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Shiro, who is an artist of Extasy Japan had a radio program and Gackt
appeared as a guest. Yoshiki joined their program on the phone from
LA.
S: Hello
Y: Hello. (Gackt, laughing) Good evening.
S: Why are you laughing?
Y: How are you?
G: I'm fine, and you?
Y: I'm fine.
G: Are you sleepy?
Y: No, I'm ok. (laugh)
G: Your nose is stopped up.
Y: Yeah, it is. What time is it now here?
G: About 4:30 a.m.
Y: Yeah, it's early in the morning, but I'm ok.
G: We talk after a long interval. I'm very happy to talk with you.
Y: How have you been?
G: I'm fine. How about Shiro chan?
S: I'm fine, too.
Y: Shiro chan, how are you?
S: I'm fine. I also talk with you after a long time.
Y: When did we talk last time? About a year ago?
S: No, about a half year.
Y: Really? Gackt, how are you? (laugh)
G: I'm fine. I'm really very fine.
Y: I may be half asleep.
S: Thank you for talking with us on your precious time.
Y: No problem.
S: First, I'd like to ask about your friendship. Gackt san came to
Extasy Night held in Shibuya last year. You watched our stage, didn't
you? How long have you been friend?
Y: Well...
G: About 2 years?
Y: We drank liquor together in LA.
G: Yeah, it's about a year and a half or 2 years ago. When we met
first time, we had a dinner together, then we drank liquor at your
house. I didn't know Yoshiki could drink such a large amount. (laugh)
Y: Did I drink a lot at that time?
G: Yeah, you were dead drunk.
Y: Really?
G: Yeah, we couldn't count how many bottles of Dom Perignon we drank
up.
Y: I might drink a lot.
G: I had to work next day so I told you at first that I wouldn't drink
a lot. Though Yoshiki understood it, you asked me why I didn't drink a
lot as you are getting drunk. (laugh)
Y: Did I?
G: Then you started to get angry.
Y: I didn't get angry! (laugh)
S: Do you remember that?
Y: Gackt played piano at my house. He was really good at playing
piano. I was so surprised that I sobered up.
S: What's your first impression?
G: When I first met him, I recognized that Yoshiki looked at my eyes
straightly. He is a man of large caliber. He's chivalrous. (Yoshiki
laughs) I'm not flattering (laugh). Anyway, I purely like him. I think
he's so cool. He is very cool as a man.
Y: (laugh) Gackt has an aura. We are both a musician, and I
instinctively felt that we were alike in character (laugh).
I'm sorry if you don't agree with my opinion (laugh). Do you mind to
be said we are similar in character?
G: I said nothing to complain (laugh).
S: Well then, you feel you have something in common.
G: Yoshiki is very smart even though he is drunken. Generally speaking,
when we get drunken, our thinking faculty lower. But even if he drinks
a lot, he can speak logically. He is so sharp. When we drank together
last time, he understood all of what I wanted to say. Other people,
who were with us at that time, couldn't understand until I talked all,
but Yoshiki could understand all of what I wanted to say when he
listened about one third of my speech, even though he was so drunken.
Y: Did I get drunk at that time? (laugh)
G: Yeah! But you were so smart!
Y: I'm very pleased that Gackt praise me.
G: I don't usually praise someone.
Y: Really?
G: I have few people whom I like, and I think there are no male
artists who are cool. I only met Yoshiki in private. I didn't
meet him when he was on the stage as a musician. But still I felt he
had an aura.
Y: Well... Gackt has an aura, too.
S: Gackt san will release a new song. Let's listen to it.
Y: Is that a one you took PV in Okinawa?
G: No, It was the previous one that I had a shooting in Okinawa.
Y: Oh, time passed so quickly.
G: Yeah. A year has passed since we met last time.
Y: Is that so?
G: Or a half year?
Y: I'm insensible on time when I am in LA.
S: Then please introduce your new song. It's called "Another World". I
watched the PV just now. I like the scene that you hold someone's hand.
Did you take that scene somewhere in foreign country ?
G: Yeah, it was in Hongkong.
Y: Hongkong is nice place, isn't it? (laugh)
G: Yeah, I also think Hongkong is great.
Y: They are ahead of us in making films.
G: Yeah. And I was interested in their language.
Y: Oh, you can speak Chinese, can't you? I remember that you speak
Cantonese.
G: No, I can speak Pekinese.
Y: Yeah, you speak Mandarin. Why do you speak Mandarin?
