Earlier today, Facebook head lizard, Mark Zuckerburg announced that the parent company for Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and Oculus is now becoming ‘Meta’ as they double down in the Metaverse… meta.
Their idea is that they can bring a real world scenario (Like your home) into the Virtual world to the point where doing work with the power of moving windows with your fingers like they do in the movies is becoming a reality and not a cliché.
It doesn’t change the fact that Facebook are a scummy company. No changes to privacy or safety on the platform and this new ‘horizon’ gimmick is nothing more than them announcing they are doubling down on the invasion of privacy and safety.
I’m sure by now a lot of readers of this blog know that I enjoy anime. One of those anime’s being Yu-Gi-Oh! I have been a fan of the franchise for the longest time now and outside of the original series, I am a big fan of 5D’s which ran from April 2008 until March 2011.
Season 2 of the show started in October of 2008 and it featured 2 great tracks which were used for the Opening and Ending of the anime.
The ‘Ending’, CROSS GAME by Alice Nine is by far one of my favourite tracks of all time… and I am surprised while searching this evening, that I have never covered Alice Nine on The Jukebox… (Please see the footnote at the bottom for more about The JukeBox and its future)
LAST TRAIN along with CROSS GAME became the catalyst in my fascination with Visual Kei music from Japan. I remember that I downloaded LAST TRAIN along with CROSS GAME (and it’s album Vandalize) and I would listen to it constantly on repeat… on a near daily basis.
There isn’t a lot of English information about knotlamp but from translation of their Japanese Wikipedia entry: knotlamp was a rock band from Fukuoku Prefecture, Japan who were active between 2000 and 2013.
They were signed to Run Run Run Records until 2012 before moving to Imperial Records. Their discography is a bit bare as the band has had 4 EP’s and 1 ‘Mini album’ which was released in 2006.
As previously mentioned, knotlamp’s LAST TRAIN was used for Yu-Gi-Oh!, but they also had a song used for another anime Ginga e Kickoff!!
A ‘Best of’ album titled “MY PROLOGUE” was released in January 2014 which reached #183 in the Oricon Album Charts.
Today’s the day to carry out a plan. I’ll finally escape from my saturated life today I don’t know what is going on today But somehow I feel that my answer isn’t here
Though I don’t know how my life will end, I never wanna be a slave ‘Cause there is always the chance to change I guess it’s up to you
I’m trying to be a better person I will get on the train I don’t wanna become a slave I will live for myself
I’m trying to be another me ‘Cause I won’t lose my life My life will succeed I’ll reach my goal yea
I try to smile but I can’t remember how I don’t know please tell me, how’d I become so Jaded? Sometimes I feel like I might be dead soon But I know that it gave me something to believe
Though I don’t know how my life will end I never wanna be a slave ‘Cause there is always the chance to change I guess it’s up to you
I’m trying to be a better person I will get on the train I don’t wanna become a slave I will live for myself
I’m trying to be another me ‘Cause I won’t lose my life My life will succeed I’ll reach my goal
I’m waiting for my dawn I’m dreaming of freedom Nobody Knows my worries No need to understand me
I wanna get this small freedom I break away my worries It’s time to say goodbye I’m not afraid of you
I need to walk away ‘Cause I don’t wanna be a liar If I cannot live my life, I am as good as dead
I’m trying to be a better person I will get on the train I don’t wanna become a slave I will live for myself
I’m trying to be another me ‘Cause I won’t lose my life My life will succeed I’ll reach my goal yea
My new story My life is just about to start I’m trying to be a better person I will get on the train I don’t wanna become a slave
I will live for myself I’m trying to be another me ‘Cause I won’t lose my life My life will succeed I’ll reach my goal
Lyrics (Romanji):
tooku kanata o miwatashite tanjyun ni shikai no semai kotokitzuita jibun suteru hou ga raku demo saidaigen taetemitai to omotta kyou ga donna dame na hi demo wazukana hikari o asu wa mada asu no jibun de tomoseba ii togirenai you ni kienai you ni jibun o tashikamete kazoe kirenai hodokizutsuitemo tashikana ashita ga kuru you ni tonegatte hashiru nido to nai kyou o nani ka no seinishinagara soyatte susumenai jibun danmai ni shite kokoshikanai shunkandatte mouzutto muda ni shite kitakedo warai sugoshitai tsukamo nai teta kinou mo kuru asa wa itsumo onaji de tada hitotsu datta tomaranai you ni taenai you ni jibun ni toikakete asu o ushinatte mo jibun no seidarou nido wa nai kyou o dou ikiru no mo jyuu dakara sonna koukainai jinsei o It’s time to say goodbye I’m not afraid of you I need to walk away ‘Cause I don’t wanna be a liar If I cannot live my life I am as good as dead togirenai you ni kienai you ni jibun o tashikamete kazoe kirenai hodokizutsuitemo tashikana ashita ga kuru you ni tonegatte hashiru nido to nai kyou o (It’s just about to start) tomaranai you ni taenai you ni jibun ni toikakete asu o ushinatte mo jibun no seidarou nido wa nai kyou o dou ikiru no mo jyuu dakara sonna koukainai jinsei o sonna koukainai jinsei o togirenai you ni kienai you ni
The JukeBox has been a staple of this blog, sharing the music, the lyrics and in more recent times, the background to the songs that I highlight and it has been very fun. In my searching for ‘Alice Nine’ posts that I have done, it turns out that I haven’t actually written any posts about Alice Nine on The JukeBox.
