anywhere! 8p

We finally got to our seats around 8:15ish, and the pre show/ support act provided by Joe Letz of Combichrist started around 8:30 or so. 

It was all kind of industrial remixes of songs like Ich Tu Dir Weh, Amerika, Pussy, Fruer Frei!, Du Hast dubstep, and a dubstep Engel. I really enjoyed all of it, I was just sitting there thinking- DAMN I want all of these songs on my ipod!! (I looked at Itunes, and it seems like they are all the remixes on the 'Made in Germany' album (so I'm gonna go out and get that. FUCK YEAH. Add that to the list of CD's I need to pick up).)

I learned my lesson from last time and brought my camera. >83

The people in the pit near the projector figured out that they could get their hands on screen. XD 

Notice the finger animals in the lower right corner. LOL 

There was one person that even did a bird flying/ flapping it's wings, a few dogs, bunnies, and ducks. hahahaha

AMURICUH. FUKYAH. 

During the intro was when I noticed/knew this show was going to be a lot different from last years. The crowd was a lot more quite/ non participatory when Joe was trying to rile them up. I was disappointed. NO ONE in my section was yelling/ screaming/cheering. :/

And now I put a cut because I don't want to spoil the show/setlist for anyone who hasn't seen it. TEXAS, I'M LOOKING AT YOU. 

But first I tell you about some crazy shit that happened...

As I was taking pictures early on, my camera started showing the sign that the battery was getting low, so I kept taking it out and putting it back in my bag. During one of those times I noticed my bag was wet, so I figured someone spilt beer on it since there was a guard rail and glass partition behind us, and people were walking through, taking pictures, etc. So I'm like 'whatever, It'll dry, no biggie.' 

Then, I think it was during Mein Teil, I feel some stuff fly and hit the back of me, and I turn and look at my seat and pick a piece of the stuff up and at first I thought it was ice, since the whole someone already spilt stuff on me. And the cut was perfect ice cube shape, and was around the same size as the ice in my mom's drink... and I had it in my palm and I was seriously thinking: 'What the hell? Why isn't this ice cold?' And I turn around fully and I see the glass partition has been shattered. A little bit later, the usher woman came and had my mum, myself, and this kid that was sitting next to me get up and into the aisle while a janitor gets a broom and knocks more glass out to clean some of it up. 

Here I am super pissed off thinking 'damn it! I want to watch the fucking show, not stand here and wait for the staff to clean this up!' Especially since with Mein Teil, Till is in his bloody chef's hat and apron and is trying to cook Flake. 

Finally after they take some of the glass out of the wall, and sweep the glass from our seats onto the ground, they let us sit back down, and the woman asks us if we are okay, and if we got injured, and we say we're both fine, and she leaves. My mom has to throw out her drink because it got glass into it.

But that's not the end of it. Soon more staff comes, and they have their flashlights, looking at the wall, checking out the damage, etc., ALL still while the show is going! Then the janitor starts to attempt to clean the wall more with the broom, knocking more glass onto us, further detracting us from the show as we have to turn around. My mum turned around and put some of the glass that fell on us and put it on the ground the wall was on, and then the staff got that we were pissed and stopped. 

UGH. 

Towards the end of the show, around Amerika I think, I was taking some more pictures, and I felt something wet on my finger, and I think WTH NOW?! And I use my phone which I had out the entire time to write down the setlist to light my hand up, and I see blood coming out of my right ring finger knuckle. 

UGHHHHH...

I show my mum but we don't do anything because we know we'll be taken out and I'll have to go to first aid to get it cleaned, so we wait till the end. 

At the end when they turned on all the lights and everyone starts exiting, we get up and mum tells the usher woman that I got cut, and she tells us to go to customer service so we can fill out a report, tell them where we were sitting and what happened and they'll know about what happened, and she's really sorry about the whole thing. 

