There’s nothing quite like a badass power ballad first thing in the morning, and as far as I’m concerned, nobody beats X Japan when it comes to that genre…not even Scorpions or Guns ‘n’ Roses.
Today’s song is off of their album Dahlia that also has 5-6 other amazing ballads like “Tears”. I seriously get all choked up when I hear this song. You don’t even have to know Japanese to feel this song. And you just have to love the band’s visual kei styling…just look at the hair on Toshi!
I sit upon my throne as the owner/shogun of this site, WatchPlayRead. But it wasn't always so. I too have had blogspots, I've done other community blogs, I've even written professionally for other sites out there...yet none of them provided the content I had a real passion for.
It is then that I became tired of being a small cog in a big machine, and of writing about nothing but game news after game news article and the periphery that comes from such schlock, like knowing who Michael Pachter and Bobby Kotick are.
I decided to start MediaWhoreNetwork.com and ran up my post count there for about 2 years, commenting about any and everything that I wanted to. I even started a weekly podcast that I feel has come into its own.
It wasn't until earlier this year that I realized that having the word "whore" in your URL might be a bit limiting to my potential audience. I then made the website and its branding move over to WatchPlayRead.com.
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