Start clicking yer mouse, T&T fans!!!!!!!!! IT'S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN!!! (...where we spend our hard-earned dollars to support our Tackey & Tsubasa!)
Dame~ dame~ dame~ dame~ dame~ dame~ dame~ dame~ x100000
Oh that's just the song ringing in my brain, it is in no way directed to the fact that we're about to click!!!! IT'S NOT DAME TO CLICK AND BUY T&T CDs!!! IT'S DAME~ DAME~ DAME~ DAME~ DAME~ IF YOU DON'T BUY!!! LOLOLOL~~~
WTF??? 
It's... it's like... ALL OF THEM ARE FIRST PRESS or something!!!!
OMG AVEX GETS MORE AND MORE ZURUIIIII
*DIES*... I usually try to leave out the Regular Press and try to get it elsewhere maybe when I get to Japan or something... but I can't even tell WHICH ONE is the Regular Press!!!!!! *DIES* What the.......
*CLICKS JACKET A*
*CLICKS JACKET B*
*CLICKS JACKET C*
..... I AM TAKIREN INC SUPER EMPLOYEE DAKARA BUY~~~!!! 

OK, sorry but THIS totally caught me completely OFF GUARD!!!!!!
The only artist newsmail I subscribe to in CDJapan is Tackey & Tsubasa, so OK my eyes kinda popped when I saw I got a newsmail last night from them, because I really thought we're getting
-ダメ- or something but then I clicked open and ...
... 
5,700 JPY
FOR PVs I ALREADY HAVE! 
And thanks to that sweet secret ingredient of some "offshot backstage footage" of god knows what, this one compulsive fan has to dish out 5,700 JPY + shipping for 10 PVs she already has for the sake of some mystery offshot footage of something completely UNKNOWN!
For all I know I could be just 2 minutes long!!! Grrrrrrr avextrax!!! Grrrrrr 
Who else is a victim of such OCD behavior?
Oh come on... you and I both KNOW we gotta have it!!!!
fufufu...
Wah good job Avex! I'm so glad that Avex was allowed to put on some images of T&T on their web!!! I still don't understand that stupid carnal JE rule of no images on websites though... I remembered the first time an official website was allowed to post up Takki's picture was NHK's Yoshitsune website! Thank god they were allowed finally, even if it was only for the front splash page (the rest of the screencaps didn't have any Takki pictures at all!) since he was like... THE TITLE ROLE, hello?! anyway, the Avex website updated today with the album covers~

L-R: [CD+DVD] version, Limited Press, Regular Press
Image © Tackey & Tsubasa / avextrax
WHY THE ANGRY LOOK ON CD+DVD???
Me no likey angry look!!!! I mean in the Regular Press they weren't smiling either but Takki looks REALLY REALLY 

on the CD+DVD cover! LOL! Takki!!!! And Cathy just said that in the Limited Press, Takki actually looks like he's one nanosecond away from laughing hahahahaa~ he kinda does huh? It would be funny if the 3rd one they were actually laughing....... XD
Not that I'm an ingrate or anything... I just kinda wished their covers were communicating more of "TO YOU FOR YOU" you know? Like I don't get how angry kowai poses are supposed to communicate the title to fans? ...or maybe they really weren't even going to that direction at all. Oh well...
But it's amusing that they tried to do a cursive for the "Two" to make it look like "2wo", the way they did 2wenty 2wo but I guess they can't do "Four" into "4our"? Ahhh they should've just done a "2 U 4 U" it's much simpler that way and they can totally emphasize the numbers of 2 and 4...
Oh and uragiriMOMO told me that they played Kakkotsukanai Tonight and RabuTakk--I mean RabuRakki (Love Lucky) on Recomen last night when T&T were guests. LOL sakura was right! Why it should've been RABUTAKKI lolololol 
@ 12:36pm
Oro oro oro... the songs are so not what I expected! LOL! I guess because of the title I imagined Love Lucky to be very bubblegum-pop-ish like Love Spiral but OMG SO ROCK!!! I like Kakkotsukanai Tonight better though (well, for me!) XD The opening part really sounded like Arashi's Hadashi no mirai (haha I like that song too) but T&T belting out the "Oooooh kami-sama~~~~ ONEGAIIII~~~" lyrics is what cracks me up the most!!! XDDDDDD
So how many days til album release??? 26 more days....
*still twiddling fingers*
Should I get the Regular Press or not.......
Wah when did this happen?!?!?! I checked my e-mail only this morning and still no newsmail and suddenly in the middle of my grandfather's birthday party aibo called me yelling "ALBUM IS OUT!!!!" XDDDD Woahahahaha awesome!!!
So they ARE still gonna go for the 24 in their title? Even though technically by November 15, Tsubasa isn't going to be 24 anymore? In fact, OMG, in Japan Tsubasa had ALREADY turned 25 around an hour ago?! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TSUBASA!!! I wonder if it's deliberate? Announcing the album release on Tsubasa's birthday? If it is, then it's very nice of them~
Btw, I'm kinda half-amused (still in half-shock that the albums REALLY do come in THREE *bleep*ing versions) that over at Tower, they listed the album titles as "Tow You Four You" HA HA HA HA TOW YOU HA HA HA (can you tell this is a very bitter laugh?) XD
And uh... so the album will be written as... 2 U 4 U? Or...?
THANK YOU AVEX


