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April 2005 Updates

We're Back - 4/28/05

Hah, 7 days my ass. We're on a new (and much faster!) server now, but it took forever. But, we're back, and here to stay! The new server is a bit more expensive, but I think I should be able to handle it. If not, I'll ask for donations, and if nothing then the site goes bye bye. I spent every waking moment online for the last 11 days doing the transfer, so the forum never got worked on. At all. Nor did I code any of the reviews I received (which, by the way, was only five reviews. From one person. In 11 days. So, there isn't a whole lot to report today.

Anyway, since today is the 28th, the day that reviews for the month are normally due (I love everyone's efforts to get stuff in on time, by the way. I can't believe that in 11 days, I have received reviews from only *one* person...), and I don't have the reviews because of the switch and because of the laziness of certain staff members (who will be removed and replaced, mind you), I am extending the time to have all of April's reviews in to May 15th. We will continue to do May reviews however, so that we are caught up and back on track. This means, reviewers, that you will have to double-time if you have not already turned in your April reviews. If you can not handle this, please let me know so that I can take you off the team. I know that sounds really harsh, but that's the way it's going to have to be because of the move. I do not want to change around deadlines, and considering the April reviews were due today (hahaha, I love that you guys actually tried to be on time. I love having you remind you over and over and treat you all like children, really...) and no one really got them in, if you can't make it by the 15th, tough shit. There, I said it. I am really pissed about the situation here, and even though I didn't code the five reviews I got, I was busy doing a hell of a lot of work in order for us to even have a site and do reviews at all. I know I'm sounding quite bitchy here, but this is just getting out of hand. Maybe some fresh faces and less excuses in my mailbox would be a nice change of pace...

That being said, I will have the forums online sometime this weekend if I can get the time to do it after coding the flood of reviews I normally get after the deadline. I am particularly dissapointed in quite a few members of the reviewing staff this month, so forgive my uber sarcastic and pissy attitude. In my defense, however, I will say that this is the third time that the staff has pulled this crap on me, and it's getting old. I am not anyone's doormat, and positions for review on this site are easy to fill. Don't expect to keep your position past the 15th if you've screwed me over thus far. And yes, I do consider getting 65 reviews (yeah, you read right. 65 reviews have yet to be submitted and need coding after I get them!) after deadline to be utter and complete bullshit. Don't expect me to be chipper Elly for the next few updates.

My e-mail is back online, so you can feel free to e-mail me again at elly@reisei-sa.net. Oh yeah, I should mention that today I got my teeth cleaned, which hurt like a bitch, but I did pass my learner's permit test, so now I can drive around scaring the hell out of other New Yorkers. Hooray for gasoline. Oh yeah, and I got a new affiliate - my room mate and good friend Molly. Check out her website by clicking here. See you next update, if I ever get done coding reviews...

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Reviews + Lyrics - 4/17/05

Welcome back everyone. Not much to update today, so this should be rather short:

Kaitlin (Princess Sailor Moon) has submitted her reviews for the month: Cry Baby, Hidamari, I Can't Wait, Kizuna Iro, Quiet Riot, and Shining!. Enjoy!

Ilse (Dark Sailor Mercury) has submitted translations for Ame and Kanojo wa Ijiwaru. They have also been added to the lyrics page. Thank you for all of your hard work, Ilse-chan!

Lastly, I'm working on a forum for the website, due to popular demand. I don't know that it'll be finished today, so please be patient.

That's all for today. Enjoy the new reviews!

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Another New Layout + Reviews - 4/14/05

Hello everyone! How does everyone like the new layout? I was really inspired to make something new when I visited this site - Bright Light: The Three-Lights.Net Fanlisting. The layout was so cute, I just wanted to make something like it!! So, this layout was inspired. The coding was actually a lot more complicated for this layout than it needed to be, but I'm being lazy so I don't feel like simplifying. Besides, it helps keep away the layout/code theives xD Enjoy, Mew fans!

Of course, since there is a new layout, the old one has been archived. Bye bye!

Kero-chan has submitted all of his reviews for the month: Cry Baby, Hidamari, I Can't Wait, Kizuna Iro, Quiet Riot, and Shining!. Very funny and excellent reviews! Kero-chan has also pointed out a few corrections to me on the review pages for Cry Baby, Be Your Girl, and Hoshi Ni Negai Wo. Errors have been corrected, and Kero-chan has been added to the mentions page. Thank you Kero-chan!!

Recently, I have become a translator for Angelic Destiny, which many of you know as being the best English-speaking Rina Koike (the actress who played Sailor Luna in PGSM) website online! The webmaster, PheonixRanger, is a really sweet guy! Since he was having some troubles translating all of the newest Rina news, I'm the new translator there! It's a great site, so I've added it to my affiliates section xD Check it out today!

Yes yes...the rumors are true. Ballads and Bows will soon have its own forum, where visitors and staff can shoot their mouths off about randomness xD Expect it online by the end of the month.

