Post by shou on Dec 28, 2006 10:13:25 GMT -5
Alright as most of you jrock fans know, KAMIJO, the vocalist of LAREINE was at Fanimecon in San Jose, CA this past memorial day weekend! Of course, I being a Lareine fan since 2003 could not pass this opportunity up to see the Jrock visual kei legend in my own hometown.
I'm still really out of it, I'm kind of floating in and out of mental consciousness so excuse my vagueness.
FRIDAY Kamijo sighting:
I was sitting outside the Dealers Room because I had given Kiriyama my pass to go browse the Dealers and this guy in a big hat and sungalsses passes by and it takes me a bit to realize JESUS CHRIST, THAT'S KAMIJO! He had about four body guards and was walking very fast towards the Hilton.
Me and Haru-chan tried to chase him down but we lost him =(
SATURDAY:
I met this guy named Jim who was tech staff and he used his mad skillz to get me and Haru-chan in early to the show. we ended up helping out anyway keeping the line in control.
Well for a brief time Haru-chan and I were in the stage area with the sound staff as they helped Kamijo do sound check. It was dark and the spotlight was on him and he was singing and me and haru's faces were like O____O. He is breathtaking in person.
So Haru and I ran around with Chris and some volunteers trying to make sure the line didnt get crazy. It snaked it's way all the way outside ;____; We were kinda worried we couldn't fit in everyone but we did and I was glad.
The show was very short, just a small 30 minute set, he only sang maybe like six songs. However, he swooped by the edge of the stage where Haru and I were situated across in the staff area and he stopped and looked us straight in the eyes. me and Haru just about died.
Of course, he did his bonjour honey! thing. so cute.
When he was leaving, I yelled out ARIGATOU and he stopped, turned and blew a kiss! <333
I didn't get to go to the first autographing/photo op cuz I was helping with MusicFest along with Sun-chan and Haru-chan.
SUNDAY:
I was the first person in the photo line! Dice (Lauren) was the second and Psy was third. Kamijo wanted to stop by the JPH booth half an hour early to sell things, etc and so when he came I took a shitload of pictures.
Kamijo was just loitering, talking to some fans in very choppy English (he tried.he's a sweetie). He made jokes and stuff. He was standing in front of me and Dice wanted to know if he could smile and so I went >.> "eto Kamijo-san?" and he looked at me like "yes?
" and I was like "smile?" and smiled for him and he was like "ah ah hai" and smiled. sort of. ahahaha. Then he picked up a CURE, opened it to his page and pointed. Dice was like OMG and bought it off him ahaha and he opened it up and signed it for her! aww.
He also kissed a few issues of CURE, the one with him on the cover, and he kissed like four and stood there expectantly like he was expecting a mad rush for them, but everyone stood there looking nervously from one person to another. Then I was like "FUCK IT. GIVE IT HERE. I'LL TAKE IT" and picked up the most freshly kissed issue and paid 10 bucks for it. I got a JANIME newspaper signed by Kamijo as well as the kissed magazine!
Then the photo session started. I was the first one and I was standing there like an idiot alone because Kamijo was still signing a few last min. autographs. He finally came and I tapped him on the shoulder and went "Kamijo-san, do this?" and made the *poke* face. He smiled and nodded and said "hai hai" and we posed together!!! ahaha everyone started giggling when he did it with me, I felt sort of idiotic but I'm glad I did it, I mean he's very polite, the worst would be he would say "no" but everyone that was at the photosession yesterday said he was doing all sorts of weird poses so I was like well if he can do that, doing a standard little puricura pose is nothing right?
Anywho then I made a beeline for the autograph line. I was ready to get my Dutch friend Nana's CD signed since I figured, well, I already had an autograph and a kissed magazine, and Nana really wanted the cd so I decided not to get the poster for me signed. Then I remembered Kikuye had agreed to help me out so I called her up and she ran over and got the cd signed and I got my poster signed! He shook my hand, I was clutching my skirt in my right hand so it wouldn't be all sweaty because I was really really nervous.
Dice wanted me to get back in line with her, but I left her with one of the other staffers, she was a friend of Dice's too so it was ok. I visited Haru-chan at Anime Depot and then went to join Tama-seme in line again. Tama wanted to get a poster signed for her friend in Mexico but was weird about approaching him again. And I did owe her a favor since she could have very well kicked me and Haru-chan out of the Kamijo practice because *technically* we weren't allowed in there. So I agreed to go get it signed cause I was like "well shit, this would be my last chance to see him up close." Tama-seme got out of line to take pics of Kamijo signing things and Psy joined me in line to chat while she waited for her friend (stasia was it?). I made sure I was saying the right thing to him ("mou ichido onegai shimasu" "one more time please") and checked it with one of the staff members who spooke Japanese.
I was next up and Harry was like "haha you're back" and I'm like "uhh yeah" and when the two fat chicks in front of me left I shuffled over to him, put it down, went all red faced, bowed and said "mou ichido onegai shimasuuu" and all the while he had this little smirk as if he was going "aha. you again". but he said "aha hai hai" and signed it. then he paused for a bit and I kind of gawked at him going "what is he doing" and he smiled and wrote "no.2" and said "naambaa twoo." and reached to shake my hand again. This time it was a longer handshake, and omg like, I pulled my fingers from his palm all slooooowly and he being the ever so perfect gentleman held my hand till I was smart enough to let him go ahahaha xD
I will edit with pictures when it's not 12:15 in the morning xDDD
I'm still really out of it, I'm kind of floating in and out of mental consciousness so excuse my vagueness.
