filed under "things i never actually thought i'd get to hold in my own two hands" are a bunch of albums by j-pop singers and bands that i discovered in high school. these bands had a huge influence on my taste in music today, as well as like fifteen thousand other things, from the way i dressed back then to the places i went in tokyo this april. my goal was to buy at least once cd that i loved back in the day, whichever was available or cheap.
i've probably mentioned on here a bunch of times that yuki's album prismic is and has been my favorite album of all time (yeah, that means it goes over all pet shop boys albums and even over tangerine dream's optical race and lily on the beach, which is REALLY saying something) so you can probably kinda fathom the sheer joy i felt when i found a used copy of it sitting on the shelf in the book-off in shibuya.
the first time i listened to it i was probably in 10th grade, years and years after it had originally come out. i remember it heavily influencing the way i wrote (what would then be) the first half-assed draft of circus of nero, which was at that time called "Цирк" because i was a russian nerd. it was also the reason i started a project called "good times" which i found the original pages for a few days ago. i'm thinking about revamping it now, it seems salvageable in a way, i probably have yuki to thank for that. she was the reason i dressed, acted, wrote, and drew the way i did back then. her music is what pushed me to improve, to live up to the sound that i wanted to mirror in my story.
i bought the cd and held it close the whole train ride home. i didn't listen to it when i was in tokyo, i waited until i got home to unpack it from it's original box and look over it. it came with the little booklet and everything. it's one of the items that i treasure most in the world.
66db brings back memories of redesigning capital into a (still shitty) new character, i u mee him reminds me of taking my sister's colored pencils to draw in my math notebook. curse reminds me of roleplaying russia in some shitty private gaia threads. there are a lot of old memories there, but now it's also attached to a bunch of new ones. 66db sounds like the marunoichi line on a busy afternoon, i u mee him is a rushed day to find gifts for people in the sunshine mall in ikebukuro. curse sounds like the last rainy morning i spent in roppongi, trying not to cry as i looked out the window at the little speaker that would play the weird chimes every afternoon at five pm.
the number one spot in the "things i never thought i'd get to hold in my own two hands" category was yuki's masterpiece album prismic. but here it is, sitting on the shelf above me. and i'm happy.
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