That's all for today. Enjoy the new layout, and the additions!

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Lo, I am Death - 4/12/05

Bwaha, I'm back already. Finally, I have the long-awaited translations for the new songs on the Brilliance CD by Kawabe Chieko. You can either click on the new special link, or just on next month's reviews to get the romanizations and translations. As always, lyrics are not to be produced without direct permission from ME. The only exception for this is for Leave Me Alone, which was translated and romanized by my hostee Alastair. If you want to distribute that song, you'll need to contact Alastair about it. Alastair's contact information is at the bottom of the lyrics sheet for that song.

Now that the Brilliance translations are out of the way, I've actually gotten other site work done. I've updated the lyrics page to include the new songs by Kawabe-san, hooray!

Ilse has also sent me the Dutch translations for Be Your Girl and Koi Suru Soldier. Hooray! Those have also been added to the lyrics page.

Also, you may have noticed that I went fanlistings happy today. I think I've added around 8 new buttons to that section, which means that now since the navigation section is getting crowded, I'll be making another new layout. Look for something entirely new soon =)

That's all for today. I hope everyone likes the additions, and that the bandwidth doesn't die off too much from the new release. I have started the domain transfer to 1and1 Hosting so things should be getting really fast and better soon. Also, look forward to a new Serecindra testimonial soon. Have a nice day, and enjoy!

PS: You may want to check out the review pages for Be Your Girl, Cry Baby, and Hoshi Ni Negai Wo. Elly did her homework, you might find an interesting read at the top of those pages =)

Mini Update: I found an amazing deal on eBay that some of you wealthier PGSM fans might be interested in. Know that spiffy little shirt Usagi wears in Act 4?

Well, you can buy official Love Rabbi brand hand bags on eBay for the amazing price of $40 per bag. It sounds a bit pricey, but not so when compared to when you buy them in Brooklyn at a Japanese import store called Dori for $100 each. Damned import taxes and expensive Japanese name brands. My room mate got a hold of a bunch of the bags since Dori went out of business, and now she's selling them off on eBay for a disgustingly cheap price. Go grab them! Auction links are below!

That's all! Enjoy, and Happy Bidding!

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Translations + Reviews - 4/10/05

Welcome back everyone! It's been a while since I last updated. I've been pretty busy. Most of last week I was sick with a head cold, and this weekend I spent driving for five hours upstate to University at Albany's Open House. I learned a lot about their East Asian Studies and Japanese Studies Programs, especially about their Study Abroad program. It was a lot of fun! I was still a bit sick though, so I still didn't get to tour a lot of the campus =( I'll be going back again this summer, so hopefully I'll get to tour around then. It turns out that Albany doesn't have Tim's major (Aerospace Engineering - ie: Rocket Science) so he'll be going to Buffalo instead, which is around...300 miles from Albany. Hopefully we'll still visit each other often! We got to visit a lot of the old places I liked to go in Albany when I lived there my freshman year of high school. Crossgates Mall was packed, but we got to go to Bugaboo Creek, this odd little restaurant with a talking Moose o.O; It reminds me a lot of Canada there. Flights of Fantasy and Sasso's had both closed down, which was super depressing since they were both my favorite stores ;_; Ohh well. I think I'll be spending most of my time on the campus (particularly in the library) so I guess the rest doesn't matter xD Anyway...on to the updates!

Ilse (Dark Sailor Mercury) has translated Hoshi ni Negai wo, Lovely Yell, and Change of Pace. She's sent some more lyric translations too, but my inbox decided not to read the attachment and be a pain in my butt. They'll be up in a few days =)

Sailorasteroid has submitted a song for his staff favorite. You can check it out by clicking here.

I've also done all of my reviews for the month: Cry Baby, Hidamari, I Can't Wait, Kizuna Iro, Quiet Riot, and Shining!.

Also...I've become a little addicted to Neopets. There is a link to it under the fanlistings section. Enjoy!

That's all for today. I should have the Brilliance stuff translated by the end of the week. Until then, bye bye!

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Small Updates - 4/3/05

I didn't really want to update today since I just did a huge update yesterday, so this will stay short and sweet:

Ruth (Sailor Neptune) has submitted all of her reviews for the month: Cry Baby, Hidamari, I Can't Wait, Kizuna Iro, Quiet Riot, and Shining!. Great reviews!

Ruth has also provided us with a bit of a correction for the English rap part of Quiet Riot. The lyrics have also been updated.

Wapiko has corrected me - the title of one of the songs for review this month was "Cry Baby", not "Cry Baby Cry". She has been added to the mentions page.

I've also updated the lyrics page. Ilse (Dark Sailor Mercury) has pointed out that the lyrics for Lovely Yell were missing from the page. That has been corrected. I have also corrected Ilse's rating for Kizuna Iro, since I had rated it incorrectly.

