#Focus Band

[pokemon-cards-hourly]

#pokemon #pokemon cards #tcg #tomokazu komiya #focus band #neo genesis #neo

[90sbandbracket]

#tool #tool band #maynard james keenan #focus #focus band #progressive rock #prog #poll #polls

[torson]

Albums I’ve been listening to this October:

Focus, Moving Waves ~ 1971

Pete Sinfield, Still ~ 1973

McDonald and Giles, McDonald and Giles ~ 1970

Hatfield and the North, Hatfield and the North ~ 1973

#1970s #70s rock #70s music #prog rock #progressive rock #records #70s #pete sinfield #ian mcdonald #michael giles #king crimson #focus band #thijs van leer #hatfield and the north #jazz #jazz fusion

[pokemon-card-of-the-day]

Pokemon Card of the Day #2892: Focus Band (Neo Genesis)

One of the first batch of Pokemon Tools was Focus Band, and it was one of the most important. When the Pokemon it was attached to would be Knocked Out by the opponent's attack, you flipped a coin. If heads, the Pokemon wasn't Knocked Out but had 10 HP remaining instead. Focus Band would then be discarded. This brought one more coin flip to a game that was full of them, as if any more luck was needed in the era of Baby Pokemon.

Baby Pokemon were even the best users of this, as Cleffa would have to get 2 tails flips to fall if attacked instead of 1. Giovanni's Machamp was also a good user due to the need to flip twice to be Knocked Out, and Kingdra could get a 50-50 to take a strong hit and then heal everything off with Pokemon Center if the heads was hit. But really, any Pokemon that wasn't taking recoil from its attacks could use Focus Band rather well, and the card that had to be at least considered in most decks while it was available.

#pokemon #pokemon tcg #card of the day #focus band #neo genesis

[dust-n-roses]

*listening to the hamburger concerto album by focus* wow I’m such a well-adjusted 21st century teenage girl

#never heard this before but i’m a fan of hocus pocus + sylvia and i’m liking it so far #dustnroses.txt #prog rock #focus band #chazza gets into prog

[chrysochromulina]

#went vinyl shopping pt. 1 #traffic band #camel band #focus band #james gang

[will-it-trim]

Will It Trim? Focus Band | Cobblemon

#will it trim? #modded minecraft #focus band #colour: yellow #mod: cobblemon #block category: held items

[spoiledstrawberry]

:3 so goood

#focus #focus band #focus moving waves #70s #prog #Spotify

[longliverockback]

Focus Sylvia b/w Hocus Pocus 1973 Polydor —————————————————

* Long Live Rock Archive

#Focus #Focus Band #Single #45RPM #Progressive #1973

[spllwys]

endless ghifs 12/? ⛧ source — "Just call me Little Sunshine!"

#eg_series #lgifs #alltag #ghost #the band ghost #papa emeritus iv #popia #not sure if i should add captions but i don't think that'll be the focus here #the way he puts his hands under his chin like thatshjdvjhcghwlcbdgj copia u will always be our little sunshine #aand post

[stfrancisprayer]

exercises in color keys ft. the flare scene in ep6 bastogne

#band of brothers #hbo war #eugene roe #bastogne #color keys #🧀 ; art #as much as i like the first one the second one kind of had me ripping my hair out ngl #DONT. zoom in on roe the focus was on coloring the environment 😭😭😭

[pokemon-cards-hourly]

#pokemon #pokemon cards #tcg #tomokazu komiya #focus band #neo genesis #neo

[gregrulzok]

Look, I get it, Punk has a very vast culture of music and fashion and really anyone who identifies as Punk would be smart to delve into those things and at least research them, if not adopt them to a certain degree (Punk fashion especially as it's mostly based on reducing consumption and upcycling, which any self-respecting Punk should try to do)

But at the end of the day if there were two rooms full of self-identifying Punks, who'd you rather spend time with?

The ones dressed in Khakis and Button-Ups that listen to indie or pop or whatever, but would gladly break a chair over a Nazi's skull and rip Bezos' nails out one by one

Or the ones dressed in Spikes and Leather that listen to the Clash and Sex Pistols, but think trans people are pedophiles in disguise and homeless people don't deserve human rights

By using "Music Based Subculture" as the End-All-Be-All of what Punk is, you're literally holding the door wide open for a bunch of mouth-breathing capitalist republican conservative Nazi assholes who just happen to like loud music to invade our space. I don't give a flying fuck what someone wears or what they listen to cause at the end of the day it literally doesn't affect me even a tiny little bit. Their ideology and worldview, on the other hand, does.

#punk #discource #alt #punk culture #i don't even get what the issue is #oh no they dont listen to the bands i like #who cares #who actually gives a shit #are they a good person #do they got your back #do they support minorities and fight against discrimination #do they hate capitalism with a burning passion #lets focus on the real shit here for a second

[torson]

My favorite bands right now.

Focus

Hawkwind

Soft Machine

#1970s #prog rock #progressive rock #70s music #70s rock #jazz fusion #space rock #focus band #hawkwind #soft machine #70s men #1970s vintage #stacia blake #1970s style #70s fashion #70s aesthetic

[yridenergyridenergy]

The wholesome-ish friendship between Shinya and Kyo

Their latest playful Q&A in Haiiro no Ginka vol. 100 has prompted me to compile examples of this weird but overall wholesome relationship that Kyo and Shinya have and which is not obvious at first.

Situation #1

In October 2017, Kyo gifted Shinya with a custom white version of a MadaraNingen one-piece. As far as I remember, that article of clothing was not available for purchase in white at all, to the public. And of course, we all know that Shinya prefers to wear white.

