tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36743976248417995902024-02-07T02:55:04.995-08:00Digital GoldfishRaikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289617497360825046noreply@blogger.comBlogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674397624841799590.post-82642834069550014862013-12-28T15:51:00.000-08:002013-12-28T15:51:00.002-08:00Collaborations<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So I've been asked by a few people about how to contact me to do collaborations or to do music together.<br /><br />It's pretty simple, as I like making music with people. You can contact me at k66.raika@gmail.<br /><br />I'm super slow at writing music, so I may or may not be available. If you have written music and need a vocalist, however, I'm pretty open, as I can record music pretty quickly.<br />
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However, the #1 fastest way to get be on my black list is to talk shit about Karl, or any of my other collaborators.<br />
You think it would be obvious, but talking ill of my former or current work is really not the best way to get me to want to work with you.<br />
<br />Raikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289617497360825046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674397624841799590.post-32595320309713774922013-10-28T17:47:00.004-07:002013-10-28T17:47:57.144-07:00Cold blooded organisms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sometimes I wonder if it would be easier to complain about all the things that go wrong in life.<br />
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<br />Raikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289617497360825046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674397624841799590.post-91428757368038422002013-10-11T02:47:00.003-07:002013-10-11T02:47:58.955-07:00Coffee Break<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Time seems to pass so quickly when you're busy.<br />
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I spent most of the day uploading the Cor Leonis remix album up to bandcamp, sketching out ideas for the artwork for each song, thinking about what each song means to me.<br />
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Some people might think it's silly to invest so much time and effort in to something that is not very popular.<br />
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But whatever others opinions of it, this is something that I made. For better or for worse, this is the shape of my soul.<br />
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I always tend to be less adventurous than people might think of me.<br />
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I'm a picky eater, but I always worry about trying out new places, since I don't know if they'll have things I can eat, and I hate putting others in a weird mood by ruining their food time adventures.<br />
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But I'm always grateful to have friends that are willing to drag me out to new places. And while not every adventure has a good ending, every adventure is worth embarking on when you're with people who care for you.<br />
<br />Raikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289617497360825046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674397624841799590.post-60341448553334899992013-10-08T20:56:00.003-07:002013-10-08T20:56:48.235-07:00Picking up the pieces<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sometimes the bad things that happen to us overwhelm us.<br />
It makes all the little terrible things seem like things that end us, things that drag you in slowly and melt you away until there is nothing left of us.<br />
It taints everything you see, to where you think that everything you have done amounts to nothing, and no matter how much you struggle, it will always win.<br />
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But it won't.<br />
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As long as we breathe, we will live to fight another day.<br />
<br />Raikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289617497360825046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674397624841799590.post-73200417116032794492013-07-15T12:01:00.002-07:002013-07-15T12:01:34.956-07:00Long time no see<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So it's been a while, hey?<br />
<br />While real life has been catching up to us, we've had some things in the works.<br />
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And while these last few months have been hectic, sometimes you just have to look at things from a different set of glasses.Raikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289617497360825046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674397624841799590.post-63053691384850703782013-05-15T01:30:00.002-07:002013-05-15T01:30:22.679-07:00At rest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sometimes it's important to sit and breathe out.<br />
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You just have to be careful that you don't get too comfortable and forget to breathe in.<br />
<br />Raikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289617497360825046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674397624841799590.post-12621338568622440532013-05-08T17:53:00.000-07:002013-05-08T17:53:52.344-07:00Today we are rolling around the house. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I wonder why being lazy after finishing up a deadline feels so much better than just normally being lazy? ♪(´ε` )<br />
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I think as you become an adult you get less time to be completely lazy. Even on my day off as I'm typing about being lazy, I know there's a bunch of things I have to get done. (@ ̄Д ̄@;)</div>
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In the meantime I'm going to put my full power in to being lazy! ♪♪(o*゜∇゜)o~♪♪<br />
<br />Raikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289617497360825046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674397624841799590.post-77378395763733324382013-05-01T19:25:00.001-07:002013-05-01T19:25:26.661-07:00Nerdy Girls<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last week, for the first time in off the internet, I ran in to someone who assumed that some girls only pretend to be interested in nerdy things.<br />
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Not only was I astounded that someone would expect me to agree that the nice girl who had just brought us our breakfast might be only pretending to be a nerd, but the assumption that they had a right to judge the worthiness of someone else in this niche little world of ours.<br />
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Why is it that some nerd men assume that being a nerd has such benefits to a girl that they would fake having nerdy hobbies?<br />
