I started my Tae Kwon Do training this morning despite fatigue.  I'm now really happy I didn't skip it after all.  Before participating in [the training], I think of various reasons for skipping it, like your body doesn't feel good or you didn't sleep enough.  But once you skip [a training], it becomes the norm, a habit.  I felt a rush of fatigue in my body afterward, but my mind is clear.  People are quick to think about their bodies.  But our minds are even more important.  Actually, the body can recover by simply leaning against a chair.  But the mind can't recover by just sitting in a chair.  A sense of accomplishment, satisfaction, or excitement is what heals the mind.  Right now, I'm getting an intravenous drip into my tired body, but I couldn't do that for my mind.  (sigh)  GACKT, my mind is in full throttle.  My body's recovering!  Overall balance = 80 points.  Hmmmm, not bad!

I've been feeling good since the morning.  The sky's smiling.  I'm smiling, too.  It's incredibly warm today, yesterday's coldness seems like a lie now.  But getting together and having fun with my friends yesterday warmed up my heart and body even in the midst of coldness.  About 40 of us reserved the entire restaurant and had a cilantro party.  Naturally, all of us being immersed in cilantro from beginning to end made us go crazy.  Most of the conversations were about cilantro, too.  There were some who couldn't eat it.  But here's something I realized.  When immersed in cilantro from beginning to end, people start saying things like "The smell of cilantro in this one is too much for me to eat it, but I can eat this one over here..."  I'm talking about people who normally can't even get past the smell of cilantro.  In any case, we're doing a shoot since morning today.  Most of the staff members smell like cilantro.  The studio is once again having a nice day of cilantro.  Viva cilantro.


Remark: This was a party where all the served dishes contained cilantro.

I woke up at 6 again today.  Was it around 4 that I fell asleep...?  I apparently powered down in the middle of writing a new song.  Yesterday was a good day.  It took only 3 minutes to finish up new lyrics.  At times like this, I really feel great.  Words come to me nonstop, and scenes keep overflowing [in my mind].  When they don't come, they don't come for half a year or more.  Anyway, this song will probably be a song that represents the new chapter of MOON SAGA.  I sure want to deliver it to you soon.  Here's hoping I'll be able to make songs like this today, too.  Pleeeez.

Two of the members started complaining about muscle pains in the middle of training yesterday.  "My body feels funny because of the eclipse..."  Could that be true?  No way, I basically just ignore those words that only sounded like an excuse.  I'm sure the eclipse itself doesn't know that it's being used for an excuse like that.  I was standing by this morning, ready to catch this annular eclipse.  However.  My body's been feeling really awful since the morning.  My eyes were so painful I couldn't even open them.  What in the world...?  I looked in the mirror, and saw that my eyes were laughably swollen.  I laughed my head off at such an ugly face I hadn't seen in a while, but without thinking I muttered "I wonder if the annular eclipse did it...?"  AGH...!!!!  Shoot....  (Sigh)  Seriously, Japan is so peaceful...



Remark: The end of the message really sounds like that = Makes no sense. :D

Somehow I completely missed the prequel to his last message. How this happened, I don't even know. -3-;;;
Thanks for telling me about it, Dears!

I've finally finished the script for the play.  I got pushed around by lots of "grownup circumstances", but in the end, I flipped everything around with my special GACKT attack, "Kid's Convenience".  Ultimately I ended up with [the responsibilities] for all of the leading role, directing, original story, and script.  Well, it's something I've been doing for my lives for the past 16 years straight, it's not such a big deal.  If there is a problem, it's the battle with time.  In any case, now that I've flipped everything around by using the special attack "Kid's Convenience", there's no choice but to do this.  So, today, we're starting an audition soon for the female roles.  There'll be over 40 people auditioning today, so it'll be rough.  Talk about "Kid's Convenience", I was finishing up the script yesterday in a pretty sour mood when two members of the staff brought their kids over.  The children, born two days apart from each other, are called "Tsuki (Moon) and Sora (Sky)", a good combination.  Even I can't use my special attack against real kids.  Normally I never hold babies, but somehow I decided to hold them.  Well, in a mood like this, it's best to listen to its(the mood's) voice.  When I held them, one of them started fussing right away.  "Boys don't cry!", so I told him, but naturally, it didn't work on a bona fide kid.  Not even my Super Killer Smile had any effect.... [to be continued to the message in my previous post].

Remarks: When he talks about "大人の事情・大人の都合 grownup circumstances and conveniences (which are not exactly standard expressions you'd find in Japanese dictionaries) ", he's usually talking about all the red tape that you need to comply with and/or tackle whenever you want to accomplish something in the grownup world (bureaucracy).  A good example is when GACKT, with his connections with some politicians, bypassed some of the red tape in order to bring the relief goods to the people in need very quickly.  He has also defied these "grownup circumstances and conveniences" in producing his songs and live stages in order to bring the best to his fans throughout his career. 
Sounds like he had a bit of a rough start for this play. 
Good luck, Gaku-san, we believe in you.

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Not even my Super Killer Smile had any effect.  Without any good idea, I was acting all nervous when a staff member took this photo. There are a ton of things that we, the grownups, need to do to create a future where children like them can think, "I am really happy I was born," and to protect the world from becoming ruined by the corrupt "grownup circumstances" and "grownup conveniences" out there.  Alright, I guess I'll go shoot out some "kids' conveniences" now. OSSHA~, ga-ga~ goo-goo~.


"Tsuki (Moon) and Sora (Sky)"