my moral standing is lying down

I've been finding out more about the whole B-T experience. Wenia (the girl from the B-T Yahoo!ML, who I'm going to the concert with) mentioned something about a tour in Gunma for BT fans (because that's where BT grew up), so I asked over at the buck_tick community, and was given lots of wonderful, wonderful information!!!

Imai's parents still own a convenience store there, and apparently welcome B-T fans! Atsushi's brother still lives in the house they grew up in, and Hidehiko's parents used to own a fish store which closed several years ago, but might still be standing. ^_~; And cab drivers in the area know all the B-T fan sites to take you to -- like their high school!

I'm going to just about overload on all this fangirlish excitement! It's mostly unusual for me.

So in order to change the subject so that I won't be further embarrassed, I'm going to say how much I really enjoyed this past Friday night. Angelica, Maryann, louiex, and Will all came over in the late afternoon for an evening of gaming. It's real purpose was to finally finish the last Tomb Raider game that came out around 2.5 years ago, Angel of Darkness. There were a whole lot of problems with the game -- they released it before it was really finished, so there are quite a few glitches, and several items missing (like her double guns!). The controls were really badly done, too. But I still love the game -- watching her die is even funnier in this game than in the previous ones! They did some sort of "rag doll" thing with her -- after she's dead, if she keeps falling or tumbling, her limbs will move like a rag doll-- all floppy-like. It's highly amusing!

In any case, we finally finished the game and had about an hour left before Louie and Angelica had to leave. So, since I told Will to bring Tekken 5 with him, we played that for another hour and a half. =D Oh! It was sooo nice! The graphics are even better than T4, and most important of all! Anna's back! Everyone looks really good, and there are quite a few characters who have extra costumes, so it's fun. I convinced Will to lend the game to me for the weekend, so Liz and I were playing all day yesterday. However, Will's PS2 scratches his games, so it was annoying having to wait for the ending FMVs to load. But it all worked out because I ended up splitting the cost of the game with my mom, so now we have our own copy! Yay!

Another thing I'm almost as happy with is buying an extension cord for the PS2 controller. x_x; I can get all comfy now instead of sitting right up close to the TV screen. It's really much more enjoyable.

So this is the long story. I tried to get B-T tickets from Masamichi-san (recommended by a few members of the B-T LJ community). He said I should contact him again at the end of February since the tickets didn't go on sale til March 5th. Well, I did, but he never got back to me until a few days after March 5th. By then, I was desperately trying to get someone to help me. I posted on the BT community and someone who'd gotten her tickets for the 4/26 show was nice enough to give me instructions on how to order tickets through, I guess the equivalent of ticketmaster. I forwarded the instructions to Yoshi and asked him to help. He said he wasn't sure, and he'd get back to me. He never did, but I'm not holding it against him since I found out from Masamichi-san, when he finally replied, that the tickets were sold out.

He suggested bidding on an auction at Yahoo!Japan. I'd kept that in mind, but people only seemed to be putting up single tickets. I finally got around to asking Angelica if I should try and go myself if I could only get one ticket, or what... she said I should go myself if I had to. So I replied to Masamichi-san again, asking if he could try for a 2-ticket auction, or if not, then to bid on the one ticket. But then Wenia, on the B-T Yahoo!ML, sent an email saying that her friend (who was going to Japan, and the concert with her) had to cancel, and did anyone want to go! And then the heavens opened and shined its light of destiny down on me. I mean, I replied, excitedly, that yes! I really, really wanted to go with her because I wasn't able to get tickets like I thought I would.

So now, I'm going -- NOT by myself -- but WITH a B-T fan that I've spoken to a bit online! Oh, the wonderful joy! And Angelica still wants to go, so I'm still keeping an eye out for single tickets on ebay (although now all I see are pairs of tickets -- go fucking figure, ne).

But. The most important thing is that I am assured a ticket with a wonderful B-T fan. Yes. And if they're touring next year, I will go see them again. And maybe I'll try and join Fish Tank in the mean time, so I can be sure to get tickets.

Oh, and it's less than 2 weeks now, til I leave for Japan. And then -- to see Buck-Tick!!!!! I can only feel the amazingness of it briefly before my heart bursts in my chest.