Situation #2

I think that in response to Shinya sharing a video of him briefly playing with the minicars that were sold as tour goods in This Way to Self-Destruction, Kyo posted a story on Instagram of him revving up a bunch of mini-cars and persistently making them hit his phone propped up on a counter and displaying a picture of Shinya. At age 43. To which Shinya made an Instagram post vaguely hinting that: "Good children should not play with the mini-cars to hit someone's picture!"

Kyo's Instagram Story "The proper way to use mini-cars" video

Shinya's translated response

Situation #3

In late 2022-early 2023, Shinya publicly celebrated his bandmates' birthdays via emojis on Twitter, and Kyo was the only one to respond, in kind.

Situation #4

Kyo posted a cryptic picture of Shinya's video meeting with Mana in an Instagram Story and he has mentioned on Twitter at least once that he was watching Shinya Channel (the making of the FaFa onigiri).

In the same vein, Shinya took his failed attempt at needle-felting a pink bunny in March 2022 and turned it into a miniature hammer-wielding bunny in October 2022, in response to sukekiyo unveiling their Mosaic Shoujo PV which featured Kyo in the killer bunny suit.

Situation #5

This very old video of Kyo teasing Shinya by pinching the side of his dress, Shinya reacting by pushing Kyo a bit and Kyo falling into a robot dance in response.

Situation #6

The coffee maker. In one of the live talks held during the COVID-19 pandemic at concert venues, Shinya mentioned having a coffee maker which was of no use to him, and Kyo expressed interest in taking it from him. Later, in the Galacaa livestream talk between the two, it was revealed that Shinya had promised to give Kyo his coffee maker, but he never pulled through on that offer. Kyo, sporting a doodled face to hide his own, insistently questioned Shinya on this unreliability when the topic was brought up by fans in the comments. Shinya kind of struggled but ended up explaning that the coffee maker was really useless because of a defect, that it would not have been an appropriate gift anymore. But he forgot to update Kyo about it after he tried to contact the manufacturer. Kyo replied like: "Oh, alright then."

At some point, Kyo took the matter to Twitter, confronting Shinya about it with their respective member photos to illustrate the dialogue, and Shinya replied the same way.

Situation #7

In that same livestream, Shinya is so used to Kyo's bullshit by now that he completely ignores Kyo's doodle face sheet and casually leans forward to look past him and at the interviewer, sat on Kyo's right. After a while of this, the interviewer points out to Shinya that Kyo is insistently staring at him with this disturbing face, which is when Shinya becomes startled and nervously laughs upon realizing that, also making Kyo chuckle.

Situation #8

More often than others, Shinya and Kyo are documented chatting on the chairs backstage while they wait for everyone to be ready to start the show. Maybe there's something to be said of how they are the two members of the band to leave the stage the quickest, while Kaoru, Toshiya and Die stay for a while to throw picks.

Situation #9

Miscellaneous pictures of the two:

Situation #10

Apparently it was Shinya's earbuds that Kyo used to play with the cat (also Shinya's?) in this famous old video.

Situation #11

Other interactions on Twitter include commentary regarding the song battles that fans were voting on via that same website, during live broadcasts from their manager Fujieda on Galacaa. Kyo and Shinya were the only two members reacting to the songs that were pulled out of the box, Kyo sometimes replying to Shinya's own tweets wondering what he meant or outright questioning his preference.

Another interaction consisted in Kyo copying Shinya's tweets regarding the release of their Phalaris album and twisting Shinya's cute comments into hellish versions.

Situation #12

Probably a bunch of elusive comments throughout the years, but here's an example of something that Shinya said about Kyo in a magazine interview.

Situation #13

In Haiiro no Ginka vol. 100, the members were asked to send each other member five questions. Some chose to personalize them based on what they actually wanted to ask of the others, while a couple decided to send the same questions to all, but members were not told who the questions came from. Kyo picked up on that anonymous part of the game and when answering Shinya's set of questions, he ended each of his short answers with a second sentence that can either just be the Kansai dialect for: "Aren't you Shinya!", or in other dialects, translates more to: "Shinya, you bastard!" hahah. From what I saw, nobody else hinted at who they thought the questions came from in their answers. In reverse, Kyo took up two of his five alloted questions for Shinya with the simple statement: "You don't know you're dead yet!", a quote from Fist of the North Star which is highly intimidating as it hints that someone has defeated the character so easily and lightning-fast that they are a dead man standing, their body having trouble catching up with the reality that they were slaughtered. Shinya, in response to that repeated tease, stubbornly replies in his polite and formal Japanese that: "No, I'm not dead." Their Q&A with the other members were not nearly that quirky.

... Did I miss any? And there will undoubtedly be more to come!

Thank you very much to shinyaburashka for your help!

#wholesome-ish because then he goes and says that yukihiro is his favourite drummer whom he has always wanted to play with #while in active bands with Shinya and Mika #amongst other things... #but hey let's focus on the actual cute moments #Dir en grey #interactions #interaction #compilation #Shinya #Kyo #京 #twitter #instagram #meguro rock may kan #online event #livestream #gifs #video #translation #list #and at least it's not teasing that can be really uncomfortable and went too far #AKA I'm not doing this list for the other members #Youtube

[dust-n-roses]

I don’t remember thinking this before but the first section of this song has strong ELP vibes damn

#very keith emerson-y #which is to say great #dustnroses.txt #prog rock #focus band #emerson lake and palmer