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I feel like it's little things like this that chip away at us.<br />
<br />Raikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289617497360825046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674397624841799590.post-56557483550315578072013-04-26T16:44:00.000-07:002013-04-26T16:44:00.579-07:00Unpredictable delays<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today, on the way to Ongaku Overdrive, a refueling plane crashed in to my plane.<br />
Luckily no one was injured, but it has me stuck at the airport for around 9 hours.<br />
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I feel like most people would be pretty upset about this. Granted, it's probably because most of the other passengers were, but since we were able to find another flight for me, I'm using it as a chance to look for interesting things at the airport that I normally would have time to do.<br />
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Let's see how stir crazy I get after 9 hours.<br />
<br />Raikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289617497360825046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674397624841799590.post-76609400728908868042013-04-25T09:17:00.001-07:002013-04-25T09:17:17.529-07:00Drinkable Liquids<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ha ha, all of my posts as of late have been about food. I swear I don't spend all of my time eating.<br />.....probably. (@´_`@)<br />
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I generally consume a lot more liquids than I do solids. (´ω`♡%)<br />
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I often have coffee, water, juice, and sometimes a light soup for breakfast. One of my hobbies is collecting cute mugs, but I definitely put them to use.<br />
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I'm not a coffee snob by any means, but I really do enjoy my coffee. I know I should probably switch to tea, but I'd miss my bitter daily brew too much! ≧(´▽`)≦<br />
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Lately the weather has been nice, so I've been getting frozen yogurt more often ✿♥‿♥✿<br />
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It's interesting to look back on the log of various yogurt cups that I've made. It's like seeing a snapshot of what I felt like at the time. </div>
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Writing about it has made me want to go get some. It is pretty sunny outside today... (๑・ω-)~♥”</div>
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Raikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289617497360825046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674397624841799590.post-50151611890512191422013-04-23T03:14:00.001-07:002013-04-23T03:15:18.287-07:00I love Curry~<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today I had some mango curry °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°<br />
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I'm not very adventurous when it comes to new restaurants, but I'm glad that a few of my friends felt like trying out this new Indian place by my house. ♪(´ε` )</div>
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I think I've become a lot more cautious as I've gotten older.<br />
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We just have to be prepared to be hurt in the process.<br />
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Raikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289617497360825046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674397624841799590.post-26697452823735669102013-04-18T18:18:00.000-07:002013-04-18T18:18:06.935-07:00You may or may not have noticed. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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But there are updates lurking around the site!<br />
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We're also in the midst of adding new merch to our <a href="http://raikamishiro.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a>, so keep an eye out!<br />
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In other news, who has noticed that our new album comes with original art for each song? <br />
We've had a few requests to turn them in to wallpapers, so we'll be doing a poll soon to see which ones I do first!<br />Raikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289617497360825046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674397624841799590.post-12516667142526730232013-04-05T15:38:00.000-07:002013-04-05T15:38:21.070-07:00Let's Talk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I believe that the world is fundamentally a terrible place filled with terrible people.<br /><br />I think that humans evolved to be the most terrible things in a terrible world. And we are slowly coming to grips with the fact that we, as a species, are no longer comfortable with being terrible monsters.<br /><br />And while you might feel like horrible person who doesn't do nearly the amount of nice things that you could be doing, remember this.<br /><br />Every time you do some thing nice, something at least partially selfless, you are fighting generations of breeding, years of personal baggage, and the deep down survival tactics that tell you that you must come out on top at all costs.<br />
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When you try to make someone else's existence a more wonderful thing, you have managed to conquer your demons, break through your barricades, and show what it is to be human.<br /><br />
People aren't good because we are made to be good. <br />Whatever goodness that is born of us is because we struggle against ourselves to carve out something beautiful in this terrible world. <br />
<br />Raikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289617497360825046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674397624841799590.post-12379720258145434392013-04-04T20:54:00.002-07:002013-04-04T20:54:38.310-07:00MECHA RAI<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had a few friends comment about the song art covers I've been making, mostly about how very few of them were robots.<br /><br />I've been biting my tongue about this, but it was because our Kickstarter Exclusive cover was actually a giant robot Rai. ლ(́◉◞౪◟◉‵ლ)<br />
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For those of you who've been paying attention to our fb posts, you'll notice that I've been posting song art for each of our new songs for Cor Leonis. </div>
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Well just between you and me, they're all connected. (´ω`★)</div>
