Not really. I’m sitting in homeroom listening to the vocafarre concert, because, while I should probably be doing work, I really really don’t feel like it. I got my practice algebra midterm done but I’m like blahhh I doubt teachers will ask for it because it’s just make up work anyways, but still. So about the Vocafarre concert, it was pretty good, a couple new songs too one new one by Akikoroid, a first performance from Tone Rion (which I’ll get to in a bit), VY1 song, and a cover of a VY1 demo by Gumi and Akikoroid. One of the most entertaining things of the concert was probably the fact that live online comments were being put in the back, and a few inappropriate(yet funny) comments slipped by the mods.
VY1 starts out the intro with a bang, with her Vocafarre desu, her engurishu, is passable, and the song is catchy (as it was done by the same person who did Project Diva Desu for Crypton) and is a nice opening
So the concert actually starts out with Tone Rion as the first actual performer, now, you see her on the screen on the side, talking to 4 girls in the front, which include SeeU’s voice provider, and Mew’s voice provider, Tone Rion attempts to break out of the screen, and appears with the girls singing, this performance… was terrible. The girls danced decently, but the whole introduction was annoying, and all of the girls were terrible singers and drowned out Tone Rion completely. I couldn’t tell if she was terrible too or if she was being drowned out… either was it was just a shame because her model was extremely gorgeous and smooth.
Then there was Aoki Lapis, her songs were adorable, but a bit forgettable and boring. My main problem with her was how glitchy her small model was. She was really small, she had her own little stage and was extremely adorable for one song, and then the next she actually perched herself atop the guitarist’s shoulder. Cute, but a little lack luster, she only sung two songs and then disappeared, not to be seen for the rest of the concert.
Then there’s one of my favorites and one of the ones who really stole the show, Akikoroid, with her opening song, “I saw you at the convenience store” unveiled by two sliding doors, started picking up the slack where little Aoki left off. After that song, she sings a new one and has her back up dancers, this time, they’re actually dressed similar to her and there’s a new unknown song.
yes, Akikoroid is a troll.
Then we have Gumi who comes down in her own little platform type thing (which doesn’t really help her 80s stripper look) and sings Love Droid, then Megu Megu Endless night, with the help of Akikoroid’s back up dancers who have subsequently changed back into what the were wearing in their previous concert.
Then Akikoroid and Gumi Duet together two songs, the latter being a cover of VY1s demo Cyber Thunder Cider which is way better than the original and that’s the end of the show followed by a little thank you and credits.
Overall the show was extremely good except for the Tone Rion part. Now, Crypton, which seems to be losing their thunder to these newer companies , is planning a new concert in March at the Tokyo Dome a much larger venue, and saying it will be,”Miku’s last” Not exactly clear what the hell that means….. It’s possible they are officially retiring Miku’s V2 vocals as all other crypton v2 voicebanks are no longer sold. Crypton actually does have actual Hologram technology that they have put to use at the Tokyo Game show (and I’m not talking about the screens but actual 3-D projections you can walk around) the only reason they probably haven’t implemented it in concert is due to size concerns. Oliver is also planned to be used in a concert but not too much information on that… well that’s my review, peace!
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‘Hey Mitt. Workin’ hard or hardly workin’?’
Mitt Romney — and the entire Republican Party, for that matter — like to argue that rich people deserve big, fat tax breaks because they worked so hard for their money. Fellow rich guy Warren Buffett knocks that argument down:
He makes his money the same way I make my money. He makes money by moving around big bucks, not by straining his back and going to work cleaning the toilets or whatever it may be. He makes it shoving around money. I make it shoving around money. If you look at the 400 highest incomes in the United States, they average $220 million. Something like 90 of them are effectively unemployed. They have no earned income, and that number has gone up over the years. […] It’s the wrong policy to have. Nothing wrong about [Romney] doing that. He will not pay more than the law requires. I don’t fault him for that in the least, but I do fault the law that allows him and me, earning enormous sums to pay over all federal taxes at a rate that is about half what the average person in my office pays.
If being fabulously well-to-do were only a matter of how hard you worked, Mittens would be a pauper, while bricklayers and dock workers would be the 1%.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly9p66B8sa1qfengno1_500.jpg)
