Archive for January, 2009

Morning Musume’s Resonant Live Tour – Take off is Now!

January 29 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Hello! Project, Review

This post is here for one reason and one reason only…
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Actually… Make that two reasons. XD This performance comes from Morning Musume’s Fall 2008 concert tour – [...]

Matsuura Aya’s Omoi Afurete – Her Final H!P Album

January 27 20093 Commented

Categorized Under: Featured, Hello! Project, Review

Matsuura Aya’s last album as a Hello! Project artist was released on January 21, 2009. My copy arrived today (or rather yesterday now, since it’s past midnight) and I happily opened up the album (which I had already listened to) to browse through the beautiful lyrics booklet. I have to say that the photos [...]

International Wota Awards 2008

January 17 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: On Blogging

Hey there everyone!
It’s that time of the year again… The time to honour the awesome J-music blogs of 2008 by voting in the International Wota Awards! I figure most people who read this blog are already International Wota readers, so you probably know about it already, but it never hurts to plug IW every now [...]

The fields 2008 H!P Awards

January 15 20092 Commented

Categorized Under: Hello! Project, Slide show

I was planning to do an end of the year post awards style for the blog in 2008, but… Yea, it’s 2009 now. That obviously failed. From the start of December, I kept telling myself to start working on the post because it would take me a while to get on it… And I never [...]

Thoughts on Berryz Koubou’s Special Best Vol.1 Tracklist

January 7 20092 Commented

Categorized Under: Hello! Project

Nearly a month ago, the tracklist for Berryz Koubou’s upcoming ‘best of’ album titled “Berryz Koubou Special Best Vol.1″ was posted on Hello! °C-ute, and I was quite interested to see what exactly ended up on this best of compilation (which is releasing a week from today). I have to admit that I haven’t been [...]

Memorable Snippets: Part 14 – Morning Musume, Ayaya & Gomaki “HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!”

January 1 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Hello! Project, Memorable Snippets, Slide show

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!! I hope you all rang in the new year with friends and/or family and had a grand old time (alcohol or no alcohol. ^_^)!
To celebrate the new year, I thought I’d post the 2004 Hello! Morning New Years skit. I actually hadn’t watched this one in quite some time, and I’m [...]