The Old and the New

One month ago, on April 17th 2007, Bou (g. of Antic Café) had announced on the official website that he’ll depart from the band; saying that there was something else he wanted to do. Not only was he the co-founder of Antic Café, but he was also part of the Oshare kei that the band had created. Oshare kei is a sub-division of visual kei that tends to incorporate sounds that are similar to pop punk while retaining the Visual kei rock style of mellow guitar solos and aggressive high pitched tones with songs that are around 5 minutes in length. The lyrics are likely to focus on subject matters that are optimistic, often about love and relationships. Fashion for the Oshare is usually bright and colorful that at times it doesn’t seem compatible.


Now that a month has past two new members appeared creating the new generation of Antic Café. Sorry to say…but although the guitarist (Takuya) that replaced Bou may look good…the new keyboardist (Yuuki) seems out of place. I just hope that the music would be just as good or better!






Anyhow…in remembrance to the old Antic Café, I decided to share a video~
Antic Cafe - Escapism [PV]

Yes…it’s very up-beat. Reminds me of a beach song.

Rating: Good.



Posted by: Rose

Spider-Man 3

Spider-Man 3 was a good movie. Out of the super-hero genre of movies, the Spider-Man movies especially had some good stories and visuals. That said, Spider-Man 3 had the most action out of any super-hero movie I have seen thus far. The long-awaited introduction of Gwen Stacy in the movies was well done, even if she should be dead at this point in the movie timeline. (Gwen Stacy pwns Mary Jane in SM3).

IMO, it's my love for the character that puts the movies and a lot of things Spider-Man related in very high regard. Now, the movie wasn't without its faults. If it wasn't for Sam Raimi, Spider-Man 3 would have been a disaster on the scale of X-Men: The Last Stand or Batman and Robin. Some go as far to call SM3, Batman and Robin 2, but I wouldn't. Like I said to you before, "In Raimi We Trust", and I think he delivered. Sure you wouldn't see Sandman and Venom working together, but the whole idea and scenes were very classic comic book moments. Whether Harry Osborn would have teamed-up with Spider-Man against some enemies is something I can't answer, because I didn't get to read the books before the character died in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man. The idea was still very cool, yet annoying.

The villain of the day was definetly Sandman. Powers and visuals beat anything that Venom could muster in SM3. Venom is a very cool character, but like in the comics, he gets really old really quick. Its a good thing he died a bitch death.

There are several plot holes throughout the movie, mostly in Peter/MJ relationship, but I guess that leaves room for the next movie.

That's my official review, and I'm sorry it's so long. Ha. Blame me for being a comic book fan.

Posted By: Nico (Guest Writer)