(One wonders if one should really be thanking them for releasing everything ON THE SAME MONTH which may result in one's instant state of sudden poverty)
BUT THANK YOU, AVEX!!!! 


*happy dance happy dance happy dance happy dance happy dance happy dance happy dance happy dance happy dance happy dance happy dance happy dance happy dance happy dance happy dance happy dance happy dance*
(I'll weep about the money issue later!)
Takizawa Hideaki Arigatou 2005 Sayonara Concert DVD
Imai Tsubasa 1st Tour 23 to 24 DVD
Release date: 2006/08/16
Price: 4,095 JPY (excl tax) / 4,300 JPY (incl tax)
Bonus: Original strap (First Press only)
Preorder: CDJapan | Shinseido | Tower
And thank you aki for calling me on the phone
and squealing the news to me and kicking my butt to come online!!! (Erm I was actually online but my MSN wasn't on coz I was... secretly reading about Brandon Routh's Package of Steel
on The Defamer) 
Hmmm... [2006/07/12@10:05am]I don't know why there really isn't any other listings than these 2 places [@11:26am]CDJapan is so freakin' sloooowwww in listing Takki's DVD!!!
If I buy it from CDJapan but does that mean I'd have to WAIT until 2006/08/30 for my Ho!SUMMER CDs????
Iyadaaaaa~~~~~
But if I do two separate shippings... 

Crap... actually I'll be in Hongkong sometime during Ho!SUMMER's release... maybe I should just grab the Regular Press there, then AT LEAST I have 1 CD hmmmmm
OK I'm getting way ahead of myself... let's just keep throwing the confetti that solo concert DVDs are CONFIRMED and will be OUT SOON!!!! 


And now I'm wondering too if the CDJapan listings are First Press because there are no indication of such......
*counts budget for August*
3 CDs + 2 DVDs = 
Takizawa Hideaki where are you hiding out?! Still no Takiren!!! I DEMAND YOU UPDATE YOUR TAKIREN NOW

AUGUST???!!!! IT'S ONLY GONNA RELEASE IN FREAKIN' AUGUST?????? So I'm supposed to collect more dust until then??? *CRIES* 
But OMG what a fresh breath of air I found when I open my e-mail JUST NOW!
OMG seriously it's GOOD to feel *THIS* EXCITED AGAIN over Takitsuba as my heart had been on flatline mode for quite awhile now 


IT'S GOOD TO FEEL ALIVE AGAIN!!!! 


*ROAR*
But uh..... HO! SUMMER

You're kidding right??? *LAUGHS TO DEATH* 

When the page first loaded I first thought I saw "HOT SUMMER" (which still kinda made sense right?) until like 10 seconds later I realize it's not "HOT" but "HO!"

