Hi, I have no clue what's going on here.
Can someone please get me up to speed?

yoshinator54 wrote:Hi, I have no clue what's going on here.
Can someone please get me up to speed?

We havent met recently (at least I speak for me) but Stereopony concert is this Wednesday in Hollywood and Thursday in Santa ana, some of us will be meeting for it :D

Oh, that's pretty cool. For those of you who are going, have fun!

I wish I checked out this post earlier! I was at the Stereopony - Santa Ana performance on April 12th. The girls were awesome live! I stayed till Yost kicked us out. AIMI's a powerful singer for a such a tiny girl. I like NOHANA's new look, she's sportin Mami's old hairstyle. I think it suits her. Overall, I had a great time. Hopefully both SCANDAL and Stereopony will return to the U.S. and maybe we'll get a dream SCANDALPony conert!

@ AFan: Oh, heh, I just replied to you on the Stereopony thread... HA HA! But yeah man, we usually post events and happenings here in this thread for the majority to see... It could be whatever you want such as concerts, gatherings, etc., but it'll get turned into it's own topic if something gets pretty well discussed here...

This is a nationwide thread so you'll see info from wherever in the US compiled here... sorta...

Other than that, we'll be seeing you at the next meet!

the new Transformers 3D ride opened up at Universal Studios recently - who's down to go?

^ Wasn't it suppose to open at the end of May though?

http://www.universalstudioshollywood.com/attractions/transformers-the-ride-3d/

ohhh youre right haha, i just heard of ppl riding it already and it mustve been those intermittent Technical Rehearsals.. well in that case who's down when it ACTUALLY opens?

@ Zim: Do we have to ride along with the Autobots? I'm a Decepticon...

Someone recorded the ride(the one in Singapore):

@bigOeyez
After watching the video, it looks like you might not have a choice.

Behind the scenes(in Hollywood):

^ Boo! Dark of the Moon didn't rock my socks off... Soundwave should have killed Bumblebee and Shockwave should have killed just about everything around him with ease... Boo Michael Bay!!! Starscream should have had his squadron too...

Did not rock my socks off...

But yeah, I'm down for the ride... boo...

thanks for the spoiler alert tag bigOeyez...

OH WAIT! hahahhahahha jk man, but i guess it works out ok cause i didn't expect much out of dark of the moon anyways

p.s. love the new addition to your siggy haha PEDRO MARTINEZ!

^ You haven't seen Dark of the Moon yet? NO WAY!!! As a movie, it was pretty damn good, but I'm a fan of the Decepticons and Hollywood movies always have the good guys winning in the end, so I knew it would have never worked out... No spoilers though, that was my 2 cents that would have made the movie more epic than it was...

I'll bring it over next time or something... Actually, I'll bring you the IDW books, that Transformers Universe is way darker and bloodier than you think... ALL HAIL MEGATRON MARTINEZ!!!

I wanna get some drinks next weekend, anyone up? Can be from Friday 11 to Sunday 13

For those NOT on Facebook (looking at you bigOeyez), some of us are going to this screening. According to the trailer "Tormented" features SCANDAL's "Burn". This fits into your schedule Lale. Maybe we can grab dinner on the Strip before the movie.
http://laapff.festpro.com/films/detail/tormented_2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlZaJ5ZcOKI&feature=player_embedded

For those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area, I have good news if you want to sing SCANDAL songs at karaoke! I just went to Music Tunnel KTV in Richmond, and they have 36 SCANDAL songs! They have a few rooms with Japanese karaoke machines that are pretty up to date. Unfortunately, they didn't have Harukaze yet, but they had almost every single, as well as B-sides and album songs like Switch, Hello! Hello!, Aitai, Koi no Kajitsu, etc.

They also have a lot of recent anime songs, and plenty of other Japanese music (for example, 20+ Stereopony songs). Since it's a Japanese machine, they basically have everything that a karaoke place in Japan would have. AKB48 had more songs than The Beatles...

@ Glenn: You know me, I've a personal thing against it... Some things in this world are just not meant to be... HA HA!!!

But man, that movie looks spooky! it's been a while since I've seen a real good J-horror... "Doesn't that kid know not to mess with rabbits?"



@ Geo: Now that's some badass karaoke'ing we can do in the Bay! I still haven't got a date down, but I do still plan on visiting my cousin sometime by summer (knowing me, before the end of the year... HA!), so it's still on like Tron when I make my way up there... uh, alcohol OK? Heh, there's always places like that around... I get more dynamic as the night gets hazier...

For those of you who couldnt join our SH group that went out to the Tormented / Rabbit Horror 3D movie premiere in LA here's a quick summary of highlights...

During the Q&A at the end of the movie, propglenn introduced us as representatives of an international SCANDAL fan club and then proceeded to ask about their inclusion in the movie with the ending theme and stuff. This got the attention of someone who approached us after we got out of the theater, saying he was representing a company from Japan that works with SCANDAL and said that apparently one of the girls was even supposed to be there for the premiere! Imagine how surprised we would've been... but he said that unfortunately they were a bit burnt out or whatnot after Budokan and that didn't end up happening. But on the note of Budokan, I explained to the guy how a bunch of us actually went to Japan to watch the Budokan performance. I actually keep the ticket in my wallet (I'm not crazy, I swear lol) and after I showed it to the guy he seemed pretty amazed and took pictures of us with the ticket and of the ticket itself and said he would send the pictures to SCANDAL's management!

