Old Idol Cassettes & Cute Hikari-chan

I did some playing around with a Creative USB Soundbaster card i bought a several years ago for my old Vaio FX-215 Laptop on my Main PC with the idea of actually using it to act as a interface with the old cassette deck we have to transfer off all my old Idol cassettes. Lo and behold it works pretty good. It does'nt work under Adobe Audition 2.0 but it work under Mixcraft. No big deal... I'll WAV it in Mixcraft and clean it up in Audition. Just like my major VHS to DVD transfer project that's been going on for a couple years now, (Only about 200 VHS tapes to go :) ) the 200 or so Idol Audio Casestte tapes is another thing i've been meaning to get to transferring to a digital source. I thinks i should be able to somewhat set it up so i can let the PC record tapes awhile watching TV with my wife and go back to editing it later. Me thinks i really got to get to ordering more Hard Drives that i've been putting off for months now. I figured to would take a few minutes today and throw up another Mizugi Gallery, this time for Hikari Ishida. I actually got a copy of the 1990 Version of Minami Kun no Koibito with Hikari-chan recently so i should really get to watching it soon.

Anyhow, the Gallery link for Hikari-chan is to the right in the Gallery list.

Let Idol Parade begin...

I've been in the net since 1997 and of course i spent a lot of time scouring around for idol pictures and whatnot. And in due course would burn off the images among the other webfinds into CD-Roms. Suffice to say after 10 years now of being on the net i've compiled quite a few pictures of my favorite idols, but the daunting task of actually going through all the cd-roms to sort it all out kinda turned me off for awhile. But i said to myself that " I better do it before the damned cd-roms break down" So i've started to sort them all out and the first of many galleries to come will be for the Jpop cutie Yumiko Takahashi. Like many images back then on the net, not all of them are huge or really big but luckily i do have the photobooks for many off the images there and it's here for archival purposes. Of course, i'll get around to scanning them and posting one of these days.




I've put the link in Gallery section so feel free to check it out. I know that i need to actually put links up in the main idol paradise page,but i can't be bothered to screw around with HTML right now.

Idols...Swimsuits... Oh My !

I remember awhile ago on the JpopMusic Forum there was a quiry about a girl group in the early 90's called "Girlfriend". I had'nt heard of them and did find out from another member as the discussion went on that they were barely a one hit wonder with their single "Namida No Culture Shock" and apparently not very good. Since i'm always on the hunt idol music i don't have i'll probably get it one of these day off J-Yahoo.
Anyways... In a lot auction of old idol mags i got off J-yahoo awhile ago contained a August 1990 issue off Sugar and the cover photoshoot was for the Group we speak of. Since i was planning on archiving all my idol mags & phootbooks online (Now that i've MP3'ed 95 % of my 80's Jpop CD's) i would sit down and put up this swimsuit photoshoot for Girlfriend.



I've put up the full photoshoot Here.

The girls look cute enough & i've always found the brigtly coloured basic Elle one-piece Swimsuits real cute as well. The one girl Natsuyo Mikami looks half-Japanese and vaguely
remember in the JPM conversation that was used a bit as a attracting novelity. Of course this is years before Tsunku did it with varied MoMu Sub Groups, but i guess it did'nt work with GF because i was a real idol freak back then and if they did'nt come up in my Otaku radar they must have come and went real quick.

This week is got a rather nice surprise in the mail from a trader i've been swapping old idol stuff with from Hawaii. In my last E-mail with him i mentioned in passing that i've turned 37 now, (Yeah... Real old idol nut :) ) and he told me that i he did'nt forget about it and he was waiting
for the item to come in the mail to ship to me. He said he had a copy himself and that i should like it. I was honestly figuring he was going to send a DVD burn of a popular movie or maybe a R3 of a old Kadokawa flick. So when i get this oversized package in the mail i was really intrigued
and proceeded to open it up and this is what was there.

Hotwax Complete 1980's Japanese Pops Song & Album Guide.
(Direct Amazon.jp sales link is right below the picture)

Suffice to say i was quite surprised and touched he thought so much of our trading relationship to for one actually give me a gift (Which has never happened before) but one that's right up my alley. It covers most of the major idols (Mostly Female Idols with a couple male idols such as Matchy & Toshi) and some of the one hit wonder girl groups with full discographies.

There's nice little write-up's for each of the major idols but the real attraction to this book (As written on the Obi wrapper) is the 1,500 Full Colour Album & Singles images for all the idols releases contained in their discographies. I know it's gonna come in use when i compile a thousand or so singles for a second ipod and i'll have proper thumbnails for each song, also when
i put up some downloadable songs up on my idol site. Even since i took the plunge and got a 60 Gig Video last summer, it's been great to start loading it up with all my idol cd's and being able to listen and see the album covers in the thumbnails.

Anyways, this generous gift will find a nice place in my idol library and i believe gained more than a good trader, but a real friend. And that's pretty rare on the net...but again just true idol fans got to stick together as we're a rare breed.

I did put the Amazon.jp sales link for the book below the picture and i highly suggest any idol collector to buy it. If you can't navigate the Amazon.jp site to order, no worries. You can order in English :)