So we go to customer service, and I'm trying to not get my coagulated blood on anyone, and my mum tells them what happened, and they say they're sorry and I should go to first aid. My mum says she was told she had to fill out a report, so they finally give us the form, and my mum asks to speak to their supervisor. 

He finally gets there, story is retold, I feel like, just like the customer service people, he really doesn't care. He tells us that there was a problem with the pagers, my mum says they should've moved us to different seats, and he replies "Had he had known he would've moved us", and tells me to go to First Aid so that the medics can look at the cut before they leave. (My mum said that she saw that guy inside during the show looking at the mess with all the other people with the flashlights.) 

So we go to First Aid, and an older man cleans the blood from all the spots on my hand, asks questions, and female medic takes down all my information for another report. 

After I'm bandaged, we head back to customer service to finish the second part of the report, and my mum asks for a copy of it. By now it's been a while since the show ended, and security is making their rounds to make sure the place is empty. One of the guys comes up to us and asks what happened, so we tell him, and he was like 'That was you?' Apparently when my mum threw out her drink, she told him what happened and he was instantly on it. All around nice guy- he asked if I was okay, where we were from, to which he actually grew up nearby, if we were going to come back, and at the end of all of this shit, he led us out. 

So, yeah. Besides all that shit, it was a great show! I'm just disappointed much of it was wrecked for me because of the whole thing. 

Again, I want to say my disappointment was not because of the band, or even about getting a stupid nick, it's just how the whole situation was handled. 

Of course I understand that there have been wayyyyy worse injuries that people have received in the pit, but that's the pit, you know? You go in there, you know what kind of shit you're getting into, and you expect to get a little bit messed up! There's a kind of non verbal, unwritten, yet understood by all, agreement between the attendee and the venue that when you get into the pit, if you get hurt, the injury is all on you! You knew you could get hurt, but you went in anyway! 

It isn't, however, expected to get injured by something that is the venue's property and on that note, responsibility, AND have it to be handled in that way that it did. 

THAT'S what irks me. 

Onto better things now! 

Setlist, pictures, spoilers, and highlights! inc. pictures of my hand so YE BE WARNED. There be a little bit o' blood ahead-

Spiel + 2 Outfits

I know, I know! 

I've been neglecting my blog lately. 

Monday marks the beginning of our last week of classes, and then Finals week after that! I've been busy with classwork, trying to be more productive in completing stuff in my free time, ex. not spending hours and hours dicking around on the internet. 

UGH. 3 Studio classes is too much for a person like me who enjoys their sleep and having a social life. So I kept that in mind when picking out my schedule for next semester. I'm going to take German 1, Yoga, a poli sci class, a sculpture class, and a shop orientation class- which is required for art students, I don't even know what the fuck I'll be doing in it, cause it's only 1 unit. :/ All in all, a chill schedule! Giving myself a much needed break, though still making progress towards earning my degree. 

I'm really stoked for the end of this semester, though!! Can't wait till summer! This summer is gonna be great! Summer unwinding LITERALLY starts an hour after my final on Thursday (5/17), because after class I'm heading over to Anaheim down to the Honda Center to see RAMMSTEIN. How fucking awesome is that? The perfect ending to my finals. SO STOKED. 

Anyways, I have a couple of outfits I wanted to show, one of which was supposed to be my outfit for the SUPER*MARKET event, which I ended up not going to because I was out doing shit all say, and when I finally got back home, the event was going to end in 20 minutes. I swear I did not know it was a day event when I decided to go. LOL. The 2nd is a possible outfit for tomorrows MLP event- not quite sure if I'm going to go, but it's still an outfit, and I still have a few photos nonetheless. 

10 photos YEAH!

ONE UP!

Sorry for the lack of updates! School has definitely been keeping me busy. Good news is, I think we've only got maybe 5 more weeks left in this semester. 

THANK GOD. 

I'm seriously looking forward to summer vacation. 

ANYWAY- I've been stretching my ears- and now I'm 7/8"!

