Well, here it is, the REVIEW OF "THE MARROW OF A BONE", brought to you by me.....

IT"S AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe how much of the CD has English in it (even if it is so hard to figure out what the crap they are saying half of.... all right over most of the album!!). I think there are only two songs on the album sung entirely in Japanese. There is at least one song entirely in English. Now, after that, on to the really, REALLY good songs that I like immensely.

The whole opening song, Conceived Sorrrow, sounds like something written by Marilyn Manson, but totally changed into something more......... Dir en Grey-esque.

Track 5., Grief, is sooooooooooooooo good. The song is just different, and Kyo does this really cool, but strangely unexpected, screech, choking sound at the top of his voice. It surprises you, but it fits so well into the song. It almost sounds like a woman that is mourning. I know when I get upset my ability to speak becomes rather high pitched and pinched, a lot like the sound Kyo makes, only not that high.

I totally love track 7., Disabled Complexes. The whole feel of the song is SOOOOOO funk, but then you read the lyrics, and you really can't believe you're grooving out to a song about the life of a rape victim. It's disturbing, but you really appreciate Kyo for it. He's notorious for that, and I love his ability to totally make you love a song, only to warp your mind when you realize what the song is about. That was the same way with the album version of Embryo (for those whom don't know, it's this slow, sad song about a girl being raped by her father, and then finding out she's pregnant after she kills he father one night in the middle of him raping her). It's such an emotionally charged, great song, but when you find out what the song's about, you sort of feel a little violated, but that goes away the more you begin to understand the band. They do that, and I know I can't help but love thm for that.

Track 9., Namamekashiki Ansoku, Tamerai ni Hohoemi, is amazing. Yeah, I will say this, and sound like the thousands of other people whom have said it before me, but it sounds like "Mushi" and "Higeki Ha Mabuta Wo Oroshita Yasashiku Utsu" (the first one is from Diru's 'Kisou' album, and the latter from the 'Withering to Death' album). You  just feel like crying when you hear the song. I know for a fact that the third time I heard the song, I was driving alone at night, and I felt so pent up that I started screaming. It actually helped me. I was having a bad week, and the song was exactly what I needed.

The 13th and last track, "Clever Sleazoid", I have heard before, but they totally rerecorded it, and it sounds sooooo good. Kyo actually is less screaming at the top of his voice, and the English he screams is a lot easier to figure out. I mean, the first two lines, I can actually totally figure out what Kyo's saying if I didn't know the lyrics. I always liked the song before, but the clarity, and the fact that they added a small opening and closing to the song makes it so much more enjoyable.

Well, that should be enough of a review for all my peoples out there. I hope this has been enlightening, and all I have left to say is this................ YOU SHOULD REALLY BUY AND/OR LISTEN TO DIR EN GREY'S NEW ALBUM: THE MARROW OF A BONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is all.

Well,

i didn't get to go to the concert due to too much DAMN SNOW. sniffle.

I have been waiting 2 years for this, and the EFFING WEATHER decides to be a biznatch.

i went to the dance on campus instead. eh, it was fun.

I HATE VALENTINE"S DAY......

at least this one. i want to shoot something and/or die...... kaoru, shinya, toshiya, and kyo. ARGH!!!!!! EVERYTHING REMINDS ME OF THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay. It's just another day today, and nothing more.

and my fingernails are 6, count 'em, 6 different shades of nailpolish (not all on the same nail, mind you).

I've noticed something. When I'm bored/upset, I tend to go on really long, random car rides. I know my parents let me have a car only to drive to college, for emergencies, and for nothing much more, unless I get a job requiring me to drive, but screw it. I'm paying for gas and for oil for my Kei (that's my truck's name), so I don't think there's any problem with me driving Kei wherever the hell I want.

Anyways, it feels great to drive. I can listen to music and just relax. I can also be a little crazy and speed as fast as I want. The plus side is that I now know a lot, and I mean A LOT about the different roads that are around a 20 mile radius from Greenville. I also know a little about the surrounding towns (Jesus Christ, Rock n' Roll (ARGH! IT"S A DIRU SONG!), there are a ton of little, not even more than 500 people (if that) rinky-dink towns surrounding Greenville). The great thing is, I get little to no cell phone reception in these areas. Thus, I can play the whole, "well, my cell phone was on. I don't understand why I didn't receive your call" card whle I'm out for a drive. It's great. I love driving. It's  something to do, yet nothing, all at the same time. I can drive and see similar places, or I can take a road I haven't before and end up almost completely lost and out of gas. It's all an adventure. The plus side is that I can find places to just park and think. Alone. Completely alone. No one to bother me with a phone call, and no one to go out driving looking for me, and actually find me. It's amazing, really. I can go and recharge. Perhaps I am an introvert at heart. Maybe I do need to leave people in order to be able to handle myself. I mean, this society has such an issue over privacy, but yet, we don't have much in regards to alone time. There is no place that one can just collapse in and be totally alone. You have to go find a place. I want to go to my room and cry, or just be alone, but I have a roommate, and I don't know if she will be there when I get there. Also, when I go home, I don't have a room. I have a couch to sleep on. It's really depressing, but I have little to no alone time unless I go on a drive. The bad thing about driving when I'm at home is that I usually end up at the mall, or going shopping. You know the result to that. I usually spend most of what I should be saving. Oh well, I just need to remind myself that I need to drive into the open farm country, rather than take the roads I know so well that lead me always to the same places.

Anywho, I need to go get some dinner. Starvation is setting in.

P.S. It's a good song. It has it's slower parts, and then it's rock out parts. I loves it so...........

P.P.S. oh yeah, before I forget..........  DIRU'S NEW ALBUM COMES OUT ON THE 20TH!@!!!!!!!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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