FRIDAY Kamijo sighting:
I was sitting outside the Dealers Room because I had given Kiriyama my pass to go browse the Dealers and this guy in a big hat and sungalsses passes by and it takes me a bit to realize JESUS CHRIST, THAT'S KAMIJO! He had about four body guards and was walking very fast towards the Hilton.
Me and Haru-chan tried to chase him down but we lost him =(
SATURDAY:
I met this guy named Jim who was tech staff and he used his mad skillz to get me and Haru-chan in early to the show. we ended up helping out anyway keeping the line in control.
Well for a brief time Haru-chan and I were in the stage area with the sound staff as they helped Kamijo do sound check. It was dark and the spotlight was on him and he was singing and me and haru's faces were like O____O. He is breathtaking in person.
So Haru and I ran around with Chris and some volunteers trying to make sure the line didnt get crazy. It snaked it's way all the way outside ;____; We were kinda worried we couldn't fit in everyone but we did and I was glad.
The show was very short, just a small 30 minute set, he only sang maybe like six songs. However, he swooped by the edge of the stage where Haru and I were situated across in the staff area and he stopped and looked us straight in the eyes. me and Haru just about died.
Of course, he did his bonjour honey! thing. so cute.
When he was leaving, I yelled out ARIGATOU and he stopped, turned and blew a kiss! <333
I didn't get to go to the first autographing/photo op cuz I was helping with MusicFest along with Sun-chan and Haru-chan.
SUNDAY:
I was the first person in the photo line! Dice (Lauren) was the second and Psy was third. Kamijo wanted to stop by the JPH booth half an hour early to sell things, etc and so when he came I took a shitload of pictures.
Kamijo was just loitering, talking to some fans in very choppy English (he tried.he's a sweetie). He made jokes and stuff. He was standing in front of me and Dice wanted to know if he could smile and so I went >.> "eto Kamijo-san?" and he looked at me like "yes?
" and I was like "smile?" and smiled for him and he was like "ah ah hai" and smiled. sort of. ahahaha. Then he picked up a CURE, opened it to his page and pointed. Dice was like OMG and bought it off him ahaha and he opened it up and signed it for her! aww. He also kissed a few issues of CURE, the one with him on the cover, and he kissed like four and stood there expectantly like he was expecting a mad rush for them, but everyone stood there looking nervously from one person to another. Then I was like "FUCK IT. GIVE IT HERE. I'LL TAKE IT" and picked up the most freshly kissed issue and paid 10 bucks for it. I got a JANIME newspaper signed by Kamijo as well as the kissed magazine!
Then the photo session started. I was the first one and I was standing there like an idiot alone because Kamijo was still signing a few last min. autographs. He finally came and I tapped him on the shoulder and went "Kamijo-san, do this?" and made the *poke* face. He smiled and nodded and said "hai hai" and we posed together!!! ahaha everyone started giggling when he did it with me, I felt sort of idiotic but I'm glad I did it, I mean he's very polite, the worst would be he would say "no" but everyone that was at the photosession yesterday said he was doing all sorts of weird poses so I was like well if he can do that, doing a standard little puricura pose is nothing right?
Anywho then I made a beeline for the autograph line. I was ready to get my Dutch friend Nana's CD signed since I figured, well, I already had an autograph and a kissed magazine, and Nana really wanted the cd so I decided not to get the poster for me signed. Then I remembered Kikuye had agreed to help me out so I called her up and she ran over and got the cd signed and I got my poster signed! He shook my hand, I was clutching my skirt in my right hand so it wouldn't be all sweaty because I was really really nervous.
Dice wanted me to get back in line with her, but I left her with one of the other staffers, she was a friend of Dice's too so it was ok. I visited Haru-chan at Anime Depot and then went to join Tama-seme in line again. Tama wanted to get a poster signed for her friend in Mexico but was weird about approaching him again. And I did owe her a favor since she could have very well kicked me and Haru-chan out of the Kamijo practice because *technically* we weren't allowed in there. So I agreed to go get it signed cause I was like "well shit, this would be my last chance to see him up close." Tama-seme got out of line to take pics of Kamijo signing things and Psy joined me in line to chat while she waited for her friend (stasia was it?). I made sure I was saying the right thing to him ("mou ichido onegai shimasu" "one more time please") and checked it with one of the staff members who spooke Japanese.
I was next up and Harry was like "haha you're back" and I'm like "uhh yeah" and when the two fat chicks in front of me left I shuffled over to him, put it down, went all red faced, bowed and said "mou ichido onegai shimasuuu" and all the while he had this little smirk as if he was going "aha. you again". but he said "aha hai hai" and signed it. then he paused for a bit and I kind of gawked at him going "what is he doing" and he smiled and wrote "no.2" and said "naambaa twoo." and reached to shake my hand again. This time it was a longer handshake, and omg like, I pulled my fingers from his palm all slooooowly and he being the ever so perfect gentleman held my hand till I was smart enough to let him go ahahaha xD
I will edit with pictures when it's not 12:15 in the morning xDDD