G: It's because there are Chinese fans and I don't like to talk with
them through an interpreter.
Y: I have to study, too (laugh).
S: Gackt san produces a visual field including CD jacket and video.
G: Yes, I do.
S: Yoshiki-san also takes a great interest in visual field.
Y: Yes, I do.
S: Are both of you inspired by something when you think about visual
image?
G: In my case, the image comes to me first, so I'm not particularly
inspired by something. I don't know why those images come to me.
Y: That's the same as in my case, the image comes to me first, then I
make a song according to that image.
G: I usually make songs in that way.
Y: So we make songs in the same way! When I make songs, I have an
image in my mind. Therefore I don't make an image according to the
sound. I always have an image in my mind.
G: Yeah, yeah.
Y: I'd like to drink a liquor when I'm talking about such a topic (laugh).
S: What kind of movies do you like?
G: Have you watched "Cube"? It's an old movie.
Y: Cube?
G: Do you know "Cube"?
Y: No, I don't.
G: The story starts like this; there are people who are shut up in a
cube, and they don't know why they were shut up there.
Y: It sounds interesting.
G: The story is going on in the mixture of the purpose of that they
are in the cube, and the desire to escape, and the instinct of the
human being. I drew a sigh after I finished watching that movie.
Y: Have you watched "Hannibal"? I felt sick to watch it. I like "God
Father" and "Brave Heart".
G: Oh, you like "Brave Heart"?
Y: Yes, I like it very much.
G: I love it, too! Mel Gibson is performing in that movie.
Y: Really? I don't know you like those kind of movies.
G: I even wanted to wear a skirt when I watch it.
Y: Brave Heart is my favorite movie at present. I like it's sound
track, too.
G: Yes, I think so. The girl who loves Mel Gibson brings a poison to
him because he will be executed the next day. He can die without any
pain if he takes a poison.
Y: Yeah, that's Sophy Marceau.
G: Yeah.
Y: She is excellent.
G: He receives the poison but he throws it up after she left.
Y: Yeah, he throws it up.
G: I want Shiro chan to watch it.
S: Yes, I will.
Y: Haven't you watched it?
S: No, I haven't.
Y: Oh, that's too bad.
S: By the way, Gackt san, your live video will be released this month.
Y: Where did you have your concert?
G: At "Yoko Ari".
Y: Yoko Ari?
G: Yes, Yokohama Arena.
Y: Oh, Yokohama Arena. I see.
G: I asked you to come to the concert if you were in Japan. But you
were very busy at that time.
Y: Do you have any plan to have your concert next month?
G: No, I don't. (laugh) I had already finished my tour. I can't have a
concert at your convenience (laugh). Whenever I call you, your
answering machine answered that you are in LA. You are always in LA.
Y: I haven't been back to Japan for a long time.
S: What's the title of your video?
G: "Shuen" and "Seijaku".
S: The video will be released at the end of this month and the dvd
will be released next month. Is there any difference in the content
between them?
G: Yes, a little. I'm editing the video now like Yoshiki does.
And I'll finish it soon.
Y: (laugh)
S: I'm sorry the time has come. We should say bye-bye to Yoshiki
san.
G: Please go to bed from now on.
Y: No, I can't sleep.
G: Then don't drink a liquor.
Y: Ok, ok. I don't drink liquor recently.
G: Let's have a drink when you'll be back to Japan.
Y: Yes, I will definitely call you when I'll be back to Japan.
S: Do you have any message to Gackt san?
Y: Thank you for joining our program. I really feel the possibility to
you. I'm concerned in many artists now and I feel a great possibility
especially to you. Please keep it up.
G: Thank you.
S: Thank you for joining though it's early in the morning in LA.
G: Thank you, YOSHIKI.
Y: I'm usually still awake at this time but my schedule was a little
changed and I went to bed at midnight last night, but I'm ok (laugh).
S: Take care of yourself.
Y: Shiro chan, too.
S: Thank you.
Y: See you again.
S: You talked to Yoshiki-san after a long time didn't you?
G: He's such a funny guy.
S: Have you enjoyed talking with him today?
G: He's been talking through his nose. He just woke up.
S: We can't ordinarily listen Yoshiki san's voice such as just after
he wakes up. I think it may be very precious.
G: I feel very sorry to wake him up.
S: Yes, it's very early in the morning in LA.
G: He is always very busy and I think it's very precious and important
for him to sleep.
S: I think so, too.
G: Anyway, I'm very pleased to talk with him.
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