{"id":24376,"date":"2012-03-26T13:34:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T17:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=24376"},"modified":"2012-03-26T13:40:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T17:40:02","slug":"wit-life-194-larc-en-ciel-msg-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/26\/wit-life-194-larc-en-ciel-msg-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #194: L’Arc en Ciel MSG Debut!"},"content":{"rendered":"

WIT Life<\/a> <\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em>is <\/strong><\/em>a periodic series written<\/strong><\/em> by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator <\/strong><\/em>Stacy Smith<\/strong><\/a> <\/em>(Kumamo<\/a><\/strong><\/em>to-ken<\/a> CIR, 2000-03). She starts<\/strong><\/em> her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she sha<\/strong><\/em>r<\/strong><\/em>es s<\/strong><\/em>ome of the interesting tidb<\/strong><\/em>its and t<\/strong><\/em>rends together with her own observations.<\/strong><\/em>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Last night I had fun rocking out at the concert of L’Arc en Ciel, one of Japan’s most popular bands.\u00a0 They were the first Japanese group to perform at Madison Square Garden, and they put on an amazing show!\u00a0 For me it was largely natsukashii, as I discovered L’Arc (or \u30e9\u30eb\u30af) as an exchange student in Kyoto my first time in Japan.\u00a0 During the weekly karaoke outings that I used to work on my kanji,\u00a0\u30e9\u30eb\u30af soon became a regular part of my repertoire and for a while their song Honey was my #18 (specialty or favorite).<\/p>\n

So I was super excited when I heard \u30e9\u30eb\u30af front man Hyde belt out the first\u00a0 \u300c\u305a\u3063\u3068\u300d that begins the song, and was happy to find that I still remembered most of the lyrics.\u00a0\u00a0 I enjoyed other old favorites like Stay Away and Caress of Venus, but was disappointed that Heaven’s Drive didn’t make it into the playlist.\u00a0 With blonde dreadlocks and heavy eye makeup Hyde was androgynously beautiful, and the other band members offered humorous greetings in English.\u00a0 Bananas and lollipops (along with colorful commentary) were randomly thrown out to the crowd throughout the show, and the graphics and pyrotechnics accompanying the music were absolutely amazing.<\/p>\n

In Hyde’s goodbye to the audience he said, “It took us 20 years to get here!”\u00a0 Definitely worth the wait, and certainly not the last we will see of this “biggest band you’ve never heard of.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WIT Life is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations. Last night I had fun rocking out at the concert of L’Arc en Ciel, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,21,18,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-music","category-translatinginterpreting","category-wit-life","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t