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Raikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289617497360825046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674397624841799590.post-69481794330623854192013-04-01T21:53:00.003-07:002013-04-01T21:54:43.625-07:00Cor Leonis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our New album is out!<br />
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A lot of people have asked me what this album is about.<br />
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It's about space, in many senses of the word. <br />
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Space, the final frontier, that represents unknown adventures and discoveries that await us. <br />
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Space, as the distance between people and the feelings that fill the void between. <br />
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Space, as the wondrous thing look up at in the night sky, and connect random dots in to glorious constellations.<br />
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Space that gets a little bit smaller smaller when you see what's in my heart.<br />
<br />Raikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289617497360825046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674397624841799590.post-39583246411915372102013-03-26T12:16:00.001-07:002013-03-26T12:16:42.393-07:00Preparing for the future<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been worried this last month about when the album comes together.<br />
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What if I don't like it? What if I mess things up? What if it's not all of the things I hoped it'd be?<br />
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But when I looked at everything, all said and done, it was like everything clicked in to place.<br />
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<br />Raikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289617497360825046noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674397624841799590.post-66970308862167914362013-03-24T13:50:00.004-07:002013-03-24T13:50:47.882-07:00Guess What I'm doing today? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As I type this up, the last music files from Cor Leonis will be uploading to Bandcamp☆<br /><br />Our release date is slated for 4/1, and if everything goes according to plan, we'll have pre-orders open up starting tomorrow. ☆*:.。. o(≧▽≦)o .。.:*☆<br />
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<br />I'll do a longer post tomorrow with the exciting details of everything, but for now, I'm just going to bask in the glory of a job well done, for both me and Karl. (´ω`★)</div>
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See you tomorrow! (❁´◡`❁)*✲゚*</div>
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Raikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289617497360825046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674397624841799590.post-68218683795466809672013-03-20T16:22:00.000-07:002013-03-20T16:22:11.027-07:00Sometimes I forget<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With this new album, I've definitely been writing more about people, and specifically people relationships.<br /><br />The overall feedback has been great, and I'm really touched by all the support you guys have shown me.<br />
<br />I'd like to think that I'm a big, strong independent robot who doesn't need people to say nice things about it in order to feel good, but the truth is that on bad days, I hunt through kind words and nice messages to remind me that the world is filed with lovely people.<br />
<br />Sometimes I get messages from my kouhai that have so many beautiful words of encouragement that my heart feels like it's going to burst from all the words of hope and affection.<br /><br />I would still make music even if I never put it out in the world, but there's something special about feeling like the emotions you put in to words and melody resonating with other people out in this big world.<br /><br />
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Most of the time, I don't like dealing with merch. It's a pain to design, figuring everything out takes forever, and you never know if people will even like it. щ(ºДºщ)<br />
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The only real upsides to merch are picking out the brightly colored Rai-shirt people in the audience, or signing a poster with the knowledge that you'll be making someone's wall a bit more colorful. °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°<br />
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But sometimes you manage to make something that you're pretty pleased with, something you are a little excited to put on your own wall, no matter how narcissistic it makes you look. ☆ミ(o*・ω・)ノ<br />
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I recently did a podcast interview with Dara from Crime and the Forces of Evil to promote my concert at this year's Norwescon! \(@ ̄∇ ̄@)/<br />
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Also for you Nerdcore fans, Klopfenpop and Death*Star are also featured on this episode, along with several other artists performing at Norwescon~<br />
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Some times it's hard to tell if what waits ahead is adventure, or endless ordeals.<br />
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But no matter the trials and tribulations set your way, the only thing you get by not putting yourself at risk is to watch the world pass by you.<br />
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Not because you're being left behind, but because you never tried to move forward.Raikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289617497360825046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674397624841799590.post-80576885280550003702013-03-08T18:33:00.001-08:002013-03-08T18:33:22.716-08:00Cake Time!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love getting cake with friends. ☆ミ(o*・ω・)ノ<br /><br />It doesn't always have to be cake, some times it's coffee or cupcakes or yogurt. I just love sitting down with someone who's company you enjoy, and enjoying a mutual treat. (ノ´ヮ´)ノ*:・゚✧<br />
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.... is that you don't have to wait for other people to take you on adventures.<br /><br />The other day I got a wild hankering to go to the aquarium. First I herped around the idea for a few days, checked out the Seattle Aquarium's website, and then thought about asking a few friends if they would like to go or not.<br />
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I could go to the aquarium any day I liked.<br />
I didn't have to wait to see if anyone wanted to go on some far off date.<br />
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I could just go to the aquarium.<br />
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