I like to check up on the status of my favorite (and not so favorite) musicians from time to time. This morning I decided to peruse some of Gackt's newest releases on YouTube. After flipping through the "Returner" and "Jesus" music videos (ho-hum, booooooring), I came across the PV for his newest single, slated for release later this month on January 28. It was an electronic piece called "Ghost."

Did you see it? DID YOU SEE IT? GACKT AND TERMINATORS!!! Gackt and scenes spliced from the very first season of the best show of all time, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles!!! GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! GACKT AND TERMINATORS!!! GACKT WITH FLASHING RED EYES!!! JUST TELL ME YOU'RE BLOWN AWAY BY THAT!!!

Anyway, the part of my brain that wasn't going haywire over this unforeseen development was wondering whether "Ghost" was an image or soundtrack song for the show in Japan. Now, I would digress even further except that another annoying, more persistent voice in my head is chiding me for neglecting to study for this test and for not working on that big essay due Friday. Damn school. Is a measly snow day too much to ask?

Update (10:48 pm): Finally! Vindication! Those administrators saw some sense at last! Now to get cracking on that CSS Profile thing…

Gakuto-san, an aspiring weatherman? He just cracks me up.

(This is the last embedded YouTube video, I swear!)

On another note, did you know that frozen peaches taste like popsicles? Yeah, but only sweeter and less… melt-y.

Gackt-sama! So beautiful… so elegant… I'm simply overcome with admiration…

(Please note: Normally I would sooner stab a fork into my forehead than follow the idiotic masses in the Web 2.0 revolution and embed a YouTube video into any of my Web pages, but I realize people are lazy and would be less likely to follow an external link… so here it is! Gackt's god-like music video for "Vanilla.")

A subtitled version of the video can also be accessed here, but since "Vanilla" is really a pure sex song (but one of my favorites regardless), I should warn you… the lyrics are… you know…

Other than that, my summer vacation is proceeding along quite splendidly.

Gackt-sama! This is perhaps the only time I'll ever admit such a thing, but… I'm completely enamored with him!

In case you were wondering, Camui M. S. Gackt is a talented J-rocker from Japan. He sings, plays several different instruments, writes his own lyrics, and I also believe composes his own music. He is currently a popular entertainer and has a vast following from many different parts of the world. And if I remember correctly, he can also speak English and French with varying degrees of fluency… apart from his native Japanese, of course.

I still don't quite know how I've become infatuated with him, since I'm normally not a huge fan of rock, but I suppose some of Gackt-san's appeal (besides his androgynous good looks and his elaborate costumes) comes from his mysterious origins… apparently, Gackt has never disclosed his real name or age and claims to be a vampire born somewhere around 1540. He says he gained psychic powers after a near-fatal accident in his childhood and used to be possessed by spirits, and consequently, does not wish to have children so these paranormal abilities would not be passed to them.

Naturally, my admiration for him increased considerably after hearing this. Long live Lord Gackt!