So yeah! for not having any expectations for the night at all really, besides hearing Burn while watching credits roll lol, it ended up being a pretty awesome night! and actually at the end our little SH group got a picture with the director of the movie which was cool (I tweeted the girls the picture trying to explain that this was at the movie premiere but no response haha)

zimbobbio wrote: (I'm not crazy, I swear lol)

...says the man that drifts into lala-land at the sight of anything ToNomi...


Man, I should have bought a movie poster earlier in the month to attempt to get it signed at the viewing... Which would have ended in a success by the way things turned out... DAMN IT!!! Heh, but like you said, who would have known?!

I got dibs that it was Haruna that was coming over... Shortly after that becomes a reality, please be kind to rent me out a room at your place indefinitely... onegai shimasu...
.uhuh.

A response to your tweet shall come soon!

Here's 2 more nation wide events that I'll be attending locally as well...

- The Nerdist Podcast with Chris Hardwick
- July 13 2012 (During Comic-Con... Glenn, I'm looking at you!!!)
- Balboa Theatre in Downtown San Diego (Nation wide available)
- $30
http://www.nerdist.com/2012/04/nerdist-podcast-live-returns-to-san-diego-july-13th/ (San Diego)
http://www.nerdist.com/ (Website)
"A must for all video game aficionados, comic fanatics, computer geeks, etc.... I'm rough on the exterior but I'm down with all things nerdy... Street smarts + Book smarts = One helluva beast to take down..."


- Run for Your Lives Zombie Marathon
- October 20 2012
- Vail Lake Camping Resort in Temecula CA (Nation wide)
- $77/$87 for runners (Deadline 8/29; 9/28); $32 for spectators (Deadline 10/19); Currently reaching 80% capacity
http://runforyourlives.com/locations/south-temecula-ca/ (Temecula / SoCal)
http://runforyourlives.com/ (Website)
"I registered for the 3.00pm wave so find me around that time... Beer, zombies, music, it's a festival in disguise!!! I also reserved a camp site for me and my buddies so hit me up if you guys might wanna camp out after the run..."


@ Geo: Hey, did you happen to make it to the Zelda Symphony a few months ago? I don't have to ask how it went, but was there anything exclusive on sale at the merch booth?

I ended up not going to the Zelda Symphony, actually... probably should have. At least I made up for it with the Stereopony concert a few weeks later.

On a related note, last week I bought Hyrule Historia (for those of you who aren't Zelda nerds like me, it's an awesome official Nintendo artbook/guidebook for the Zelda series, only released in Japan) from Kinokuniya in San Francisco. I've come to realize how amazing that store really is. They have the latest manga, light novels, and artbooks from Japan at a great price. The last time I went in March, they also had music magazines with SCANDAL features, from when they were doing lots of promotion before Budokan. There weren't any left last week though :/

most of SH usa members are in Cali???? no wonder it felt lonely in chicago lol

even whem i went to the japanese market and ask for Baby Action, they didnt knew about Scandal

got me pissed but oh well ill see what i can do ^^

haha I checked out some videos of the Zombie Marathon on youtube. It looks fun! I seriously wanna do this but...I stopped running after I graduated...I guess i'll need to start training now. We should get a group of SH members together to do this.

@ Geo: Yeah Kinokuniya is yummy stuff, I like the location in Washington the best because it's pretty much in downtown and connected to Uwajimaya center... The ones here in LA and SD aren't bad either, but I found that people were more sociable up North, so it wasn't necessarily the shop itself that won me over...

Zelda Symphony for me in July! WOOT!!!


@ Charly: We're pretty much scattered around the US, but it just appears that SoCal is the hotspot because a majority of the shows, concerts, etc., happens to land on the Westcoast... I keep in contact with everyone around the country occasionally just because, whether it's a simple "hey" or specific inquiry, we stay connected one way or another... Easier done if you're on FB, but I keep it old school and go directly to the source through rotary phones and such... HA HA!


@ Aosaru: Registration fee will go up another $10 if you don't register by the first deadline, but I registered last year so my fee was about $45... I was training for Ninja Warrior as well last year so I couldn't let it all go to waste... What better way to keep in shape for the next competition than to run away from zombies? :D

6 miles is the max you should be able to run, but 10 miles in an hour should be your aim for now... You figure that it's 3+ miles minimum if you take the correct route, 6+ if you go the wrong way, then you put the obstacles into account... 10 miles in an hour seems about right to not get left in the dust? HA! Plus the marathon releases the next wave of runners every 30mins, so you don't want to get lapped...

@Pedro
I really regret the fact that I stopped running after high school. I use to be able to do 8+ miles at a decent speed. haha and I don't mind getting lapped as long as I don't "get eaten." Hm. Maybe I should train for next years marathon instead.

haha and you use this competition as training?