Sometimes I like to do what the title of the song susggests, to be oblivious to everything around me, even if the world crashes upon me.
Perhaps this is the dullness my colleague mentioned to me, the feeling you cultivate to the point of experiecing nothing in the face of the seemingly never-ending and torturous situations.
Yet I want to resist feeling that. Won’t dullness of my feelings make me less human? Then again, does anyone care what or how I feel in this context? Just get it over and done with, as preached and extolled by many.
I am working on that. If anyone has a good idea of preventing the brain from ’stoning’ after a long marathon (besides coffee, too much of it makes me unable to sit still and finish it), let me know. I’m trying, really hard. But it’s as if my mind has a mind of its own (I know it sounds somewhat corny).
The feeling of dullness has kicked in for me. I feel zombie-fied. A couple of seconds ago, I feel myself turning into stone, frozen and unmoving in that moment when it felt like everything in my body stopped working.
Grabbing a light bite at Sushi Tei, I don’t know what made me ask my colleague if she knows Gackt? Subsequently he conversation took an interesting turn following my mention of Malice Mizer, Gackt’s ex-band (during his visual kei days).
We got reminded that the J-pop wave was such a huge thing to come out from East Asia almost a decade before the recent Korean wave came about. It made me realised it’s more than 5 years since I came to know the androgynous Japanese musician named Gackt.
10 years into his solo career, he went on a long tour around Japan (about 7 months?) aptly titled Requiem et Reminiscence II (he had a series of concerts called Requiem et Reminiscence I many years back). To be able to survive and continue to be hugely popular for 10 years in any entertainment scene is a huge feat, considering society’s fast-changing appetite for the next cute/handsome/beautfiul/cool thing. And it is indeed timely to once again showcase his musicality (and looks) that bring him longevity in the scene.
YouTubing his latest concert videos, I like the edginess in “Blue Lagoon” and here’s the video.
Visually, this isn’t the best video for this song. I wanted to show this song he sang at his latest concert but the video is not available on YouTube, hence I’m settling for this.
Be warned, the video is sexually suggestive. And I like the song, not so much of the video.