As of now, my goal still stands at 1". But I have a sneaky, gut feeling once I get there I'll think it's small and go bigger. ._____.

It's just that as soon as I put these in, I was instantly thinking they were so small. *le sigh* 

FOREVER INDECISIVE. 

I was trying to figure out an outfit to wear for the SUPER*MARKET event tomorrow/today at Meltdown Comics. 

It kind of has like a present day Morticia Addams feel to it.

We'll see how the weather changes it, though. 

Today it was windy, and raining all day, with thunder and lightening (PERFECT Friday the 13th weather!!), and although it has stopped raining, it's still windy as hell. 

It's actually supposed to be nice tomorrow, but I'm somewhat prone to getting cold easily, and I definitely don't want to get sick and miss any school. 

I'll be posting again after the event! 

Later!!

-okanmuri

Japan: Endless Discovery @ The Grove

Last weekend I had the pleasure of being able to model for the street fashion show, organized by Bubble Punch, at the Japan: Endless Discovery Event at The Grove here in Los Angeles! 

February 29th: One More Disney Day

I'm sure most of you had heard of Disney's special Leap Year celebration, One More Disney Day. If not: in honor of Leap Year, Disneyland and Disney World planned to stay open for 24 hours, 6am Feb. 29 to 6am March 1st.

Gothic Makeup FUN times!!

With the inevitable arrival of my 21st birthday, I had been thinking about what I'm going to do to celebrate. I decided I want to go to a goth club- then I checked the day my birthday falls on and it's a SUNDAY. BOOOO. So lame! I said I'll just go out Saturday night, stay out till midnight, and then I can drink! That way if I had a hangover or something, I wouldn't have to suffer through it at school on Monday. Though, I'm not planning on getting piss drunk- just a couple of drinks!! XDD

Anyway, with that decision, I've been lusting after a new wig that I paired with an outfit in my head.

I actually haven't gotten that wig, so Wednesday night when I was bored with nothing to do, I just decided to dress up and give the makeup a go as a blonde!! 

Look #1

I had this idea that it would look cool with these clip-in bangs I have. I think I like how it looked better in person than in photos. Plus, with two sets of bangs, they're really prone to getting messed up. I felt like I was constantly fixing/ adjusting them! 8x

LOTS more photos under the cut!!

3 Lolita outfits in 1 day.

On saturday, my sister told me about the Kawaii.i contest, and sort of hinted that I should enter an outfit, so I laid out 3 outfits onto my bed, got dressed up, and made a serious fucking mess trying to find an empty area big enough to take photos. 

SERIOUSLY- I was so pissed walking around in the dolly kei esque coord, cussing up a storm cause there was/is seriously NO empty wall in my house that I could stand against to take photos. So I had to clean my room slightly before (I HATE having to clean my room before I take pictures), and then move my hamper, my portfolio with all my art stuff in it which weighs a bloody ton, take off all my bags off of my bag holder, and then we put together a set. There was pretty much no walking area/ empty floor in my room. LOL 

Along with all the bags and my portfolio, I had a pile of clothes that I threw on the floor from my bed to make room for the outfit planning, my exercise ball, and all of the other stuff that regularly occupies my floor, which includes more art supplies, pillows to sit on when I'm playing video games or do anything on the floor, and other shit. So, throughout the whole time, there was a lot of tripping going on. haha

Onto the photos!!

Makeup post!!

I'm trying to do as much as I can with these contacts before they expire next month. D;

 I had stopped wearing them early December '10 because they really started irritating my eyes after an event. After that I had been only been able to wear them for a couple of hours before they made my eyes really veiny and bloodshot. I told my eye doctor about this when I went recently and I said that my suspicion was that it was because of my allergies (I'm allergic to dust and pollen- yeah, sucks to be me in spring. 8p). He told me to try again, but I got some rewetting drops, and everything is all better now!!! 

So, here is some makeup I tried out- I tried to to a look like this girl's makeup I saw on tumblr. hehe

Beware the photobooth photos ahead!!