From Wednesday’s promotion of the new Open-chan album:
It’s been almost a year. A year of those damn suspenders. I first noticed them in August, but actually I think they were concert-wear as early as last July. And he still wears them around 80% of the time. How has he not worn out these pants yet? Are they made of some fancy new indestructible denim? Is he on some sort of extended protest of the modern consumer society in which purchasing new pants is strictly forbidden? Has he joined some sort of denim-worshiping cult in which the one cardinal rule is that one must never remove The Pants? Are they sewn onto his body so all other pants he wears are simply worn over them? Have they replaced his legs? Most importantly, is there ANY way at all to get a spy into the inner depths of the B’in Music company structure to cut them off already???
In other news, I can’t help but think that for a rock band, Mayday spends an awful lot of time hanging out with cartoon characters (at least they’re still making time for the beer festival, so someone in the band still has his priorities straight). Also, Masa’s hair is now not only too long, but downright girly… he looks a bit like he borrowed Guanyou’s curling iron. This is not a positive development.
The band is promoting the new “Open-chan” album, for which it is taking pre-orders now and which will be out at the end of the month. Expect a lot of events this week, as the 7-Eleven cartoon mascot’s birthday is today, for obvious reasons. In the meantime, Mayday has put off their own album, saying that they don’t like to rush these things; it will be done when it is done. They are still talking about September, but don’t hold your breath or anything.
Talking about the funky new 7-Eleven album, they explained that Mayday has a new song on it, as does Champion. (Okay, that’s already at least 4 new advertising songs this year. Now be honest: who else is going to be completely annoyed if the new album comes out at these make up 40% of the tracks?) Fish Leong and Victor Wong have contributed, though they provide no details on that. Beyond this, Won Fu covers “Love-ing (恋爱ING),” 831 and Cosmos People (宇宙人) cover “Loneliness Terminator (终结孤单)” and “Crazy World (疯狂世界).” Mayday and Won Fu apparently get along pretty well, even to the point that once Mayday thought they’d lost a drumset, but finally they discovered that they’d loaned it to Won Fu and forgot to get it back.
Compared to this, the level of cooperation between Mayday and sodagreen has been minimal, leading people to question whether there’s bad blood between them. Ashin tried to clarify that this is not actually the case; he said, “I know Qing, have always admired him.” (I love the shortened name. I wonder what Qingfeng calls him? Just “Shin” is taken…) He went on to joke, “And Mayday’s bass player likes their bass player!” Hmm, Masa and Xinyi? I can see it, actually, though not until Masa gets a haircut. Maybe she could convince him…
Anyway, as long as we’re talking about sodagreen, Lo Ta-yu was so embarrassed about his big foot-in-mouth moment at the GMA where he misread sodagreen’s name that he took the whole band plus Will Lin out to dinner, his treat. After an awkward moment while waiting for the elevator when the lobby tv was showing clips of him misreading the name, they opened a few bottles of wine and had a lovely time talking about music, the world, and everything in between.
Finally (and back to Mayday), if you’ve been looking for good quality skull-and-crossbones themed clothing for your infant or toddler – and really, who hasn’t – look no further than BabyRock. Yup, that’s right, Stone and Gougou now have an infant clothing line. Not to mention a one-year-old with a distinctively punk style. Somehow, I can’t see Guanyou dressing up Little Rose in the pink version (erm, is that a cartoon rabbit with a cigarette in its mouth? Um…). [Thanks to Ellie for the Babyrock links!]
LOL at the rate that Ashin wears those suspender denim he’s gonna wear them out real soon – perhaps the guy owns multiple pairs of the exact same pants???
Have you seen Gou Gou’s blog? http://blog.pixnet.net/ilovebabyrock Looks like Mama Rock has also caught the blogging fever
oops sorry ignore my previous msg on Gou Gou’s blog – I missed the last para of your blog entry!
“How has he not worn out these pants yet?”
Bwahahaha! Merry, it’s hard to believe it’s been a year now, but I’m so glad you’ve been keeping track. Because without evidence, how can we do an intervention?
And yes, Guanyou has to keep those curlers away from Masa. He can wear all the skirts/kilts/tablecloths he wants, but this Jacklyn Smith look is just bad drag.
BTW they could really slash the budget for their MVs on this next album. Home movies of Little Stone, please!
I actually have a favorite pair of jeans that I’ve been wearing since middle school. I’ve gotten too big for them for a short time, then had pneumonia, and they’ve fit ever since, so I’ve been wearing them quite frequently during all this time, and now I’m in college. I paid around $30 for Mudd jeans, and I’m getting a lot out of them. They aren’t as dark as they used to be, but they don’t seem to be wearing out at all. I wear them at least 2 days a week when it isn’t too hot outside. So, don’t be too surprised if Ashin’s pants just keep going and going.
I do like Ashin’s taste in camera prints, though! Reminds me of when my dad used to repair the old manual ones.