So uh... that "Ho!" is like a hi-ho kind of "HO" or like... another kind of "HO"?
Maybe they aren't kidding with those words that follow in the brackets huh?
"Title is subject to change" Yeah, NO SHIT!
Never in my life as a Takitsuba fan that I look upon those words
"Title is subject to change" and actually REALLY DO KINDA HOPE that they DO change the title! 
So what are you waiting for T&T fans!!!!!! *kicks everyone to the pre-order page*
Currently they still only have ONE version listed though? Nah, it's NEVER gonna happen that way. I bet other versions will pop up soon enough. But enough of that.....
See what I mean? XD
THANK YOU, TACKEY & TSUBASA!
THANK YOU, AVEX*
*Erm, we're still waiting on that solocon and Enbujou DVD yo... *pokes pokes*
Few weeks A MONTH ago, right after I returned from Japan, that EVIL JOHNNY SHOP
issued out a set of new live photos from Takki's solo concert that I soooo coveted
(and got me standing in line wasted my precious time for ONE HOUR on my last day in Tokyo JUST to freakin' check if they *FINALLY* published the photos)
So Agent Nere had to execute her occassional
SMUGGLE 

IN INNOCENT HALLMARK CARDS
missions so that Agent GO *runs*
could execute plan
SWIPE ZENBU TAKKI PHOTOS AT EVIL SHOP
successfully!
I was previously informed that there were around 50+ new Takkicon pic chas
at the EVIL JOHNNY SHOP
so I budgeted for that much, rounded it up 
...until Agent GO updated a status report yesterday that mission was a success, except that it wasn't 50+ photos but...
91 PHOTOS!!! 




OMGWTF Cyn said something that really didn't occur to me... that a mere TWO DAYS and ONE TAKIZAWA HIDEAKI could produce a whopping BRICK-STACK wallet-draining 91 photos



At first she suspected she might have blurred herself out (read: got distracted by GO, who was coincidentally plastered on the wall RIGHT NEXT to Takki!) and accidentally also swiped Tsuba photos too without properly looking but she checked finally and confirmed that it *IS* ALL Takizawa Hideaki!!!!!!! 
dead fangirl! OMGTAKKIWTFSOMUCHPHOTOSASDFGHJKL 
AND THEN... 
momo-chan told me that today (or yesterday), that EVIL JOHNNY SHOP
juuuuuuuuust published YET MORE EVIL JOHNNY SHOP MERCHANDISE
with Takitsuba faces on them and then she sent me a photo of it and I almost toppled off to the floor! 
It was a picture of a set of FAKE NAILS
...with that funky 69-lookalike T&T logo from the Gocon FC/photo/ticketalbums/pillowcase *LOL* AND A NAIL FILER
with T&T's faces on it!!!!! OMGWTF EVIL JOHNNY SHOP
Like who the heck would have the heart to actually SCRATCH OUT T&T'S FACES WITH ONE'S NAILS?!?!!!!!
Are they freakin' insane??? That is inhumane!!! *ROFLLL!!!* And not just that, momo-chan told me there's also a...
STAPLER


...out of all things, they make fake nails and staplers
*LOL!!!!* aki was saying too... out of all the more USEFUL things in the world such as maybe i.e. keitai strap, keychain
THEY CHOSE TO PLASTER TAKITSUBA FACES ON A NAIL FILER AND STAPLER INSTEAD HAHAHAHAHAH
*DIES*....
Oh, once I remembered... they have a T&T toothbrush too *LOL*!!!!!
Heeeey did I tell you I actually DID NOT, I repeat, DID NOT buy the pillowcase
I was gooooooooood~
kekekeke... and yeah... nail filer? I don't think so either~ 
Ahh we're now slowly exiting Venus season and going into Enbujou season
Venus ganbatteeeeee climb back up the ladder LOL! 







Dude..... 9500 YEN!!!! 
*goes to weep in a corner*
Cyn was like screeching over MSN when I told her the price... she's like is the DVD lined with GOLD INK or something????
Sigh... 9500 YEN... 

Thud... I'm whining now but I have a feeling I'm gonna click click and ahhh 


bye bye $$$$$$$
just like the 24-hr-TV Dorama DVD THUD!!!!!
Btw... it's not officially decided yet but I think there's gonna be some making of, interviews, behind the scenes, and a mini photo booklet included... the usual stuff... 
Takki Takki Takki why are you so hard on my wallet this past few weeks!!!!