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Sooo.. I mean I could show you all the pretty pictures of the Jidai matsuri (Japanese festival, don't ask me what it was about..) that I went to this past weekend but something that I've been longing for, wishing for, dreaming about for the past 2 years happened yesterday so that will have to wait. Me and Johanna went to Shiga (a town 2 stops away from Kyoto by train) and saw the band that brought us together.. My absolute favorites in the whole, wide world: the Gazette.

I had fixed us tickets through a girl on livejournal and it turned out the seats were pretty damn good. We where on the first floor like 10 rows back, I saw everything almost as good as I would've if they had filmed it and I would've watched it at home. I can't describe the feeling when the lights dimmed and I could see Kai, Reita, Uruha, Aoi and finally Ruki come out on stage. I've been admiring these guys for 2 years and they are the reason I met Johanna and initially the reason I moved here to Japan. The live was the best night of my life, even though my neck is sore as hell today and I can barely bend over. It was aaaall worth it.

All the little moments.. Ruki licking his bedazzled cane, Aoi trying to sex Ruki out during "my devil on the bed", Aoi backbending, Reita playing his bass so sexily I had to roar, Kai roaring out his "kakatte koi!!" after MCing, Ride with the rockers, Ruki touching himself, the fact that they played "psychedelic heroine" and I got to see Ruki do his serious humping and Aoi dancing his little dances, kantou dougeza kumiai, Aoi walking over to Reita and first grinding against the back of his thigh and then proceeding to hump it.. Aoi and Reita goofing off, Aoi doing his bitchy smirking, Uruha getting into his music all adorably.. Gah. So much memories. I can't say it enough how damn good those guys are live! Ruki's voice is so close to flawless you can come and they sound way better live than on CD, it's so damn amazing to witness.

Oh I just have to mention.. Aoi wore a skirt during the encore. A pink skirt with a golden stripe on it. Oh yeah, you read it right. A pink skirt that went to his ankles. At first I thought it was like harem pants, you know the ones they wear in "Aladdin" but no, it was a skirt. When he first came out during ride with the rockers he wore a lacy belly dancerish thing over his nose and mouth. He looked like a bellydancer that had escaped from his work. Oh Aoi.. What a man.

(and uh.. Me and Johanna kind of left a note in a box that they had set out where you could leave stuff for the band with our phone numbers on it EHEHE. We wrote "Big love from Sweden" signed it, wrote our names and our phone numbers (oh and call me <3)  XDD They wont ever call us but now we gave it a shot hahah. It's not at all like I'm checking my phone all the time now.. Noooo. Not at all)