This sent me on a rabbit hole. I know I changed the name of “MusicLyricFriday” (or MusicLyricMonday) to The JukeBox back in 2012. Unfortunately, what I deemed to be S1 or even S2 of these posts are lost to time… I believe they were on an old Tumblr blog which is now gone.
So I figured out how many JukeBox posts I have made since S3 up to this one today and it would be: #74
I’ll be switching the numbering scheme started with the next post #75 and I will be working to retroactively tagging the old posts under The JukeBox tag so they can all be found easier. I could guesstimate how many posts were missing but I’d say it must have been an handful.
Oh well.
EDIT: 20th February 2022 – I have figured it out. Back on an old WordPress that I had when I was 17 which is still live at https://padraigfahy.wordpress.com – I had 2 album reviews, and something in the back of my head was that they were my first 2 album reviews and I had made them their own series to ‘bump the numbers’.
The number for this one should be 94 or something, but given S1 and S2 were just 2 posts, I am removing 28 (30 songs from both albums minus the number of posts) which makes this post number 67!
While listening to some Citypop, a track that seems to be on every playlist that I have on Spotify is ANRI’s I CAN’T STOP THE LONELINESS from her 7th album Timely!!
ANRI (Real name ‘Eiko Kawashima’) is a singer-songwriter from Yamato, Japan who has been releasing music since her 1978 album “Apricot Jam” and continues to this day with her latest being her 2018 self-titled album release.
I CAN’T STOP THE LONELINESS was Kawashima’s 2nd hit single. Her first being “Cat’s Eye” which was used as the opening song for the anime of the same name.
Cat’s Eye Intro
The songs were released the same year but I CAN’T STOP THE LONELINESS only managed to get to #4 in the Oricon charts. Cat’s Eye would be reach #1 for 5 straight weeks.
Generally with Citypop (Or Japanese) content, trying to get legal ways of listening to the music can be tricky… but not for Anri! All of her music is available on Spotify (in Ireland at the very least)
I just wished that other labels would do the same with Japanese music. Yeah, we might not be able to understand or translate the names, but at least we can listen to it.
Anyway, enough ranting about that… I do enough of that on Twitter 😉
Live Performance:
Studio Recording:
Lyrics:
JAPANESE (Romanji):
I CAN’T STOP THE LONELINESS Koraekirezu kanashimi ga tomaranai
I CAN’T STOP THE LONELINESS Doushite na no kanashimi ga tomaranai
Anata ni kanojo Awaseta koto wo watashi ima mo Koyande iru Futari wa SHINPASHII kanjiteta Hiru sagari no KYAFETERASU
Ano hi denwa ga Fui ni natta no Ano hito to wakarete to kanojo kara
I CAN’T STOP THE LONELINESS Doushite na no kanashimi ga tomaranai
Gokai da yotte anata wa warau dakedo KISSU wa Uso no nioi Dakishimerarete kizuita no Ai ga koko ni nai koto wo
Koi wa chiisana Arashi mitai ni Tomodachi mo koibito mo ubatte
I CAN’T STOP THE LONELINESS Kare wo kaeshite kanashimi ga tomaranai
I CAN’T STOP THE LONELINESS Dare ka tasukete kanashimi ga tomaranai
I CAN’T STOP THE LONELINESS Koraekirezu kanashimi ga tomaranai
I CAN’T STOP THE LONELINESS Doushite na no kanashimi ga tomaranai
ENGLISH: I can’t stop the loneliness On and on without end This sadness won’t stop I can’t stop the loneliness Why won’t the sadness stop
I still regret when you met her You two made a connection That afternoon on the cafe terrace
Later that day the phone rang suddenly It was her telling me to break up with you
I can’t stop the loneliness Why won’t the sadness stop
You said it was a misunderstanding and smiled But your kiss felt like a lie And while you were hugging me I felt no love
Love is like a small storm Both friends and lovers get swept up by it
I can’t stop the loneliness Please give him back The sadness won’t stop I can’t stop the loneliness Someone help me The sadness won’t stop
I can’t stop the loneliness On and on without end This sadness won’t stop I can’t stop the loneliness Why won’t the sadness stop
When I moved this website from WordPress to Ghost earlier this year, I used their tool to import the posts in.
