Did I ever praise Japan for its low crime rate and relative safety compared with other nations? Yeah well, forget about that, especially if you’re famous. While Ryutaro’s heart was still racing from his unfortunate encounter with a so-called fan the other week, it was Leonardo DiCaprio’s turn this time to learn a very simple yet important lesson: you better do what your fans want, OR ELSE!!!
Last week during a visit to a shrine in Kyoto DiCaprio was approached by a couple of fans who asked him to pose for a picture. But he pointed to a sign prohibiting photography on the premises and declined. Then he took off his shoes (Nike Dunks apparently) and entered the shrine. And the disappointed fans took them and ran off. DiCaprio had to walk home barefoot.
The question that immediately comes to mind is: what is it with japanese fans these days? Although in all fairness it has to be noted that none of the reports I’ve read on this stated if they were indeed Japanese fans or tourists.
Anyway.
In other news, there are no other news for now. I had a very lazy day and spent the afternoon outside chatting with my niece. She’ll go on vacation tomorrow (together with the rest of her family) which means for the next three weeks I’ll have a) a car 
and b) 20+ animals to take care of 
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In other other news, I’m still tagging my blog posts. The reason it takes so long is because I’m not only tagging the posts but also replacing tons of broken links and things that got lost the last time I moved servers. The good thing is that I am indeed able to replace and reupload a lot of the stuff, despite my recent computer crash in which I lost tons of files. But most of my blog stuff is still there, so that’s good. I also noticed that the last time I moved my blog to a new address (and new server) a couple of my blog entries got truncated. It’s really a terrible thing to see a blog post of yours that you know was, like 500 words, cut off after the first 20 or so. But thanks to awesome sites like www.archive.org I was actually able to restore most of them, which is great.
I’m currently working on my September 2007 posts. Yup, Hey!Say!JUMP debut announcement. It was really interesting to read through the 6 months before that, the Ya-Ya-yah debut that never happened, then suddenly the original Hey!Say!7 appeared, Yamada’s rise to TV fame in Tantei Gakuen Q, and how it all lead up to the debut of JUMP. They were great and exciting times back then. I should turn the best posts of my blog (there are quite a few that are really nice to read even 2 years later) into a book one day.
Anyway, another reason why this whole tagging thing is taking so long is because every so often I stop and watch the videos I posted back then. Yes, even though many download links no longer work most of the videos are still available to watch online. Great Shonen Club performances, Ya-Ya-yah Live Stages, Keito’s first TV appearance as a backdancer for Hey!Say!7 on Music Station, stuff like that. Unfortunately these things are currently extremely hard to find on my blog unless you know exactly where they are. But that’s why I’m tagging all my posts, and soon it should be very easy to find all the great stuff that is resting in the bowels of this place. Except you won’t be able to find it in here, but in my new place. Yeah, I’m gonna move to a different server and a different address again soon. But don’t worry, I’ll try to make the transition as smooth as possible, and most of you won’t even notice the difference, especially if you’re a subscriber via RSS, Livejournal, email, or Twitter. So please subscribe if you haven’t done so already. 
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