Ilse has also submitted more lyric translations: Mi Amor and Yakusoku. Thank you for your hard work, Ilse!

Lastly, Ballads and Bows has been invited to join a new BSSM directory! The directory is called : deep submerge } a sailor moon directory. I have added their button to the new "Directories/Listings navigation panel. Hopefully we will be listed!

That's all for today. Enjoy the last two updates!

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Harumatsuri wa sugoi deshita! - 4/2/05

Welcome back everyone! I hope no one took yesterday's April Fool's Day joke seriously... xD I love this site and the staff, if you actually believed yesterday's little prank I worry for you =) Before I begin the updates, I have an interesting little thing to share with everyone...

Last Tuesday I went to UNIS (United Nations International School in Manhattan) and went to their annual Harumatsuri celebration. For those of you who don't know, Harumatsuri is Japan's spring festival. Harumatsuri directly translates to spring festival. While at UNIS, my friend from Anime Club, Alex, took a lot of pictures and some videos of us on the bus in uptown Manhattan goofing off. The sound quality of the images is pretty good, but the videos are shaky as hell and they don't make much sense. xD I'm the blonde who attacks the people with the camera, and the one with the sarcastic attitude. For fun, I've posted up the four videos of me and my friends (one of them doesn't have me in it, I warn you xD Too bad I refuse to tell you which one! Buahahaha!) and a picture of me that isn't as bad as the rest of them. I'm pretty self conscious, and the stuff from Harumatsuri is the most recent picture of myself I have since...last June o.O;; I don't get along well with cameras. So as a treat, here are the download links:

[video 1] - [video 2] - [video 3] - [video 4] - [elly picture]

Enjoy! Please note that you will need Quicktime to play the video files.

Now, on to the actual updates. Since this is the first update for April, a couple March things have been archived:

...March's updates have also been updated.

Lauren has given the site three new gifts. Thank you so much!

I spent most of yesterday coding backlog reviews from our darling Kara, who reviews as Kuroki Mio. You can find all of her reviews for every song we've ever reviewed in the archives. Thank you for your hard work, Kara! Your reviews are wonderful!

Kara has also finished reviewing all of the songs for this month: Cry Baby, Hidamari, I Can't Wait, Kizuna Iro, Quiet Riot, and Shining!. Enjoy these excellent reviews!

Ilse, who reviews as our Dark Sailor Mercury, has done a lot over the last few days. She has made the Dutch translations for Sakura Fubuki and Miracle Dance Night. You can find these new songs on the lyrics page.

Ilse has also done her reviews for this month: Cry Baby, Hidamari, I Can't Wait, Kizuna Iro, Quiet Riot, and Shining!. Check them out, they are excellent reviews as always xD

Now, for some new things. We have a new staff member! Her name is Bonnie and she will be reviewing as Sailor Venus from now on. Please welcome her to the team!

I was surprized at just how many people applied for the two positions that were available on the join page! There were actually 12 entrants for just 2 spots. Sat-chan told me about a day after I put her position up on the join list that she wanted her position back, but that she's going to be taking a sabatical from reviewing for a while, which is fine. So, Saturn's position was removed from the join list, which meant that out of 12 applicants, there was only actually one position open. I used to review with Bonnie-chan when Digi*Angel had a BSSM music review site around two years ago, so I know that she is very qualified as a reviewer. Good luck to everyone who applies next time a position is open, and sorry about not accepting you this time around!! u_u;;

As you may have noticed, the join page is again offline, since there are currently no positions available. Sorry about that!

Since March is over, the new May reviews have been announced. Yup, that's right...we'll be reviewing the five new tracks from the new Kawabe Chieko CD, Brilliance. I've been pretty damned lazy, to be honest, and this is due to two things: 1) I'm just sick of doing work in general and 2) The kanji from the new songs are just...ugh. I'm having a really hard time translating the songs, even though I have them all romanized. The only song that is currently translated and all of that from the new cd is the cover track, Brilliance, since it was by request from the new Venus (Bonnie) who provided me with the lyric sheets for the album (yes, Bonnie = Glitter) that I do that song first, since it is her favorite from the CD xD

Don't worry, though. I'll have the remaining four songs translated and online before the first of next month. I'm going to try to stay afterschool with my Japanese teacher (even though she couldn't help me with easier, shorter translations last time I went to her for help, but it's worth a shot) to get the songs translated a little bit faster. You can still download the new tracks from Brilliance, though xD

I am still looking for the remaining songs and lyric sheets from Matsushita Moeko: Still..., Summer Breeze, HELLO, and BREAK THROUGH. If you have these songs, please send me scans/copies of the lyrics sheets. Thank you!

Lastly, but certainly not least, I am now affiliated with Three-Lights.Net! Kind Lisa likes this site, woo hoo! You can see her button now proudly displayed to your right =)

That's all for today! I'll be updating more later this week, or possibly even tomorrow. Enjoy the new additions, everyone!

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