On BEAT SPACE NINE you’re nothing but a listener.

On Saturday the 22nd of September, I was supposed to go help out a friend and the New York-Tokyo office with the New York-Tokyo Music Festival, where the TERIYAKI BOYZ would be performing. That got shot down by something we call stomach problems. And the beginnings of a fever. (I’m sure you’re all rejoicing at being able to avoid another of my fangirl-nalist “reports”. AAA was that bad, huh?)

Much moping, sleeping, and a bunch of pills later, I decided to make up for missing out on the group live by listening to the most well known of them in studio recordings. So I started the post on the following Tuesday, when I began to feel better. Then Wednesday any blogging services I used decided to crash on me, and the rest of the week I was driven frantic by the upcoming SM Auditions (which, I’m proud to say, I bombed magnificently.) And then after that was school, a birthday mess (where, I’m less proud to say, I had my first ever shot of vodka), and more school.

Well, it took a while for him to get here (almost three weeks!), but ladies and gentlemen, heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere’s Johnny!

COSMICOLOR me pleased.

I know I’ve gone on about my lack of attention span when listening to music, regardless of how much I like the activity itself.

Generally, the ideal environment for me to listen to music and actually have me focus on it is during a commute where I am by myself. During that specific time period, however long it actually is, I have nothing else to actually do or distract me, and so my mind centers on the music blasting from my earbuds and weakening my eardrums. (I am also of the generation that likes their music loud; sorry if you happen to be of the generation that waves walking canes at mine for doing so.)

So I’m not sure what it was that made me sit down and listen carefully to m-flo’s latest (and last in their “loves…” series) album COSMICOLOR during a time period where I had plenty of distractions, but I’m glad it did.