What it did, it created a 2nd user and associated the posts with that user while keeping the Ghost author (The main one that I would use) as a separate user. I didn’t want this, so I decided to tinker with the SQLite database and change that.
Note: If you decide to follow my instructions, I am not responsible for any data loss or breakages to your site, ok? Good! 🙂
Just for a bit of context, I am using Ghost on Docker via Plesk, (click here for instructions on how to set that up).
To get into the terminal for your docker instance, run docker ps first and get the name of your docker container and then run docker exec -t -i container_name bash (replacing container_name with your own)
You will need to ensure that you have sqlite3 installed. On Debian/Ubuntu, you can do this by running apt update && apt install -y sqlite3.
BACK UP YOUR DATABASE. This should be obvious. Back up your databases before messing with it.
* Navigate to /var/lib/ghost/content/data and run cp ghost.db ghostdb-backup2021-10-11
While in /var/lib/ghost/content/data run sqlite3 ghost.db
You will need to first find out the author_id of your users, to do this, run the command SELECT id, name, slug FROM users;
This will return the following:
1|Padraig Fahy|padraig8df7s89f7sd98f7sd|Ghost|ghost7vc89x675x6c78x9c|Padraig Fahy|padraig-2(Note: The id's are different for every instance and are randomised here)
From this, you might be able to determine which user is your WordPress user. But to be sure, go and view one of the posts that you would have created on the site and click on the link to the author, whether that would be a ‘See more from this author’ or similar link.
Then check the URL in the address bar to see what the ‘slug’ is. For me, all my WordPress posts where imported as ‘padraig-2’
So the ID for ‘padraig-2’ would be 7vc89x675x6c78x9c and now we want to change that to 1 so that it is the Ghost user ‘padraig’
UPDATE posts SET author_id = REPLACE(author_id,'7vc89x675x6c78x9c','1');
Press enter. Then run:
UPDATE posts_authors SET author_id = REPLACE(author_id,'7vc89x675x6c78x9c','1');
And press enter again.
This will update the posts themselves to be the correct user and then update the ‘authors’ page to point it to the correct user.
When you try to go to the WordPress author page, it should return ‘0 Results’
I want to preface this by stating that this is in response to this tweet by AEW Owner, Tony Khan.
I saw you’re doing a half hour head-to-head with us. I can’t wait to finally beat your main show head-to-head. It’s been a long time coming. See you next Friday for #AEWRampage on @AEWonTNT!
I like Professional Wrestling and I want be able to do so without the constant Anti-WWE bickering from AEW. It’s childish. He and the rest of the AEW should stop.
(By the way, I don’t plan to have any schedule for any podcasts as this was just very off the cuff and very last minute. And I needed to upload the episode somewhere)
Back on Tuesday, Amazon Games launched its new MMO, New World to the public.
The game was met with a lot of negative reviews on social media and even a review-bomb on Steam (Which seems to be fixing itself at time of writing) due to the server capacity and lack of servers in general.
Amazon did address this by adding well over 100+ servers for the game. A updating thread on their forum shows that they are working on adding new servers.
I was very reluctant in getting New World. I thought there was glaring issues with the combat and questing and a sense of questioning as to what is to be done at End Game.
I even tweeted out that I was going to give it a miss for a ‘year or two’
I did pre-order and also cancelled it. I should be excited for New World but there is too many glaring issues with the game that I cannot support it right now. Maybe in a year or two.
My character, Crakila, on Ursa server in New World
I don’t know how much of this game I am going to play considering that my main game, Final Fantasy XIV, has it’s expansion releasing this November, so New World is filling that void in the meantime.
I will not be giving a detailed review of the game, but I figure an update as to how I get on and how I enjoy the game, may come in the future.
![[The Jukebox] #68 – knotlamp LAST TRAIN](https://padraig.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/itschXB4mH.png)
![[The Jukebox] #67 – ANRI – 悲しいがとまらない I CAN’T STOP THE LONELINESS](https://padraig.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/anri-timely.png)
![[Podcast] #1 Let me enjoy Professional Wrestling](https://padraig.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/photo-1547960450-2ea08b931270-1.jpg)
