Lately I have been listening to Japanese pop and metal a lot, and I keep wondering why European pop culture isn't as fun and colofull as the Japanese pop culture...
Here we have talentless people who mix up some old songs in their own homemade computer music, they ruin older songs from the 90's and 80's and then call it music, art, tallent...
Or dubstep ofcourse... we have dubstep.
I must admit there is some dubstep I like, but I think some dubstep is still to be considered "music", for example "Promises" by Nero.
But most dubstep just really sounds like a computer crashing and the dog scratching a blackbord while the thumble drier is shredding your clothes... or something like that.
I would give anything to have music like they have in Japan, here in Europe.
The videoclips are awesome, the music sounds happy and sweet, the artists never look the same, they all have their own original style,...
The new collection that I am working on for EmikoDesigns is going to be based on that Japanese popculture and on harajuku styles such as lolita, fairy kei, deco,...
So it is going to be a bit colorfull, cute and outragious.
That's all on the popculture subject.
Tonight I'll be attending another FNM (Friday Night Magic), and I don't think I have ever talked about that on my blog before... so let's do that now.
Magic the gathering is a card game, that was invented int he 90's, it is the game that the Pokemon cardgame as well as the Yu Gi Oh cardgame were based on.
You have 7 types of cards:
-Artifact
-Creature
-Instant
-Sorcery
-Enchanment
-Planeswalker
-Land : this you need to use any of the above card types and is your base.
This is an island, all lands of the color blue are Islands.
there are 6 colors you can play:
-Green
-White
-Red
-Blue
-Black
-Colorless (mostly artifact)
every creature, instant, artifact, sorcery, planeswalker and enchantment has a mana (land) cost on their card, and you'll need this many land to able to bring the card into play.
If you have a 60-card deck you mostly have about 40 cards that range from creatures to enchantments, and the other 20 are land.
And from there on, when you have your mana you can start playing cards, those are the basics of the game.
So on FNM, you get to play against other people (you can not choose who) and at the and of the evening you can win prices, such as rare cards or special art cards.
How good or bad you've played gets you points and those points you straight to your DCI number, where you can see how many points you have and what "level" you are.
I play a white weenie deck, weenie meaning that I play low cost creatures with mostly low strenght and toughness. This doens't sound logical at all if you want to win, but this was you have creatures before that the enemy has them, so you can do some damage before he can even block the damage because he has no creatures.
The creature types in my deck are "Humans", and I have a lot of cards you need to power up.
for instance:
Champion of the parish
He only costs one mana to paly, so I have this one in my deck 3 times, so i have more chances that he is going to be in my begin hand. if he is the first card I play, the game is as good as won by me. Whenever I play another "human", his strenght and toughness go up by 1, so in about 4 turns, I can have a super strong creature that no one can beat.
So I hope I'll draw some good cards tonight and that I'll win something ^^
This is a victorian jacket I found a while back on etsy, it is made by a dutch designer called Marjolein Turin who has her own brand "Somnia Romantica".
