Updates About Yoshiki’s Health
Drummer, pianist and X JAPAN band leader, Yoshiki, will undergo neck surgery on Monday, July 27, 2009 at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Hills, CA. Dr. Neel Anand, Director of the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center, will perform a cervical foraminotomy.
Due to his intense drumming style, Yoshiki developed a worsening of his neck pain and left hand numbness over the past month, affecting his music performance. His condition has been evaluated by doctors in the U.S. and Japan. Yoshiki underwent a spinal x-ray series, an MRI of the spine, and an EMG. After seeking second and third opinions on the diagnosis and treatment, he concluded that the foraminotomy was necessary for the cervical foraminal stenosis.
Yoshiki’s primary physician at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Tommy H. Tomizawa (UCLA Assistant Professor), states that he will need a few weeks to recover from the surgery and a month or more of rehabilitation. If his condition does not improve over the next several months, laminectomy, discectomy and spinal fusion would be considered. Artificial disc placement would be another treatment of choice.
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Update, After a While
For this update, I’ve added a new member and updated 2 members’ links.
Also, I’ve added a new affiliate – Journalism Rock! Please visit the site, also!
雅-miyavi- Official Fans Club is Up!
Miyavi fans, rejoice!
As of yesterday, June 1st, Miyavi’s official fans club, the 【C.W.I.F】 or in it’s long name, the Co-miyavi Worldwide International Family is finally up! There’s a web and a mobile version of the said web portal but unfortunately, it’s only in Japanese.
I hope that they would have an English version of it soon! *cross fingers*
Updates on KH
This is another update regading KH being down recently.
It’s been past 3 days and the domain transfer isn’t really working. So I’ve decided to contact BlueHost’s customer service and ask about it. According to them, the domain already expired and there will be no way to transfer the domain. To get the domain back, I’ll have to either (1) wait for anotehr 37 days until it expires and register the domain again, but this option does not guarantee me that I would be able to get the domain back because there will be possibilities that other people wants to take te domain as well; (2) I’ll have to pay $80 to get the domain back – $10 for the renewal of the domain and another $70 for retrieving the domain because it expired, but this option will assure me that I shall get the domain back.
To be honest, I don’t wanna spend that much for KH anymore. Taking aside the fact that I’m already broke, I had spent too much already and I’m already tired. I’ve been together with KH for that long and its really dying this time and nobody is helping it up. Instead, people are leaving one after the other. I did my best and tried reviving it again and again but my efforts are always futile. This time, I’ll have to give it up. Kiatsu wont be here to help me bring it back together anyway.
For the mean time, I’ll probably use http://kh.beyondeternal.com/ for the moment and mirror Kawaii Heaven’s paid hosting there. But after that, I’m not sure if I would want to re-register the domain itself. Eventually, I’ll have to decide if I would still buy the domain after the 37 day reservation is done. So, I’m kinda in that dilemma right now.
Opinions are very much appreciated.
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We’ve temporarily moved at: http://kh.beyondeternal.com/
D’espairsRay European Tour Confirmed!
Quoting Zero:
It’s confirmed!!
Sorry to have kept you all waiting!
Our European Tour has finally been confirmed!!
It has been a long while but we are looking forward to it a lot!!
Please come see us ok!
We will be waiting for you☆ABAYO—!
ZERO
Source: D’espairsRay MySpace Blog
Kawaii Heavens is Not Dead!
At least, not yet.
As you know, Kawaii tenshi-tachi, KH is currently down. The domain is being transferred to a new domain host, atm. Please wait for the domain transfer to get done and it will be back up. It usually takes a 24-48 hours for the domain to transfer and another 24-48 hours for it to entirely propagate the Internet.
We are transferring KH’s domain to my domain host. It’s usually Kiastu who pays for the domain, but since Kiatsu officially left KH and is under indefinite hiatus and no one knows exactly when she’ll be coming back, the domain and hosting fees now falls under me. For me to be able to pay for the domain and hosting with ease, I need to transfer it to my account.
While I’m at this, I would like to thank the following for helping us greatly with hosting our files:
I’m Still Alive
Yesh, I’m still alive. I just got so busy with work and stuffs so haven’t been updating. Anyway, I’ve updated about 4 member’s links and I shall add one member later tonight, when I get home.
Oh, and I’ve been noticing, there has been an increase of different J-rock blog crews these days. And they’re not even just J-rock related blog crews, they’re J-rock blog crews themselves – like this one. Honestly, I’m not a bit offended about it. I’m actually happy that people are starting to notice the J-rock scene more now than ever before. This is probably all thanks to huge artists like Yoshiki, Gackt, Miyavi, Sugizo, X Japan, Dir en Grey, Moi Dix Mois, the GazettE, D’espairsRay and many other bands. If you wanna join them, please feel free to! Let’s all support the J-rock scene will a heart full of love!
GPKISM “Holy Blood tour” in Europe
Hey, people of Europe! Wake up, wake up! GPKISM is having a Europe tour! Spread the world of this great news, loves, because I’m dying of envy and I wanted to be there too.
May 8th Contopia
Place: Wuppertal/Germany
Starts: 4pm
Tickets: Just 5 euros!
Send an E-Mail to: sebastian…steinecker@freenet.de
with: Name, Age, Address and the number of tickets
May 8th ????? ?????????
Place: Essen/Germany
Start: midnight
May 10th U Bazyla
Place: Poznan/Poland
more info soon
May 11th Hellraiser
Place: Leipzig/Germany
Open/Start: 7.30pm/8pm
Tickets: ADV: 12.40euros/Door: 15 euros
Available under: http://www.ticket-leistung.de
May 15th Club ARAN (With Kaoru Project)
Place: Roma/Italy
Start: 8pm
Tickets: ADV 10euros
May 16th Viper Room Vienna
Place: Vienna/Austria
Open/Start: 7.30pm/8.30pm
Tickets: ADV 15euros/Door 20euros
Send an E-mail at: gpkism.tickets@googlemail.com
with: Name, Age, Address, Concert and the number of tickets
* get the flyer here and spread the news!
PS:
Kiwamu’s so cute when he actually ranted over at GPKISM’s blog about this tour.
GPKISM 1st fansite Video Channel
Yes, you read that right! Now, susbcribe and be filled with all GPKISM goodness!
GPKISM 1st full album [Atheos]
GPKISM will release their first full album called [Atheos] at the 4th of March, 2008!
Details are as follows:
1st full album [Atheos]
March 4th, 2009 Release
Distrubution: Daiki Sound, CD baby, Tainted Reality
Disc number: CRKK-3
Limited: 666
Price: $28
Playlist Includes:
01. Immaculatus
02. Thanatosis
03. Metempsykhosis
04. Metempsykhosis ~Omega~
05. Ultimatus
06. Illuminatum
07. Infernum
08. Synthesis
09. Abaddon
10. Sublimis ~Alpha~
11. Sublimis
12. Atheos
13. Sanktus
14. Abyssus
